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Affiliate marketing is where someone promotes (the Affiliate) someone else’s products or services (the Merchant) on their behalf. The Affiliate earns a percentage commission based on the sales price of the product or service; this commission can be quite generous at 50% or more especially for digital products. The Merchant of the product or service usually creates the promotional information including a product sales page that any buyer is directed to. It is the job of the Affiliate marketer to send visitors to the sales page of the Merchant; the Merchant does all the work of selling, delivering and handling the payment. If the products are digital they can be shipped immediately on payment so it will be possible to earn commissions quickly. The process is simple and anyone can understand how to make money.

Benefits of using other people’s products or services

1. You can immediately generate income based around the work someone else has done; this is known as leverage - you don’t have to create a product, write the sales page, design the website, develop marketing materials, or set up the ordering, invoicing & delivery system.

2. The business is kept simple because there is no back office functions to manage; the Merchant deals with the customer support, the billing and answering technical issues.

3. Risk is minimised because you can select the products that are selling; find those that pay well and importantly ensure that the commissions are paid promptly.

4. It is easy to switch to selling other products because you have not had to pay out for all the costs of developing and supporting the products.

5. If you promote membership sites then you can benefit from an on-going commission all the time the buyer keeps paying the site membership fee.

It is clear from this there some great benefits from affiliate marketing, simple to start and at low cost.

To be successful at Affiliate Marketing you need to manage visitors

It is well known in any marketing that people need to be offered something several times before they buy, only a small percentage buy on being offered something for the first time. If you just drive traffic to someone else’s web site then you have no idea who your customers were. You need to do more than just drive traffic to the Merchant’s website.

What can be done to know who your customer is?

Capturing the name and email address of visitors before sending them to the product sales page is essential if you want to contact them again. Capturing the name and email address is known as list building; for anyone wanting to make repeat sales it is paramount that a list is built and then nurtured. It may be necessary to build more than one list because each list should be relevant buyers for the products being sold. The list or lists become the primary asset of any internet business because the list can be sent further offers and be directed to the sales pages of affiliate offers more than once.

A list can be marketed to in a very cheap way because all that required is to send an email. The sending of emails can be pre-planned and automated.

To be effective, an affiliate marketer needs the following tools:

A squeeze page (also known as landing page); basically a product promotion page that has a form where the name and email address of the potential buyer can be entered. Ideally this squeeze page should be on a dedicated website. Squeeze pages work best with some kind of video message, it is quicker and easier to watch and learn rather than having to read. Something to incentivise the buyer to want to leave their information such as a free report.

3. As a minimum a 5-part email follow up series, preferable using an autoresponder that can be set up to automatically send the emails at pre-timed intervals.

Making the effort of setting up the right process from the outset will increase your chances of making the sale by up to 500% so it’s well worth the effort of setting it up. Once the process is set up it can be to run automatically - you just keep sending visitors to the squeeze page.

If you have not got time to set up the right process then it is advised to outsource the work to someone; Elance is a website for finding people to outsource the work to.

Where can affiliate products be found?

For digital products ClickBank is a well known website where you can join and promote products straightaway.

Commission Junction is a marketplace to link Merchants with Affiliates

If you search on the internet you will find affiliate programmes in all kinds of niches. Often if you look at the bottom of Merchants web pages you will find an affiliate link to sign up as an affiliate for the Merchant.

Mike Frizzell is an Internet Marketer and on owner of an off-line Care Agency. Mike mentors people in how to make money online and has the back-up of a great team. For more information on the author click here: http://www.whoismikefrizzell.com.

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Author: Susanta Kumar Sahoo

Any avid website owner knows how critical it is to have a website that contains large amounts of genuine ‘content’. These days a website pretty much lives or dies by the amount of content it has on it. A simple and brutal truth of today’s Internet is that a site without increasing amounts of frequently updated content is not deemed important enough to merit frequent spidering by the Search Engines.

Successful search engine optimization experts tout that in today’s online environment a website is successful because of several sequential steps occurring naturally online. That is…

- increased website content creates more search engine indexing opportunities, which results in more opportunities for organic search engine traffic;

- more search engine traffic leads to more online popularity and subsequently, increased viral online linking;

- this increased linking to a website results in more perceived relevancy by the search engines and, again, higher organic search engine listings; and,

- finally, these higher listings lead to more traffic, and the cycle continues.

