Your list is your first contact, and it contains pretty much everyone that’s passed through the system you’ve set up, from the freebie seekers, to the people that didn’t know what they signed up for, and of course those who are going to make you a whole bunch of cash in several different ways.

Your lists are there for one thing, and one thing only, and that’s to act as your own media outlet, and increase your resources (something that many businesses miss). Turning your list into customers and long-term customers is quite straight forward. You’ll be sending them announcements relating to your new products and services. It’s as they should be used, and most often are.

Two more extremely profitable things that your list can do that people rarely ever seem to catch hold of (even more profitable than making direct sales) is build your affiliate base and on top of that build your joint venture base. First up, the affiliate building. Remember we talked previously about promotion to build resources instead of make the profits? Well this works in exactly the same way. The reason we don’t see it too often, aside from the people that have been told about it, or sussed it out already, is who in their right mind would promote, and in fact spend the two most important things (their money and their time) on promotion when they’re not going to make any cash out of it directly.

The sooner that you, as a business-person, online or offline can see how important it is to look beyond immediate profits from ad campaigns, the sooner you will start to make some real money. I guess it’s overlooked by so many simply because in today’s age of the Internet, everyone wants something right now, they don’t want to wait. The longer it takes to carry out, the more they overlook it as something that won’t be an immediate fix for their situation.

One thing I do want to mention is, if you have seventy percent, or even more to give away through your products’ commissions, don’t be afraid to tell people about it. Not so long ago there was a spate of big affiliate commission sites popping up that offered anywhere from 80-100% commissions that did incredibly well on the resource building side of things simply on the basis of promoting their high commissions more than the product itself.

So whatever you do, don’t think that gaining affiliates is all about that little banner at the top of your sites with 80% for affiliates written in big letters. Hey, we spend money to promote free products to build our lists all the time, why can’t we do the same for our affiliates? Well we can, and to be honest, one good affiliate is more valuable than a hundred subscribers, even a thousand subscribers in my eyes, for the simple reason that they may have an audience of tens or even hundreds of thousands on their lists that they’re willing to give you access to.

Now as far as turning your list into joint ventures goes, this is a pretty easy but also open ended and rather variable in results until you actually see what these people are capable of further down the line. Similar to gaining feedback and new affiliates from your list you can do it the same way and gain joint venture partners from your list.

Do not relegate your joint venture prospects to those who visit your website, and the individuals you pick out through the top performing affiliates, but to actively seek them through your list. For example, an experienced marketer that subscribes to a selection of lists to keep up with what’s going on around them, happens to subscribe to your list where you’re selling an infoproduct. He or she won’t buy your product, because they’ve got their system set up already and it just so happens, that they only promote their own stuff to their own lists, unless it’s a joint venture (this is very common among the big guys by the way), they won’t buy your big product for the same reason, and they won’t be joining your affiliate program for the above reason. He or she is a heavy hitter with a big list, but you’re missing out. These are the people you’re aiming to cater for here. It’s not good if you’re leaving massive holes like this, because you’re missing out on some massive profit potential. In fact, as we speak the majority of marketers out there are very obviously leaving these types of holes.

The problem with joint venturing through a list at this stage is it becomes kind of a lottery if you’re not careful. You can’t just send out a mailing asking for anyone with a list over ten thousand people to contact you for higher commissions, because then everyone else feels cheated and you may alienate some potential affiliates. In general terms joint ventures should be a private thing, the deal will also vary from person to person, depending on your product, their list size, what they want in return and what you can grant in return. The best way to go about this is to keep it that way. Don’t do a mass mailing just requesting joint ventures for the reasons above, we can’t do that for this particular resource.

What I’d suggest you do instead, which you should be doing with your list anyway, is carry on as your normally do, sending out your non-intrusive surveys to help with your research and find out as much info as you can about the people on your list, for something in return. For example a short valuable report that you’ve written on your area of expertise. In exchange you’re getting vital info that not only allows you to tailor your ads to your list providing a better response rate, but at the same time you’re building up a picture of who the good joint venture prospects are. Once you’ve done that, you can go through the results you’ve collected, and pick the top performers, the knowledgeable, and the people with the most resources, and contact them individually.

So you see, your list is your first contact that you have with your customers and the potential is there to turn them into top affiliates and joint venture partners. Leave them in the dark, and you’re missing out on potentially thousands, tens of thousands in profit, or more.

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How would you like to have a site that gets tons of traffic without any marketing whatsoever? Would you like to see visitors hitting your site without paying a cent for any of them? If you have an Authority Site, free targeted traffic is just one of the benefits of owning it.

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What are your five primary resources, the lifeblood of any online business? Well, that’s your affiliates, your list, your customers, long term customers and joint venture prospects, all of which are your resources, or your promotion power.

Each one of these big five have the power to make you sales, and big profits. However, imagine being able to take those five resources and manage them in such a way that you never have to carry out the expensive act of paying for new customers, a bigger list, more affiliates or JV contacts ever again, but still having countless thousands of them flowing into your lap.

