Articles by Doug Champigny on ArticleSnatch.com

Aim For Empirical Success In Your Online Marketing

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:04:05 -0500

Success in online marketing can mean great wealth and a lovely lifestyle your friends and acquaintances will envy, so it's no wonder so many people are turning to Internet marketing as a path to their success. Unfortunately, most come into the business with misconceptions and improperly planned strategies... First, understand that making a huge splash with one big JV launch is not success - it's a one-night stand. If you don't have your foundation in place, have focused just on the one product and now have to start over from scratch, you're one more 'shooting star' we've seen come and go so many times in this industry. And if you're coming into Internet marketing thinking it's a get-rich-quick scenario, you'd be better off spending your time chasing leprechauns to find their pot of gold - at least you'd get to see Ireland that way! The truth is, in almost every case success online is the result of a continually-growing body of work - an increasing number of blog posts, web sites, publications, products, articles, podcasts, videos, etc., all adding to your branding, spreading your impact, defining you as an expert and providing links back to your current operations. **End Summary** Topics: online marketing success]]> success online]]> marketing success]]> marketing online]]> Internet marketing]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Doug Champigny is a world-famous Internet marketer, super-affiliate, mentor and speaker. Learn more about Internet marketing and subscribe to his free e-zine at The Internet Marketing Blog . For affiliate marketing help from Doug, visit his Captain Affiliate affiliate marketing training blog.

Focus On The New Decade For Internet Marketing Success!

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:26:05 -0500

As the new year beckons, the best advice I can offer to those involved with Internet marketing, or even thinking of getting involved with it or affiliate marketing, is to focus not on the new year, but on the new decade... While a decade might seem like too big a concern to plan out now, if you don't have a firm idea of where you want to be in 10 years you have no way of knowing whether you're on track with your plans for the coming year. What good is a seemingly successful year if it doesn't lead toward your long-term goals? It simply leaves you with one less year to get to your destination, right? There are a myriad of reasons one starts Internet marketing - the desire to own your own business, the need to increase your income, to help fund a hobby or pursuit and any number of others. But most online marketers, either at first or once they've had their first few online successes, realize it just might be their ticket to their own unique dream lifestyle, however they define such. **End Summary** Topics: Internet marketing strategy]]> affiliate marketing strategy]]> success strategies]]> marketing online]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Doug Champigny is a world-famous Internet marketer, super-affiliate, mentor and speaker. Learn more about Internet marketing and subscribe to his free e-zine at The Internet Marketing Blog . For affiliate marketing help from Doug, visit his Captain Affiliate affiliate marketing training blog.

6 Steps To Creating Your Own Information Products!

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:22:10 -0500

For Internet marketing and some affiliate marketing purposes alike, creating your own info products is a must. Internet marketers need their own products to brand themselves and aid their climb to expert status, affiliate marketers need products to use as 'ethical bribes' to get people to join their opt-in lists - and by using their own info products they get the added benefit of being able to distribute their affiliate links to more people through the content of the products they create. The 6 Steps To Creating New Products: 1) Start with a niche or area of Internet marketing, affiliate marketing, etc, that already has a demonstrated popularity and demand for information. While finding untapped niches can be very lucrative, for fast production of info products stick to areas with a demonstrated market already in place - there's a lot more readily available information to use in your research. 2) Do your keyword research, finding out what relevant keywords are being searched for and which of those terms are getting the highest bids at AdWords or your favorite Pay-Per-Click (PPC) search engine. **End Summary** Topics: creating info products]]> creating digital products]]> advanced product creation]]> Internet marketing]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Doug Champigny is a world-famous Internet marketing mentor, speaker and super-affiliate. For more help from Doug Champigny, visit his Internet Marketing blog and his Captain Affiliate Affiliate Marketing Training Blog .

