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		<title>How to Find the Best Things to Sell on eBay</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Des Drec
Let&#8217;s cut to the chase and tell you how to find the best things to sell on eBay.
1. Head over to eBay pulse. This delivers a snapshot of the eBay marketplace. eBay Pulse features top 10 popular searches, popular stores, popular products and those with highest price.
2. You&#8217;ll be presented with the &#8220;popular [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><a title="Run the cars" href="http://flickr.com/photos/15115132@N00/3539392717"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2163/3539392717_4c27285eea.jpg" alt="" width="392" height="294" /></a>By <a href="http://ezinearticles.com/?expert_bio=Des_Drec">Des Drec</a></p>
<p>Let&#8217;s cut to the chase and tell you how to find the best things to sell on eBay.</p>
<p>1. Head over to eBay pulse. This delivers a snapshot of the eBay marketplace. eBay Pulse features top 10 popular searches, popular stores, popular products and those with highest price.</p>
<p>2. You&#8217;ll be presented with the &#8220;popular searches&#8221; on the left hand side. The top 10 in the UK is currently: U K, cars, UK, next, mobile phones, laptop, river island, wii games, topshop and xbox 360 games.</p>
<p>3. This list is OK, but far too generic. Click on the category drop down list, let&#8217;s choose &#8220;Cars, Motorcycles &amp; Vehicles&#8221;. We&#8217;re presented with this list:</p>
<p>1. left hand drive lhd</p>
<p>2. cars</p>
<p>3. spares or repair</p>
<p>4. classic cars</p>
<p>5. mini</p>
<p>6. bmw</p>
<p>7. mercedes</p>
<p>8. range rover</p>
<p>9. vans</p>
<p>10. vauxhall corsa</p>
<p><strong>Ebay Selling Tips</strong></p>
<p>Notice what&#8217;s a position number 10 &#8220;Vauxhall Corsa&#8221;. You could do a search for cheap &#8220;Vauxhall Corsa&#8217;s&#8221; in your area, buy low and then place on eBay to sell high. Note: Best time to finish a car auction is Sunday afternoon, giving the buyer enough time to collect.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, 99% of people that read this article won&#8217;t follow this simple but effective strategy, which is a shame. Let&#8217;s hope you&#8217;ll be a little more daring! Find out how you can dominate markets and align yourself with other Powersellers on eBay by using some easy to use Internet marketing tools.</p>
<p>Or&#8230;do you want to learn how to find what the most popular and hot products are selling for on eBay?</p>
<p>Find out the best things to sell on eBay here: <a href="http://www.hotsellingitemsonebay.com/" target="_new">eBay Selling Tips</a>.</p>
<p>Des Drec is an Internet Marketer &amp; Strategic eBay Marketer. He&#8217;s given up his day job to work online full time. In the process he&#8217;s actually helping more people to do this too!</p>
<p>Article Source: <a href="http://ezinearticles.com/?expert_bio=Des_Drec" target="_new">http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Des_Drec</a><br />
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		<title>How to Make Money on eBay &#8211; Give Away a Free ebook So People Can Download Instantly</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to Make Money on eBay &#8211; Give Away a Free ebook So People Can Download Instantly
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Des_Drec]Des Drec
eBay classified ads are something of a revelation. So many people just don&#8217;t get it. This form of marketing is so powerful I think eBay should charge more for it.
