Thursday, February 28, 2008

Affiliate Classroom Awards NETexponent Co-Founder and Media Director with Honorary Affiliate Manager Certification

Being an expert in affiliate marketing, NETexponent Co-Founder and Media Director, Chris Kramer has been awarded with one of fourteen Honorary Affiliate Manager Certifications presented by Affiliate Classroom.

New York, NY (PRWEB) February 26, 2008 -- Being an expert in affiliate marketing, NETexponent Co-Founder and Media Director, Chris Kramer has been awarded with one of fourteen Honorary Affiliate Manager Certifications presented by Affiliate Classroom.

Affiliate Classroom is a resource dedicated to educating online marketing professionals and provides the tools and expertise needed to create and run successful affiliate marketing programs. Recently, they have created an Affiliate Manager Certification program designed to equip affiliate managers with industry best practices, and a network of professionals for career advancement. The courses leading to certification were developed by pioneers in the marketing community and puts decades of learning at the fingertips of affiliate managers. Affiliate Classroom has extended honorary certifications to recognize the contributions made by individuals in the affiliate community.

"Chris is receiving this award for his strengths in strategy and technology. He has managed to harness the power of affiliate marketing and focus it to efficiently obtain high-quality customer acquisitions for large, blue-chip companies," said Anik Singal, CEO of Affiliate Classroom. "He combines his technical savvy and media experience with a complete understanding of affiliate marketing to create successful affiliate program strategies for clients of NETexponent."

Before co-founding NETexponent, Chris helped build the performance-marketing group at Mass-Transit Interactive (now part of Horizon Interactive) as their Senior Marketing Manager and prior to that, Chris established himself as an industry leader as part of i-traffic's (now part of Agency.com) then newly formed affiliate marketing group. With over a decade of online experience, Chris Kramer has proven affiliate management skills and understands the substantial impact a well executed affiliate program can have on ROI.

"Each affiliate program presents it's own unique challenge and deserves an equally unique approach to combat it" said Chris Kramer. "With the help of the NETexponent affiliate team, I'm able to create specific strategies for each of our clients. I am honored to be recognized by Affiliate Classroom and share this certification with the NETexponent team."

In addition to providing innovative affiliate services, Chris has expertise in search marketing, creative development, media buying, and other online marketing disciplines. He understands the impact each of these elements can have on the other and for the past seven years has applied a holistic approach to online marketing for blue chip clients that can be viewed here.

About NETexponent
NETexponent is an online performance based direct marketing agency based in New York that builds custom partnership networks for efficiency driven advertisers. Founded in January of 2001, the metrics-driven firm leverages nearly a decade of management experience in structuring win-win, performance-based deals with online publishers ranging from automated affiliate networks to integrated media partnerships, and focuses on efficiently acquiring the most valuable customers for clients. NETexponent is committed to being the industry's most efficient and ethical performance marketing agency, continually evolving to address changing market conditions and client needs.

About Affiliate Classroom, Inc.
Established in October of 2004 as a private company, Affiliate Classroom is a leading publisher of educational tools for interactive marketers. The growing product suite includes courses, books, live seminars, digital magazines and online forums for affiliates, merchants and advertisers participating in the affiliate marketing industry as well as materials for PPC (pay per click) search marketing.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Google Adword - Limit Your Spending Now

Is Google Snatch all that it is hyped out to be? Well after going through the over 100 page ebook, it is definitely something worth considering. Click here to see the official site. Will you get rich overnight using the Google Snatch methods, of course not! You know that there is no such thing as a get rich quick program, and if you do find a program claiming this, it is most likely a scam.

There are many solid principles being taught in this system where you will create a very sound business that will provide you with income for years if not decades. Many people are spending way too much in advertising and Google Snatch helps to solve this problem by offering you a way to create income without having to spend any money on advertising like pay per click on google adwords.

The reality is that paid advertising can get expensive, particularly if you are a beginner so it is wise to look at ways of getting free traffic. Yes, it may take a bit longer at the start but over time your profits will be far greater since you have no advertising costs.

The program developer, Latif, in fact closed his adwords account and relies solely on free advertising methods to generate his online fortunes. Here are a few things you will learn from this system:

- How you can capitalize on the small niches and how the gurus are not revealing their secrets on how they make cash in these underexploited niches.

- Why you need to stay focused on proven, winning money making formulas and stop jumping from one program to another.

- How you can at last stop going broke from using pay per click services like Google adwords and MSN Adcenter.

- Making sure that you select the right keywords, this is a critical element to getting as much free traffic as possible, yet most people go about this the entirely wrong way.

- How to get sky high click through rates from the search engines from clicks that do not cost you a penny.

- How affiliate marketing may be the best way to make money espescially for those that are new to the internet marketing game.

- Why being on the first page of the search engines may not be good enough anymore - this is shocking to say the least.

