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Forum: Social Media 19th February 2013, 08:52 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 10,860
Posted By PaulaC
Re: Affiliate links in Facebook

Don't you realize the consequences of your harsh comment? Anyone who is new to the forum will be reluctant to ask a question after that response.

I'm not even sure why you are even on this forum....
Forum: Off Topic Forum 1st November 2012, 12:25 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 593
Posted By PaulaC
Re: Feedback On DAP and JVzoo for recurring membership

I've done it on my new membership site at AffiliateToolsHQ.com. I have DAP and have just used JVZoo to set up the affiliate program. It works quite well.

The only issue we had was that we named...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 20th January 2011, 04:24 PM
Replies: 271
Views: 27,267
Posted By PaulaC
Re: Is Amazon Associates Program Worth it?

We post our reviews as PAGES or POSTS but mostly as PAGES and the only reason we do that is because we use a theme called Flexsqueeze which allows full width pages. So in other words we can remove...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 20th January 2011, 04:19 PM
Replies: 271
Views: 27,267
Posted By PaulaC
Re: Is Amazon Associates Program Worth it?

No, not Hubpages although that can work too. I just mean pages on a Wordpress site. We don't focus on the site as a whole much anymore, we simply focus on a few pages at a time on our sites until...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 8th January 2011, 07:59 PM
Replies: 271
Views: 27,267
Posted By PaulaC
Re: Is Amazon Associates Program Worth it?

The reason you can make so much money on Amazon is that they convert extremely well. We used to use merchants from other networks and struggled for a few years like this. When we changed our links to...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 8th January 2011, 07:57 PM
Replies: 271
Views: 27,267
Posted By PaulaC
Re: Is Amazon Associates Program Worth it?

Just had a quick look but will take a closer look at that. Thanks for letting me know.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 3rd January 2011, 08:11 PM
Replies: 271
Views: 27,267
Posted By PaulaC
Re: Is Amazon Associates Program Worth it?

Amazon will pay via Gift Card or via cheque to international affiliates. We get paid via a cheque. It would be nice to see Amazon pay via direct deposit but at the moment they still send cheques...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 3rd January 2011, 07:40 PM
Replies: 271
Views: 27,267
Posted By PaulaC
Re: Is Amazon Associates Program Worth it?

Me and my business partner make a full time living from Amazon. We currently average close to $15k a month and in December made just over $32,000. It is definitely doable and we know of people making...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 3rd January 2011, 07:34 PM
Replies: 25
Views: 3,565
Posted By PaulaC
Re: Alternatives to amazon associates

We've been trying to make money online for a number of years with merchants from CJ, Linkshare and ShareaSale. The results were disappointing to say the list. The day that we changed our links over...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 30th October 2010, 02:23 AM
Replies: 39
Views: 1,875
Posted By PaulaC
Re: Game Changers - Dual Monitors

I love having two monitors. I find it really hard to work on a computer with only one monitor now. It does increase productivity in my opinion.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 24th October 2010, 11:17 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 837
Posted By PaulaC
Re: Will someone please tie it all together for me

I definitely agree with this. Too many people build site after site but never really concentrate on any of them enough to make any money from them.

You only need one website to make money online...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 23rd October 2010, 09:00 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 2,940
Posted By PaulaC
Re: (ALERT!) Market Samurai Users and Potential Customers This Concerns YOU!!!

Just downloaded the update and tried it out and it is working okay for me too.
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 23rd October 2010, 08:57 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 814
Posted By PaulaC
Re: Who can I outsource link building to??

You could try lexorsoft.net. We have been testing them out for a few months now and we are very happy with the results so far.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 21st October 2010, 09:26 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 640
Posted By PaulaC
Re: Any tips on local website promotion?

A few years ago me and my business partner and another friend started a local art and craft market. One of the things I did was write to the local paper (actually I emailed them) with a press...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 21st October 2010, 09:05 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 1,131
Posted By PaulaC
Re: Bout to build my first Amazon Aff Site!?!?!?

