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Using Videos to Skyrocket Affiliate Sales!

By Brian Terry on Monday, August 3rd, 2009

Videos have come a long way online and are now starting to show up in just about every promotion you see, and for good reason, they produce big sales!

You can certainly use them to promote your with great success.

Here is an idea that I have been testing with great results. It is creating a video of the actual members area or the product itself.

By video I mean a screen capture video using a program like www.camtasia.com. Camtasia is only one screen
capture program out there so do some research to see which would be best for you. There are others much cheaper with less features.

Also, when it comes to video editing, make sure you check your own computer to see if you already have some video editing software installed. A lot of computers come with video editing software now for home movies and such. You can use this exact same software to edit your screen capture marketing videos.

Once you get some screen capture software you create a “Here is what you can have in minutes” style of video. You call it a “tour of our product”.

You then add this video to your affiliate product promotion and boom, increase sales!

It is very simple to do and hasn’t failed yet to work for me!

Here is how you can do this:

Step 1) Start up the screen cam software, and welcome the viewer to the product tour video.

This can be a simple greeting where you introduce yourself as a user of the product and give a quick introduction to what will be in the actual video.

Step 2) Login to your members area where the product will be downloaded. Or, if the product is an actual downloadable file like a .PDF report/ebook, you can just open the file.

Step 3) If there is a download page, it is a good idea to show the download page, discuss the bonuses, etc..

Talk about everything they receive when they order and show them in the download page. You can even show them
the order process and how it works. A lot of people online are still a bit scared to give their credit card numbers over the Internet. They do not want their credit card to get stolen by some hacker, and are also concerned with the people they are ordering from scamming them.

So if you show how easy and safe the order process is, this can surely helps sales by reassuring customers that they will not get scammed out of their money and that the product is safe to buy.

Step 4) Show them the chapters in the book while reading some of it. This is a big part, it shows the viewer that the product is real, shows how it is presented, and they get a quick taste of exactly what is inside.

You can go by each chapter to show them the headlines/titles of the product. This can produce big sales as it really taps into people’s instant gratification trigger button.

You basically are saying “You can be reading this right now!”…

You should get permission from the owner of the product before you show the inside of their product to the public, but this shouldn’t be a problem.

Just explain what you are doing and let them know that the viewers of the video would only be able to read a few pages in the video and that you aren’t showing the whole entire book in the video.

Also, this works the same way if you are promoting a software program. Show how the programs works, the features, etc..

Step 5) Thank the viewer for watching the video and remind them that they can have this within minutes from now.

Also, if you have an affiliate program, you could give them a quick glance at that and tell them they could recoup their investment by just referring 2 friends. This is also very powerful as it makes the product seem even less risk.

Something else that I have used in a few videos is showing the guarantee of the product to make sure the visitor knows that if he is not happy with the product, he can get a full no questions asked refund.

I have also used these videos to build lists. You can say something like:

“Subscribe today and receive a video tour of XYZ product free!”

People subscribe and get the video of the product you are promoting sent to their email.

Something else I have been testing with great results is what I call an “Insiders view”.

If you go to .com and search for a heavily promoted affiliate product you will see lots of people have set up web pages and use .com’s program to advertise it.

They use ads that say things like:

“XYZ Product Reviews”

or

“Don’t Buy XYZ Product Until You Read This”

etc..

They are using these ads to generate traffic to their page which then links to the actual product through their affiliate link so that they get credit for the sale.

This is a simple tactic that people have used for years.

What I have been testing is ads that start like:

“Get An Insider’s View Of XYZ Product”

This ad links to my page which then has my video automatically start. The video is of course all about the product, shows it chapter by chapter, shows the download area and order process, etc..

This works well, and of course you can even get them to subscribe to your list first before they can get the “Insider’s View” video.

Something else you can do with this video is to submit it to the video directories like YouTube.com and video. You could even use a service like TubeMogul to mass submit to many more for free.

Make sure to link back to your site in the description area to generate traffic back to your site.
This can be a quick and easy traffic generator. Search engines love video and if you do this idea you will have one to submit to the video web sites. It’s quick and easy, give it a shot!

