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A Review On ViralURL ~ Great tool that all top earners use!

November 9th, 2008. Published under network marketing tools and tips. No Comments.

So you have finally stepped into the world of making money online. You too, like the others, have decided to start with the affiliate programs. Also, you must have heard that it’s not a big deal to make good money with affiliate marketing, provided you choose the right programs and do some strategic planning while promoting your affiliate products. So far so good.

Whether you are promoting other people’s products or promoting your own products - that doesn’t matter because after all it is nothing but your own business and your means to earn good money. So whichever be your case, I am sure you would not want to leave money on the table and invite others to steal your share of profit.

Even though the industry of affiliate marketing is pretty competitive but if you are cautious and are strategic in your marketing techniques then, it could be very profitable for you.

Take a close look at the industry; you will see that not everyone who gets into affiliate marketing is successful. People who are doing well leave no room for failure and take all security measures and understand its importance.

Yes! Security is one of the key factors in affiliate marketing. If you do not adopt proper security measures, then your business will be at high risk. One of the most important way to restore security is to protect your affiliate links. Do not take them for granted. A bit of carelessness on your part in regards to affiliate links may cost you a lot of dollars.

Do you know the long complicated links that you send to your prospective customers not only look convoluted but they can create a lot of problems too! If you send such an affiliate link to your customers, then the smart ones will definitely figure out that you are promoting someone else’s product and they would rather visit the parent company. Also, if your link does not function then your customers have to type a really long URL into the browser, which will definitely put him or her off.

You could be a victim of even a worse situation. What if some devious Internet pirates steal your affiliate links and replace them with theirs. If they do that, then you get no commission at all.

Did I scare you off with all of the above possibilities? Well, that certainly wasn’t my intention. I just wanted to open your eyes and state facts that actually happen in the world of Internet. It happened with me until I came across ViralURL , that brought a revolution to my online ventures.

So, if you are not getting the desired results out of your affiliate marketing,don’t lose hope. There’s definitely a remedy to this problem and that is ViralURL.com

Do I hear you asking, what is it and how can it help in averting any adverse situation for an affiliate marketer like me?

Be patient and read on, if you love your business.

ViralURL is a link cloaker that protects you in the truest sense. There may be many unethical people lurking around, who might play with your affiliate links by cutting them off or replacing them with their own etc. How much effort you put in towards building your business and advertising your business, if your links are tampered with, then all your hard work will be rendered useless.

In order to avoid such a rip off, ViralURL gives you full protection and sees to it that your affiliate links never get exposed to others.

So save yourself from getting ripped. Get all the commissions to your account that you rightfully deserve. All this is made possible by ViralURL.com

It is a blessing for every affiliate marketer like you and me, who wants to achieve success in their endeavour.

Is ViralURL limited to only link protection?

NO!

It does much much more than that. Let’s see what ViralURL can do for us:

*ViralURL helps us in protecting commission.
*ViralURL helps in building mailing lists.
*ViralURL helps in tracking statistics.
*ViralURL helps in earning extra ad credits.

In short, ViralURL allows us to create massive business leverage.

I don’t see any negative aspect associated with ViralURL. All you have to do is join it for free, then cloak your links, promote them and see your business soaring higher and higher.

You can get all detailed information about the program from the site ViralURL.com. There, you can find several unsolicited testimonials from various users of ViralURL. So if you want to protect your business and see your earnings grow, try ViralURL. You have nothing to lose with it.
Sin Boutkaska

 

get FREE traffic to your site using BANNER marketing

October 26th, 2008. Published under how to, network marketing, network marketing tools and tips. 1 Comment.

Banners are a good way to generate traffic to your site. Although some are not as targeted as you would like however banners are enticing for people to click on.

Post your affliate or business banners:

  • on your website or
  • blog if you have one
  • use them in your emails
  • post them where ever you think is a good fit for the type of people you are targeting.

Below are some of my recommended resources of some good places to advertise your banners.  Some  are free and others may have a cost to them, but very minimal. I would recommend that you try some paid and free resources to see which works best for you.

So there you have it guys, another FREE or low cost method on how to drive traffic to your site or online business.

So what are you waiting for? Get Moving! :)

Sin Boutkaska

get FREE traffic to your site - using Classifieds

October 24th, 2008. Published under how to, network marketing, network marketing tools and tips. No Comments.

If you are on a tight marketing budget (like most network marketers are), then this post is for you! I will show you how you can get FREE traffic to your site and get FREE leads.

Now that you have invested some money in your marketing I want you to focus on building your business on little or no budget. The easiest way to kick start this is through FREE classifieds.

