It is true that you can start an online business with as little as $10.00. There are lots of stuffs that are available free of cost on the internet that you can use to build your online business. But how will you find these free stuffs?

Let me ask myself a question. Did I have to spend money on building my Internet Marketing business?

The answer is “Yes”. I spent a lot of money online and kept buying products after products, falling into the traps that the GURUS made for me.

But as I built my business, I realized one thing. You don’t have to spend a fortune in building your Internet Marketing business. You don’t have to buy everything that the GURUS sell in order to be successful.

Success in an Internet Marketing business is a simple step by step method and involves a few steps.

For eg: Step 1, 2 and 3. It is the exact same steps that different GURUS package in different forms and sell them for a few hundred dollars. Does changing the nomenclature from a decimal system reading 1, 2, 3 to a ROMAN numeral saying I, II, III really change the content of the steps? Not really.

Then why should you invest so much into the same repeated information. This is where I decided, I will start a blog and the purpose of DKSpeaks is to make available information at an affordable price (If there is a cost involved).

So coming back to the total investment required to start an online business. This is what I think an ideal investment should be. You might have a different opinion altogether.

1. A Domain Name ($9.99 per year) – You can get one for cheap at my domain store here.
2. A Hosting account ($4.95 per month)- You can get a hosting account at a very low price at Hostgator. In case you do not wish to spend on a hosting account, you can use Blogger, which is a free option and also provides you with a lot of customization features.
3. Micro Niche Finder ($99.99) – The best Keyword research tool. You can use the free alternative at the Google External Keyword Tool in case you do not want to make this investment.

If you noticed, you would have found that there is a free alternative to almost all the paid options. So you need not spend on the options that are costing you some investment, in case you are unable to afford it right now. Rather you can go with the free options for now and invest in the rest once you have started making some money.

In addition to all this, you will have to follow a good mentor who can guide you in your efforts to make money online. This is a difficult step because no body will give advice free of cost and mentoring means lots of advices. A free option to getting advice in your internet marketing efforts is to interact through a social media like Facebook or, Twitter. These are places where there is a lot of information shared and all of this is free of cost. You can ask questions and you will get responses to your questions because that is what social media networking is all about.

In order to help you in your Internet Marketing efforts, you will also need some guides on the basics of setting up an Internet Marketing business. These are available free of cost on the internet. You can also get a few of these for pennies from some resellers.

I am starting a weekend sale, starting this week and I will be putting valuable content on offer. These will be extremely valuable content made available for pennies and these offers will run for a entire week, after which I will change the prices to the normal. This is in an effort to help you build your business.

As a starting point, I am offering an extremely informative ebook on affiliate marketing written by Adeel Chowdhry – Affiliate Secrets Explained. This book covers everything from the basics to the details of affiliate marketing and is a required guide if you are starting off on affiliate marketing.

Let’s look at what is covered in this guide -

1. Selecting the Right Niche for you – Learn how to spot the moneymaker when you see one so that you don’t waste your efforts.
2. Setting up your site and making money.
3. Tips for tapping into the money market.
4. How to increase conversion and tips and tricks to do it.
5. Should you start a blog or, not?
6. Is search engine traffic important? How to get traffic from Google.
7. The secrets to gaining fast and free traffic.
8. Everything about SEO – Only things that are important and that you need to know.
9. Tools to boost you revenue.

There are a lot of success stories as well which will keep you motivated in remaining persistent with your efforts. After all, Internet marketing is about being persistent.

You can grab your copy of “Affiliate Secrets Explained” for only $9.95 today. Order your copy today!!!

A few days from now Black Belt Live Case Study will be launching. The Black Belt Live Case Study was presented live and is now converted into a 109 page training manual with 22 videos.
One great way to make money online is by promoting products on the Clickbank network. It is also one of the easiest to get started with.

But…..

Traffic is the most important commodity online and getting it is the main issue marketers face. While Google AdWords is known to deliver quality traffic, affiliate marketers often lose money first before they start making any. Many never recoup.

Black Belt Live Case Study is an actual case study of an actual ClickBank product promoted through Google AdWords. The live case study reveals how an account was brought out of the negative and turned profitable in just two weeks.

This training manual has a total of 9 chapters. The best part for me was Chapter 2.1 – 2.3 that talks about:

• market research, evaluating a market for profitability
• other websites that reveal clues to the profitability of a market
• a simple formula / swipe file to use when researching a market

Market research is a very important aspect of affiliate marketing. You are likely to fail if you do market research wrong. Many times, affiliate marketers go about with market research the wrong way. In the manual, Mark goes to great lengths to explain how market research is done. It also explains as to what is it that you need to do to understand the market. If you know a market very well and know what their problems and issues are, you will also be able to draft the perfect pre-sell that speaks to them.

