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Aweber Affiliate Program is a monthly continuity program. Unlike a typical marketing program, wherein you sell one product and you get a commission for it. This is a monthly thing wherein a user pays $19.00 a month for hosting their email list. If you can refer a customer, Aweber will give you a 30% of the customer’s bill for life and for as long as the customer uses the product.

For the first month you will get zero since the first month of use is a free trial for 30 days. But for the succeeding months, it will bill the customer the amount of $19.00 and you as an affiliate will get 30% for that which is $5.70. As long as they are customers, you will get $5.70 every single month. And as the bill or the list gets bigger, so as your 30%. This is a great way to produce nice monthly cash flow.

“What is the best way to promote it? Would it be a good idea to use PLR ebook as a way to a final list in Aweber?”

PLR ebook stands for Private Label Rights ebook which is an ebook that is already pre-written by someoneand they are selling you the rights to use it. So basically, you can put your name on it and says that it is written by you evethough you did not. This is perfect for those people who doesn’t want to write their own ebook.

So you can definitely buy a PLR ebook , put it in a funnel and attach the Aweber affiliate link. Using ebook is a good idea and you can actually promote variety of stuff using it. However, PLR ebook has a bad side such as:

• they are not of high quality
• not much grammar and english
• very generic and specific niche

You got what you pay for. So it is better if you make something for yourself or hire someone with the skills to do something for you instead of buying a private label ebook. Remember, there are a lot of copies sold out for PLR ebook so when someone downloads your ebook and then they will buy another one from other seller and notice that they are the same ebook – it feels like somebody stole somebody.

In the case of Aweber, you don’t have to get a PLR ebook. You don’t have to write ebook yourself because Aweber has already done that for you. In fact, it has created an entire email marketing course for the affiliates to promote their funnels into Aweber. You may see them thru these link: http://aweber.entrepreneurgrp.com

Basically, you gave out that link to your prospect and they click on it, Aweber will offer them an email marketing course which is downloadable. This is the email funnel that you can use and there is no need for you to create your own. No need to hire someone to write for you and no need to buy a PLR ebook.

Another keypoint is, once you join the Affiliate Program, you’re going to find that companies like Aweber, they have Affiliate Support Team that supports their affiliates and they have marketing materials for the affiliates to use. Like Aweber, their Email Marketing Course is available to every single affiliates to take advantage of.

If you ever decided to join an Affiliate Program, look at the resources the marketer has available for you. Also another tip, get in touch of your Affiliate Manager and introduce yourself. Ask them if there is anything that they can help you such as marketing materials or special deals. Don’t be afraid or be ashame to ask for assistance as they will be will to help you and assist you for you to achieve your success in the online marketing business.

Building an email list is one of the most important factors for  blogger’s success. I, myself got opt in too many people’s lists, eventually unsubscribed or simply ignored many of them as time went by. For this reason, I imagine that an email list must constantly be growing to replace inactive subscribers.

Today, I will answer a question which I found online that is related to building an email list. The question is:

“How important it is to measure unique monthly visitor to a blog and do you personally have a target monthly goal to grow your email list?”

To answer this question, yes your list should constantly be growing.

 If your list is not growing, it will eventually die – as simple as that. Exactly like what I just described, people subscribe and they may read a few emails, they lose interest and may unsubscribe.

Well, they don’t really unsubscribe, they just ignore the emails and those end up unopen in their inbox. These inactive subscribers will cost you money because you have to pay for the number of subscribers on your list. The more people you have on your list, the more money they costs. It pays that you clean your list and the most obvious to do it is by removing the people that have unsubscribed.

Peope will unsubscribe to your list – that is a natural thing to happen. Here is what you have to do,  look at AWeber and ConstantContact to check which peopleon your list have unsubscribed. Do not be upset when you see people who do, it happens to everyone.

Everyday, people get added to your list and everyday, people remove themselves from your list. The important thing is, the number of people subscribing to you should be greater than those who unsubscribe. If it is, then you are doing just fine – you are still growing. You may want to start worryingit’s the other way around, though. That means your list is shrinking and that’s the time you have to do something about it.

