Affiliate Marketing: The Real Cash Leverage System

The title says it all "Using Zero Cash Leverage" is exactly what affiliate marketing represents. Except for knowing where to find quality affiliate products, the only other job you will have to do is market your business.

You see, when you become an affiliate marketer, your job is to locate what buyers are looking for and to find which affiliate marketplace is offering those products. Then your next step is to market your new products to your niche market.

Following the steps above you will help you create your new affiliate marketing business for free.

And Guess What?...

Even your affiliate website can be free also. You can start an affiliate site by choosing from many of Wordpress free blog templates. Using Wordpress for your affiliate products home will be valuable also for marketing your products. A blog is a great way to leverage yourself to generate cash through affiliate products

Wordpress is a blog that is very Google friendly. Marketing your products using Wordpress is as easy as selecting good keywords and using your keywords in 5 to 7 percent of your blog content. This strategy will help your website rank well with Google as well as other search engines.

Another free marketing strategy is writing articles to submit to article directories. Article marketing is similar to blogging but more powerful. Submitting your articles to several directories like Ezine Articles, GoArticles and Article Dashboard will give your business even more free exposure.

To maximize your article's exposure, you may choose to use article submission services that circulate your article to hundreds of publications at one time. Example of submission services that strenghten cash leverage business and can get you more leverage for your articles are Free Traffic System, Isnare, Article Submission Service, and AMA .

Lastly, you will want to select a good domain name to host your affiliate blog. This step is crucial, even though Wordpress is a free blog, I recommend you buy your own domain name. Hosting your own domain will give you more flexibility with your blog content. Wordpress does not welcome overly promotional blogs, but if you own your blog, it is not a problem.

So there you have it! Your very own internet marketing business ready to go for the price of a domain name and a reliable web host. There is no other so called cash leveraging system on the internet that you can start without spending some money upfront, That is why affiliate marketing is the real cash leverage system.

There are several affiliate networks on the web but when it comes to finding a reputable affiliate program, you should make sure of some very important components.

One of the most important information you should consider when selecting an affiliate program is whether they provide good statistics on their products.

Here are some important statistics to look for:

$/sale- How much cash you will earn for sale of each product

Total$/sale- Some products have reoccurring billing or additional incentives if you customer chooses to make a purchase beyond the initial sale. These totals are all added up to make up the total sale amount.

Future $/sale- Refers to if the product has a reoccurring monthly membership, this would be reflected as to how much you should expect to receive monthly.

%/sale- This reflects how much percentage of the sale that you will receive. I personally do not like to promote products that do not pay at least 50% commission unless it is a reoccurring commission.

%refd- This symbol let you know what percentage of the sales made for that product that were generated by referrals. It is a great tool for letting you know how much competition you will face when marketing a particular product. It is not necessarily a bad thing to have a healthy amount of competitors because it can also reflect that the product is selling fast.

Grav- Gravity is another indication that a product is being sought after by many affiliate marketers. There are several reason why a product may have a high gravity. If many affiliates are purchasing the products as well as marketing it, that will throw off the gravity numbers.

Click-through - Also known as a click. The action a consumer takes when referred from one Web site through a link or advertisement to another Web site. Click-through rate (CTR) is the percentage of clicks for the number of advertising impressions displayed. For example, if two out of every 100 visitors to a Web site clicked on a given ad, that ad would be said to have a 2 percent click-through rate.

Conversion rate (CR) - The percentage of visitors who take a desired action. The action that determines conversion is decided by the advertiser and may be a sale on the advertiser's Web site, a completed lead form, or another action. Conversion rate is calculated by dividing the number of actions by the number of clicks.

Cost per action (CPA) - A metric for online advertising where a rate is set for every action that is taken by an end-user.

Cost per thousand impressions (CPM) - A metric for online advertising where a rate is set for every thousand impressions.

Cost per click (CPC) - A metric for online advertising where a rate is set for every click made by an end-user.

Unless you have the gift of choosing high converting products or you have great experience from using a product personally, it is really helpful to have an idea of how well your product is performing. Clickbank has a list of valuable statistics that will help you in choosing which products to market.