So how does a website owner deal with this fact of doing business online? Simple. By providing an ever-increasing amount of content on their website.

But if you own several websites you understand how great a challenge it can be to be able to provide constantly updated, valid and useful content, usually in substantially large quantities via hundreds or thousands of webpages, for your website’s visitors and information seekers.

So the way to solve this dilemma for most webmasters is to use content written by others. But the most common route to getting this type of information is to have to pay for a ghostwriter to write the content. This can get expensive so, again, one’s website’s content volume suffers.

Some webmasters use RSS feeds to scrape content from other websites, but to build static webpages from the scraped content can get into legal issues so this tactic can be rather risky.

And for those webmasters brave enough to write the needed content themselves usually face a difficult mountain to climb. That is, these days it’s very tough to actually find the time or have the knowledge to do this. One can only write so many pages on the same topic before experiencing writer’s ‘burnout’.

So what would be the answer to this apparent dilemma of needing lots of website content but not having lasting viable routes to obtaining the needed content? Simple.

Grab content from free article directories. An article directory is specially designed for website owners and publishers to legally and freely take copyrighted articles, written by online authors willing to share their writings, and post on their website as content.

And one can find hundreds of article directories available on the Internet today and most have only one condition of use: there are terms of usage that website owners agree to follow before using the articles from the article directory. But outside of that there are no other restrictions, and no ‘memberships’ required.

So, in view of the issues surrounding creating content for one’s website, as described above, and the absolutely necessity for a website to have voluminous and fresh content to stay ranked highly in the Search Engines, one can easily see how the free articles found at an article directory can be just the answer a website owner needs to give their websites a needed boost with the Search Engines.

No more having to pay for content. And no more struggling with writing the content yourself. Use whatever information you find at the article directory that you deem relevant and post it on your website, or blog, or forum.

Article directories. Free on-topic content for YOUR website. YOUR blog. YOUR ezine. YOUR forum. Cool.

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RSS is the ellipsis of ‘really Simple Syndication’, which helps you in delivering your content directly to all your interested parties. Basically, RSS organizes your content and sends brief summaries and updates to your subscribers. It also gives you an option where you can advertise on others website without hassle and worrying about the spam issues.

Moreover, RSS can prove to be very fruitful and an important tool in increasing the web traffic to your website. This type of application is more beneficial to those people who are new to internet marketing as RSS does a lot of things for them apart from increasing web traffic to their website. However, there are still points that need proper understanding as it could increase the possibilities. Here are few RSS tips that could help web loggers immensely.

Tip 1

It does not matter at all what type of RSS feeds you have selected but make sure that you totally understand the modus operandi of the same.

Tip 2

It is very important how you are going to choose the publisher of your RSS feeds. So, always choose a publisher that offers you with the best of the information possible connected to your web site.

Tip 3

Start simply as in the later stage you could become a publisher of your own RSS feed. In short, if things are not going well do not panic and just work according to your plans.

Tip 4

You should have a unified strategy because it helps in the total development of your website and in short your overall online business.

The above four tips, if properly followed, would definitely lead to a better understanding of the RSS feeds.

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FARMINGTON, Conn. — ISG Holdings, Inc. announces an investment in Bunch & Associates, a leading medical management solutions Company, based in Lakeland, Florida. ISG Holdings owns StrataCare, LLC, an internet-based national bill review software and analytics Company. With Bunch & Associates as a new subsidiary, ISG expands its footprint in the workers’ compensation market, reflecting ISG’s commitment to develop a broad software and services organization that offers solutions to help manage the cost of medical care to injured workers.

Bunch and StrataCare will operate as independent subsidiaries of ISG. Each company has established its own, solid customer relationships through providing superior products and services, and those relationships will continue under the leadership of each Company’s current executive teams.

“The investment in Bunch & Associates along with the recent investment in StrataCare demonstrates our commitment and our ability to add selected companies that offer unique strengths in complementary segments,” said Paul Glover, Chairman and CEO ISG Holdings.

