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May 17, volume 7-issue 19

Subscriber Count as I hit send is 1855

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Your editor: Jan Tallent, rimdigest@usa.net

My Brick and Mortar Biz: Country Discount Store

http://www.tallentagency.com/country_store.php

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Today's Issue Contains:

Publisher's Spot

Featured Article: Techniques In Affiliate Marketing

Done By The Best

Freebies for my subs

Positive Quotes

Warmhearted Smile for the Week

Feedback

Recommended eZines

Publisher's Goodbye and Legal Stuff

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Well, I am counting down now- one more week to get

through before Memorial Day weekend and our Tourist

Season begins. It has been a l o n g , hard

winter for the small businesses here in Steelville

and we are really hoping the $3+ per gallon gas prices

do not hurt us as badly as the past two years.

Campers have been coming in on weekends, to avoid the

rush, I am sure- the past month or so and the lookers

have started hitting the Main Street stores and shops.

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Featured Article

Techniques In Affiliate Marketing Done By The Best

The percentage behind affiliate marketing is that:

20 percent of affiliates produce 80 percent of all income;

while 80 percent of affiliates generate 20 percent of all

income.

Ironic but true.

You would almost certainly want to be one of those 20

percent that is earning the 80 percent of the total

earnings. Who wouldn’t?

Follow these basic steps and you will find yourself

sharing the profits that the most fortunate ones

are getting.

1. The best affiliate marketer cover their web site links.

Cloaking affiliate links may not seem necessary, but it

actually is. Apparently, visitors will not tend to click

on your link when they see that it is leading to an

affiliate program on your site once they point their

mouse over them.

The usual tendency is for them to go directly to the

affiliate domain. Thus ignoring your affiliate ID from

the URL displayed. The best way to avoid this problem is

by covering your URL. There are cloaking tools available

over the Internet that you can take advantage of.

2. Successful affiliate marketers create and distribute

their articles. Writing articles regarding your market

niche is necessary to expand your reputation as a

specialist in your field.

You can get the greatest benefits not just from writing

these articles but also from getting those articles

published and reprinted by other site owners and ezine

publishers. Your articles will then give you both

reputation and links from other web sites because of

the resource box attached at the each of each article.

3. Affiliate marketers focus on a market niche. Loading

your site with content that is focused on a certain

product or service niche is one way of getting more

web traffic in your target market. There are tools

over the Internet that can help you point out market

niches that is important for your website.

4. Top affiliate marketers uses autoresponders.

Autoresponders are important tools that makes you

capable of sending a timed series of email messages

to those persons that signed up for them. Most of the

time, these autoresponders are sent through by a third

party provider. Look for the best provider that will

cater to your autoreponder needs.

5. Smart affiliate marketers build web pages in order

to pre-sell. Create either testimonial pages or review

pages that talk about and pre-sell the product or

service you are affiliated with. This is the best

method of getting increased orders for your chosen

affiliate programs.

Many programs truly offer an article or recommended

text to sell their products for you and permits

duplication of those articles with your links implanted.

6. An outstanding affiliate marketer collects email

addresses. The best affiliates gather email addresses

on their web site by presenting free reports thru

autoresponders,giving out ebooks and newsletter

signup forms.

This method is best used in building your own list

of email addresses to contact. This also lets you

contact potential customers that clicked away once

they got into the affiliate program website.

7. Top affiliate marketers markets everywhere. You can

advertise using PPC or ezine advertising depending on

your market niche. Some categories of Pay-per-click can

be expensive, but advertising somewhere is needed to

get additional traffic to your site.

There are some good bargains in ezine advertising

and some less popular PPC engines other than Yahoo's

Overture and Google's Adwords you can check out.

8. Affiliate marketers optimize for the search engines.

Search engine optimization is now getting more complex

as new and more webmasters participate. But the basics

put into your site can add to your visibility over time.

The most critical of the many SEO techniques is the

use title tags that shows individual page content.

Many webmasters write a master title tag and apply

that site-wide. This is the worst thing you could

do for search engine ranking.

9. Affiliate marketers have their own mailing lists.

The best of affiliate marketers have their own

newsletter or ezine and gather email addresses

on their site to build their list of subscribers.

Having this list allows regular contact with potential

customers interested in your site, your product and

your market niche.

If you understand and make use of the above mentioned

techniques, you can be one of the top people that are

making it big in affiliate marketing. What are you

waiting for?

Jan Tallent, Marketing Warrioress

at http://www.jantd.com/ and Publisher of

Rim Digest eZine, http://www.rimdigest.com/

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Positive Quotes

I will make love my greatest weapon

and none on who I call can defend

against its force ...My love will

melt all hearts liken to the sun

whose rays soften the coldest day.

-- Og Mandino

and

I'm not happy, I'm cheerful.

There's a difference.

A happy woman has no cares at all.

A cheerful woman has cares but has learned

how to deal with them.

-- Beverly Sills (1929-) American Opera Singer

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Warmhearted Smile for the Week

If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked,

doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted,

musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed,

tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed?

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