I wanted to show you some shocking results of high search engine rankings for one of my sites. This site is ranking between the 1st and 3rd in Google, Yahoo and Bing for my main keyword and most of my other keywords that I’m targeting are all in the top 10 as well.

Before I show you the results, I also want to mention that this site hasn’t been updated since May 20th, 2009 (over a year ago) I do plan on making some changes when I get a chance. It’s primary income is from Google Adsense.

In the first screen shot below, you’ll see the google results from my primary keyword phrase “product development strategies” where as of today I’m currently ranked #1 out of 14,100,000 results.

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All businessmen know the importance of that last stage of selling which is called the “closing”. This is the stage in the selling process that will get the sale. The same is true among online businesses, such as the affiliate marketing business. The affiliate must conduct such a closing by asking the client for the sale.

Unfortunately, the asking for the sale in online businesses, such as affiliate marketing is more challenging than the asking for the sale in a brick-and-mortar business. In land-bound business marketing, the salesman can closely observe the target client’s movements of the body and the eyes so that he can gauge if it is time to close the sale or not. But in an online business, the closing of the sale will not be helped by the body language of the customer. Obviously, the affiliate cannot see the customer’s body posture.

And therein lies the problem for closing and asking for the sale. The affiliate has no means of knowing whether it is time to ask or not. The asking may be too early, when the customer is not convinced enough. Or the asking may be too late that the customer has already lost interest in the product. (more…)

Affiliate marketing is probably the simplest business model you can choose to build a business. Of course the devil is in the details, as they say, but the overall model can really be broken down into six steps.

Before we get to the steps, I want you to ask yourself a question. What do you hope to accomplish with affiliate marketing? This is an easier question to answer than it might seem. There are really only two basic choices here.

The first is what I call the “quick buck” choice. In other words, you want to make a few dollars quickly and you are not interested in building a business. If this is you, all you need to do is learn how to write exceptionally good ads and then use them to promote your affiliate product. Many people will say I am wrong, but there is nothing wrong with doing this, as long as you are honestly not trying to build a long term business this way. (more…)