The #1 Marketing Strategy To Grow Your Online Business (UPDATED FOR 2022)

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Affiliate Marketing Secrets - What I Wish I Knew Before!

 The affiliate marketing secrets I'm sharing here aren't really "secrets" to some affiliates. But for me, when I started affiliate marketing back in the early 2000's, they would have been useful to know about. It would have saved me several years of hard work if I would have known about these factors in an affiliate business.

I spent a huge amount of time trying out bad strategies and promoting low paying products. It was immensely frustrating not only to struggle getting results as an affiliate, but when they did eventually come to see such tiny little commissions that it was hardly worth all that struggle!

The first insight I'm going to share is to get an email autoresponder. An auto-responder is a software which allows affiliates to collect emails from a website and automate the delivery of email messages to your list.

For a long time I didn't have an auto-responder. I simply tried to get people to my websites and sell affiliate products directly from there. But there's a problem in that customers will often need several contact points before they purchase something. So a single landing on a website will seldom generate a sale. On a website, a visitor only has a small window of opportunity to make a buying decision. But once you get your visitors email information, you can extend this time period by months, years and even decades!

You can give them many more "touch points" with which to showcase your offerings, give value and help your subscribers with whatever issue they are facing.

The next issue I faced was choosing the affiliate products which I would sell. The products I chose as an affiliate were those which I would have bought myself. This is a good policy because you can more easily create content around something you're interested in. But I choose low value products and used affiliate programs which paid the least! I didn't know this was an issue till much later when I discovered subscription affiliate programs which paid ongoing commissions for each sale.

With a low value product from eBay or Amazon, for example, you only get tiny amounts - usually less than 10% commission. Digital products pay more like 30%-50% commission. Then there's high ticket products which have a much larger value. A high ticket product sale can earn you the same as by selling hundreds of the lower value item.

With a product range you can benefit from subscription products, one off commissions and high ticket sales. In addition to this you can also benefit from a built in sales team, who close sales on your behalf. With most affiliate products, you refer a sale and only get paid once. So you need to continue selling more and more products. With subscription and high ticket, you can continue earning from your referrals, potentially for years. So the same work is rewarded much more with such a strategy.

Another huge benefit of using such a product range is that paid marketing strategies are much more within reach. I struggled with free marketing tactics, making sporadic sales which amounted to very little income. With a high ticket product range, it's much easier to make a profit while running paid marketing.

Plus, once you're profitable, and are running paid advertising campaigns, you can scale up quickly. Simply increase marketing budget! With organic and cheaper marketing strategies, this is much more difficult. I was struggling for years because I was selling low value products and using free marketing strategies which couldn't be scaled up!

Another affiliate marketing secret which I didn't discover until a few years of struggle is to get help. Back in the early 2000's it was far more difficult to build an online business from scratch. You needed more technical know-how. You needed to be able to build websites yourself. Today software takes much of the technical wizardry out of building online business. You can press a couple of buttons and have a ready made website up and running in minutes. You can also join a group of other affiliates which can help enormously with your mindset and personal growth.

Going it alone as an affiliate is tough, especially when well meaning family members and friends are trying to talk you out of it, and telling you that it's a scam! Once in a community of online entrepreneurs, my confidence grew. I was able to ask questions and get things done more easily. Other people had similar questions to me, and joining groups where coaches and mentors were on hand shortened the learning curve.

Most of all joining a community of online business owners helped me believe that I could build an income from affiliate marketing. Before this I struggled with mindset issues and lack of confidence. If you doubt you're going in the right direction, it's much easier to quit, or dawdle. It's easier to procrastinate and lose your direction.

To sum up, these are my affiliate marketing secrets:

1. Get an autoresponder - an email marketing service made a huge difference to my affiliate business
2. Use subscription products, high ticket products and a product range, rather than low value products which only offer single commissions
3. Get help - join an online community where you can build trust with a coach, find accountability partners and get questions answered.

Affiliate marketing is a tough business to crack and the drop out rate is around 95%. Remember the reason you're doing it and find a good program and stick to it.

Tim Halloran is a stuntman and online entrepreneur. He has created an online resource to help new and struggling affiliates: http://affiliatemarketingmentorsonline.com

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How To Make More Money In 2022 - The Top Seven Questions To Ask Yourself

Making more money, living a better and happier life are always the top wishes we secretly and sometimes openly have for ourselves at the beginning of every year and 2022 will not be an exception. In addition to money, we wish ourselves and friends and neighbors alike good health, bountiful blessings, God's grace and happiness but we know if we have more money it means God has answered all our prayers. To strive to make the New Year better than the previous one, we write down New Year resolutions and pray that all our wishes come to pass. Sadly these resolutions are more often than not forgotten a few days into the New Year as life sweeps us along.

Some believe to achieve anything you need to sit down and create plans and set goals and then set out to execute your plans and all would be well. This is not a good idea. Rather than make plans and write down goals ask yourself concrete questions first. So to position yourself to make more money in 2022 you need to be guided by questions and here are the top seven to ask.

1. How much money do I want to make? A simple and almost trite question, but this is the first question you should ask yourself. It's the roadmap to where you're going. You must be clear how much you want to make in 2022 before you do any other thing. The more precise the figure the more likely you'll make it. Do not say I wish to make more money or a lot of money; rather say I want to make $50,000 or $1 million in 2022. When you do that your mind will get to work and move forces to help you achieve your target. The human mind likes precision so if you want to achieve the target you've set, be clear what the target is in terms of the exact figure. Also be unrealistic by setting audacious target. This is a mindset thing. If you're earning $15,000 why gun for $20,000 when you can set sights on $150,000 which is 10X your current income?