Worst case scenario is that people build their list with, for example, 10,000 subscribers and then they stop. What’s going to happen is, everytime you send an email, some people will unsubscribe and eventually the list will become inactive. So it is important that you still develop your list. Don’t worry if there are a lot of unsubscribers as long as you do something to gain more.

It is best that you have a goal in mind and don’t stop until you reach it. Basically, you shouldn’t stop building your list. Keep on innovating, give something new to gain more and more subscribers. Just keep pushing until you harvest the fruit of your labor.

There are other ways you can increase your conversion. An example of this is what we call co-branded page. This really works well with products such as AWeber and ConstantContact who have their dedicated teams who will create co-branded page for you.

How do you go about getting this pages?

The first thing you need to do in order to get a co-branded page is that you have to demonstrate that you can produce volume and that you can actually make money and you sell the product. Let’s face it, they have thousands of employees and they are busy maitaining this stuff. In order for the them to spare design engineer to create a page for you, you need to show them and prove to them that you are not wasting their time.

Show them that you can bring the heat. Once you are that somebody with a value, you can call your rep and ask assistance on the other ways you can leverage and increase your conversion. This is something that they can do for you and this is something available to affiliates that can deliver results.

Another question most people would ask, “how do I sign up for the affiliate programs for AWeber and ConstantContact?”

1. AWeber. First, you need to go to aweber.com. Scroll down to the bottom, and click on “Become an affiliate”.
   

You will be redirected to the affiliate program request application. And from there, you would need to fill out information wherein they will decide based on your experiences if you are qualified to become an affiliate or not. It is easier to get into it because they really can’t lose money and they will give you only 30% of the commission.

2. ConstantContact. First, you need to go to the page, constantcontact.com. Scroll down to the bottom and click on Affiliates. It runs through a program with a third-party network, they use Commission Junction and Impact.

When you apply, it will take you to CJ and you can apply to become an affiliate there. Then you will fill in the information, they will look at your site and they will decide if you are accepted or not.

It is harder to become an affiliate for ConstantContact because their program is quite loaded. You make a sale and it’s going to be a trial. They just want to make sure that you are legit and you are a legit marketer before they will approve you.

That’s how you apply for the program and once you have applied and got approved, you have to create strategies to market the program. You may do e-book or some kind of a video course that teaches your subscribers and recommends the products AWeber and ConstantContact.

As you start to generate sales, you can then contact the rep and ask them to make you a co-branded page. This way, your conversion will increase and you are one step closer to achieving your success in the online marketing world.

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are normally seen as the biggest sale and retail day in the world. People are lining up at Walmart, they are lining up hours and hours until the opening of the store just to get those special things where they think they can save.

For some reason, people think that they are getting a great deal and that’s why they are buying on those days. As an internet marketer, you should not be buying on Black Friday or Cyber Monday. Instead, you should be selling.

Remember about being a producer or a consumer? Consumer spends the money they consume. They make money for the producer who are making all those stuff for them. The majority of the population are thinking that they are saving money on these sales and getting the deal.

You as an internet marketer, what can you offer to this hungry consumer bunch? You are looking at those great deals, what can you tender to them? Remember that Black Friday is a great day to make a lot of money. People are just in major major buying mode in the entire holiday season.

As an internet marketer, you should have been ready for this a month ago and not now. Hopefully, if you haven’t already touched your things in place and your promotion for this holiday season, well atleast start planning for next year. You might need to tweak your mind a little bit and it will all be worth it.

Always bear in mind, you are a producer and not a consumer. Do not be the person who lines up for hours and hours just so you can save a few dollars. Put a value on your time and start making money out of it!

“Don’t let uncertainty talk you into pursuing a backup plan instead of your purpose.”

– Bob Goff

INTRODUCTION

In my previous blog, I have mentioned to you the four foundation tools for starting an online business. In case you missed out, click here to read. But, I forgot to mention to you the fifth and most important foundation tool, so keep on reading.

Like everyone including myself, we easily over see things in life and forget it until we needed it the most. Ever had the moment you left your keys at home and locked yourself out? Or maybe the moment you were cooking something in the oven, left the stove on, forgot about it and the food was burnt?

So, the 5th foundation tool is the Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP), which basically is a process that recovers and protect the business in an event of a disaster.

