Category: Affiliate Marketing Mentor Blog

Here’s my affiliate marketing mentors blog! I’ve been an affiliate marketer since the early 2000’s and I ran into a lot of problems which, perhaps you have too?

I tried all sorts of strategies at first from building niche websites, running Google Adwords ads, blogging and using free blog platforms such as Hubpages and Blogger.com.

The struggle was pretty real but I was determined to make affiliate marketing work for me because life was so difficult in the many jobs I juggled to keep the wolf from the door!

In 2014 I found a community of online marketing mentors. I decided to start agains from scratch and “empty my cup”. It was tough and it’s hard to let go of thinking you know something when you really don’t!

I don’t consider myself an affiliate marketing mentor, although I hope that this website helps people who are learning. No, I’m still, and always will be a student, which means I can keep emptying my cup when it gets too full of the idea that I know something. The online world changes a lot and very quickly. So just when you think you are getting somewhere, everything is different and you’re starting all over again!

Welcome to affiliate marketing mentors!

Unpaid Advertising Examples

If you run a business or work online, here are a few unpaid advertising examples you might be able to use. When I first discovered affiliate marketing, I didn’t have much budget for advertising. So I looked for the cheaper and free marketing methods which I could use to build an income online. These methods are universal and can be used whether you have an affiliate business or your own business of some other kind.

One of the first strategies I’m going to share is perfect for locally based businesses. I’ll assume you already have a website! If not that’s the first thing you should get. You can even use free website builders such as Wix, Weebly and WordPress; so you don’t even need to pay anything to get up and running.

Unpaid Advertising Examples – Google My Business

Google My Business lets you create a completely free listing if you have a locally based business to promote. Simply set up a listing using your business address and confirm your address when you are sent out a personal PIN code. It takes less than an hour to set up a business listing with Google My Business and it’s well worth the effort. You can get free traffic to your website and business for a lifetime!

If people are searching locally for your business, your listing will usually be one of the first to pop up in the organic search results. So whatever your business is, providing you are based in a physical location and can prove it to Google, you should get a listing.

Bing places for business and Yahoo places for business also offer similar services.

Unpaid Advertising Examples – Blogging

Blogging is a staple diet for many online marketers because it offers a way to generate traction online with zero payment. Of course blogging does take time and effort though, but the more you put in to blogging the greater your digital reach will be for marketing purposes.

You can think of blogging as creating a “digital footprint”. Over time as your footprint grows, you should attract more people to your business through the organic search results: Google, Duckduckgo, Bing, Yahoo etc. Depending on your particular niche, and the relative competition, this can be more challenging in certain topics and areas.

One strategy I like uses long tail keywords to target specific search queries which relate to your business. So you can use Google’s keyword planner to find the keywords which relate to your business. Then, create written content around those specific keywords. With a good SEO strategy (search engine optimisation), you can get free traffic to your website through blogging. It takes time and you’ll need to make it a habit; but it’s well worth it when the traffic starts growing.

Unpaid Marketing Examples – Facebook

facebook is well known as a paid marketing platform, but you can also use the social media giant for free marketing too. One strategy I’ve used is to join groups in which you’ll find your target audience. Then interact within these groups to build your online presence through your Facebook profile. Set up your profile to attract people to your website or business.

Here’s an image of my Facebook page which explains how I can help people looking to learn how to earn online:

For more on this strategy read my article “unpaid social media marketing“. This is a great little unpaid marketing example in which you can find and attract the right kind of customers to your business for free. You need to define your target audience before you start this strategy so you spend time in the right places where your ideal customers will be likely to hang out. See how to know your target market.

Unpaid Marketing Examples – YouTube

YouTube is another platform you can use to generate interest in your business or products. With YouTube, you should upload videos you have created which attract the kind of people who will be likely to be interested in your products. Title your videos with carefully chosen keywords which will help it get found by the right kind of people.

This is similar to the blogging strategy and it’s worth doing some keyword research before creating your videos. If you make a habit out of creating good quality videos which is aimed at your target audience, you should see a gradual rise in traffic from the site. See also 22 ways to promote affiliate products.

Using Your Email Signature

This one is super simple! You can easily edit your outgoing email signature in your email provider. With Gmail, which is the provider I use, you simply edit it using the settings link. Once inside your settings you can provide a link to your website within your email signature. So from then on, your emails will automatically link to your website when you send emails or replies to all your future emails.

It’s free marketing and only takes a minute to set up.

Facebook Business Page

Setting up a Facebook business page is free and takes very little time. Once set up you can invite all your Facebook contacts to like it and share useful content from it. Over time, as people like and share your page, you can collect likes and shares which help grow your social media presence.

To create a Facebook page go to your Facebook profile and click on the menu icon next to your name at the top right of your screen. You should see the view shown in the image above.

Click on Page and create your Facebook business page. Fill out all the details in your page as thoroughly as possible. The more detail the better. Then start using your Facebook page to share content, updates and posts which will resonate with your target audience. Over time you can build a good online presence using a page using several free strategies. You’ll need to consistently share content and promote it though in order to do it for free. Of course you can use paid marketing on Facebook too and promote your page using paid advertising.

Email Marketing, Ebooks & PDF’s

Many online business owners use ebooks and free downloadable giveaways in order to build an email list of subscribers. By accessing your free content, they will opt in to your email list. Here, you can follow up with email messages promoting your offers and business. You’ll need an email autoresponder in order to do this and although some are free, I recommend using Aweber.

Once you have an autoresponder, you can set up an opt in form on your website to collect your subscribers information. Then, create some useful giveaway product which can be digitally downloaded in exchange for your subscribers emails. See affiliate marketing ebook pdf free download.

Here’s an example of an ebook I created to help me build an email list of subscribers.

It’s fairly straight forward creating an ebook. Simply create the content you want to share and convert it to pdf format. I used Fiverr.com to find people to create a nice ebook cover very cheaply, or you can create your own if you have the software.

