This is How You Can Promote Your Photography Course Online

Today while i was watching warrior forum a webmaster with an id davidgabriele2 asked about promoting his photography course online so here is your answer davidgabriele2 to catch up the main discussion you can check the original thread at
warriorforum.com/main-internet-marketing-discussion-forum/1037457-where-i-can-promote-my-photography-course.html

Well since it's a photography course the first things you should plan ahead is that how you going to make money is it giving out your course as a membership based or one time most people doesn't planned this ahead and when they start promoting they face problem with sales anything changes made after the launch always hurts back...

Membership Based: The best model for such online courses would be membership based since it's a recurring money which you can invest back in promoting more of your product you can charge for a one time upfront money but if you don't have a bigger name behind your product it would hard selling at huge amount upfront.

Promotion tactics: The best way of promoting such courses would be combination of social content and other selling channels first you need to create a social pages like twitter accounts, facebook pages as well as other social media pages which will boost your brand on social media space.

Now you can create a blog aside of your main business website this will act as a sales funnel now keep posting relevent post based on photography since you are posting relevent content across your blogging channel this will attract targeted audience that will more likely to buy your course.

Content will also boost your experties and trust which will flow throught your social media properties that you have set up already people going to like your page and your follow your twitter page this all things going to add up to your overall brand.

Other Platforms: Moreover you can also create multiple web 2.0 properties and boost awareness about your courses as a third person you can post some positive reviews and testimonials it's might be fake but it helps getting the first break and after your product becomes famouse things becomes much like an autopilot.

Launch Affiliate Program: The last step would be getting some affiliates by listing your affiliate program on some already stablished affiliate directory or some affiliate networks such as clickbank, JVJoo or shareasale.

GOOD Luck!!

Why Writing Reviews Is Not Recommended For Affiliate Marketers

I own and operate mygatenow.com where i write reviews on internet marketing products i have made significant amount of money while just writing reviews only, you can try this strategy but what i have learned after running a review blog for 2 years is that when you run this kind of blog at some point of time you will feel hard to push your profits.

And here is why...

Too Much Competition:  To get things work you have to create an indepth review of some product of your choice and after writing your review you have to place your affiliate buttons at the end which will bring sales to your affiliate websites.

But problem with this strategy is that you have to rank it up for respective keywords like if you are selling a chair you have to rank it up for chair review.

Yeah! reviews convert well, but you are not the one affiliate out their there are many others like you that are doing the same sort of things which you are doing and when you succeed in ranking your review and go on to something else,

Then the your previous reviews started loosing their rankings due to other affiliates outranking your spot and you have to work back again to get your first spot again and when you focus back on that article other articles starts to lose rank, so when you keep adding your review it becomes much hard to keep ranking for all of them.

so at the end you just end up maintaining your spot.

No Audience Building: While writing review you are not building a business a successful business must grow with time but what happening over here is that you are just sticking to your place there is no growth, no stable income.

So what's the right way of doing affiliate marketing?
 Overall first you need to decided what's you going to sell and make sure it's a quality product because that will affect your future sales.

After that you have 

Leverage Email marketing:  Email marketing accounts major affiliate sales not just for me for anyone on the internet you will heard this phase numerous times "Money is in the List" it's true in every aspect when you build a list you are not just selling but you are building a list of buyer which will eventually grow with time the bigger and better you have the more affiliate sales you can make.

Killer Methods To Promote Your Amazon Affiliate Products

No, matter how much affiliate programs you might try amazon has the best conversion of them all even if with their short commission percentage but good conversions make up the mark.

No, wonder amazon affiliate program is the best one out their but selling their stuffs is really hard things you can try out today i am going to teach you how you should promote your amazon products and things that actually works.

Things That Doesn't Worked

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Banners And Widgets : Before i went on promoting amazon i was like a sheep in a big city i don't know where to start on and what sort of things should i target, basically i started off with creating a blog writing of articles on specific topic at that time i was writing about computers tips and tricks,

When i put amazon banners after one month of running nothing much conversion happened at my affiliate account that was bit sad though as i replaced other ads in place of amazon to get them maximum exposure.

What i learned was people weren't actually in the mode of buying when they come to my website they were looking for tricks and not computer or even their accessories.

So it was like selling umbrella in a sunny day to get that conversion you want those visitors who are looking for products that you are selling.

PPC ADS( Risky Move) : From wondering like an idiot someone on an internet marketing forum suggest me trying ppc ads while doing some internet marketing research i found that i won't able to promote affiliate products directly google doesn't allow it.

But i didn't lose hope instead of promoting it directly i used a landing page so instead of visitors going directly to the product page they going to land into my website where i put some specification about that product at the end of it i put my affiliate links.

I do got some sales doing it but at the end i losses more then i actually earned ppc ads campaign took too much profit out of my pocked l left ppc after burning 200$ which i have arranged by selling my old gaming consoles.

