Today, I went to Kinokuniya at Orchard Takashimaya to buy the book “Rework” by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson. There are 2 takeaway pointers from my trip to the bookstore… which you can apply to your business (both online or offline).

When I waited for my turn to pay, I was thinking about whether I should get a Kinokuniya membership card. I couldn’t make up my mind. When it’s my turn, the first question that the cashier asked me was: “Are you a Kinokuniya member?”

“Wow, their staffs are well-trained to upsell”, I thought. But, to my surprise, when I said “No, I’m not a member”, she didn’t proceed to ask whether I wish to join as a member. She went ahead to scan the barcode on the book and I paid for it. (A lost opportunity to upsell their membership to a potential customer, which will contribute more sales to the store in the next one year because he has a membership card.)

What’s the use of asking whether I am a member or not (it’s an open-ended question… what if i say no? what’s next?) without knowing what to say when I respond with a NO? If she is to proceed and ask me to join, I’d most probably do it out of impulse. Opportunity lost. Just imagine how much more sales Kinokuniya can make by making it compulsory for their staffs to upsell the membership card if they receive a NO for their initial question.

Pointer #1: If you are running an offline business (especially one with membership card service), always train your staffs to upsell. It just takes a simple question: “Do you wish to join us as a member today, and you can enjoy 10% off this purchase” to potentially increase your sales. For internet marketers, an upsell page after your initial offering is an easy way to double your clickbank sales.

On my way back home, I was all excited to read Rework. Then, i realized that I didn’t really know the authors at all. I only remember the book title Rework and it’s cover (quite sticky), and the testimonial by Seth Godin (owner of Squidoo.com).

The main reason I bought the book is because Seth Godin’s recommends it.

Pointer #2: Be it sales page, affiliate squeeze page, corporate site or marketing collateral - credible testimonials really do wonders.

P.S: I am now past chapter 2 of ReWork, it’s indeed a very good read. Highly recommended.

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Your dream Internet lifestyle is closer than you think…

I believe your main purpose into affiliate marketing is to achieve passive online income and lead an Internet lifestyle. An Internet lifestyle allows you to:

1) Have total control of your time and life

2) Spend more time with your family and friends

3) Go on holidays while money still pouring in to your bank accounts

4) Achieve financial freedom

5) Own an Internet empire that will make you money for years to come

Many people failed to achieve their desired Internet lifestyle is because they are doing all the wrong stuffs.

Selling the wrong products and making things harder than they needed to be.

If you want to achieved your dream lifestyle, you need to start doing the right stuff. The good news is, you can follow a certain formula to achieve a full time income from affiliate marketing.

And below is the “The Formula” that has proven itself over & over again:

The Full-Time Income Formula

1. Create unique content in profitable markets that specifically targets people who are on the verge of making a purchase decision…

2. On each page of your site, prominently display an affiliate offer that directly matches your visitor’s problem, question or query…

3. Promote your site with simple, time-tested activities that work just as well today as they have for almost a decade (more details below),

And, finally…

4. Simply repeat steps 1 through 3 until you reach your target income - which can happen surprisingly quickly with the right offer & market.

If you actually follow the formula religiously and take action, below is what it looks like when you start doing what actually works…

Note: This does not reflect the average types of results that most beginners can expect. Most beginners can expect a fair amount of trial/error before they see any results. This is because the most important factors in terms of generating results are targeted traffic & offer selection/promotion - which, like any skill - require practice, perseverance & action.

Just remember 2 very important things if you want to succeed:

1) It is easier to sell in-demand product.

2) You do not need to reinvent the wheel.

If things just aren’t working out at the moment… instead of “trying harder”…

- Why not copy what clearly already works?

The key to making a full time income online is to start building sites that specifically target buyers and selling them what they already want…

And Affiliate Genie is going to drastically accelerate your success. It’s going to save you time. And it’s going to level the playing field for you, especially if building sites that perform is something you struggle with.

Affiliate Genie is created by Chris Rempel, who also famously known as the Lazy Marketer. He is the creator of Confessions of a Lazy Super Affiliate and I must admit his products are top-notch.