Niche Website Building

A niche website is a website which has been built for a specific purpose. You can build a niche website which ranks in the search engines and gets free traffic for its main keywords. Keyword domain websites use their main keywords of their business in the domain name and this can help them to rank and get free traffic. Although there’s no guarantees with Google, you can pick up some free traffic if you build your site in a certain way.

You should also create some useful content on it to in order to maximise your exposure. See create free website and earn money for more details on this strategy.

Word Of Mouth & Your Network

Word of mouth advertising is obviously free but not always something you can control. If you offer something unique, your customers will likely talk about your business to other people.

Over time this can grow your business. But you can also promote your business to people you have know through your network of friends and family. Although many people are hesitant doing so, it can be a good idea to make a list of people you have known over many years and reach out to promote your offers and services.

Think about all the people you know and have known and create a list of people you know through:

Work/business
Relationships
Sharing accommodation
Hobbies and interests
Friends
Family members
Neighbours
School friends
People in your email contacts list

SEO – Search Engine Optimisation

SEO or search engine optimisation is something you can apply to your website and content you upload. A good SEO plugin can be used with the WordPress platform which can help you write SEO friendly content. If your website and content is optimised, there is more chance that the search engines will feature your content at or near the top of the first page. When your content generates a high SEO score, the search engines will rank it higher and you can find your traffic jumps up.

seo organic traffic results — Organic search traffic results – getting to the top!

The more content you write too, the greater your traffic volume will be. Over time, many online marketers use SEO to generate tens of thousands of visitors to their content. Many of these translate into subscribers (accessing your freebie giveaway) and some of these will convert into buying customers.

Unpaid Advertising Examples

So there’s a list of a few unpaid advertising examples. Don’t forget about business cards and letter heads! Although these have a cost involved, it’s a low cost and they are easy to get hold of.

Here’s a run down of the ideas shared in this article for unpaid advertising examples:

Google My Business (formally “Google Places”) – free listing for locally based businesses
Blogging – create content on your website which targets specific keywords relating to your business
Facebook – a free Facebook marketing strategy involving joining groups and interacting with members to build a digital footprint which grows over time
YouTube – is a great way to get exposure online whatever your field. Upload regular videos which target your audience and research keywords being searched for already in your field.
Email signature – edit your email signature to include a link to your website. Over time, as you reply to emails and contact people, you’ll get a few clicks. It’s free simple and easy. Why wouldn’t you do this?!
Facebook business page – Facebook lets you create a free business page which can be used to gain exposure for your website/business.
Email marketing – use ebooks and pdf’s to get people on to your email list from a website.
Niche website building – Build a website using specific keywords to help you gain free exposure to the search engines
Word of mouth and your network – Many affiliates/business owners forget that they know hundreds of people if they dig deep! Look at your email contacts, old house mates, friends and relatives and create a list.
SEO – Search engine optimisation has been mentioned in blogging but can also help you rank a basic website much better in the search results for free organic traffic.

Can you think of any more free marketing methods? Please comment below if so or share this article if you’ve found it helpful.

Unpaid Social Media Marketing

Here’s a little unpaid social media marketing strategy I found using Facebook. It involves firstly setting up your Facebook profile with an obvious “plug” for your business. You can see many people using this kind of strategy throughout Facebook. When someone comes to their profile on the platform, they immediately can see what you are offering. Here’s an example from my own Facebook profile. As you can see, it’s immediately obvious from the tag under my name what I’m offering.

The picture could perhaps be a little more of a professional image of course, but you get the idea!

You can also add a giveaway product to your bio. Here you can see I’ve added my ebook which is accessible through a link in the image (under the “add hobbies” tab). Also add links to your website or websites.

I also post my articles to my Facebook page too, for greater exposure and to help with SEO (search engine optimisation) of my website content. See my other free marketing strategies in this article: get traffic to your website free, and 22 ways to promote affiliate products.

Unpaid Social Media Marketing – Facebook

Once you have set up your bio you will need to find potential customers who might be interested in your giveaways and website content. You can do this by joining various groups in your niche. So, for example if your target audience is interested in self development and self help topics, that’s where you should start.

Knowing your target audience is pretty important before you start. If you get to understand who your customers are, you’ll have a better idea of where to find them. See How to know your target market.

Find the search tab at the top of your Facebook profile and type in your main keyword. So if your keyword is “self help” use that as a search term.

Scroll down and you should see there are various options to use with your search term. Choose “groups”. This will bring up all the groups which relate to this search term.

Apply to join these groups answering the questions in order to satisfy the admins that you’re not going to spam them! Spamming in groups is a big problem, and that’s not what you’re going to do!

Click on the groups you want to join and click on the join button. You will usually have to answer some questions and occasionally they will ask for your email. Of course here’s another marketing idea too – set up your own group and attract potential customers through it!

It can take a few days to be allowed into a group, if you are allowed to join. So it’s worth applying to several groups at a time where you believe you will find your target audience. See why is target market important?

You don’t want to spend time hanging out in groups where your perfect customer doesn’t hang out! So you need to get clear on exactly the kind of person who you want to attract to your business. Knowing their age, interests, location and other details will help you build a profile on your perfect “customer avatar”.

Making Friends In A Group

Most groups don’t want spammers coming in a pasting their lousy links all over the place! Some groups allow this, but the good groups are more of discussion oriented communities. This strategy involves spending time looking through posts and posting comments. You should get involved in the chat to give value and connect. Don’t overtly promote yourself or your website. Instead, just get involved in the chat.

So for the above image question “what are the best habits for success”, you might chip in with some ideas you’ve found to keep you motivated, for example.

You can also like other people’s comments and some groups will allow you to post your own questions. Just start by getting familiar with the groups you join and start interacting with the dialogue. You’re not trying to sell anything here. You’re giving value and connecting with others in that group.

Logging Your Activity

It’s a good idea to log your activity using a spreadsheet. You should spend an hour or so each day interacting, commenting and liking questions and answers. As your “digital trail” grows you will find some people looking at your Facebook profile. If you can’t afford to spend a few hours each day, just spend half an hour consistently every day. But consistency is important and you won’t necessarily see results immediately with this strategy. What does matter is the quality of your commenting and your digital trail! Over time this grows and you should find that people will interact with your profile and find your website/affiliate links/business.

