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IMPORTANT!: Make sure you read this getting started guide to help jump start your way to making money with your new website. If you have not yet downloaded the ProfitMart toolbar, please do so now. The toolbar is your means to contact and succeed with ProfitMart. More information on the ProfitMart toolbar
The ProfitMart Pathway To Prosperity
Congratulations! You are now on your way to earning a steady source of income on the Internet. Now that you have your website you can start making money online within the next 24 hours.
All members MUST complete the following 5-Step Program to ensure your success with your new online business. We have built our training and support system to help each and every ProfitMart member succeed.
*** If you have a message of a secure or personal nature, contact Rick or Ron through the Community Forum.
*** The free traffic we send goes to your affiliate link, and will show up in your affiliate stats in the Affiliate Panel, not the counter on your ProfitMart site.
Step 1: If you have not yet downloaded the PowerBAR Toolbar, do so now. The toolbar is your means to contact us at ProfitMart. Here is a link for more information on the ProfitMart toolbar.
The ProfitMart toolbar contains links to all of the following, and then some:
- Access all affiliate control panels and login pages for ClickBank, ProfitMart, Pro2 and more.
- View ProfitMart training videos & Podcasts.
- Send a support message to affiliate masters Ron and Rick Davies directly with questions thru the built-in message system, without ever using your email address or personal information. Plus, you can actually see and review questions and answers from others as well.
- Join in Affiliate Chat. Arrange a Chat Conference via the built-in Chat system.
- See the latest posts from the Top Free Advertising Forums and Affiliate Forums as they are posted.
- Access the hottest resources for promoting your website or the ProfitMart opportunity.
- and so much more!
Install the ProfitMart toolbar
- Click Here to begin the installation of the ProfitMart Tool Bar
- Please select "Run" if prompted. We certify the software 100% virus free.
- The software is produced for us by Conduit.com.
Step 2: Go to your new ProfitMart website and change your password immediately. This information is found in the email you received shortly after joining ProfitMart. (Please allow up to 24 hours after joining to be complete. Most are completed much sooner.) If you did not receive your email with account information, please click on the "Links" button on the ProfitMart toolbar and then select "ProfitMart Support".
You can then return to modify your site at any time you wish by simply going to your admin panel for your site.
Example:
If you chose the domain name "LucysLowCost.com"Your ProfitMart site would be located at:
www.LucysLowCost.comYour admin panel would be located at:
www.LucysLowCost.com/admin.phpAnd your Cpanel (Advanced User's Only) would be located at:
LucysLowCost.com/cpanel
Step 3: Go to the ProfitMart Community Forum: Your login is found in the email you received shortly after joining ProfitMart. If you did not receive your email with account information, please click on the "Links" button on the ProfitMart toolbar and then select "Recover Your ProfitMart Login".
Take advantage of the expertise of the members in the forum. This meeting place will go a long way to assist you in making important decisions about design and promotion of your site. Be sure to make your first post in the "Introduce Yourself" string to say "Hey!" to your new teammates.
The expertise of your fellow ProfitMart members and the networking opportunity is a priceless commodity and we all work together as a team to assist each other to learn and succeed with our sites and sales.
Step 4: View the Training Tutorial Videos: Now that you have the ProfitMart toolbar, let's put it to use! Go to the "Links" button again and click on the "Tutuorial Videos" and then select the "ProfitMart Video Tutorials". These videos show you exactly what to do, and how to do it when it comes to:
- Setting up or modifying your ProfitMart.
- The affiliate control panel.
- using the built-in ad trackers.
- and a step-by-step explaination of the ProfitMart toolbar.
- more videos being added all the time!
Note: See how important the toolbar is!
Step 5: Start making money today by promoting the ProfitMart opportunity or your website, read on below for great promotion ideas and resources.
Remember, use the forum and the experience of your fellow ProfitMart team members to see what is working for them. Don't be afraid to ask! Most of these people are tickled pink to share their expertise and successes. A lot of them have never experienced online sales before ProfitMart and will sing like a bird with the basics of what they are doing and how they are doing.
While they probably won't share their exact keywords or ad sources, they will usually tell you where and how they promote and point you in the right direction too!
Keep reading to get started NOW!
The Keys To Affiliate Success:
a. Education is one of the major keys to affiliate success.