For starters, try to choose products on Amazon that are worth promoting. In other words it has received excellent feedback by reviewers - 4 to 5 star rating, no less.

Also, make sure that you...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 20th October 2010, 06:12 PM
Replies: 69
Views: 3,584
Posted By PaulaC
Re: How long did it take you to replace your "day job" income?

It took us (me and my business partner) about 6 years. Could have been a lot quicker if we did it right from the start but we made sooo many mistakes and kept moving from one thing to the next -...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 17th September 2010, 12:27 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 491
Posted By PaulaC
Re: How can I get google to "act normal" when I do a search?!?...

I think Google has lost the plot recently. I think their problem is that they make too many assumptions about what people want. They need to start simplfying again because they seem to be getting...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 16th September 2010, 06:44 PM
Replies: 45
Views: 2,989
Posted By PaulaC
Re: protected download area for selling digital products?

You could try e-junkie.com. You can upload your product to their site and use it as a secure way to download your product.

You can also incorporate your email sign up so that when a person...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 22nd August 2010, 06:28 PM
Replies: 52
Views: 2,223
Posted By PaulaC
Re: Need To Make Some Money Quick

Try Elance.com. With your skills you should easily start getting jobs.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 22nd August 2010, 06:15 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 527
Posted By PaulaC
Re: What's this site called...

Here's a couple of them:

Logo Design, Web Design, Design Contests | 99designs.com (http://99designs.com/)

Graphic Design Jobs & Competitions | DesignCrowd...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 18th August 2010, 07:11 PM
Replies: 22
Views: 1,379
Posted By PaulaC
Re: Does anyone make a decent amount from Amazon?

We average around 10k a month on Amazon. And I know of people making much more than that. It can be done.

Amazon converts extremely well. We were using CJ and Linkshare and similar affiliate...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 17th August 2010, 05:54 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 1,287
Posted By PaulaC
Re: How to beat Amazon as an affiliate

Amazon is easy to beat. A good majority of their internal product pages usually don't have much of a pagerank or backlinks. And even if you came in second under Amazon in the search results you are...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 12th August 2010, 08:07 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 812
Posted By PaulaC
Re: Are there any tips or tricks to get people to leave comments?

On my affiliate blog I used to use a plugin called Wordpress Popup Scheduler. It would display a little pop-up that would ask the reader to leave a comment on our blog. It seemed to work as we had...
Forum: Off Topic Forum 12th August 2010, 07:12 PM
Replies: 102
Views: 4,139
Posted By PaulaC
Forum: Off Topic Forum 12th August 2010, 05:29 PM
Replies: 102
Views: 4,139
Posted By PaulaC
Re: Giving Warrior Now Needs A Little Help

Let me know when the Donate button is up and I will make a donation.
Forum: Off Topic Forum 12th August 2010, 05:13 PM
Replies: 102
Views: 4,139
Posted By PaulaC
Re: Giving Warrior Now Needs A Little Help

Hey Jim, won't don't you put a Donate button on that page. Some people might prefer to donate than purchase the script.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 11th August 2010, 08:45 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 1,378
Posted By PaulaC
Re: first amazon site...not converting??

The one thing we found with promoting Amazon products is that the review sells. If you write a really helpful long review (I'm talking around 1000 words) you will convert so much better.

We found...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 7th August 2010, 07:03 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 1,962
Posted By PaulaC
Re: Why Are These Exact Templates Cheaper than Template Monster?

Looks like they are a Chinese based company.

Maybe they have a deal with Template Monster to sell the templates at a discounted rate. I've seen a lot of sites selling Template Monster templates.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 6th August 2010, 07:44 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 817
Posted By PaulaC
Re: Warning to Newbies, it doesn't get easier!

