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The Secret of Her Success
by: Jim Edwards
(c) Jim Edwards - All Rights reserved
http://www.thenetreporter.com
=====================================

Despite all the "dot-com" busts a few years ago, the
Internet still represents the ultimate opportunity for some
people to turn their initiative, a good idea, and a few
bucks into a legitimate, profitable business.

One such person, Rosalind Gardner, took her interest in
online dating services and turned it into a business that
generated almost half a million dollars in revenue last year
and should do even better this year.

The fact that she created this business without spending one
dime on product development makes her story even more
amazing.

Rosalind Gardner used to make her living as an air traffic
controller, a job most people consider quite stressful.

After getting tired of swing-shift work, and though she had
no product of her own to sell and needed to make money
relatively quickly, Gardner decided to try her hand at
selling on the Internet.

What she did next might seem simple, but it started an
online venture that would make every dot-com refugee from
1999 drool with envy.

Gardner logged on to OneAndOnly.com, an online dating
service, and signed up as an associate or "affiliate". She
said they were paying "healthy" commissions to any webmaster
who wanted to refer paying customers to them.

Commonly called "affiliate programs," this setup enables
entrepreneurs to create a business promoting other people's
businesses and bypass the entire product development and
product testing phases.

In short, by selling through other people's affiliate
programs, virtually anyone can set up a business online
promoting almost any type of product or service.

Gardner created a website (101date.com), her storefront on
the Internet.

Though she created her own website pages, she suggests that
an effective way to get started even faster is to go to
dollartemplates.com or 4templates.com, buy a website
template for between $10-$30, and modify it to meet your
needs.

"Instead of spending hundreds or thousands of dollars on
website design," Gardner advises, "purchase an inexpensive
website template for much less than the cost of dinner and a
movie!"

Gardner also kept the content for her website simple, direct
and effective. Though she wanted to appeal to the widest
possible audience, she kept focused on her narrow "niche" of
online dating.

She wrote a review of the dating service so her visitors
could quickly understand the main benefits, pitfalls,
special features, and other information to see if the
service met their needs. If it did, and they clicked through
her affiliate link to sign up, Gardner made a commission.

To drive traffic to her site, Gardner buys targeted,
keyword-specific ads from google.com and overture.com which
get displayed on the Web's most popular sites, including
Yahoo!, AOL, and MSN.

This type of advertising means she only spends money when
interested people actively searching for dating information
go to her website.

Gardner also offers a newsletter from her dating website
in order to update her visitors when new dating services and
products come available.

The side benefits of publishing the newsletter are many,
including the fact that she can build trust with her
subscribers by sending them valuable articles and
information on a regular basis.

Instead of just referring them over to the merchant's site
and losing them forever, Gardner captures them and makes
them her customer first... and then hands them off to the
merchant.

So what's the secret of her success?

Gardner's system works because:

~ she keeps it simple;

~ she doesn't get slowed down by creating the product
herself;

~ she adds her own unique value to the process with her
reviews and newsletter;

~ she only invests in performance-based advertising.

Further, her added step of going the extra mile to offer
free updates, articles and tips to her growing list helps
her business grow MUCH faster than affiliates who just hand-
off to the merchant website.

By building her list, she can bring visitors back to her
site or send them to other sites through her affiliate link
without having to pay for them again.

So if the system is so simple, why don't more people do it
this way?

My only guess is that maybe it's too simple! Often people
want something complicated in order to feel like a "system"
will work, but often the opposite proves true.

Simple = Powerful = It keeps working!

For more information about Gardner and the step-by-step
process detailed in her new ebook, "The Super Affiliate
Handbook - How I Made $436,797 Last Year Selling Other
People's Stuff Online" log on to www.Affiliate-Handbook.com


About the author:

Jim Edwards is a syndicated newspaper columnist
(http://www.TheNetReporter.com) and is the author of
numerous best-selling ebooks, information products and
software programs.

Simple "Traffic Machine" brings Thousands of NEW visitors to
your website for weeks, even months... without spending a
dime on advertising! ==> http://www.turnwordsintotraffic.com



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20 Ways To Increase Website Traffic and eBook Sales


Here's a fast, easy list for you. Use it as checklist to see what you need to do to increase traffic. Or use it as a review list if you have already been working on improving your website traffic. It will help you find ways that you might have known or forgotten.

1. People love to receive free or win free stuff, whether they really need it or want it. A free eBook is perfect to satisfy those needs over the Internet. They will visit your website to get the free valuable information.

2. Give away the full version of your eBook in exchange for testimonials. You can use these customer statements to improve your ads' effectiveness.

3. When you create an eBook, you change your image to "Expert." This will gain people's trust and they will buy your main product or service quicker.

4. Publish your website in eBook format. Put the eBook on a disk or CD-ROM then include it with your direct mail packages. This can increase the number of people that buy your product or service.

5. Offer your eBook as a free bonus for buying one of your main products or services. People will buy the product or service more often when you offer a free bonus.

6. Allow people to download your free eBook, if they give the e-mail addresses of 3 to 5 friends or associates that would be interested in your eBook. This will quickly build your e-mail list.

7. Create a directory of websites in eBook form. List peoples websites in the directory that will agree to advertise the eBook on their website or e-zine (electronic newsletter). This will give them an incentive to give away or advertise your eBook.

8. Allow other people to give away your free eBook. This will increase the number of people that will see your ad in the eBook. You could also include a mini catalog of all your product or services that you offer in the eBook.

9. Gain new leads by having people sign up and give you their contact information before they can download your eBook. This is a very effective way to conduct market research.

10. Make money selling advertising space in your eBook. You could charge for full-page color ads, classified ads or banners ads. You could also trade advertising space in your eBook for other forms of advertising.

11. Give away the eBook as a gift to your current customers as a way of letting them know you appreciate their business. Place an ad in the eBook for a new back end product you are offering

12. Get free advertising by submitting your eBook to freebie and freeware/shareware websites. This will increase the number of people that will download your eBook and see your ad.

13. Make money by selling the reprint rights to those that would like to sell the eBook. You could also make even more money by selling the master rights. This would allow other people to sell the reprint rights.

14. Hold a contest on your website so people can win your eBook. You will get free advertising by submitting your contest ad to free contest or sweepstakes directories. Just make sure you publicize the winner's information -- they love the acknowledgment.

15. You will gain valuable referrals from people telling others about your eBook. Word of mouth advertising can be very effective.

16. Make money cross promoting your eBook with other people's products or services. This technique doubles your marketing effort without spending more time and money on your part.

17. Increase your e-zine subscribers by giving away your eBook to people that subscribe to your e-zine. This will give people an incentive to subscribe. Allow your e-zine subscribers to also give it away to multiply your subscribers.

18. Give away the eBook to people that join your affiliate program. This will increase the number of people that subscribe. You could also create an eBook for them to use that will help them promote your product or service.

19. Give away the eBook in exchange for people leaving their contact information. This will help you follow-up with the prospects that buy your main product or service.

20. Offer a free eBook that contains a couple of sample chapters. If they like it, give them the option of ordering the full version. It would work just like a software demo or shareware.

You will want to print this list and keep it in your website improvement file if you aren't quite ready. Or add it to your planning list.

Catherine Franz, a Professional Marketing & Writing Coach, specializes in product development, Internet writing and marketing, nonfiction, training. Newsletters and articles available at: http://www.abundancecenter.com blog: http://abundance.blogs.com



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