Limited Bonuses

One more thing you will definitely want to mention in your video is if you have included any of your own bonuses if they order the affiliate product.

Something like “If you order XYZ report, I will throw in my own ABC report as a bonus, but only if your one of the next 50 orders” etc..

This of course will also add value to the product you are promoting and easily boost sales.

Generally the better the bonus, the more sales, but do not overshadow or devalue the main product you are promoting with your bonus.

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How To Generate More Sales, Profits & Commissions For
 ANY Affiliate Program With
 Incentive Marketing

By Brian Terry on Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

Discover how YOU can create an unfair advantage over all other 
affiliates, even if you don’t have a large mailing list, high-traffic 
website or industry-wide influence, by using exclusive free 
incentives to pull in profits like never before!

The average affiliate is desperate for some serious training in . This series is for all affiliates who want more than a couple of banners, a handful of classified ads and an occasional rah-rah speech.

This series of blog posts is for you…

Let’s get started with a question that is going to define what you’re about to learn
Why do some affiliates sell more than others?

It’s not a trick question.  Go ahead and think about it just for a second.  In fact, grab a pen and some paper and jot down a few ideas.  I’ll wait.

<5 Minute Break — Seriously, make your list>

OK, so you’ve got your list, right?

If nothing else, you made a mental list.  And what are some reasons that you came up with for that question “why do some affiliates sell more than others?”

Did you respond with any of these answers…

Some affiliates sell more because they have a
…large mailing list.

Some affiliates sell more because they have a
…high traffic website.

Some affiliates sell more because they have a 

…well known reputation.

Some affiliates sell more because they have a
…large advertising budget.

Some affiliates sell more because they have an
…influential network.

Some affiliates sell more because they have an
…unfair advantage.

Your list probably includes one or more of those answers.
And you’re not alone.

And you’re also not incorrect.

These are all plausible answers that explain why some affiliates sell more than others.

I want you to review that list again.  And I want you to examine it, because there is an important common denominator in there that I want to point out.

Do you see it?

In EACH of the above listed reasons, the affiliate has a competitive edge over the average affiliate.  Whether it is a large list or a high traffic website, the fact remains that many top affiliates aren’t competing on a LEVEL playing field.

They have something that the majority of affiliates do not have…

…an advantage.

Now, here’s the deal, my friend.  I can’t wave a magic wand and get you a large mailing list.  I can’t say “Abracadabra” and create a traffic jam at your website.  And I can’t suddenly catapult your reputation to an exclusive “Who’s Who” status.

But, I can help you create an advantage.

And that’s what I want to share with you in Super Affiliate Strategies Volume 1.  I want to teach YOU (yep, you!) how to create an advantage over other affiliates.  I’m going to show you how to create an exclusive offer that is ONLY AVAILABLE THROUGH YOU.

That’s an advantage.

It’s an advantage because it can’t be found anywhere else.  It’s an advantage because, if someone wants to take you up on your offer, then they MUST BUY THROUGH YOU.

We’ll get to that.

Offline marketers have been doing it for years — and it works great!
 o, why not follow their lead and use the same techniques online?
 A handful of folks are doing it, and sales are coming in like crazy…

Let me give you an example from the real world.  Suppose you are looking to purchase a new car and you visit several different dealerships.

All of them have the EXACT same car that you are interested in purchasing.  All are priced at the EXACT same price.  Every factor is the same…

…except for one.

One of the dealerships offers you an incentive.  If you purchase the vehicle from him, he will throw in a year’s supply of gasoline!

Now I ask you, which of the dealerships are you going to make your purchase from?
If you chose anyone but the dealer offering the free gasoline…

…you probably shouldn’t be on the road driving! :o)

Obviously, with all factors the same, you would want to make your purchase from the dealer who offered you MORE value for your money.

Affiliate programs are kind of like car dealerships - at least in one regard.  Every affiliate in a particular program offers the EXACT same product at the EXACT same price.  All factors concerning the affiliate program are basically the same for every affiliate.

So, who’s going to make the sale?

The one who offers the added incentive, that’s who!

The one who creates the advantage, the exclusive offer.