Here&#8217;s how the smart marketers use eBay classified [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How to Make Money on eBay &#8211; Give Away a Free ebook So People Can Download Instantly<br />
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Des_Drec]Des Drec</p>
<p>eBay classified ads are something of a revelation. So many people just don&#8217;t get it. This form of marketing is so powerful I think eBay should charge more for it.</p>
<p><strong>Here&#8217;s how the smart marketers use eBay classified ads.</strong></p>
<p>1. The first thing you do is research a hungry market. The way to find out where a hungry market is is to take a look at eBay pulse. This will tell you what&#8217;s selling by rank. No need to reinvent the wheel here, simply sell what&#8217;s already selling and you can&#8217;t go wrong.</p>
<p>2. Once you&#8217;ve found an item that already selling, find out if there are range of affiliate products to promote in this category. I&#8217;m guessing there probably is since it&#8217;s a sellers marketplace. Don&#8217;t know what an affiliate product is. This is a high priced product that someone else has either written or designed and they&#8217;re willing to share the profits with you. Sometimes the share can be as much as 75% on some products.</p>
<p>3. Purchase that product and write your own version of that product but don&#8217;t give away ALL of the details. This is going to be a little taster for your client. Don&#8217;t worry, it&#8217;ll only need to be around 10 &#8211; 15 pages in length.</p>
<p>4. Get an ebook cover designed. This is easy, simply type into Google &#8220;ebook cover designed&#8221; and you&#8217;ll find lots of people willing to do this for a small fee.</p>
<p>5. Make sure you have affiliate links dotted throughout the eBook or even at the end. This will lead to back-end sales of our affiliate product. Here&#8217;s the process broken down:</p>
<p>Customer sees your classified ad for free information on a hungry market. They click on the link which could be an email address, telephone number or my favourite and opt-in form (where people ask for information by inserting their name and email address).</p>
<p>They sign up and receive your the ebook you&#8217;ve just written on the killer &#8220;I&#8217;ve got to get my credit card out&#8221; topic and receive their free ebook via email. Now your content still needs to be of sufficient quality, just don&#8217;t reveal all. What you&#8217;re hoping for is the client will like what you&#8217;ve published and want even more information. That&#8217;s where the affiliate links within the ebook come into play.</p>
<p>They click on one of those links for more information, purchase our back-end product. Everybody&#8217;s happy. They&#8217;ve received the information they wanted in the first place and you&#8217;ve made a commission from selling an affiliate product off the the back of your initial free ebook. Not a bad strategy eh?</p>
<p>An eBook has been written that explains this tactic and countless other tactics people haven&#8217;t even heard of:</p>
<p>Download it here ==&gt;  <a title="Cracking The eBay Code" href="http://www.CrackingTheBayCode.com" target="_blank"> http://www.crackingtheebaycode.com </a></p>
<p>Or&#8230;do you want to learn how to find what the most popular and hot products are selling for</p>
<p>on eBay?</p>
<p>Find out how here:   <a title="top selling items on ebay" href="Hot Selling Items On eBay">http://www.hotsellingitemsonebay.com</a></p>
<p>DesDrec teaches and consultants with small business owners and would be entrepreneurs how to fully leverage the great marketplace that is eBay. DesDrec says, &#8220;If you have the desire and will to succeed online then I can give you the tools to be successful.&#8221;</p>
<p>Article Source:<a title="best selling items on ebay - some ebay selling tips" href="http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Des_Drec http://EzineArticles.com/?How-to-Make-Money-on-eBay---Give-Away-a-Free-ebook-So-People-Can-Download-Instantly&amp;id=2777367" target="_blank"> http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Des_Drec http://EzineArticles.com/?How-to-Make-Money-on-eBay&#8212;Give-Away-a-Free-ebook-So-People-Can-Download-Instantly&amp;id=2777367</a></p>
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		<title>New Product To Be Released Called Cracking The eBay Code</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 08:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi guys,
just to give you the heads up on a new product that I&#8217;m going to release on 21st September called &#8220;Cracking The eBay Code&#8220;.
I&#8217;ve been super exited to write about a business I&#8217;ve been really passionate about for a few years now, and to finally get it into print is just phenomenal.
What&#8217;s the eBook [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi guys,</p>
<p>just to give you the heads up on a new product that I&#8217;m going to release on 21st September called &#8220;<a title="Cracking The eBay Code" href="http://www.crackingtheebaycode.com" target="_blank">Cracking The eBay Code</a>&#8220;.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been super exited to write about a business I&#8217;ve been really passionate about for a few years now, and to finally get it into print is just phenomenal.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s the eBook all about?</p>
<p>Well, first let me just say that this is a combination of video and PDF detailing the exact same strategies I use to make a full time living on eBay.</p>
<div id="attachment_104" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://www.crackingtheebaycode.com/freeebook/CrackingTheeBayCodeSneakPeek.pdf"><img class="size-full wp-image-104" title="ezine_300" src="http://www.multimediacavern.com/mmcblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/ezine_300.jpg" alt="Get The Free Leaked Chapter" width="300" height="368" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Get The Free Leaked Chapter</p></div>
<p>Simply click on the image above to get the <strong>free leaked chapter!</strong></p>
<p>Also, you may want to visit the site for more details too! <a title="Find out how I make a full time living online using eBay..." href="http://www.crackingtheebaycode.com" target="_blank">www.crackingtheebaycode.com</a></p>
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		<title>Making Money with Amazon &amp; Other Stuff</title>
		<link>http://www.multimediacavern.com/mmcblog/2009/08/making-money-with-amazon-other-stuff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 05:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Just read a great blog post about making money from Amazon products. I often wondered just how people managed to do this since the commission percentage isn&#8217;t as appealing as other affiliate programs. Tracey explains all in her latest blog post:
http://www.tracey-edwards.com/making-money-with-amazon-other-stuff/
I found it quite interesting and I&#8217;m sure you will do too!
