Start An Internet Business Without A Web Site

So, you think that you would like to start your own business online? But, you don't know how to build a web site and you don't have the cash to hire someone to do it for you. Therefore no web site...no online business, right?

Wrong.

You still have options for building your own online business without a web site.

The likely best option for your own online business, without a web site is affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing allows a new online marketer to sell online without having your own product to sell. To begin selling online you can register with an affiliate marketing program; these are operated by a merchant or retailer. You then choose the products that you would like to promote. As an affiliate you are paid a commission by the merchant after someone whom you have referred, has purchased an item from the merchant.

It is typically quite simple to become an affiliate and it is usually free. Despite this, people are often wary to become an affiliate marketer. People are often hesitant because they have no web site or marketing skills.

It is a common thought that affiliate marketing can be done without a web site. An individual can begin promoting affiliate products without a web site and there are many ways this can be done. Many affiliate marketing strategies can lead to success without a web site. These strategies are email marketing, offline promoting, ebook and article publishing, ezine publishing, blogging and social marketing.

Offline Marketing

Affiliate products can be marketed by means that were once considered "traditional" marketing methods. These methods include classified ads, brochures, and flyers. Classified ads may be more appealing because they have a wider range of an audience.

Create Your Own Ebook

If you are a writer or aspire to be one, creating and writing your own ebook would be an excellent way for you to promote affiliate products without a web site. Your best bet with an ebook would be for the tone to not be overly promotional, use your ebook to inform on a topic. However, be sure to draw a connection between the topic of your ebook and the affiliate product that you are promoting. You also have the flexibility to add text or banner ads to the end of your ebook and then link to the affiliate product merchant's web site.

Ezines

Ezines are digital magazines or newsletters that focus on a particular subject. You can use ezines to promote or link to an affiliate product. If you do have a web site, your ezine articles could also be content for your web site. Without a web site you can submit your ezine articles to sites that host ezines like goarticles.com, ezinearticles.com, and others. You can find more ezine sites through a simple search on a search engine.

Discussion Groups and Social Marketing Venues

Online discussion groups are great for promoting affiliate products, without or without a web site. Chat rooms, message boards, forums or social sites, like myspace.com or facebook.com can have topic areas or groups that relate to your products. On these sites you can find people who may be interested in the products that you are promoting.

As you can see, one does not really need a web site to start marketing affiliate programs. However becoming truly successful in affiliate marketing without a web site is more difficult. Having a web site isn't required for entering most affiliate programs. It is recommended that you at least plan to have your own web site in the future. A web site creates many advantages with your marketing affiliate programs. It can provide you with a place to do your own promotion of a variety of affiliate products. It also provides you with a place to market your own products.

To get started in affiliate marketing you certainly do not need your own web site. You can learn the basics of marketing affiliate products with out a site. Down the road with some marketing experience under your belt, a web site will increase your affiliate marketing opportunities.

Resource Box: Jeff Mulligan has an MBA and 20+ years of marketing experience as an ad agency Senior VP and VP Marketing for two software companies. Jeff owns CBmall, a site that provides 15 different ways for ClickBank affiliates to earn income on thousands of ClickBank InfoProducts. http://cbmall.com/to/yourstorefront


  

ExitFire Review

ExitFire is a new viral exit-popup that might be easily placed on any website or blog and automatically starts to generate traffic to it.

ExitFire is free to use though an upgrade is available too. After you register an account, you get a JavaScript code and affiliate link.

There are two options how to earn money with ExitFire:

1) You place the JavaScript on your site and when a visitor leaves your site, s/he sees the message below:

If the visitor chooses to click the Cancel button, s/he will be redirected to another ExitFire member's site while you earn 1 point. 

2)  You earn credits by promoting ExitFire to others. It is a 10-level system, and you earn 1 credit every time someone in your downline earns 1 credit.

What could you do with these earned credit points?

You can enter the URLs of the sites you wish to spend your credits on and for every 10 credits you earn, you get one visitor to your selected site.