About ISG Holdings:

ISG Holdings is led by Paul Glover and backed by leading private equity investors, SV Life Sciences Advisers LLC and Beecken Petty O’Keefe & Company. Based in Farmington, CT, ISG Holdings seeks out exceptional Companies that provide software and services to help manage medical care in the workers’ compensation space.

Alex.com allows you to see which websites are receiving the most traffic in each country. Why is this helpful? One of the most important reasons is the ability to determine where to spend your Pay Per Click dollars, depending on who is delivering the most potential traffic for your business.

Based on traffic statistics, Facebook has grown dramatically over the past couple of years and is now a viable option in PPC marketing. There are two ways to market your online business through Facebook. As well, there are two payment methods to choose from within their advertising program. Let’s explore all of these variables. It goes without saying that you need to have first opened a Facebook advertising account before you can do any promotion.

Advertising Option #1: Driving Traffic to your Facebook Page or Directly to your Website.

Assuming that you have created a Facebook page for your online business, which you can do a no cost at facebook.com/pages, you need to decide whether to promote your business page or instead - drive traffic directly to your website. When promoting your Facebook business page, you will want to focus your ad copy on what your page has to offer. You can invite users to become a fan of your page, or to simply click your ad to learn more about your product or service. Driving traffic directly to your website on the other hand, requires ad copy that entices people to leave Facebook altogether. In either case, you will want to make sure your page or website is a true representation of what is promised in your advertisement.

Advertising Option #2: Cost Per Click (CPC) or Cost per 1000 Impressions (CPM).

When you are creating an ad that is targeted at specific Facebook users, the final step in the ad creation process is the method of how your costs are calculated, as well as how your ad will be shown. If you choose the CPC (cost per click) method, you will only be charged when people click your ad. The number times it is shown within a time period is directly related to the competition within your target market and the size of your budget. The second option is to pay on a CPM (cost per 1000 impressions) basis. The latter option begins with a lower cost per click, but the final cost per visitor depends on how often your ad is clicked. Remember, you will continue to pay a set rate for every 1000 impressions, even if no one clicks on your ad.

The key to finding out which method is right for your business is to test each one. You may have an ad that converts very well for every visitor per 1000 impressions, and therefore you will get a lot of visitors to your page or website for less. However, if you your ad does not get a sufficient number of clicks, you will end up spending your daily budget with poor results. On the other hand, if you pay strictly for the clicks received on your ad, you may get fewer visitors from an ad that has a low “click through” rate, but your over all cost will be less. Neither method is better than the other. It is simply a case of what works best within each target market.

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Yippy, Inc. (OTCBB: YIPI), www.yippy.com , the providers of the world’s fastest, family friendly web browser and search engine, reports that it will begin its marketing on 8/30/2010.

The company has entered into a contract with Salem Broadcasting to put banner ads across their internet properties. Total ads purchased was 2.5 million impressions. Additionally, the company purchased 110 30-second ads “on air” with the following stations for its first two week campaign trails.

The Stations:

“Each station will run 2 spots per day during optimum time slots, with the exception of Glenn Beck Show, which will run 3 spots per day initially for maximum exposure, then run 2 per show. Glenn Beck’s daily radio show is new to the Los Angeles area and is highly marketed, being that this area is the second most populous area in the country. This should give us a good idea how a national campaign will do and allow us to fully prepare for that event,” said Richard Granville, CEO, Yippy, Inc.

“The company has also purchased a campaign on GlennBeck.com beginning 8/30/10 running through 9/12/2010 with Premiere Radio Networks, who represent Glenn Beck nationally for radio and web,” Granville added.

Shareholder notices:

Yippy, Inc. will delay its 10K report as the company may as it reports under the ‘33 Act. The company may elect to move onto another exchange or register under the ‘34 Act in the next coming weeks. An annual report is forthcoming. No significant revenues were derived in 2010 fiscal year ending 5/31/10. Total investment in the company for the period was approximately 1.5 million dollars. The company began recognizing revenue in July 2010 through its online properties.

Yippy, Inc. has established a new toll-free number for customer service and company inquiries which is 1-877-YIPPY01.

