Aingotajob posts can now be seen on affiliate-marketer-success.

Frankly, to be a successful affiliate, a plan of action is a mandatory tool. Take advantage of someone else’s ability to generate affiliate revenue, but do so very carefully.

How do you pick a profitable and useful plan?? The criteria is laid out for you in this Squidoo lens: Roadmap to Affiliate Success – How to Find a Profitable Affiliate Marketing Blueprint.

In addition to the evaluation criteria, there is a review of the One Week Marketing Blueprint, a simple, straight-forward, and revenue-generating plan of action. Is it perfect – nope; that’s pretty much impossible. But it certainly is worth a look.

Well, if you aint got a job and need a roadmap to affiliate success, use a specially designed affiliate marketing blueprint. Same concept as the GPS.

Question is – how do you find one without getting ripped off? That’s the subject of a Squidoo Lens in progress – how do you know if a particular blueprint will lead you to the promised land of financial independence? How can you tell before you spend the cash?

There are answers to these questions, and I will have them ready in the next few days. This ex-auditor will show you how to rate the affiliate plan you’ve chosen.

Getting into affiliate marketing is tricky – Follow a ROADMAP to affiliate success!

Why? 100 articles that create $0 in sales is a BIG waste of effort. If articles are a big part of your affiliate marketing campaigns, do it right the first time.

Here’s an article (link) that explains how to create quality articles that convert.

Start an Easy Online Business:
What Delivers the Best Results – the QUALITY or QUANTITY
of Articles You Write?

Good question, don’t you think? When you start an easy online business, do you write tons of keyword-based articles or a few quality articles?

Let’s back up a bit. Why are you writing keyword-based articles in the first place?

When you start an easy online business like affiliate marketing, the articles drive that important TRAFFIC to your vendor’s sell page.

So, if potential customers find your article, read it, but fail to click to the vendor’s sell page, the article is not achieving its purpose.

Quantity
You could be like a few article marketing gurus who brag that they have thousands of articles on the top directories. Who cares how many have been written? How many potential customers are clicking to the vendor sell page?

What’s a Quality Article?
For those who want to start an easy online business, you best know what constitutes a quality article. By definition, a quality article contains the following:
- A title that will attract readers
- Content that delivers information the reader can use
- A resource or bio box that entices the reader to click to the vendor sell page

A quality article is designed to drive traffic to the vendor’s sell page.

The Answer Is In the Numbers
Once you have learned to write articles that will deliver a high percentage of reader sell-page clicks, you need to know how many clicks (on average) will result in a sale. You can infer this number from article directories that track URL clicks. You should also be able to determine the originating point of a click that results in a sale if you have a tracking id on your affiliate links.

An Example
On average, 50 clicks deliver one sale at $25/sale.
One of your typical quality articles yields 100 clicks or 2 sales/week ($50 per week).
If your goal when you start an easy online business is $500 per week, you’ll need 10 articles.

Apparently, from this quick analysis, the quantity of articles you write is driven by the amount of money you want to make and the quality of the articles you write.

Your Next Challenges

1. Learn from the gurus. Become the best possible article marketer.

2. Follow a stellar affiliate marketing blueprint using article marketing as a key traffic generator.

Consider working for yourself and building an online business. It’s challenging and can be very lucrative.

The following article describes why it’s one of the best jobs around -

Link to the Article

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Super Affiliate Marketer
Ain’t Got a Job? 7 Reasons Why Super Affiliate Marketer is the BEST Job Ever

Can’t find a job?
Hire yourself into one of the most lucrative positions in today’s online world: Super Affiliate Marketer! It can be part-time or full-time – your choice.

In case you have never heard of this position – a Super Affiliate Marketer designs and builds affiliate marketing campaigns to pre-sell Other People’s products through web sites, emails, and articles. And No, it is NOT selling because your job is to drive Internet traffic to the product sales page created by the owner/distributor of the product.

The Best Position Ever!
Some of the best features of the Super Affiliate Marketer position are as follows:

* No product creation (unless you want to, but why would you UNLESS you want to promote your own stuff)

* No customer service emails or phone calls

* No warehousing or shipping inventory

* No cold calling or sales quotas (because there’s No selling)

* No set schedule (you make your own schedule)

* NO BOSS!

* Minimal (or zero) costs to run the business (you can spend money to earn money, but it’s not mandatory)

What’s the Compensation?
By definition, a Super Affiliate Marketer earns (at least) a living through his/her affiliating marketing business.

Generally, the number of profitable campaigns determines the dollar compensation. So, if you are just starting as an affiliate marketer and you have campaigns that do not generate sufficient sales, your compensation may not be enough to make a living from the job. In fact, your compensation may be next to nothing until you get campaigns rolling.

YOU Are in Charge
<Super Affiliate Marketer is truly a great position – you are in charge of everything, including what you earn.

Practice being in charge now – your challenge is to find out how to get started in affiliate marketing as soon as possible.

Valerie Mills is a copywriter/designer who writes about pets, health and fitness, and internet marketing.

An internet marketing blog is aintgotajob.

A recent squidoo lenses about affiliate marketing is SUPER Affiliate Marketer.

The following article explains the attibutes you need to start and run an affiliate business:

Do You Have What it Takes to Be a SUPER Affiliate Marketer?
3 Attributes You Must Have to Succeed

What Job is Cooler Than a Super Affiliate Marketer?
What self-respecting entrepreneur would fail to consider affiliate marketing – and aspire to be a Super Affiliate Marketer? Let’s see – you’re your own boss, selling is not part of the job description, AND you can start a business without investing any money.