Affiliate Marketing Balance: The Key To Super-Affiliate Success

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:19:54 -0400

Successful affiliate marketing is based in large part on your ability to drive targeted traffic at will, and on effectively building and operating double opt-in mailing lists targeted to each niche you're attacking. This article is aimed at those already active in the affiliate marketing arena, so if you haven't got a handle on those two activities go back and learn those first - you need the firm base they provide in place first to build your super-affiliate status. If you're already rocking the affiliate world, it's time to start delving deeper into the super-affiliate strategies that can build a truly profitable LONG-TERM business for you. And to achieve that kind of success and be a true super-affiliate, you need to balance your efforts between short & long-term opportunities. Balancing your short-term needs versus your long-term goals is only common sense, yet PLANNING for it is most-often overlooked by average affiliates. There are any number of immediate affiliate opportunities - you grab your affiliate link, fire off an e-mail to your opt-in list and watch commissions rack up. **End Summary** Topics: affiliate marketing]]> affiliate marketing tips]]> super-affiliates]]> marketing tutorials]]> work-at-home]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Doug Champigny is a world-famous Internet marketing mentor, speaker and super-affiliate regularly seen on the leaderboards of top online launches. For more affiliate marketing help from Doug, visit his Affiliate Marketing Training Blog and be sure to sign up for his e-zine!

Using Twitter But Not Retweeting? How Gauche!

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:56:03 -0400

Advanced Twitter marketing makes proper - and heavy - use of the Retweet aspect of Twitter. But even if you're not using Twitter for Internet marketing or using Twitter for affiliate marketing, you should really be retweeting tweets each and every day. Not retweeting anything is egotistical and, well... gauche! First, let's look at what retweeting is, and why it's necessary to fulfill your implicit promise to those following you on Twitter. The tweets you see streaming by on Twitter are from those people you've chosen to follow - and only those people - you create your own Twitterverse that way. And so does everybody else, including those who choose to follow you. As a result, unless you're both following the exact same people, each of you is seeing some tweets, probably a goodly percentage, that the others aren't seeing. And that's where retweeting comes in. If you see a really helpful, positively encouraging or funny tweet, pass it along to your followers so they can learn from it/visit the site/laugh at it too! **End Summary** Topics: retweeting]]> retweets]]> retweeting on Twitter]]> using Twitter]]> Twitter etiquette]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Doug Champigny is an Internet marketing mentor & speaker and creator of the Advanced Twitter Marketing System - For Twitter Marketing tips, visit his Advanced Twitter Marketing blog .

Cost Per Action Marketing For Affiliates - CPA Explained

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:57:49 -0400

CPA networks, or affiliate marketing operations based on a Cost-Per-Action model, have been around for years, even though they're seldom discussed in the Internet Marketing arena, and just slightly more often in the affiliate marketing realm. Cost per action, also sometimes called cost per acquisition, is like most other affiliate marketing programs in that you make money from actions taken by targeted traffic your refer to the merchant's site - but that's where the similarity usually ends. In regular affiliate programs, the money you earn is a percentage of each sale you make. With CPA offers, usually you're earning your affiliate commissions based not on sales but on other actions the merchant wants to effect. It can be downloading a free report, asking for a free sample, having free information mailed out to you, getting access to a private members' area of a website, etc. As you can see from the above examples, cost-per-action or cost-per-acquisition is usually modeled so that you're getting paid for free actions taken by the traffic you refer. So if you're firmly planted in the affiliate marketing mindset, alarm bells are probably going off in your head right now... **End Summary** Topics: CPA]]> cost per action]]> cost per acquisition]]> affiliate marketing]]> making money online]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Doug Champigny is a well-known Internet marketing mentor and speaker with over 30 years of marketing experience, including founding 2 offline ad agencies and 12+ years of online marketing experience. Visit his affiliate marketing blog or see this CPA network for more info about using CPA networks.

Offline Businesses Beware - Twitter Is Watching!

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:44:16 -0400

For the longest time, large offline corporations of a certain ilk have used lawsuits and the threat of them to silence their critics. Even when in the right, most individuals don't have the financial wherewithal to mount a legal defense against a battery of hard-nosed lawyers protecting corporate sharks from exposure. Not many would disagree that this is an immoral use of power and wealth, but since when did those with power & wealth exhibit much interest in society's morals? Well, the tide may be about to change, as they say. Apparently offended by a tweet on Twitter recently, one company launched a lawsuit against the tweet's author. I know neither the person nor anyone from the company involved, so this is neither a rant or a veiled mission - simply a caveat to offline businesses about the power of the new Social Networking world. Twitter is set up so that only your own followers see your tweets, although some are later indexed by the search engines, where they may or may not be seen by others. In this instance it appears the author of the tweet had 20 followers - extremely limited exposure. **End Summary** Topics: offline businesses]]> social media]]> public relations]]> business practices]]> Doug Champigny]]>]]> About the Author: ]]>