Over time, if you are persistent with this strategy, you’ll find people will click through your profile pictures and links, and visit your website to see what you have on offer. This is why it is very important to show a clear and concise message as to what it is you offer. When someone sees your profile, they should immediately know whether you offer something they are interested in or not!

look at other people's profiles — In this profile you see immediately what the person is about and has on offer.

You can also click on other people’s names within the comments sections to browse their profiles. This can be useful in getting an idea about how to set up your own profile. Many profiles are not used in this way, but often you will find other people who are using their Facebook profiles as a business tool, in a similar way to this strategy.

Unpaid Social Media Marketing – Summary

So there you have it! That’s an unpaid social media marketing strategy I’ve used on Facebook. It works – but you need to make sure you have the right target audience and that you put in the hours. Over time, you’ll build up a “digital footprint” of all the answers and comments you have posted. This can take some time to build traction, but the key is to be consistent and find topics you want to communicate in.

Use a spreadsheet or diary to write down your time spent each day on this activity. Don’t expect huge results immediately but if you’re consistent and stay for the long term, it’s a great little marketing strategy. You might find too that other group members connect with you and add you as a friend. You can also do the same of course.

Once friends, you can also use the Messenger app to communicate directly with other people on Facebook. Some marketers have this down to a fine art and have a “sales patter” they use to get people directly off Facebook and onto their courses!

I learned this strategy from a member of the community I belong to as part of the training offered there. If you want to know more about it, access a free video series here.

Money Magnet Mantra

Despite our best efforts we can often talk money out of our lives which is why a money magnet mantra is so useful. Think about how often you talk badly of yourself or tell the story of your money problems. This is an example of talking money away. Your subconscious mind is eavesdropping to everything you say, and the thoughts you give energy to. Particularly, the things you engage with emotionally are important. So if you’re giving energy to your struggles and problems, you create more and more of them.

A money magnet mantra helps to counter this. See how to overcome a poverty mindset. Instead of programming your subconscious mind for poverty, you’re going to program it for abundance and wealth! But before we get to the money magnet mantra, there’s some work to be done.

Money Magnet Mantra

It’s not going to help you if throughout your whole day you talk down on yourself and your circumstances, embedding your poverty consciousness into your subconscious mind; to then only spend a few minutes repeating your money magnet mantra. Remember much of your programming goes into your subconscious mind before you were even 10 years old. The deeply embedded beliefs can be your greatest hurdles. Things you’ve been telling yourself for years can’t be undone in minutes. It’s going to take some time and awareness. However, using a money magnet mantra can have dramatic effects on your life if you stick with it long enough and overcome old programming which talks into a different story.

So before reaching for a money magnet mantra, start observing yourself. Notice when you talk yourself down, belittle yourself or talk money away from your life. In short, notice the negative money mantras which you are already using – perhaps unconsciously in your life. Once you start observing your dialogues (with yourself and others), you will see how your dialogue reflects your life and vice versa. Here’s some of the things you might be telling yourself (and others):

Money isn’t everything – Of course there’s more to life than money. But this kind of dialogue isn’t going to attract money. More likely it will repel it.
Money doesn’t grow on trees – another common saying meaning money is hard to come by. With this “mantra” you imply money is hard to come by.
I’ll never….(fill in black) – defeatist self talk will sabotage your efforts towards the positive.
It’s ok for you – implies that it isn’t ok for yourself
I’m not very good at…(insert belief)
I struggle – creates struggle
Etc..

Start noticing your negative self talk and observe without judgement for several days and weeks as you implement new self talk and the money magnet mantra.

Money Magnet Mantra – Caveats & Guarantees

Here’s a great mantra I found which has a number of caveats and guarantees embedded into it! With a guarantee, you are programming your subconscious mind to prioritise something over your outcome. So for example, you can attract money, but it could come at a large cost. So a caveat (or guarantee) is something like: “I’m so happy and grateful now that I….”

Here’s the full money magnet mantra:

“I’m so happy and grateful now, money comes to me, in increasing quantities, through multiple sources on a continuous basis”

This mantra has a number of caveats which mean it predisposes you to the best possible outcome:

“I’m so happy and grateful” – (You’re not alone and miserly and money hasn’t damaged you or your life)

“Money comes to me” – notice this mantra doesn’t explain how it has come, which leaves unlimited opportunities for it to simple come to you, i.e. you haven’t tied the outcome with any particular circumstance or trade-off.

“In increasing amounts/quantities” – implies abundance and not limitation. The money which is coming will continue to increase and therefore is unlimited.

“through multiple sources” – again this statement doesn’t tie up your income flow to a single action or source. Therefore you’re programming your subconscious mind for unlimited sources of income, not finite or limited sources.

“On a continuous basis” – much self talk will speak of limitation and lack or an “end” point where money eventually dries up. This statement reverses this kind of limited thinking and keeps you open to continual flow without limitation.

Mindset For Success

Of course that’s quite a long mantra. But once you have repeated it several hundred times, it will help overcome old negative programming and beliefs which you’ve been telling yourself for years. But remember too that years of old programming has got you to where you are now. Depending on where this is, it can take some time before your mantra works.

Keep repeating your mantra over and over and particularly use it when old, negative thinking crops up in your mind. Remember to repeat your mantra several hundred times a day, the more the better; and even if you don’t quite believe it at first.

Over time, the new thoughts will start generating seeds. Think of these seeds as very tender. Negative talk will damage their growth.

“…the subconscious mind {resembles} a fertile gar-
den spot, in which weeds will grow in abundance, if the seeds of more desirable
crops are not sown therein. – Napoleon Hill – Think and Grow Rich

Other Resources

See also motivational books pdf free download and Stuart Lichtman PDF for more books on this topic.

Stuart Lichtman was an MIT professor who studied human psychology and cybernetics. He discovered a means to help anyone attain any goal they set their sights on, and this happened by their programming their subconscious mind with a mantra they could repeat many times; much like the money magnet mantra.

