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3 Strategies for Promoting Affilate Products with Blogs
Robert Phillips

There are many ways to make money with a blog. One of the most effective, low-cost and low-risk methods is affiliate marketing. Just add your affiliate link to your blog and watch your sales grow along with your blog traffic.

Although you can promote both physical and digital products, the latter typically pay more commissions and are easier to sell. Here are a few ways you can make $500 - $2,000 in sales of affiliate products monthly from your blog. It all depends on how much effort you invest.

1) Interview the Creator of the Product

Is there a person more qualified to answer questions and objections about a product than it's owner? By conducting an interview, you'll build credibility with your blog owners in addition to being the person who asks to tough questions and gets to the bottom line.

To conduct the interview you can use a service that will record the call or you can use Skype which is free. If you'd like to edit the interview you can use a free audio editing software called Audacity. Several podcasting plugins are freely evailable for WordPress blogs.

The key to selling affiliate products using podcast interviews is to ask the right questions. It works much better if you've already bought and used the product so you're familiar with how it works and any limitations it has.

During the interview itself, make sure you mention your affiliate link. Also write a short description of the podcast in your blog post and put your affiliate link there. Ask the owner if he might extend a special offer to your subscribers.

2) Write a Product Review

Product reviews are nothing new but there don't seem to be a whole bunch of affiliate marketers using them these days. It might be simply because writing a review takes a little effort. Don't turn your review into a sales pitch that turns off your readers. Make it an honest review pointing out the good and the bad in such a way that you can ultimately make a buying recommendation.

To increase the clicks on your affiliate links, include screenshots of the product (if it's a software) to let people get an insider's view of how it works and the results they can expect from it. If it's an e-book or information product, let others know the results you've achieved by using the techniques or secrets mentioned. Everyone loves something that works, but most people will wait to see if it works for others before deciding to buy it.

3) Pre-sell With a "How To" Article

A "How To" article teaches people how to solve a specific problem or achieve a specific result. In your article, start with the problem or desired outcome, and give specific steps and actions to be taken to achieve the desired result.

Towards the end of the article reveal how the product you're promoting will help your readers by automating the process or whatever the product does. People are always looking for tools to help them solve problems or achieve goals more quickly and the product you're recommending can do that you stand a good chance of making a sale.

The goal here is to "pre-sell" the prospect on the benefits provided by the product so don't turn your article into a sales letter. Provide enough information to get them interested in the product and lead them to the sales page which will do the selling.

WordPress is really the best blogging platform because it allows so much control and flexibility with regard to promoting your own or affiliate products. WordPress will grow with you as you promote more products. It's possible to create a significant income using just these three strategies to promote affilate products.

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Empowerment Checklist
Jim Cathcart, CSP, CPAE

Here are eight words, which conveniently all start with a "t", to use as a checklist for determining how to empower or motivate someone. Simply identify the person you would like to empower and then ask the eight questions to determine what kind of empowerment would be the most effective.

TARGET - Does he or she understand and accept the purpose or goal?

TOOLS - Does he or she have the tools, or information needed to do the job?

TRAINING - Has there been enough training in how to use the tools well?

TIME - Have they had enough time for the training to take effect?

TRUTH - Does he or she know how all of this fits together?

TRACKING - Am I providing the feedback needed for them to stay on track?

TOUCH - Is there enough support and encouragement? (the human touch)

TRUST - Do I trust them appropriately for their skill and mastery level?

When you identify which "t" is missing, you will know where to intervene to get the person started again. Carry this list on a card in your briefcase and use it often. Let me know how it works for you.

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Today's Subscriber Article

Social Bookmarking Sites For Easy Traffic
Jim Sansi

Some of the hottest sites on the 'net these days are the social bookmarking sites... they are without a doubt all the rage. The good news is that these sites can just as easily be used to gain some amounts of immediate traffic to your web sites as well.

In this article we are going to quickly cover the four most popular social bookmarking sites:

Digg. Digg has so many users that a top story can take down an entire site, that's a huge amount of web page visitors! A nifty feature of digg is being able to add the widget to you blog allowing your readers to vote on your stories.

StumbleUpon is another fast growing site that is quickly gaining traction as a consistent traffic producer. It works by people downloading a toolbar and then stumbling sites they like or find interesting. Another feature of the toolbar is that it allows StumbleUpon to sell traffic for highly competitive markets at a decent price when compared to the main PPC providers.

Onlywire is a slick site, although not much in the way of a bookmarking site itself Onlywire allows you to tag pages to other bookmarking sites that you have signed up for like Furl and Delicious. This feature alone can be a huge time saver!

Reddit is a plain jane no frills site where people can post stories and then vote on them. But don't let the simplicity discourage you from using it. Reddit has an Alexa ranking under a thousand so it has a huge reaching audience every day.

So there you have the quick and ditry lown down on the most popular social bookmarking sites on the 'net. For the amount of time put in you can expect a stready stream of traffic from each of them.

Most importantly don't spam these sites with garbage or try to trick them into giving you visitors. Be sure to add something meaningful that others will find interesting otherwise you are on the fast path to getting banned.

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