Have you used Amazon [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fgoldbox%3Fie%3DUTF8%26ref%255F%3Dcs%255Ftop%255Fnav%255Fgb27&amp;tag=firschoimark-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-99" title="Amazon affiliate program pic" src="http://www.multimediacavern.com/mmcblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/amazon2.png" alt="Amazon affiliate program pic" width="777" height="430" /></a></p>
<p>Just read a great blog post about making money from Amazon products. I often wondered just how people managed to do this since the commission percentage isn&#8217;t as appealing as other affiliate programs. Tracey explains all in her latest blog post:</p>
<p><a title="Making money with Amazon" href="http://www.tracey-edwards.com/making-money-with-amazon-other-stuff/" target="_blank">http://www.tracey-edwards.com/making-money-with-amazon-other-stuff/</a></p>
<p>I found it quite interesting and I&#8217;m sure you will do too!</p>
<p>Have you used Amazon and if so have you had any success yet?</p>
<p>To your online success,</p>
<p>DesDrec.</p>
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		<title>7 reasons you aren’t succeeding online…</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across a great post today about succeeding online by Charles Kirkland.
I don&#8217;t normally add external links from my blog but I thought this was a great post and one that you could benefit from. I manage to make a full time living by selling digital products on eBay and it&#8217;s now my ambition to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I came across a great post today about succeeding online by <strong></strong><strong>Charles Kirkland</strong>.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t normally add external links from my blog but I thought this was a great post and one that you could benefit from. I manage to make a full time living by selling digital products on eBay and it&#8217;s now my ambition to do this next with article marketing and affiliate marketing.</p>
<p>Take a look at Charles&#8217; blog post <strong><a title="7 reasons you aren't succeeding online..." href="http://charleskirklandblog.com/7-reasons-you-arent-succeeding-online/" target="_blank">7 reasons you aren’t succeeding online…</a></strong></p>
<p>To your online success!</p>
<p>DesDrec</p>
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		<title>Losing Money Selling Clickbank Digital Products? Me Too!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 08:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick post today to give you the heads up on a case study I carried out last month (June).
I write several articles a month and most of them are written to either grow my list or sell an affiliate program or both. I started promoting the &#8220;copy xbox games&#8221; and &#8220;fix your xbox&#8221; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just a quick post today to give you the heads up on a case study I carried out last month (June).</p>
<p>I write several articles a month and most of them are written to either grow my list or sell an affiliate program or both. I started promoting the <strong>&#8220;copy xbox games&#8221;</strong> and<strong> &#8220;fix your xbox&#8221;</strong> niche which has been relatively successful. Now, by relatively I mean I could have sold more!<br />
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<strong>Let Me Explain </strong></p>
<p>When writing articles about not techie stuff my conversion rate hits around <strong>2-3%</strong>, <strong>so for every 100 visitors that visit my squeeze page 2-3 will actually sign up or buy something</strong>. When promoting a tech item or anything to do with affiliate marketing, Internet marketing etc, my stats slide at an alarming rate. If anything I get even more click thrus with these type of products but less sales <img src='http://www.multimediacavern.com/mmcblog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':-(' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>When I analysed the results I believe I&#8217;m losing sales by people replacing my clickbank hop link and replacing it with their own.<br />
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<p><strong>This Is Nothing New</strong></p>
<p>Now you&#8217;re probably saying that this is &#8220;nothing new&#8221;. However, I also tested how big the &#8220;affiliate&#8221; link was (at the bottom of clickbank product sales pages). The smaller the link the more sales I made, and <strong>I made 100% more sales when there wasn&#8217;t an affiliate link on the sales page at all</strong>. Now this astonished me.</p>
<p><strong>Some Advice:</strong></p>
<p>I&#8217;m not saying that you shouldn&#8217;t promote clickbank products. Jeez, I make a good income promoting them through articles. What I&#8217;m saying is be careful which ones you promote.</p>
<p><strong>I Now:</strong></p>
<p>1. Promote non techie items, unless it&#8217;s a new techie product that&#8217;s come out into the marketplace. (Writing reviews for new products is a great strategy for people new to affiliate marketing and I&#8217;ll go over this more in future posts)</p>
