Using internet marketing techniques on offline businesses

As an internet marketer, I know just how lucrative it is to make money marketing online businesses. However I have to let you on a secret I just stumbled upon. I have just found out that instead of concentrating only on online businesses, it is just as easy to earn easy cash using internet marketing techniques on offline businesses!

The main reason for this is because to offline businesses, internet marketing proves to be something new. They are not aware of this market and avenue of free marketing, which brings increased sales and profit for them.

We as internet marketers have nothing to lose as all we have to do is to teach all of them the tricks of internet marketing. Basically, offline businesses at present carry out similar marketing and advertising tactics like using coupons for promoting their businesses and perhaps getting listed in the yellow pages.

They save while we earn

However what they do not know is that they can save money through internet marketing (while we make money!). Instead of spending money printing coupons, we can teach them how to use online coupon companies for free. And instead of getting listed in the yellow pages, we just have to show them the global audience the business gets by listing their business in online yellow pages and directory sites.

We can also carry out workshops to teach them all there is to internet marketing and earn some money by charging for attending the workshop. We can also offer to start blogs for them, and manage them by adding fresh content on a regular basis, and by perhaps starting an e-newsletter for interested people to sign up for.

So you can see that by offering our internet marketing skills to offline businesses, not only do these businesses flourish, we can also earn a sizeable amount through their internet marketing.

There are more tips and techniques to learn by implementing internet marketing techniques in offline businesses. This is why I highly recommend you download this free report called Easy Offline Cash. It discusses everything about using internet marketing techniques in offline business. If you care at all about making more money with what you always to, you will at least download and read the report, it's free!

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Affiliate marketing lessons

I recently found a site with a bunch of free lessons on affiliate marketing techniques and some other related topics.

Affilorama

Check it out for yourself, you're going to find it very helpful if you're new to affiliate programs.

Marketing e-books

I came across some very interesting free ebooks, they contain some very interesting tips about online marketing.

Check them out:

101 SuperTips

Viral Marketing SuperTips

Forum Marketing SuperTips

Ad Tracking SuperTips

Viral Marketing SuperTips

Those are just some of the books in the SuperTips collection, which includes both free and paid ebooks. Have a look for yourself and see if you find something interesting.

Referrals

I got 4 referrals since i started with Acme People Search, 3 of them came trough advertising on a PPC site and the other one from a traffic exchange site.

From the 3 that came through my PPC ads, only one has responded my emails, and already completed all the 3 steps in the program, it seems he instantly saw the earning potential from the program. The other two seem like they've not even understood or cared that much about the program, since they've not even completed the first step, which is completely free.

I think I got good results with very little advertising, so I'm guessing I'll get even better results with further extending an ad campaign.

Now on to advertise!

Income from a search engine, how come?

You may be wondering how a people search engine is going to produce any sort of income for you, here's a little explanation about how Acme People Search works.

1. GDI
The most powerful income tool for your search engine, quite simply it's where your search engine will be hosted, and you'll get commissions for inviting others to join.

2. Adsense
Your search engine will contain Google Adsense ads, so you can profit from people who visit your search engine and click on the ads.

3. HostGator
Another hosting option for your search engine, you get commissions of up to $125 for inviting new customers to this host.

4. ClickBank
You get commission whenever someone does an e-mail search from within your search engine.

5. HD Publishing
You get commission whenever someone orders a background check from within your search engine

6. MyLife
You get commission whenever someone registers for free to receive more information in your search engine, plus commission on premium upgrades.


All that, plus the referral bonuses directly from Acme People Search, that's a huge earning petontial!

3 Steps to success

There are three main steps to complete in Acme People Search, but, what are these steps for?

First of all there's the signup process, which also generates your search engine, and gives you some information you need to get started. On to the steps.

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Step 1: Affiliatize:

In this step you are required to join some affiliate programs, it costs nothing to join them, and it increases your income opportunities from your search engine.

The affiliate programs required are, ClickBank, HD Publishing, and MyLife. These will be embedded in your search engine when you complete step 1.

(Display rate after competing this step: 35%)

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Step 2: Monetize:

So now we have our own search engine, with a lot of earning tools embedded, but... right now its being hosted on a domain which is not yours. Is that bad? well, no, but your search engine could be way better if it were hosted under its own domain.

Instead of your search engine having a hard to remember address, like this: http://acme-people-search.com/1234567890XXXX (just an example)

We can turn it into something easy to remember, and eye catching: www.totalpeoplefinder.ws (my people search engine)

In order to complete step 2 you'll need to get some hosting for your search engine, you have to chose one from the options provided, no other hosting options are available except for the ones in there. Too restrictive? Any of the hosting options shown, will give you yet another way to profit with your search engine.

Hosting options:
GDI: In my opinion the best option to choose, it offers many bonuses for referring new members, and also gives you a residual income, from your referrals hosting fee.
$10 USD/month (monthly payments), 7 day free trial. Domain included.

HostGator: Good option, good commissions per referral, no residual income.
$8.95 USD/month (monthly payments), plus domain ($15, yearly), plus setup fee ($5, one time)

LunarPages: Well there's no benefit from using this host at all, no referring options.
$8.95 USD/month (12 months agreement).

(Display rate after competing this step: 65%)

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Step 3: Advertise:

This step can be a little confusing, in order to complete it you are required to pay a monthly subscription fee of $29.95, includes 30 days free tiral.

What does it include?

1. 100% Display rate. Your search engine's affiliate IDs will be displayed to 100% of your visitors. When you're at the 100% Display rate, visitors to your search engine will always use your affiliate links when they buy from ClickBank, HD Publishing or MyLife. (By comparison, if you're at the 65% Display rate, your affiliate links will be used by only 65% of visitors to your search engine, reducing your earnings.)

2. GDI Secret Sign-up Sauce. Gives you the ability to offer your referrers only one hosting option, GDI, thus increasing your sign-ups for it, and therefore, your residual income and bonuses.

3. Super Affiliate Switch Available. Gives you the ability to get the HostGator commissions from your referrals at Acme People Search (notice that even if you chose HostGator as your hosting in step 2, you wont be able to get commissions from your Acme referrals until your switch is flipped). There are several extra requirements for the Super Affiliate Switch tough, check them out once you complete step 3 if you're interested.

(Bonus) FREE advertising. You get free advertising as a bonus with your subscription, this bonus ends when you've reached $125 in commissions.

First post, first thoughts

I just got into this affiliate business thing, and I want to give it a try, see if it works out for me.

I joined Acme People Search 4 days ago (as of this writing) and I've made my way through the 3 steps provided in the program, granted, there's more "stuff" to do than those 3 steps to increase your income, but I'll get into those later when I try them out.

On this 4 days, I've learned a lot, but there's much more left to learn, and I'll keep a record of what works, what kinda works, and what does not work, in the affiliate world I've just got into.

I think that's enough for a first post. :)