Beyond SEO: 15 Free Ways To Promote Your Site Effectively

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400

The best-designed website or greatest product ever will still die online if you don't know how to promote your website and affiliate links. Without effective website promotion, it's like you've designed the perfect display window, only to have it face the back alley. Or a billboard in Hutchinson, Kansas that's written in Swahili. You've probably read a lot about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and have designed your site to rank well in the Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs), but unless you're in a very non-competitive niche, chances are on-site SEO alone hasn't taken you to the top of the SERPs. So just how do you get the hoards of massive targeted website traffic you need to get the visitors, the sales and the profits or affiliate commissions you deserve? Once all of your SEO tasks have been dealt with, it's time to move beyond SEO and into the realm of advanced traffic generation. The downside is it takes effort and time, unless you outsource it to the various pros in each area. If you're promoting an offline business or only intend to promote one site, that may be the best route to go. **End Summary** Topics: website traffic]]> traffic generation]]> targeted traffic]]> SEO]]> affiliate marketing]]> Internet marketing]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Doug Champigny is a well-known Internet marketing mentor, speaker, super-affiliate and traffic master who blogs regularly on his Internet Marketing Blog . For more information on these 15 Top Traffic Tips and how to use them to build your website traffic, visit his Top Traffic Tips website.

Affiliate Marketing Strategy: Choosing The Right Traffic Tools

Sun, 12 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Affiliate marketing is one of the fastest ways to make money online, and the usual starting point for most work-at-home online businesses. Since the product, web site, sales copy and often even sample e-mails are already created by the merchant, affiliate marketing success simply involves sending enough targeted traffic through your affiliate link to the merchant's site. There are paid options to drive targeted traffic, such as the Pay-Per-Click ads you see in the major search engines, ads on web sites and blogs, and solo ads and sponsor ads in e-zines in the niche. But most people starting out with any work-at-home business need to conserve what little investment capital they have, and as such should focus on the myriad of free methods of generating targeted traffic. The first concern is to decide which traffic tools are right for each affiliate promotion you're doing. Look over the salespage and decide whether this product or service is short-lived, like a 7-day sale, or liable to be around a long time, like say a dog training guide. Is it a one-time sale, or can you earn recurring commissions as when promoting a monthly membership site or ongoing service? **End Summary** Topics: affiliate marketing]]> affiliate marketing strategies]]> affiliate marketing tips]]> traffic generation]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Doug Champigny is a well-known Internet marketing mentor, speaker and super-affiliate. For more on affiliate marketing read his Captain Affiliate Affiliate Marketing Training Blog . For more detailed information on 14 ways to drive free targeted traffic to your links, see Doug's Top Traffic Tips training .

Using Twitter Marketing As Part Of Your Online Marketing Mix

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Advanced Twitter marketing research has shown a lot of different ways to use Twitter in your Internet and affiliate marketing, but unfortunately too many novice marketers are now starting to use Twitter as their main, or only, form of online promotion. As much as I love Twitter and it's potential profit paths for an online business, I STRONGLY recommend AGAINST using Twitter as your main marketing activity. Why? First, Twitter doesn't belong to you - meaning the owners could at any time shut it down. In almost 13 years online now I've seen a number of big sites come and go, and while Twitter seems firmly rooted at the moment, remember that they still haven't monetized the service. Even with the business brilliance of Biz Stone & crew, and the small staff they've stayed to, they do have some good-sized expenditures for hardware, bandwidth, etc. Sooner or later the bills have to be paid, and I for one will feel much more comfortable about Twitter's future once they have a monetization system set up and working well. Second, the service could be doing fine - but still shut down YOUR account. **End Summary** Topics: integrated marketing]]> online marketing mix]]> advanced Twitter marketing]]> building targeted traffic]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Doug Champigny is a well-known Internet marketing mentor, speaker, super-affiliate and the author of Advanced Twitter Marketing . Learn the 14 traffic generation strategies that should be in your marketing mix from the Top Traffic Tips audio and e-book.