Knowing your site and products, as well as knowing how to effectively and ethically promote them will pay you back in spades. There is no secret to affiliate marketing and promotion, just highly refined marketing plans. All customers get to the vendor's pages somehow. There are no secret directories of sales-hungry buyers that only the top guns of affiliate marketing know about. It's knowing how to get customers to your site through a variety of all of these methods and doing it as cost-effectively as possible that will accelerate your trip on the road to success.
b. Customers will tend to open their wallets more freely and make purchases from a site that is professional and easy to use.
Your ProfitMart site has pretty much given you a free creative license on what you make your site look like. Once you have completed the customization of your site, ask your friends, relatives and colleagues what they think of your site. Better yet, ask the other members of the ProfitMart Forum what they think of your site.c. Create your own product niche.
Those that are most successful on the web become successful because they are promoting products and content that they enjoy and are familiar with. You can't fake enthusiasm.
Your ProfitMart allows you to build content and products into your site that YOU want to have on your store. If you are nuts about health, select health-related products and affiliate programs through your site. Make it your own little health portal. If you like online surveys, maybe do a review in the editable area and offer your top-picks in the featured items area. By targeting your store to a specific niche or interest group, it is easy to then find and send highly targeted traffic to your site."Targeted traffic converts at a much higher rate than general traffic. That puts more money in your pocket."
d. Keep it ethical!Stick with proven marketing methods and avoid all of the "hype" and "seems to good to be true" marketing methods. Poor choices that rarely produce are FFAs (Free For Alls), most safelists (I do use & recommend one) and traffic exchanges (start-page, surf for hits etc)
Use the resources listed in the Affiliate Panel. Login to the panel at http://profitmart.com/affiliate.
When it comes to website traffic, remember this simple equation: Garbage In = Garbage Out!
The absolute worst thing that any affiliate marketer can do... is nothing.
It is imperative that you promote your site!
The "build it and they will come" theory applies to imaginary baseball fields and ghosts, IT DOES NOT apply to the web.
Start simple, and work your way through the more involved promotion and marketing methods, but do implement an immediate action plan to start getting targeted traffic to your site today. If you do only one thing today, please be sure to work on this next section that focuses on promoting your ProfitMart.
Promoting Your New Business:
Your Immediate Action Plan;
This is your immediate action guide. Follow prescribed methods and your ProfitMart system will make you money. How fast and how much depends solely on you, your efforts, and in some cases your budget. Here are a few neat budget-minded tips & techniques to get you started:Brand Your Signature File:
Create your own email signature file that you attach to all out-going emails and email replies. While this may seem insignificant and almost silly, I know that I have personally visited many sites that I probably never would have visited otherwise. Why? Simply because it was in the email signature from a family contact or a trusted source.Here are a couple of nice examples of a signature file that you could use. All follow a simple format. No high pressure, just plant the seed of curiosity.
Your Name
Your Email Address
Your Site Address
Prompt or Comment
Using your ProfitMart affiliate address to promote the sale of other ProfitMart memberships:
Your Name
YourName@YourDomain.com
www.YourDomain.com
Launch You Own Network Of Niche Websites Today!
Execute Your Intermediate Action Plan
Now that you have reached this point, congratulate yourself. Heck, give yourself a great big pat on the back. Why? Simple. Most online marketing "wanna-bees" don't make it this far. In reality, they quit before they even get started. By doing those few simple steps above, you have now started to build a solid base to build your web business. You have proved to yourself that you are committed to success and that alone my friend, is well worth the pat on the back.
But man cannot live on pats on the back alone…lol. You want, and need to make sales. They will come, believe me. I regularly get emails of thanks from ProfitMart members that have just made their first sale on the web, and man are they excited. I want an excited email from you too when that first sale rolls in….I love to hear success stories. I could listen to them all day!
Here's my short list of the top web marketing methods available on the web. There are plenty of others out there, but the purpose of this guide is to get you started and whet your appetite for more.
a. Pay-per Click Search Engines
b. Ezine Advertising
c. Solo Email Ads (NOT Sp*am)
d. Classified Ads
e. Writing Articles & Reviews
f. Search engine optimization
g. Traffic Exchanges (like TrafficSwarm)Let's take a closer look and explain a little more and give you a couple of resources and suggested sources for each.
a. Pay-Per-Click Search Engines
Here is one of the fastest ways to either make money, or lose money available anywhere on the web today. Used wisely, this one method has been the vehicle to many an affiliate's success. Go into it without doing your homework first and you can quickly have your name added to the long list of pay-per-click affiliate failures. And the list is considerable. Ask me about my first experience with Google AdWords and it will send a chill down any marketer's spine.