Commission Junction is another reputable affiliate program. Although Commission Junction does not provide you as much in depth information on the products performance history, they have some great resources to help new affiliate marketers succeed. Some of commission Junction's Resources include Commission Junction University,a monthly newsletter,and a back office that gives valuable stats on your products performance.

Another program that I highly recommend is Implix Affiliate Network. Unlike Clickbank and Commission Junction, Implix does not have a wide variety of products to choose from. Implix however is an affiliate program that offers products with a lifetime residual income. Implix affiliate network programs cater mostly to internet marketers with products such as Get Response; a very effective autoresponder marketing system.

It is not necessary for an affiliate network to be large in order to be considered a monster affiliate program. This holds true for Implix and also the Site Build It affiliate program. Site Build It offers marketers a simple point and click software that builds quality, optimized websites. The Site Build It Program sells because it offers a product that is very much in need, not all of us are technical enough to build a quality website from scratch.

In the end, finding a reputable affiliate program comes down to making sure that your program has quality products, a good affiliate management network, and great support if you should ever need assistance.

By Simon Grabowski, CEO of GetResponse.com

Great domain names are becoming increasingly scarce. Close to 23 million ".com" names have been registered, and over 22 thousand are being purchased every day. It means that you're
more likely to win the lottery than find a good domain name.

Owning a domain name that helps to successfully "magnetize" a flood of traffic is like gold to any online business. But the increasing scarcity of domain names that are memorable, short and suggestive have turned them into hot commodities.
Look at some of the recent acquisitions in domain names:

- business.com sold for $7.5 million
- asseenontv.com sold for $5 million
- altavista.com sold for $3.3 million
- loans.com sold for $3 million
- autos.com sold for $2.2 million
- wallstreet.com sold for $1.03 million
- forsalebyowner.com sold for $835,000
- drugs.com sold for $825,000
- cinema.com sold for $700,000
- art.com sold for $450,000
- engineering.org sold for $199,000
- fruits.com sold for $160,000
- perfect.com sold for $94,000

However, while some domains may have been sold for millions, corporate buyers backed by large bank accounts are not alone in the domain name game. Even entrepreneurs and speculators are making a good living in buying and selling domains.

Everyday, domain names are selling for as little as $100 or as much as $1 million on public auction sites. For example, eBay.com recently featured actual bids for as little as $500 for "golegs.com" to as much as $20,000 for "arlington.com" -- and thousands more hovering anywhere in between.

Some individuals seem to know where to grab these "nuggets of gold." In fact, a handful know about an untapped goldmine that lies discreetly tucked away in the dark corners of the Internet. And the awareness of this source has helped these "lucky" individuals generate either outrageous fortunes or outrageous levels of traffic for their website.

The goldmine to which I'm referring is the pool of expired domain names. While only a few people may be privy to its existence, it is nonetheless ballooning with every passing day. As much as tens of thousands of unclaimed, unrenewed and expired domain names become available on a daily basis.

An expired domain is one that was registered previously but wasn't paid for in time for the renewal date, thus returning it to the pool of available domains. There are many reasons for non-renewal (e.g., the owner forgot, has lost interest in the venture, was no longer in business, was no longer reachable or just didn't pay for it for whatever reason).

However, you may be asking, "Sure, but I'm never going to find good domain names let alone do so before someone else snatches them up." For a long time, being "lucky" also meant being alert for the countless domains that become available,and being swift in registering them before anyone else does.

However, new tools are now available, making the process of searching, finding and registering great domain names a lot easier. In fact, some of them also help you to become aware of soon-to-expire domains, granting you an almost psychical edge over your competitors that allows you to snap up names just seconds after they're actually dropped.

Nevertheless, a compelling domain name can help an online business become more visible, credible and accessible. And it can also help a person make a fortune. While finding one was very prohibitive, with the help of tools that are now at your disposal you can be a part of the gold rush, too.

Simon Grabowski is the owner of many online businesses that generate close to a million dollars in annual online sales. His latest is the bizMint, a unique, sophisticated tool that helps you to explode your online business by searching and registering from millions of expired and soon-to-expire domain names. See www.Bizmint.com