Through repetition of a carefully designed personal mantra which is unique to you and your circumstances, you can “flag up” to your subconscious mind, the goal you most wish to achieve. This keeps the subconscious focused on the outcome, even when you are busy doing other things. Events and circumstances will come up to create your outcome in the shortest possible time. So be ready to act when things start coming up for you.

See also Stuart Lichtman’s How To Get Lots Of Money For Anything Fast.

Recurring Income Affiliate Programs

Yes; recurring income affiliate programs can payout for much longer than other ones. In some cases you’ll earn an income for life! If you find the right programs and the right customers, you could be earning from your sales for a lifetime. Lifetime commissions are a thing too. There’s not a “lifetime commissions affiliate program” promise though, because people drop out of course. But if you find the right programs which offer continual value to the customer, they won’t drop out.

These can be programs which offer training and mentorship and of course business software. With business software, providing someone’s business is working, they will be more than likely to continue using the software in their business, if they need it. Online business tools are therefore a good bet if you’re looking for recurring income affiliate programs.

Recurring Income Affiliate Programs

Here’s a few of the ones which pay recurring income to affiliates:

Lead pages – Is a business tool which lets you build custom made landing pages. Earn 30% commissions
The Six Figure Mentors – Offers training, tools and software for building online businesses from scratch. Commissions of up to 40% on a high ticket product range and 20% recurring commissions.
SEM Rush – Is an SEO (search engine optimisation) and SEM (search engine marketing) tool for website development and traffic generation. Earn 40% commissions.
Convertkit is an email marketing services, again a business tool. It offers 30% commissions
Elegant Themes – Offers WordPress Themes and Plugins for use with websites. 50% commissions are offered.
ThriveThemes – Again WordPress themes offering 35% commission on sales and 25% recurring commissions.
Social Pilot – Social media scheduling marketing and analytics.
Live Chat – Live chat support offering tools for increasing conversions through websites. 20% commission.
Rose Hosting – Website hosting offers 50% for the first month and then 20% recurring commissions.
Shopify – Online store builder – 20% recurring commissions.
Aweber – Email marketing service offers recurring commissions of 30%

Notice these are mostly tools for on and off-line businesses. There’s many other recurring income affiliate programs available too. Just take a look at CBEngine.com and scroll down the left hand side. You’ll find products available on Clickbank highlighted in the “recurring commissions” section of the site. (See image below).

Recurring Income Affiliate Programs For Newbies

I wish I had found out about recurring income affiliate programs years before I did! I would be earning income from sales I made years ago! But better late than never! Recurring income affiliate programs are the best to use for beginners, in my opinion, because they offer a more sustainable income stream once you start making sales.

The hardest part of becoming an affiliate is going through the phase before you make a sale and maintaining your enthusiasm! It can be like wading through treacle. When you eventually make a sale, it’s a great feeling. But if that sale is a recurring income product, you can earn ongoing income from it, rather than just a single commission.

That’s great when you are a newbie because it can give you both hope and a regular income trickle. As you make more sales, that trickle grows into a monthly recurring commission which can eventually replace your existing income.

Selling Products

Of course you still need to sell your affiliate product before you can profit from it. This takes time and effort especially if you’re starting from scratch. So its well worth getting some training and support on this journey.

The SFM Digital Business System offers both training and the ability to earn recurring affiliate income as part of its sales model. As an affiliate for the SFM you can earn from recurring commissions (memberships), high ticket products, multi-tier commissions and a range of products.

Access this free video series to learn more about it.

How To Increase Organic Traffic To Your Blog

Wondering how to increase organic traffic to your blog posts? There’s several ways you can increase your organic traffic; and depending on your particular niche and the relative competition, this can be a little challenging!

In a competitive niche, there are lots of competing websites for your content. But in those areas with less competition, you can do this more easily. Google uses a number of criteria to determine how to judge a particular piece of content. If your content is good, more people will read it and link to it. More backlinks is one of the major ranking criteria for Google. But it all starts with quality content.

Backlinks too can vary. A backlink from a high authority relevant website has more weight with Google than those from a low quality site, or one in a different niche to your own. Other factors determine your rankings too; what you title your articles, keywords within it, how people relate to it and the content length and quality.

Google has many ranking factors and their exact algorithm is always changing. One thing is for sure, you need quality content. Bad quality content will have visitors leaving within seconds and Google “bots” can see this and rank your content (and therefore website) accordingly.

How To Increase Organic Traffic To Your Blog – Search Engines

You therefore should strive to create some quality content on your blog. Traffic can be found from Google, Bing, Yahoo, Duckduckgo and other search engines. Google however has the lion share of traffic. What content should you create? Ideally choose your content topics wisely. If and when your content does attract the attention of the search engines, you’ll want your visitors to be the right kind of visitors. Therefore it’s wise to start out with visitor intent, and knowing your target audience – see how to know your target market.

Getting your content wrong might attract the wrong audience – who won’t buy whatever you’re selling. So start with customer intent and your product or service. Create content which answers relevant questions your target audience might want to know. You can use Google’s free keyword planner to find longer tail keywords which target your audience and give you more opportunity for being found.

how to increase organic traffic to your blog – Long Tail Keywords

Once you have found a long tail keyword and checked it for competition, you can start creating some content around it, if appropriate. Long tail keywords have less competition in the organic search results than their shorter tail counterparts. So it can be a good idea to create lots of content around long tail keywords within your niche.

Some of them will fail to get traction but others can make their way to the top of the search engines and get you free traffic; particularly if you put some effort in and create some awesome content. Before you do however, you should get a free plugin which will help you with your SEO (search engine optimisation). I use a plugin called Yoast SEO – get it here.

Yoast SEO how to increase organic traffic to your blog — Yoast SEO plugin offers help with your keyword optimisation

An SEO plugin will help you write your content with the keyword you choose in mind. It also helps you to place your keyword in images, alt tags, headings, sub headings, tags and throughout your content. Too much over optimisation, and the search engines will find your content spammy, not enough and they won’t flag it for your chosen keyword/s.

How Much, How Often?