- How to create websites that keep your visitors engaged and interested in what you have to say and offer.

- Learn how to dominate multiple positions in the search engines, imagine having your sites in the #1, #3, #5 and #6 positions all in the first page. A surefire way to get an explosion of traffic and sales.

- Never be concerned again about breaking even since all sales made will be pure profit as you have no overhead ad costs.

- The right way to take advantage of high respected authority sites, these are sites that have PR 8 or 9 in some cases.

- Discover the way to get thousands of sites promoting your products for free and without you having to beg them in any way. Talk about serious leverage.

- Dominate any niche you select regardless of the level of competition, yes, even a newbie can swoop in and grab a big chunk of a hyper competitive niche with these advanced free traffic strategies.

- ...much more

Look, the system covers a ton of things you can right away at no cost to start getting free traffic in days. It comes with a full 8 week money back guarantee too. Again make sure you follow the advice given, read the ebook twice or even more to make sure you do not miss anything. Apply it and in months you could have enough income to replace your day job if that is what you desire. Click here to learn more about Google Snatch.

Thursday, February 7, 2008

Affiliate Marketing Success Test

Author: Richard London

Affiliate Marketing is simply the selling of products or services for others for an agreed upon commission. The concept is ridiculously simple; but, the successful practice of the task can try the patience of a saint. I cannot begin to count the number of times I have run to my computer to check my stats for the day, only to find I have had no sales, nobody signed up for my mailing list and I only had a handful of visitors to my website. Then I checked my email and waded through the offers from other affiliate marketers that claimed to have made thousands of dollars that day and if I would only sign up, I could have enjoyed the same success. I have to admit I have succumbed to such messages several times, especially when I am having a particularly bad day.

If that statement sounds at all like you; you may need to re-think your measure of affiliate marketing success. Let's take a little test to put it into perspective. I am always scouring the internet for what other marketers are doing. What are the hot programs; what is and what isn't working for others? Unfortunately or fortunately; depending on how you look at it, the major message I see time and again is the number of people that are failing and considering quitting or moving on to a different program.

I am a firm believer that internet marketing levels the playing field for everyone in the world. The internet offers untold opportunities to make a considerable income from the comfort of your home. Nowhere in the previous statement did I see the word easy! Somehow, somewhere, the concept of working from home has been equated with easy; easy, this business is not. If it was easy, everyone would be rich and there wouldn't be anyone left in the work force, that's not a pretty picture either. So if you're not making millions are you still successful? I think, yes, you are successful! You have taken the initiative to change your situation and done something to move toward a goal. So if I'm not making any sales, how can you think I'm successful? Well, let's take a little test and examine that, shall we? Ready, pencils up.

First and foremost, if something isn't working, it simply isn't working; it doesn't mean you have failed if you try something and it doesn't work. You need to find out what didn't work and fix that and move on from there. We know for sure there are real people that have made and continue to make a lot of money from home; that's a fact, so; we know for sure that affiliate marketing works. Somewhere between zero dollars per day and, let's say for arguments sake, five thousand dollars per day, there is a figure you believe would make you successful in affiliate marketing. Once you decide on that figure, you have to ask yourself "what are you willing to do to make that amount of money?"

Now, put your pencil on the table in front of your keyboard, right in the middle. Now, move it to the right side of the keyboard; good. Now move it to the left side of the keyboard; good. We have just demonstrated success. There is a message here, trust me! This little test shows that you and only you dictate your future. The past is past and cannot be changed. Once you moved the pencil to the right or left, you could not go back to the middle again because it was in the past. The present is here right now and it is a result of what you did in the past. At present the pencil is on the left side of your keyboard.

In the future, you will decide when and where the pencil moves. If decide to move the pencil (start a business) you will have successfully moved the pencil (started a business). If you move that pencil through your monitor screen, you will have successfully moved the pencil; but had an outcome that was not so desirable. The same goes for your business. If you get zero sales you may think you have failed; when actually you only had an unfavorable outcome.

Put your successes and failures into perspective. I'm not Polly Anna enough to say never, ever quit; what I am saying though, is put these things in their proper perspective. If after careful evaluation you decide a program is not for you; then it's just not for you. If you know deep down in your gut that the program you are a part of is good and it is something you can see yourself doing; then stick with it.

You have already demonstrated success in taking the action required to get a business going. When something produces an undesirable outcome make an adjustment and try again. Soon, you will be taking small successful steps with the desired outcome, as you get better, the big steps will get bigger and the sales will come. OK, pencils down! You passed.


Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/internet-articles/affiliate-marketing-success-test-326636.html

About the Author: Rick London has written numerous articles about Article Marketing and Affiliate Marketing Programs.He is the owner of several websites including http://articles.affiliatesuccessbuilder.com/ and http://www.affiliatesuccessbuilder.com/