Submit Articles To Other E-Mail Newsletters And Sites

3. Submit Articles to other E-Mail Newsletters and Sites

It should be easy for you to position yourself as an expert that other Webmasters and e-zine editors will want to expose to their audiences. You should already be creating content for your own site and newsletter. While you may decide to make select portions of your content exclusively available through your own vehicles, most of your content should be freely shared with the world. I’m not talking about material you write that’s sold in books and other formats; material from those projects should be reserved for paying customers. What we’re addressing now are the many articles, columns, and tips you publish with the sole intent of spreading them far and wide.

Why will Webmasters and e-zine editors be interested in the free content you have to offer? Here are some of the reasons:

*  E-zines need quality content that inspires subscribers to open their e-mail and read it.
*  Web sites need useful content to draw first-time visitors.
*  Webmasters need to update their sites constantly to get return visitors.
*  Good content is hard to find.
*  Experts on specialized topics are even harder to find.
*  Most marketers offering free content are turned down because they fill their articles with self-serving hype.

Starting today, begin viewing your written expertise as a valuable, in-demand commodity you can use to help others while meeting your own needs. In return for the use of your material, Webmasters and e-zine editors give you access to their audiences—the type of exposure that plants mental seeds that will soon sprout into full-blown recognition of you and your brand identity. When your articles, columns, and tips carry the right type of author attribution, this exposure will also motivate thousands of people to subscribe to your e-zine and visit your Web site. Here are a few places to announce that you have free articles available:
 
Ezine Articles, http://www.ezinearticles.com/
FreeSticky.com, http://www.freesticky.com/
Idea Marketers, http://www.ideamarketers.com/

4. Set up an Affiliate Program
 
There are two sides to the affiliate game. Most people are playing the game by signing up with affiliate programs, then linking from their Web sites to the site running the affiliate program hoping to make money in the form of commissions. It’s very easy to get started, and hundreds of thousands of people have already done so. Amazon.com claims to have 400,000 affiliates (or “associates,” as they call them), for instance. Of course there’s another way to play the affiliate game ... you can set up an affiliate program yourself, linked to a shopping-cart system, then recruit other Web sites to send business to you. One of the largest directories of affiliate programs on the Web, AssociatePrograms.com, lists just  2694 different programs. Of the millions of businesses operating on the Internet, just a few thousand have managed to not only set up a shopping-cart system of some kind, but to also integrate an affiliate program into it.

Why? Because it’s difficult to do so. There are a number of programs available to help you do it (a few are listed in the Links page mentioned above), but in general they are either expensive, or complicated to install ... or both. Some e-commerce systems have very crude affiliate systems, systems that require, for instance, that you add each affiliate by hand. You really need a system by which affiliates can sign up for themselves everything should be automated.

If you’re looking for a good affiliate program, you might check out AffiliateTracking.net, http://affiliatetracking.net/. It’s a great little program, with features such as these:

a·  Automatic affiliate signup and assignment of affiliate links

b·  Affiliate statistics page, so affiliates can see the number of click throughs, sales, and commissions

c·  The ability to pay commissions based on click throughs, sales, or “sub affiliates” (when an affiliate signs up another affiliate)

d·  A series of reports and tools to help you track who you owe and how much you owe

e·  You can specify how many days an affiliate “owns” a visitor that the affiliate site has directed to your site (if the visitor buys from you after the expiration period, you don’t owe the affiliate a commission)

f·  Each time an affiliate order is logged the system can, if you wish, send a notification to the affiliate and to you

g·  A payment tracking module, to help you pay the correct commissions

h·  A mail system for sending an e-mail to all the affiliates at once (great for announcing special promotions!)


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