Place a listing in the Business Opportunity section or the most applicable section available. Here are some free sites that are highly ranked by Alexa globally so these sites get heaps and heaps of traffic.

Here are some sites that I recommend to begin with:-

  • www.inetgiant.com
  • www.ecki.com/links/advert.shtml
  • www.usfreeads.com
  • www.boconline.com
  • www.craigslist.com
  • www.kijiji.com
  • www.backpage.com
  • www.sell.com
  • http://classifieds.excite.com/
  • http://classifieds.yahoo.com/

    • For a list of many more visit www.thedataprogram.com/list1.htm

    You can contact me for further assistance. Can I advise you be creative with some of the categories that you can post your ads on :)

    Examples include:-

    Services - small biz ads, financial, real estate

    Jobs - sales/biz development, real estate, business/management

    • Remember to be consistent and persistent! Get maximum exposure by setting yourself a time table (1 hour per day) or similar to place ads.
    • Test your ads to see which ones are successful
    • Place some images if there is an option to!

    GOOD LUCK and get started!

    Sin Boutkaska

    social bookmarking - the benefits!

    October 5th, 2008. Published under how to, network marketing, network marketing tools and tips. 2 Comments.

    Hi again, and welcome to the first post in my ‘How-to’ series. That is HOW TO get more traffic to your site! and remember that TRAFFIC IS KING! for any online business.

    There will be several of them and I will add a post weekly so make sure you subscribe! Here you will learn about some ideas, techniques and tools that I use to drive traffic to my site for FREE!

    OK so lets get started!

    SOCIAL BOOKMARKING

    what is it?

    Social bookmarking in its simplest form allows you to store and organise your websites on the Internet than on your browser settings. You can then arrange, store, display these websites and share them with others.

    Generally it is done in the public domain so as an Internet marketer it is the ideal scenario! Social bookmarking lets people discover what other people are interested in and how they are labeling or ‘tagging’ their websites based on keywords. So people can tag bookmarks to catergorise them and others can comment on them hence creating a complex and highly influencial network.

    what are the benefits?

    You can immediately see the benefits of Social bookmarking.

    • You can generate a huge amount of traffic by bookmarking your sites and sharing them with others with tags and keywords
    • Traffic will also be relevant and traffic that fits your site!
    • If you have good and fresh content on your site you will not only receive relevant traffic but you will get repeat visits
    • AND this one is the most powerful - Search Engines are attracted to these and I really mean it. This is one of the quickest ways to have search engines crawl your site especially if you are submitting to big and popular bookmarking sites.
    • It is fast - Fast in the sense that it can work quickly for you! The search engines will respond quickly and get traffic and action within minutes simply because social bookmarking content changes as a news channel but MUCH faster!

    So you can see that not only you will get loads of relevant traffic but your site will get discovered quite quickly by major search engines generating all kinds of possibilities for growth and expansion.

    purpose of Social bookmarking?

    The purpose of Social bookmarking is pretty obvious - people want to network and share their favourite information. They want to access their favourite websites from work, home, on holidays, anyplace they really want to. So the purpose of an Internet/Network Marketer is to get in the flow of information, gain good visibility, and encourage search engine crawlers to pay attention to their website.

    who uses bookmarks?

    Social bookmarking hasn’t been around for very long however it is growing exponentially everyday. This is a huge dynamic area of the Internet. People use it for various reasons but more and more people use it for business and technology. People also use it to collect and organise resources for a specific group so the more people participate for their groups the more effective it will be!

    bookmarking for marketers!

    As an Entrepreneur you want to:-

    • Get to the heart of of bookmarking as it relates to marketing
    • Use Social bookmarking to attract attention and to attract search engines
    • You know that there is a lot of movement from the Internet occurring in bookmarking
    • You know that visitors will be relevant and specific to your niche and not random
    • You know that proper tagging on bookmarking sites will direct the search engines in a way that makes sense and get you ranked according to proper keywords.

    so where to get started?

    This is probably what you guys have been waiting for - so apologies for going through the background as I feel its important to know why we are doing what we are doing and the relevance it has. Besides you are learning right? :)

    OK the quickest and fastest way to submit your site or blog posts is to use a FREE tool called SocialMarker.

    So go to: http://www.socialmarker.com

    I recommend you use FireFox as a browser so you can drag the icon to the tool bar. Follow the instructions in the website and get started! Some tips:

    • There are over 40-50 sites there if you select ‘All’. Just select ‘Best’ and it narrows it down to the best and most popular sites. You will be amazed on how much traffic you can get from a site like ‘Digg.com’ or ‘Stumbleupon.com’ alone!