Both newbies and advanced marketers are certainly going to benefit from the information presented in the manual, so better get the Black Belt Live Case Study before your competitors do and deal you with a fatal chop.

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Thinking too niche. What most affiliate marketers forget is that even if a market is big enough to support an online retailer or two, that doesn’t necessarily mean its big enough to support affiliates. This site advertising snowboards for example may be able to survive, but seeing as they will only pass on around 10% of the profits to affiliates, it is unlikely that affiliates sites could survive in such a niche. What affiliate sites should do is broaden the horizons and cover, in this case, all extreme sports for example, not just snowboarding.

Thinking too large. When products cost a great deal of money, like buying a swimming pool or maybe luxury cruises for example, sellers take a lot of time over their decisions.It is quite rare for buyers to follow affiliate links for expensive goods or services and then buy them on the same day. They will spend time pondering, weighing the options and doing further research for example. And by the time they come to make the purchase the tracking cookie or alternative will have expired in lots of cases. Sticking to smaller items including gifts and digital products is far more likely to get results and people are more likely to buy these quickly.

Too uncompetitive. You need to remember that the online publicity arena is very competitive and you will be in the ring with not only other affiliates, but also those merchants who you are affiliates for. The difference being that they are working to get 100% of the profit, whilst you are only working for a proportion of that. This means you need either work harder or smarter than they do to make any money.

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The most difficult part with newbie internet marketers is keyword research. But there are a lot of tools and books that can help you do this. Once you are through with Keyword Research, come the next most difficult aspect. This is to get your affiliate website up and running. You are neither unable to bear the huge charges demanded by web designers nor, can you design your website on your own.

For such people, the Affiliate Theme by Unique Blog Design is a solution. Coupled with WordPress, you can get your affiliate website up and running in minutes. Check out the below video.

Check out the Affiliate Theme from Unique Blog Designs.

The foundation of Internet Marketing is “KEYWORDS”. Any internet marketer without a list of good keywords is like a chemistry lab without chemicals. That’s a funny comparison, isn’t it?

I know that the comparison is funny indeed. So let me put it this way. Internet Marketing is a BIG FLOP if you set out without doing keyword research and without building a list of keywords.

But…….

Are all keywords capable of generating sales and revenue? The same way in which not every internet marketer is successful in internet marketing business, not all keywords can generate sales. In order to understand this you need to understand the stages through which a prospect goes through before buying something online.

Every prospect starts at the research phase. In this phase he is busy researching the kind of product that he should buy in order to fulfill his needs. He would surf around the internet and search all the search engines to do this research. In order to do this he will use a variety of keywords that are generic in nature. For eg: somebody wanting to set up an online business will search for keywords like “internet marketing”, “affiliate marketing” etc. These are research keywords and cannot generate sales.

So which keywords will generate sales?

“Buyer Keywords” are what will generate sales. These keywords are the ones that prospects who are ready to buy a certain product use to search for offers that are available online. To explain that more clearly, let us use the same example as above. What will such a prospect be searching for? He will be searching for products like Keyword Elite, ebooks like Affiliate X Factor etc. So the terms that he will use is the specific product names or, other combinations like “Buy Keyword Elite” and such.

So if I am to define “Buyer Keywords”, it will be -

Buyer keywords are search based keywords that show a customer’s  willingness to buy a certain product.

Now that we have understood what a “Buyer Keyword” is, the obvious question that arises is, “How to research and make a list of these buyer keywords”.

A simple way to do this is by using the Google Adwords External keyword analysis tool. But that is a complicated method, There are other simple tools available online, but that will require you to shell out some money. But I should tell you that it is worth it. Let’s look at a few such tools -

Keyword Elite

Keyword Elite is by far the best keyword research and analysis tool in the market today. With Brad Callen introducing the next generation of this tool, named Keyword Elite 2.0, it has become the most talked about keyword analysis tool. This tool has immense capabilities and can do a lot of things. In addition to researching keywords, you will be able to create a list of very useful keywords and this also includes “buyer keywords”. Keyword Elite’s capability includes generating huge lists of keywords including ones created from the Keyword Elite database.

Micro Niche Finder

Micro Niche Finder is another excellent keyword research tool that can help you find niche markets in clicks. When I say “clicks”, I literally mean – “Clicks”. Micro Niche Finder returns niche keywords in under 2 minutes and a bit of research can give you access to niche markets that you would never ever have even dreamt about.

Micro Niche Finder at the same time can also give you a list of buyer keywords. After all, it is these buyer keywords that will turn out to be niche markets, isn’t it? Using Micro Niche Finder is a child’s play and hence it is one of my most recommended tools if you are new to Internet Marketing and you want to research keywords.

