Wealthy Affiliate is an energetic, interactive internet marketing community which is designed and well thought out to take you by the hand and teach you how you can make money online by being an Affiliate Marketer. Inside Wealthy Affiliate you are going to find tons of information, tools, and guides that will help you in your quest to make money online. The whole community is based around helping you rise up in the ranks of affiliate marketing and yes, to become a wealthy affiliate.

Affiliate marketing is not difficult at all. The concept is that you (being an affiliate) send visitors over to the vendor’s site. He pays you a commission anytime someone buys the product or service through your affiliate link. This is in return for you bringing him the customer. As an affiliate marketer you can make commissions on just about anything for sale on the internet.

Let’s look at an example for a web hosting company. We’ll call them XYZ web-hosting company. They pay their affiliates $40 commission for every customer that an affiliate brings to them as a ‘referral’. Alright, one referral is not going to allow you to fire your boss or anything like that. Now, get a picture in your mind of getting just 1 sale per day on 10 or 15 products. How would that calculate out for you? With a bit of work you will easily see how to get yourself up and running at $400-$500 per day in affiliate marketing commissions.

Take my word- everyday wealthy affiliates out there are averaging more than 50 sales per day- each day. Figure an avg. commission of $20 per each sale- this will equate to $1K each day or $30K/month, and a whopping $360K per year! Yep, that’s a lotta money. And the only thing keeping you from doing it is all in your head.

Now, making that kind of money, you will have expenses. How are your friends going to feel when you have them out for dinner and you drop the word that your accountant was happy with you because you were able to keep expenses below $12K this month! Well, my friends, using the help, support, and guidance at Wealthy Affiliate Forum- it’s a common occurrence.

When you join up over at Wealthy Affiliate you will be amazed at the resources that Kyle and Carson, the founders- have put together for us. You’ll be able to track your links and see what is converting. There is free web-hosting, keyword and advanced clickbank research tools. A very popular benefit at Wealthy Affiliate forum is the personal support you get from Kyle and Carson- the two internet millionaire founders in their 20’s. The feedback that happens at the forum is always very helpful

The Wealthy Affiliate forum is for everyone. It doesn’t matter if you are just starting out or have already reached the advanced levels of affiliate marketing and you just want a little nudge getting to the next level.

No website? No problem. At Wealthy Affiliate your membership includes webspace to host your website. There are pre-built sites ready for you or you can use one of Carson and Kyle’s templates.

The cost of a semester of class at a local university would set you back about $400 for a four cr. hour class.

You can get a Wealthy Affiliate membership for just $29.99. If you keep your membership at the Wealthy Affiliate forum it is going to cost much less than a college class. Also, you are going to gain access to tutorials, guides and members only forum which is worth the price of admission alone. You’ll have access to all of the tools you need to make money on the internet.

Posted: December 13th, 2007 under Affiliate Programs.
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Wealthy Affiliate is an energetic, interactive internet marketing community which is designed and well thought out to take you by the hand and teach you how you can make money online by being an Affiliate Marketer. Inside Wealthy Affiliate you are going to find tons of information, tools, and guides that will help you in your quest to make money online. The whole community is based around helping you rise up in the ranks of affiliate marketing and yes, to become a wealthy affiliate.

Affiliate Marketing is really easy. The idea is that you (as an affiliate) send traffic to the vendor’s website. The vendor compensates you with a commission whenever someone decides to buy using your affiliate link. You being the affiliate marketer- are able to collect commissions for almost anything on the internet.

Ok, let’s say for example that you signed up to be an affiliate for an antivirus software company. Let’s assume that they pay their affiliates $25 commission on each subscription of their anti-virus software. Ok, one sale at $25 commission isn’t going to break the bank. But sit back and close your eyes for a moment and see yourself making one sale a day for 10 or 15 different products that are for sale on the internet. My calculator tells me that is $250-$375/day. This, my friend is not hard to achieve with the resources that are available to you at Wealthy Affiliate.

Take it from me- believe me or not. Makes no difference. There are everyday guys and gals just like you averaging more than FIFTY (50) sales a day- each and every day. If you figure they make about $20 per each sale, this comes out to be about $360,000 per year, or $30 thousand a month, and $1 thousand per day. Could you live on $41.60 earned per hour-even while you sleep? If not, hey, less competition for me. I’ll take the money. A very wise person once said- “It’s not what life hands you, it’s what you accept”.

Of course, at that level of income you are bound to have expenses. What do you think it feels like to have your ‘poor’ friends over for dinner and just drop the word that “hey John, my accountant says we were able to keep expenses under $10,000 this month”? Ha-ha, you’d be picking him up off the floor. Well, my friend, with the guidance and support at Wealthy Affiliate- people are doing that everyday.

After you sign up at Wealthy Affiliate, be sure to look me up. Wealthy Affiliate is the brain-child of Kyle and Carson, two college students in their 20’s who have achieved internet “millionaire-dom”. One of the more popular benefits at WA is the personal support that each and everyone gets upon asking Kyle or Carson. All of the wonderful feedback in the forum helps alot, too.

The Wealthy Affiliate forum is for everyone. It doesn’t matter if you are just starting out or have already reached the advanced levels of affiliate marketing and you just want a little nudge getting to the next level.

Don’t worry, you don’t need a website. That’s no problem. With your Wealthy Affiliate membership you’ll get webhosting where you can use one of the sites already built for you, or if you want to build your own, you can use one of Kyle and Carson’s templates.

The cost of a semester of class at a local university would set you back about $400 for a four cr. hour class.

Wealthy Affiliate is just $29.99 a month. You can keep a membership at Wealthy Affiliate for a year and it will cost you a lot less than one class at the university. In addition, you’ll have access to guides, tutorials, the members only forum, and plenty of other tools to help you make money on the internet.

