What really makes them so nice is that they give us a glimpse of how well products are doing in the open market. Thanks to Gravity, we can see the selling trends for any product we want. If you’re interested in promoting a specific product, you’ll be able to tell if the product is selling before you ever promote it.

Of course this means that other people are making money selling the product, but this actually a good thing for you. You might not like the idea of competition, but in this case we want to know that there is a market for the product and that people are buying. Competition is healthy.

Here’s a video I put together that briefly explains Gravity and where to find it for each product. I’ll also tell you at what percentage you want the Gravity to be in order to ensure that you have a good chance of making money with that product.

I hope you enjoy it…

Franck Silvestre is an Internet marketing mentor and helps others to get started online and earn a second paycheck from the Internet at: http://www.MakeMoneyOnlineHow.com.

There are three reasons why I recommend affiliate marketing to make money online.

1. Zero cost – It doesn’t cost anything to start making money with affiliate marketing. You can join affiliate programs for free and start promoting other people’s products and services with zero out of pocket expense. There are plenty of free methods to get traffic to your affiliate offers, and with the use of free blogs, you can easily write reviews and recommendations for the products you want to sell. At some point you may want to invest in your own blog or website, but that’s completely optional.
2. You don’t need your own product or service – When you’re just starting out, you probably won’t have your own product or service. And that’s okay, because with affiliate marketing you make money by promoting other people’s products. Simply refer people, and if they buy, you earn a commission. It’s better than having your own product because you get to choose from thousands of already reputable products and earn a generous amount of money for your efforts. However, there may come a time when you’ll want to create your own product, and that’s fine too.
3. No training needed – The nice thing is that you don’t need any upfront training. You can literally learn as you go, which is the best way to learn anything, in my opinion. There is, however, a learning curve that you’ll have to master if you want to become successful. But, as mentioned, you can be getting your hands dirty while learning the necessary steps to make money with affiliate marketing.

Franck Silvestre is an Internet marketing mentor and helps others to get started online and earn a second paycheck from the Internet at: http://www.MakeMoneyOnlineHow.com.

The better approach to using blogs to make money online is to actually own the blog. This means you won’t be setting up a free blog on Blogger.com or Wordpress.com. Instead, you’ll have to register your own domain and name and web hosting. This may sound complicated, but it’s not.

The benefits of having your very own domain are that you can brand yourself or your business. There are numerous additional benefits to just this one main benefit, but I won’t get into that.

Another benefit is that you completely own your blog and domain name. You have full control over every aspect of it. You control the design, content and monetization efforts. Your blog can’t be shut down because you may have violated certain terms. You won’t have to worry about that here.

If you decide to put up ads and advertise various affiliate programs, you’re free to do so. You can build your own opt-in list that you can market to later. The possibilities are truly endless when you own your blog. No one can take it from you.

Say you started out using a free blog and now want to switch to your own blog. Rather than losing all of your posts, you can simply export your posts, comments, etc. from your free blog and import everything into your new blog.

The total cost associated with owning your own blog will only be the domain registration and web hosting. At the most, it will only cost you about $100 a year. That’s it. That’s a very small price to pay when you think about the potential making money with affiliate marketing really has.

Franck Silvestre is an Internet marketing mentor and helps others to get started online and earn a second paycheck from the Internet at: http://www.MakeMoneyOnlinehow.com

Free blogs such Blogger.com and Wordpress.com, just to name a couple, can be used to create a web presence where you can promote various products as an affiliate.

There are, however, pros and cons to this approach that I’ll discuss below.

Pros

The obvious pro to using free blogs is that they are in fact, free. They’re also very easy to setup and use. You can be up and running and blogging within minutes. At no point will it cost you anything to maintain and keep your blog going.

Cons

The cons to this approach, though, is that you don’t fully own your blog. With free blogs, you’re at the mercy of the blog provider, in this case Blogger.com and Wordpress.com. These two sites both have strict policies about advertising and promoting affiliate products, and they can shut your blog down at any time. That’s not a good thing for you when you’re trying to make money online and build a web presence.

Also, you don’t own the domain. Your blog is a subdomain and part of the Blogger.com or Wordpress.com domain. For example: http://yourblog.blogspot.com or http://yourblog.wordpress.com. For branding purposes, this doesn’t look very professional and will raise questions in the minds of potential customers.

