Affiliate Marketing Secrets

We want to use our Affiliate Marketing skill set to develop a long term business, rather than just being a middle man. Although that’s been the convenience of being an Affiliate Marketer, but at the same time you don’t want to stress about depending on one product or one offer. You want to have a customer base you can count on. For example, in Diet space instead of a top 10 diet pill review site, like many people are doing, you might want to check out doing a free diet program. That might sound overwhelming, when you think of sites like SparkPeople and eDiets, but you don’t have to go all out and make it perfect. Just start with good and then go great. For example, a free diet program, that can even be online training, like videos on how to eat, just providing value.
This actually more fun than looking at your competitors and doing the same kind of review sites that they do because they’re too scared. The point of all this is to sell affiliate stuff on the back end. And of course, since you’re developing a customer base on the front end, you’re collecting those leads which means you can sell them, including your own products later on. You can even sell the list if you want. I’m not into selling lists because I think the list is about the relationship you have with them but some people do that and it adds to their bottom line.
Another example offer free training videos on your topic and its sub niches. This is something I’m doing on WebHosting break. For example, people who are starting a website, they may be curious about WordPress or SEO, SEM, PPC, PPV all that stuff, and want to know where to turn. When you’re at our level, in terms of our skill set, its easy to forget the level we were at once. It’s easy to forget how much value you can provide. Its easy to forget that you could help some people out by sharing information you already know.

1) A ________ is a set of procedures and sources managers use to obtain everyday information
about developments in the marketing environment.
A. marketing research system
B. marketing intelligence system
C. vertical system
D. product management system
E. marketing information system
2) ________ is the difference between the prospective customer’s evaluation of all the benefits and all the costs of an offering and the perceived alternatives.
A. Perceived usefulness
B. Customer perceived value
C. Competitors market share rate
D. Report rating
E. Failure avoidance rate
3) A(n) ________ is any good, service, or idea that is perceived by someone as new.
A. product
B. creative product
C. new idea
D. innovation
4) A company can take several steps to improve the quality of its marketing intelligence. If the company purchases competitive products for study, attends open houses and trade shows, and reads competitors’ published reports and stockholder information, the company is using ________ to improve the quality of its marketing intelligence.
A. sales force surrogates
B. advisory panels
C. customer feedback systems
D. external networks
E. intermediaries
5) Most established companies focus on ________ when it comes to innovation.
A. incremental innovation
B. demand innovation
C. competitive innovation
D. everyday innovation
E. continuous innovation
6) ________ consists of people, equipment, and procedures to gather, sort, analyze, evaluate, and distribute needed, timely, and accurate information to marketing decision makers.
A. A marketing information system
B. A promotional campaign
C. A marketing database
D. A marketing intelligence system
E. A marketing research system
7) The value proposition consists of a cluster of benefits the company promises to deliver; it is
A. customer expectations
B. Customer loyalty to the company
C. business processes
D. total customer satisfaction
E. customer experience with the company
8) Purchase decisions are based on how consumers perceive prices and what they consider tobe the ________ price—not the marketer’s stated price.
A. current sale price
B. current actual
C. referent price
D. last purchased price
9) A ________ consists of a group of customers who share a similar set of needs and wants.
A. market segment
B. market target
C. market level
D. market slice
E. market group
10) Marketers usually identify niches by ________.
A. examining the demographics section of The Handbook of Marketing
B. dividing a segment into subsegments
C. producing products that can be used in a variety of ways
D. allowing consumers to gravitate toward product brands
E. conducting VALS tests
11) Which of the following is generally considered to be the last step in the marketing research process?
A. Make the decision.
B. Present the findings.
C. Draft the report
D. Control the environment.
E. Analyze the information.
12) ________ is the systematic design, collection, analysis, and reporting of data and findings relevant to a specific marketing situation facing the company.
A. Demographics
B. Marketing intelligence
C. Marketing management
D. Marketing research
E. MIS (marketing information system)
13) With respect to the sampling plan, three decisions must be made. The decisions are: the sampling unit—who is to be surveyed? Sample size—how many people should be surveyed? And ________.
A. sampling procedure—how should the respondents be chosen?
B. sample cost—how much does sampling cost?
C. sample supervisor—who will lead the sampling effort?
D. sample security—how to protect the sample data?
E. surveyor skill—who will do the surveying?
14) ________ communicates a company’s intended value positioning of its product or brand to the market.
A. Promotion
B. Packaging
C. Physical evidence
D. Place
E. Price
15) “Power prices” use price as a key strategic tool. These “power prices” have discovered the highly ________ effect of price on the bottom line.
A. direct
B. dramatic
C. soothing
D. leveraged
E. abrasive
16) Some intermediaries use the following: strategic planning, advanced information systems, sophisticated marketing tools, measure performance on a return-on-investment basis, segment their markets, improve their target marketing and positioning, and ________.
A. dominant the manufacturers they do business with
B. contend with dwindling customer bases
C. aggressively pursue market expansion and diversification strategies
D. aggressively pursue take over strategies
E. aggressively “squeeze” manufacturer margins
17) Price has operated as the major determinant of buyer choice among poorer nations, among poorer groups, and with ________ products.
A. similar
B. identical
C. commodity-type
D. over the Internet

I made a website for an affiliate marketer, and he wants me to redo everything. I know a few link colors are dark, but redo the whole site?
shopricadario.com
Is it that bad, for only $100??? I worked100++ hours on it!

About 2 wks ago I got an email from a supposed co. that is outta Moscow called Express Mail Services, and I want 2 know how 2 find out if they ar e legit or a real co b/c what they do is hire ppl like me thats loc here in the USA that have a physical address to receive pks via fedex n ups expensive products like digital cameras n computers n accessories n get the pkg by fed ex or ups n then let them konw i got pkg n within 15min they send me a express mail shipping label 2 print out n then i o 2 my closest usps put the shipping labels on them n tape it up good cuz they have already been pd 4 n ship the pkg n then come bak n email them n let them know the pkg has been dropped off at the usps n then they will look up its tracking no n c where n transit it is once it is with either fedex or ups………..oh n the customer i am sending it to is foreign n i cant understand their name or address other than it is goin to russia close to moscow n the person’s name that is on it when i get it from ups is someone american yet my name n address as receiver n then the customer that is on the inside of the box is the american name at my address yet its sent to another person n another adress n another country when its all over with it doesnt make sense.
could some one help me find out if this is a hoax or not to stop these ppl/co. they r not affiliated with the bbb either…..
thnx

Hi..I was hired, recently as a marketing people in my company. They are running a taxi business, with the number of 4000 fleets of taxi around town. This is a niche, linear business. Taxi driver pay the rental to the company:profit for us. Customer pay fee to the cabbies:cabbies’ profit. How to diversified this business, instead of following the same business cycle?any ideas please…
tq

Hi..I was hired, recently as a marketing people in my company. They are running a taxi business, with the number of 4000 fleets of taxi around town. This is a niche, linear business. Taxi driver pay the rental to the company:profit for us. Customer pay fee to the cabbies:cabbies’ profit. How to diversified this business, instead of following the same business cycle?any ideas please…
tq