Why should anyone buy through YOUR affiliate link when there are potentially thousands of other affiliates promoting the same offer? Do you think it’s because you promoted the offer FIRST?  You might be surprised…

Just a couple of days ago I received an email from one of my regular customers.  He thanked me for sending him an email about a new product that I had begun promoting.

He explained that he was just about to buy the same product from someone else when he received my email.

Of course, I offered an INCENTIVE - a product of my own valued at the same amount of the product I was promoting.

He excitedly reported to me that he was going to purchase from ME instead of the other guy, SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE I had the extra bonus included in my offer.

A few minutes later his order came in.

Want to outsell other affiliates?

Want to outsell them even though you are all promoting the EXACT same product at the EXACT same price?

Want to create an advantage that levels the playing field with the “big boys” who have the large lists and large budgets?

Offer MORE!

You need to create an incentive.  Some unique and exclusive reason why folks should order through YOUR affiliate link and not one of your competitors.

Folks tend to think that that whoever gets the word out FIRST about a new product will make the sale.

That isn’t always the case.

In fact, it could be just the opposite.

Research shows that it takes, on average, 7 exposures to an offer before someone actually makes a purchase.

Most folks receive the same, tired old “product announcement” email from a half dozen or more affiliates in the exact same 24 hour period.

They get home from work and find a slew of affiliates all wanting to make the sale on the new product.
Who will they buy from? (If they buy at all from this first batch of offers)

If 5 affiliates send out the standard email that their affiliate program manager gave them to send out as one of the “marketing materials” for the product, and 1 affiliate sent an email with a free high-quality offer attached for the same product…

..I’m guessing they’d go with the 1 affiliate who did things differently.

What do you think?

You’re probably thinking “give me that year’s supply of free gas for my new car!”  Right?

You need to create an incentive, an unfair advantage over your competition.  You need something that convinces folks to buy from you.

SIDEBAR:  Here’s an interesting twist on things that I wanted to let you know. The idea of “” not only applies to NEW offers, but can even work to produce sales for older products.

For example:  Jimmy D. Brown of  http://www.InfoProfitShare.com put together a free eBook entitled “Killer Marketing Secrets Revealed” in order to produce sales for Ken Silver’s eBook Secrets manual that he had purchased reprint rights to sell.  He offered it as a free bonus to anyone who ordered from him.

Ken’s product had been available for several years and was offered for FREE at several big sites like the Warriors.

Despite the fact that THOUSANDS of copies had been in circulation prior to him offering this deal, he sold hundreds of extra copies within just a few months.

MANY of those customers told him this:  “I already had a copy of eBook Secrets, but it was worth buying again just to get the free copy of Killer Marketing Secrets Revealed.”
See how this works?

Don’t worry, you don’t have to come up with the idea on your own.  I’m going to provide you with some *real* examples that you can use yourself.  There are only a handful of folks out there who are using this information — so you’ll be getting in on the ground floor.

I can tell you this — don’t waste any time.  This blog post will soon be on the screens of thousands of folks.  And some of them will be your competition.

Don’t wait for them to beat you to the punch.

Put this plan into action. There are only 4 easy steps.  Let’s get ‘em rolling with the next BigSellingAffiliates blog post…

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Lead-Capture Systems that Present Your Affiliate Offer

By Brian Terry on Saturday, July 26th, 2008

This is likely the one area where most new affiliates get confused, and there are several reasons for that confusion:

  1. It is possible to do without your own site or lead capture system.
  2. Setting up a website and lead capture system requires technical knowledge that some people don’t have.

Let’s talk about the technical angle, first. Just how computer savvy do you need to be? If you are going the do-it-yourself route, you need to learn the following:

  1. How to register a domain name
  2. How to sign up for web hosting
  3. How to make your domain name point to your web host
  4. How to create a basic web page
  5. How to set up an ‘autoresponder’

While there’s not quite enough room in the report to explain each of these steps in depth, I can assure you that they are quite easy once you’ve seen how to do them.

Creating a web page, for example, is a lot easier these days because most web hosts offer a “what you see is what you get” type of site design software that looks and functions a lot like a word processing program.
Also, you’ve always got the option of finding someone more technically savvy to help you - maybe a neighbor, relative, friend or even a freelancer that you hire to do the whole set up for you.