Many marketers struggle with the technical know-how of building websites.

If you do not have any technical or HTML knowledge, don’t worry.

Affiliate Genie is the Wordpress of Affiliate Marketing. This is all you have to do:

1. Upload the Affiliate Genie package to your server

2. Open the admin page, login, set your initial preferences - and;

3. Start adding reviews, content and whatever else you want - and you’re DONE. It’s that simple.

With Affiliate Genie, there is no excuse for you anymore. Whether you succeed or not, it is all up to you.

The KEY to success is action.

As in, what you do right now. Not waiting for tomorrow or coming up with excuse that prevent you from living your dream Internet lifestyle.

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Google Adwords is a very effective and popular marketing tool for affiliates. Many affiliates depend fully on Google Adwords to make their living. If you are new to Google Adwords, allow me to share with you 7 steps to create a winning Google Adwords campaign.

Inside Google Adwords, there is a factor known as the Quality Score. If you have a high campaign Quality Score, Google will reward you with lower cost-per-click and higher position for your ads. This means that you will pay lesser than your competitors and still enjoy prominent positions in the sponsored results. Getting a high quality score is something all Adwords specialists strive to achieve.

Now, let me share with you 7 steps to score a high quality score and create a winning Adwords campaign:

1. Keyword research. Conduct keyword research to identify keywords that are relevant to what you are offering. Make sure that you bid on keywords with Exact Match for the start. If you intend to bid on broad or phrase match, you need to ensure that you include negative keywords to filter out unnecessary impressions. This is important because when you have lots of unnecessary impressions, your click through rate will be very low. When you have a low click through rate, your campaign will be slapped with a low Quality Score.

2. Turn off the content network. If you are not experienced with Adwords, I advise you to turn off the content network first. Run your ads on Google search only.

3. Group relevant keywords together. Your ad groups should contain keywords that are closely related so that you can write a more relevant ad for each ad group. The relevancy of your ads is one factor Google looks at when it comes to Quality Score.

4. Split test your ads. Create two ads per ad group and run a split test to determine which ad copy gets you more clicks. The purpose of split testing is to get a better CTR and improve conversions.

5. Adjust your keyword bids accordingly. After you let your campaign run for a few hours, log in to check how much each keyword costs and what position you ads are at. The best position is between two and six. The first position usually gets lots of tire kickers.

6. Eliminate keywords that do not perform. Delete keywords that don’t bring you clicks and conversion.

Google Adwords is a great advertising tool for affiliate marketers. When you run an Adwords campaign, make sure you track the performance so that you know what works and what doesn’t work.

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Have your read Chris Rempel’s 24-Hour Hot Product Formula? I bought the 24-hour hot product formula a few months back and since have implemented a few strategies in it.

Basically, this report is about how you can easily create 100% unique, hot-selling digital product in as little as 24 hours.

If you are a hard-core affiliate marketer and does not believe in product creation, you can give this a miss.

However, as affiliate marketers, we cannot deny the fact that product creation is the way to break through our affiliate income bottom line. Product owners and publishers are the one who are leveraging on us affiliate marketers, making tons of money at the backend.

Product creation is not as hard as you think it is, as Chris Rempel pointed out in 24 Hour Hot Product Formula. When people think of digital product creation, they usually only think of e-book. Do you know that videos and some other formats of digital product far outsell ebooks?

24-Hour Hot Product Formula comes with over 2.5 hours of live videos, covering the following topics:

- How to find profitable, hot markets?

- How to conduct advanced market research? How to know for-sure a market is profitable?

- Determine which type of product actually sell

- 10 different types of high value products - these are products that you can create in as little as a few hours and make a ongoing profits out of them

- How to roll out your product and make money… even if you have no list (this trick is extremely powerful and I think this alone is worth the overall cost of the report)

- How to roll out your product if you have a list?

- How to easily write a web copy that converts?

So if you are interesting in creating your own digital product and make more money online, I highly recommend 24 Hour Hot Product Formula by Chris Rempel.

To get the report, just go here:

–> 24 Hour Hot Product Formula

You won’t be disappointed.

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