Online Affiliate Marketing

Note#1. FFA sites operate on the basis that, if you use them, they will use you.

In other words, if you are free to e-mail thousands of people, those thousands of people are free to e-mail you.

So PREPARE TO BE SWAMPED. You WILL receive a lot of e-mails (I currently get about 500 a day).

Therefore, you MOST DEFINITELY should get yourself a ‘spare’ e-mail address.

Free e-mail addresses are easy to get. Check out the resources at www.free-e-mail-address.com or http://www.e-mailaddresses.com/


Use this ‘spare’ e-mail box to receive all the FFA return mail.

Note#2. Then what?

Then you need to empty your mailbox regularly, otherwise you will quickly exceed your limit, your mails will bounce, and your FFA accounts will be shut down.

So here’s the REAL issue…

Do you READ all these mails, or just dump them?

Well one thing is for sure; I simply don’t have time to read 500 e-mails a day. Yet, on the other hand, if I expect people to read MY e-mails, surely I have some sort of obligation to read THEIRS (even if it’s just scanning the titles to see what’s interesting).

Also, amongst all the mundane e-mails, there is often something that interests me.

And so I’ve reached a compromise…

I have noticed two patterns:

1.I notice the same PEOPLE who send the same e-mails day after day after day (ignoring the rules)

2.I notice the same moneymaking PROGRAMS that are being promoted by hundreds of different people. So what I do is to use my Mailloop program for yet another purpose. I get it to filter my FFA mailbox for me!

I now know the names of the people who mail to me day after day (despite the rules) and I know the programs and products that people are trying to sell me that I have already looked at and either rejected or bought.

I am able, therefore, to get Mailloop to delete these notes from my mailbox before I begin the process of visually checking the 10% that remain. (The regular ‘repeat’ notes all have keywords that are easily identifiable).

Sometimes, the more persistent spammers find ways of disguising their footprints, but I usually get them in the end, and I never get to read their notes… and there’s ANOTHER lesson learned about the futility of spamming.

But hang on a minute…

Sell to the spammers! They need your products, too.

Spammers usually go to some lengths to disguise their e-mail addresses. However, I have had some success by autoresponding to their mails (before autodeleting them) with an offer that they might find interesting.

If my note is returned undelivered, Mailloop destroys it. If not, there’s a chance that they might be interested in what I have to offer.

I’ve earned quite a bit of money over the years by using that trick. (Hey, you drop junk in my mailbox and I’ll drop twice as much in yours!)

Moh. Ali Albar
I rewrite this article of E-book “TheTrafficJam™ Formula” by Graham Hamer

If the FFA system sends an auto-response, you must not send another manually. Sending more than one e-mail in response to a FFA posting is SPAM, and SPAM complaints risk your FFA membership.

Once you get your own FFA site, it will serve as a PERPETUAL MOTION referral builder for your advertising machine. You need this.

The following are what I consider to be the FOUR BEST FFA SITES. You should join them all as soon as you can.

(NOTE: If you are following the 10,000hits program – which you should be - all of these are included in Lesson 8, so you don’t need to take independent action here.)


1.Massive Passive Cash Machine

Pro membership of this FFA gives you 1000+ fresh leads daily e-mailed to your mailbox, as well as the opportunity to earn commission from each sale of a FFA PRO account.

Most other systems supplying daily leads to your mailbox have a monthly fee - so you are well ahead of the competition – an easy sell… A number of auto-submitter programs post to the FFA to ensure you a constant supply of fresh leads every day.


2.TrafficWave

Here’s a great FFA site you can use immediately.

TrafficWave will send you a list of e-mails every day, which you can either respond to using THEIR autoresponder or you can send your response manually. Not both, and only one manual response if using that method.

Traffic Wave is one of the best FFAs I have seen. You can join free for a 30-day trial, then there’s a small monthly fee. Others I have seen and joined cost a lot more and were no better than this. TrafficWave also has an outstanding commission structure paying on a 3x10 matrix, so you can also earn money referring other people to it.


3.Monster Traffic

Monster-Traffic has a FREE option and an inexpensive PRO option. As a Pro member, you'll earn $5.00 on every Pro membership you sell. Sell two Pro memberships and you've got your money back.

