Resources to help make your web site profitable, sticky, able to accept credit
cards and well designed
Create a More Profitable Web Site ...
"But hey, I already know what I'm selling....my website's up and selling
my main product..."
Great.
No problem ...
But, but that doesn't mean that you still can't build on your existing product
or service and make your site earn more.
What do most sites offer?
A search engine... You can earn from that.
A Newsfeed... You can earn from that.
What is your 'niche market'? What group of people are you promoting to? Because
you can find many relevant and commission products and services to link to from
your site:
AdReporting
They began as email publishers and know and understand exactly
what makes a good product or service to sell and make money with. They only
accept products and services that they have tested in their own newsletters
and have converted to a good CPM rate. They work with the merchant to make sure
the product sells once visitors hit their site.
More
details here...
Clickbank
With ClickBank you can place relevant links on your web site which can be
a source of revenue. When you send a customer to any ClickBank site, you will
receive a commission of up to 50% of the sale.
Since ClickBank handles the sale and the commission, your cut is guaranteed
-- no "lost" commissions. Just sign up once (it's 100% free), then
link to your choice of over 1000 ClickBank sites offering commissions. Some
of their clients already earn over $1000 per month from their hoplinks alone!
more
details here...
ClickXchange
Get paid per click. Thousands of sites available covering a range of products
and services.
Refer an affiliate and earn 5% of that affiliates earnings forever! As a
bonus you will also be paid $10 for each advertising member that joins. No charge
for setup for advertisers and affiliates join for free. 
more
details here...
Commission Junction
Plug into the Commission Junction global network and start generating revenue
immediately. With over a thousand merchants and hundreds of thousands of affiliates,
Commission Junction audits e-commerce activity, manages all relationships and
collects and pays commissions on sales generated, all at a cost that is lower
than traditional online advertising programs.
more
details here...
LinkShare
Earn
revenue from your website's traffic, by linking to over 500 of the internets
top merchants. You can also earn by promoting the affiliation program itself.
full
details here...
Refer-it.com
Launched in December 1997, Refer-it.com is the leading search engine for revenue-sharing
programs. Refer-it's database includes descriptions and ratings of 6169 affiliate
programs.
more details here
Your Cheque.com
Great range of UK based programs than any other UK network. Open to any
international site, but payments made in UK Sterling, plus they credit your
account with £5.00 instantly for just joining us for FREE. What have you
got to lose? They pay out timely in £s, and also give you £5.00
for each new member you recommend.
more
details here...
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Making your web site Sticky...
Want to make your site make money?
Want to sell...again and again, retaining your customers?
Well you need to know how to make your site 'sticky',
making sure that people have a need to make repeat visits.
Now that doesn't mean that we have to add new content every week (although
that's a good idea - more later).
There are other ways to ensure that your visitors have a need to return.
Here are some ideas and links:
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Survey
People love to give their opinion on things...or to find out what other
people are thinking.
Get a good survey subject running (relevant to the site) and people will
give it a go....and if you offer something for free, like a free subscription
to your email newsletter...all the better.
Several companies offer free surveys:
Poll
It -
Poll Now
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Quizzes
Another one that people love to go for. Quizzes can be fun, interesting
and relevant to the site. Go here for some help:
Poll It -
Quiz
Creator -
QuizPlease -
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Offer Special Deals regularly
"Half-price! And still with that great guarantee...Well,
count me in. Where do I buy?" Need I say more.
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Discussions
Discussion groups are great for everyone. People love to discuss, share
and announce. And you can be seen to help and guide.
Also a great resource from which to discover 'needs to be met'.
Here are some people who can help with providing a message board:
ProBoard -
SiteGadgets -
and more beside
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Weekly/Monthly Course
Several affiliations already offer free courses as part of their marketing
plan. As well as the sale potential, when you know the delivery cycle you
can email the recipient to make sure that they have understood everything.
You look sincere (which you should be!), and are more likely to make a sale.
Offer your own course. See below - use a selection of articles as
a series on a theme, sent out regularly.
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One of the best of all, a regularly updated site.
Now if you can get your visitors name and email address (perhaps by offering
them something relevant for free), you can even email about the updates.
A regularly updated site need not by a headache these days
I've built up a 'stock' of hundreds of articles and reports which are mostly
up to date and are relevant (there's that word again!) to my sites.
And even better I get tens of fresh articles mailed to me every week. Here
are some sources for you:
http://www.web-source.net/articlesub.htm
http://articlesarchives.netfirms.com/
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Accept payments online...
Accepting credit cards is essential if you want to sell off your site. There
are no two ways around it. A recent poll revealed that 88% of online buyers
use their credit-card.
But unfortunately not all of us can walk into our own bank and ask for merchant
Status.
What to do?
Fortunately there are now many companies who can help you out - for a price.
And the price changes dramatically from company to company.
Starting out, it's best to bite the bullet and go for perhaps a higher percentage
of sale charge rather than a lower charge and a large upfront fee.
Testing the waters with your site over a few months should tell you whether
you're on to a winner, and those profits can always help you change the company
who is offering you a merchant account.
Rather than list tens of companies, here are the few which I use,have found
to offer a good service, are established and come with recommendations:
Charge.Com
Established 6 year company offering the lowest charges on the net - backed
by a 110% guarantee. Recommendations come from the like of Apple, Excite and
AOL.
Clickbank.Com
This company is ideal if you are selling an 'electronic' product, ie not shipping
an actual product.
You can also link up with hundreds of other companies with relevance to your
core business, and earn commissions.(Or even start a site just with a selection
of these links). Sign-up is free.
Verotel.com
Webmasters worldwide use Verotel to sell the tickets for their content subscriptions
on the Internet. Free box office for online subscriptions, Credit card and check
billing options, no setup fee and no monthly minimums.
Non-credit card services:
PayPal
PayPal lets users send and receive money online. You can send money to anyone,
and PayPal charges it to your bank account or credit card. It's faster, safer,
and easier than mailing a check. Starting to be seen widely on many web and
auction sites.
eGold
e-gold is an electronic currency, issued by e-gold Ltd., a Nevis corporation,
100% backed at all times by gold bullion in allocated storage.
e-gold is integrated into an account based payment system that empowers people
to use gold as money. Specifically, the e-gold payment system enables people
to Spend specified weights of gold to other e-gold accounts. Only the ownership
changes - the gold in the treasury grade vault stays put.
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Free web design resources...
So you've got the product/service/niche all figured out.
You've bought a domain name.
You're hosting through us...Well let's be generous, even if you aren't...
Now you need to get your information on the page.
Well now you don't even need a web designer, or have to know too much
html.
There are several companies quite happy to offer you a range of predesigned
web page templates, ready for you to 'drop your copy' into.
Whether you use them as is, 'improve on them' by changing colours etc, or use
them as a starting point for your 'own work', these are a great resource.
Dan's Creations
Good mix of design orientated and straight business web template designs.
Easy to work with designs.
Elated
Professional, free and clean. Some good strong designs here, with a lot
of background support.
FreeSiteTemplates From
the stable of 'JimWorld', a large range of templates from someone who knows
what he's talking about. Be sure to visit 'JimTools' after.
Free Web Templates
Links to a range of sites that offer templates and free Web-useful graphics.
Also produces and offers its own designs. Good range of workable business templates.
GUIstuff.com
Smooth website templates. All high design, high tech stuff. Very impressive!
Want to do something more complicated? A free $200 web starter design
package: http://www.evrsoft.com/download/
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