It sounds unbelievable, but with the right management of your resources, you’re going to be seeing their usefulness double, multiply by three, four, sometimes even five. What does this mean for your profits? Well, have you ever worked it out in your head how much you’d make if you doubled a penny every day for a month or two? The principal here is the same, but instead of money, you’re using your resources. The more you have, the faster they build each other. The true power of real exponential growth is at every marketer’s fingertips. You just have to know how to realize it’s there and understand how to use it to your advantage.

The whole idea here is based around kind of a cross promotion strategy, which is nothing new in terms of products, but when we look at it in terms of the five main resources it becomes a different matter entirely. What you want to do is take the whopping promotion power of the big five, tie them together and double what they’re doing for you without bringing in anyone new.

So we’re taking that circle, and moving people around so that they can reside in multiple places, which in turn, can double, or even triple your promotion power simply because one person becomes two, three and up to five different resources on their own. It’s powerful stuff.

Think about your five main resources: Affiliates, Standard List, Standard Customers, Long Term Customers, and Joint Ventures, for they will form the basis of your whole web-based marketing outlook.

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After the long wait, the much-anticipated launch of Clickbank Social Bookmarking is now here!

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Whether your blog is a space for political discussion or a gathering place for people who raise beta fish, you’ve already realized that the more traffic you can generate, the better! Not only will your blog have an active community, but if you have pay per click advertising on your blog, every visitor is a bit of extra cash in your pocket. There are many ways to generate traffic to your site, and it is just a matter of finding one that suits your site and your personal style.

One innovative way to get the clicks where you want them is take part in a social bookmarking site. If you have not yet heard of the phenomenon, there are sites where you can store your list of bookmarks online. This is convenient for the person who’s always hopping from computer to computer; you’ll always have all the information you need at your very fingertips. Even better, you can make your bookmarks public; you can share things like your favorite news sites, or your top ten favorite web comics. The big advantage to this sort of service comes when you realize that you are an expert. Make a list of bookmarks that feature other sites that are like yours and make it public.

Social bookmarking sites work because of the selection involved. As more people become wise to the concept of search engine optimization, they are a lot more wary of the first ten hits that come up when they check Google or Yahoo. Social bookmarking works because it has the endorsement of another real person. A real community can spring up around the idea of social bookmarking and it becomes a network of people who are trading information. With the right list of bookmarks made public, it will take a very small amount of time before your blog will be getting more hits than ever before.

To get started with social bookmarking, there are a number of sites that you can go to. Technorati is one of the first sites to take advantage of this phenomenon and the interface is quite usable. You’ll find more technical bookmarked lists here, which is ideal if you have a blog on computers, televisions, or general gadgetry. At StumbleUpon you will find a more social atmosphere, and there is more of a focus on entertainment. If you have a blog on the latest celebrity doings or even of your photography, this might be the place for you. Though it might look less polished than the other two, Del.icio.us packs a lot punch with a history that goes back almost five years. Del.icio.us is a wonderful place for almost anything you might want to find and more and more people are using it to find the information they need.

This is also a good way to find out how people are coming to your blog. What searches are they using to get there? Once you can pinpoint that, you can can tailor your blog to meet the demand and receive more traffic as well. Many blogs also offer subscriptions, which will tell readers when you have updated, and in this way, with a list of readers at your disposal, you can play your content to an audience that you know better.

Social bookmarking is a trend that any blogger who wants more traffic to his site should take advantage of and with sites like Technorati, StumbleUpon and Del.icio.us, you have many avenues waiting for your personal touch.

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So your internet marketing business is doing pretty good. It’s growing, it’s expanding, and things seem to be moving in the right direction. Congratulations! Now what are you going to do to keep it going and move your business up to the next level of success?

As strange as this might sound, the time to think about keeping your business growing is right now, and the way to achieve even more success is to focus your attention on the areas that have the greatest potential for growth. Some people might want you to think this means expanding your product line, or adding more services; of course these are important things, but I’m here to tell you about something else you can do to dramatically increase the efficiency and profitability of your business.

It’s called contact management and it is one of the most powerful improvements you can make to your business. Why? Because the very foundation of your business is the connections and contacts you make with others, and so effectively managing those connections and contacts is vital to growth and success.

You might have heard about some different contact management software programs out there in the marketplace, but the problem is that these programs are designed to meet the needs of very large companies… and their cost reflects this. Unless you are already independently wealthy or have recently won a lotto jackpot, chances are you simply can’t afford the high cost of these kinds of programs.

That’s okay, though, because the reality is these other programs don’t offer the features and benefits that are most important to a smaller business such as yours. You would be far better off investing a much smaller amount of money in a contact management software that’s designed to meet your particular needs.

The problem up until now has been that a program like this simply didn’t exist. All of that has changed, though, thanks to a fantastic new software program called Internet Marketing Contact Manager!

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