Beneficiaries Of Affiliate Marketing

The concept of revenue sharing, used by Affiliate Marketing isn't new to people. This concept predates Affiliate Marketing and Internet. Even today revenue sharing concept is followed by people to sell their properties or other valuables. The Broker or the middleman gets a share from the property, if he gets him a promising customer.

Inspite of couple of glitches like usage of spams, false advertising, forced clicks and other methods to drive traffic to the sponsors, Affiliate Marketing has come a long way since its commencement. It has also been tagged as sporadic, since it can be relied upon as stable source of income.

Inspite of such issues, the point is that the merchants just love Affiliates and Affiliate Marketing. And it's going to stay for long because of its rewarding nature for, everyone associated with it.

Let's see the Beneficiaries associated with Affiliate Marketing and how they are benefited:

1) The Business/ Merchants --> The obvious benefits of Affiliate Marketing are that merchants a wider environment generating more products and services signifying more sales. No additional time is spent in marketing with merchants and they can obtain customers this way too.

2) The Affiliates --> This group has been highly rewarded from the concept called Affiliate Marketing. It has enabled them to work for themselves and yet earn more than a regular job. Some affiliates have even created multi million dollar companies - these are the guys who run comparison sites, the cash back and coupon sites, etc.

3) The Customers --> Most of the customers don't know about internet Affiliate marketing and if they know also, they are the most benefited group. It's because of Affiliate Marketing that the customers enjoy comparison shopping, discount coupon and cash backs. It's affiliates, who bring these wonderful goodies to the prospective customers.

4) The Web --> This group of giants like Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL and now the hugely popular Web 2.0, enjoy bulk of Web share among themselves. If done correctly, knowing customer needs and desires, can create a knowing of market trends which can help future sales in the sense that the website knows how to market products or services more effectively next time. Banners generate interest and doesn't need any kind of big capital to market and advertise certain products.
It can be irritating and complicated start but with little perseverance and luck, one can become successful Affiliate Marketer.

Do share your comments on my blog post? What are your views on Affiliate Marketing?

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Manage Your Own Searches with SearchWiki

With its new and unique technology called SearchWiki, Google allows its users to place the search results as per their requirement. The users can tweak with Google algorithm and rank the Search results as per their wish or requirement, only if they have logged in their Google account. Though making changes through SearchWiki won’t affect the website ranking followed by Google algorithm. The changes made through SearchWiki are purely based on individual preferences and can get the same search results whenever they log in their individual accounts.

SearchWiki allows the users to rank the Search results, delete them as well as add specific comments for relevant sites, with the help of buttons given below the site. For ranking the arrow button, to delete “X” button and the bubble is used for inserting comments for future references. The rankings of sites are done by users as per their requirement (content of the site) or relevancy of the site. The users can also delete any Search result finding it non-relevant. So next time the user won’t find the site when he/she logs in. The comments inserted for specific site can be shared with other logged in users.

Though SearchWiki tries to find out the relevant searches through user preferences, it overlooks couple of aspects like the frequency of same searches made on rival Search Engines and not on Google.

Do share your comments on my blog post. What are your views on Google SearchWiki?

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Are You A Debt Crusader for Your Family?

What is a Debt Crusader?

Well, I believe it is someone who wants to eliminate their credit card debt. In addition, they want to make sure credit card companies do not earn additional interest from their debt.

I was fed up with my credit card bills. I had no choice and I was in credit card debt - Angelina Lewis

In 2007 it was reported that US consumers owe over $957 BILLION in credit card balances. The average person had balances of almost $10,000. As a society we enjoy to buy a lot of stuff on credit cards and carry balances over time.

This was not always the case, but during the 1980s credit cards became very useful and easy to be approved for high limits. Over the past 30 years we see how the balances have just exploded on us.

This is where being a Debt Crusader comes into play. Most people don’t like to pay a lot of interest on our debt. We solved this by credit card scurfing. However, this had an unintended consequence.

