http://www.GeekAffiliate.com Helping geeks make money from affiliate programs and Internet marketing Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:02:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As I write this, there is a particular frenzy today among Internet marketers as Product Launch Formula 2 launches. I refer to this frenzy as the firstborn child bonus technique. Buy Through My Link And Get My Firstborn Child As A Bonus! The firstborn child bonus technique is a technique used most ... http://www.GeekAffiliate.com/2008/03/27/firstborn-child-bonus/ One of the axioms of Internet marketing is that "the money is in the list". Gathering a list of potential customers and contacting them on a regular basis is a tried-and-true method for generating sales. That's why building a mailing list is so important. The standard way to build a list ... http://www.GeekAffiliate.com/2008/02/18/the-squeeze-page-secret/ Don't let anyone tell you otherwise: launching a new product is hard, even on the Internet. Perhaps even harder than creating the product itself, oddly enough. There are dozens of things to do: getting the website up, the sales copy written, the graphics done, the sales system setup, the affiliate ... http://www.GeekAffiliate.com/2008/02/01/adsense-resurrected-post-mortem/ In order to reach a wide audience, I recently published some book reviews on Make Easy Money with Google and AdSense that really would have been a better fit here. These books are all about making money with affiliate marketing by advertising affiliate products with Google AdWords. The reviews were ... http://www.GeekAffiliate.com/2007/01/22/adwords-book-review-roundup-beating-adwords-adwords-miracle-and-google-wealth-wizard/ If you're looking to make money in a different manner, the technique called AdSense arbitrage, also referred to as AdWords arbitrage, may be of interest. Simply put, the technique refers to buying AdWords clicks to direct traffic to a page with AdSense ads and arbitraging the difference between the cost ... http://www.GeekAffiliate.com/2007/01/10/review-adsense-arbitrage-and-leveraging/ Affiliate marketers are easily distracted. It's not a big deal when they're just experimenting — it doesn't cost them much time and effort to sprinkle some affiliate links on their pages. The danger comes when they approach it more seriously and start spending money (on pay-per-click ads, typically) to promote ... http://www.GeekAffiliate.com/2006/11/21/the-nike-rule-of-affiliate-marketing-just-do-it/ Many, many infoproducts are now sold with resale rights, also commonly referred to as resell rights. There are many variations of resale rights available, but the general intent is almost always the same: to give the purchaser of a product the legal permission to sell copies of the product to ... http://www.GeekAffiliate.com/2006/11/06/the-fundamental-flaw-in-selling-resale-rights/ In case you've been wondering what "Butterfly Marketing" is all about, there's an excerpt available for reading: Butterfly Marketing - The Leaked Chapter. Basically the method is about creating membership sites and using small tactics to increase sales and to keep those sales going over time. The "butterfly" part comes ... http://www.GeekAffiliate.com/2006/08/10/butterfly-marketing-excerpt/ One of the side effects of the Butterfly Marketing program has been an explosion in one-time offers. Even though one-time offers aren't new, I didn't see them that much; now I see them used on almost every new program that launches. Here are some recent programs using one-time offers: HypreVRE (a ... http://www.GeekAffiliate.com/2006/08/07/the-one-time-offer/ If you're a geek, scoffing at sales and marketing is almost a badge of honor. But geeks often fail miserably at online marketing, whether it's affiliate selling, content monetization, or product creation and promotion. Here are the top reasons why geeks fail at Internet marketing and some ideas on how ... http://www.GeekAffiliate.com/2006/07/28/top-10-reasons-geeks-fail-at-online-marketing/