Watch a video on ExitFire and register here:

http://ilona-recommends.eCa.sh/ExitFire


 

Miracle Traffic Bot - One Click Submission & SEO Automation Software

Miracle Traffic Bot is a one click SEO and traffic automation software created by Internet Marketer Paul Ponna and his team.

The software submits your videos, articles and websites to dozens of article directories, social bookmarketing sites, and video submission sites.

With the unique combination of simplicity of use and speed of submission, the software makes getting top rankings on search engines a breeze.

In addition, Miracle Traffic Bot is completely white-hat. This allows the software to perform very fast in the background and get you long-term results that last.

Plus, the software suite also comes with complete step by step video training on not only how to use the software but also trains you on how to get traffic and make money using the software.

The benefits of the software are three fold:

1) The software gets you top 30 or more rankings on top search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Bing and others search engines.

2) The software also gets your website, blog or affiliate page hundreds of quality backlinks that not only increases your Google PageRank but also catapults your website to rank high for most keywords of your choice.

3) Miracle Traffic Bot also allows you to spread your message because the platforms and sites that the software integrates with syndicate their content to several hundreds of other websites.

This ripple effect ensures that one simple article, video or URL for bookmarking of your sites will turn into hundreds of one-way backlinks and thousands of visitors to your website, blog or affiliate page.

Hence, you do not even need your own website or product to get the most out of the software as once you get the traffic, everything else becomes easy.

Miracle Traffic Bot is a powerful software suite and what's better is that it is the only software of its kind that sells for a low one-time fee which makes it a must for every online marketer to have it in their marketing efforts.

Miracle Traffic Bot goes live on Monday, March 29th, 2010.

ListBuildingMaximizer

The main purpose of safelists as one of the strategies in email marketing, is to build a list of potential subscribers to a service or buyers of a service or a product.

A safelist might be considered to be one of the fastest and easiest ways to get people to the chosen website, and thus it is a vital tool for any internet or network marketer, home based business or business opportunity seeker.

One of the most positive aspects of safelists is the possibility of sending email the members of the safelist and the fact that your email cannot be considered spam since every member has opted in. Another positive aspect is information exchange as while sending email with your advert, you get free access to products and services advertised by the other members of the same list.

However, at the same time it might be considered a drawback since you might received about 100-200 emails daily depending on a number of the safelist members and might be snowed by information. Experienced marketers create a separate email account (http://www.gmail.com/ is highly recommended in this case) in order to easily sort out their correspondence.

Most safelists are free of charge, and their offers differ in order to make them unique on the market.

Today I will speak about the ListBuildingMaximizer service - a credit-based list builder.

The ListBuildingMaximizer offers 4 types of membership: Free, Gold ($12.97/month), Platinum ($24.97/month) and Executive Platinum ($39.97/month).

A free member of the ListBuildingMaximizer is given 1,000 signup credits, where 1 credit is 1 member of the list you can send your ads to, and allowed to send emails every 5 days to free, gold and platinum members (at the moment as a free member with 9,120 credits left I am allowed to email up to 5,337 members while there are currently 5,628 members). For reading every email sent by another member a free member receives 10 points but there is no monthly credits assigned. He/she might save up to 5 ads and run up to 5 banner advertising campaigns. All banners/ads are randomly displayed every time a page is loaded.

A gold member of the ListBuildingMaximizer is given 15,000 signup credits and allowed to send emails every 3 days to free, gold and platinum members. For reading every email sent by another member a gold member receives 40 points but there 18,000 monthly credits assigned. He/she might save up to 10 ads and run up to 10 banner advertising campaigns.

A platinum member is of the ListBuildingMaximizer given 25,000 signup credits and allowed to send emails every 2 days to free, gold, platinum members and executive platinum members. For reading every email sent by another member a platinum member receives 60 points but there are 30,000 monthly credits assigned. He/she might save up to 25 ads and run up to 25 banner advertising campaigns.