In the Pro Members Area, you can automatically send your message to everyone who places an ad on their entire network of sites. (You can set the delay from 1-5 days.)

You can edit your message anytime you want to. This automated marketing system will be working for you 24/7. You will never have to worry about spamming anyone.

You get your banner (468x60) displayed on the front page of EVERY Monster-Traffic Web site, each month that you are a Pro Member.

You can e-mail your ad to 250,000 opt-in safelist subscribers once every 30 days. You get one per 30 day Pro Membership.

And heaps more....


4.Ad-Kingdom

The Internet is the gold rush of the 21st Century. At Ad-Kingdom, you CAN make a lot of money. If you're a seasoned pro you can make money. If you're a newcomer to the Internet, you can make money. This site will make money for you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Here's the Good News. The cost to become a member of Ad-Kingdom is very affordable for everyone. (This is one reason why you will earn money.) The payout is phenomenal.

You can earn on six levels for referrals. (If you can't make money there, you might want to just give up!) They'll even give you their One Year Guarantee! If you don’t make at least the subscription cost within one year they'll give you a full refund.

Moh. Ali Albar
I rewrite this article of E-book “TheTrafficJam™ Formula” by Graham Hamer

IF you’re asking yourself “What the #@*$^# is an FFA Site?” you’re clearly not progressing at a good rate with your 10,000hits program, and I urge you to push forward with it. It is the bedrock of much of your future traffic.

When FFA (Free For All) sites were first introduced, they made a useful contribution to advertising methods. Now, there are so many of them and they are so over-rated that they have become almost useless.

In principle, here’s how they work…

1.An FFA page allows anybody to submit a brief ad for FREE.

2.Each page shows a list of ads.

3.When you submit your ad, it is placed in the top position.

4.When the next person submits their ad, you move down the list one until, eventually, you fall off the bottom.

Great idea!

Except that :

1.You’re generally restricted to just ONE line of text (like thousands of other advertisers), so your ad must be a killer to get noticed.

2.Originally the way to advertise on a FFA page was to submit your ad by visiting the FFA page. While you were submitting your ad, you would read the other ads displayed on the FFA page. So most of the viewers were just other online advertisers.

3.Because of the initial popularity of FFA pages, many thousands were advertising there, and this affected the length of time the ad remained on the page. What originally gave an advertiser several days of exposure, now gives just a few minutes as more and more people add their ads. So along came the auto-submitters.

“Submit your ad to 8,000,000 web sites with the simple push of a button.” they claimed.

And so they did. (In reality, that's 8,000,000 Search Engines, Directories and FFA pages – but 8,000,000 nonetheless).

And then we quickly got right back to where we started… EVERYBODY was using autosubmitters so the ads rolled down just as quickly. And, what was worse was that nobody was even reading them anymore.

Does that mean I don’t think that FFA pages work?

You bet your life I don’t – at least not in the conventional sense.

However, there’s an advantage to FFA pages that is referred to as REVERSE MARKETING. The whole angle on FFAs is to OWN ONE. If you OWN an FFA site, then the thousands of ads that are posted to your site are YOUR prospects.

If you own an FFA site, then you can advertise to all your advertisers.

Don't scoff at this! A good FFA site will furnish you with AT LEAST 200-300 prospects daily.

What to do with your all of these daily prospects?

A good FFA site will provide an AUTORESPONDER (automatic e-mail response) to all these prospects. You should go into your member's account page and edit your autoresponder to send a powerful e-mail to all your prospects.

Use a dynamic SUBJECT LINE, and an effective BODY and be SURE to include the URL you are promoting. I always place the URL more than once, spacing it out about every TWO paragraphs so that people who don't read the entire e-mail will still see it, and hopefully click on it.

What kind of results can you get?

Many people will automatically delete your e-mail, especially if it arrives with the flood of e-mails from their FFA or classified ad submission.

To obtain the best results you need to delay sending your response for between 2 and 7 days. Most FFA systems will either allow you to delay their auto-response or will give you a list of e-mail addresses that have posted each day.

In either circumstance you must only send one e-mail response.

Moh. Ali Albar
I rewrite this article of E-book “TheTrafficJam™ Formula” by Graham Hamer

HERE goes for ANOTHER piece of this amazing formula. The total recipe would NOT be complete without this, yet nobody else even thinks to mention it. To ignore it is like trying to make an omelet without eggs.