Buyer Keywords Generator

Buyer Keywords Generator is one of the latest tools that I have bought. I should say that this is one of the best tools to generate buyer keywords, if you are new to Affiliate Marketing. Affiliate Marketing requires a bit of PPC marketing as well and buyer keywords will help you be competitive in your PPC campaigns, especially at Google Adwords. If you are banking more on Affiliate Marketing, then you would not need another tool for your keyword analysis and research. Buyer Keywords Generator can do the trick for you.

People who are relatively new to the concept of PPC marketing, tend to often burn their fingers at Google Adwords. Adwords can be extremely dangerous if you do not know how to work with it. Buyer Keywords Generator can solve this problem for you

You can find out more details about Buyer Keywords Generator here.

Are you an affiliate marketer?

How difficult do you find selecting a product at an affiliate network?

I agree to the fact that it is often very difficult to find the best product available to promote. The end result is that you choose a product that is not worthy enough and you end up loosing quite a bit of money on it.

In this post we will deal with some simple and easy to use tips to follow in order to pick the best product to promote at one of the best affiliate marketing networks – Clickbank.

If you do not have a Clickbank account, then you can get one here.

For people who are not familiar with Clickbank, let me tell you what Clickbank is -

Clickbank is an affiliate product network that acts as a medium between the actual product seller and affiliates (middlemen who sell the product to earn commissions) and they mostly deal with electronic products like ebooks and downloadable softwares.

You can create an account with Clickbank and login to get a hang of how the interface appears.

For the purpose of this post – we will have to look at how the “marketplace” looks like at Clickbank. The below screenshot gives you a glimpse of the marketplace at Clickbank.

When you search for a product at the Clickbank market place, you should have a fair idea of what the vendor code for the product is. (“bryxen4” is the vendor code in this example). Else you should know the exact keyword that the vendor is using to market his product. If you do not know any of these, your searches will show “no results”.

Clickbank also provides you an option of sorting your results in various ways. For the purpose of this post sort the results by “gravity”.

Let us assume that you search Clickbank marketplace for the term, “fat loss” and you got a few results. Now let us understand the terminology that Clickbank uses in these results page. We will only discuss things that are really relevant to us -

Gravity – This is the key metric for us in selecting the products to promote. It is a Clickbank specific term, which is a measure of the success, popularity in terms of customers’  liking of the product and the affiliates liking in promoting the product and refunds on the product. So, the more the gravity of a product, the more popular that product.

Earnings per Sale – This is the commission that you can earn by promoting this particular product.

% Earnings per sale – This is the % commission that you can earn by promoting this product. Normally all Clickbank products offer around 67% commissions on an average.

% of Referrals – This is another important metric for us. This refers to the % measurement of referrals that the product has received over a period of time. A higher referral % would mean that more people are buying this product from the affiliate links.

Future earnings – This is a very relevant and important metric if you are looking forward to a stable and recurring income. This amount shows the recurring commissions that you will earn from the sales, if that particular product has a recurring commission model.

What is the thumb-rule to select a product at Clickbank?

Do you really think there is a thumb-rule to selecting a product at Clickbank marketplace. Well, then I will have to disappoint you. There really is no thumb-rule. Every affiliate marketer will have a way of picking a product which will solely be based on his business goals, budgets etc. At the same time, I should also say that not all decisions to pick a particular product at Clickbank is a success.

Then, how can you ensure that you don’t fail when you pickup a product to promote at Clickbank marketplace?

Over the past 2 years, I burnt my fingers with quite a few products, I had no clear knowledge of which products to promote, hence I would select a product by trial and error, only to ultimately find that the product was not converting well. It is after many such experience that I arrived at this simple method of selecting a product.

A higher gravity means that the product is very popular and at the same time there are thousands and thousands of affiliate marketers who are promoting that particular product. This means huge competition and as a matter of fact the competitors will be monster gurus. The chances of survival for you with a small budget in such a situation is very bleak.

Hence what I do is pick the products that are in the range of 100-120 in gravity, at Clickbank marketplace. These products have a good demand in the market, but are not being promoted by too many affiliate marketers, probably because of a lower commission or, because these products have been there for some time. In selecting such products you have a few advantages -

1. The competition will be much lesser than the high gravity products.
2. Since the products have been in the market for some time, they are tried and tested. This would in turn mean that you can get enough information for these products in order to build your landing pages.

In addition to doing this, you can also research a bit on such products. The best place to gather the required information to research is cbtrends. This is a place where you can research on a lot of aspects for any product that your want to select at Clickbank Marketplace.

You can follow this simple method to select your affiliate products for promotion.

So, what is your way of selecting products at Clickbank?

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How many such affiliate programs do you that can pay cash instantly into your PayPal account?

You need not answer me. Just try to count them on your fingers and you won’t even be able to reach your fifth finger.

Most affiliate programs have a definite pattern of payment. They do not pay you instantly as and when the sale happens. Many of these like Clickbank and CJ make you wait until you have reached about $500.00. Though this is not a huge limit for somebody who has been into affiliate marketing for a few years and is making a fortune out of it, this is a challenge for the new affiliate marketers.