What was that consequence?

More credit cards equals more access to credit cards.

I have seen this happen to many people. They fully intend to pay off their balances, but something always comes up. You can fill in the reason since it has happened to most of us.

When this expense arises we simply use one of the many credit cards we have from all the credit card surfing.

Now being a Debt Crusader you need to realize these traps and attempt avoid them just like in a video game.

What are some traps?

• Take a Payment Holiday (interest keeps growing)
• Your credit limit has been increased (Spend more money)
• Transfer Balance to 0% Rate (usually for a short period of time)

When I was in credit card debt I took a help from debtstrength and I was out of it ~ Amenda Palin

These are just some on the traps to avoid. It takes time and effort to become a Debt Crusader. You can do it one day at a time with simple choices such as can I pay off this purchase in the next month or can I wait until I can pay cash for this purchase.

With time it will become easier and easier to become a Debt Crusader. Visit the site debtstrength for a free ebook which will provide you more details on becoming a Debt Crusader.

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Its Time to Turn your Summer Travel into Cash

I was very excited as Summers were approaching and this time I had made some unusual plans for it. No doubt summer vacations are always very expensive. To afford a good trip it is important for anybody to take a dip into their well planned savings account. I will not consider myself to be smart but yes I think that I played very safely and smartly here. I somehow managed to turn my summer vacations into money making opportunity vacation. And I made huge profits while traveling. This is the reason I decided to post it out so that all of you can do same things and earn some income in your summer vacation this time.

It is really a great idea to earn while you travel

1.) I wrote a lot about my travels : Many people think that it is just not worth of writing where you are traveling. But I think just the opposite. I wrote each and everything thing I did while I was traveling, about exotic locations I visited, different people I met and almost everything. It actually becomes a great source of entertainment for others. I got in touch with a local magazine of my area and shared my experiences in a form of an article. And for each article I was paid by the magazine. So in this way I earned a good income (at least a pocket money for a month or so)

2.) I updated my traveling experiences in different blogs : After reading my article in the local magazine, one of the blogger called me up and asked me to share my traveling experiences, traveling tips, about traveling insurance in his traveling blog. The offer was great. He paid me for the same. I started building a good networking with his fellow bloggers. I also started writing articles in their blogs. In this way for each blog post I was paid, a typical freelancing job. I really enjoyed it.

3.) I sold my trip photographs : I just love photography and even more when I am traveling to some exotic locations. I decided to click some great pictures, pictures that are usually out of our norms. With a little extra effort I got in touch with a stock photography website. I made a deal with them that for each photograph I would charge around $10. She agreed and I started sending her the photographs. Later I also sold the pictures to a local fine print shop. They really appreciated my work.

My traveling bag full of money. I am loving it :)

4.) Create an art yourself while you travel : I have been familiar with some sort of paintings and so as a result of that I started making my own art while I was traveling beautiful places. A lot of time was consumed but trust me if the paintings is good you can get huge sum of money. I managed to sell two of my paintings out of 6. With that money I bought six of my favorite dresses. Isn't it a good idea? I hope I am able to sell other four as well as soon as possible.

5.) I started my own small business : I really played smartly here. I used to purchase local jewelery from the places I visited and used to sell them to my friends and relatives, making sure I am earning a profit out of it. I am still doing this business and very soon I will opening my own Junk Store.

6.) Learn skills : I made sure wherever I used to travel, I used to learn a special skills from the local people there. I visited Beijing last year. There I learned about Chinese Magic. I performed same tricks here in my city and it was highly acclaimed. I started doing my own shows. In this way I earned quite a good amount of money.

Now I am happy, Finally I have some extra hard earned incomes

7.) I acted as a Teacher : I am quite aware of 2 foreign languages including french and German. When I visited China, I taught the local children about these languages. They really enjoyed it and I have decided that I ll learn more of foreign languages.

If you want to share your traveling experiences then do email me or post your comments here.

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