Techniques to Earn Money By Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is one of best option to make money on internet but still there are lots of people who want to make money online does not have idea ‘what is affiliate marketing’.

I used to receive number of emails from different people who wants to earn some extra income online by doing some simple online jobs but very few people say they are ready for hard work but need some big & stable income.

There is no better way than affiliate marketing after Google AdSense to earn big income but that is no so simple like PTC sites or online surveys.

You need to get the complete idea of affiliate marketing & you should by ready for to work very hard until you cross $1000 earning from affiliate marketing.

What is Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate marketing is a way of promoting the products & services of other companies & websites on internet. You will earn commission for each & every sale or successful lead. 

E.g. you can become an affiliate of Amazon & then promote & advertise any of the product from the Amazon website through a special link known as “affiliate or referral link”.

Whenever any visitor clicks your Amazon affiliate link and buy something from Amazon then you can earn 4% to 15% commission depending on the products he purchases.

There are number of merchants who pays for inquiry or signup too. You can promote such merchants so that whenever they makes an inquiry or signup on the website, you get paid.

It means, if you want to earn money through affiliate marketing then just follow these 4 simple points-

1. Find the best affiliate programs.
2. Join its affiliate program and receive a unique affiliate link
3. Promote the merchant’s product through that affiliate link.
4. Collect cash

There are thousands of online stores & ecommerce sites like Amazon, eBay, Clickbank, Commission Junction, Flipkart, vCommission etc. that provide the affiliate programs. But I will recommend these 20+ best affiliate programs for beginners.

You can start with an individual affiliate programs from the merchants website itself or join an affiliate network  where you can promote dozens of big merchants from a single platform.

What is an Affiliate Marketing Network?

There are thousands of online merchants who has the best products and services but does not have an affiliate programs because of number of reasons like-

• they can’t afford this.
• they don’t have perfect tracking system of sale done through affiliate
• they don’t have time to handle the system and want to outsource the whole process

And because of that, affiliate network plays an important role for such merchants.

They have the state of the art software to monitor the activity of affiliate, can handle their account and directly pay to the affiliates on behalf of the merchants.

So its always better to start affiliate marketing with an affiliate marketing network than a single merchant because you have the option of choosing the product and advertiser of your choice.

You can test, analyze & compare the return on investment (ROI) with different merchants & then focus more on the websites which are giving you more returns.

How to promote an affiliate program & when do you get paid?

It’s important to understand the meaning of promotion and marketing here. There are number of ways to promote an affiliate product & one of the most widely used way is through a blog or website.

You can create a blog & then write the reviews or tips related to the products you are promoting. You can insert your affiliate links in the post where you are asking your blog readers to buy the product from the merchant website.

People come to your website, read the tips & reviews you have written, click your affiliate link & then visit the merchant site. You will get the commission every time a blog reader buy something from the merchant site.

But creating a website & writing about the product is not enough. You need the targeted traffic on your website.

There are number of ways to promote a website like doing SEO, through PPC programs like AdWords, social media promotion, guest blogging, classified sites etc.

Advantages of Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is the most lucrative business on internet because of the advantages it carries. The biggest advantage is you don’t have your own product but still you can make money by selling other merchant’s products.

This is like you are the owner of these products.

You don’t need to maintain any stock, no need to worry about the shipment after someone purchases or even don’t need to track your customer lists.

Everything is taken care by the merchant. Other advantage is the income potential. You can earn up to 70% commission by selling the products or in some cases you can earn even 90%.

Yes, that is absolutely true. There are even merchants like hosting providers, membership sites which if you sell can earn you lifetime commission till the customer has the membership with the site. That is the gold mine!!

What else you want if you setup a promotional campaign and that is giving you automatic income even if you are enjoying a great vacation on a beautiful beach of Goa with your girlfriend.

So don’t get delayed, no more thoughts, create an action plan as provided below-

Create an Action Plan

Join an affiliate program

If you plan to make money through an affiliate marketing then its better you start with one of thebest affiliate programs from this list. Join one of them and spend at least 3-4 days understanding everything about the site and the concept.

Once done, write all your interest and hobbies on a paper.

Choose a product

Its better you promote a product which matches your interest. Find the merchants which has those products and services. e.g if you are fitness freak, you can find a product related to fitness, if you are a gadget lover, you can find the mobiles, tablets and other gadgets to promote.

Research the demand

After choosing 2-3 products, find its demands whether its a hot product or not and if people are searching online for this. You can check in AdWords Planner Tool, YouTube, Google Trends etc.

You need to spend more time here because you have to take your decision based on this. After doing the research, choose the one with the highest potential.

