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By Dale Mazurek

This is part two in my prosperity articles. This series is making out to be a long one but if people are getting any good advice out of it then it is worth it. For the most part affiliate marketing is how I put these into practice but they can be used no matter how your financial marketing works. I hope you will come back frequently to look at my newly published articles and I would hope you would tell you friends about them.

1. Believe In Yourself Or Forget It

Believing in you in my opinion is the most important part in becoming and staying prosperous. Believing in your self is going to determine how well you do in life. I don’t care what it is if you truly believe that you can do it than you will succeed. It took me a long time to believe I could be successful at affiliate marketing. However now that I started believing in myself things have never looked better for me. Other people will make decisions about you on how confident you seem. If you are trying to sell something and you don’t really believe in yourself then trust me your potential customer is going to read that on you and they will be gone.

2. How Does Believing In Yourself Work
The first thing you’re going to notice is that you walk with pride in your stride. Your confidence levels are going to rise to heights that you didn’t even know existed. Your understanding of things is going to become much clearer therefore making you more capable of dealing with them. So the more you understand the more prosperous you will be.

So if you believe in yourself you will be able to go to someone and ask them for something in confidence. And if the belief is strong enough you will probably get what you are looking for.

It has always baffled me as to how not believing can affect people so negatively. My cousin showed me her poetry that she has been writing for about twenty years. To be honest it is some of the best work I have ever read and I read a lot. When I asked her why she isn’t getting it published she told me that she wasn’t good enough. This is a prime example of someone losing out on lots of income because she doesn’t believe in herself.
To make things worse the non believers always think they have to handle all aspects on their own. I know my cousin is a good enough poet to get published but she is so worried about all the other aspects of getting her poems published that it stands in her way. You have to know that there are other people out there to help you along the way. So as long as you believe in what you’re doing other people will help you keep those beliefs alive.

So don’t hold back on something that will succeed because you’re not sure of how to do it. There are people who are paid to put your business in place and make sure it works. So stop looking at the cup as half empty and start believing that you can become prosperous.

Okay this is the end of my second excerpt on how to become prosperous and stay that way. In the following weeks I will continue on with this series. It is important to follow the series. You can print each edition if you want because remember once it is done it won’t be available for long because as I submit these I am working on an eBook that will be going for sale.

Thanks,
Dale Mazurek

Dale is a professional affiliate marketer who has come from getting scammed throughout the years to becoming very successful at what he does. You can see his program at http://stcajo.netsalaries.com He has also started two interactive blogs that can be viewed at http://relationshiptidbits.blogspot.com/ or http://fishingtutor.blogspot.com/

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By Randolph Wells

If your a newbie to internet marketing, you probably use PayPal© to process your sales. This is a smart and profitable move since PayPal© is one of the most secure and reliable payment processors. Even if you use someone else you can run into trouble and it's not the processor's fault.

Your Sales page and/or Order page will probably have your payment processors button or link to take your customer to their secure server. Once there they pay with their account or credit card. The secure server sends them back to your Thank You page. It works as smooth as silk. That is, if they get back to your page.

Browsers have the ability to allow you, or anyone for that matter, to "View Source" code on any given html page. You can even view php pages although they are a little more confusing.

What does that mean to you? It means that your Sales pages, with the "hidden" information regarding the payment process, are exposed. EXPOSED! So what, you say? Big problem, I say!

What's to keep your less that honorable customer from viewing your source and then looking up the path to your Thank You page? If they know the URL of your Thank You page, they can download your product for free. You've just been taken!

How do we protect ourselves? You can make sure you make the information as secure as possible on the payment processor's end. They can encrypt the process to a point. But, is that enough? It's not!

There are encryption services available. You can buy software to encrypt your payment processor buttons and links. None of it is free. But it can be reasonable.

I've found a site that will encrypt any information you want to put up on the web for a nominal one-time fee. I know, I'm into FREEBIES for you guys, but some things are worth paying for!

Go here: Encrypt you Site or Your Sensitive Information Take a look and see how it works. They explain the process very well. Once you pay the small fee, you can use the service as many times as you want. It's a lifetime subscription. Just don't forget your password. It's terribly long but very secure.

If you have problems keeping up with all your logins and passwords, I recommend Roboform or Pins. You can Google Roboform. I've used both. I'm currently using PINS. Its Open Source Freeware. You can find it at http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/pins.html. Password management programs really help, especially when sites don't allow you to pick your own passwords.

Just remember....Internet marketing is about closing the sale. You can market your tush off and lose income because your code wasn't secure. Don't let a thief pull an end run around your payment processor!