But, i don't think this strategy doesn't work but you have to work on right keywords and keep experimenting with your ad variation and bids until you get that right set of keywords and ad titles that surpass the amount you are investing but that requires you to burned some dollars at the beginning.


PPC ads are oldest method of affiliate marketing and you will find good number advance affiliate marketers earning good figures using this method but currently adword doesn’t allow affiliates but this doesn’t end of the road you can try the same business model on the second most visited search engine bing.com but make sure you do your homework some online courses like info cash 2 by ppc expert chris carpenter can save you from doing lot of expensive mistakes.
                                                       

Things That Actually Work

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Writing Reviews: Most amount of money which i have made as a beginner is by writing reviews of products if you are good at writing you can make upto 3% conversion (out of hundred visitor you send to vendor's page it's a great chance that 3 will end up buying ) while my first conversion wasn't from amazon but i found this work even on amazon as well infact i am getting much larger conversion with amazon because people trust this brand blindly.

So they don't think about basic stuffs like is it safe to use credit card, or do i get returns which makes my conversion rate higher on amazon.

Why reviews convert so well?

Reviews are something which people search while they are ready to buy something but are looking for some final testimonial so these traffic have their credit card ready to make their purchase and if you help them with their buying decision with your in depth review they end up buying with your affiliate link.

You can target some buying keywords such as

"xbox 360 review"
"xbox 360 customer review"
"xbox 360 testimonials"

My Amazon Guide: If you love to start your amazon affiliate journey then i suggest you go through my free amazon affiliate guide
                                           

Selling A Chitika Ads Based Website On Flippa

This week on warrior forum an interesting thread going on a member "Delboy Trotter" wants to sell his website on flippa but the problem for some reason he was monetizing his website currently with adsense so he was not sure weather he would get some buyers for his website as most website sold over flippa were adsense based.

You can check out the thread here : warriorforum.com/main-internet-marketing-discussion-forum/1019779-does-website-chitika-sells-flippa.html

There Are Many Factors Which Makes A Website Sell

Maybe your website doesn't uses adsense but still if it's generate significant amount of traffic then surely you will get buyers but you need to attach all the screenshots of google analytic which gives an idea to the buyer about what kind of traffic you are getting.

The member also mentioned that the website was generating around 25$ in revenue from chitika ads which is a good signal that this website has good potential as if it's used by using adsense the profit might get as high as 100$ per month.

Your domain authority (MOZ DA), Good pagerank and audience location also improves the chance of getting a sell because you have added more metrics to your listing.

IF you are selling a website with no adsense account currently do mention why you are not using adsense and give them the real reason of it like you don't have an approved adsense account or you have banned with adsense.

Lastly Just be honest...

Exploit Other Sales Channels

Why stick with just one marketplace you can sell your website using various other platform such as  Sedo and, Godaddy auction even though sedo and godaddy are more vocused on domain name selling but they also provide good analytics tool for a small fee.

In my opinion Sedo would be the best network to sell your website other than flippa.

Creating Single Page Micro Website Targeting Single Keyword

I am regular visitor of warrior forums as there are lots of hot internet marketing gossips takes place today when i was browsing threads i found an interesting question you can check that thread here warriorforum.com/search-engine-optimization/1018887-single-page-micro-niche-site-targeting-single-keyword.html

Member named rook and king idea was to create a single page website targeting a single keyword and make money with it.

For anyone the idea might look to be effective but there are lots of flaws in this strategy which i am going to reveal right now.

Google Doesn't Hate Single Page Website But Doesn't Like It Either

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If you are creating a single page website with single content you might providing value with that single content but think of a user visiting your website and he or she has no where to go after dropping to your website this will generally leads to high bounce rate from your website which doesn't look good in the eyes of google.

Google Looks Entire Website: Maybe your content is good maybe your website design is awesome but your website doesn't have big content inventory which in long run hurt you back google looks entire website which makes content rich website more appealing and authoritive.

Trust Me It's Going To Be Hard To Rank...

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Usually micro niche website business is done using a keyword rich domain name such as if you are planning to sell a dog training course you start by registering a domain names like dogtrainingcourse.com and ranking it up on terms like "Dog Training Course" at the beginning this idea use to work and believe me i have made good figures of money using these techniques,

What made this strategies worst was that google EMD update that killed those website that have keyword rich and exact match domains in there urls, i use to believe that this algorithm use to derank those with exact match keywords in their domain names.

But after doing bit of researching i found that this update doesn't work that way it just takes away the advantage you usually get having exact keywords in your website url,

So, generally it made creating such website and ranking even more time consuming which doesn't go well with the money you are going to earn at the end.