Did you know that 60% of all online sales are B2B?

B2B means Business-to-Business. That means that 60% of sales over the Internet are between the owners of different sites.

Why should that surprise you? I am an Internet businessman (a netrepreneur). I am also a buyer of Internet Marketing Products.

Are you a netrepreneur? – Of course you are.

Do you purchase products on the Internet? – Of course you do.

In fact the B2B ratio is much higher than 60% in the sector that I am in (Internet Marketing Products and Information). Yet too many netrepreneurs just do not realize that the perfect customer can be another netrepreneur – just like them. In reality, they are top of the scale of potential buyers.

Contacting other netrepreneurs and selling your product direct to them WILL increase your sales, but it also has two other effects…

1.It increases your site traffic (when your fellow Internet business people go to look at, and buy, your product), which improves your search-engine rankings, which increases your site traffic, which improves…

2.It gives you ANOTHER opportunity to talk to them about exchanging links

And fellow travelers on this weary Internet road are PRIME customers. Most have already bought several things online, so have no fear of buying on the Internet. Also, they are highly interested in our particular topics. Enough to have created web pages about it, right?

Sell to your Internet colleagues. They WANT your products.

Question… Where can you find contact addresses for millions of online businesses?

If you were paying attention in Chapter Two when we were talking about Super-Affiliates, and also Chapter Four when we covered Bulk e-mail Marketing, you would remember the Internet Success Spider.

And all these businesses are quietly sitting there in the search engines. It’s all right under our noses.

Ok, lets suppose that you are selling THIS BOOK, so the subject is web traffic tactics.

(By the way, as a little side note, traffic tactics is THE subject in highest demand at the moment. If you can help other webmasters to get visitors and earn a profit at the same time, everyone will have benefited. Don’t forget, this e-book is YOURS to resell and redistribute as you want, for whatever price you want.)

So, to find your direct market manually, go into any top search engine, type a keyword related to ”marketing” and - WHOOPPEE - thousands and thousands of potential prospects will leap (slowly) before your eyes.

Of course, you can achieve the same thing 1,000 times quicker when you use the Internet Success Spider.

So, get your list of Web sites and go ahead and contact the owner or webmaster (search for the e-mail address manually, or use Spider to automate the process).

Send them a message something like this:

Hi,

My name is “name” and I just stumbled across your excellent web site at: www.website.com

I thought that because you offer information about (write the keyword you typed in the search engine, in this case it would be “marketing” or “e-business” or “home-based businesses” or whatever), you might well be interested in some information I have about attracting high volumes of free and low-cost web traffic.

If you want to read it, just reply to this note with a blank message and I will e-mail it to you.

Have a great day,
Your name.

You may have noticed that, even though I don’t have the site owner’s name, I have still managed to personalize the message by quoting the web page address.

Not only does it help gain the other person’s trust, not only does it add more power to your message, but it also avoids him feeling that he’s been spammed.

As you can see, it is done with respect and nobody should bother you if you mail them this way. It's a personalized letter.

(Quick, true story while you sip your coffee…
I once had an unexpected response from one site-owner who accused me - IN VERY LARGE LETTERS - of spamming him.

I responded that I had only visited his site as a result of his e-mail to me a week earlier …

He apologized! …

(I leave it to you to decide whether I was telling him the absolute truth.☺)

Okay, back to the REAL storyline …Notice, too, that my note is short and to the point. It DOES NOT SELL, or advertise anything. I’m just offering FREE info on a subject that already interests him. It arouses the curiosity, and that’s all it’s intended to do.

When your fellow-netrepreneurs reply, respond with a message something like the one that follows. You’ll have to substitute your own product testimonial, but you’ll get the gist here.

Hi (use his name if you now have it),

Thanks for your reply because, like you I have a web site and I wanted more visitors. (Don’t we all?) So it’s good when we can help each other.

Like everybody else on the Net, I was searching for ways to improve my traffic. Then I found this
amazing e-book that reveals it all. (And I REALLY DO mean ALL.)

I don’t think the info will be around for long because some of the tips are red-hot and are soon going to be used by everybody. (They always lose their effectiveness when that happens, don’t you think?)