    • If you want to do them all and have the time - then by all means go for it :)
    • I suggest you register and create an account with all of the ‘Best’ bookmarking sites as most of them will require log-in and are very aware of spam-bots
    • The initial stages may take some time but remember that ALL successful Internet/Network Marketers do it and spend time doing this!
    • I wouldn’t recommend paid services to do it for you as I just don’t trust them in terms of submitting relevant material.

    Social bookmarking traffic avalanche!

    Another great technique to encourage and easily allow people to bookmark items from your site is to start from the bottom. What I mean here is to make sure that your bookmark images appear at the bottom of every post whether it is a video, post, blog, article or whatever! Make it easy for them to bookmark! 

    Even people who don’t use or know much about bookmarking can easily start using it! You can get the bookmark buttons and code here:- http://www.addthis.com/

    It should look something like this. Or you can see at the bottom of my posts on my blog page how it looks and works.

    So just to wrap up here are some tips and mistakes in Social bookmarking.

    Social bookmarking TIPS

    • Identify each site’s general preferences, and bookmark accordingly as every site caters to a particular market/audience.
    • Invite people who would really be interested in the content, not just people who will give you a vote without question. Those interested will also leave the best comments, which can generate good traffic.
    • Almost every site makes it possible to connect with other people. If you are not connecting, no one will find you.
    • Do not give-up after a short while. Social Bookmarking is about making and sustaining connections. The only way you can grow your influence is long term.
    • Stop crying - if you hate the fact that it takes time, don’t do it at all. Every marketer does it!
    • Use these tools to link to other resources. If you only link to your website or blog and never bookmark or link to other interesting resources, you will never gain the respect of your audience.

    Social bookmarking MISTAKES

    • Not reading the submission guidelines before posting your links on a site.
    • Submitting to a bookmarking site that does not have your category or submitting to a wrong category.
    • Bookmarking every single page of your site solely to create backlinks to your website.
    • Not making use of other features made available to connect to other users.
    • Spamming, lying, scamming and not providing good content!

    So there you have it guys! A very simple, fast and effective way to start moving FREE traffic to your site.

    So get started and if you have any questions or queries please feel free to contact me and I’ll help you out!

    Stay tuned for the next HOW TO series where I will talk about directories and how to generate traffic from them!

    Sin Boutkaska

    twittertise for twitters!

    September 23rd, 2008. Published under network marketing tools and tips. 1 Comment.

    For those who have a Twitter account and have been always wondering how to track links that are posted via your Twitter page - well now you have a way! 

    I ran into this the other day and thought I share it with you!

    Whether it’s a promotion you are running for your business or a special offer you want to share with others, use Twittertise to track the event or campaign for you….

    • Twittertise allows you to advertise on Twitter and track the success of branded communications with your customers
    • Using Twittertise you can schedule your communications on Twitter and using URL tracking technology measure the effectiveness of your traffic driving techniques on the platform
    • Uses your existing Twitter login
    • All the top brands are using Twittertise today.

    Visit Twittertise now and start using it today!

    the power of one click - Roboform

    September 22nd, 2008. Published under network marketing tools and tips. 1 Comment.

    Just thought I share a handy and useful tool that I have been using as an Internet marketer. I have over 50 web pages that I regularly log into (and that’s not including subscriptions to other blogs and forums) and it is constantly growing! As much as I love the Windows password manager, RoboForm is a very very handy tool. It not only remembers your passwords but it will open up the webpage for you and log in automatically for you in just a click! It saves me heaps of time and makes logging into accounts, subscribing and registering to new websites a breeze!

    You can also set up various profiles with relevant info so that when you want to register or subscribe to a site it will fill it out automatically for you!

    It also stores these passwords and is password protected and information stored is encrypted. So as a result I use it to log into my banking accounts as well :)

    I have been using this software for free and it saves me heaps and heaps of time!

    Other features include:-

    • RoboForm was named PC Magazine Editor’s Choice, and CNET Download.com’s Software of the Year.
    • Memorizes your passwords and Logs You In automatically.
    • Fills long registration and checkout forms with one click.
    • Encrypts your passwords to achieve complete security.
    • Generates random passwords that hackers cannot guess.
    • Backs up your passwords, Copies them between computers.
    • Synchronizes passwords between computers using GoodSync.
    • Searches for keywords in your passwords, notes and Internet.
    • Portable: RoboForm2Go RF runs from USB key, no install needed.
    • PDA-friendly: sync your passwords to Pocket PC and Palm.
    • Neutral: works with Internet Explorer, AOL/MSN, Firefox.
    • IE 7 and Vista: are now supported.

    Give it a go as its free!

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