<p>2. Promote clickbank products with no affiliate link at all. These are generally squeeze pages, or products where you can only become an affiliate once you&#8217;ve purchased the product. (normally on high ticket items).</p>
<p>3. Produce my own copy cat product aka:</p>
<p><strong><a title="Reverse Engineering" href="http://www.multimediacavern.com/mmcblog/2009/05/5-bad-ass-things-you-need-to-succeed-in-the-affiliate-marketing-dog-pit/" target="_blank">http://www.multimediacavern.com/mmcblog/2009/05/5-bad-ass-things-you-need-to-succeed-in-the-affiliate-marketing-dog-pit/</a></strong></p>
<p><strong>With that model I use:</strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong><span style="color: #000000;">The ‘Reverse Selection’ Blueprint by Chris Rempel</span> </strong></span><a title="Reverse selection" href="http://www.thelazymarketer.com/vip-niche/index.php?e=d.dreckett@btinternet.com" target="_blank"><strong>http://www.thelazymarketer.com</strong></a> I basically produce a copycat product and sell it exclusively from my own sales page and website. This is highly lucrative and in future posts I&#8217;ll go into more detail. In fact once I started doing this, my sales have quadrupled with the same amount of effort.</p>
<p>4. Promote products that people will actually pull out their credit cards to purchase. For example, the term &#8220;goldfish diseases&#8221; gets over 12000 views a month and it&#8217;s a niche that&#8217;s easy to dominate. However, when you look at the stats more carefully these people are actually information seekers and don&#8217;t buy products that often on this topic. Hence, why it&#8217;s important to look for the<strong> <a title="Online Commercial Intent" href="http://www.multimediacavern.com/mmcblog/2009/06/how-to-make-money-using-online-commercial-intent-part-1/" target="_blank">Online Commercial Intention </a></strong>on a product before you start promoting it or producing a product for it.</p>
<p><strong>In Summary</strong></p>
<p>Again, go ahead and promote all the products you want on clickbank. There&#8217;s clearly money to be made here (even if it&#8217;s not your own product). Just be careful which ones you promote.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d love to hear your views on this?</p>
<p>DesDrec.</p>
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		<title>How To Make Money Using Online Commercial Intent Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last post I gave you a little intro to Online Commercial Intent (OCI). In the post I&#8217;m gonna take things a little further and show you how to use this precious information.
Note: If you did&#8217;nt read the first post you can read it HERE
Click the &#8220;more&#8221; tab to watch the videos&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;


Introducing &#8220;Micro Niche [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the last post I gave you a little intro to <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>Online Commercial Intent (OCI)</strong></span></span>. In the post I&#8217;m gonna take things a little further and show you how to use this precious information.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Note: If you did&#8217;nt read the first post you can read it <a title="Click here to read first post" href="http://www.multimediacavern.com/mmcblog/2009/06/how-to-make-money-using-online-commercial-intent-part-1/" target="_self">HERE</a></span></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><span style="color: #000000;">Click the &#8220;more&#8221; tab to watch the videos&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</span><br />
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<p><strong>Introducing <span style="color: #0000ff;">&#8220;Micro Niche Finder&#8221;</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>Simply click on the images below and watch stunning examples of just how to get ahead in the market place.</strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>ENJOY&#8230;&#8230;</strong></span></p>
<div id="attachment_58" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 410px"><a title="Micro Niche Video 1" href="http://offto.net/drexblg/" target="_blank"><img class="size-full wp-image-58" title="microwideblankvid1" src="http://www.multimediacavern.com/mmcblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/microwideblankvid1.png" alt="Micro Niche Finder Video 1" width="400" height="400" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Micro Niche Finder Video 1</p></div>
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<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Note: If you didn read the first post you can read it <a title="Click here to read first post" href="../2009/06/how-to-make-money-using-online-commercial-intent-part-1/" target="_self">HERE</a></span></span></strong></p>
<p>DesDrec</p>
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Hi Guys, hope you&#8217;ve had a great weekend?
