Anti-Guru: Internet Marketing blog

I find it funny but most would-be marketers have no idea of what Internet Marketing really is. They think that IM is pushing products they know nothing about to “poor people” who are not aware that the helpful review they are reading comes from the affiliate who just wants to make a quick sale.

So, let me tell you something. Internet marketing is not about pushing products. Internet Marketing is not about making a quick sale from time to time.

So what is internet marketing?

It is doing all these things that change the state of mind of your prospects. It is making them want to buy from you. It is persuading them that their life will be simpler or better if they buy the product you sell or recommend.

This sounds simple but how can it be done?

You must find the targeted group of people that have the same need or problem to solve. You must state the same questions they have.

And here comes the moment when you make money:

You show them the way, solution. You point them to the right place so, they will think better of themselves.

It’s easy as that.

So, internet marketing is persuading your prospects that they need something that you have to offer.

Most of the marketers make the same mistake of pushing the product before their visitors even think they need one.

You must create the situation when your visitors get hungry for your product.

This is a bad thing to say but you must show your visitors that something is wrong in their lives but you can help them.

This way your prospects will be happy to buy from you. Buying makes people happy if they really believe they need something.

So, your main job is to make them need something.

Voila!!!

Internet marketing fully exposed.

David Kowalsky

I don’t know if realize but there is a breakthrough coming. This is going to change the way you think of affiliate marketing.

There is a huge general niche that many affiliates haven’t noticed. It is “How to do/fix/rid of/ something”

The number of people typing “how to …” in search engines is increasing every day. So if you haven’t started your “how to …” campaigns you are loosing out.

Some of the big players have already noticed this niche. There is a new article directory HowHub.com It is ran by the guys from articledashboard.com and it is getting more users and traffic everyday.

There are thousands small niches that you can make money on using “How to…” marketing.

So don’t be a loser and get on this niche while it’s hot.

You will thank me later.

And believe me it is going to be hot for a really long time.

Enjoy,

David Kowalsky

Branding yourself is one of the quickest ways to become really successful Internet Marketer.

You may ask yourself what I mean by branding yourself. The simplest answer is become a guru in your niche/field.

There are thousands of gurus who make millions online just by appearing as an authority. They don’t even need to make money on their niche. They simply make money because people believe they are great, so these gurus can steal money from suckers offering coaching or mentoring programs.

In contrary of what most people think branding yourself, appearing as a guru.authority is not really difficult.

There are several easy ways to brand yourself:

• take part in discussion at online forums, provide good info and there will be many people who will click on your signature link
• create a free course containing valuable info
• create a good quality product
• start a blog and provide great content

These are just some of your choices.

Remember one thing:

“The more you give away, the more you will get back”

So, conclusion is. Give away or sell great products/info and people will be happy to buy from you over and over again.

Deliver some freebies and people will feel they owe you, so they will buy from you to give you back.

David Kowalsky

One of the greatest obstacles people encounter when trying to make money as affiliates is choosing a niche.

The first thing you need to do before choosing any niche is checking if it can be monetized, if there are people interested in the topic who are willing to pay for info/help/product.

There is a very smart tool that allows to check internet trends.

It is www.google.com/trends. It is very easy to check what people are searching for, what interest they have.

It is a very powerful info to use. Once you know there is a crowd of people searching for a specific term, you can start looking for products to promote.

Another research should be made at adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

You will be able to check search volume and advertiser competition. If there are many advertisers for your keyword it probably means that money can be made on this niche.

There is a great tool that will help you get the most of Google keyword tool. It is Keyword Elite.

It helps you keep track of your competitors’ adwords campaigns. You choose a specific keyword/phrase and it will spy on other advertisers.

And why would you want to spy on your competitors. It is because if you know that somebody runs campaigns for a specific keyword for a really long time, let’s say one month, you can be 90% sure that this advertiser is making money on this campaign.

David Kowalsky

Every year thousands of people try to start their online business but 95% of them fail.

