3 Things All Affiliate Marketers Need To Survive Online

September 26th, 2009 by ytechcity

Every affiliate marketer is always looking for the successful market that gives the biggest paycheck. Sometimes they think it is a magic formula that is readily available for them. Actually, it is more complicated than that. It is just good marketing practices that have been proven over years of hard work and dedication.
There are tactics that have worked before with online marketing and is continuing to work in the online affiliate marketing world of today. With these top three marketing tips, you will be able to able to increase your sales and survive in the affiliate marketing online.

What are these three tactics?

1. Using unique web pages to promote each separate product you are marketing. Do not lump all of it together just to save some money on web hosting. It is best to have a site focusing on each and every product and nothing more.

Always include product reviews on the website so visitors will have an initial understanding on what the product can do to those who buys them. Also include testimonials from users who have already tried the product. Be sure that these customers are more than willing to allow you to use their names and photos on the site of the specific product you are marketing.

You can also write articles highlighting the uses of the product and include them on the website as an additional page. Make the pages attractive compelling and include calls to act on the information. Each headline should attract the readers to try and read more, even contact you. Highlight your special points. This will help your readers to learn what the page is about and will want to find out more.

2. Offer free reports to your readers. If possible position them at the very top side of your page so it they simply cannot be missed. Try to create autoresponder messages that will be mailed to those who input their personal information into your sign up box. According to research, a sale is closed usually on the seventh contact with a prospect.

Only two things can possibly happen with the web page alone: closed sale or the prospect leaving the page and never return again. By placing useful information into their inboxes at certain specified period, you will remind them of the product they thought they want later and will find out that the sale is closed. Be sure that the content is directed toward specific reasons to buy the product. Do not make it sound like a sales pitch.

Focus on important points like how your product can make life and things easier and more enjoyable. Include compelling subject lines in the email. As much as possible, avoid using the word ?ree?because there are still older spam filters that dumps those kind of contents into the junk before even anyone reading them first. Convince those who signed up for your free reports that they will be missing something big if they do not avail of your products and services.

3. Get the kind of traffic that is targeted to your product. Just think, if the person who visited your website has no interest whatsoever in what you are offering, they will be among those who move on and never come back. Write articles for publication in e-zines and e-reports. This way you can locate publications that is focusing on your target customers and what you have put up might just grab their interest.

Try to write a minimum of 2 articles per week, with at least 300-600 words in length. By continuously writing and maintaining these articles you can generate as many as 100 targeted readers to your site in a day.
Always remember that only 1 out of 100 people are likely to buy your product or get your services. If you can generate as much as 1,000 targeted hits for your website in a day, that means you can made 10 sales based on the average statistic.

The tactics given above does not really sound very difficult to do, if you think about it. It just requires a little time and an action plan on your part.

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Try to use these tips for several affiliate marketing programs. You can end maintaining a good source of income and surviving in this business that not all marketers can do. Besides, think of the huge paychecks you will be receiving?

Internet Tips : Proxy Servers to Bypass Rapidshare Download Limits

September 25th, 2009 by ytechcity

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Base on the page ranking of RapidShare in Malaysia via Alexa, we can aware that Malaysian always use RapidShare to share and downloading hot stuff. RapidShare is a online file storage hosting service, which they claim themself as world’s biggest and fastest 1-click file-hoster.
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Since a lot of us may use RapidShare to upload and download a lot of stuff. As a free user (without paying to upgrade to Premium-account), it’s quite annoying when we were face some limitations which is unable to download for a certain period after downloading a big file.

Limitation for free user
Those who don’t have premium accounts may download files but the service will come with limits. Other than the download speed being a lot slower for non-premium users, rapidShare has a download limit of 30 MB per hour for free user. Beside, free users can only parallelly download 1 file at a time, and subject to countdown (waiting) time delay before download start.

In order to avoid the limitation of RapidShare, your can using proxy servers to mask your IP address so you may download more files from Rapidshare’s free service or using third-party downloading software. Of course, you also allow to signing up for a premium account which need you to pay (if you’re an avid downloader). For this reason, i want to share with you how to download from Rapidshare using proxy so that you can bypass Rapidshare Download Limits.

Steps + How To:
1. You can get a list of available public proxy server easily by searching “proxy server” in search engine such as Google or Bing. Choose a proxy server and note down its IP address and port number.

You also can get the proxy address from Proxy4Free. This trick requires the usage of proxy server to work. The proxy address from Proxy4Free will be like this
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2. Goto your internet browser,
In Internet Explorer, go to Tools -> Internet Options -> Connections -> LAN Settings. Select (check) the option of Use a proxy server for your LAN. Then key in the proxy server IP address and port in respective box. Click OK to continue.

