Friday, February 13, 2009

Multiple Streams of Income using Affiliate Marketing

By Glenn Fraley

Multiple Streams of Income, that should be a phrase that you have heard atleast a few times by now. The million dollar questions though, is do you understand what it really means? may business men believe that multiple streams of income will keep them healthy in an income stand point when markets dry up or run thin for periods of time. This is why so many of the successful business men have created multiple streams of income offline as well as online to secure their future earnings at an adequet level to sustain such times. That is why once you have begun the affiliate marketing business for yourself, you should start looking at multiple streams of income should one niche possibly dry up suddenly. This is vital so that you are not depending only upon a single stream of income and it go out quick and you lose your advertising buget or even your entire profit stream. Should this happen with you depending on a single stream of income, you can find yourself bankrupt in a hurry. Just ask any of the most successful entrepreneurs, and you will see uncover that all most everyone of them have established multiple streams of online income.

Start by assessing yourself first. Take time to answer the following questions and noting them on a note pad: Can you do well at sales? Are you good in communicating with people? Are you born with an artistic skill or unique ability that other people dont have? What are the talents, abilities, strength and gears that you possess? Are you gifted with excellent and creative writing skills? By doing this, you can reflect on the kind of business wher you can possibly excel. See, there is a businessman that said and attested that the very first step you must take in creating multiple streams of income is to assess or evaluate your resources.

So, with that being said, lets move on. You need to search around you and write down your physical resources and assets like a color pritner, scanner, computer,CD or DVD Burnter, cell phone, and possibley a digital camera. haveing all of these thigs noted will enable you to use this a a resource. You should also take into consideration your family and friends with what talents they contain that might help you an get you access to. Keep in mind that no signle man is an island. Diversify your abilities, knowledge, talents, and resources of everyone you know as well as yourself.

So, that is the basic initial step for you to layout and create multiple streams of income. So, keep in mind that if you are a site owner or a webmaster already, you certianly have an edge over the competition. This is just more incentive to join an affiliate marketing business or company to help you grab up some extra income out of the website you already have.

In affiliate marketing, you can make money by promoting and reselling your affiliate products and by recruiting new affiliates. Whats good about this is that you can find widest array of training materials that can enhance your marketing abilities. In affiliate marketing, you can be sure that there are genuine products to promote and sell and there is real income to make. Being involved in affiliate marketing is one of the most desirable ways to make multiple sources of income. It is because affiliate marketing programs come in various shapes and forms. There are a large number of affiliate marketing programs that you can sign on with and start gaining bucks right away.

All you have to do is to promote and resell the products and services in your site and pass on potential customers the merchants site. Either part time or full time, being an affiliate marketer is an excellent way to create multiple income streams by means of promoting products and services from web merchants. Here, you can get affiliate commission without investing big bucks in making your own product and without worrying about book keeping, customer support and ecommerce.

In affiliate marketing, it is advisable to promote more merchants in your site so that your visitors will have variety of destinations to choose from. Using multiple merchants in the same site or niche means only one thing " you have multiple streams of affiliate income. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this business strategy because this is one of the best ways to protect your business and expanding your horizons. Through this, you can be assured that you wont experience crisis if ever one of your web merchants closed his/her program.

Select wisely and dont be engaged in selling products you know nothing about. Go with the stuff that jives with your enthusiasm; your passion can capture your client by the nose and guide him/her to your affiliate link. Dont ever be tempted into signing up for numerous affiliate programs in the hope that one of them will bring income. Consequently, you should choose only those affiliate programs that interest you so that you can effectively advertise and promote them.

A thirst for knowledge, as well as patience and persistence will baid your success in any kind of business. So, developing and embracing some key tactics and strategies that allow you to also develop within yourself traits is needed to be done by you. This will help your hard work in stablizing your multiple streams of income.

Ending on a good note, remeber that old saying, "Don't pull all your eggs in one basket." This is just incase one of them are lost, you will continue to have some eggs left to make omelets. So, effect do these eggs have to do with having multiple streams of income you say. Well, frankly, it goes with out saying, that having more streams of income in your possession, the bigger and deeper you lake of money will become.

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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Asking For Money As Wedding Gift

By Raymond Lam

Couples getting married in the UK have traditionally been given household items as wedding gifts. This was to help the couple as they started a new life together and popular gifts included items such as kettles, toasters, dinner services and glassware. It's not a new concept for newlyweds to be given money as a wedding gift even in some countries and cultures, couples are automatically given money by their guests.

