After reading what begun as a contest between Pat Flynn and Tyrone Shum has turned in to an epic battle and challenge which interests many experienced and semi-experienced online marketers, and of course me. I have just been accepted to compete in the Niche Site Duel - a competition which challenges you to choose the most profitable niche, design and create the highest converting website, choose the right monetization method and to convert your visitors. Whilst competing I will keep a journey of my progress which I will be updating several times a week. I will be 100% clear cut with everyon

Okay, now that I’ve gotten your attention and hopefully your interest, let me honestly state that you can't really learn affiliate marketing in 30 minute or less. What you can do in 30 minutes or less is begin to have an overall understanding of what affiliate marketing truly is. To do this let us break the term affiliate marketing down into its composites.

As an affiliate, did you ever go to the Clickbank marketplace one day, not see a product listed and then the very next day, you see it at the top of the marketplace with some insane gravity of like 500? Did you ever wonder how that happens? Well, you can stop wondering. This article is going to blow the lid off of those inflated gravity numbers. I know there's going to be a lot of vendors who are not going to like this article one little bit. The first thing the vendor does is he goes to the marketplace to see what's selling. No sense creating something REALLY new when there is stuff out th

In our last installment of affiliate marketing tips, I went over some general guidelines for picking a product. In this installment, I'm going to focus on Clickbank primarily because it is the most popular marketplace on the Internet and the one that most people use, at least at first until they discover there are better options. We'll get to them in later installments. Okay, so how do you go about picking a product at the Clickbank marketplace? After all, there are tens of thousands to choose from. And trust me on this...not all of them sell, let alone are any good. Unless you have a gener

My father in law has a great saying. "Patience is a virtue given by God and abused by man." I never really understood it until I saw the way some Internet marketers go about their business. It's no wonder so many people are failing at this business. Patience is a word that they seem to have no concept of. So, we're going to talk about patience in this article...for those who have the patience to read to the end. Let's take a typical example of what I'm talking about. This is probably the most common one that I can think of. I am sure this may have even applied to you at one point in time, i

In the first installment of this series on affiliate marketing, I went over some of the biggest mistakes that affiliate marketers make. In this installment, we're going to start covering the actual process of affiliate marketing beginning with the actual product selection. This is where many affiliate marketers will drop the ball. There are a number of myths regarding product selection. I'm going to cover the most common and dangerous ones here. Trust me, these only scratch the surface but are important to know in order to avoid potential disaster. First off, contrary to popular belief,

I wanted to take a short break from my usual instructional type article to cover a subject that I feel is very important. This is one of the main reasons why many marketers and home business owners end up failing. I'm talking about absolutes and how they will absolutely kill you. Kind of a paradox there, isn't it. I've just stated an absolute myself. But it may just be the only one that makes sense. Okay, maybe it's time I explained. This article was inspired by a thread at one of the forums that I attend. I'm not going to go into too much detail on what the thread is about, but in a nutshe

The ninth part of the Bullet Proof Blogging series highlights the 21 key performance marketing networks currently available to Internet marketers and web based companies world wide. These have been given priority within this exclusive list in accordance to their clientel, customer support, ease to use their interface and performance from both a publishers and advertisers point of view. You may be thinking, well surely you haven't tested them all out? Well that would be true, however I have used and do use the majority through the company I work for and for my personal projects. So here you are

This month has been a busy month for both myself and the world of Internet marketing and it's only getting busier with the lead up to several very popular Internet marketing expo's such as A4u Expo taking place in London in a couple of months. I have read some very interesting articles this month and I want to share my top 30 with you, as a part of my Top 30 Internet Marketing Articles of each month series. 4 Steps to Social SEO Success - 4 well detailed, crucial steps for success in the world of social networking and search engine optimisation. These are listening, content, socialising an

There are a lot of advantages of affiliate marketing over creating and selling your own product. One of them is not having to deal with the hassles of customer support and handling refunds. Plus, you don't have to wonder if you'll even be able to come up with a product in the first place. As an affiliate, there are tons of products to choose from. Having said all that, there are a myriad of mistakes that affiliate marketers make that can literally derail a campaign before it even gets started. This article is going to cover some of the most glaring of these mistakes. See how many you've made y