I think taking action is critical but I also think you need to love this business. Most people come into it with the one goal of making money. That's the wrong way of going about it. You've gotta...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 5th August 2010, 07:46 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 1,370
Posted By PaulaC
Re: NEVER put google analytics on your affiliate sites???

I have affiliate sites and use Google Analytics and none of my sites have been 'deindexed'.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 5th August 2010, 05:47 PM
Replies: 41
Views: 2,267
Posted By PaulaC
Is Clickbank Worth it for Selling eBooks?

I am currently using e-junkie to sell an ebook and love it. It's easy to use, cheap and doesn't have many restrictions.

I am thinking of moving to Clickbank mainly to generate more affiliates.
...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 22nd July 2010, 10:36 PM
Replies: 37
Views: 1,393
Posted By PaulaC
Re: Calling All Veteran, Successful IMers: Please Answer One Vital Question

If I were starting out all over again I would go with just one website instead of many. For that one website I would choose 5 products only and write 5 really good product reviews (using Amazon...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 20th July 2010, 10:21 PM
Replies: 174
Views: 6,266
Posted By PaulaC
Re: How about a "premium" WSO forum?

Great idea in theory but the only problem with that is who decides if a product is good or not and whether it is deserving enough to go into the 'Premium' section?
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 9th July 2010, 08:46 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 677
Posted By PaulaC
Re: Are you a vendor of an ebook?

Try e-junkie. I just released my first ebook today via e-junkie and it is really easy and only costs $5 a month.

www.e-junkie.com (http://www.e-junkie.com)
Forum: Internet Marketing Product Reviews & Ratings 8th July 2010, 06:42 PM
Replies: 55
Views: 36,194
Posted By PaulaC
Re: Best WordPress Theme for Amazon Site

I have multiple sites promoting Amazon and really like the Flexsqueeze theme.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 4th July 2010, 09:12 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 530
Posted By PaulaC
Re: Some advice needed

I would say stop building more stores and concentrate on just one - or better yet concentrate on just a few pages.

We have 20 websites and out of the thousands of pages of content on those...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 3rd July 2010, 06:53 PM
Replies: 865
Views: 149,867
Posted By PaulaC
Re: Amazon Affiliates - Are You Seriously Making Money?

Amazon pays you a commission of up to 8.5% commission depending on the number of products you sell in a month.



If you only sell 6 items in a month then you get 4% commission.
If you sell up...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 29th June 2010, 07:12 PM
Replies: 865
Views: 149,867
Posted By PaulaC
Re: Amazon Affiliates - Are You Seriously Making Money?

We just contact each site personally.

We find sites that meet a certain criteria - must have some sort of pagerank, get a reasonable amount of traffic etc. We just want to place articles on...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 27th June 2010, 07:22 PM
Replies: 865
Views: 149,867
Posted By PaulaC
Re: Amazon Affiliates - Are You Seriously Making Money?

Just a little more proof to show that it is possible to make a decent income from Amazon. These are our totals from November last year to the beginning of June this year.

I am sure there are...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 27th June 2010, 06:48 PM
Replies: 47
Views: 17,446
Posted By PaulaC
Re: Writing Amazon Product Reviews That Convert

Amazon reviews need to be long and detailed. The best converting reviews on our website are over 1000 words long with lots of sub-headings.

We also try and create a story as the introduction....
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 20th June 2010, 04:50 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 802
Posted By PaulaC
Re: Advice on Monetizing a High Traffic Self Improvement Type Site

I don't think you will want to be clicking on those Adsense ads. It's against Google's terms and conditions to be clicking their ads on your own site.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 18th June 2010, 08:54 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 771
Posted By PaulaC
Re: Need Wordpress Help

You can usually get rid of these in the Widgets section. In your Wordpress dashboard go to Appearance -->Widgets

You can also edit the Blogroll under Links-->Edit
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 18th June 2010, 07:38 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 827
Posted By PaulaC
Re: Yay!! Made my 1st sale!!! But have a question...

