Article marketing

Hi all,
I wanted to talk a little about article marketing today. We all know everything there is to know about affiliate links, getting them, how they work, what you need to know, etc etc. Right?
So now all we need is a good way to get those links out there and get a few clicks on them. But how are we gonna do that? Well, we could pay for it. Adwords is a great tool for driving traffic to any site, and Bidvertisers (check out the button at the bottom of the page) is even offering $20 of free advertising. But if you read any of the literature on affiliate marketing (like Project X, or The Rich Jerk) you'll see that most people respond a whole lot better to a pre-sell than just being sent cold to the vendors sales page. What that means for you is that you can either create a squeeze page and pay for adwords traffic, create a website where you give reviews of the products you're selling, or you can just write articles.
With article marketing you have the chance to generate a whole bunch of free traffic to your links, and if you do it right all that traffic will already have a positive image of your product. Simple as pie right? more or less. All you need to do is learn how to write a good article.
Both Project X and The Rich Jerk go over writing sales letters and article marketing, but neither of them really reveals anything new. They talk about getting ideas from successful affiliates, playing on peoples fears, failures, and frustrations, but they don't really go beyond that. They say to play on peoples fear of being scammed, create a sense of urgency, and offer incentives (like discounts or bonuses). These are all good ideas and you shouldn't disregard them, but I want to go further.
So for the next few days here I'll be going over what I know about persuasion techniques and how to apply them to article marketing. I could be selling this information for a lot of money (and if anyone reading this wants to try and take these ideas and make an ebook out of them go ahead, just let me know how much you make from it) but I'd rather just give it away and watch my friends get wealthy.

So my next post will be about using a person's fear of regret in article marketing.

Adsense Arbitrage.

FROM WIKIPEDIA: In economics, arbitrage is the practice of taking advantage of a price differential between two or more markets: a combination of matching deals are struck that capitalize upon the imbalance, the profit being the difference between the market prices. When used by academics, an arbitrage is a transaction that involves no negative cash flow at any probabilistic or temporal state and a positive cash flow in at least one state; in simple terms, a risk-free profit. A person who engages in arbitrage is called an arbitrageur. The term is mainly applied to trading in financial instruments, such as bonds, stocks, derivatives and currencies. If the market prices do not allow for profitable arbitrage, the prices are said to constitute an arbitrage equilibrium or arbitrage free market. An arbitrage equilibrium is a precondition for a general economic equilibrium. Statistical arbitrage is an imbalance in expected values. A casino has a statistical arbitrage in almost every game of chance that it offers.

There's a new book out by Michael Plante that tells exactly how to do Adsense arbitrage. Looks pretty good, I'd hop on the band wagon pretty soon if I were you.
Adesense Arbitrage.

$20 of Free Advertising!!

Yesterday I said I would tell you how to get a bunch of free advertising but unfortunatly I don't think the offers I found are still available. You can check them out anyway if you want but when I checked em out yesterday I couldn't get one of them to work. I did get the Bidvertisers deal to work though so you should definitly check them out. They're giving away $20 of free advertising to anyone who signs up right now. I decided to promote the deal so that I can a little peice of the pie, so if you wanna get a bunch of free advertising just click on Bidvertiser button at the bottom of the page.

Stay breezy friends.

Free Affiliate Stuff!!!

Oh the loveliness of it all. Its so nice to feel free to do as I please without having to answer to a boss, to finally have enough money to live the way I want, to have the bills paid on time. aahhhh...

anyways, I found a couple of things you all might find interesting. First is a forum that has a lot of great stuff for the begginner. Actually there's a lot of great stuff for anyone. http://www.associateprograms.com/. Its my favorite affiliate forum so far.

I also just found a free ebook that looks promising. I havn't read it yet so I'm not sure if its any good. If you decide to check it out before I get the chance don't be affraid to post a comment about it. Otherwise just relax and I'll sift through it for you. Dotcomology.

If you stick around till tomorrow I'll show you how you can get between $20 and $70 of free advertising. Its a good thing.