Randolph M. Wells Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator IT Training and Certification Consultant IT Project Management Specialist Visit the Profit Master Blog

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By Clive Chung

Is it possible to make a living from the internet? Yes, you can earn a lot of money just selling other people's stuff online, which known as affiliate marketing. A canadian woman named Rosalind Gardner earned over $400,000 in one year just writing a dating review site. However, becoming a successful online marketer takes time and effort, and there is no way to 'get rich quick'. The basic steps to make money from affiliate are:

1. Buy a domain and web hosting online.

2. Design your website and write a few keyword-rich contents.

3. Looking for a good affiliate program which related to your keywords.

4. Submit your site into all major search engine like yahoo and google.

5. Working hard on the SEO stuff to improve your search engine ranking in order to drive more traffic to your website. Most people will do some link exchanges with some similar website or submit their 'own words article' into article directory.

6. Searching over the internet everyday to check if someone steals your content.

7. If you think your website is having a lot of good content and believe some people will buy what you are selling after reading your website, you could pay google to advertise for you(google adwords).

8. After a few months, some people should get some sales and start earning money. The bad news is, most people don't.

These are the brief summaries to tell you how to make money from affiliate market. However, if you want to be successful, you need to do more. Just like the real world market, you need to know your competition, find out the profit-making weapons, and make some good investment.

Nowadays, you could easily find many software on the internet that can help you to make money from affiliate market. BUT BE CAREFUL, 99% of the program are scam. Don't invest on any program that claims you can earn six digits in one day unless some of your real-life friends has tried it before. However, if you find a software that works, you can save a lot of time to research the skills by investing under $100. If the software really works, you could probably get your investment back in a few days. So, if you are interested in making a living from the internet, start searching a good program throughout the internet.

Check out Earn Money From Amazon Affiliate to get a free e-book “Craigslist Traffic” today and learn how to earn money from affiliate with zero cost.

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By Corinne Mech

Affiliate marketing, if done correctly, is a very lucrative business. This is why affiliate marketers are always searching for that “prize-winning product”… you know, the one that will earn h/him the biggest paycheck.

Well, I’m here to tell you that as an affiliate marketer, you do not need a product. In fact, you don’t even need a website. There are, however, strategies that need to be implemented in order to succeed as an affiliate marketer.

Affiliate marketing is a business and will require some investment of time and money, like in any other business. You will need to invest in the tools of the trade and keep up with new developments and trends of the internet marketing business.

Here are a few techniques you could use to help you succeed with your affiliate marketing business:

First, create a unique landing page for the promotion of each and every product you are marketing for an affiliate. Do not combine all of the products onto one landing page just to save some money on web hosting. It is best to have one landing page focusing on one individual product and make sure that your site adds value by providing relevant content. I know how much it frustrates me to visit a site only to find out that it is a web page advertising other websites.

Your landing page should have black type on a white background and there should be a lot of white space in your copy. This gives your page a clean and easy-to-read appearance. Make the pages attractive, compelling, and prompt customers to act on the product being offered. Your headlines should attract the readers and compel them to want to read more. Highlight text, add bullets, and use bold type for the special points. This will help your visitors to clearly understand what you are marketing and make them want to find out more about the product.

You might want to add a picture of yourself and a signature for a personal touch. This will gain trust from your visitors as you are now no longer some faceless, fly-by-night scammer.

Second, build a subscriber list by offering free articles, reports, or an e-Book to your visitors. Use an opt-in box to gather personal information from them, such as their name and e-mail address. If possible, position your opt-in box at the very top of your page so it simply cannot be missed. Create auto responder messages that will be automatically e-mailed to those who input their personal information.

According to research, it takes at least seven contacts before a sale is made. That is why it is imperative that you build a list with your opt-in box and keep in contact with those who have signed up to receive whatever it is that you’re offering (article, report, or an e-Book). This is how you will be able to generate income from backend sales. Remember . . . in the internet marketing world, your "list" is your "goldmine"!

One of two things will happen at your landing page: the visitor will move on to your affiliate’s site (which means a possible sale) or the prospect will leave the site never to return again. However, if they opted in for the freebie, you will be able to place useful information into their inbox at certain specified periods of time, inviting them back to your site. You can also remind them of the offer they missed and give them another opportunity to purchase the product. Be sure that the content and the product you are offering is for the same purpose that they visited your site to begin with. Do not make it sound like a sales pitch.

Include compelling subject lines in the e-mail, and for content, focus on how the product will benefit the customer (your landing page should reflect this point as well). Convince those who signed up for your free product that they will be missing out on something huge if they do not act now, today, this instant! (You get the point.)

Finally, drive only targeted traffic to your product. If the person who visited your website has no interest whatsoever in what you are offering, they will be among those who move on and never come back. Another way of getting free targeted traffic is to write articles for publication in e-zines and e-reports. This way you can submit your articles to publications that are targeting customers who would already be interested in your product.