Now, let’s talk about this idea of doing without a website.

The thing to understand is that your affiliate is your key to earning . That link needs to be somewhere on a website, but it doesn’t necessarily have to be your website.

For instance, let’s say you created a promotional video and uploaded it to you YouTube. There’s a ‘description’ area that you can fill in for the video, and this information appears on the page YouTube creates to serve your video.

If you want to do so, you could drop your affiliate link into that description area.

Any traffic going through your affiliate link there would be YouTube traffic. You’re basically ’stealing’ both their traffic and their website capabilities. Make sense?

Some affiliate marketers love doing this sort of thing, but there is a definite purpose to having your own website, and to capturing targeted leads.

Why We Use Websites and Lead Capture

The two primary reasons for having your own website are as follows:

  1. You can send whatever traffic to it you want, and control what that traffic sees when it arrives.
  2. You need a web site in order to put up your “lead capture form” for collecting the names and email addresses of your visitors.

Again, let’s look at why you’d want to do things this way. First, why do you want total control over your traffic? It is quite simple: if you control what your visitor sees, then you control what he thinks.

That sounds more Orwellian than intended, but it is an important truth.

First impressions are very important, and you’ll be a lot more successful in your affiliate business when you control what information your prospects see about the affiliate product you’re promoting, and when they see it.

Second, there’s the matter of “following up” with your visitors. If someone comes to your website, looks around for a few seconds and then leaves, you’ve lost a potential sale.

A certain percentage of your visitors are going to leave, but many of them would be happy to receive more information (follow ups) from you.

In order to send them that information, you have to have a way of contact them. That’s why you collect their names and email addresses.

By giving you that information, they indicate their interest in your information, and you can follow up on that via email.

Instead of losing the visitor (a potential customer), you can ’slow drip’ information to him in order to ‘pre-sell’ or persuade him towards buying a particular product.

This method works because people like to be sold to, when you do it right. Give them free information. Show them the benefits of the product you’re promoting. Make them focus on the solution or end result of owning the product.

The ability to follow up is the number one reason for an affiliate to own a website and lead capture system. You can prep your customer to be in a buying frame of mind before he reaches the merchant’s web site!

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What are the top 17 sources of affiliate traffic?

By Brian Terry on Saturday, March 8th, 2008

All the experts agree… when you’ve mastered all 17 of these sources of affiliate traffic you can virtually write your own online ticket to online wealth and super affiliate stardom.

However…

I must warn you that it’s NOT easy and there’s a LOT of work involved (which is why most people don’t even master one source of affiliate traffic).

I know you’re different from most others, so here are the keys to ALL 17 sources of affiliate traffic. The trick is to master one at a time until you can command vast floods of traffic at will. Who knows you might not even need all 17!

To help explain these traffic sources I’ve created a mindmap illustration so you can see at a glance how everything fits together…

17sources What are the top 17 sources of affiliate traffic?

Click here to download the 17 sources of affiliate traffic

Let me know how you get on and which you master.

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How to tap into 60+ million highly responsive, targeted visitors

By Brian Terry on Thursday, February 21st, 2008

This has got to be one of the simplest methods ever for tapping into an extremely high quality source of traffic. Speaking as someone who’s tried just about everything there is I can say this with absolute certainty.

So where does this traffic come from and more importantly how can you tap into it?

It’s Yahoo Answers and you tap into it by answering people’s questions (you become the expert).

Basically Yahoo Answers is one huge forum of people posting questions on just about every subject you can imagine. The answers people give them are rated based on how helpful they are, it’s through this rating that you build your reputation.

I can guarantee you that no matter what niche you’re in there will be someone with a question for you. On top of this many of these questions and answers rank extremely well in the search engines for long tail search terms.

Here are the benefits of answering questions on Yahoo Answers:

1. You’re tapping into an extremely responsive group of users simply by being a helpful authority. You see by being nothing more than helpful you’re actually pre-selling yourself to anyone reading the answer you give.

2. In the answers you give people you ethically refer to those websites you own or are an affiliate to. That’s where you get the highly responsive, targeted visitors from.