2. Is what I'm currently doing putting more money in my pocket? Many people like to do things that make them popular or loved or liked and most times hardly ask whether what they are doing is putting more money in their pocket. As you already know time is one of the scarcest resources and when it's gone it's gone forever. So you have to use the limited time you have wisely. Anytime you're asked or tempted to do anything, always ask yourself; is this thing going to put more money in my pocket? If the answer is no, don't do it. If you do, you're cheating yourself because you would have used that time to do something else that would have put more money in your pocket or swollen your bank account. Be selfish with your time and as much as possible don't stretch yourself too thin by taking up so many projects and assignments that don't put more money in your pocket.

3. What should I do to double or quadruple or 10X my income? Throughout 2022 think in terms of how you could grow your income exponentially and not incrementally. If you're earning say $10,000 think of ways you could double it within a month or a three months to $20,000 or even 10X it to $100,000. If you're doing 9 - 5 job as an employee; think of how you could change jobs to earn double or how you could you ask your current employer to double your pay. If you're self-employed can you tweak your strategies to double or triple your income? Day in and day out throughout 2022, always have pen and paper and look at the different permutations that could enable you double or quadruple or 10X your earnings.

4. What price am I willing to pay to achieve my target income? As the saying goes, "No Cross, No Crown." A lot of people like to eat omelet but they don't like to break an egg. This is self-delusion. As the year unfolds be ready and willing to pay any price and bear any burden and do whatever it takes to make more money in 2022. Do you need to get that outstanding certification? Do you need to move to another state or even another country if your circumstances permit? Do you need to learn cryptocurrency, Forex trading, content marketing, internet business or whatever new skills are required to enable you double what you're currently earning? If you're not willing to pay any price to achieve your target then you're limiting yourself.

5. Where can I get help to make more money in 2022? A lot of people have low self-confidence and find it hard to ask for help. Some people are lone wolves and prefer to suffer and toil all alone. Again this is a mindset thing. All you have to know is that there are people all over the world willing to help you if you could just raise your hand and asked and asked in the right way. Remember, you're not begging. To beg is to belittle yourself and undervalue your worth. Also remember, you're not asking for a dole out. All you're doing is to genuinely ask how to move from here to there? You can even ask Google and YouTube and Facebook and tens of other social media channels. You can join online groups. There are so many ways you can ask for help so if you want to make more money in 2022 make asking for help an important way of doing things in the New Year.

6. How many lives do I want to touch? Dr. Peter Diamandis, the co-founder of Singularity University and the author of two best-selling books, Bold and Abundance, once said, if you want to be a billionaire, impact one billion lives. If you want to make more money in 2022, you must be willing to touch more lives. What can you do? You can become a community mobilizer as ex-president Barack Obama was before he became president. You can launch a blog or podcast and preach about bad leadership in your community. You can set up a school online like Khan Academy. There are so many things you can do to make more money in 2022 just by touching more lives and creating huge impact. All you have to keep at the back of your mind is that making more money is not for your personal ego trip.

7. Why do I want to make more money in 2022? As I said in the paragraph above, you have to keep at the back of your mind that making more money is not for your personal ego trip. If you want to make more money in 2022, you must have a big "Why" that transcends the mundane. You don't want to make more money because you want to buy a Rolls Royce, build a bigger mansion or buy an Island all for yourself. You need a powerful "Why" because the more powerful your "Why", the more resilient you'll be to withstand adversity when the going gets tough. If your "Why" is weak, you'll give up when you meet your first obstacle or suffer a minor setback. A "Why" such as impacting more lives, making the world a better place, and being of service to humanity are the kinds of "Why" that stands the test of time. Create a powerful "Why" to guide your journey and you'll make more money in 2022.

There you have them; the seven top questions you should ask yourself to make more money in 2022. It starts with asking how much money I want to make and thinking deep and hard about that target amount. Without a target amount every other thing will be an exercise in futility. It's followed by asking, is what I'm currently doing putting more money in my pocket? Next is what should I do to double or triple or quadruple or 10X my income? That question is followed by, what price am I willing to pay to achieve my target income? Then you zero in on where can I get help to make more money? The next in order is how many lives do I want to touch? And the ultimate question is why do I want to make more money? If you ask these questions and systematically go in search for answers for them you'll make more money in 2022 than you made in the previous ten years put together. I guarantee.

About the Author: Paul Uduk is the creator of Book Writing Clinic (BWC), which seeks to groom 1 million authors with thriving expert empires all over Africa. He is also the creator of iBMCer, a complete program that shows you how to build online assets and businesses. He is the author of seven books, including Bridges to the Customer's Heart, dubbed The Customer Service Bible, which has endorsements from Pascal Dozie (MTN Chairman), Ben Ofungwu (ISN Chairman), Tony Elumelu (UBA Chairman) and Nkechi Obi (GMD Techno Oil). The late internationally acclaimed motivational speaker, Richmond Dayo Johnson, referred to Paul as "One of Nigeria's most authentic experiential writers." A trainer par excellence, he's the founder Vision & Talent Training Group whose clients include Fortune 500 and some of Nigeria's biggest corporations, including Dangote, First Bank, Techno Oil and Nestoil Group (whose clients include ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, Agip, and NNPC, amongst others). Paul has been featured in The Guardian, Vanguard, NTA, SilverBird TV, Business Day and Success Digest Extra. A Platinum Author at EzineArticles.Com, his E-Product Development Blueprint For Beginners has been published on Medium and has been downloaded over 1,000 times. You can reach Paul at http://www.pauluduk.com/page, https://ibmcer.com, and https://visionknowledgebase.com.

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