Blogging is definitely a long term strategy for getting traffic to your blog. The more often you blog and the longer you keep it up for, the better! I recently read that once you have over 400 blog posts you should see a jump in your traffic. Before you are established though, Google may put you in what’s called the “sandbox”.

This is a period of time which it will hold back new websites from ranking highly in the search engines. Google hasn’t confirmed the sandbox but many SEO experts believe it exists as a filter for newcomers and spammers, and to maintain a high quality of content in the searches it provides to users.

So as you build your content don’t get caught up in checking with Google every time you post an article. Just keep going and eventually your regular posting will pay off. You may start seeing your content rank in the lesser used search engines such as Bing, Yahoo and Duckduckgo in the meantime.

Marketing Your Content Yourself

But don’t wait for Google to rank your content, as it might never happen. Give it the best chance by marketing it yourself!

Another great plugin I use is called Revive Old Posts. This free plugin lets you automatically post your content through your social media platforms, as you publish them. You can upgrade the plugin for greater functionality, but the free version is a good start.

The plugin also lets you post your older content at times you choose. This is useful if you have a number of articles which are already on your website. You can also use a social share plugin on your website to encourage your visitors to share your content when they see it. This can have a dramatic impact on the number of people who see (and share) your posts. See best social media share plugins for WordPress.

You can also manually share your content via social media and link back to it from other websites and your newer posts. When link to your own posts, you can also use deep linking. Deep linking is where you link to your post from the text keywords you originally intended your article to rank for. It can help Google understand what you intend an article to rank for in terms of keywords.

An example of this is: the power of email marketing, where I’m linking to a long tail keyword article I have already written on this website.

Article Marketing Websites

Another way to generate traffic to your blog posts and website is to write content on other websites. You can reach out to other websites similar to your own and offer to do guest blogging. Some website owners will post your content on their site in exchange for a link back to your own content.

Link building is an important ranking factor with Google and generally the more links you have to your site, the better. You can also build links from article marketing websites such as Ezinearticles.com and Hubpages.com. Writing for Ezine can give you more exposure in a few ways:

You get traffic which comes directly from EzineArticles users.
Links from your article help in your SEO campaign
Other people can share your articles and must credit your link too, (hence more backlinks, more traffic)

how to increase organic traffic to your blog

Here’s an article I posted on Ezine Articles entitled: “What Is affiliate marketing and why you should use it?“

Posting Videos On YouTube

YouTube is another platform you can use to both generate traffic and boost your SEO score with Google. You can use a similar approach to YouTube as you do with your organic blog posts on your website. Upload videos and tag them with your main keywords. Link back to your blog posts under your videos in your description using keyword focused links (using your blog titles).

Although in the beginning the effect of this can be difficult to see, over time if you are consistent with all these strategies, you should see a steady rise in your blog traffic.

Blog Commenting / Quora

Two other strategies you can use are blog commenting and Quora.com. See also affiliate marketing on Quora. With Quora, you can find and answer questions which relate to your content. If appropriate, leave links to your relevant content in your answers. Quora has a strict no spam policy. But if you are careful, and answer questions thoroughly, Quora does allow links to relevant content to be left in your answers.

Quora links are however no-follow which means they don’t help with your SEO score. But many Quora users will click on your links and find your website. Plus, if you find questions you are an expert on, which relate to your business, links from your answers will bring relevant traffic to you.

Blog commenting is a another strategy you can use to build backlinks and gain some more exposure of your content at the same time. Don’t spam in your comments though because they are much less likely to be approved. Write detailed responses in your commenting strategy and read the content you’re commenting on before hand. So many blog comments I get are just deleted because they are not genuine. But if you make an effort with blog comments, they can help you build traffic to your content.

Finding Other Blogs In Your Niche For Commenting

To find blogs in your niche which are available for comments you can look for those with a plugin called Commentluv. Commentluv is a plugin you can also use to attract more people who do the same. It’s a plugin which lets you leave a link to your website along with your comment.

Here’s the link to the Commentluv plugin.

How To Increase Organic Traffic To Your Blog – Summary

So here’s a quick run down of how to increase organic traffic to your blog:

Create quality content which targets long tail keywords within your niche and attracts the right targeted audience. Use Google’s keyword planner.
Use an SEO plugin to help you write Search engine friendly content
Use newer articles to link to older ones using deep linking.
Market your own content using Revive Old Posts and Social Media share plugins
Link to your content from social media and outside websites – EzineArticles, Hubpages, YouTube and other blogs and forums
Rinse and repeat

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Customer Attraction Strategies

If you are looking for customer attraction strategies for your business, here are a few ideas. You can also download the text format of this article in pdf format here: marketing strategies to attract customers pdf.

There are many ways to attract customers to your business. Traditional advertising methods using banners, newspapers and flyers in shop windows shouldn’t be forgotten about. But there’s many online advertising forms which you should definitely use as well. Make sure you have a website up and running which showcases your business. From a website, there’s many other marketing strategies you can use to build traffic.

You should also offer something on your website which encourages visitors to opt in to your mailing list. From a list, you can build relationships and keep your subscribers reminded of your business. Most businesses now use email marketing for their business. So if you haven’t yet got an autoresponder, you should get one and put a sign up form on your website.

This is usually accompanied by some form of giveaway. Many businesses use discount codes to encourage people to sign up and become subscribers. If I give you my discount code, will you give me your email address?!

Customer Attraction Strategies – Target Audience

Depending on your budget you might want to set up a marketing campaign to drive targeted traffic (visitors) to your website. Who your target audience is should be determined before doing any marketing. How to know your target market?

customer attraction strategies - targeting your audience

First you should look at the type of people who you serve already. From this information, you should have an idea about who you are serving. Knowing your target audience is important because it will be easier to find them online with your marketing when you have a clear idea of who they are and where they hang out.

Google Adwords, Bing, Yahoo

Google Adwords is where many businesses start out. You can sign up for a Google Adwords account and start a marketing campaign for a small daily budget. Some businesses get outside help with their marketing campaigns, but you can easily learn this yourself.