About Yippy, Inc. Based in Fort Myers Florida, Yippy, Inc., formerly known as Cinnabar Ventures, Inc., www.yippy.com , is a new economy technology company that develops technologies and application services environments for both Consumer and Commercial market segments in the cloud computing sector.

Forward-Looking Statements: Pursuant to The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: The statements in this press release that relate to the Company’s expectations with regard to the future impact on the Company’s results from new products in development are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties. Words such as “expects,” “intends,” “plans,” “may,” “could,” “should,” “anticipates,” “likely,” “believes” and words of similar import also identify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are based on current facts and analyses and other information that are based on forecasts of future results, estimates of amounts not yet determined and assumptions of management. Readers are urged not to place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this release since they involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which are, in some cases, beyond our control and which could, and likely will, materially affect actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements. We assume no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements in order to reflect any event or circumstance that may arise after the date of this release, even if new information becomes available in the future. Additional information on risks and other factors that may affect the business and financial results of Yippy, Inc. can be found in the filings of Yippy, Inc. with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

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If you want to learn affiliate marketing so you can build a big list of targeted users, you have to treat it as if you were talking with them in the offline world…

You’re in a supermarket…you approach the counter to be greeted by a girl staring back at you…

You look back at her; she looks bored out of her mind.

What do you do?

Do you look at your watch in a hurry to move to your next location…

Or do you talk to her as if you would a friend in an effort to add value to a day you know has to be boring for her?

Often time affiliate marketing is much like this, people are in general bored and the last thing they need during the day is someone looking to try and sell them something…

So how do you sell as an affiliate marketer to your list effectively?

Well this is a question that many have asked but few have truly mastered.

The key to effective communication with your affiliate marketing list is communicating to them in a way that adds value to their day. This could be in the form of valuable information that helps them with whatever it is they need help with or a compelling and interesting story that grasps their attention.

The opportunity to create a story Is all around us every day. You visit the supermarket, there is something that you observe or take part in that people would be interested in hearing about.

Telling stories not only entertains people but it brings them seemly closer to you. A story builds trust and friendship and as an affiliate marketer these kinds of benefits are essential when making a successful sale.

If you want to be a far more effective at selling while you learn affiliate marketing I encourage you to engage people, add value to their days and in turn you will be rewarded at the end of the month as your sales checks increase.

If you would like to learn how you can learn affiliate marketing you can visit Sam Bakker’s new internet marketing website SamBakker.com and download his new internet business course.

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Christine L. Delucchi, President of Delucchi ( www.delucchiplus.com ), an innovative, full-service, strategic real estate marketing firm located in Washington, D.C., announced today that Meredith Goldberg has joined the agency as a Senior Publicist | Account Executive. In this position, Meredith will play an integral role in managing accounts, conducting research, developing branding strategies, devising and executing social media tactics, proposal writing and copywriting.

Prior to joining Delucchi , Meredith was employed by Griffin & Company, a boutique public relations and marketing communications firm located in Washington, D.C., where she developed, managed and executed the writing strategies of social media programs, newsletters, websites and ads for the company’s real estate industry clients. Before joining Griffin & Company, Meredith was the public relations manager for the Willard Hotel where she managed events, publicity and special promotions.

“Meredith brings public relations, social media, copywriting, event management and marketing communications experience to the agency,” said Christine L. Delucchi. “Her expertise in these arenas will support the growth of our integrated communications programs and we are delighted to have her on our team.”

Meredith is a Washington, D.C. resident and holds a Master’s degree in Marketing from Johns Hopkins University’s Carey School of Business and a Bachelor’s degree in English Literature from The George Washington University’s Columbian School of Arts and Sciences.

Delucchi is a full-service strategic marketing communications firm that has over 20 years’ experience working with local, national, and international clients in real estate, travel and resort, retail, financial services, sustainability, health and wellness, and non-profit industries. The company has been involved in green marketing for over 10 years and is currently marketing multiple green commercial, residential, and mixed-use developments throughout the United States. Services include branding, advertising, new media, market research, and public relations.

For more information about Delucchi , go to www.delucchiplus.com or contact Annette J. Picon, Media | Research Director, at 202.248.5852.

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