An executive platinum member of the ListBuildingMaximizer is given 40,000 signup credits and allowed to send emails one time a day to free, gold, platinum members and executive platinum. For reading every email sent by another member an executive platinum member receives 80 points but there are 45,000 monthly credits assigned. He/she might save up to 40 ads and run up to 40 banner advertising campaigns.

All members are of the ListBuildingMaximizer enabled to buy extra credits: 1,000 for $9.97, 5,000 credits for $19.97, 19,000 credits for $29.97, 20,000 credits for $39.97 and 30,000 for $49.97.

All members have an opportunity to send a send solo ad (for $19.97) to all the members of the list.

Only paid members of the ListBuildingMaximizer might use a HTML mailer, a visual HTML editor, send top sponsored ads and benefit from various bonuses.

For each referral a free member receives 500 credits, a gold member 750 credits, a platinum member 1,000 credits while an executive platinum member 1,500 credits.

A free member earns 10%, a gold member 20%, a platinum member 50% while an executive platinum member 60% on referral upgrades.

To keep its members active the ListBuildingMaximizer emails jackpot links some times a day. You shall be very proreactive to open the email quikly to grab your extra points. It is quite an attractive feature of the safelist taking into consideration that 1 credit point means that you might send your advert to 1 member or have 1 impression of your advert in the ad/baner rotator.

The members area include 13 ‘how to’ videos and promotional tools (12 splash pages, 7 banners and buttons, 14 promo email ads, 5 email texts and 14 top sponsored ads/signature ads).

The ListBuildingMaximizer recommends to join some free programmes to expand list building opportunities. They are Downline Builder Direct, TrafficWonderland Traffic Exchange, ListJoe, TheListAuction, Reactive Adz, Free Safelist, Elite Safelist.com, Viral Ad Store, Traffic-Splash Manual Traffic Exchange, List Volta, Sokule, List Insomnia, T.E. List Building, thumbvu, List Effects and Affiliate Funnel. The main advantage of joining these programmes under the ListBuildingMaximizer is that it is possible to build all your donwlines by promoting one single page.

To sum up: The ListBuildingMaximizer is quite a good choice for an online marketer who searches a place to promote his/her business. However, it is always necessary to remember that as in any safelist the other members are eager to promote their offers too, and thus your advert shall be laconic and to the point, with a short attention grabbing subject line since competition is very high due to the similarity of the members' aims.

Ckick here to register with the safelist:

http://ilona-recommends.eca.sh/ListBuildingMaximizer

Add your URL for FREE traffic to your website!

Hits2u is a traffic system that allows you to get numerous visitors to your chosen website free of charge.

Your advert will be randomly displayed on all affiliate Hits2u websites and on Hits2u promotional banners placed on the members’ websites.

However, it involves some efforts and requires good communication skills since in the first 7 days of joining you shall introduce 3 people to the service.

If you have succeeded, it will allow you not only to enjoy your 30-day free advertising but also to be qualified as a ‘GOLD’ free member.

This new status will result in getting 30 days free advertising every time when you introduce another 3 members, yet there are no time limit with this status. It will also enable you to start to earn - $5.00 per month direct commission when you personally introduce a member who upgrades to Pro Membership and $0.50 per month bonus commission down another 6 levels when any member in your downline upgrades to Pro Membership.

When you start to gain more traffic via Hits2u, you might like to consider an option of purchasing a PRO advertising package ($19.95 per month at the moment). In this case you will be able to add up to 10 of your favourite affiliate programs into your Hits2u Toolbar that might be see by your whole Hits2u downline. Moreover, as a PRO member your text advert will also be advertised on Hits2u ‘sister’ websites. You will find more details of the benefits of Pro Membership and the features of Hits2u Toolbar at Hits2u website in the Products section.

You might like to ask me what will happen in case you have failed to refer 3 people within the first 3 days.

It will not cancel your free membership and will be able to get your free advertising. You will be qualified as a Silver member that results in smaller direct commissions ($2.50 per month instead of $5 as a Gold or Pro member), and you will never ever get paid bonus commission.