The nice thing about pay-per-click search engines like Google and Overture is that they allow you to place ads within the search results of the displayed pages. No need to perform optimization or page tweaking, you get almost instant exposure at the top of the page for any or all of your given keywords or key phrases. The trade-off? You pay for each and every click on your ad. Sounds fair doesn't it? Only problem is that it is the highest bidder that gets the top spot, lower bids fall in according to bid below that.
Let's take a look at Google. When you perform any search, on the results page you will notice a box of ads to the right of the search page listings. These ads are paid ads.There are several pay-per-click search engines but Google is winning the war in this area. If you are to use only one service I highly recommend Google AdWords. Their setup is fast, it only takes $5 to get you account setup and you can be uploading ads and testing copy in short order.
Overture manually approves each and every ad and keyword for relevance. It can take several days to get setup and they restrict your advertising submissions where as Google has a flexible system to work within.
To learn more about Google AdWords and take a free online course simply CLICK HERE.
If you do not yet have a Google AdWords account, you can apply for their "JumpStart" program. Google specialists will customize a campaign for you based on your unique needs and their extensive experience with AdWords ads. You'll get an expert-level campaign, plus a model to follow for any additional campaigns you create on your own. Here's the best part….it's free too!For me, I found that this information was not enough and my AdWord campaigns failed miserably. I was simply paying Google, and not making sales. Then I discovered Perry Marshall's Definitive Guide To Google AdWords and my Google advertising experience changed. In my opinion, this is a free 5-day course and the ebook is a MUST read for anyone that is serious about using pay-per-click advertising.
Some keywords that I would suggest that you use are as follows:
work at home
work from home
make money online
make money on the internet
home business
home business opportunities
business opportunities
online business opportunities
earn money
make money
niche websites
turnkey websites
residual incomeA great tool to find out how many people search for any keyword or phrase each month is http://www.skycastles.com/search . This will tell you how many searches were made on the Overture network. Google probably received from 3-6 times that number of searches due to volume differences. Be sure to use variables of the term too!
Sample ads that have worked for others are as follows, but I suggest that you be creative
and try your hand at a headline or two:Earn $1,000/Day PT/FT
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http://yourdomain.comNext bid on keywords and determine your budget. Pay-Per-Click can be expensive, but they also bring results in as little as 15 minutes. Again, educate yourself in pay-per-click advertising and you can do VERY well. I have ads that make me $20.00 for each $2.00 I invest. Now that is sweet!
You will want to make sure you update the bids column if there are any bids over $2.00. Your bids should be between $0.45 and $2.00.
Now update the Approximate Daily Budget, we suggest setting your budget to $25/day. You can always set your budget higher or lower depending on how much money you want to invest into your new website.
The higher your daily budget the more targeted traffic you will get to your site and the more money you will make. If you really want to make a lot of money set your budget to $100/day.
Now click Continue once you have updated your daily approximate budget.
Enter your contact details. If you do not have a company name just use the name of your website. Once you fill in the form and agree to the terms click continue.
b. Ezine Ads
Before I start to talk about ezines, I don't want to take for granted that you know what an ezine is. Put quite simply, an ezine is an "e-magazine" or an online magazine or newsletter. We all receive them. They are always delivered to people that want them (they subscribe to it) and it is normally very targeted to a specific interest or subject matter. Not that's what you call a targeted audience. What better place to advertise you highly targeted website than to a highly targeted audience of information-hungry readers.
Many ezines today offer paid advertising within their newsletters. One resource I really like is the Directory of Ezines. Here you'll find a wide variety of ezines to advertise in, plus you'll get information on how to best-put ezine advertising to work for you. The owner is Charlie Page, is the type of person everyone wants to deal with. Honest, ethical, and just a downright nice person.
Ezine ads vary in price and location within the newsletter, normally the top sponsor offering the highest visibility, thus being the most expensive. Top, middle and bottom sponsor ads can be purchased very reasonably. I have seen them for under $10.00 all the way up into the hundreds of dollars.
The secrets to a successful ezine ad is don't try to sell to them, make them want to know more. That will deliver them to your site, where they will have the option to purchase or possibly find out even more. As the quote says, "Don't sell the steak, sell the sizzle." The rest will take care of itself from there.