But Do You Have the “Stuff” to Make it Work?
But a SUPER affiliate marketer –a person who earns enough money from affiliate marketing to be independently wealthy – what does it take to get there?

After learning about affiliate marketing and seeing what can be done, even if you start with no money at all, it appears there are 3 attributes you absolutely need to have:
• Motivation
• An Ability to Build Workable Campaigns
• Persistence to Maintain Momentum

The Motivation
Something must be pushing you to succeed. Yeah, it’s wonderful to have money. And affiliate marketing definitely will get you the prize. But what will get you to keep going and not give up like 95% of the people who start an internet business?

Think about this – it’s not really the money, but what the money will bring you – and that’s not always material things, but it is always a feeling – like freedom, or self-satisfaction when you provide for people you love.

Building Workable Campaigns
You can either build yourself a workable campaign strategy (a plan to succeed) or use someone else’s plan. If you want to spend the time to build your own and it works well, then you’re on your way to success.

Choosing someone else’s plan to build campaigns will speed up the process of becoming a super affiliate marketer, but it will likely cost you money AND you need to verify the plan to make sure it’s a viable blueprint.

Persistence
This last attribute turns an affiliate marketer into a SUPER affiliate marketer.

Once a few successful campaigns get underway and you finally understand the finer points of your business, you need to generate momentum. Giving up at this point is just dumb!

Which Attribute is the Priority?
The 3 attributes described above are equally important to achieving financial freedom. But the priority item is clearly the ability to build workable and profitable campaigns.

A Critical Decision – Building or Choosing an Action Plan
Building your own plan will build character, but it may eat up way too much of that precious resource – TIME. A proven plan, an example is One Week Marketing, will give you a clear advantage and a fast start.

Discover the next steps on the highway to internet business success.

Got access to a PC and the Internet? Don’t say no if you have access to a public library!

The gurus who cater to making money online for newbies have tons of information and freebies. BUT that takes time and you need to start immediately.

One expert who targets making money online for newbies has created a step by step plan to build an affiliate marketing campaign in a week. Then, each week after that you repeat the plan and build another campaign.

Wek by week, product by product, campaign by campaign, you build a business and start to realize sales.

The best part – the software and tools to run your online business are FREE.

The “less than $50 cost” is what you pay for the expert’s plan.

Take advantage of the fact that making money online for newbies is a big market.

Cash in and get rid of the “ain’t got a job” blues!

By far the simpliest (and maybe the most inexpensive) way to go is affiliate marketing.

Need an explanation of affiliate marketing?

Here you go . . .

Start an Easy Online Business – Affiliate Marketing Simplified Aka Affiliate Marketing For Newbies

If you want to start an easy online business OR you have been struggling with the best way to start an easy online business, take a long hard look at affiliate marketing.

Why?
It is the quickest path to start an easy online business. You make commissions from the products you drive traffic to.

The Goal
Affiliate marketing is NOT selling a product; it’s pre-selling a product and then driving internet traffic to a vendor sell page through a web site or web-site like tool.

The Process
There are three pieces of the affiliate marketing process for each product you pick – Build, Create Traffic, and Maintain/Tweak as follows:

BUILD
Find a product (ClickBank, linkshare, commission junction) you are familiar with and can write about intelligently.

Pick several low competition keyword phrases related to the product.

Construct a web site or Squidoo lenses (Squidoo.com) around the keywords.

CREATE TRAFFIC
Write articles or create videos to drive traffic to the landing pages (some directories will not let use a direct link to a vendor) or to the vendor sell site.

Participate in forums and social networks (YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc) to build traffic. Use your signature to link to your web site. If you blatantly promote an affiliate product, you will turn off or be thrown out of forums.

MAINTAIN/TWEAK
Check statistics to determine which articles are generating the most traffic and figure out why. If you need more traffic and ultimately clicks to the web site/ lenses or vendor sell page, write more targeted articles/videos.

This article presents an overview of the affiliate marketing process. You may need the “how-to” details. You can get them yourself online or use another method such as an Internet Marketing club or an affiliate marketing guru’s blueprint.

The How-To Details – Answer These Questions

Can you follow a simple affiliate marketing blueprint?

What IS a Squidoo Lens? And it costs absolutely nothing to build?

Accelerate to the Goal Of Making Money Online

If you’ve been an unemployee for as long as I have (more than a year) with maybe a few short-term gigs here and there, you’ve been looking to start as easy online business.

After a lot of google searches, I found a guru with an affiliate marketing plan called One Week Marketing. FYI -Affiliate Marketing is explained in this article: Start an Easy Online Business – Affiliate Marketing Simplified.

After a few week, this plan is reaping sales, so it does work.

And the best part – aside from the cost of One Week Marketing (less than $50), I paid zip to run the plan  - yup, $0. No web site costs, no web hosting. TIME is the only investment.

If you’re thinking – I can’t pay for a plan. Well – beg or borrow to get One Week Marketing for 3 reasons:

1.  It’ll save you weeks of researching, going down wrong paths, and major agita.

2.  Plan execution will cost you nothing at all.

3.  You could make some money from the plan!

Starting an easy online business is as close to reality as clicking One Week Marketing.

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Your Quick Launch Links

1. Squidoo Lens Creation for Newbies

2. Fast Track Online Club – WealthyAffiliate.com

3. One Week Marketing – Affiliate Marketing Blueprint