But I can promise you that, since using these secrets, my traffic is increasing out of all proportion. It’s great!

You can visit that download site at http://www.thetrafficjam.com/

Hope this helps.

Your name.

P.S. One of the top methods (free) of improving traffic is by link exchange. If you’ve no objection, I’ll give you a few days to read the book, then I’ll drop you a line to see if this interests you.

So what have you achieved so far?

1. You have offered to help resolve a problem, so you are building a good relationship.

2. You have created credibility. (You've been there and you’ve found the solution, so you know best. You’re now thought of as a good resource.)

3. You are not trying to advertise yourself, nor your product, nor your web site. So you are building respect

4. You have his personal contact information so you can contact him to make an offer (or exchange links later).

5. You have a 10% to 30% chance of getting an order for your product.

You are on your way to success. What happens next is up to you.

a) You can write to offer a link exchange, which will boost your traffic for a long time.

b) You can write to recommend another product.

c) You can write to invite him to subscribe to your e-zine.

d) You can simply follow up on the sales pitch. It is a well-established fact that it can take up to 3 more “reminders” before someone decides to buy.

You want more leads, so you can write to more people?

Simply type another related keyword in the search engine and there you are - another couple of thousand highly targeted visitors.

If you target your market precisely and personalize your offer, you can make yourself a lot of money without needing a lot of visitors (if you have a good product).

I can’t emphasize enough the power of using Internet Success Spider. If you are searching for sites and e-mail addresses manually, it could take you ten minutes to find just one address.

With Spider, you can turn up 1,000 addresses in the same time, and that’s high velocity marketing.

Of course, you will need an auto-responder like Mailloop to deal with the mail but, by this stage, with traffic flowing in from all directions, the cost should no longer present a problem.

Here’s what you need to concentrate on RIGHT NOW…

1. Extract the e-mail addresses and the Web site names of anybody who, in your opinion, could benefit from your product.

2. Mail them with your proposal, then FOLLOW UP.

Moh. Ali Albar
I rewrite this article of E-book “TheTrafficJam™ Formula” by Graham Hamer

BY NOW, you should be well advance in your 10,000hits MPAM, so it’s time to start on another project... one you can work on daily.

Daily Massive Traffic Strategy #1.

Write articles and submit them to e-zines in your particular target market.

This will get your name out there fast. If you work on two or three articles each week and submit them to other e-zines, you will see an instant traffic increase.

You can get lists of e-zines in your target market by visiting any of the following sites…
(Remember to read each site’s guidelines carefully before submitting)

E-zineArticles.com
Ideamarketers.com
WebSource.net
Certificate.net

You can get the names of publishers in your particular target market, and also book short e-zine ads at lifestylespub.com. I have listed some other (inexpensive) e-zine advertising resources on my updated resource page.

However, the ultimate search resource for e-zines can be found at http://www.e-zinesearch.com/search-it/e-zine/

E-zinesearch.com allows you to drill down by subject category, then by e-zine to find the publishers' names and e-mail addresses.

So here’s your plan of action… Start your own database of names and (using Mailloop) send out your articles DIRECT to the e-zines that you think are best suited to your subject. Use the name of the publisher along with each of the publications names.

Work on writing articles daily and read as much as you can on a large array of subjects. This way, you will expand your knowledge beyond your own field.

The main purpose in writing E-zine Articles is to get them published in E-zines (I guess that’s fairly obvious). And that, on its own, will bring you a lot of highly targeted traffic. But the benefits don't stop there.

When your Articles are posted on other people's Web sites you get free links from your Resource Box (the sig. File at the end of your article) back to your Web site - more traffic.

This increases your link popularity and so your ranking in the Search Engines goes up - more traffic.

Eventually you'll find your Articles appearing in Free E-books - even more traffic.

As you can see, this kind of Multiplier Effect rapidly builds up its own momentum - after a certain point it's virtually unstoppable.

Unless you have just a mini-site, add articles to your Web site. Make sure you let anybody linking to your site know that they have full license to post them on their Web sites as long they include your Resource Box (sig file).

Think of it… YOUR articles (with YOUR links) all over the Web… FOR NOTHING. This is serious traffic pulling, ladies and gentlemen.