To sum up, Hits2u is a new brand traffic system that involves no primarily investment and gives you an instant chance to expose your website to new visitors. It might be a good choice if you are capable to refer people and not disposed to spend your time on surfing. Furthermore, you might get a plenty of ideas and tips from other members’ adverts and benefit from this part of your membership too. And the last and not the least - Hits2u  has several powerful income streams to help everyone earn more income. You will find more information as soon as you are in the members' area.

My recommendation: take action now as it is not quite wise to refuse from free advertising and a possibility to earn.

Click here to register: http://ilona-recommends.eca.sh/hits2u

Free Viral URL Shortener Not Only Protects Your Affiliate Earnings But Also Earns For You

Link cloaking is a must for any affiliate marketer.

If you have no idea what it is and why you need it, read my post dated 8 March 2010.

In case you are more expert in affiliate marketing, you might be using a URL shortening service like tinyurl.com, bit.ly or the Phantom Link Cloaker recommended by me in an older post.

However, there are certain benefits that you might gain from another viral URL shortening service called eCash.

When you shorten your URL with eCash, an unobtrusive toolbar will be added to the top of the page. This toolbar displays and rotates ads for various products from Low-Stress Income's Marketplace with your affiliate link embedded.

Whenever someone clicks on the ad, you get paid 50%+ for sales made through Low-Stress Income's Affiliate Program 2.0...earning up to $497 per sale!

And since this is a two-tier affiliate program, you also get paid up to 10% whenever someone who signs up under you makes a sale.

Moreover, the service enables you easily manage your links and check the effectiveness of your campaigns as it offers not only a free affiliate link brander but also real-time stats.

You can shorten your URL in this way - http://eCa.sh/xf7c  (check this super traffic toolkit).

However, it is even possible to get your very own subdomain on e-Cash that results in having your own branded link.

For example, I have registered my sub-domain as "ilona-recommends" and then turned some "ugly" links into branded links:

http://ilona-recommends.eca.sh/MyProductCenter  (get your own fully automated website for free);

http://ilona-recommends.eca.sh/hits2u  (display your text advert on 974763 web sites for free);

http://ilona-recommends.eCa.sh/PowerBarClub (unlimited income with zero investment).

Click here to register with eCash: http://ilona-recommends.eca.sh/  

Need Traffic? Learn How to Have It!

Traffic is blood of any website or blog as they will simply die without it. Moreover, any marketer needs not just traffic but targeted traffic.

It is not an easy but quite possible task. However, it is necessary to acquire some skills to know how to do it without wasting too much time and money. In other words, it is possible to learn it and to learn in a less painful way.

The website All Traffic Tips offers a fantastic toolkit to be employed to increase targeted traffic to websites and blogs and to explode sales.

The toolkit includes a video course consisting of video lessons, 18 traffic ebooks, 7 softwares and 2 scripts.

While the All Traffic Tips video course features 10 videos (45 minute footage in total) that primarily focus on search engine optimization, the ebooks give tips on traffic building, principles of getting traffic, article marketing, social bookmarketing, video marketing, mailing list advertising, peer-to-peer network, opt-in form placing to mention just a few of many themes highlighted.

A list of free bonuses offered by  All Traffic Tips is so impressive that there is no need to describe a lot that might be read and seen on the website, informative, professionally designed and target-oriented.

All Traffic Tips definitely deserve your attention. 

Twelve Good Reasons Why You Should Write Articles to Promote Your Business

Article marketing, or promotion through free publication of your articles, is by far my favourite online marketing strategy for online exposure and search engine optimisation. It is highly effective to boost your profile, generate qualified leads and drive traffic to your website. Best of all, it’s free and has long-lasting results.

So, what the benefits of Article Marketing?

1. Positioning

By generously sharing your unique information, you can elevate your status from ‘Knowledgeable’ to ‘Expert’ and position yourself among celebrities. Not only people prefer buying from Experts but they’re also willing to pay more for their products and services. So, why not stand out and command higher fees?

2. Pre-selling

Although this is the most important reason for writing articles, it ranks second on this list because you first need to build you credibility and earn your reader’s trust before selling.

