A program with few catches and several benefits
‘Affiliate program’ and ‘burned’ seem to go all too well together and all too often. If, like me, you’ve taken your first steps to a career working online from home, you’ve almost certain gotten involved with some less than savoury programs convincing you to sign up to expensive tiered MLM schemes and more than likely had little success in recouping your initial investment.
This one (Acme People Search) discovered today, established by Tissa Godavitarne has a good vibe and offers none of the traditional warning signs - which so few programs these days tend to have. Sadly.
A few ‘feel-good’ signs about Acme:
- It’s free. How many make you pay before you start to earn? You can participate in this one at no cost.
- There ARE levels to get the maximum benefit from the program BUT the costs are marginal (a few dollars per month) - there’s a thirty day, ‘cancel anytime’ trial here too.
- It’s ACME - ‘meep, meep!’. C’mon.
Acme promote’s people search (one of the fastest growing current search trends) and then products off the back of that. Also up to 8 lines of income from other affiliates - if you’ve been a part of other programs, you’ll be familiar (and probably already have accounts) with many of them. Hostgator and Clickbank to name a few.
Disclaimer: Naturally, this is my affiliate link. What else did you expect? ;-)
Let me know what you think of this one. How does it feel to you?
Want to make $6000+ per month from home? Me too. How do YOU do it?
If you are like me and are wanting to make that change in your life where you can make fire your boss and start Working Solely Online, then also like me you are seeing loads of claims each and every day about making 6 figures in your sleep. You’d probably also agree that it’s hard to separate the wheat from chaff, or in many/most cases, separate the chaff from the chaff!
How realistic is it to earn 5 figures a month from home using an online system…and what is the best way to do it?
Business Types
- MLM/Network Marketing programs
- Direct Sales
- Affiliate Sales
- Provide a fee for service
How do YOU earn your living from home? Here’s your chance…sell yourself/your methods/your system/your success story. Tell me and the Working Solely Online audience what works and what doesn’t and why?
The floor is yours…go nuts! Consider the free exposure! Add your comments, link away and lets start some discussion.
Clickbank - Affiliate RSS feed widget thingy
You will notice to the lower right (in the far column), a panel containing a list of products pitched at home based business operators. These are links to products currently listed for sale on Clickbank - and are all automagically generated from an RSS feed!
To create your own Clickbank product feed, first set up an affiliate account with Clickbank. Clickbank is probably the Internet’s largest reseller and distribution network for digital products such as software, e-books and the like. Generous payouts are offered for affiliates referring traffic to their publishers’ products.
Next, go visit the Clickbank RSSFeed Generator. This service allows one use per day, but their paid service, RSSGround allows for more regular use. Follow the prompts, select your categories, keyword phrases and enter your Clickbank Affiliate ID and hit Submit. (Note: for the free daily service, only one phrase may be entered). An RSS feed URL is generated (equipped with your Clickbank Affiliate ID and keyword search phrases) ready for you to use wherever you see fit. For now, copy this URL to your clipboard.
Now, where are you gonna put this thing? On your blog of course! Most of the free blogging services offer some form of widget functionality and included usually is something which can display the contents of an RSS feed (Blogger and Wordpress certainly do). It’s either something that’s already installed or readily available, perhaps as a plug-in.
Locate the widget/plugin and place it in your site layout where you’d like it to appear. Paste the URL in and fill out the form - here is what the WordPress.org one looks like for mine..
Voila! From this point on your visitors now have a selection of related affiliate products offered straight from your blog.
It is also possible to have a Clickbank feed generated offering products based on the content of your blog post…I’ll track that one down too and post something about it later. In the meantime, try this one out and go make some money…oh, and can I interest you in any home based business related products?? ;-)
Internet Business Mastery - A great podcast to check out
Just a quickie today…
If, like me, you’ve just set out on the road to financial freedom with an online business and are looking for some honest-to-goodness tips and advice, go listen to the experts, Jay and Sterling at Internet Business Mastery. They have a great blog with an an active community and a highly informative podcast jam-packed with tips and advice (with close to 50 back-episodes to work through), which I strongly recommend. Go check them out.
More FUEL to my web statistics addiction - FeedJit
As if my addiction to web stats wasn’t bad enough. Now I have a new tool that adds fuel to that problem - but it might also cure it a bit too..maybe. :-S
As reported previously, I decided on using two statistics tracking tools - Google Analytics and Statcounter. Each has their merits and I use them for different things. Google is incredibly comprehensive, and great for analysing and interpreting traffic patterns over the longer term, but it’s disappointingly slow over the short (read immediate) term. Statcounter fills that gap with up to the minute updates - but hitting refresh every 20 seconds on the statcounter home page tends to take over your life a little bit and ties you to the keyboard.
The other day while visiting Home Maker Hero, I stumbled across FeedJit which is ostensibly a widget for your blog or other website, that shows the last 8 or so visitors to your site, where they came from (geographically speaking) and also from whence they came (link speaking!). This allows all visitors to the site to get an indication of how other people are finding that site and could provide links to sites of similar interest - when there are sufficient backlinks to the site in question, that is.
I believe in transparency, and so I’m not ashamed to reveal the number of visitors to the site and of course am happy to promote those locations that people arrived from - it’s only fair that those sites kind enough to link here should get some exposure/credit. Feedjit goes a long way to helping with this.
While examining my Feedjit widget this morning, I discovered an option that will step my addiction up a notch - “Watch in real time”. This option, which sits at the bottom of the widget, takes you to a new page that displays visitors as they arrived and plays a sound (a muted ding) when new ones arrive in real time! No more hitting refresh, refresh, refresh on Statcounter. I love this feature. Now I can leave Feedjit Live open in a spare tab and be notified audibly when I have new traffic. This should help my productivity enormously and remove some distraction…note, I said “should”!
As with all good stat tracking apps, you can block your own IP so as to not overinflate your stats - which is a good thing. Especially for me.
Feedjit is a fun and very useful little gadget. Realtime tracking makes it invaluable. Check it out and install it on your site. Feedjit has 4 flavours of widget which show very different things:
- Live Traffic Feed - visitors and from where they came
- Live Traffic Map - plots visitors as ‘pins’ on a clickable World map (Google Maps mashup)
- Live Recommended Reading - Other pages on the site people have also enjoyed recently
- Live Page Popularity - page popularity ranked and with allocated percentages
Note: the link to realtime stats only seems to appear on the Live Traffic Feed widget, but regardless of the widget you choose, you can get at the live feed by appending your URL to the end of http://live.feedjit.com/live/
Given my propensity for checking web stats (and I am sure I’m not alone when it comes to this kind of addiction), I am sure Feedjit is a play on the word fidget - which just about sums me up! ;-)
Enjoy!