What are the 3 things you are struggling with when you start off in affiliate marketing?

• Finance to fund your business.
• Knowledge of good affiliate programs.
• Marketing and promotional skills.

The posts in the days to come will touch upon each of these areas and would help you overcome the problems that you are facing in all these areas.

Finance:- Finance is what struck me in the second day of getting onto the internet. I had no formal knowledge and had no mentor to guide me. My first affiliate business started with promotions of Google Adwords. I setup a few campaigns and chose a few keywords and started off. The next day morning when I woke up I found that I was poorer by about $1293.00. I had the shock of my life. I had no sale from the $1300 that I had spent. I couldn’t gather the courage to start off again until the next 4 months.

The smartest business idea is something that funds for itself.

Smart businessmen do not spend from their pockets to fund their business. Hence I do not advice anyone starting off on Internet Marketing, to go straight off to Google Adwords. However well you plan, you might still end up with a poor ROI and you will not be able to recoup your investments until a few more months to come. By that time you will be bankrupt and dropped off the Internet.

It is said that advertisement incurs cost. Then, how would you fund your own business?

There are thousands of free forms of advertising on the internet. USfreeads.com, craigslist.com and article directories like ezinearticles.com, articlefactory.com, goarticles.com etc. are the easiest of them. Squidoo and Hubpages are other forms of advertising and getting traffic.

You need to bear in mind that articles directories, Squidoo and Hubpages are not for advertising your products but promoting them. You should have a good plan and a few good articles to promote your websites and products on these sites.

These will not get your loads of traffic or, millions of visitors overnight. But a carefully planned strategy can help you reach your goal in about 3-4 months.

Once you have your promotional strategies in place, join a few “Instant Paying Affiliate Program”. These are affiliate programs that deposit cash straight into your bank or, PayPal account, the moment a sale happens. You don’t have to wait until you reach a threshold for the payment to be released.

Instant paying affiliate programs help you generate cash instantly. You promotional techniques will get your sales trickling in. The cash that comes into your PayPal account can then be utilized for business purposes like, joining the paid option in USfreeads.com or, getting a good autoresponder like Aweber. You might also want to buy a domain name for your site and a hosting account. You will not find yourselves stuck for cash.

This is how I started my online business after my first setback. It took me sometime to establish myself but I was happy that I was not cutting into my hard earned money from my 9-5 job.

Instant Affiliate Commissions

I was fortunate enough to get this book called as “Instant Affiliate Commissions”. This book had about 120 such affiliate programs that would pay instant commissions into my PayPal account and some valuable advice at starting your affiliate marketing business. All I did was join about 16 affiliate programs that I felt good enough to join and this funded my domain cost, hosting charges and other minor advertisement expenses.

You can grab a copy of this ebook here in case you wish to. You might also be able to get this information on the internet. But you will have to spend quite some time searching in order to find the best programs. This ebook has a list of such programs that you will never be able to search and find on the internet.

What is best about “Instant Affiliate Commissions” is that it has a quick birds eye view of what the affiliate program has to offer. Also you will find some exceptionally good 100% commission paying affiliate programs as well.

Download your copy of “Instant Affiliate Commissions” here.

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• They do not have the capital required to get a business started
• They don’t want to loose the security of their day job.

The solution to these could be starting a home business. The truth of the matter is that you can start your home business with no money at all. Do you have a computer with an internet connection? Do you have a phone line? If you have these two things you have the essentials of an office from which your home business can be started.

Affiliate marketing can be a great way for you to get started in your home business. Affiliate marketing will provide you with the opportunity to sell either a product or, a service. With low capital and little space you may want to concentrate on services.

Evaluating your skills is a very important next step. What services can you offer and what skills can you bring. Retail sites such as Amazon and EBay have affiliate marketing programs which are good to start off with. If you can generate traffic and increase sales then you make money. Both programs offer ways to increase revenues through links and blogs. These are usually free and worth using.

In addition to selling products through affiliate marketing, your site (if you have one) can make money in other ways too. When it is posted on sites such as yahoo publisher or, Google ad sense, there will be ads placed. Whenever a visitor clicks on an ad you make money. The more clicks the more cash. The operators take care of all the advertising costs and placement. They also try to place appropriate ads to your page.

You can also start you home business and work it around your job. You can gradually commit more time as your home business grows.

If you’re tired of your job and really want to work for yourself then you need to stop making excuses. Through affiliate marketing programs and selling services you will find that starting your home business is easier than you think. All it takes is time and a commitment to succeed. By taking advantage of the affiliate marketing programs that are currently available, you can make money and improve your own marketing skills. Remember, you can always expand into other areas and venture out totally on your own later. Right now, get marketing and get clicking.