6/25/2014

How to Master Affiliate Income - and Get More in Your Life

The best way to get started in any home-business is to start with someone else's products.

That's especially if you haven't run your own brick-and-mortar business before - or even if you have. Online business is its own type of beasty to master, even if most of the elements are similar to regular business ones.

You have to know these skills:

How to have a product which people want enough to buy.
How to market that product to the niche that is looking for it.
How to price that product accurately.
How to service your customer and handle any concerns.

Like regular business, you have to find out what's wanted and deliver it - then care for that customer and turn them into a regular client.

How does affiliate marketing teach you business basics?

Mainly because you're dealing with someone else's homework. They've already done the homework, worked up the product, and in many cases even provide the sales pages for your site.

This leaves you to concentrate on the key elements of content marketing and sales conversions. (Those are fancy terms for getting someone's attention and persuading them to buy.)

I've got a short set of inexpensive ebooks available just on Affiliate Marketing.

But what we want to talk to you about today is how to combine affiliate marketing, and network marketing.

It's called two-tier affiliate marketing.

To make this short, here's the links to study this in more depth. (I'm making it a record here for later research.)

Good luck with your own research. Subscribe above right and keep up to date!

6/28/2013

Trust is a two-way street with no traffic signs

How do you get your clients to trust you? Trust yourself, first.

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"You can't get without giving." This goes back to Napoleon Hill's "Think and Grow Rich" but also goes back through the Bible's Golden Rule to the oldest known verbal traditions.

One phrasing of it is, "Energy flows where attention goes."

There is also a unique version of it, ascribed to the Emerald Tablet - "As within, so without."

I can name off-hand at least a dozen more authors who have talked about this. The key thing is to put this to work in your own life. Any problem in attracting customers and clients to any business is whether that business owner (and every single employee in it) trusts themselves enough to give away trust.

These old principles survive and have use today as ever, because they describe natural laws which exist independent of time.

Whatever you are in yourself is what you will create around you.

Truly successful, long-standing businesses thrive, survive, and prosper because they are completely involved in the success and survival and prosperity of their clients.

To do this, they first have to let go of any type of "death wish" or self-destructive attitudes they may have been carrying around. (Like being critical of others in any form or fashion.)

Because you will create in your clients those same attitudes - or they will simply move away to no longer have to deal with that.

While some people deal with "relationship marketing" you have to know that it is all based on the point of being in a good relationship with yourself, first. You have to be at peace within as a starting point.

This is why self-improvement books continue to be popular.

Mike Dillard, self-made millionaire at age 28, ascribes this to the "alpha marketer."

Learn to trust yourself and you'll be able to trust your clients. When your clients see you trust them, they will trust you.

Treat your clients like an animal queued up for slaughter, and you'll have constant turnover in your lists, and be always expending more money to get new customers instead of servicing the existing clients.

Improve your own life and then you can help others improve theirs.

PS. I've got a ton of books at Midwest Journal Press which can get you on your way. Let me know, and I'll send you any free review copy you want of what I have.