Can’t Do The Voodoo You Do

After months of trying to figure out how in the hell the Ebay Partner Network REALLY calculates my Earnings Per Click, I’ve decided I’ve had enough!!!  Just this month alone, I had a site that was bot attacked and, instead of filtering the clicks on their end, they decided to NOT PAY me for legitimate clicks I’ve received until they feel the account is square.  In a word…filtering crap clicks is NOT MY JOB.  It’s theirs.  It wouldn’t be so bad if it were just a matter of not honoring clicks from one site but their method penalizes EVERY SITE I have with them which is, pardon the expression, utter bullshit.

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I have been actively working with the N1Way system since around the beginning of August.  Since that time I have followed along on their site to do my niche selection, site building and promotion.  I have really learned a lot that I wasn’t paying attention to before because I didn’t know it mattered.  Here is a brief summary of the progress I’ve made.

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Learning Affiliate Marketing Is Hard Work

Ok, I admit it.  In the 2 plus years I’ve been working in affiliate marketing I’ve been learning my craft in parts.  I know I’m not alone.  I hear from affiliate marketers all the time that they need an all in one resource for researching, building and monetizing websites.  Like me, they learned a little about keyword research from this source, a little about site building from that source and building an affiliate business from yet another.  The problem is the parts don’t always fit together.  This is the key source of frustration of many affiliate marketers.
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Take a look at your online portfolio and what do you see?  If you’re like most people trying to make a living online, you’ll see a quality continuum that dates back from your first efforts to the present.  Hopefully, it’s a linear progression but often it’s not.  What I mean is that all of us have been constantly bombarded since we’ve gotten into this business with every money making scheme known to man.  Consequently, we’re more likely to have sites that reflect more what was the hot thing at the time it was built than a steady improvement from one site to the next.
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One of the most puzzling things I see affiliate marketers do is assume their visitors must be completely unlike them.  In other words, they use methods on landing pages that would never convince them to buy or take any action.  They promise more bonuses than a human being could read or use in a lifetime or they use the artificial scarcity ploy.  You know, “I’m going to run out of these crappy ebooks in 30 minutes so you better get yours.”

This got me thinking.  What is the best approach to take on landing pages?  The carrot or the stick?  The answer: both!
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