Promote the product

There are number of better ways, you can use to promote an affiliate marketing product and the easiest one is by creating a review site.

A review site is something which is created by a user of the product and providing the review of the product by writing advantages and disadvantages as an experienced user.

If you thought of creating a review site, always buy the product first, use this for sometime and then write the review.

Review site is something which gives you the best conversion as this is the last stage a buyer is searching before taking a final decision for purchase.

You can use SEO technqiues so that you get the traffic from Google or other search engines. You can also promote through Google AdWords.

Other ways to promote is through social media sites like Facebook advertising, YouTube, Pinterest, article submission sites, guest posting, banners ads on other blogs, classified sites etc.

 Conclusion: 

One of the Best Way to Earn Money is Affiliate Marketing. Be patient and Work on it you will be successful in Life. 

Micromax Canvas Blaze 4G vs InFocus M370

You'd happily buy the InFocus, even if it was Rs 500 more. Luckily, it is Rs 1,000 less.

Micromax launched the Canvas Blaze 4G earlier this week at Rs 6,999 which we have compared with the InFocus M370. Incidentally, we had reviewed the InFocus smartphone just a few days ago which you can read here. The M370 is available for Rs 5,999.

Design

We haven't seen the Micromax Canvas Blaze 4G physically so much of our thoughts on its design are derived from its pictures posted on Micromax's website. As you can also see in the pictures, it has a simple design with plain back panel where in lies a circular camera module below which lies the Micromax logo.

The InFocus M370 though impress us a lot with its design. The entire phone has a black and white contrasting theme all across, and it weighs just 125 grams

The InFocus M370 is definitely the better looking phone. We do not know how it compares with the Micromax Canvas Blaze 4G in terms of size and weight, simply because we don't know the details of the Micromax. The InFocus M370 measures 143 x 71.5 x 8.1 mm and tips the scales at 125 grams.

Display

The InFocus M370 has a 5 inch HD IPS display while the Micromax Canvas Blaze 4Gis armed with a 4.5 inch IPS display with 480 x 854 pixels resolution.

The InFocus M370 not only has a bigger display, it has higher resolution also. However, regardless of which phone you pick, you must invest Rs 200 or so in a tempered glass screen guard.

Processor & Memory

Both the phones have the 1.1 GHz Snapdragon 210 processor, 1 GB of RAM, 8 GB of internal storage as well as 32 GB of expandable storage.

Software

Both these phones run on Android Lollipop 5.1 operating system with mild customisations on top — thus in this section it is a draw as well.

Battery

The InFocus M370 has a 2230 mAh battery, while the Micromax has a 2000 mAh battery which claims to offer up to 6 hours of talk time and 220 hours of standby. InFocus hasn't revealed how long the battery lasts, but in similar conditions, it will be at least as much, if not slightly more thanks to the similar OS and larger battery.

Camera

The Micromax Canvas Blaze 4G has a 5 megapixel primary autofocus camera that comes along with a flash light and for selfies, it offers a 2 megapixel fixed focus shooter.

The InFocus M370 is equipped with an 8 megapixel primary autofocus camera and it has a 2 megapixel selfie shooter.

Spec for spec, the InFocus M370 is the winner of this round. Thankfully, the InFocus M370s camera has been tested and can capture good quality pictures befitting an 8 megapixel unit. So, unless the Micromax Canvas Blaze 4G has extraordinary image processing, there is no way it can come out ahead of this round.

Connectivity

The InFocus M370 has two SIM slots, 4G, GPS (A-GPS), Bluetooth 4.0 and WiFi as connectivity features. However, the second SIM card slot doubles as a memory card slot too. So you can only have expandable storage, or two SIM cards, not both. TheMicromax Canvas Blaze 4G on the hand has two dedicated SIM card slots along with the micro SD card slot. It also offers 4G, GPS, Bluetooth 4.0 and WiFi.

The Micromax Canvas Blaze 4G wins this round as it can be used as a dual-SIM phone with expandable storage at the same time.

Conclusion

What would you say if someone was giving you the better specs for Rs 1,000 less? Would you think twice? Here, with the InFocus M370, you get better looks, same processor, more (expandable) storage (in single SIM mode), a larger and clearer display, bigger battery, and a better camera. So do yourself a favour and wait for the InFocus M370 to be launched in the first week of October.

Apple iPhone 6s, 6s Plus in Rose Gold prove popular; record sales expected!

The iPhone 6s and 6s Plus hit stores around the world on Friday, kicking off what is expected to be a record weekend of sales as customers scrambled to buy Apple Inc’s marquee product in pink for the first time.

