Bill McRea

Every business needs leads—qualified leads in order to stay in business. As an online business and information product publisher, you are looking for business opportunity or ‘biz-op’ leads, which are people who have expressed an interest in finding a business opportunity.

Lead generation is a very competitive space on the Internet right now. You know that this is true if you have ever been in the position of buying leads. In this article we are going to explore a strategy that you can use to generate your own biz-op leads using affiliate networks. This is a method that requires a few steps, but if you are willing to put in the effort you will reap the rewards.

What is an affiliate network?

An affiliate network is simply the matchmaker of sorts between affiliate marketers and merchants who offer affiliate programs. They help affiliate marketers find the best programs to promote to their audience, and they help the merchants find the best audience for their programs.

In an affiliate arrangement, the affiliate earns a specified percentage of the sales price of the product that the affiliate’s leads purchase using their link. CPA networks offer CPA, CPM and CPC-based marketing programs.

CPA works by affiliates generating leads. The affiliate attracts visitors to their website who are already searching for what they have to offer. The affiliate makes money when the visitor clicks on an offer that appeals to them and takes the desired action (the “A” in CPA). This action can be anything from putting in their name and email address, to signing up for a free trial membership.

Creating the offer

The first step is to create an offer for, “how to make money online,” and then pay your affiliates $1.50- $2.50 for each lead they send to you. You can market this offer using an affiliate network.

Here are some examples of affiliate networks:

• Clickbank
• Click2Sell
• Commission Junction
• Share a Sale
• ClickBooth

Creating a sales funnel

The next step is to create a sales funnel that will generate the income needed so you do not lose money on the incoming leads. This is called a “Self Liquidating” lead source. Self liquidating leads simply means that you generate leads that cost you some amount of money, but then you quickly turn around and turn an immediate profit from those leads.

Inside Tip:

Be aware that as with any other business model, there is the problem of fraud. There are less than scrupulous affiliates who try to cheat the networks by generating fake leads. There is a platform called Direct Track, which is an affiliate marketing and tracking platform that has a focus on affiliate fraud prevention.

In the end, your goal is to generate a sizzling hot list of people who are already searching for what you have to offer—information about how they can make money online—and keep them on your list so that you can create a community of biz-op seekers and present them with offers that provide them with what they are searching for and make you money.

Are you ready to learn more about generating biz-op leads and other online marketing topics? Visit, http://www.mcreasite.com/blog, where you will find tons of tips and resources for making money online and having some fun in the process.

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Anyone with more than a passing interest in Internet marketing quickly becomes familiar with the acronym, CPC, which means cost per click. CPC and CPM are the prevalent revenue models for media buying online, and EPC is related to the realm of affiliate marketing. For those who are new to these revenue models, we’ll take a basic look at each one describing What they mean and what the differences are between them within the online marketing space.

What is CPC?

CPC means cost per click, and this revenue model is used to price many of the PPC or pay per click advertising models such as Google’s AdWords or Bing and Yahoo!’s Microsoft Ad Network. As the name implies, advertisers place ads in search engine results pages, or within a content network, but they only pay when a visitor actually clicks on the ad.

When tracking and testing mechanisms are put into place, CPC marketing can yield lots of data that can help marketers choose the most effective keywords,  and landing pages.

What is CPM?

CPM means cost per thousand (mille) impressions, which are page loads of an online advertisement. The CPM model is more advantageous when you are dealing with high traffic sites because you are banking on the fact that a certain number of people per thousand will click on your ad. On the right website with a steady flow of targeted traffic the CPM model can be quite effective.

What is EPC?

EPC which is short for average Earnings per 100 clicks, is a term used within the realm of affiliate marketing. It is used to measure the average earnings within a 7 day period that an affiliate can expect to earn for every 100 clicks that they are able to generate. This calculation can be helpful to affiliates when they are seeking out new products to promote.

Commission Junction, which is a popular affiliate network says the following about EPC: “EPC is an exclusive metric of the CJ Marketplace given for publishers, advertisers, and individual ads, and is a relative rating that illustrates the ability to convert clicks into commissions.”

CPC is the most effective pricing model for smaller advertisers looking to buy guaranteed traffic for their websites. EPC is a different kind of metric, that is actually limited to the world of online affiliate marketing .

At the end of the day, the most important metric in all of this is your website’s conversion rate, which can be expressed as its ability to convert visitors into customers, or getting visitors who land on your site to take a desired action such as subscribe to your email list or RSS feed. So the conversion rate is the percentage of visitors who take the action that you want them to take on your website.

When you are first starting out it is important to arm yourself with enough knowledge to get started taking forward action. Don’t wait until you feel like you know enough because that day will most likely never come due to the constantly changing nature of online marketing.

When you are ready to learn more about CPC, CPM, EPC and those other confusing acronyms  related to Internet marketing, you should visit, http://www.mcreasite.com/blog, and subscribe to our RSS feed. You’ll get a ton of information that you can use to make more money in less time and maybe even have some fun doing it.

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Do you have several passive income ideas floating around in your head and you’re wondering if it’s really possible to make them work? Most people put in their time at a traditional job trading their hours for dollars because they have bought into the illusion of ‘job security.’ But with an initial investment of time and energy there are many passive income opportunities that can eventually replace and then surpass your day job income and provide the time freedom that working at home in your own business affords.

Let’s start by defining passive income, which is income that is generated after the original work has been completed. In essence, you do the work once and then get paid over and over again. There are not a lot of truly passive income vehicles, as most revenue streams will need at least some minimal maintenance to keep them going.

Here are three different passive income ideas that you can try to start making money online.