Compare your article to a song you hear on the radio. If you like the song, you rush to the shop and buy the CD. You trust the CD to be good based on only one song.

Likewise, if people like your article, they’ll follow the link to your website to subscribe to your newsletter, buy a product online or contact you. The article serves as a sample that pre-sells your products and services.

3. Readily available material

If you know your business well, you already have this unique information on hand. It’s a matter of putting together a series of articles using your wealth of knowledge. And if you hate writing, why don’t you talk in a microphone and send your recordings to a freelance editor or ghostwriter for transcription and editing?

4. Viral marketing

Like a virus, your article can spread fast around the internet. Should someone like your article enough to share, it will travel quickly by email and social media. Viral Marketing or online word-of-mouth is perhaps the best credible and no-cost spin-off of Article Marketing.

5. Long-lasting benefits

You only need to write your article once to benefit from unlimited online exposure. Your articles will continue to be displayed on websites and web search results for many years to come without requiring any effort or money on your part. Unlike PPC (Pay Per Click) listings, your incoming traffic doesn’t depend on money spent on bidding campaigns.

6. Organic Search Engine Results

Your articles will be listed under the ‘organic’ search engine results. These are based on relevance to the keywords searched. Organic search results are perceived to be unbiased and therefore more credible than paid ones e.g. PPC adverts. This could be likened to the credibility of newspaper articles versus paid adverts. Research reveals that 70% of web users click on organic search engine results versus 30% on paid listings.

7. Search Engine Optimisation

The number of backlinks or incoming links to your site will increase with each site publishing your article. In Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), the number of backlinks is an indication of the popularity of a site and determines the website ranking on Web Search Engine results. So the more backlinks you have, the higher your website will rank on web search results.

8. Free publicity

Usually with publicity, you have no say on what people publish about you. For example, journalists edit interviews to suit their needs. But with Article Marketing, you write your own promotion in the Resource Box. It becomes a cross between publicity and advertising. The content of the article publicises your expertise and the Resource Box advertises your business. Because you generously share your information, people are receptive to your advertising.

9. Lead Generation

Each time your article is published on blogs, email newsletters and other sites, you gain a new source of qualified leads coming to your website through the link from your Resource Box. Can you imagine how many people you can reach this way? For one reprint in an email newsletter, you can already gain instant exposure to 100s and 1,000s subscribers, depending on the size of the list.

10. Revenue generation

You can create a new income stream from your website with Google AdSense and affiliate programs when you place their adverts beside your articles. With affiliate programs, you’ll receive a commission for each sale generated through your affiliate link and with Google AdSense, you’ll get a commission for each click on text links or banners.

11. Recyclable resource

Publishing your articles will force you into a writing discipline and will give you a better indication of what people like to read. What articles are most read? From this market research and source of material, you can instantly create popular products such an e-course or an ebook that you can sell or give away for free to build your list.

12. Sense of achievement

On a personal level, you’ll find that writing articles will help you clarify your mind and provide you with a fulfilling sense of pride and achievement long after you’ve written them. And as you become an authority in your field, you’ll gain special recognition and respect from friends and colleagues.

Can you find a cheaper way to promote your business with such valuable long-lasting results?

Download Speed Article Marketing  ebook for more tips and techniques on how to market yourself and your business through writing articles. It’s much easier than you think to write articles and become the Expert in your field … once you know how.

© Henriette Martel is a Website Strategist, Speaker and Director of the Australian Training Guide. She is also the author of 200 Marketing Ideas for Your Website.

Unlimited Income With Zero Investment

Though GeoString partly might remind of numerous multi-level marketing pyramids, it absolutely differs from any of them as it offers a remarkable opportunity to earn money without any primary investment.

It’s not only free to join and involves no monthly fees but also pays you $10.00 once you have set up your account. They also pay you for each person you refer, and each person they refer! This trend takes place through 10 full levels of referrals with unlimited width.

The programme is available worldwide, and it is possible to participate starting from the age of 16. GeoString promises to pay you by check every time your account balance reaches $100.