With that being said, it’s very possible to make money online using free blogs. However, it’s not what you’re probably thinking, and I’ll get into this at a later time.

There’s a better approach if you want to setup a main blog from which you’ll brand yourself or your business, and I’ll be talking about this in my next post.

Franck Silvestre is an Internet marketing mentor and helps others to get started online and earn a second paycheck from the Internet at: http://www.MakeMoneyOnlinehow.com

Do you realize that your time could be better spent promoting affiliate products and making money? Yes, these sites can be used to make money with affiliate marketing.

The key with anything you do when promoting affiliate products is to brand yourself. So, the key to making these sites work for you is branding yourself as an expert in your field. Facebook, Twitter and Myspace all allow you to post updates to your account. Use this to your advantage to promote the products you recommend, but don’t abuse it.

Build friends and a following that will be interested in what you have to talk about. This is how you will convert your status updates into sales. Also make use of other key features like your profile page and “about me” section. Use these as a “sales page” about you or your business.

On Facebook, you can setup your own personal Fan Page. This can be used to drive traffic to your site and build your list. Invite your friends to become a fan, and tell them to do the same.

And, going back to your friends, you first have to build them up. Take it slow as these sites limit the amount of friends you can add in a day. Add too many and you can be seen as a spammer and have your account deleted. You don’t want this to happen if you’ve spent a lot of time on your profile and other features

Making money with affiliate marketing via social sites is a real fact and something you can start doing starting today. Get signed up, be social and make money online!

Franck Silvestre is an Internet marketing mentor and helps others to get started online and earn a second paycheck from the Internet at: Make Money Online Fast.

We covered the two basic types of videos and what they can be used for. This post is going to go more in-depth on how to use video as a promotion and lead-generation tool.

Whether you’re creating a tutorial style video or a more direct, ‘in your face’ video, both are very effective in getting your message across. The purpose of your video and the end result you’re aiming for will determine which type of video you want to use.

When promoting an application or any type of software, it’s best to create a tutorial type video. In this way, you can actually show a live demonstration using the application, allowing your viewers to see it in action for themselves. You can point out all the features and explain what each one does. Be sure to cover the benefits of those features and why it’s going to be useful to your viewers.

In the same way, if you’re promoting a website or a specific web page, you can show the page or site and briefly cover what people will find on it. You don’t have to go in great depth here, but make sure you state why going there will benefit your viewers.

Now, if you’re looking to build your list or get people into your affiliate program downline, the same tips apply. Video can be used to entice people to check out your affiliate link and sign up to learn more about your affiliate program, or you can simply send them to your own newsletter sign-up page.

The possibilities really are endless. Get creative with your video marketing to make money with affiliate marketing. It really does work and is the new media of choice for most marketers.

If you really want to make money with affiliate marketing, then you should seriously consider adding videos into your marketing mix. Here some tips on promoting an affiliate product using video.

The advantage of video is that you can showcase how something works in real-time. For instance, if you’re promoting a cool new software application that will make internet marketer’s lives so much easier in finding profitable niches, use video to demonstrate just exactly how it will do that.

For this type of video you’ll need screen capture software to record your computer screen while you’re using the software. CamStudio will do the trick and is free. If you want something more professional there’s Camtasia which is just great. Either way, tutorials and live demonstration videos work wonders in helping promote a product as an affiliate.

Then, there’s the other type of videos where you sit in front of the camera and talk. This  can also have a lot of impact as people can now put a face to the words. These types of videos are more personal, and if you provide useful information and don’t sound salesy, you can build trust among your viewers.

For this type of video you can use just a basic digital camera or web cam if you want. Or, if you would prefer something a little higher quality you can purchase an inexpensive digital camcorder. Whichever one you choose, you’ll be making a very wise investment in your affiliate marketing business. And, you can even write it off as a business expense during tax time.

You now have the fundamentals for using video to promote your affiliate products. My next post will go more in-depth of how to make money with affiliate programs using various video marketing techniques.

Franck Silvestre is an Internet marketing mentor and helps others to get started online and earn a second paycheck from the Internet at: Make Money Online Fast.