Today I&#8217;m going to let you into a little secret that you can use to kick start both you internet marketing and affiliate marketing business.
Now if I&#8217;d have known these tools when I first started internet marketing I&#8217;d be so far ahead of where I am now it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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<p>Hi Guys, hope you&#8217;ve had a great weekend?</p>
<p>Today I&#8217;m going to let you into a little secret that you can use to kick start both you internet marketing and affiliate marketing business.</p>
<p>Now if I&#8217;d have known these tools when I first started internet marketing I&#8217;d be so far ahead of where I am now it&#8217;s scary.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s about using <strong>&#8220;Online Commercial Intent&#8221; </strong>to really kick start your business.</p>
<p>Take a look at the video I made below and I&#8217;ll let you into the secret&#8230;..(click the more tab)</p>
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<p><strong>After you&#8217;ve watched the video go check out <a title="Microsoft Ad Labs" href="http://adlab.microsoft.com/Online-Commercial-Intention/Default.aspx" target="_blank">Microsoft Adlabs </a></strong></p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>DesDrec</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting title eh?
To be honest, I&#8217;m doing some background tests in my article and blog writing just to see if a well known theory works. So many of us take on this Internet marketing challenge and produce &#8220;me too&#8221; blogs and articles. I reckon that to truly stand out, you have be bold, do a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Interesting title eh?</strong></p>
<p>To be honest, I&#8217;m doing some background tests in my article and blog writing just to see if a well known theory works. So many of us take on this Internet marketing challenge and produce &#8220;me too&#8221; blogs and articles. I reckon that to truly stand out, you have be bold, do a little something different and stand out from the crowd.</p>
<p><strong>Anyway, let&#8217;s get back to the blog post of affiliate marketing&#8230;.</strong></p>
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<a href="http://video.yahoo.com/watch/5203825/13745430">Not All Affiliate Marketing Keywords Are Equal</a> @ <a href="http://video.yahoo.com">Yahoo! Video</a></div>
<p>I&#8217;m not gonna lie and say my journey has been smooth, plain sailing and without a few hiccups cause I&#8217;d be lying. But I reckon that in order for us all to improve we have make mistakes and test the hell out of everything. Like children do I suppose. Well, affiliate marketing is no different.</p>
<p>Affiliate marketing has got to be the most easiest of ways to start and grow a successful business out there and when I say easy, once you&#8217;ve mastered all of the secret ninja tactics the guru&#8217;s won&#8217;t tell you you&#8217;re made. You&#8217;ve just got to find out what those tactics are.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thelazymarketer.com/vip-niche/index.php?e=d.dreckett@btinternet.com"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-44" title="the-bobby-basics" src="http://www.multimediacavern.com/mmcblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/the-bobby-basics.png" alt="the-bobby-basics" width="110" height="72" /></a><strong>The Bobby Basics</strong></p>
<p>In this brief post I&#8217;m gonna walk through the bobby basics of affiliate marketing and how you can get started and get ahead.</p>
<p>The very first tool you need in your armoury is the ability to learn and be trained. This may seem a little obvious, but there&#8217;s so many of us out there that literally just skip from one million dollar project to the next without even finishing the first. I&#8217;ll hold my hands up and say I&#8217;m one of them. Learning the tricks of the trade is an important element of this and your willingness to recognise what will give you faster and unique advantages over your affiliate colleagues out there is paramount to your success.</p>
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<p><strong>I read a lot of Chris Rempel&#8217;s stuff <span style="color: #0000ff;">(link at the bottom of post)</span></strong>, and the reverse niche engineering idea he mentions literally changed my whole affiliate marketing business around. Copy and learn from the best and you won&#8217;t go far wrong. What&#8217;s this reverse engineering you ask? In a word a few words, copy and mimic the best affiliate marketers out there and promote the same products they promote in a similar fashion. Niche marketing is ok in a highly profitable niche, but if you&#8217;re promoting topics with ok traffic and an average affiliate payout you&#8217;re gonna waste a lot of valuable time with very little results. Been there got the t-shirt.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve marketed different things from &#8220;devilled eggs&#8221; to &#8220;recipe ideas&#8221; and fell flat on my face. I&#8217;m not saying you can&#8217;t make money from these types of markets, I&#8217;m saying that there are much better markets to target with better profit margins.</p>
