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		<title>5 Affiliate Plugins for Wordpress</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 21:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Franklin Bishop</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Affiliate plugins can be helpful for your Wordpress blog. I use many of these plugins myself as I market many affiliate products on my blogs. Wordpress has many to choose from so do not think these are the only ones.
Pretty Link &#8211; Create clean, simple, trackable links on your website that redirect to other URLs [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>Affiliate plugins can be helpful for your Wordpress blog. I use many of these plugins myself as I market many affiliate products on my blogs. Wordpress has many to choose from so do not think these are the only ones.</p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pretty-link/">Pretty Link</a> &#8211; Create clean, simple, trackable links on your website that redirect to other URLs and then analyze the number of clicks and unique clicks they get per day using Pretty Link.</p>
<p><img src="http://franklinbishop.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/pretty-link.png" alt="pretty-link" title="pretty-link" width="461" height="142" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1051" /></p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/amazon-showcase-wordpress-widget/">Amazon Showcase Wordpress Plugin</a> &#8211; Amazon Showcase is a Wordpress Plugin for showcasing items from Amazon. Simply enter the ASIN/ISBN numbers of any products and optionally enter an Associate ID for earning commissions. The product image will be displayed with a link to the product detail page on Amazon.com. More advanced users can have full control over the way the products are displayed. Showcases can be used as widgets, placed in posts/pages, or inserted directly into your template.</p>
<p><img src="http://franklinbishop.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/amazon-showcase.png" alt="amazon-showcase" title="amazon-showcase" width="461" height="142" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1049" /></p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/affiliate-overview/">Affiliate Overview</a> &#8211; Affiliate-Overview is a Wordpress plugin, which uses the affilinet web services to create an overview over the publisher account on the Wordpress dashboard.</p>
<p><img src="http://franklinbishop.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/affiliate-overview.png" alt="affiliate-overview" title="affiliate-overview" width="461" height="142" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1048" /></p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/affiliate-product-optimizer/">EchoCurrent Affiliate Product Optimizer</a> &#8211; With the introduction of the Affiliate Product Optimizer (APO), publishers gain the ability to understand their visitors&#8217; interests in real-time and display optimal, personalized product offers from affiliate networks. By truly listening to website visitors&#8217; words and actions, publishers can increase their revenues by showing their customers the most relevant products at just the right time.</p>
<p><img src="http://franklinbishop.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/echocurrent-affiliate-product-optimizer.png" alt="echocurrent-affiliate-product-optimizer" title="echocurrent-affiliate-product-optimizer" width="461" height="142" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1050" /></p>
<p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-affiliate/">WP-Affiliate</a> &#8211; Easy affiliate link masking and more.</p>
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<p>Affiliate plugins like the ones above or ones that are similar can be helpful if you are trying to make money with affiliate products.  If you know any other plugins for Wordpress that are good for affiliate marketing feel free to mention them below.  Of course make sure to post the URL to the affiliate plugin also.</p>
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		<title>How to Decide What Products to Promote on Your Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Franklin Bishop</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Affiliate Marketing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Affiliate products give you many different choices of what you want to promote on your blog.  That is why affiliate marketing represents a good way for people to make money using their blogs.  The best part is that if you properly use affiliate products, then affiliate marketing is pretty much zero risk high [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><span class="drop_cap">A</span>ffiliate products give you many different choices of what you want to promote on your blog.  That is why affiliate marketing represents a good way for people to make money using their blogs.  The best part is that if you properly use affiliate products, then affiliate marketing is pretty much zero risk high profit margin opportunity.  The reason affiliate marketing continues to work because it is a lucrative position for the affiliate in a viable and cost-effective form of advertising for the vendor of the product.<br />
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Affiliate marketing is applied to both physical and nonphysical goods.  It is especially popular when it comes to promoting digital products like software, themes, templates, ebooks, and more.  It is no surprise that ClickBank is so popular.  It easily facilitates the coming together of both the vendor of the product and affiliate.</p>
<p>Unlike having your own product, you are free from having customer support emails to answer and if you do everything properly you should be looking at a hands free business that will continue to put cash in your pocket.  Of course, this is assuming that you are getting the traffic to your blog that you will need to promote these affiliate products.</p>
<p>There are a number of ways to promote affiliate products, but for this article I&#8217;m going to try to stay on the topic of promoting affiliate products using your blog.  There are a number of things that you should know when attempting to promote affiliate products from your blog.  You want to promote the right products otherwise you could be making way less than if you were promoting the right products.</p>