Eager buyers – joined by at least one robot – flocked to Apple stores from Sydney to New York and San Francisco, itching to get their hands on new models boasting an improved camera and a screen feature Apple calls ‘3D Touch’, which performs different functions depending on how hard a user presses.

“It’s very intuitive. I’m really excited to see what developers do with it,” Leah Bentley, a 22-year-old software developer from Emeryville, California, said inside Apple’s San Francisco store after purchasing her phone.

For all the sophisticated technology packed into the new iPhones, customers interviewed by Reuters were most excited by a more low-tech feature: the ‘rose gold’ finish, a new shade that Apple introduced with the current phone.

The novel hue – essentially sparkling pink – accounted for more than a third of early in-store sales, according to FBR Capital Markets analyst Daniel Ives, citing conversations with buyers.

Another of the hundreds gathered outside the store in downtown San Francisco was pink-haired software developer Jo Engo, 37, who has lobbied Apple leaders past and present for a phone in his favourite colour.

“I have emailed not only Steve Jobs but Tim Cook,” Engo said outside the store, sporting an Apple Watch with a pink band and an iPhone 6 in a pink case. “I’m so excited they’re finally doing it.”

Despite the crowds, the scene was less frenetic than usual at the San Francisco store, perhaps because more people now order phones online, and the release of a new device has become routine.

One store at least was buzzing, as Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook made a surprise visit to company’s store in Georgetown, Washington, to raucous cheers from employees and shoppers.

High hopes on street

Analysts expect 12 million to 13 million phones to fly off the shelves in the first weekend, up from more than 10 million last year when the launch of the hugely successful iPhone 6 was delayed in China, the world’s biggest smartphone market.

Apple, whose shares were largely unchanged on Friday, has said pre-orders suggested sales were on pace to beat last year’s first-weekend performance. It usually announces first weekend sales on the following Monday.

Among the first to pick up the new iPhone 6s in a cold, rainy Sydney was a robot named Lucy, operated remotely by marketing executive Lucy Kelly.

“I obviously have my work and other things to attend to and can’t spend two days lining up so my boss at work suggested I take one of the robots down and use it to stand in my place,” she said, via an iPad mounted on top of the wheeled robot.

After a dramatic redesign last year, which included an enlarged screen and the addition of mobile payments, the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus – which were first unveiled by Apple two weeks ago – boast more modest improvements.

Several reviewers have said that might not be compelling enough to persuade iPhone 6 users to upgrade.

Apple has said just a fraction of its customers have upgraded to the iPhone 6 – analysts estimate less than 30 percent – suggesting there is room to grow.

Apple has sold more than 700 million iPhones since the first model of the device upended the smartphone market in 2007. Still, Apple has only about 16 percent of the global smartphone market compared to 81 percent for devices running Google Inc’s Android system, according to tech research firm IDC’s projections for this year.

More important than customer appetite for upgrades is sales outside the United States, particularly in China, said Aaron Rakers, an analyst at Stifel Nicolaus & Co.

The breakdown

Repair firm iFixit, which opened up an iPhone 6s and 6s Plus on Friday, said battery capacity was down “a bit”, probably to accommodate new features. Apple has said battery life is unchanged in the new phones.

The new iPhones use chips made by, among others, Qualcomm Inc, Avago Technologies Ltd, Qorvo Inc’s TriQuint Semiconductor and RF Micro Devices, Texas Instruments Inc and Skyworks Solutions Inc.

Shares of audio chipmaker Cirrus Logic Inc jumped 15 percent after iFixit’s tear-down revealed that Apple had used its chips, as it did in previous iPhones.

Lacklustre offerings this year from Samsung Electronics Co Ltd will help Apple stand out in the marketplace, said analyst Patrick Moorhead of Moor Insights & Strategy. He said he expected the 6s to eclipse the 6 “over the long haul.”

The 6s and 6s Plus start at $199 and $299 respectively with a two-year service-provider contract.

Google's doodle takes you back on nostalgia trip on its 17th birthday

 

Google has marked their 17th birthday with a nostalgic Doodle harking back to 1990s' web.

The doodle, which features on Google's homepage, shows a retro, plastic PC, lava lamp and even 1998's "Google!" logo.

The Linux penguin peeps from behind a CRT monitor displaying the first Google home page. Humming on its side is a server made of Lego bricks. Google looks back at its early days in its '17th birthday doodle.'

However, not even Google seems to really know when it was formed. Since 2006, it has celebrated its birthday on September 27, but the year before that, had it on September 26.

In 2004, its 6th birthday Doodle went online on September 7 and in the year before that, it was September 8.

Google has celebrated its birthday with a Doodle every year since its fourth birthday

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