<p>The second thing you&#8217;ve got to have is the ability to invest true time and effort. Trust me, if this was easy, everybody would be doing it. I know I&#8217;ve tried and failed a few times, but now using the reverse engineering technique and using OCI&#8217;s (I&#8217;ll talk about this in another post later) I&#8217;m starting to see the fruits of my labour. This is going to take up a lot of your time. if you can afford to do so I&#8217;d outsource a lot of the mundane tasks. if you can&#8217;t afford to do that, then you&#8217;re gonna have to do it all yourself. I still do 80% of the tasks needed. Not because I want to, but to keep abreast of what&#8217;s new and different techniques you can use to grow the business.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.thelazymarketer.com/vip-niche/index.php?e=d.dreckett@btinternet.com"><img class="size-medium wp-image-45 aligncenter" title="buy-anything" src="http://www.multimediacavern.com/mmcblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/buy-anything.png" alt="buy-anything" width="489" height="228" /></a></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Please take note:</strong></span></p>
<p>Just because a search term has a lot of traffic doesn&#8217;t mean the people searching that term are going to buy anything. This is a hard lesson I learned late on and regret not finding out about this sooner. For example:</p>
<p>People searching for <strong>&#8220;authentic designer bag&#8221;</strong> and <strong>&#8220;authentic designer handbags&#8221; </strong>bring up completely different results. Both searches have similar traffic but out of the two keywords, one is 10X more profitable than the other. Powerful stuff eh! Within the last few weeks I&#8217;ve just realised just how much time I&#8217;ve been waisting on low value search terms.</p>
<p>The third thing you need is self-determination.  Not only are you up against individuals, you&#8217;re also up against large corporations, million dollar budgets and very complicated clever software. In order for you to survive and thrive you&#8217;ve got to be determined. The ability to motivate yourself is one of the hardest attributes out there. I&#8217;m willing to keep motivated and help motivate you if you&#8217;re willing. the first step is to actually join different groups and join in discussions. Ask questions and be prepared to give answers. If we help each other with interesting blog posts and giving lots of useful information we&#8217;ll contiually learn and keep up that self-determination.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Have Discipline And You&#8217;ll Succeed!</strong></span></p>
<p>The fourth thing you&#8217;ve got to have is discipline.  You&#8217;ve got to treat this like a business. Take it seriously and you&#8217;ll reap the rewards. Set targets and follow them to the rule. Don&#8217;t set targets that are unachievable with very little affiliate marketing knowledge. Try and go slow and consider making $10 a day and then progress to $25 to $50 etc.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Stay Optimistic Please!</strong></span></p>
<p>The fifth and last thing you&#8217;ve got to possess is optimism.  Negative attitudes will kill your business instantly. If you&#8217;re serious about affiliate marketing you&#8217;ve got to stay positive and be optimistic. Most of your loved ones won&#8217;t even know what &#8220;affiliate marketing&#8221; is and will be negative about the topis from the start. &#8220;The big unknown&#8221;. Don&#8217;t let this get you down, keep making smaill simple steps and you&#8217;ll start to see some results within a few weeks.</p>
<p>Over the next few weeks on my blog I&#8217;m going to show you just some of the little elements I&#8217;ve been testing and show you what I found works and what doesn&#8217;t. There&#8217;s obviously gonna be many factors involved. But I&#8217;m hoping it&#8217;ll be an honest review of my success and failures.</p>
<p><strong>Useful resources I&#8217;ve talked about:</strong></p>
<p><a title="Reverse Niche Engineering" href="http://www.thelazymarketer.com/vip-niche/index.php?e=d.dreckett@btinternet.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>The &#8216;Reverse Selection&#8217; Blueprint by Chris Rempel </strong></span></a><strong><a title="The Lazy Marketer" href="http://www.thelazymarketer.com/vip-niche/index.php?e=d.dreckett@btinternet.com" target="_blank">http://www.thelazymarketer.com</a></strong></p>
<p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>Google keyword tool: <a title="Google Keyword Tool" href="https://adwords.google.co.uk/select/KeywordToolExternal" target="_blank">https://adwords.google.co.uk/select/KeywordToolExternal</a></strong></span></p>
<p>Would do you guys think and would more posts about my experiments like this be helpful?</p>
<p>DesDrec</p>
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