<p>The key to your success depends on the products you promote.  The good thing is that it should be pretty simple to decide on what products to market.  So don&#8217;t get overwhelmed when you see how many different products have affiliate programs.</p>
<h2>Here is a good way to go about finding the right products to market on your blog:</h2>
<p>First you need to find different products (usually digital or some other service online) that could possibly be used to make you money via affiliate marketing.  The best way to do this is to go on other blogs that are similar to yours and see what they are promoting.  They may have paid sponsors but it is likely that some of what they are marketing are affiliate products.</p>
<p>Once you get a list of affiliate products you&#8217;ll need to go through and decide which ones you are going to use on your blog.  First make sure that they are all similar to your blog niche.  No one will want to buy an ebook about dogs if your blog is about affiliate marketing.</p>
<p>Then you&#8217;ll need to make sure and see how much of a percent commission you will get from each product.  You don&#8217;t always have to go with the highest percent because if you can sell more of one product that is a little cheaper than that should probably be your choice.  You&#8217;ll really have to work out how much you think you can sell of each product depending on the price and how well the sales page is.  Try to put yourself in the place of the potential buyer and see what you would think.</p>
<p>The last thing you should make sure of is that you can make a banner or a small advertisement on your blog easily.  Most affiliate products already provide you with different sizes of advertisements so that you can just place them right on your blog.  If they do not provide you any and you know that you cannot make any yourself that would look good, then you should probably forget about marketing that product.</p>
<p>Those are some easy steps that you can use when you are trying to decide what products you want to market on your blog.  Taking the time to think about the right products to market can certainly benefit you in the long run.  You might as well get it over with now so you don&#8217;t have to do it again.</p>
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		<title>5 Reasons to Pick a Multitier Affiliate Program to Make Money at Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Franklin Bishop</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Affiliate Marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sounds complicated? Well, actually it is not. This strategy offers a simple way to make money at home, when you learn the details. I can say this, because I have used it for many years with good results. This article is based on my own experiences.
Your Online Business Plan To Make Money At Home Must [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><span class="drop_cap">S</span>ounds complicated? Well, actually it is not. This strategy offers a simple way to make money at home, when you learn the details. I can say this, because I have used it for many years with good results. This article is based on my own experiences.</p>
<p>Your Online Business Plan To Make Money At Home Must Include All Elements From The Start.</p>
<p>Your online business plan has two targets, to start to build your brand image, which then over time brings visitors to your website and to bring quick visitors from article directories. That is the formula how to make good money online. My recommended strategy includes two parts. To pick an affiliate program and to promote it. It is so simple!</p>
<p>This simplicity includes the secret also, but you must have the discipline to stay with the selected strategy and to wait and see, how it builds results. This is the cornerstone of brand building. You cannot change the strategy but you can finetune actions, which build the brand.</p>
<p>This Online Business Idea Will Make Money At Home From Many Income Sources And Network Levels With Only One Work Using Long Term Ways In Promotions.</p>
<p>Sounds impossible! Maybe, but again, this is a simple way to make money online, and it works. The first step is to write a business plan, where you choose a narrow niche for your expertise. After that you do your homework and select the affiliate program, which includes six affiliate programs.</p>
<p>This selection can either lift or break this whole strategy, so do your homework!</p>
<p>All Independent Programs Offer Multitier Income Systems.</p>
<p>This strategy minimizes your energy usage. You will learn and promote only one affiliate program, instead of six. On the top of that, you can easily duplicate this method, so that your downline can easily learn, what you have learnt and to transfer the idea further to their own downlines.</p>
<p>When you will concentrate on downline building, soon you will have an army of affiliates all over the globe promoting the same idea. Can you find better ways to make money online than this? Actually the secret is in recruiting, not in working hard day and night.</p>
<p>Now You Add A Long Term Brand Building System To This Simple Model And You Have A Great Profit Machine.</p>
<p>Let us repeat, what we have done so far. We selected an affiliate program, which includes six independent affiliate program, which all has multitier income system. Okay, now we have to start to promote this affiliate program so, that the promotions have a long term and brand building influence and that we can make money from home.</p>
<p>Write Keyword Optimized Articles And Distribute Them To Hundreds Of Article Directories In The Internet.</p>
<p>A marketing article has amazing benefits. It will presell the idea of the landing page, it will build the brand image for yourself, it will stay in the article directory for ever and other online marketers have the permission to copy and paste it into their own sites or blogs. Additionally you will stay updated about the latest news from your online business, because to be able to write, you have to follow the market news.</p>
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