Most people overlook and tend to take risks without thinking of the consequences; or how to recover from a disaster until they actually face such a scenario. My question for you is, how safe are your documents? What about your email lists and blogs? Have you backed up your posts?

If you don’t have those things backed up or have a recovery plan, it will definitely at some point, affect your entire business.

Well, if you are a Youtuber, you’ll be very complaisant since Youtube has its own backup system. Obviously, the odds of Youtube losing your channel or videos is pretty much near zero. But what if, for a reason you are not living up for their terms of service and will result to them banning your account, you’ll no longer be able to access your account and your videos will be gone.

Internally, these companies have their own backup system like the web hosting service I use — Hostinger. They have backup as well. They save your stuff on their server but again, this is a backup on their end. But what if, for example, you accidentally violated their terms of service? Well, this happened to person that know, which was also an internet marketer like me.

He was using AWeber as his email service provider, he set-up a sales funnel that built a list connected to it using the back-end to sell stuff through his funnel. He was doing really well and was making a lot of money every month.

Then one day he can no longer log in to his server and his account was gone. Turned out, AWeber suspended his account because of a lot of spam complaints. He contacted AWeber and was informed that his account was flagged with spam activities and has been suspended.

He didn’t download his list — the biggest asset an online business could have — he had no choice but to start all over again.

Don’t let that same thing happen to you. You need to have a plan to have everything backed up somewhere else in another location.

Below are sample services you can use to backup your documents.

1. Vaultpress. You may use this to backup your blogs. This is owned by wordpress. This will automatically backup your blog every hour in real time. If someone will post a comment on your blog, it automatically backs up. Incase like malware attack let’s say 2 hours ago, you can go back 3 hours ago and get a clean copy and restore it out.
2. Dropbox. This is an online storage where you can put all your files. The good thing about this is that it is accessible online, may it be on your computer, phone or tablet. Sign up for Dropbox, it’s free!
3. Evernote. This is used to backup documents. Easy to use, just scan the documents and upload it and you’ll have an easy access to your documents that way.

The above 3 services will allow you to backup all your stuff that you use online. In case a disaster hits or the services you are using will ban you for violation, these will allow you topull up all your documents.

So, having a backup plan is definitely a must have when running an online marketing business. From the start, this should be taken into consideration. That way, you are ready just incase a disaster might hit your business. I hope that won’t happen, but just incase. As they say, “Better safe than sorry”.

Email list is the foundation of your online marketing business. The money is made not from the first sale but the sale after the sale. You use the list to build your customer base and then you market to the customer-base because you use the list to build up your customer, you use the list to build relationship, you use the list to get them to trust you and to buy from you over and over again. That’s how you build a successful on going internet marketing business. Some people put money and promote product and they hope to make more than they spend however this kind of strategy doesn’t last. Real businesses are built on customer-base and customer-base is based on the customer list.

How do you build a customer list?

When creating landing pages or blogs, the idea is to put a subscription box saying to sign up for updates. A blog and a subscription box are the basic requirement. But how do you increase your customer list? Incentive is the answer. You need to offer some kind of incentive to customer for them to opt in to your list. Just saying sign up for updates isn’t enough. So to increase your sign up rate, offer some kind of incentive.

You may offer them e-book however, it doesn’t have to be like this – it could be anything.

A lot of people think that this incentive has to be something fancy. It has to be like 50 pages or 100 pages, video series, or something that takes time to produce – NO, it doesn’t.

An incentive can be something as easy as a 1 page Top 10 PDF file like an infographic. Something like a Top 10 ways to do this thing and just list he Top 10 things. It is all on preceed value. If the person perceive it to be worth soemthing then they’ll sign up with it. It doesn’t have to be anything expensive, you doesn’t have to hire the entire wedding team or video production team to produce this. Don’t get all caught up in producing step-by-step, a single page incentive will do.

If you currently don’t have an incentive for now, don’t overthink. Think of soemthing that is desirable. You can actually make all your previous blog posts, compile into a more leanier function that makes it more have a sense. Or, you may do it as an infographic list.

So if you have a subscription box, put there incentive and you will definitely increase the chances of increasing your subscribers.