So, how do you go about building an email list of subscribers?

The first thing you’ll need is an incentive. People generally want something of value before they’ll just hand over their name and email address. If you can provide something of value, like a free report, free software or just useful information about a particular topic that deals within your niche, this will increase the likelihood of getting people to sign up.

Once you have your incentive, you’ll need a landing page (squeeze page) which will be used to capture your visitor’s name and email addresses. For more information about landing pages, check out a recent article on Creating a Winning Landing Page. Basically, you want to briefly describe what your incentive is and make it clear that all they have to do in order to get your incentive is to provide their name and email address. You’ll need an opt-in form to make this work, which is provided by your autoresponder service or software, whichever you’re using.

Once the form is filled out, your visitor’s should receive an automatic message with download instructions for their free report, etc. You should also have a series of emails already created that will be sent out periodically.

The important thing here is that you build and nurture your subscribers. Provide them with valuable information and keep them interested. Build a relationship with them, and let them know the real you. Be personal and upfront with them, and most importantly, be honest.

Doing these things will ensure that you build a healthy and responsive email list that will trust you and your recommendations and allow you to make money with affiliate marketing promoting other people’s products. This is a surefire way to make money online.

Franck Silvestre is an Internet marketing mentor and helps others to get started online and earn a second paycheck from the Internet at: Make Money Online Fast.

Just to recap, backlinks are links on other websites that link back to your website. Hence the reason they’re called backlinks. Backlinks are essential for driving your website up in search engine results. You want your website at the top of the results page whenever someone types in a specific keyword phrase. The higher your website ranks, the more traffic it will get, and the more sales you will generate.

So, let’s start with the proper use of backlinks. Backlinks are the most effective when they contain keywords. What keywords should backlinks contain? Backlinks that you’re building should contain the keywords/keyword phrase of the web page that it’s linking to. For example, if your web page’s keyword phrase is “best golf clubs” without quotes, then your backlinks should contain that keyword phrase exactly. The term used for this is called anchor text, so all backlinks you build should contain the anchor text for the pages you’re building links for.

I hope that makes sense to you. A great example of this would be the link I have at the beginning of this post. The link is a phrase, which links to my previous blog post. This is the exact same thing you want to do when creating your backlinks.

Moving on, I now want to cover the best way to get backlinks. Backlinks should be built slowly, around 5 – 10 a day. You would even be safe in building 50 in a day to the same web page, but don’t overdue it. Gradual and steady is the key. If you build a huge amount of backlinks within too short of a time, Google will get suspicious and think that you’re spamming, and this is definitely not a good thing.

Some different ways to go about building backlinks include article marketing, blog commenting, forum posting, writing guest blog posts, reciprocal linking with other related sites, social bookmarking, video marketing, etc. There are numerous ways to build quality backlinks, and remember you want to do it slowly over time.

Franck Silvestre is an Internet marketing mentor and helps others to get started online and earn a second paycheck from the Internet at: Make Money Online Fast.

So, how do you get people to see your review blog posts?

Some very basic marketing comes into play here, but the first thing you need to do is do some keyword research. For starters, go here: https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal and type in a relative search term used to describe the product you’re promoting. For example, if you’re promoting a weight loss program, you might want to type in “weight loss” without quotes.

From there you’ll be provided with various search terms people use that contain the term weight loss in them. You want to find a keyword phrase that gets a moderate amount of traffic. Around 1,000 should be just fine. The more searches a month, the more competition that phrase will have, so keep that in mind.

Once you find a keyword phrase, you want to use it in the title of your blog post and sparingly throughout the post. This will optimize your post for that keyword phrase. You’re not done yet, though. Now it’s time to build backlinks to the post.

Backlinks are simply links on other sites pointing back to your site. The more backlinks you build to your website or particular web page within your site, the higher it will rank in search engines. But, it’s important that when building backlinks you use the keyword phrase for that page.

So, in this example, if your keyword phrase was “weight loss made easy,” you want to build backlinks that contain that exact phrase. Doing so will drive your blog post higher up in the search engines for that phrase and will bring targeted traffic to the post and eventually sales.

Franck Silvestre is an Internet marketing mentor and helps others to get started online and earn a second paycheck from the Internet at: Make Money Online Fast.