Times have changed and in the UK many couples who getting married already have plenty of household items and often ask for money. Perhaps the money will be used for the furniture, honeymoon, a deposit on a house or a new kitchen. Sometimes wedding couples will only ask for money as wedding gifts and others will mix gifts of money with other wedding gifts.

Sometimes people aren't keen on wedding gift lists however their family and friends will normally want to give a gift that they know the couple will appreciate and get use from. Nowadays there are some wedding gift list services that have a mix of gifts of money as well as other gifts. Guests will usually purchase gifts of money rather than more traditional wedding gifts and even some guests like to purchase a combination of gifts and money.

Couples who are asking for money as a wedding gift should also consider adding some gifts to their gift list so that everyone's preferences are accommodated. So if couples are looking for money towards the honeymoon, other suitable gifts which complement the honeymoon list could be luggage, a camera or camcorder, photo frames or photo albums.

Moreover couples should try to be specific about how the money will be spent so that guests feel that they've contributed towards a specific item. Most gifts of money are for the honeymoon where guests usually put money towards specific elements of the honeymoon such as accommodation, flight upgrades and car hire. When couples set up a honeymoon gift list, there are usually standard honeymoon gifts to add to their list such as drinks by the pool or a romantic meal for two which guests can then buy for them.

Another tip is to personalise your gifts of money if your gift list provider offers this service. Besides couples can customise their entire honeymoon list with their own gift names, descriptions, prices and pictures. So if couples want money to swim with dolphins then go on to have a romantic dinner for two at a specific restaurant and stay overnight in the local boutique hotel, these gifts can all be automatically added to their list. It's also a great way to personalise thank you cards to guests by adding a picture of what the guest contributed to such as a picture of the couple swimming with dolphins.

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Monday, January 26, 2009

Low Budget Advertising

After the advent of online selling sites, shopping has been prefabricated so cushy that it can be done within the comfort of the home. Online selling gave rise to online advertising also known as iAdvertising, which is proving to be the best way to reach a larger audience within a short time using less money.

There are many options acquirable on the Internet to get started. Creating a website and then placing its link on different websites is one of the ways. Pages can be submitted to the search engines after applying search engine optimization techniques. Websites offer various payment methods. Some take money for simply placing an ad or link on their website, some take money only if a visitors clicks on the link or website and some take money only if the visitors visits a link and have bought something or availed some service. There are options acquirable for the type of ad being placed. There are pop-up ads, flag ads, cover ads, polite ads, video ads, etc. Businesses with really low budget can send mails to targeted customers.

Radio stations offer a good price to advertise during the non-peak time. Get in touch with the local station and try to ask for a discount. The same applies to television; even they have a minimal amount for advertising slots during the non-prime hours, especially after midnight. Contact different television station to compare pricing.

The age-old tradition of advertising in yellow pages directories is always a success. All businesses from small to big register themselves in the yellow pages and have sworn to be benefited from it. People can look up for contact numbers, addresses and services offered directly from the pages.

Newspaper is the next best thing. First analyze the audience to be targeted by age group, sex, and location. Choose the local newspaper and section where the ad should be placed depending on the audiences to be targeted. The classifieds department of the local newspapers have special offers, find out in detail about the pricing structure for the size of the advertisements, number of words, font size, etc.

Design the business cards with accuracy. Try to include all the vital information about the business like the study of the company, where it is located, services provided, working hours, and contact information like landline number, cell number and mortal to be contacted. Personalized business cards are good way of reaching the genuine customers.

Other way to advertise is to give presentations on your products. Brochures can be inserted in the business presentation package. Other than things like history of the company and annual turn-up, once again business cards can be included in the package. Distribute newsletters with information about the latest offers and discounts. Informational letters of a page length and e-mails can be sent too on a regular basis. All this can become lot easier by getting in touch with companies who can wage the mailing list of a particular locality and it comes for a very small price. Again the yellow pages can be referred to get information about such companies. After getting the information get in touch with company to get a copy of the latest mailing list. Different companies charge different prices

The word of mouth is also a good method of advertising. Try growing the links in your network and join organizations which deals with advertising like trade associations and chamber of commerce. Active participation in events of these organizations eventually helps reaching more number of people.