1. Google Adsense

If you’ve got a content rich website or blog that is focused on a particular topic, and gets a decent flow of traffic you might consider participating in Google’s Adsense program. With Google Adsense you agree to allow Google to place ads on your site that appeal to your visitors. When a visitor clicks on an ad on your site, you get paid a commission.

In order to start making any kind of serious money with Adsense you will have to set up several websites because the payments are small, but the more sites you add to your portfolio and the more traffic you generate to those sites, the higher your adsense revenues will grow.

2. Affiliate Marketing

Similar to the adsense passive income idea, for affiliate marketing you would join an affiliate network, choose products and develop a network of websites providing information related to those products that attracts buyers who are searching for those products online. Affiliate marketing is about pre-selling products and earning a commission when buyers click on your affiliate link to make their purchase.

So, you basically set up the network of sites with content and your affiliate links and then do the work of driving traffic to your offers. It becomes passive when you find ways to generate automated traffic streams.

3. Advertising sales

This passive income idea takes a bit more of an investment in creating sites that have quality, relevant content that attracts visitors. Once you have achieved a consistent level of traffic you can begin selling ad space to company’s that sell products that would appeal to your website’s target audience demographic.

Once you’ve developed the content and secured the advertising the site will continue to make money for you.

With a little bit of planning and an initial investment of time there are many passive income ideas that you can try that will help you make money online.

Looking for an automated, ‘plug and play’ solution for generating profit from passive income today?  Check out, http://massivepassiveprofits.com.

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With expenses skyrocketing and job losses at a high, lots of people are looking for solutions to increase their incomes. Thanks to widespread by using internet online earning opportunities are getting to be easily obtainable. One particular opportunity is known as internet affiliate marketing.

So, What is internet affiliate marketing? In internet affiliate marketing there are 2 persons or groups involved: the merchant who sells goods or services as well as the business owner (otherwise known as the affiliate). Basically, an affiliate is paid to advertise a merchant’s goods or services.

When is does the affiliate get paid? Affiliates get paid through three different ways:

* Pay per click – whenever a customer clicks the link that leads him or her to the merchant’s site.

* Pay per lead – every time a customer registers from the merchant’s site because of the affiliate’s link.

* Pay per sale – whenever a sale is made thanks affiliate’s link, a percentage of the profits goes to the affiliate.

Because of the ways the business owner gets their wage, internet affiliate marketing is also referred to as a revenue sharing partnership.

Like all things, affiliate marketing has its advantages and disadvantages. These are listed below.

Strengths:

* Merchants can widely advertise their products free of charge.

* Easily attract consumers without an excessive amount of effort.

* The affiliate marketing program provides a good earning option pertaining to those looking to make money on the web.

* After posting the web link on a website, all the affiliate has to do is market the website.

* The affiliate’s task is usually home-based.

* The affiliate would not experience customer support, inventory, or shipping.

Disadvantages:

* The affiliate’s website maintenance fees could be more than the benefits coming from the affiliate network.

* Bogus buyers may order items but will never purchase these. What this means is the merchant will need to pay the affiliate without earning.

* Merchants don’t keep all the profits because some will go to the affiliate.

* Some affiliates may advertise a merchant’s products in an unprofessional way, giving the merchant a bad name.

* Some merchants will withhold fees from commission rates as a result that the affiliate will end up getting lower than What he or she deserves.

* Links can be hacked and sent straight towards the hacker’s account.

* Although uncommon, some merchants do not pay affiliates.

Before joining an affiliate program, be sure to understand all the details about product or service that you are promoting. It is important to make sure the program you are joining is reputable as well. So if you are looking to make extra income online, then joining an affiliate program is highly recommended. In fact, it is by far the simplest way to create an extra income online.

Learn affiliate marketing with our completely new 100 % free ebook “Secrets of Top Affiliate Marketers”. Be sure to look at our affiliate marketing program and start making money online!

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The best way to boost your affiliate sales in any affiliate network or affiliate program is to create something original and let people know about it. Break free of the “me too” crowd, and do something different.

There is a common misconception among affiliates that they are stuck With the marketing materials the product owners provide, and unable to do anything of their own. By and large, this is not true. If you are not sure, just ask. Most affiliate managers will okay outside materials if they can see them first.

First, you need to create something of value, such as a free report. This may sound like a daunting task at first, however, once it has been completed, you can use it over and over. The simplest way to write a free report is to write down 5 to 7 tips, and write a couple of sentences related to each tip. If I were an affiliate for a weight loss product, I would write, “7 Ways to Lose 25 Pounds in 6 Months”. Then I would promote the report so that it will lead the reader visit the website of the affiliate program I am promoting via my affiliate link.

The next step is to set up a way to capture email addresses. This can be done either by offering the report as an auto-responder series, or by requiring the reader to sign up to your newsletter in order to download the report. Tips reports work very well as auto-responder series. Furthermore, you can follow up periodically without offending the customer.

Thirdly, you need to get the word out that the free report is there for the taking. You can do this with a press release. I tend to like press releases due to the fact that they are to the point. Your press release only needs to go over the basics such as, “Who, what, when, where, why, and how”. More specifically, you should cover the following:

1. The individual “who” benefits from the product.

2) What the information is (ie. the free report).

3. “When” the information will be available.

4. Where the reader of the press release can find the information.

5. Why the report was written in the first place.

6) How (ie. how the report provides benefits to the reader).

This will take some time. But if you are willing to do what other people are not, you will separate yourself from them. In other words, taking the extra steps to direct more visitors to your affiliate products will result in more sales regardless of the affiliate program or affiliate network to which you belong.

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