Posted: December 13th, 2007 under Affiliate Programs.
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A majority of MLM distributors make a very crucial mistake when choosing and building a network marketing business. They focus too much of their attention on all the wrong things. Let me explain.

As a Melaleuca distributor, what’s your business focus? Are you thinking about all the great products on Melaleuca.com and the high-paying compensation plan that will enable you to achieve financial freedom within a relatively short amount of time? These things are great and very necessary to know and understand, however, there is still one thing that you should put before any of these - marketing. Marketing should be the premier thought if you’re serious about growing your business.

The most important thing you can do as a Melaleuca product distributor is focus on how to market your MLM business. Things like the Melaleuca, Inc. products and compensation plan are important pieces of information, but the truth is that they come second on the priority list. One thing I want you to realize is that they only thing that is going to make your business grow is marketing - not the compensation plan; not the products! All too often you see distributors moving from MLM to MLM thinking that the reason for their lack of success is the product or the compensation plan and nothing could be further from the truth.

It’s like McDonald’s. You know the fast-food restaurant that is on every street corner in America, and even across the world. How many people out there could make a better-tasting hamburger than they could? I can think of a few people, myself included. Why then, is McDonald’s a multi-billion dollar company? Do you see my point? A lot of people can come up with a great product. In fact it could be the best. But it all comes down to how you market your product. You can have the most effective, groundbreaking product in the world, but if you’re not using effective marketing no one will know and no one will care. An effective sales and marketing system is by far the most important factor to any business, and should take top priority for anyone who wants to be a successful Melaleuca network marketer.

Melaleuca home based business distributors need to realize that their sales and marketing efforts are the activities that bring in the cash! You might be thinking that you need to know everything about the products and product lines in your business or the ins and outs of your Melaleuca Company’s compensation plan, but the reality is that these things don’t directly bring in the money. If you want to see success in your business, then know that you have to set your sales and marketing efforts as your priority.

Melaleuca, the Wellness Company relies on distributors making sales and growing their businesses and it’s their job to create great products and a second-to-none compensation plan. On the other hand, it’s your job to market their products and the business opportunity and the reason you get paid is because you get good at selling and marketing. If you’ve been in this business or any business, one of the things you’ll see is that people will make a lot of money with an average product if they know how to market their product well. At the same time, they can have a great product, but the marketing efforts are minimal to average, then they aren’t going to go very far.

Even the experts agree that marketing is the most important thing for any business! Many of you have already heard of Robert Kiyosaki and Seth Godin who are both best selling authors. They are both successful business men who know what it takes to build a successful business. If you were to talk to either of them, they will tell you that a successful business is not built on things like better shipping or more quality manufacturing. A successful business is built on marketing.

Prioritize your work efforts. As a distributor, you offer a total business experience and you should definitely know the quality of the products you have and how you’re going to get paid. You want to make sure that your products and business opportunity meets the needs of the people you serve to they keep coming back to you over and over and over again. But before all of that happens, you have to first get out there and market your product. That’s first priority.

Most MLM companies, Melaleuca included, usually don’t train their distributors very well in marketing. Marketing techniques aren’t used or taught very much and the little that is taught is outdated and ineffective. Melaleuca.com distributors are given pretty brochures and top-notch graphic designs for websites, but again, those aren’t the things that drive a sale. One thing is for sure. If you want to be a successful Melaleuca, Inc. business owner, then place a priority on learning and using marketing efforts in your business.

Posted: December 13th, 2007 under Marketing.
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In any business the first sale is the hardest sale and the insurance industry is no different. When you focus on the right sources you can increase your sales and reduce your efforts. Treat your business like a business, and control how and where you invest your time. It’s easy to get caught up chasing after the wrong sources, and when you do it’s reflected in your revenue. Being busy isn’t being productive. Productivity is about doing the right things at the right time with the right sources.

Increase your focus on the money by focusing on your existing customer base and their future potential. All existing customers as not equal in their potential. Recognize that there are three ways this potential varies.

Within your customer base there is a potential for: development of a highly profitable target market for you, repeat and expanded business, and referral to high potential prospects. Failing to identify and recognize highly profitable potential target markets among their existing customers is a costly mistake. Development within a specific target market is one of the easiest ways to develop a highly profitable solid business for you. You have to look beyond product purchases to customer demographics to discover the potential you have for target markets among your customers. Pinpoint the commonalities among your customers with the highest potential so you can find more people just like them.

Each year you conduct an annual review with your customers to identify opportunities for business expansion. All of your existing customers won’t do additional business with you this year. Do a good job taking notes and asking good questions, and it will be easier for you to develop a list of the customers who are most likely to do additional business this year. Invest more time with these customers than with customers who aren’t likely to have additional needs. Most agents don’t take the time to make this evaluation so they invest equal time in customer who aren’t likely to expand the business they do with you this year.

Never ignore or neglect customers who don’t have an immediate potential for additional business. Doing so would result in low retention rates and dissatisfaction. Stay connected with every customer to maintain that relationship you’ve started, but develop ways to make this process automatic. A referral system shores up your insurance sales success by ensuring you properly take care of your customer relationships.

You’re supposed to ask for referrals, but you hate doing it because you feel like you’re either pressuring your customers to cough up a referral or you’re begging for them. You feel that way for good reason. The approach you’re using now isn’t a very good one. Part of the problem is that you don’t know what to ask or how to ask it to get the results you want. As you identify a target market you also want to focus on who within that target market has the greatest potential for you. This will make it easier for your customers to help you to make those connections and they won’t feel pressured to do so or like you’re begging because you approach it differently.

Posted: December 13th, 2007 under Marketing.
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