3. As I mentioned earlier those answers you give along with the original question become ranked in the search engines which pulls in even more people to your affiliate links in the answers you’re helping people with. What’s more these are people who might not even have heard of the Yahoo Answers service before.

Helping people with their questions is much like the blog commenting or forum post traffic technique, so it can prove to be time intensive if you get too carried away with it.

All I suggest you do is to take 10 - 20 minutes a day answering 1 or 2 questions, set yourself a limit so as not to tie up your time too much. Over a 3 month period this could easily add up to 110 or more mentions of your affiliate links which are permanently archived on Yahoo.

It’s important to remember that this traffic technique has an accumulative effect over time, so to begin with the traffic you get might not be that high, but after a month or so of posting your answers you’ll begin to build momentum and larger volumes of traffic.

Before you go off and sign up for a Yahoo Answers account here are a few essential tips to help you maximize your results…

  1. Ensure you always provide quality answers.
  2. Don’t just leave an affiliate link because you’ll have your answer marked as spam and you could even have your account deleted.
  3. Work towards obtaining a “best answer” rate which is calculated by the questions you’ve answered in total and the number of times your answer has been chosen as a “best answer”.The better your best answer rate the more respect you’ll gain in the Yahoo Answers community, which means the more times you can reference your affiliate links without being flagged.
  4. Be the first person to answer the question wherever possible because this gets you the most exposure.
  5. Reference other websites apart from those you’re an affiliate to or own.
  6. Don’t include your link in every post you make. It’s all about building your reputation to grow your score, if you always include your link it’ll make people think all you’re interested in is pushing your website or affiliate link.
  7. A great time saving idea is to answer questions with content you already have. Unique answers always provide the best results because you’re establishing yourself as an expert and not someone good at gathering information.
  8. Always try to include your keyword terms in your answer, this helps to increase the quality of the traffic you’ll get from the search engines.
  9. Ask a few questions now and then. If you have questions of your own, related to absolutely anything, go ahead and ask them. This will help to ensure you’re account is not completely one-sided - again a potential negative flag showing the community that you’re only there to provide answers and muster new traffic and leads.Asking your own questions will show you’re an active member of the community on both sides. It’s also a great way to have other people do research for you at no cost - think about that when you have a bit of writers block the next time you sit down to write your newsletter or blog post.

So once you’ve created your account how do you find the questions to answer?

I recommend doing both a specific keyword search and also to dive right into the category located down the right side of the page. Also focus only on questions that do not have an answer yet or have yet to have a best answer selected.

So what next?

  • Write down a plan of attack for this method of traffic generation.
  • Decide how many questions you’re going to answer each day or week (and stick to it)
    Set a regular schedule to follow and stick to it
  • Once a month check your results to see how much traffic you’ve generated and how much of it converted into customers. Then based on this information decide if it’s worth continuing with.

In summary Yahoo Answers is a really very effective way of promoting your website and affiliate links provided you follow the guidelines I’ve given you above. Because you’re answering questions this traffic technique could be just as good as writing because you’re already serving an existing audience.

Don’t forget to keep a copy of all the answers you give because you could easily expand on this into other forms of content like , blog posts, ebook reports even PowerPoint slide show videos.

Here’s the link to Yahoo Answers

Let me know how you get on and be sure to use your Big Selling Affiliate links in as many of your answers as you’re able to.

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How to write an affiliate review

By Brian Terry on Sunday, February 17th, 2008

Writing a review on products you’re an affiliate to is a great way of becoming a successful Big Selling affiliate marketer.

The beauty of writing an affiliate review is it helps to establish you as an expert in the market place, it helps to give you credibility.

Your role is to act as a credible information provider of information people want.

Now another benefit of using this approach of writing an affiliate review and combining this with a series of optin forms positioned strategically throughout the review is you can use to help you drive traffic to this page.

At the moment is penalizing markers whose optin pages are low on content so including valuable information on your review web page is going to give you a huge advantage and improve your “quality score”.

Writing a great affiliate review is very simple when you know how, the review is essentially a short article that explains the benefits and drawbacks of the product you’re reviewing.

