Get More Money From Your Website – Affiliate Programs

Are you promoting any affiliate products or programs on your website? If not, read on to find out how you can get more money from your website while helping your visitors by promoting the right affiliate products and programs.

What are affiliate programs? Affiliate programs allow you to earn a percentage or set amount on sales of a product or service that you refer a new customer to. Thousands of businesses offer affiliate programs. You get to decide what products or services you’d like to promote.

How to Choose an Affiliate Program

There are 3 important things to consider when choosing which affiliate programs to join.
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Tools to Make Social Networking Easier

Do you love networking and connecting with people through Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other sites but find that it ends up taking far too much time out of your busy day? Do you wish there were a way you could update all your profiles at once, automatically share your blog content, and make it easier for others to share your website on the social networks? Good news–you can!

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What’s the Goal of Your Website?

Why do you have a website? What’s the goal? What do you want it to accomplish for you?

Here are some possible goals for a website:

  • to develop a list of targeted prospects
  • to sell products or services
  • to encourage potential customers to contact us by phone or mail
  • to provide product information and/or price lists to customers
  • to provide product information and/or price lists to distributors
  • to provide customer service (how to use/wash/care for items, etc)
  • to provide information to a particular niche or target market
  • to strengthen brand recognition
  • to establish you as an expert in a particular niche or subject

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Bright Ideas for Your Newsletter, Part 2

This is a follow up to one of the most popular articles on my site, Bright Ideas to Keep Your Newsletter Interesting.

If you struggle to come up with ideas for your newsletter articles, you aren’t alone! Many small business owners aren’t sure what to write about. You want topics that will be interesting to your readers and help them get to “know” you so they learn that you can be a trusted source of the information or products they want.

Let me share some creative ideas with you to help you jumpstart your brainstorming.  Keep reading to find out what that robot time machine has to do with newsletters…  :)
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What’s Your Two Cents Worth?

What products or services do you regularly tell others about?  Just today I can think of several recommendations I’ve made – the shopping cart I use, a free website builder, and a brand of gluten-free pasta.  Have you read any books lately that you found valuable?

If you choose carefully you can turn your reviews and testimonials into more great ways to get your name and your business noticed.
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How to Survey Your Customers

One of the keys to success in business is to know what your customers want, so you can deliver it.  But unless you’ve perfected your Vulcan mind meld skills, the chances are good you could use a bit of help figuring out just what it is that your customers want. What’s the easiest way to do that?  Ask them!

How to Survey Your Customers, Step by Step

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Speak Your Mind – It’s Good for Your Business!

“Well-behaved women seldom make history.” – Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

One of my personal challenges is that I’m not one of those naturally outspoken people.  It’s part personality and part learned habits (nice girls sit quietly… the whole be seen and not heard mentality).  Gotta work on breaking out of that thought pattern!

There’s nothing wrong with a calm quietness or reserved dignity, of course!  But sitting quietly and never expressing our opinions or sharing our thoughts certainly won’t help us build our businesses, change the world, or make history.

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Does Your Business Have a Fan Page?

Facebook is the number-one social network destination worldwide and accounts for nearly six hours (5:52:00) per person with the average user logging in more than 19 times per month. Quoted from Mashable

Does your business have a Facebook fan page yet?  It’s a great way to promote yourself online!  It’s free and allows you an easy way to reach and interact with your clients and potential clients.

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What to Do When People Are Talking

Did you get your alerts setup so you know when people are talking about you online?  If not, check out yesterday’s post on how to do that easily. All set now?  Good!

Now that you’ve got it, what can you do with this information?  

1. Build your media/news page. Create a media page and watch for links to reviews or news sites that mention your business or quote you, then add the link and mention to your page.

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Who’s Talking About You?

Are you monitoring what’s said about you or your business online?  You should be! Tracking mentions of your name, website, or business name online allows you to find great feedback, make connections, and fix problems before they get out of control.

Customers will often share reviews (good or bad) on social sites, their blogs, or elsewhere online — but they don’t tell you directly.  With alerts setup, you can be notified and thank customers for good reviews, take quick action to resolve any sticky situations, and even find potential joint venture partners or affiliates and sites to guest blog or publish articles at.

Best of all, it takes only a few minutes to put the systems in place to monitor what’s being said online.  Here are 7 free services that can help by searching the web for your terms and sending you an email alert when they find a mention:

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