I am usually wary of downloading/subscribing to just any report on making money on the internet - being advertised as free even makes it worse for me; except in rare cases where you have the "gurus" talking about it.
This 89page free report on making profits through CPA Affiliate Marketing is one of those exceptions. It is authored by Gauher Chaudhry (Affiliate Marketing Guru) and making it free is so nice of him, as he could have decided to sell it and still make money from it.
CPA (Cost per Action) is that part of Affiliate Marketing where you are being paid for leading people(customers) to perform a required action by way of subscribing/downloading a
program/software.
We affiliate marketers most time find it difficult to generate leads or make that desired break, because of one/two mistakes or perhaps, ignorance.
Whether you are a guru or a newbie, this free report is for you - Its Chapters includes topics such as Introduction to CPA Marketing; Keyword Research; Traffic Tactics; Strategies to Marketing and more.
Today, 8th of March is celebrated globally as the International Women's day - Happy Women's day to all Women. According to the International Women's Day(IWD) website (a great resource for Women),
IWD is a global day celebrating the economic,
political and social achievements of women past, present and future. In some
countries like China, Russia, Vietnam and Bulgaria, IWD is a national holiday.
The first IWD was run in 1911. The IWD Global Centenary is in 2011 ...
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I am not a Woman though, but it is worthy I celebrate them as I spend my days with a whole lot of them around m
e. First is my Mum (great mum), she is worth celebrating today for she is a virtuous woman, secondly my Sisters..... (one is about to be taken away....oosh!!), my co-workers (I am the only man in the midst of about 6 Women - pray, they don't turn me into a Woman), lastly I attend to Women (mostly married Women(did u get that)) all day at my work place, I work in an O&G Section - if you understand me.
I remember a student of one of the Nation's University coming to my work place requesting for data on the martenal mortality rate. We discussed on some of the issues responsible for this high rate, I remembered telling her that ignorance is one of the many factors responsible for maternal mortality. There is the need for the government and other Women focused NGOs to sensitize the public the more on the importance of attending Ante-natal clinics, giving birth in a recognised hospital and all those important issues.
There are many times, Pregnant women are rushed into the Government Hospital where I work and their cases are usually pathetic. Imagine a Pregnant Woman not to have attended Ante-natal clinics for the whole nine months of Prgenancy, or some registering in "Churches" or "Iya Abiyes" - Traditional birth attedants............. and all that.
In all, I don't want to talk much on the Negatives, lets join our women in clebrating today and help those in need...
Happy Women's Day
kdIts been a while since my last post.......
work, school, stolen laptop, slow system @ home, not so fast internet connection, facebook addiction etc, has been responsible. These shouldn't be an excuse, you might say - (my response)whatever....
In a couple of days, I should be back on NairaBlog, I want to concentrate more here by way of writing all what I want to 'write/say' especially issues happening in Naija and whatever I feel like; and not just about making money online (though I have a bias for that) and will still feature it.
I want to thank those that have been encouraging me especially fellow Naija Blogger - Solomon Sydelle of Nigerian Curiosity ; NaijaECash and others.
Watch out for NiaraBlog.
A fine way to pick out the best affiliate program to promote for your own pay per click campaign is to see what other advertisers are promoting.
So let’s look at the movie downloads market for an example of how to do this.
First we think about the obvious keywords that people might type into search engines to find movies online. I came up with ‘movie downloads’, download movie’ ‘watch movies online’ and ‘downloadable movies’.
I type each one of these keywords in turn into Google (or Spyfu.com) and look at each of the Pay Per Click ads to see if they are promoting an affiliate product and if they are noted down as which one they are promoting.
This gives us a good overview of what the most popular affiliate programs for a particular market are. As we have looked at several keywords and the same affiliate programs keep popping up, we can be pretty sure that these products are selling well and making people money.
I have created a list of the most promoted products in the movie downloads market from researching movie download keywords. Now I’m not sure if it is the same people promoting on the different keywords, but this is the list I have created nonetheless:
Most Promoted Products in the Movie Download MarketCinema Now 5Movie Download Site 3Netflix 2Vongo 1Jaman 1Watch Direct 1Easy Movie Access 1Hooked on Films 1
This list is very interesting as you can see just how many movie download affiliate programs there are, and there are bound to be plenty more too, but these are the ones that people are promoting.
If I decided to enter this market I would promote Cinema Now as this site appears the most on the pay per click ads. Although I would certainly look at the home pages of all the other sites to see if any others appealed to me.