The biggest question to ask when writing reviews is do you own a copy of the product you’re reviewing?

Obviously if you own the product and have tried it out your credibility will be so much higher, but I realize that buying every product you review isn’t always possible when you’re first starting out.

Let’s assume you don’t own the product you’re reviewing in which case you need to consider things like:

1. How relevant is the product to the market (end customers)

2. What are the potential benefits to the market

3. Find other reviews about the product you’re reviewing, when you do this you can sometimes find useful pieces of information you might have otherwise overlooked.

4. What reputation has the product creator/owner for quality. If their reputation is great you can mention that what they’ve created before has been of excellent quality.

5. Search through the sales letter of the site for the product you’re reviewing looking for benefits and features you can mention in your review.

6. Search through forums and blogs for any other information you can find about the product.

.com can help you with this kind of research, just type in the “product name” + review or just search for “product name”. If there’s anything negative this is how you’re likely to find it.

7. Write to the people in the testimonials featured on the products sales letter to see if they can give you some feedback on the product.

8. Contact the product owner and just ask them for a review copy of the product you’re reviewing. You might have difficulty with this until you’ve established your reputation online, but it’s always worth a shot.

Eventually you could be in a situation where you have people approach you with a copy of the product for you to review.

The basic formula for writing an affiliate review is this:

1. Gather information
What are your impressions of the product before and after you bought it?
(Your answer):

(If you didn’t buy the product look for other reviews in forums and blogs, if you can’t find anything give your opinion based on the content of the products sales letter).

What are the top 7 things you learned from this product?
(Your answer):

What one thing did you find most useful?
(Your answer):

Who would benefit the most from this product, who is it not for?
(Your answer):

What was left out of the product?
(Your answer):

How quickly can this product help you?
(Your answer):

What other skills or do you need to get the most benefit from this product?
(Your answer):

Lastly can you recommend it?
(Your answer):

By writing out your answers you’re building the ideal structure to your affiliate review.

2. Flesh out your answers
Now just follow through with each of your questions adding to it some more with any other relevant information you might have.

Be sure to introduce the product you’re reviewing quickly.

Give a compelling reason for people to read your review, this could be a strong headline and/or you start with a major weakness.

By starting out on a negative note it’s easier to grab attention, it draws the reader in because it’s more compelling than this is a great product. When you do this be dire to spin it into a positive.

Keep your writing conversational balancing out the pro and cons in the same sentence or paragraph.

Add something personal about yourself because it helps people to warm to what you’re saying.

Make it clear that you’re recommending the product, how strong is your recommendation. Why not use a star or points system to show your rating of the product?

Lastly be sure to work in clear calls to action, tell people what it is you want them to do.

If you’re already a big selling affiliate I have a special offer for you…

The next 5 people who write a review on one of these products and use the formula I’ve given you above will get the product you’re reviewing for free.

www.BigSellingNiches.com/workbook.html
www.BigSellingConversions.com/onetime.php

Just add your review of one of the products above as a comment to this post and I’ll send you a copy of the product you’re reviewing free of charge.

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Revealed and exposed: the AdWords ads Google won’t show you!

By Brian Terry on Saturday, February 16th, 2008

If you’ve been reading my blog for any length of time I’m sure that by now you know what is and how it can help you grow your affiliate business.

Essentially is a system integrated into the heart of .com search results.

If you’ve used before you’ve probably already seen the ads they feature on their results pages, these are called ads.

What you might not know though is those ads you see on those results pages are shown to people in your geographic location and might not be shown to other people in other locations in your country or other countries around the globe. It’s all part of their ad targeting system.

As a Big Selling Affiliate using to drive traffic to our Big Selling products this is important to know when researching the global market place for advertising oportunites within .

I’ve got a tip here for you that could potentially cut down your competition 10 fold, but you can only do this if you have access to a specific “hidden” tool few people know about.

You see have created a special web page where you can preview the ads shown to other people in other countries. This is important because these are the ads you won’t see when you search in your own country.

Before I give you the link to this powerful and very useful free tool I’d like to give you a quick demonstration so you can see what I mean.