Once you have a campaign set up in Adwords, you should aim your adverts to show only for the keywords you choose. So if you have a business selling gin in Birmingham, you could target people searching for keywords containing “gin” in your area. This could be “gin stores Birmingham” for example.

There are other platforms which offer the same service as Adwords such as Bing (Microsoft) and Yahoo advertising platforms.

These platforms serve advertising for businesses which target keywords. When someone types a particular keyword into a search engine, your advert pops up when a relevant search term is typed relating to your business. This works well for businesses because you only pay when someone actually clicks on your advert. If you’re careful with your advertising placement and keywords you use, you’ll only pay for hungry buyers!

Customer Attraction Strategies – Google My Business

Google My Business offers a free marketing space for locally based businesses. If you have a business which is located somewhere physically, it is well worth creating a free listing. Google My Business (formally Google Places) gives you a free listing which will often pop up in the search results right at the top of the page before the other results.

It only takes a short time to set up your account (less than an hour), and you can have free traffic to your website for a long time from a listing. You will need to prove you are at the address you state and a PIN code will usually be sent out to you for confirmation. Bing and Yahoo offer similar services.

Customer Attraction Strategies – Blogging

Blogging is another way many businesses build an online presence to attract their ideal customers. Businesses use blogging by writing content on a regular basis which will show up in the search engines and attract people to the business website.

Often a blog will be attached to the main business website. Blogging is a cheap way of attracting people to your website and is a long term strategy. Bloggers use different methods but generally you want to write about something which will attract the right audience to your business. This usually will be content which relates to the service you offer in some way.

A good way to start out if you lack ideas is to use Google’s free keyword planner to get ideas. Type your main keyword (of your business) into the search tool and look for the keywords which come up. Many of these keywords will make good topics for discussion on your blog. You can also answer questions with your blogging which your target audience regularly ask.

The Landing Page

The landing page is a specific page which you can build, with the goal of getting potential customers to sign up to your email list. On a website, a visitor can browse around and have a good look around.

But on a landing page, there are only two options: sign up or leave. This is useful when paying for traffic because generally people don’t buy from a website on their first visit. They like to get to know what the offer is and what kind of person/business is behind the site.

When you can collect your visitors email address, you can follow up with an email marketing campaign designed to offer value and build trust with your potential customers.

An email list can allow you to connect with your subscribers on a number of occasions and over a longer time scale than a website can achieve.

Customer Attraction Strategies – Email Marketing

Once on your email list, you can follow up with your subscribers over months, years and even decades. On a website, you only have a few minutes for your visitors to take some action. After that they are gone – potentially forever. So building an email list and offering some useful and valuable giveaway on your site is pretty important. See the power of email marketing.

To get started with email marketing you should purchase an autoresponder software. I use one called Aweber is is perfect for anyone starting out and usually has a free offer going for new starters.

Once inside you will be able to follow the prompts and set up a form on your site to help you collect emails. You will also need to create some offer you can use in exchange for your subscribers information. This should be a valuable offer which incentivises people to sign up to your email list. Once they do, you can send them a series of automated emails to keep in touch and offer value to them.

Facebook & YouTube Advertising

Facebook and YouTube have become two of the top advertising platforms you can use to build your business. With both, you can use video to create a message to target (very specifically) people who are suitable for your business. You can target people by their interests, location, connections, age, sex, incomes and a whole host of other demographics. With YouTube, you can target people who are looking at certain videos and this can be hugely useful to business owners.

So if you have a business selling BMW’s for example, you can target an audience who is looking at BMW’s and is located near to your (physical) business. You can also remove audiences who are less likely to make a purchase from you, saving you money on advertising.

Summary

So there’s a few ideas you can implement in your business to attract more customers. It’s a good idea to focus on one strategy first until you have mastered it, otherwise you can easily spread yourself too thin and get less done!

Paid marketing is much faster to implement than the cheaper strategies such as blogging and organic marketing. See also get traffic to your website free for more ideas.

With paid marketing, once you understand your numbers and see your campaigns working, you can leave them running and even increase your budget and keywords if you learn what is profitable. Some adverts will work better than others and it can take some time to understand how marketing will affect your business.

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Autopilot Money Making System

An “autopilot money making system” sounds like a sleazy sales pitch for the lazy. But of course such a system does exist. However, don’t expect one of those “set it and forget it” systems to work for you. There’s plenty of work to be done if you want to take such a system seriously.

An autopilot money making system does imply profit without doing any work. But any system for generating sales isn’t the same as one which actually generates sales. Most of these kinds of “get rich quick” schemes are actually selling you a course and nothing more. A sales “system” is one which sells automatically on autopilot. One of the best ways to create such a system is to use digital affiliate products.

Why digital affiliate products? If you’re aware of the business model of affiliate marketing you’ll know you can join any affiliate “partner” program and promote other people’s products online. By doing so successfully, you’ll earn commissions based on the sales you generate. Digital products work well because there’s no product handling and delivery charges, like with physical products. As such, profits can be more generously shared with those promoting them.

Digital affiliate products pay far more than physical affiliate products. Typically a digital affiliate product will pay referrers 40% and above, compared to physical ones which pay between 1% and 11% to affiliates. See affiliate marketing commission rates.

Autopilot Money Making System

Greater profits on sales can open affiliates up to more easily use paid marketing as a realistic option for driving traffic. Traffic is usually the downfall of an autopilot money making system using the affiliate model. Most affiliates will drop out and the affiliate marketing failure rate is high. So the option of using paid traffic means there’s more possibility to grow an online business more quickly. Other traffic generation methods can be slow and require a lot of work. Blogging, for example can take months or years before you see any traction with affiliate sales. (See also 22 ways to promote affiliate products). Paid marketing is fast and of course much more scalable than cheaper and slower strategies such as blogging or organic traffic methods.

So lets dive into the affiliate business model where you can most easily generate an income through driving traffic to products and services online.

Many affiliates will create content and post it on social media. But with millions of people doing this, it can be hard to gain the exposure needed to drive sales. To drive sales in numbers and scale up quickly you can use paid marketing. But in order to be able to afford this, you need to choose the right kinds or affiliate products.