Unlike the paid survey market, most of the movie download affiliates use a direct linking campaign, rather than a review site. I found two review sites when doing this search – one looked very amateurish and the other seemed to have forgotten to put the links to the actual movie download sites they were reviewing, which leaves a gapping big hole for you to exploit.
People like to follow the leader and there is no shame in this – why try to re-invent the wheel? So promote the most popular product first, but try to be a little different in how you approach it like having a landing page pay per click campaign instead of a direct link campaign.
When you’re making some money, take a look at some of the other affiliate programs and try them too. If you are successful, then people will consider you to be the leader! These are the secrets to picking the best affiliate programs to promote with your pay per click campaign.
This is to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Most times, bloggers or site owners generally find it difficult to choose a theme for their blog/site, be it hosted on Wordpress or Blogger.
I also had the problem of choosing a template for Nairablog, until I came across Amanda's blog where I downloaded this theme am presently using. Template design could be a herculean task for "non-techie" bloggers, and it is a truism that your blog's template design speaks volume about your blog. It gives room for easy navigation and it allows visitors to stay more and come back to your blog.
I just discovered ThemeForest - as the name implies - it is a forest of professionally designed high quality web templates and themes for most CMS platforms (including Wordpress, Joomla, Expression Engine and, of course, Blogger!), all at affordable prices. You could get one for as low as $10.
There is a Forum on Theme Forest where you can post comments or even ask questions on a theme download page before you purchase. You can also be an author and sell your templates.
I didn't want to make this post, but each time, I keep remembering, and always feel like crying.
This is the first real test I have to undergo as a man and It remains a question of "are you stupid?, how could you have made that mistake? were you in church on Sunday? what did you do to the security man? what did the bank say?" and all manner of questions regarding my stupidity, gentleness and all that.
The first day of December, when we were thanking God for seeing the first of another December in the year 2008, a Monday Morning and a day to celebrate World's AID Day; I left home with all hapiness, clinging my bag (containing my laptop, IDs and other school documents) to my side but alas, I ended the day with the tag "The Saddest day of my life" or better still "My worst experience ever" or "the costliest mistake I ever made".
I headed towards United Bank for Africa or is it UBA Idiroko, Sango Ota Branch to drop the cheque of the remaining change on my salary. The remaining change because my salary is being deducted 'cos of a HP laptop which I took on credit.
I got into the bank - among the first entrants around 5mins past 8.00am and knowing that my Bag couln't allow me pass through their 'yeye' security door, I took for granted my laptop by
droping my bag in the presence of a security man on the shelve provided for keeping personal properties because the safe couldn't contain my bag.
I got into the bank, filled the teller and droped my cheque, not spending up to five minutes only to come out to receive the greatest shocker of my life - my bag has disappeared - meaning bye-bye to my laptop which I am yet to complete payment for. It was like a dream (I am yet to wake up) I cried, whaled, contacted the bank's management and even the Police - all yet to no avail.
Can I ever wake up from this nightmare, my HP530 Laptop which I took on credit not up to four months has been stolen. God!!, why did I have to go out with the laptop that morning; why was I in such a hurry not to be too late for work and didn't take my time to drop it with that security guy; why didn't I read the caveat - 'properties droped at owners risk'; what sort of bank will a security man not know who picks what - as the guy said he didn't see anybody pick the bag; what sort of bank has a CCTV camera but they are not functioning - cos my bag was under the Camera directly.
Jesus, why me!! before now, I had always had that conviction that none of my personal belongings could get stolen but alas!
What do I do? Who do I blame?
I have done nothing but to place the thief into the Courts of the Almighty God.
Each month ending will bring sadness as my salary will be deducted for a property that has been stolen and I am not enjoying.
All my projects have been stalled!! I had the intention of keeping my blog up to date, learn statistical tools that are relevant to my job of health information management, develop web applications for managing health information and all that... and my laptop contains lot of research papers that I am also using to write my research paper(s).
I believe in God that I will recover my laptop, I have learnt the greatest lesson of my life, though I had to pay a very expensive price. God I believe will provide another one for me in a miraculous way, who knows I might win the John Chow Contest and have the $1,000 for myself.
God help me and please don't tell me I'm stupid or too gentle (as my co-wokers said) - you will only be compounding my problem AND the next time you will be visiting a UBA Bank near you, think twice before going with your valuable possession and consider what the Police Officer I met told me "TRUST NO ONE"
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