The Most Important Skill For Successful Affiliate Marketing

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400

It's well-known that there's a need for affiliates to build their opt-in lists, and that failing to do so is the main mistake made by affiliates. But to be successful as an affiliate, both for making money online and for building your opt-in list, one very important skill must be mastered - the most important skill for successful affiliate marketing. In fact, this one skill is the main ingredient in the success of all online businesses, and the most important tool in your affiliate marketing skills toolbox: the ability to drive massive amounts of targeted traffic to your links! Whether you're sending that targeted traffic to a free report on a butterfly-marketing type of site, a free download to entice them to join your list, to your blog in whatever niches you operate in or directly to your affiliate links, the number of targeted visitors you can mobilize quickly is going to be directly reflected in your affiliate commissions. **End Summary** Topics: affiliate marketing]]> affiliate marketing success]]> affiliate marketing skills]]> making money online]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Doug Champigny is a well-known marketing coach, speaker, super-affiliate and targeted traffic expert, and the author of the Captain Affiliate Affiliate Marketing Training Blog . For more advice from Doug on driving targeted traffic, visit the Top Traffic Tips website.

The Number-One Way To Make Money Online

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Travelling around North America speaking at Internet marketing and affiliate marketing seminars and conferences, the most common question I'm asked is 'What's the best way to make money online?'. It's also one of the most common threads in forums, at social networking sites and throughout the blogosphere. And after being online full-time for more than a dozen years, I've seen that question answered just about every way, except maybe the right way. While marketers talk about e-mail marketing, Internet marketing, affiliate marketing, blogging, using resell rights, doing podcasts, video marketing, teleseminars, taking offline business online and the like, they're missing the real point. Yes, each of those is a way some people have made a lot of money online, and yes, they'll continue to be good ways to build a work-at-home business. But there's a common thread running through them all - a skill that truly is the key to making money online. Looking at that list, can you tell what it is? To truly make money online, the really big money, with any of the above you have to be able to put your offers, products, services and/or affiliate links in front of a targeted audience. **End Summary** Topics: online success]]> making money online]]> promoting offline businesses]]> Internet marketing]]> affiliate]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Targeted traffic expert Doug Champigny is a well-known Internet marketing mentor, coach and speaker.

Internet Marketing Big Dog - Or Just Their Chew Toy?

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Internet marketing experts, often referred to as gurus or Big Dogs, are making a fortune online 24 hours a day 365 days a year. Thousands of Internet marketing newbies and those of the mid-levels aspire to be Internet Marketing Big Dogs, but most will never reach that level. I'm sorry to have to say that, but it's true... The hardest part to accept, though, is that most of the big dogs started out at the bottom of the Internet marketing heap and rose to the top - some in a matter of months, but most through a few years of intensive activity, labour and investment. Not always upfront investment, but actually re-investing a good chunk of their online profits to fuel more rapid growth. So if, as Internet marketing Big Dogs, we're no different than you, what makes the few rise to superstardom online and the bulk continue to be chew toys? There are a myriad of potential reasons, but here are a few of the biggest and most common reasons people fail to do well with Internet marketing... **End Summary** Topics: Internet marketing success]]> work-at-home success]]> online success]]> online marketing]]> work-at-home tip]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Doug Champigny is a world-famous Internet marketing mentor, speaker and super-affiliate who has written many e-books about online success. Learn more from Doug by reading his Internet Marketing , Affiliate Marketing and Twitter Marketing blogs regularly.

Affiliate Marketing Formula That Works Best Right Now

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Affiliate marketing, and in fact the Internet itself, is evolving daily - leaving it in a state of constant flux. So just how is an affiliate, especially one new to affiliate marketing who may still be working at a full-time job as well, supposed to keep up with it all? First, of course, you should be re-investing in your online business, watching for new training resources from Super Affiliates that you've come to trust as providing good solid up-to-date affiliate marketing training materials. And in between, you should be subscribed to their e-zines (e-mail newsletters), visiting their blogs regularly, and following them at sites like MyBlogLog, Technorati and Twitter - especially Twitter since it's always real-time. How drastically does the affiliate marketing game change? Just a few years ago it was all safelists, free-for-all pages and traffic exchanges - now Web 2.0 techniques, like blogging and social networking are leaving the earlier strategies in the dust. Let's look at the components of recent successful strategies that have made affiliates the most in commissions and prizes and continue to be ultra-effective right now, shall we? First, almost without exception Super-Affiliates have their own opt-in lists they e-mail offers to; **End Summary** Topics: affiliate marketing]]> marketing strategy]]> marketing online]]> joint venture tactics]]> affiliate tactics]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Doug Champigny is a world-famous Internet marketer, super-affiliate, mentor and speaker. Learn more about affiliate marketing and subscribe to his free e-zine at his Captain Affiliate Blog . You can also follow him on Twitter as @CaptnAffiliate

