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The intent of leverage is to provide the biggest advantage with the minimum effort. In particular, for us, that means maximum return on investment with minimum personal involvement, and we can make this happen via outsourcing.
Earlier articles described ways of obtaining leverage by 1) re-using, and 2) re-purposing content. In this article, we’ll discuss obtaining leverage by outsourcing repetitive, or non-value-add work, and any work that simply isn’t a match with our individual skills, experience and/or temperament.
Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman have reported some interesting findings from more than 25 years of research by the Gallup organization – initially in their book, First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently, and subsequently elaborating on those findings in later books. Two of their findings, that are important for affiliate marketers and home-based business owners in general are these: 1) Play to your strong suits, not your negatives, and 2) Select staff for potential.
Internet marketing has a rather large learning curve and involves a lot of diverse abilities. However, few people are personally skilled in all of them – and even those who are, probably are not applying their available effort and other skills if they focus on their weaknesses.
William of Occam, who developed “Occam’s Razor,” has said: “It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.” As affiliate business owners, this has much to teach us relative to our personal time management.
Tim Ferriss, who wrote “The 4-Hour Workweek” is a terrific fan of the use of virtual assistants to handle recurrent, non-value-add tasks or those for which he does not have either the time or inclination to perform.
Contrary to popular opinion, outsourcing is not limited to major corporations, but given the low cost of international VAs, even small, online companies can now afford to outsource many activities to virtual assistants.
Many internet marketers elect to outsource article marketing. They see the value of article marketing, but either can’t write well, or simply don’t want to write, so they release article authoring to ghost-writers.
Another task you might consider outsourcing to a virtual assistant (or call center) is the telephone and email follow-up required for lead generation and sales closings.
If you focus on your areas of strength, you can multiply your results, whereas, focusing on improving areas of weakness willonly incrementally improve results.
Which is more important to you – the ability to multiply your results, or simply see incremental improvements?
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If you are deciding to venture into affiliate marketing, the great thing is that it is a considerably easy way to earn some cash online. You will not need to get merchandise, store them or arrange to send them out. The only thing you must do is arrange other people to market their merchandise on your site. The greater traffic your website attracts, the more clicks on your affiliate links receive, then the more income you will get as a commission.
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The Internet has thousands of affiliate products and services, which you can promote on your website. How to know which are the best ones? Which can link with your website it the best way possible? Compiled here are some of the best tips on affiliate marketing which you can do just that.
Selecting The Correct Products
Don’t select products to endorse on your site on impulse. The product you choose to endorse must be related to the topic of your website. Select the merchandises that are the best fit to your website content. For instance, on a website that talks about cake making, you do not want to promote web hosting there.
Only 1 Product Per Page Please
What you don’t want to do is have to many products on a web page and mess your web page with adverts. If you over clutter your website, all you will do is make people leave your site. You have to concentrate 1 product in 1 page because you want to promote 1 product to your visitors at a time. We discover that web pages recommending 1 product sells better than web pages recommending many products.
Be Trustworthy
You want to create a trustworthy website, where your readers will trust in you and in your recommendation. When your are credible and honest, your visitors will believe in your opinions and your recommendation.
Continually Upgrade Your Site
By staying up-to-date with the current information and trends, you will be ahead of many affiliate marketers. You can’t let your site decline slowly and not improving it or upload any new information. You need to keep your visitors coming back for more, so frequently update your site with new content by following current trends.
Have A Fun Website
Not only you need to improve your site, you also want to make your visitors wanting to return to your website. You will have to find ways of tempting the readers and continuing their patronage of your website. A few things you can do is giving away free gifts, prizes, games, quizzes or tips and hints on topics that will interest your readers greatly.
A great internet marketer will try all of these tips and continue to be on the lookout for exciting new ways to improve their website. Affiliate internet marketing will take effort, however all great things do. Once you’ve organised the strategy and have the best affiliate products on your website, you’ll soon see the profits coming in at a great pace.
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One of the quickest ways to get thousands of visitors to your website is from a Joint Venture – This is the method of partnering with other people and “doing a deal”.
In many ways, Joint Ventures (JV’s) are much like Affiliate Sales where someone else is promoting your website and enticing people to visit.
One very common Joint Venture is working with someone else operating in a related or the same niche. You “do a deal” with the other party whereby they will push your website to their customers, in exchange for monetary compensation, or some other form of payment.
Perhaps the deal is you do the same (push their product to your customers).
Perhaps the deal is they do some form of advertising of your product or services to their mailing list in exchange for you buying some advertising space.
Or it could really just be a simple affiliate setup (you pay them a percentage of sales made to visitors they have directed to your website). In other words you have an affiliate set-up and “offer” it to the other person, who then gets paid for each client who purchases something.
But this is only a piece of the picture. Once you have some decent contacts and a decent mailing list, there are lots more you can do with JV’s.
For example you could join up with another person and build a new site selling new products and share in the profit (and costs). Perhaps you can JV with a “big name” Internet Marketer and get their endorsement of your product to use in promotional material.
How about doing a deal with a software developer where they do all the software development and you do the marketing and you both share the profits.
There are a heap of ways that JV’s work, and literally no limit to the possibilities. Get creative!
What you do want to do is join some of the JV networks out there especially the ones that are well known to other Internet Marketers because your then going to get more “deals” that are likely to be relevant to your market.
Many people claim to be experts in the area of internet marketing tips. We suggest you do some careful research yourself first to get a a beginning understanding of this some important fundamentals.
The best JV networks I have found is called the Joint Venture Network.
I like this site because it costs nothing to read through all JV’s. Only the person who submits a JV has to pay at a cost of $100 and targets literally thousands of people! This is a great way to get instant affiliates announce, a new product and the cost is quite reasonable.
As I mentioned though, you can browse all current JV’s for free if you wish. I’m a member and can vouch for it.
There is a special “one-time-offer” when you join to get some extra special deals as well and to change your membership type right up to Platinum where you get the ability to post “free” announcements every 30 days instead of paying $100 (this would be of use to the bigger marketer who is releasing new products on a regular basis). But you don’t need to do that, you can join for free and use it with paying anything if you wish.
Of course you don’t necessarily have to join a JV site to find people looking for a Joint Venture. You can also just go direct to the source and ask your existing contacts, or pick up the phone and start calling. I just find it a lot easier to put an announcement out, and get people who are interested to contact me… Nice!
Or what about attending a major Internet Marketing event. I did this myself; in fact I attended the Singapore World Internet Summit in May 2007 for this very purpose!
Can you find someone to exchange skills with? The process of doing this can build long-term relationships if done properly. Obviously anytime you are working with another person you need to make sure you build up a level of report and trust, and where possible and practical get an agreement in writing so both parties know exactly where they stand and what their obligations are.
This is particularly important in the case of setting up a new website as a joint venture. In these types of situation you need to have a clear understanding of expenses (who is paying for them, who has the authority to “charge expenses” i.e. either or both parties), how the profits are to be used and shared (e.g. even split, profits left in system, or taken out monthly, etc).
JV’s can potentially be a massive way to increase visitors to your website!