Physical products offer lower commissions than digital ones. Typically physical products offer 1-11% commissions compared to 40% and above for many digital products. See affiliate marketing business models. With a high ticket product range, and through using subscription affiliate programs, you’re in a much better position to automate your business through using paid marketing strategies.

Autopilot Money Making System – The Six Figure Sales Funnel

Using the right business model, anyone can learn how to send targeted visitors to a website landing page and collect subscribers. Once in your sales funnel, your subscribers are offered digital products appropriate to their needs. When the decide to purchase a product, they are automatically offered other similar products which they might find useful.

The automation of this system starts with a “driving engine” which is a marketing platform. Facebook, YouTube and Adwords are all marketing platforms which affiliates use to find customers for their businesses and products.

With the affiliate marketing business model, you only need to learn the “front end” marketing side of the business. Product delivery and customer retention/services is already provided by a third party business which delivers products and deals with customers.

Getting The Business Working

In the first instance, setting up such a system does take some work. The actual business setup is only a small part of what you need to do to be successful with a business model like this.

Once you have set up your sales funnel, landing pages and website, you’ll need to drive traffic. This is the crux of what makes an “autopilot money making system” actually work. Without products which people want, which actually provide value, no one will buy anything and the system won’t work. You also need to identify the right kind of people to send to your automated offers. So if someone is interested in golf, you send them to a suitable landing page where you offer golf related information.

Once on your email list, you promote golf related products and services – if that’s your product.

To get an automated sales system working, you need to establish who you are going to be serving. Then you have to communicate your message congruently throughout your sales funnel. This begins with your advertising; you lead people to your landing page and follow up with an email marketing campaign promoting your affiliate products.

With paid marketing you can scale up once your sales funnel is profitable. Using content marketing means you’ll likely take longer to do this.

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The Customer Journey

The best performing sales funnels lead people into an email marketing campaign from an advert and through a landing page. On a landing page, the marketer offers some kind of benefit driven offer.

When the visitor subscribes to your email list, they get some kind of free information. Once on an email list the potential customer will be given a number of follow up emails promoting some kind of product or service. With good targeting in your advertising, your email leads will have a strong interest in your offer.

The best marketers test their marketing structures to give the customer a congruent customer journey. From an advert, to a landing page to your emails and offer, the customer should have a strong idea about what you’re selling.

Emails should be congruent with your advert to connect the dots for your customers. Should a landing page be out of alignment somehow with your marketing message, many potential customers will use it as a reason not to opt in to a mailing list. See the power of email marketing.

Summary

To create an autopilot money making system is not as difficult as it used to be. Before new platforms and software allowed, building websites and landing pages used to require a good deal of technical skill. But nowadays anyone can benefit from software and automation which makes the whole process of setting up a digital sales funnel, complete with multiple digital products, quite straight forward.

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Automated Income Generator

I always liked the idea of an automated income generator. Something which could work for me, like a robot, generating cash on autopilot. I looked at vending machines and online systems and eventually found a clever business model known as affiliate marketing.

With affiliate marketing you can promote and sell other people’s products online. When you make a sale, you earn a commission based on that sale. You simply refer customers to businesses and products and earn for the referrals. You don’t need to store products or even deal directly with customers.

PPS Affiliate marketing means you get paid per sale you make (pay per sale). But with certain products you can make lifetime commissions for making a sale. These kinds of products are typically software products and memberships. When someone signs up to a product with a recurring fee, part of this monthly payment can be paid to those referring the sale (affiliates). Not all affiliate products offer this. But subscription affiliate programs offer some of the best ways to create an “automated income generator”.

Automated Income Generator

But first you need to sign up to an affiliate program that offers these kinds of products. Then you need to learn how to sell them. Selling affiliate products can be done in all kinds of ways. Here’s a few of the strategies affiliates use to generate sales of affiliate products:

Email marketing – the power of email marketing grows as your email list grows. With a large enough list, affiliates can completely replace their income from affiliate sales.
Blogging and content creation – bloggers write content and v’loggers create videos. By posting content and building up a volume of content over time affiliates can sell products through their content and generate sales organically.
Social media marketing – some affiliates use social media to find their customers. You can either pay to use a platform or find an organic route.
Paid marketing is the fastest way to generate an income through affiliate marketing. But you may need to use subscription affiliate products and high ticket products in many cases to become profitable, depending on your strategy.

Automated Income Generator – The Six Figure Digital Business Model

The fastest way to build a digital business which is largely automated is through using paid marketing and a high ticket product suite. See also fastest legit way to make money online.

With a high ticket sales funnel you can recoup your advertising budget much more quickly than with many of the lower valued affiliate products you will find online. See affiliate marketing business models.

One of the main problems with using affiliate products which are physical is that they only pay very little in terms of commissions. Amazon typically pays affiliates between 1% and 11% commissions. That leaves very little for advertising costs, so many affiliates are forced to come up with other methods of generating traffic. See 22 ways to promote affiliate products.

Some methods take months or years to get any traction so product like these aren’t great if you want to build a income fast. But paid marketing and a high ticket sales funnel offers one of the best alternatives.

Use Digital Products Not Physical

With digital products you can earn more like 40% commissions on a sale. Add subscription affiliate products and high ticket affiliate products to the mix and you can get a lot more for a sale. This gives you more room to use paid marketing which can be used to get up and running more quickly with an online business. Paid marketing is also a lot more scalable than methods like blogging and organic traffic generation.

Once you have a profitable paid marketing campaign running, you can simply increase your budget to reach more customers and generate more sales. Once this system is working, simply leave it running.

Your marketing campaign drives targeted traffic towards your sales funnel and subscribers purchase items as they enter. With a product range you can benefit from later purchases, recurring subscriptions, high ticket sales and even multi-tier commissions. See SFM Digital Business System for more details or click on image below for details.