The Path From Newbie To Six-Figures In Internet Marketing

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Each of us in Internet marketing is at a different point in what we do, same as each of us has different goals for the future. But some steps have been shown to be a part of the Internet marketing success path no matter who we are or what we want from our online marketing efforts... Speaking at a number of Internet marketing seminars, being a guest at a lot more of them, doing teleseminars and being interviewed, being on the inside of top-level joint ventures (JVs), etc, etc, I've talked to thousands of people doing business online in the past number of years, and found that those at or near the top got there mostly through one of two routes to online marketing success: A) They came into the online marketing industry with tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to put into their online business and bought their way to success online, or B) They pretty much followed the same Internet marketing path to success as what I'm about to show you - the route most take to go from newbie to six-figures a year online and beyond. **End Summary** Topics: Internet marketing success]]> home business success]]> work-at-home success]]> making money online]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Doug Champigny is a well-known Internet mentor, coach and speaker. Get more helpful information from Doug at Internet Marketing with Doug Champigny . For MRR and PLR products, Doug recommends Resell-Rights-Fortunes.com

Targeted Traffic From Advanced Twitter Marketing - Part One

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Advanced Twitter marketing strategies all revolve around getting more targeted visitors to Internet marketing websites and affiliate links. While search engines are still probably the most powerful way to drive traffic, that only holds true for those people who achieve a first-page listing in Google, Yahoo or MSN Live - for the rest, response is limited or non-existent. Over the last two years the social networking sites, collectively referred to as the Web 2.0 sites, have been gaining massive audiences and are now amongst the biggest portals online - and that mass audience has created tremendous opportunities for online marketers to grab a lot of free exposure for their sites, blogs, salespages and affiliate links. Of these Web 2.0 sites, Twitter is rapidly approaching critical mass, sweeping it's 'competition' aside in it's wake. Both the instant gratification from your messages being seen instantly and the ego boost provided by garnering a large number of followers makes the site emotionally addicting to it's users, who are spending more and more time there each day. **End Summary** Topics: targeted traffic]]> twitter]]> advanced twitter marketing]]> twitter traffic]]> building traffic]]> marketing]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Doug Champigny is a professional Internet marketer and author of the new Advanced Twitter Marketing System For more information, download this free case study .

Targeted Traffic From Advanced Twitter Marketing - Part Two

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400

As your interaction with others grows on Twitter, so will your following - and by extrapolation, so will the amount of targeted traffic you can send to your links. For maximum response, offer a free download - a report of interest to your target market, a sample software program if you sell software, perhaps a digital brochure with a money-saving coupon if you're promoting an offline business. Whatever market you service, you already know what the best lead-generators tend to be in your market, so those are the same incentives that will get you the most targeted traffic from your Twitter followers. To maximize the effects of your targeted traffic generation activities on Twitter, you need to understand the logistics behind the site. First, you only see the tweets from those people you follow - likewise, only those following you will see your tweets. Second, each of your followers will be following hundreds, or more likely thousands of other people too. As such, they potentially receive thousands of tweets a day - and no one can keep up with them all. **End Summary** Topics: targeted traffic]]> twitter]]> advanced twitter marketing]]> twitter traffic]]> building traffic]]> marketing]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Doug Champigny is a professional Internet marketer and author of the new Advanced Twitter Marketing System For more information, download this free case study .

