WOW! – Why hasn’t someone thought of this earlier?

 

Matthew Graves just launched his latest site, 100 Percent Traffic, and I just love the “Universal Credits”.  That is going to save so much hassle!

 

At 100 Percent Traffic, you get to earn your credits how you want and then spend them in the way which is most effective for you.  No more banner credit, text ad credits, mailing credits, and traffic credits.  This site simplified the whole thing down to just one type of credit – the Universal Credit.

 

Universal Credits can be earned by clicking links in emails, surfing the traffic exchange, or playing the Banner Blast or Text Ad Treasure Hunt.  They all go into a single Universal Credit balance.

 

Once you have earned your Universal Credits, you can assign them as you wish to all your promotions.  Use them to email members with the full-featured built in mailer.  Use them to have your site shown in the Traffic Exchange.  Use them to have your Banners and Text Ads shown on the site and in the apps.  You get to pick what works best for you.

 

No more worries about converting traffic credits to banner credits, or having too many text ad credits and not enough credits to send emails.  The site handles it all for you.

 

Just like the name says, the site also offers 100% commissions on the Premium Upgrades of those you refer.  What a great way to create a recurring income.  Matthew’s last 100% commission site, 100 Percent Mailer generated almost $20,000 in commissions for members in just it’s first month!  Make sure you upgrade to Premium when you sign up so that you can get those 100% commissions.  Free members get 30%.

 

Click here to get universal credits at 100 Percent Traffic

 

by Rahimah Sultan

 

Hey, I found this great new marketing tool. Well, it’s new to me. The program is called AdKreator!

 

Adkreator is an easy to use yet very powerful do-it-yourself banner/ad creating service. It is 100% web based so there is no software to download. It’s so easy to use even the most design clumsy users can be creating professional designs without a nervous breakdown.

 

There is video training on how to use the system.

 

You can host your creations on the site or download them to your computer and upload them later to your own website.

 

Their template catalog contains hundreds of templates for banner ads, peel away ads, splash pages, website headers and so much more. You can design your own templates and save them to edit later. Then you can completely change the color, text or whatever of your saved template.

 

You can create your own professional squeeze pages with your text, photo, video and autoresponder code for building your list.

 

Currently, it is free to join AdKreator and test out their design system. Free members can save one design.

 

There is also an affiliate program.

 

I use this program and I think it’s wonderful!

by Rahimah Sultan

 

E-zine marketing is one option for advertising. One common mistake that many new web site owners make when they start their online business is thinking that lots of people are going to visit their site. They spend money for that professional look, add all the relevant information and then sit back and wait for the visitors. But they don’t come.

 

Why? You need a marketing campaign. There are several ways to go about this.

 

One option is to write articles or have them written for you and then submit them to paid or free e-zines. Of course, you must find the right e-zines or web sites to post your articles to. Make sure they are top ranked and not fly-by-night ones who will take your money and not publish. A vast majority of ezines are a waste of time and money.

 

A few points to keep in mind are:

1. You get what you pay for.
2. You must offer something that relates to the niche market.
3. Target your advertising to your audience.
4. The best things are not always free.

 

Where you should advertise depends on your product or service. So, do your homework before you begin your campaign.

by Rahimah Sultan

Affiliate Marketing is a branch of Internet marketing where the advertisement publisher gets paid for every customer or sale provided by him.


Affiliate marketing is the basis for all other Internet marketing strategies.

In affiliate marketing, affiliate management companies, in-house affiliate managers and third party vendors are effectively utilized for E-mail Marketing and Search Engine Marketing for the success of the product.


Web traffic can be traced with the help of a third party or owners of the affiliate programs.


Originally, affiliate marketing involved lots of spamming, false advertising, trademark infringement, etc.


Since the invention of complex algorithms and advanced security, it’s safer to do business and shopping online. This even led to better scrutinizing of terms and conditions by the merchants.


As affiliate marketing opened up more opportunities, it also increased marketing competition.

Due to this pressure in-house affiliate programs for merchants were replaced by out-sourced programs. The companies that offer this service have expert affiliate marketing and network program managers who have various affiliate program management techniques.


These affiliate networks have publishers associated with them who help with the advertising.

Affiliate marketing was started by cdnow.com who had music oriented websites. They placed a list of music albums on their site and paid others to put those links in their websites when a visitor bought an album through their site. The first company to link with cdnow.com was Geffen Records.

Two months later, a woman proposed an offer to Amazon to sell their books on her website for a certain percentage. They liked the idea and started the Amazon Associates Program. It was more of a commission program where they received a commission if a visitor clicked their links and banners on other’s sites and bought something.


Since its inception, the affiliate network has been adopted by various businesses like travel, education, telecom, mobile, gaming, personal finance, retail, and subscription sites.

The compensation methods used are Cost per sale (CPS), Cost per action (CPA), Cost per mile (CPM) and Cost per click (CPC).


The first two are the main methods used today. This is because in CPM and CPC, the visitor that turns up on a particular website might not be the targeted audience and a click would be enough to generate a commission.


CPS and CPA require that the visitor not only click on the link but also buy something or sign up for some service, which proves that the visitor is in a targeted audience. Only then does the affiliate get paid.


So the affiliate should try to send as much targeted traffic as possible to the advertiser to increase his/her returns. For this reason, affiliate marketing is also known as performance marketing. It totally depends upon the performance of the affiliate.

The affiliate team can be differentiated from a sales team by the nature of their jobs. The job of the affiliate team is to get targeted traffic to a point, then the sales team must influence the visitor to buy the product or service.

This is a very effective method because the money is being paid only when results have been achieved. The publisher incurs all the cost except that of initial setup and development of the program, which is incurred by the merchant.


Many businesses credit affiliate marketing for their success.

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