One Secret Affiliate marketers Overlook

Affiliate marketing is the first Internet marketing option that new internet marketers commonly opt for. This is mostly because it is the easiest to start and maintain. It is also a good first internet marketing decision because here is where you learn the pros and cons, if not the ups and downs, of the marketing practice without taking so much risk.

On the other hand, there is one thing that most people overlook about affiliate marketing. Most people take affiliate marketing to be a totally new isolated field, one that exists on its own. The misconception is that you don't need any experience to do it.

What is affiliate marketing?
This is a very good question. It is a question we should ask ourselves before signing up for any of the affiliate programs like Amazon Associates program.

Affiliate marketing is a marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates (an agent who links back to the e-commerce site e.g. Amazon, Clickbank, with the goal of making commission for referred sales) for each visitor or customer brought by the affiliate's own efforts. 

If you are paying attention you must have just realized that the word 'marketing' is in bold. This is simply because Marketing is that secret, what we overlook, that I am talking about.

Correcting the misconception
You don't just need a site to qualify to be an affiliate marketer, you need marketing skills. With at least the basics of marketing, an affiliate marketer will know that:

• He/she needs a good product to market.
• The prices of the products should be good, reasonable and acceptable.
• Sound promotion is essential.
• The place to market the products matters a lot.

The four points above make what is called the 4 P's of Marketing: Product, Price, Place and Promotion.

One Attitude Bloggers Should Learn to Acqiure

One Internet Marketing professional said, in one of his Internet Marketing guides, that the first thing you need to work on when setting up an equation that would see you through to success, is you.


"Where do we come in actually?" I wondered. "And how do we fit ourselves in?" I asked myself.


The guru smiled and said: "Simple. Your success is you. You have to shape your attitudes first before setting off for the big race. For instance, for you to be a professional, you have to behave, think and feel like a professional yourself."


Every other thing he said was all about marketing online and I don't think you want to hear it. I am not a marketer myself, so please excuse me.


Ever since then I have been thinking, really thinking about what he said. But this is from a different point of view, a blogging perspective; as a Blogger.




I have been wondering. What if we looked at blogging as a business, irrespective of whether we are blogging for money or just for fun.


How?
Let me answer this question with another one: What attitude do business people have towards their businesses?
Any business has three things in mind:

1. Making profit.


2. Surviving the market.


3. Growth.

How does this relate to blogging?
A business has to make profit. Infact, this is the sole reason that qualifies it to be called a business:

"A business is any activity carried out with the aim of making profit."

Making profit, as far as blogging is concerned, can be interpreted differently. It could be directly taken as it is and mean making money online or it can be interpreted as: anything you get from your blog. Do you get fulfillment? Does it help you improve on your writing skills? Or, does it give you a platform where you share your knowledge with others?


When it comes to surviving the market, I get a little excited here. Here is where you get to know what your fellow bloggers are doing.

What are they up to? Am I publishing static (plain or flat) post while they are posting dynamic (interactive) ones? What kind of programs or sites are they using to generate traffic to their blogs? What do the ones blogging in your niche offer? More detailed content? Free e-books? Guides and 'how to" articles?


And finally, Growth comes in. Do you continuously upgrade your blog, or is it just the single-post schedule you have every day and that's it?
Do you continue to look for cool stuff that will help attract new readers to your blog and maintain the existing ones? For instance, a shop that sells Computers would have computer accessories as a complementary. This, too, can apply to your blog, don't you think?

The Story of the Internet

Once upon a time, there was a cold war closing the chapter of world War II.

The cold war was a unique one, it was a battle characterized by success in technology and science.

Rivals showed off their developments and no one wanted to be left behind. As a result, a single idea evolved that lead to the availability of all the opportunities today; to the possibility that you are reading this post.

The idea

The cold war had another consequence. It led to the formation of a single organization that focused on computing. This organization, for the first time, linked four computers to develop a computer network - the first one on earth.

The first Computer network

The new collection of connected computers really changed the world. It created new possibilities and stretched the limit past the sky :-o.

Changing the world

But that was not enough. Something else had to be added on top. The computer network had to be expanded to one that would cover the whole world, to the one that is facilitating communication between you and I, right now.

The Internet

Then that's when the focus shifted to the maintenance and continuous improvement of the Internet.

The WWW

Ever since then, this mime has continued and it's still going on.

Thank you.

It Loads Web Pages as you type their URL

There is so much competition as far as Web browsers are concerned that most of us end up being spoilt of choice. I am spoilt of choice myself.


The market place is filled with all sorts of browsers ranging from Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Safari, and do you know that Google Chrome has just upgraded to version 9?


The New Chrome 9

The new version of the browser, which resulted after Google fixed nine flaws in its former Chrome 8, has hit the market with 3 most important new features.
These are:


WebGL support for hardware-accelerated 3D graphics: WebGL is based on OpenGL ES 2.0 and provides a programmatic interface for 3D graphics. It is a context of the canvas HTML element that provides a 3D graphics API implemented in a web browser without the use of plug-ins. It uses the HTML 5 canvas element and accessed using Document Object Model interfaces.

Chrome Web Store for browser applications: only for chrome users in the US.


Chrome instant search: a tool that begins to load a web page as soon as you start typing its URL into the address bar of the browser.

On the other hand, where is the race heading to?

Google upgraded its chrome browser four times last year alone from version 4 to 8, where the last upgrade was in December 2010. Two months have hardly passed and we have version 9.

Do you think the giant company is making a nice move?