Turning Podcasts And Videos Into Physical Products To Sell Online

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0400

While Internet marketing has provided a platform that literally levels the playing field for business owners and potential business owners, we still have to cater to an offline world. Digital products are very popular. They can be created with a very small budget, and easily delivered over an Internet connection. But offline products earn more revenue for you too, especially since physical products have a higher perceived value. Many Internet Marketers struggle with developing a product that is suitable for offline consumption. Thankfully, podcasting has a viable and easy answer. You can turn your collection of podcasts into a physical product, very easily, at little cost. Mobile devices are very popular, but not everyone has one, or wants one. Of that group of people, there are plenty that would like to take information on the go, but because they don't have or want a portable mobile device, they don't have that option. You have the ability to give them that option with your podcast content. Creating a physical product with your podcasts is really quite easy. When you have so many podcasts under your belt, you simply create an audio CD with all of them on there. **End Summary** Topics: podcasts]]> vlogs]]> podcasting]]> creating videos]]> audio CDs]]> DVDs]]> Internet marketing]]> creating products]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Doug Champigny is a world-famous Internet marketing coach, mentor and speaker who is also a professional glamour videographer. For more tips from the pro, read Doug's e-books on podcasting and video blogging - It's You... LIVE! and on video production, Creating Your Own Videos .

Affiliate Marketing Using Article Marketing

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Article marketing is one of the most effective ways to market a product. Affiliate marketing with the use of articles is no exception to this rule. In fact, article marketing allows you to differentiate yourself from other affiliates who sell the same product or service. Because article marketing is so effective, many affiliate program owners/managers provide their affiliates with articles to submit to the various article directories on a regular basis. The affiliates, of course, replace the links that accompany the articles with their own affiliate links for submission. Two caveats when using articles supplied by affiliate marketing managers - first, remember that most directories prefer you to have any links in your Author's Resource Box only, not embedded within the article itself. Secondly, the articles as supplied are going to a number of affiliates unless you're already a big enough name online that the affiliate manager is willing to have separate articles written just for your use. So while few affiliates will actually take the time to use the articles effectively, either the merchant themselves or another affiliate has probably already submitted those articles to the directories, rendering them useless as they are for your affiliate marketing purposes. **End Summary** Topics: affiliate marketing]]> article marketing]]> free report]]> free download]]> audio]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Doug Champigny is the author of Understanding Article Marketing , and has prepared a new written and audio report, Article Marketing - A Quick and Easy Overview , that you can download for free from his article marketing website.

The Importance Of Pre-Selling In Affiliate Marketing

Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0400

If you want to find true success in affiliate marketing, you must learn and practice the art of pre-selling. Pre-selling essentially means that by the time your prospect clicks on your affiliate link, they have their credit card in hand, ready to make a purchase. In affiliate marketing, this means that they must be ready to make a purchase before they even see the affiliate sales page that is provided by the company that owns the product. Pre-selling can be done in a variety of ways, but the majority of affiliate marketing pre-selling is done from the affiliates own website or blog. While you will most likely have affiliate banners on your site, linked to the sales page for the product, this alone won't pre-sell your visitors. You need good, solid, well-written content to pre-sell effectively! You need good, reliable information that not only relates well to the product or service being sold, but also relates to your potential customers' problems or desires. The content should lead to a pre-sell page for the product or service you want to sell. **End Summary** Topics: affiliate marketing]]> affiliate marketing tips]]> pre-selling]]> pre-selling products]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Doug Champigny is a world-famous Internet marketer, super-affiliate, mentor and speaker. Learn more about Affiliate Marketing on Doug's Captain Affiliate Affiliate Marketing Blog . For more info on pre-selling, click here .

Advantages of Affiliate Marketing

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0400

Affiliate marketing is the easiest way to start making money online for most people wanting to start a work-at-home business, and as such is usually the first step in any Internet marketing career. For people who know that they want their own online business, and a full time career working from the comfort of their own homes, affiliate marketing offers a wonderful solution. Often, people know that they want to be in business for themselves, but they don't have any ideas for a product or service to offer, and even if they do have an idea, they don't have the funds or the ability to create the product or service. With affiliate marketing, the greatest advantage is that you don't need your own product or service. You simply promote someone else's products or services for a commission of the sales. There are generally no or low start up costs, and no overhead, other than the need for a computer with an Internet connection. Other costs are minimal, at best, and include the cost of an autoresponder, a domain name, and a website. An affiliate marketing business can literally be started for under $100, if you already have a computer. **End Summary** Topics: affiliate marketing]]> affiliate maketing businesses]]> marketing affiliate programs]]> work-at-home]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Doug Champigny is a world-famous Internet marketer, super-affiliate, mentor and speaker. Learn more about Affiliate Marketing on Doug's Captain Affiliate Affiliate Marketing Blog .