Maybe you should read your sig.;)

I personally wouldn't worry about it. Just keep working on getting more sales.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 13th June 2010, 04:13 PM
Replies: 865
Views: 149,867
Posted By PaulaC
Re: Amazon Affiliates - Are You Seriously Making Money?

We get most of our traffic from search engines. We rank for a lot of keywords and the way we did that initially was to offer articles to other websites. So we didn't give them to article directories...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 11th June 2010, 09:21 PM
Replies: 865
Views: 149,867
Posted By PaulaC
Re: Amazon Affiliates - Are You Seriously Making Money?

We don't give out our websites anymore. Too many people try to steal the content unfortunately. It doesn't help us and it certainly doesn't help them.

You only have to go to sites like Cnet or any...
Forum: Search Engine Optimization 5th June 2010, 09:40 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 1,193
Posted By PaulaC
Re: How long do you wait for SEO to work?

That's a bit like asking how long is a piece of string. You could see changes in a day or it could take months.

Samuel is spot on when he says there are so many variables. Just know that it will...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 5th June 2010, 05:54 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 891
Posted By PaulaC
Re: Free Traffic Generation Other Than SEO, Need Very Serious Help Here Please

A simple quick way to get traffic is to leave blog comments but you have to do it in the right way.

Find blogs in your niche that are popular and get lots of comments. Then be the first to leave a...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 5th June 2010, 05:38 PM
Replies: 865
Views: 149,867
Posted By PaulaC
Re: Amazon Affiliates - Are You Seriously Making Money?

I would try and make those reviews even longer if you can. Our best reviews are over 1000 words. They seem to convert so much better than the short reviews we have.
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 5th June 2010, 02:43 AM
Replies: 865
Views: 149,867
Posted By PaulaC
Re: Amazon Affiliates - Are You Seriously Making Money?

We use Amazon plugins for some of our product reviews but we prefer to change the content. No point copying over the same content from Amazon. It just doesn't work. You really need to be writing your...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 5th June 2010, 02:34 AM
Replies: 865
Views: 149,867
Posted By PaulaC
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 4th June 2010, 09:20 PM
Replies: 865
Views: 149,867
Posted By PaulaC
Re: Amazon Affiliates - Are You Seriously Making Money?

We make on average around $10,000 a month on Amazon products. It is very doable.

The commission rate starts at 4% but goes up to 8.25% if you sell enough products.

The secret to doing well...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 22nd May 2010, 08:27 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 1,052
Posted By PaulaC
Re: Why Article Spinners (And Some Marketers) Deserve Ridicule

I'm not sure why you are absitively thinking like this. The article in anticipation sounds quite acrimonious to me. How in the apple are you making this statement?
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 14th May 2010, 06:17 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 2,119
Posted By PaulaC
Re: Looking for top notch logo and banner maker

Thanks for this tip. Their logos look pretty good and so cheap!
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 25th April 2010, 04:42 AM
Replies: 38
Views: 1,751
Posted By PaulaC
Re: Do You Make Big Money With Amazon ?

That's me that is making over $10,000 a month.

Prior to using Amazon we used CJ, Linkshare and ShareaSale merchants. The conversions were pitiful. One day we decided to add Amazon to one of our...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 24th April 2010, 05:10 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 2,323
Posted By PaulaC
Re: Facebook Account with 5,000 Friends

Promote weight loss (at least 50% will be overweight), how to make money working from home (most would love to work from home if only they knew how) and how to get your ex back (a good majority will...
Forum: Main Internet Marketing Discussion Forum 23rd April 2010, 06:35 PM
Replies: 67
Views: 3,722
Posted By PaulaC
Re: What is the quickest way to generate traffic

Find high traffic blogs in your niche (ones that get a heap of comments to every blog post they write) and be the first to leave a comment. Use Comment Sniper (it's free) which will let you know when...
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