Some don’t have skills others are not willing to work hard.

There are stupid mistakes that most newbie affiliates make. I hope you are going to avoid them thanks to this post.

Mistake 1.

Nearly 90% of Internet Marketers start their career after purchasing one of “get rich quick schemes”

They do what they are told to do and start promoting the product they bought. The guru shows them they way, they know nothing about affiliate marketing but the guy who sold them scam ebook shows them the way to “online success”

It is all bullshit.

People start promoting the product they didn’t actually like but this is the only way to make some money for them, because the guru showed them how to promote his crap ebook.

So poor people spend hundreds/thousands of dollars on adwords bidding on expensive keywords like:

“make money online” and “home business”

They let potential visitors know that there is ebook/program “X” and what happens next.

Your visitor will start searching the net for more reviews of the product you recommended and he/she is going to click on 20 other affiliate links before the purchase.

So what happens?

I even if visitor to your site ever buy a product recommended by you, there is a very slim chance that you are going to get any commissions because other, more smart affiliate will get it.

It is a win/win situation for a guru who sold you an ebook because he doesn’t actually cares who gets affiliate commission. He just wants more suckers who will decide to bid on expensive keywords and let people know about his product.

Mistake 2.

I never understand people who bid on product name on adwords. Let’s say you promote “ebook X”

You bid “ebook X review” on adwords and what happens. You send a potential customer to the site were you are just another person who praises the product. Your visitor already “knows” everything you told him because he already read dozen of “unbiased affiliate reviews”.

There is a very slim chance than anybody is going to click on any link at all. Your visitor is going to click away to google search results again.

The only way to make good money when bidding on product name is a situation when you give away some bonus in exchange for ordering via your link.

Mistake 3.

This is probably the biggest mistake most newbie affiliates make.

It is NOT TRACKING CAMPAINS.

You must always track your campaigns. Use Google conversion tool for checking which of your keywords are converting and which are not.

Use Google Analytics to check where your visitors come from.

Use some link tracking tool to check which of your clicks get high click thru rates.

Use simple and free service at snipurl.com

Mistake 4.

Not split-testing. You should always split-test your campaigns. Test your ad copy, headline, website copy to get maximal conversions.

It has happened many times to me that I was able to increase my profits by over 500% by doing simple split testing.

You may want to use A/B test script (just Google it) It always you to show different landing page for every second visitor. It allows you to use different headlines, copy etc. Make sure you use different tracking ID for both landing pages.

I hope you have found this post useful.

/antiguru

There are several ways to make money online.

I am going to start with affiliate marketing because it is one of the easiest ways to make money online.

The simplest way to make money online:

AFFILIATE MARKETING:

Affiliate marketing is basically referring people to other people stuff. You get paid if somebody purchase an item, fill out a form or take any other action required. It is one of the easiest ways to make money online.

Most of affiliate programs are free to join and you can start promoting someone’s products in exchange for commission.

The products you can promote are anything from gadgets, books, cd’s, ebooks, software etc. The possibilities are limitless.

Commissions range from 1% to whooping 75% depending on products and affiliate networks.

The most popular affiliate networks are:

www.clickbank.com - they offer affiliate program for ebooks, software and other digital stuff. This is one of the best and most popular networks. Commissions can be as high as 75%, up to $100 per sale you generate.

www.cj.com - Commission Junction is a great network as well. They offer affiliate programs for physical products and much more. Many of big brands like Forbes, Yahoo and Ebay use CJ to manage their affiliate programs.

You will find many interesting affiliate programs to choose at www.associateprograms.com/directory/

It’s finally happened. After four years of making a killing profit online I have decided to reveal my methods to the public.

I am going to discuss everything that concerns making money online.

I will reveal the exact methods I use to make $50k a month.

No need to buy lame ebooks, “next big thing” products or pay for anything at all.

Everything is available here.

It is time to slap gurus.

Enjoy!!!