First of all I enter my search term…

adpreview Revealed and exposed: the AdWords ads Google wont show you!

Then I choose the which country I’d like to preview the ads for. So if I was in this country these are the ads would show to me for the search term entered above…

swisscountry Revealed and exposed: the AdWords ads Google wont show you!

In this case I’ve chosen Switzerland, when you’re doing this it’s also important to consider if this country has a population with access to credit cards (if you’re selling something) and that they can speak English.

Then just press the  “preview ads” button and will show you the search results page that’s delivered to people in the country you’ve chosen along with the ads on the right side of the page.

Here’s what people see in Switzerland when they search for “web design tips”…

swissresults Revealed and exposed: the AdWords ads Google wont show you!

As you can see only 1 ad appears! There’s plenty of room for you to target this country and get some good targeted traffic when you do.

Let’s compare this to the results delivered to people in the United States…

usresults Revealed and exposed: the AdWords ads Google wont show you!

Whilst you can’t see them all here I counted 24 ads over 4 results pages. Competition is pretty fierce in the US for this search term. This makes your cost per click a lot higher than if you targeted the smaller markets places which have fewer competitors.

I’m sure that by now you’re itching to have a look at this excellent tool so here it is…

Google AdWords: Ad Preview Tool

Be sure to bookmark it because you’ll want to visit it each time you set up a new campaign to see which global markets have the most potential for your Big Selling

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Top 7 Pay Per Click Search Engines

By Brian Terry on Friday, February 15th, 2008

() traffic is a great way of generating huge volumes of highly targeted traffic fast! Where most other sources of traffic can take days, weeks or months to generate traffic can be turned on or off within just a few short minutes.

What I’d like you to do is consider traffic generation as a way of building your list and profits fast. However when you’re just starting out it can be expensive whilst you learn the ropes.

To help you get off to a flying start in promoting our Big Selling products here’s a list of the top 7 search engines. Take a close look at each of them because I also include links to where you can claim free traffic.

Top 7 search engines

1.
Without a doubt is the very best search engine there is, they provide you with everything you could possibly want. Setting up an account takes no longer than 5 minutes and includes some superb tutorials to help you get the best possible results from your ad campaigns.

Google AdWords reviewed
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2.
Yahoo search start out back in 1997 as GoTo.com then became Overture in 2005 and was rebranded as who now reach over 80% of all Internet users.

Yahoo Search Marketing reviewed
Claim a free $50 credit coupon

3.
is a network of partner sites that power 24 billion searches each year. With you get a full suite of ROI to help you get the most value from your ad campaigns.

MIVA reviewed
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4.
Just like receives around 24 billon searches a year and have their own network of partner sites.

Enhance Interactive reviewed
Claim a free $25 bonus on sign-up

5.
What makes unique is how you can have your advertising click through bids raised or lowered based on a maximum set by you. You can target traffic locally as well as worldwide.

Set up is easy and you have the ability to create sub-accounts for different websites to help you manage your ad campaigns.

GoClick reviewed
Get started for $10 and bid from 1 cent per click

6.
This search engine is aimed at advertisers of low profit margin sites who cannot afford to pay over 10 cents per click. If you’re just starting out with your first product then could be the best place for you to start with over 118 billion searches each year.

claim a higher ROI for advertisers than or Yahoo Search because of their high quality traffic sources.

7Search reviewed
Get started here

7.
have been providing search engine services since 2000 and are comprised of hundreds of high quality content websites, directories and search engines generating tens of millions of searches each year.

Search123 reviewed
Start your account with $50 and they’ll give you $20 free


Whilst they’re not in my top 7 is a real contender for a top position.

With you’re given all the needed to optimize your search marketing campaigns to targeted buyers from a pool of 99 million potential customers with 81% having recently purchased online (according to their website).

Microsoft adCenter reviewed
Sign up now and get up to $75 in free clicks

Why not take advantage of all this free traffic now as a Big Selling Affiliate and turn it into cold hard cash by promoting our high converting Big Selling Products.

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How to boost your big selling affiliate commissions and build your list

By Brian Terry on Sunday, January 13th, 2008

I’m sure you’ve heard this time and time again, the importance of following-up on the subscribers you gain from your various promotions.