Affiliate Marketing 2009 - Starting An Affiliate Marketing Business Online

Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Affiliate marketing is the best way for most people to start making money online. It's that simple. Affiliate marketing takes less upfront investment, requires the least technical knowledge and often provides the quickest income stream for most people looking to start a business online and become a part of the work-at-home crowd. Affiliate marketing is the process of selling other people's products online - or more accurately, driving potential customers to offers presented by the affiliate programs' owners. You don't need to sell the product - you leave that to the professionally designed salespages already online - your job is just to get targeted people to that page. Like any business startup, affiliate marketing success requires the investment of time and money - the more you invest of one, the less you need of the other. While affiliate marketing is one of the few businesses you can start with no money to invest, it will take more effort to get it rolling, and longer til you see a profit from it. But you can start of that way if necessary, and use some of your profits to invest down the road, making it a self-funding business opportunity. **End Summary** Topics: affiliate marketing]]> start affiliate marketing]]> affiliate marketing success]]> starting a business]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Doug Champigny is a world-famous Internet marketer, super-affiliate, mentor and speaker. Learn more about affiliate marketing and subscribe to his free e-zine at Doug's Internet Marketing Blog . For valuable free affiliate marketing resources, Doug recommends you visit Daily Affiliate Product Updates and Free Brandable E-Books For Affiliate Marketers .

Internet Marketing 2009 - Starting An Online Business

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Internet marketing has grown exponentially since it's inception in 1994, as more and more people around the world start an online business either to earn some extra cash or to become work-at-home entrepreneurs to escape the rigors, stress and limitations of corporate existence. And as 2009 dawns, the prospects for making money online through Internet marketing have never been brighter. While much of the offline world languishes through the Great Recession, those doing business online will still see growth this year with more people making money online through Internet marketing than ever before! In terms of starting a business online, your first choice has to be what area of Internet marketing you want to begin with. For all intents and purposes, their are three different main categories to consider... The easiest, and usually quickest way to start making money online is Affiliate marketing. This is usually the first step for Internet marketing since you don't need your own products, can get started with a very low investment, and can often start bringing in the first profits in a relatively short time. **End Summary** Topics: Internet marketing]]> affiliate marketing]]> niche marketing]]> doing business online]]> starting a business]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Doug Champigny is a world-famous Internet marketer, super-affiliate, mentor and speaker. Learn more about Internet marketing and subscribe to his free e-zine at Internet Marketing with Doug Champigny . To get your webspace, blog and autoresponders all in one convenient place, Doug recommends you use Hosting For Marketers - www.Hosting4Marketers.com .

Why Internet Marketers Love The Global Recession!

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Internet marketing experts are thriving today as never before; more people are making money online than at any time in the 14 years the World Wide Web, and Internet marketing, has existed. But those considering starting a business online may not realize that Internet marketing is still viable during the current world-wide financial meltdown. The global recession is an accepted fact - right now every major economy in the world is suffering a recession, as defined by two consecutive quarters of negative growth. Worldwide, media outlets scream their headlines of the latest layoffs, foreclosures, bankruptcies, bailouts, devastated retirement savings, repossessions and the like. On a personal level, every intelligent, caring human hates it - the pain, suffering and stress it generates, and the jump in hunger, homelessness and true poverty that results in more and more instances. Offline businesses hate it too. In the business-to-business realm, keeping your own business afloat, supporting your share prices and maintaining a positive cashflow are just the start of it - but what about your customers and suppliers? As businesses slash their expenditures, customer lists are shrinking and average order value is plummeting. **End Summary** Topics: Internet marketing]]> affiliate marketing]]> niche marketing]]> doing business online]]> starting a business]]>]]> About the Author: ]]> Doug Champigny is a world-famous Internet marketer, super-affiliate, mentor and speaker. Learn more about Internet marketing and subscribe to his free e-zine at The Internet Marketing Blog . You can also follow Doug on Twitter!