In Mozilla Firefox, go to Tools -> Options -> Connection Settings. Then select (click) Manual proxy configuration and key in proxy server information. Click OK to continue.

3. That easy, happy downloading. Once you hit the download limit, you will need to change the proxy server again.

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Do not choose proxy with port 80
Avoid choosing proxies addresses beginning with 195 because some of them are slow.

So Many Affiliate Programs, Which One Do I Choose

September 24th, 2009 by ytechcity

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Ask questions first before you join an affiliate program. Do a little research about the choices of program that you intend to join into. Get some answers because they will be the deciding point of what you will be achieving later on.

Will it cost you anything to join? Most affiliate programs being offered today are absolutely free of charge. So why settle for those that charge you some dollars before joining.

When do they issue the commission checks? Every program is different. Some issue their checks once a month, every quarter, etc. Select the one that is suited to your payment time choice. Many affiliate programs are setting a minimum earned commission amount that an affiliate must meet or exceed in order for their checks to be issued.

What is the hit per sale ratio? This is the average number of hits to a banner or text link it takes to generate a sale based on all affiliate statistics. This factor is extremely important because this will tell you how much traffic you must generate before you can earn a commission from the sale.

How are referrals from an affiliate site tracked and for how long do they remain in the system? You need to be confident on the program enough to track those people you refer from your site. This is the only way that you can credit for a sale. The period of time that those people stay in the system is also important. This is because some visitors do not buy initially but may want to return later to make the purchase. Know if you will still get credit for the sale if it is done some months from a certain day.
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Freebies : Mozilla Firefox 3.5.3 with speediest and safest

September 21st, 2009 by ytechcity

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Firefox 3.5 is out, and claimed that the browser upgrade to a Better Browser which is the faster, safer, smarter way to browse the Web. In fact, it has been the browser that gives really competition to Internet Explorer, and is completely open source.

Features:
According to the Firefox official website, below are some of the new and improved features in Firefox 3.5 to give you a Faster, Safer, Smarter, and Better browser.

1. Super Fast (New): View Web pages way faster, using less of your computer’s memory.

2. Private Browsing (New): New Firefox comes with a private browsing mode to surf the web without leaving a single trace.

3. Easy Customization (improved): Thousands of add-ons give you the freedom to make your browser your own.


4. Anti-Phishing & Anti-Malware (improved): New Firefox has improved Anti-Phishing & Anti-Malware protection. Apart from this, it comes with Parental control, Password Manager, and customized security settings.
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Freebies : Speed Up YouTube Videos via SpeedBit Video Accelerator

September 21st, 2009 by ytechcity

Have facing a buffering problem of YouTube and other online streaming videos due to the low speed broadband connections or dial-ups connection. The introduction of SpeedBit Video Accelerator will solve you problem by reducing buffering problems and video interruptions. SpeedBit Video Accelerator is a revolutionary free software to get rid of buffering problem of YouTube and other online streaming videos.

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Introduction
SpeedBit Video Accelerator is a ground breaking application that lets you enjoy the world of internet video without long frustrating waits. With SpeedBit Video Accelerator Premium you’ll enjoy the future of HD videos without the freezing and buffering problems of today.

SpeedBit Video Accelerator is free, very effective, and extremely easy to use. You need to just download it free, and install it. SpeedBit does the rest. As soon as you start playing a video in your browser, Speedbit automatically starts accelerating it so that you get a much better viewing experience.

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SpeedBit Video Accelerator supports videos from over 150 leading sites such as Youtube, MySpace, Metacafe, Dailymotion, Facebook, 5min, Reuters, Phtobucket, Bebo, Break, ESPN, AOL, CNN, Discovery, Veoh and many more. New sites are being added on a continual basis.

How SpeedBit Video Accelerator works:
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SpeedBit Video Acceleration is powered by SpeedBit’s unique patented technology that streams videos from multiple sources simultaneously ensuring the fastest loading and the most enjoyable user experience. Unlike the normal browser connection, the Daemon uses a unique patent pending technology, that substitutes the single connection with a sophisticated multi-connection algorithm. The end result is an (up to) 5 times faster connection, which handles the cache buffering (the “preloading” of the movie) much more efficiently.

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SpeedBit Video Accelerator also comes bundled with a free Video Downloader so you can grab your favorite videos. You allow to search videos all over the internet with the built-in video search bar. SpeedBit Video Accelerator works on both Windows as well as Mac, and is totally free.

For more information, Check out www.videoaccelerator.com
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