Submit articles with at least 300-600 words in length. Do not submit articles that have been taken from the public domain or purchased as a private label rights package. In other words, the article should be an original copy written by you. The more articles you submit, the more free traffic you will be able to generate. If you consistently write articles, you can generate as much as 100 targeted visitors to your site in a day . . . free!

According to statistics, only 1 out of 100 people are likely to buy your product or service. Therefore, if you can generate as much as 1,000 targeted hits for your website in a day, you can make 10 sales per day.

The strategies above are not really difficult to follow, if you think about it. It just requires a little time, effort, and an action plan on your part. You can do this. . .

© 2007 Corinne Mech
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By Brian D Anderson

I am a firm believer most entrepreneurs should engage in selling affiliate products, unless perhaps you are already making 6 to 7 figures. I have been involved in affiliate marketing for the last 6 months because I realized how lucrative it can be. I decided to focus my own business in that direction. The reasons are simple. Here are just 8 of them...

1) Affiliate marketing is truely downright cheap. No huge startup costs and can be done easily on a shoestring budget.

2) You have the ability to literally create cash on demand, whenever you need it. Pay off bills or meet unexpected expenses. Have the ablility to funnel extra cash flow into your primary business to build it faster. Increase your advertising budget, purchase needed office equipment, etc.

3) Affiliate products are easy to promote. All you need is an affiliate link.

4) Information products are in high demand. The market is endless and growing each day.

5) InfoProducts are digital and instantly downloadable to the customer and the commissions are credited to your account immediately.

6) Commissions can be as high as 75%. Info-product marketplaces, like ClickBank pays out a 50% to 75% commission.

7) You don't need to create your own products, deal with customer support, handle credit card orders, etc.

8) Did I mention it's quick and easy to get started right away? You can earn your first affiliate commissions in a little as 24 hours.

Of course affiliate marketing has it's ins and outs. But with a little training from super affiliates, a willing to take action, the possibilities are endless what you can earn without much experience, whatsoever.

I totally recommend anyone starting out and building their MLM business, consulting business, whatever business opportunity you're in, strongly consider affiliate marketing to create extra income streams. The benefits are well worth it and may just save your butt whenever you get into a financial jam.

Brian Anderson is an eBusiness cosultant and affiliate marketer. You will find his personal business profile at http://www.directmatches.com/profitexperts

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By Martin Vidakovic

There is a power that has changed my life and I want to introduce you to the same power. That is the power of energy. Do you realise we can create our own life. What we thing about we bring about. To Learn more , read on!

I have educated myself in the property market, share trading, business ventures, how the mind works and what it takes to writing a book. Formal education will earn you a living but self education will make you a million. The Secret will show you that you can create your own life.

At the core of the movie is a central philosophy called "the Law of Attraction". In fact, the movie itself was inspired by this very same law when the producer read a book called "the Science of Getting Rich" by Wallace D. Wattles. This books was written in 1910!

This philosophy states that we create our reality, both good and bad! The message is delivered through 24 "teachers" which include prosperity preachers, chiropractic healers, relationship gurus, life coaches and motivational speakers — into one clear, cohesive voice. The movie is a "must watch" for anyone interested in taking charge of their life and in creating the life of their dreams.

Following on the success of the Secret, 3 of the core teachers - namely Bob Proctor, Jack Canfield and Michael Beckwith have collaborated to produce a wealth building program called "the Secret Science of Getting Rich Seminar". This program is based on the book that inspired the movie and is set to make history as the fastest selling personal development program in history.

What is the Science of Getting Rich about? Well in the words of Wallace D. Wattles, "The ownership of money and property comes as a result of doing things in a certain way. Those who do things in this certain way, whether on purpose or accidentally, get rich. Those who do not do things in this certain way, no matter how hard they work or how able they are, remain poor. It is a natural law that like causes always produce like effects. Therefore, any man or woman who learns to do things in this certain way will infallibly get rich." The Secret Science of Getting Rich is all about teaching how to do things in this "certain" way to create wealth.

The success of this program is built on several rock solid foundations. These factors include: the phenomenal success of "the Secret", the timeless concepts from the Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles, the credibility of 3 of the most successful personal improvement teachers and New Thought leaders of our time, and the Internet as the distribution medium.

Click here to learn more about the Secret Science of Getting Rich Seminar and how you can profit from the distribution of the program.

Martin Vidakovic is an entrepreneur and self made millionaire at the age of 34. Only 6 years ago Martin only had $10 in his account and needed to find direction. That's when he decided to start his on Mortgage Company and spent time personally educating himself on what were the attributes of successful people. Using the Secret and the Law Of Attraction plus vision and hard work Martin has achieved a great deal in a short space of time. He now hopes to share some of these secrets with fellow readers. Enjoy!

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