My personal failure was dropping of my job network website like this one jobs-in-jamshedpur.blogspot.com after getting success with this formula i scaled up my niche business creating more blogs like jobs-in-patna.blogspot.com and while i was working with jobs-in-dhaband.blogpost.com emd update was launched and with next day all my blogs dropped like house of cards. It was my one year of hard work that went down in a day.

Lesson  I've Learned With This Experienced

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Never depend on niche website , A niche website with just single source of traffic such as search engines are meant to be fall as you are relying on someone else algorithm, and even if you are an experience search engines optimization expert maintaining a top spot is something you don't have your control over it.

Things Can Become Complicated, When you start your first niche website things looks like fun but when you get bigger like 2-3 or 4-5 niche website maintaining each one of them becomes a mess when your rank one another website drops couples off spot and when you start doing link building for that one the third one start lossing it ranks,

It's like fighting with both hands and some sort of time you feel like shutting everything up but hope for making some money online keeps you back

You Are Not Building A Business, What i have found running a niche website is that you are not building a business as a real business must show stable profit and it should keeps on increasing with each passing month

What Worked For Me

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After getting burned by niche website business the things i have found effective was creating something authoritative which proved to be much solid in terms of earnings as your website is not build on just single keyword but you are focusing on a particular market so even if your rankings fall you have secondary keywords that make up your overall traffic.

If you are thinking about building your real and stable online business i recommend you should try My No1 Recommended course that will help you build solid income online.

Reasons Why You Should Use Bing Ads

There are good number of webmaster who are currently have never considered bing ads infact they never looked beyond google adwords people like them feel that adword is the only network they should focus on, well i don't have problem with what they choose to bring traffic to there service, but today i am going to revel why you should focus on bing ads.

 

Bing Has Some Good Numbers...

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Yeah! i know google has a big search market share they boast big searches per year and it outnumbers of those registered by other search engines  but that doesn't means there are no searches takes place on bing, accroding to the reports from search engine land bing after each passing year constantly registering all time high mark so with each passing year bing is getting stronger and stronger,

It has already left yahoo a way behind to become the second most visited search engines in the world. With billions of searches every year bing can sends some serious traffic it may be less then what google sends but it still has good numbers which can't be ignored.

Targeted Traffic

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Being a search engine it's no doubt that it brings targeted traffic to your website and since there you will find much less advertisers and compared to google you will enjoy low cpc so you will have to pay less for your clicks and still get targeted leads to your website.

While doing cpc ads for my image hosting site lapload.com i usually paying 0.50$ for a click on google but with bing ads i was paying 0.01$ for a click that's dirt cheap.

Import Campaign Directly From Google Adword

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To save time if you have planned to go with bing ads you don't have create a new campaign specially for bing if you have an adword account and you have set a campaign in their you can import all your campaign data such as ad titles cpc bid to your bing ads dashboard.

Taking Advantage Of Facebook Graph Search

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Facebook graph search is a new feature that one must take advantage of it with the current trend this lets you search web without leaving facebook good part is that it uses bing search engine results including bing advertising so in upcoming years bing searches can grow bigger as there are much lesser competition as compared with google adword so it's a right time to start your bing campaign so if you need some advance on creating perfect and high converting ppc campaign you can download info cash 2 an ebook course by bing ppc expert and internet marketer chris carpenter.

Conclusion

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Bing ads might look low on numbers but it's really affordable method of getting good traffic as compared with it's competitor google adword i really want to recommend bing ads for affiliate marketers if you have low budget advertising budget really matter and bing can be great marketing partner for such case.

My Strategy To Monetize Image Search Traffic

Google image traffic is really hard to monetize first visitors from these traffic sources are mostly interested in images so they hardly click on your little ads so you get horrible ctr but the numbers from image traffic are really big one so it makes sense to think about monetizing these sources.

My Strategy to monetize these traffic sources.

Attempt 1 (PPC Ads Failed)

One of my blogs was getting good number of hits from image searches first i thought of using ppc ads but i didn't got any success with it people come and go but they don't click on ads as if they were blind folded they visit my blog and download images or hit back button only left me think what's happening.

Changed Some Settings ( Little But No Success Either)
Image ads worked bit better then ppc but i put large banner just next to the image along with one banner on the top and one at the bottom overall i created a window of ads around the image but this trick performed better then the other one but it was a slight success got some little ctr hike but nothing what i can boast off.

Affiliate Program ( A Big No)

I don't know why i gave affiliate program a shot i  know from beginning that it won't convert but that's what happened i didn't get any sales.

Things That Worked

Cpm Ads (Worked Great :))

Cpm ads worked liked charm very effective as it doesn't based on clicks but on pageviews so it performed really well with my wallpaper blog but i do have to try a lots of cpm ad network as most of them rejected my application due to lack of content but what to say i had a wallpaper site so it doesn't have much content.

Finally got approved with clicksor, currently it's the best cpm ads network right now and it's really easy to get approved by them even if you have much less traffic.

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