What's the catch? GeoString will send you one email every Tuesday with some messages from their sponsors. You must click the link provided in the email to confirm you’ve received and opened the email. That's it!

Though I have always been skeptical about MLM-like systems, it is worth joining at least to check if it works or not. Anyway there is no risk as you don’t pay a dime.

You can register your FREE account to claim your $10 now: http://eCa.sh/uBEw

HostMonster – Excellent Webhosting Service At Amazing Price

When you decide to create your own website, you start to search for some reliable and functional webhosting space.

HostMonster offers unlimited hosting space, unlimited site bandwidth, unlimited Pop/Imap email accounts, front page extensions, free domain forever and a free site builder only for $5.95/month at the moment (regular price is $6.95). The set-up is free too.

As far as I know, HostMonster is one of the only web hosts that allows you to host an unlimited number of domains. This means that its policy is extremely money saving as it enables you to run all of your websites from the one hosting account. Moreover, it guarantees your website promotion (for instance, $25 free Yahoo credits, $50 free Google credits and search engine submission). In addition, HostMonster uptime is excellent and the control panel (cPanel) is easy to use.

It makes me wonder whether it is possible to find any other high quality host for such an amazing price, taking into consideration that I have mentioned only some of its basic features.

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What's Link Cloaking and Why is it so Important?

If there's one characteristic that defines a good internet marketer, it's adaptability. The online marketing world moves so fast -- faster than any other industry around -- and those that make their fortunes online always move faster than anyone else. From the arbitrage heydays to the modern era of CPA affiliate products, top internet marketers are always looking a step ahead, and are always looking for the ultimate advantage.

There's one aspect of internet marketing that attracts its fair share of controversy and discussion. It's link cloaking, of course, and the discussion is around whether it's really necessary for affiliates. For those who don't know, link cloaking is simply a visual disguising of affiliate links, leading the URL to appear as an in-site page, when in reality it's an outbound link. Why is this so important to affiliates? Well, let's have a look.

To begin with, link cloaking is important for affiliates that make most of their sales through blogs and personal recommendations. A large portion of affiliates, particularly those who operate large scale online companies, keep a personal or professional blog. While it's rarely their major income source, most affiliates occasionally use promotional links on their blog. The problem is that many readers are instantly skeptical of what they view as paid recommendations. Whenever they mouse over a link's anchor text and see an affiliate code, they back away and don't make a sale.

This is where link cloaking can help with a direct sale. Rather than having readers shy away from a great product, link cloaking can help marketers direct reader to the product. When they see an inbound link with a domain that they trust, they're sold. All that's standing between them and the sale is the quality of the product itself.

Secondly, link cloaking is essential for certain marketing channels. While Google Adwords has often been a favorite for affiliates, they've recently changed their policies and appear to be taking a harder stance on affiliate products, particularly those with unclear conditions and slightly misleading terms. While this isn't a problem for most affiliates -- the majority of whom promote products that fall well inside the terms and conditions -- some affiliates are having trouble getting their PPC ads to show, after being struck with a poor quality score.

This is where link cloaking can again save the day. Rather than having a direct link leading to an affiliate page, direct-to-offer PPC advertisers can cloak their links and have them redirect through their own server. This isn't just perfect for avoiding the infamous Google slap, but also for adding tracking data and inter-offer landing pages.

There's a third, top secret, advantage to using link cloaking. While most affiliate websites offer long-term cookies, few will cover multiple products. With the right strategy, you could incorporate multiple affiliate links into a single cloaking redirect, leaving you with the potential to earn twice as many commissions per clicker. Alongside the other great benefits of link cloaking, this really sweetens the deal, and makes link cloaking an absolutely essential practice for serious affiliates, full-time internet marketers, and dedicated online entrepreneurs.

To learn more about link cloaking, check out the free Cloak & Dagger Affiliate Secrets report. Feel free to distribute this article in any form as long as you include this resource box. You can also include your affiliate link if you sign up at Phantom Link Cloaker.