Video: How Affiliate Marketing Works
Here’s a video that I made for you to show you the basics of how affiliate marketing works.
You’ll see one of my sites, the products that I promote on that site, how I affiliate with merchants and how easy it is to get the affiliate link code to place in your blog.
Of course, to learn all about how affiliate marketing works, get the Super Affiliate Handbook - the affiliate marketing industry’s standard training manual.
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Where to Place Affiliate Links for Increased Backend Sales
In the following video I discuss where you should (and should not) place affiliate links for increased backend sales. Enjoy!
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Video Newsletter: March 11th, 2008
This week’s newsletter is a video blog post - shot from the top of Giant’s Head Mountain in Summerland, B.C. The video includes a big THANK YOU to everyone for your good wishes and tips for my upcoming surgery as well as information on posts that I’ve lined up over the next week during my ‘outage’. Please forgive the sound difficulties - the wind was blowin’ dead bears atop that mountain! 
Posts I made in the last week include:
- March 10: How to Find Your Feedburner ID
- March 11: Matthew Mullenweg to Speak at Elite Retreat (my apologies to Matt for having pronounced his name incorrectly in the video)
Here is a list of upcoming posts. Please note that links to the posts will only work after midnight Pacific on the appropriate day.
- March 13: Polling Plugin for Wordpress Blogs
- March 14: How to Exclude a Blog Category from Displaying
- March 15: Happy Birthday Flickr!
- March 16: Amazon’s Video Widget for Affiliates
- March 17: PPC Advertising Doesn’t Work
Thanks again to everyone and I’ll be back & bloggin’ again in no time!
Cheers,
Ros
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Perfect Keyboard: My All-Time Favorite Software
I can hardly believe that I’ve never told you about my all-time favorite software before!
It didn’t really occur to me until I was at AdTech in New York and was dealing with the frustration of having to work without it because I’d forgotten to load it onto my laptop … again!
Later in the conference, during a discussion about software with some webmaster friends, I mentioned my oversight and was absolutely shocked to learn that some of them did not use this software.
WHAT?
I honestly thought that all computer users (not just webmasters) would not only know about - but rely on - this fantastic little productivity tool that reduces workload and saves a heap of time.
Check out this video to see how slick how it works.
For more information, check out my article Perfect Keyboard Pro: My All-Time Favorite Software .
Click here to order Perfect Keyboard. The product has a 30-day money back guarantee and is available in 3 editions… Lite, Standard and Pro. While I use the Pro version, the Standard version ($29.95) will be more than suitable for most.
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Video Tour of Rosalind’s Home Office
OK, don’t laugh… or try not too… but here’s my Cannes Film Festival entry… NOT.
I put together a little video tour of my home office (7 minutes, 55 seconds) during which I show you exactly how low-tech an internet / affiliate marketer’s office can be. See the equipment list here…
You’ll see all of the equipment I use - including my computers, printer, keyboard, backup power unit, external hard drive and even my chair (hey! don’t laugh.. your desk chair is one the most important pieces of equipment! :-)) and hear what I really think of some of the stuff I’ve bought…
Anyway, it’s all proof positive that you don’t need a lot of stuff to operate a highly successful home-based businesses on the Internet! Enjoy!
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The #1 Fatal Internet Marketing Mistake
What’s the WORST (and typically first) mistake made by people who are trying to start an online business? Any guesses?
Here’s a 6 minute 22 second video (free to watch) in which Derek Gehl, CEO of the Internet Marketing Center, not only details the mistake but discusses the correct course of action in nice, easy-to-understand concise terms. He’s 100% right on the money with his explanation.
In the video, you’ll also see 2 web sites that are earning extraordinary income and probably be blown away by their simplicity. Watch it and learn.
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Blending Video and eCommerce
The January issue of Internet Retailer has a great article by Bill Siwicki about how online retailers are blending video and ecommerce - and doing so quite easily.
According to Mr. Siwicki, “The majority of e-retailers do not have the resources to create an online TV network. But as merchants like Netflix, Ice.com, Bodybuilding.com and others are demonstrating, there are many simpler and less expensive ways Internet retailers can use online video on-site and on video-sharing sites and reap diverse rewards.”
Creating and deploying online video is no longer much of a challenge, says consultant Heneghan of Elevation. “For many of the things e-retailers can do, all you have to do is just connect a video camera to a computer and off you go. I mean, people are doing this every day at home with movies of their babies and then posting them on YouTube.”
As for the use of online video in e-retailing, one might say it’s a baby movie itself. “As far as its evolution goes, online video still is in its infancy,” says American Eagle Outfitters’ Savitt. “For us, having measured the click-throughs and conversions of our online video effort, so far we have seen good returns. Ultimately, online video is a significant part of Internet users’ online experiences and there is so much opportunity for retailers.”
Rosalind’s Comment: And there is so much opportunity for affiliate marketers!
Read the rest of the article by signing up for your free issue of Internet Retailer here. BTW, Don’t be put off by the name & address form… it’s worth the bit of time it’ll take to fill out.
And to learn more about how to make your own videos for the web, check out Jim Edwards and Mike Stewart’s “Web Video Secrets” course.
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How to Embed Video into Your Website
Here’s an easy way to make the search engines love your site.
Adding video to your site or blog increases the amount of time that visitors spend on your site. The more time they spend, the ’stickier’ your site appears, and ’sticky’ sites enjoy higher search engine rankings.
The easiest way to put video on your site is to embed code from a video that you found on YouTube, Google Video or other video-sharing site. The video is served by YouTube, so you save bandwidth on your server.
Regardless of your niche, you should be able to find relevant content on any of the major video-sharing sites that will be of interest to your visitors that you can post to your affiliate sites.
For example, to entertain my visitors at Sage-Hearts.com, I posted a very cute animated proposal video that I found on YouTube to my online dating blog.
Find out how easy this is to do by watching my own short video “How to Post a YouTube Video to Your Blog“, which is served by Google Video. Read more
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