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Volume 9, Issue No 15, 26th July 2009
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Contents

1. Today's Feature Article by Irena Whitfield
2. Today's Tip On the Opportunity worth checking
3. Today's Tip On Tool worth using
4. Today's Promotional Tip


Today's Feature Article

5 Common Affiliate Mistakes To Avoid!
Irena Whitfield

Affiliate programs and making money with affiliate programs seem
attractive and people consider it easy. However, people who do not
know how to set up all the system right and do the marketing right
expect fortunes overnight and are quickly disappointed. Many people
do not even know that a system is necessary. Stories about affiliates who earn
tremendous amounts of money support the wrong attitudes.

It is absolutely true that affiliate marketing is profitable but only
if the right system is set up and everything works properly.

In the following there are 5 common mistakes causing that so many
people fail terribly in the affiliate marketing:

1. Ignorance: many people start affiliate marketing without getting
the basic information about how the system works, simply supposing
that publishing a couple of banners and/or links is quite sufficient. Plus many
people enter the business and do not know anything about
the product or service; and what is even more shocking: many people
do not even realise that affiliate marketing is a proper business.

Affiliate marketing is not as simple as promoting someone else's
products or services on a website and getting paid for it. It is also about
learning as much as you can about business and marketing generally, then about
the product/service and its related market and
the customers... and setting up a proper business.

2. No system: starting any business without a system is one of the
fatal mistakes one can make. Even if you know a lot about business and
marketing, even if you have business experience from the offline world, all of
it is useless if you do not set up a proper system before you start affiliate
business on the Internet.

3. Creating sites full of banners only: not providing enough information about
the product/service is one of the biggest mistakes you can make. The best way
is to combine good content ie important information, answers to related
questions, reviews, testimonials, with banners and pictures. It is important for
customers to know and understand the features of a product, and the content you
provide helps them to get
the information they seek about the product/service.

4. Promoting only one product: of course, it is advisable to specialize in one
branch or niche to become a real expert but every niche has one or more main
products/services plus complementing products or services necessary for the one
product to work well or cover all the niche. So, it is good to cover the range
within your niche. Plus it is also good to offer reasonably more products
because you cannot rely on only one source of income. Financially, this would be
suicidal.

5. Promoting too many products: on the other hand, if you offered too many
varied products/services, you could hardly become a real expert, so your
credibility would be very low and people would be afraid of buying from you plus
the customers would be confused, All of this would end up in no, or almost no,
sales for you. So, a reasonable balance is advisable.

All in all, if you want to become successful in affiliate marketing,
it is essential to behave as if you wished to become successful
in any other business from the very start. Affiliates doomed to fail
in this business are those who do not exert enough efforts to understand and do
everything necessary. Knowing what you want, why and how to achieve that is
crucial for success anywhere.

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Today's Tip On Tool Worth Getting

Special Tool: Tweet Riches - Twitter Traffic

The lifeblood of any website is traffic. I'm sure you pretty
much know that by now.

The question on every marketer's mind, from novice to expert
is not 'why' but 'how' to actually channel tons of targeted,
massive traffic to their sites.

Of course, there are the usual ways that the seasoned marketers
talk about, e.g article marketing, blog comment and backlinks,
which are all free, but the pain is found in the hours of effort
put in to write articles, create blogposts, and write constructive
comments for other blogs.

Many have also tried forum postings, but the moderators of forums tend to be
unreasonable or have political agendas on their minds
so they may not accept your posts.

And that's where a social network site like twitter comes in.
Mind you, twitter is rather different from the rest of such
social network sites thanks to its tweets.

These are catchy messages limited to 140 characters which allows
you to focus on short, sharp and eye grabbing headlines.

So imagine if you could get the attention of hundreds of people
with one post, wouldn't that be much faster than blogging or
article writing?

I think you're getting the idea, but be creative because there
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Today's Promotional Tip

More Easy Promotion!
Another Social Community For Your Networking!

There are many promotional opportunities that offer fast and
easy traffic to your site but most don't work or need quite
a lot of work to make them work. Until recently I haven't used
them much. I only joined and forgot about it.

But it definitely shows that there are some of the social
communities that do work, so I am now geting back to these and setting them up.
You can try the one below:

It is called Live Journal and it represents social media without borders as the
owners call it. Rooted in a tradition of global participation, Live Journal is
on the forefront of personal publishing, community involvement, and individual
expression.
Already one of the world's most respected blogging platforms,
Live Journal continues to deliver improved technologies and
services to its members.

Live Journal has become the online home to a wide array of creative individuals
looking to share common interests, meet new friends and express themselves. Live
Journal encourages community and personal expression by offering users both a
user-friendly interface and the ability to deeply customize their journal. The
site allows users to set up their own virtual diary and communicate with their
friends by posting and receiving comments on each other's entries. In many
countries the site's most popular functionality is the community aspect which
allows users to engage each other on issues of common interest.

Live Journal has registered more than 16 million accounts since its founding,
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