The acknowledged expert at this traffic-pulling technique is Michael Southon, who uses the technique to promote his own site.

Check it out, and then start writing, because THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST UNDER-RATED FREE TRAFFIC GENERATORS AVAILABLE.

If you want to REALLY attract attention to your articles, OFFER AN INCENTIVE. (Give them this book if you want).

Otherwise, for a full list of inexpensive incentives, and instructions on how to use them, Roger Aderholdt’s “Ultimate Guide To Incentives and Promotions" (314 + pages), will tell you everything you want to know as well as providing you with access to his Private Members Only Web site.

Daily Massive Traffic Strategy #2 (A LONGER TERM PLAN)

If you read my sales letter on thetrafficjam.com Web site, you will possibly notice that, in one or two places, I refer to a “crazy” formula, or a “radical” idea.

Well here comes the next “crazy idea”… WHICH WORKS like a magic potion.

Write your own (short) e-book and GIVE IT AWAY FOR FREE. Yes, you will give your first e-book away for free.

Once you create your e-book, submit it to loads of e-book directories and download sites. This technique will see your name spread around VERY quickly.

It will make you an “expert” in your field. Someone that other people will refer to.

You can advertise your next product as being “from Jane Doe, author of “Blah Blah Blah”.

And when THAT happens, you’ll see you traffic leap every time your name is linked to a product.

If you feel you would like some guidance on writing your e-book, one of the most straightforward and knowledgeable sources of help is Neil Shearing’s Internet Success Blueprint.

This book doesn’t just cover the “how to” of writing but, if you aim to sell your e-books, the whole Internet Marketing angle too.

The Internet Success Blueprint starts with one of Neil’s “Amazingly Useful Insider Tips”. He says…

”To succeed online, you must learn what really works. Not what everyone else expects, believes or claims to work.”

Which proves three points:-
1. He and I are in total agreement.
2. I really DO buy the products for which I am an affiliate.
3. I read at least the first three pages of his book!
(Just joking – I read it cover-to-cover. Darn good, too!)

Okay – back to submitting YOUR book to loads of e-book directories and download sites…
Here are a couple of e-book Submission Sites:
http://www.free-e-books.net/
http://e-books.searchking.com/

You must do this to gain a rapport with future prospects. E-books act as another communication tool that will bring in visitors to your site for just a little work.

It is also worth spending a small amount of money on e-zine advertising. You want people to know how to get their copy of your free book, don’t you?

I have included a few “low cost ads and hits” sites on my resources page.

By spreading the word in this fashion, you will be reaching a large audience. Recognized publishers may pick up on your book and put it in their newsletters or post it at their sites. Publishers and Webmasters are always looking for new, fresh content.

For example, as I write this (August 2002), for $30 you can place an ad in 18 different e-zines with a total of about 50,000 subscribers. (Where? HERE)

Imagine if out of that 50,000 just 300 people download your e-book, and then each of them give it away to 1 other person. That's 600 owners.

If you include a link in your book to subscribe to your e-zine, that’s 600 possible subscribers to YOUR newsletter.

Do you see the synergy?

What would happen if you spent $150 and placed your message and your free book in front of quarter of a million subscribers? How many new subscribers would you get to your e-zine then?

And don’t EVER forget what I said in chapter 5… If you want any chance of online success, you need to capture the e-mail addresses of your visitors… This is a BASIC PRINCIPLE. It is the foundation of your future empire

Try a solo ad mailing in some e-zines in your target market. Solo ads are one of the best-targeted ways to get people to buy. But remember – TEST, TEST, TEST. Offer your e-book as a great way to exchange links with related Web sites. Just approach each webmaster individually and ask them to download your e-book. If they like it, ask them to host it at their site (for free). That way you are giving them an excellent reason to exchange links.

So here’s what you need to concentrate on RIGHT NOW…

1. Write articles on your choice of subject and let other e-zines use them for free. Make sure you have a link to your site and that you are credited with having written the article.

2. Write a short e-book then start planning how to give it away for maximum impact. GET YOURSELF KNOWN.

Moh. Ali Albar
I rewrite this article of E-book “TheTrafficJam™ Formula” by Graham Hamer