I’ve got something here that’s going to help you build your list and boost your Big Selling affiliate conversions all at the same time.

Interested?

Great! All you need are these 2 things:

1. A webhosting account and 2. An autoresponder account with someone like Aweber.com or GetResponse.com

Step 1:

The first thing you need to do is to become a Big Selling Affiliate (if you’re not one already). Then you need to download a couple of zip files I’ve set up for you.

Download this zip file for your squeeze page (this helps you build your list)

You can see a preview of this squeeze page here.

This first zip file is for a specially designed “squeeze page” (optin page) that I’ve set up for you that gives away a free ebook called: Tiple Your Website Sales.

Just customize the pages within this zip file and upload them to your website.

If you don’t have the ebook offered on the squeeze page you can download it and add your affiliate links to it from this blog post here.

Step 2:

The next part is all about helping you to increase your affiliate on the product called: Make My Website Sell.

Here’s the strategy…

What I’ve put together are a series of 21 email messages you can load into your autoresponder and connect to your squeeze page. So when someone requests the free ebook “Tiple Your Website Sales” they’re entered into your series of 21 messages that give extra value content and promotes the product called: Make My Website Sell.

Download this zip file containing 21 follow-up email messages (this boosts your affiliate ).

Now if you don’t have any web hosting I recommend you try out this company here who can provide you with hosting for free, but paid is always better.

Get free website hosting here

If you don’t yet have an autoresponder then I recommend GetResponse.com. With autoresponders it’s always better to go for a paid service because you need reliability and there are very few free autoresponder services I can actually recommend.

If you have any questions just let me know by creating a support ticket here.

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2 emails that convert into sales like crazy!

By Brian Terry on Sunday, January 13th, 2008

If you own a list of subscribers or have a blog just copy and paste these 2 high converting, proven to sell and send them to your list.

Recently we used these 2 in a promotion for “Make My Website Sell!” to a large subscriber list which was extremely successful for us and gave us our highest conversion rates ever for a single promotional campaign.

Here’s how those numbers looked…

Product promoted: “Make My Website Sell!”

Conversion of subscriber to website visitor at squeeze page: 3.50%
Conversion of website visitor into subscriber on squeeze page: 58.08%
Conversion of visitors of sales letter into paying customers: 6.45%

As you can see from the numbers above we’ve got our conversion process nailed down pat.

If you own a list of subscribers who would be interested in boosting their website conversions then I’m certain you too can see these kinds of conversions when you use these .

Here’s the first email:

Subject: 7 minutes and counting…

(Your subscribers first name)

Your immediate action is needed to
secure your copy of a controversial
top-secret report…

==>(Your affiliate link goes here)

where you’ll learn “29 of the most deadly
effective sales conversion tactics
known to man”…

One of them is so powerful it’s been named
the “Trump Card of Conversions”

…pick up your report here for free

==> (Your affiliate link goes here)

WARNING:
You’ve got less than 7 minutes to take
action before the “subscribers only” bonus
vanishes for good!

(Your name goes here)

Here’s the second email:
(This goes out the very next day)

Subject: sorry to be the one to tell you this…

(Your subscribers first name)

Sorry to be the one to have to tell you this
but if you didn’t download your fr.ee copy of
“How To Triple Your Website Sales” yet–

–you know, the one that shows you 29 proven
website changes that can triple the sales of
any under-performing website 100% guaranteed!

You probably won’t be able to get it with the
extra traffic generation workbook bonus…

unless you take action within the next 7 minutes…

…the bonus will be gone

==> (Your affiliate link goes here)

(Your name goes here)

Go ahead, be my guest and send these out to your list! If you have any questions just let me know.

If you don’t have a list yet or would like to increase your list size then there’s a package for you here all ready to pick up…

It was put together by my buddy and business partner Tellman Knudson when he heard how you’ve been trying to get your listbuilding going…

And when I checked it out I said, “Damn, Tellman, if this doesn’t get them where they want to go in less than 90 days, I just don’t know what would…

==> ListBuildingPower.com

You’ve gotta see this to believe it (and I give it my full endorsement, no question).

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