One word of warning however, and that is to avoid those advertisers that profess to have HUGE lists. I stick to ezines with subscriber-bases of less than 30,000 readers normally as a rule.A couple of other sources I regularly use for ezine ads are:
1. Ezines-R-Us
2. Rent-A-List
3. MyWizAds
c. Solo Email Ads
Solo ads are emails that are sent out to existing lists of subscribers. You are basically buying the privilege to send your offer to the list owner's subscribers. Usually it is ezine publishers, however it may be an online community, or interest group, but not necessarily associated with an ezine. The advertisement will only contain your ad or offering.Solo ads are more expensive but dollar-for-dollar are my personal favorites. Please don't email me and ask for the most productive or my favorite. I won't share that with anyone. Many produce better than others. I have personally experienced as high as a 30:1 ROI (return on investment) on a single ezine ad!
Remember entice the reader to want to learn more about your site and/or products, then have your sales copy on your site do the work. You can research solo advertisement providers at the Directory of E-zines.
These same sources offer solo ads:
1. Ezines-R-Us
2. Rent-A-List
3. MyWizAds
d. Classified Ads
Classified ads are normally found on sites where the Webmaster offers paid exposure to their members. They may also be found in newsletters or ezines in the classified section of the mailing, just like in printed newspapers and magazines.These same sources offer 3 and 6 line solo ads:
1. Ezines-R-Us
2. Rent-A-List
3. MyWizAds
e. Writing Articles & Reviews
Don't let this one scare you off. Most people know more than they give themselves credit for. Let's talk about writing and submitting articles.Absolutely anyone can write articles...it's simple...just think of it as if you are writing to a friend to tell them about something that interests you. Crafts, vitamins, dressmaking, the new car you were reading about, just about anything. People love to read about things they know and share a common bond with others with similar interest. You will by far be your worst critic, so sit down with a coffee and a pen or pc and start writing.
Ezine publishers are always looking for new content and love to share resources. A resource box or signature file at the end of the article will credit you with writing the article and will also contain a link to your site.
Remember the sky is the limit when writing articles. One great resource for leveraging your success for announcing your articles is a program called IdeaMarketers. You can also find free content for your newsletter there as well. A dandy free resource.
f. Search Engines
Next let's very briefly discuss search engines. I don't want to go too deep into them and I don't want to try and re-invent the wheel. We follow simple search engine optimization using a combination of knowledge and common sense. There are tons of e-books and online information about search engines and almost as many companies willing to take your money to optimize your page. Some of these company's methods will get you disqualified from the engines, some won't.
The bottom line is to win the search engine war you must supply suitable and sufficient content on your pages to cover and command your keywords and key phrases.Let me state that one more time...you MUST command keyword phrases.
The only thing a search engine does whether it's a search engine (like Google or Overture) or a search engine directory (like Yahoo) is display relevant content filled pages that match your search term...plain and simple. The more relevant the higher the page ranks in the search results.
You can spend tons of time tweaking your web pages to be in the top positions but it boils down to CONTENT! This is what people are looking for...solutions to their problems. The owners of search engines know that, and want their customers to find the best results for their search phrases as quickly as possible.
Each ProfitMart is hosted on it's own domain name and is ideal for getting the content-hungry search engines to want to find your site. That's a BIG key. You really don't want to MAKE a search engine find your site, you want the search engine to WANT to find your site on it's own.
This can be done in a number of ways. The most popular are through linking to other sites that are already being spidered, and through the content supplied by you on your pages.
Let's Wrap It Up & Start Promoting!
There are things you can do within just minutes of joining that can start your ProfitMart's promotion. Others may take days, or even weeks. The worst thing you could ever possibly do is nothing. If you haven't started on your immediate action plan, do it now, and I know that in no time at all you will be writing that "Hey Rick! I just made my first sale!" email.
Additional Suggested Resources:
1. Get IMMEDIATE traffic to your site with this product. (we use it as well)
2. If you have not yet downloaded the ProfitMart toolbar, please do so now. The toolbar is your means to contact and succeed with ProfitMart. More information on the ProfitMart toolbar.3. TrafficSwarm
4. Get Your ProfitMart Site Professionally Created!
Includes logos, banners, autoreponder and more! To see samples and talk to Rob about your ProfitMart, please go to ProfitMartConsultant.com5. Be sure to check the extensive resource list in the Affiliate Panel, as well as consider the Advertising Co-op, which has been a huge success for members.