How A Sales Funnel Works

A digital sales funnel is basically an “automated income generator” once it’s working. It uses a number of digital products within a range of products. Products are sold through a marketing system using software and automation:

A marketing platform: advertising platforms such as Facebook, Adwords or YouTube can be used to drive targeted visitors to a landing page where they are offered some free information. See how to know your target market.
A landing page collects their email and name and they are sent a number of email messages with the information they requested. See the power of email marketing.
Emails also contain relevant products and services which may be of use to them.
Product purchases are followed up automatically with other related products which the customer might find useful

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Stuart Lichtman PDF

The Stuart Lichtman PDF “How To Get Lots Of Money For Anything Fast” is one of the best resources I’ve found online. Whether you have a business, are learning affiliate marketing, or are trying to achieve anything, this book is for you! In it, Stuart shares what he calls the cybernetic transposition technique which he personally developed. Cybernetic transposition is a technique for transferring a success in one area of your life to another. So if you can remember a success you’ve had, you can transpose it to another area of your life.

“Cybernetic Transposition is the proprietary technique I developed and perfected, and which companies paid me $25,000 a day to teach their employees.” – Stuart Lichtman

Cybernetics is the science of how electronic machines and human brains work, (and developing machines that do things or think like people). Transposition means to transpose, or move one part to another; or an interchange of two parts.

Stuart Lichtman PDF

If you have read any of the classic books on the Law Of Attraction, you’ll understand that thoughts become things. See motivational books pdf free download and working with the law pdf. But Stuart Lichtman has taken this concept to another level in his book.

Here’s an extract: “Cybernetic Transposition may be the single and most powerful technique ever developed for personal achievement. What Cybernetic Transposition does is empower the mind to use one success – any success – that you have experienced, and “transpose” (or transform) that first success into the solid foundation for a success in another area.” – Stuart Lichtman

But just exactly how does this work and how does Stuart do it?

Cybernetic Transposition

To achieve anything takes focus. But what most of us do is get distracted and take our attention off the outcome we desire. Habits can be detrimental to our success if we allow the bad ones to grow and don’t encourage the good ones.

Here’s a quick summary of what’s involved in the technique:

Firstly create a target or a goal which you know you clearly want to create in your life. It needs to be understood by all major aspects of your unconscious mind. This means getting very clear on exactly how you would like your target to look when it comes about.
Prioritise your target so that your unconscious mind will focus on it, even when while you are not thinking about it.
Resolve any unconscious habit patterns which would normally prevent you from achieving your target.

In Stuarts book you’ll need to work through this creating an outcome which is truly desirable to you. An important distinction with goal setting is that many people create goals which they either don’t believe in, or are not truly aligned with.

By resolving the conflicts which will undoubtably arise in your unconscious mind, you can get clear on your objective. If your goal doesn’t give you a 10 out of 10 for both desirability and belief, you’re barking up the wrong tree. Something in your subconscious mind will sabotage your efforts, and you’ll find a way to fail.

Stuart Lichtman Cybernetic Transposition – The Meta Story

There are some exercises in the book which you’ll need to work through. Be prepared for some hard work here! Stuart will make you write out your goal many times, correcting it accordingly to resolve any conflicts which come up. For example, your goal might be to lose weight. But you might also like eating and hate working out. By resolving these issues, you will come up with an appropriate goal which aligns with all parts of your mind.

Once you have got very clear on what you want, both in terms of desirability and belief, you can build what Stuart calls a Meta story.

A meta story is the end goal narrative in which you have created the outcome you desire perfectly. It’s the story which you are going to communicate with your subconscious mind in order to create a powerful objective. If your meta story is littered with objections and doubt, your subconscious mind won’t flag it as a priority; and it won’t have the same power.

Therefore getting clear on an objective is essential to this process of creation.

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Business In A Box For Sale

Since Covid, many are looking for a business in a box for sale; something they can use to generate income from anywhere. Several years ago I was struggling and looked for something too. After trying Forex marketing, eBay (buying and selling) and even selling my own ebooks, I discovered a clever business model known as affiliate marketing.

After buying an ebook on eBay, I noticed the simplicity of selling a downloadable product. With a downloadable product there was no need for holding products, posting them out or even dealing with customers. I tried (in vein) to sell my own ebooks and eventually discovered that I could sell other people’s products through linking to them with my affiliate link.

Affiliate marketers don’t hold products or deal with customers. Instead they refer customers to products online, and earn commissions from the recommendations they make. Affiliate marketing is the perfect “business in a box”. You don’t need your own products and you can learn everything else.

Business In A Box For Sale – Products

One of the first affiliate programs I joined was Amazon. Amazon has thousands of products you can promote as an affiliate. Later on I learned to sell digital products and then eventually sold subscription affiliate products and high ticket affiliate products. You can join affiliate programs for free and promote them in several ways:

Blogging – this article is an example of one of my blog posts.
Email marketing – affiliates build large lists of emails to promote affiliate products
Paid marketing – there’s multiple paid marketing platforms you can use as an affiliate
Video creation – videos can be uploaded to YouTube and used to generate traffic to your affiliate products
Social media platforms – many affiliates use social media platforms to promote their affiliate offers.

Business In A Box For Sale

The “business in a box for sale” I eventually found was an “all in one” affiliate training resource and product range. This “business in a box” gives you everything you’ll need to build an online business starting from scratch:

A step by step setup process to build your website, landing pages, email marketing campaign and digital product setup (sales funnel)
Training and resources to help you learn how to market your sales funnel
Access to a community of online entrepreneurs and business owners
Over 10,000 training courses to choose from
Regular live webinars and training seminars available on demand

Affiliate Marketing Business Package

Whether you want to use the affiliate marketing business model, or choose to source and sell physical products, the All In package will show you how.

You’ll get access to all the tools, technology and training you need to build a “from scratch” online business.

One of the best things about the SFM Digital Business System is it’s product range and step by step tutorials. Whatever your technical experience, you can use the step by step training to set up your very own digital business and learn how to promote it online. Some of the main advantages of the SFM system is its use of:

A built in sales team – helping you close sales so you don’t have to do any “selling” – (the system does the selling)
A sales funnel you can use to send customers into, and a ready made email follow up series, done for you.
Multiple digital products to use within your funnel – including high ticket products and subscription products (earn ongoing income from previous sales)