Announcement

A few weeks ago I launched my latest web site the Online Business Idea Center. The site focuses on educational material regarding starting a online home business and how it all works. Also I giving away a lot of free material for webmasters and marketers. Comments and suggestions are always welcome.

This Month's Giveaway

Link Popularity Checker

Reciprocal links (links from other web sites to your web site) are the most important factor in achieving high rankings with search engines. To check how many links to your web site are existing you have to go to each search engine (Google, Yahoo, MSN...) and search for your web site's domain name. Each search engine has a different command to figure this out. In my opinion way too much work.

If you don't want to spend more than 30 seconds to check you web site's link popularity, Link Popularity Checker is the tool for you. Free of charge and ready to use.

Click here to download this little helper.

Affiliate program Review

Name

SiteSell

Program Details

Ken Evoy create a web hosting / web service / web design / web development company that emphasizes completely on the concept of niche market marketing.
Ken's philosophy is that you should give the search engines what they want and they want content rich theme oriented web sites that are specifically targeted. Ken also believes that sooner or later this would be the only way to achieve high rankings in the search engines.

All the little tricks webmasters are using to push their rankings will be useless or too expensive to maintain. If you take a closer look at my web site Online Business Idea Center, you will notice that every page is keyword optimized and the whole web site follows the same theme. Every time I create a new web site I try to optimize the theme concept even more. So far I'm pleased with the results.

Commission

Commissions vary depending on the type of product you sell. Selling Ken's flagship product SiteBuildIt will give you whopping $100 commission. You also earn a percentage of your team's sales.

Sub Affiliates

2 levels of affiliates. You and your sub affiliates. There's no limit in how many sub affiliates you can have. You earn a small commission on sales made by you sub affiliates as well. This is not a MLM system. Ken's affiliate program is all about selling his products and not to recruit sub affiliates.

Click here for an overview of the program.

Best Products To Promote

SiteBuildIt (Web Hosting Service)
Make Your Site Sell (eBook)

Recommendation

I give Ken's products and his affiliate program a 4 (out of 5) rating. Excellent products, a good affiliate program with residual income and sale commission. Due to the niche market focus not a mass product to sell.

Sign up as an affiliate, it's free and it won't hurt to be on Ken's email list either. Put some advertising on your website, set and forget. You might be pleasantly surprised. Stay away from pay-per-click engines to advertise Ken'sproducts. You will most likely loose money.

The best way to promote Ken's products is through his free eBooks. Sign up as an affiliate, customize the eBooks with your id and give them away for free. Due to a clever cookie system you will get the credit for a sale even months after someone downloaded and read these free eBooks.

Click here to sign up today.

Traffic Generator Review

A program that I frequently use is called BannersGoMLM. It is a banner exchange program that actually builds momentum. The more webmasters you have in your team the more your banners will be displayed. This is great leverage and it is free.
Why not give it a try. I works pretty good for me.

Click here to discover more free traffic generator tools.

Featured Article

My Vision Of Multiple Streams of Income, Part 2
(c) by Peter Dobler

A while back I wrote a little article called “My Vision of Multiple Streams of Income”. After receiving several emails asking for a sequel and sharing more real life experience I decided to give an update on my journey with SFI and Stone Evans’ PIPS system.

As I mentioned in my last article I went off a good start with this system and I honestly can attest it really works. The only negative thing is, if you want to call it this way, that I put a lot of effort into this project. The system is designed to run on autopilot, that’s great. But until you’ve reached a certain level of visibility, you need run your promotions around the clock. I’m almost there.

As an example: I run several Google AdWords campaigns to promote my website and SFI. The reason for this is simple. This is a highly competitive market and achieving high rankings with the major search engines takes a long time and due to the rough competition you won’t be able to reach the top without a few backdoor tricks.

So I took the route of actually spending some advertising money and in return I have a wide spread exposure. Remember the baseball movie with Kevin Kostner “Field of Dreams” with the famous remark “If you build it they will come”? Unfortunately this is no longer true for the internet.

Back to the topic of controlling the advertising cost with Google AdWords. I closely track my expenses and I keep a lit on it if it gets too high.
The tricky part is to decide when it is too high. I don’t have an answer for this. For me it means whatever I’m comfortable with. Because you’re building residual income and you’re not aiming for a single sale. This is hard to gauge. Conversion rates are useless, although my conversion rate so far is over 20%. That is pretty good from what I read about this topic. What this number means in subsequent income has to be determined.

I also tapped into the extensive library of SFI’s partner IAHBE. At first I just joined this organization because it guarantees my position in the SFI network. But after researching their services and utilizing their benefits like free mail leads, I have to say that this is a great institution. It’s worth every penny of your monthly fees.

Speaking about value-added services and benefits. The one thing I’m truly impressed with is the quality and consistency of the marketing material offered by SFI. The wealth of online and offline marketing material can be overwhelming, but if you use it appropriate it is a very effective tool. Of course SFI also offers quality products and services, which makes it easy to sell.

By using Stone Evans’ PIPS (Plugin Profit Site) system I could maximize these efforts. I’m selling all sorts of products and I already received several commission checks through my affiliate program with Clickbank. This is a huge affiliate provider for electronic books and software. My job is to attract customers to the products and then the manufacturer or author of the product does all the selling and credit card processing. As soon as the credit card is processed I receive a commission, which varies between products.

After about 3 months of running this business I would say that I’m still a little bit negative with my finances, but this is due to my extensive Google AdWords campaigns. By not counting this, I’m actually making some money. Nothing to brag about, but maybe in another 3 months my tune might change.

Please send me an email if you like to hear an update more often.

About The Author:

Peter Dobler Is A 20+ Year Veteran In The IT Business. He Is An Active Real Estate Investor And For The First Time Ever, He's Publishing Articles About His Experiences With His Home-Based Internet Business.
http://www.fl-home-biz.com
Learn more about powerful email marketing strategies; send a blank email to mailto:pdobler@getresponse.com

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