The IM Niche Formula course will be delivered over six weeks, and as of now there are 8 modules. Training and modules will be delivered incrementally over these 6 weeks. As a added feature, there will be 1 or 2 really good bonus modules towards the end of the 6 weeks.

Most of the course is delivered by Video Tutorial. The Course is Huge! It takes you from Newbie To Guru.

Module 1 – What Is An IM Niche Authority Product Site? (And What is the Secret Weapon…It’s Not What You Think!)

Module 2 – The IM Niche Formula Overall Processes (includes newbie basic training)

Module 3 – How to Build A SEO Magnet Niche Formula Authority Site Step-by-Step

Module 4 – Proper Monetization (How, Where, When, and What) – Need I Say More!

Module 5 – Super Charged IM Niche “Free” Traffic Formula (Google Adwords will be hopping mad!

Module 6 – How To Use Web 2.0 To Build & Brand Your IM Niche Formula Business

Module 7 – IM Niche Formula List Building & Customer Support – Turning Your Customers Into Loyal & Repeating Clients

Module 8 – How To Leverage using the influence of other people: mistakes, successes and strategies

Bonus Module 9 – The IM Niche Formula Branding Factor: Where “You” Become The Hunted

Additional options will include loads of on-going training material & support, including live webinars.

As with any business if there is a way for someone to steal they will find it. It is up to you to protect yourself from fraud. If another affiliate were to get hold of your vendor I.D., it would be a simple matter to remove your affiliate I.D. and insert his or her own.

Affiliates are very important to vendors and those vendors need to take steps to assure that their links are not visible to customers browsing their website. A couple of viable precautions are using a redirect link, or a cloaking code. There are also programs which the vendors can purchase that will allow him or her to offer the affiliates security such as Hop Guard. Your business relies heavily upon affiliates channeling buyers to your site and Hop Guard encrypts the affiliate’s link so that they can be assured that no one will make off with their commissions. There are cloaking programs available, one such is Affiliate Cloner another is Affiliate Shield. These programs provide you with a way to cloak your link so that your affiliate I.D. does not show. If it can’t be seen it can’t be changed. Click Mate is a program that focuses on linking all your affiliates to all of your products along with giving you the ability to notify all of your affiliates when you have a new product. Click Mate also helps with tracking and security.

Using products like these will show your affiliates that you are a real professional who is concerned about providing the security they need to be able to do their jobs. Easy to use, the affiliate merely has to enter his link and an encrypted link will be immediately assigned to them. Nothing is 100% foolproof but these are some of the best on the market.

In another scenario, which although unethical isn’t technically fraud, a customer of yours, once on the publishers site could simply click an available link and sign up as an affiliate themselves and purchase under his or her own I.D. instead of yours. Some of the things a publisher can do to protect their affiliate’s commissions from this kind of dealing would be to find ways to make it less probable that someone will see the links.

They can put the links on a page that is separate from the ordering pages. Make certain that these are pages that a search engine will not try to index. As an example, you could put the links on the FAQ’s page. You can also set up pages separate from the ordering areas where the affiliate program is explained and visitors to your site are told that the program is available and they only need to contact you for further information. Another solution would be a separate page that the affiliates link to, which would still have all of your information and the order link, leaving your vendor page intact where you could safely have things like the sign up link for new affiliates since the buyers sent by your affiliates would not end up on that page.

By: Pawel Reszka

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If you are new to internet marketing you may be wondering what is affiliate marketing. There are thousands of merchants who have products to sell and one of the easiest ways for them to get more sales is to have an affiliate program and an army of super affiliates promoting their products and thus increasing their sales. Affiliate marketers can sign up to become an affiliate and receive commissions for driving sales to the merchant’s website.

Many merchants are selling digital products online like e-books. These e-books can be downloaded straight to the customer’s computer. Once a merchant has produced their e-book they can then sell it many times over and make very substantial profits.

When you are first starting out as an affiliate marketer one of the best places to find thousands of products to promote is Clickbank.com. Clickbank is an online retail outlet for 10,000 digital products. You can choose which products you would like to promote from a very large range listed by categories. Commissions are very high, usually between 50% to 80%. Clickbank is a good place to start from as they are very reliable and will handle all the tracking and process all the orders, so all you have to do is use your unique tracking code (or hoplink) to refer customers to the merchant.

Of course you can also become an affiliate for merchants who are selling physical products too. The percentage of commission is usually much lower but often the products are more expensive, so for example if you were promoting electrical goods the price would be higher than for digital products.

Other good places to find products to promote are:

Linkshare.com
CJ.com
Shareasale.com
Performics.com

There are many different ways for an affiliate marketer to promote the products and to have your own website is not always necessary. Article marketing is a free method to promote products, which involves writing articles and submitting them to article directories where you would include a link to the merchant.

Pay Per Click is another method of driving sales to the merchant, but it can be quite expensive and risky if you are not experienced at this method. Article marketing can take longer for you to become successful and earn a decent income, but it is a free method and the only thing it will cost you is your time.

Affiliate Marketing is a great way to earn money working from home on the internet, but it does take a lot of time and effort to get everything right in order to become successful.

By: Maz Bond

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If you want to become an Affiliate Marketer and learn everything you need to know to become successful, why not Become A Member of Wealthy Affiliate University, they will teach you all the inside information. I hope you enjoyed this article

If you are new to internet marketing you may be wondering what is affiliate marketing. There are thousands of merchants who have products to sell and one of the easiest ways for them to get more sales is to have an affiliate program and an army of super affiliates promoting their products and thus increasing their sales. Affiliate marketers can sign up to become an affiliate and receive commissions for driving sales to the merchant’s website.

Many merchants are selling digital products online like e-books. These e-books can be downloaded straight to the customer’s computer. Once a merchant has produced their e-book they can then sell it many times over and make very substantial profits.

When you are first starting out as an affiliate marketer one of the best places to find thousands of products to promote is Clickbank.com. Clickbank is an online retail outlet for 10,000 digital products. You can choose which products you would like to promote from a very large range listed by categories. Commissions are very high, usually between 50% to 80%. Clickbank is a good place to start from as they are very reliable and will handle all the tracking and process all the orders, so all you have to do is use your unique tracking code (or hoplink) to refer customers to the merchant.

Of course you can also become an affiliate for merchants who are selling physical products too. The percentage of commission is usually much lower but often the products are more expensive, so for example if you were promoting electrical goods the price would be higher than for digital products.

Other good places to find products to promote are:

Linkshare.com
CJ.com
Shareasale.com
Performics.com

There are many different ways for an affiliate marketer to promote the products and to have your own website is not always necessary. Article marketing is a free method to promote products, which involves writing articles and submitting them to article directories where you would include a link to the merchant.

Pay Per Click is another method of driving sales to the merchant, but it can be quite expensive and risky if you are not experienced at this method. Article marketing can take longer for you to become successful and earn a decent income, but it is a free method and the only thing it will cost you is your time.

Affiliate Marketing is a great way to earn money working from home on the internet, but it does take a lot of time and effort to get everything right in order to become successful.

By: Maz Bond

Article Directory: http://www.articledashboard.com

If you want to become an Affiliate Marketer and learn everything you need to know to become successful, why not Become A Member of Wealthy Affiliate University, they will teach you all the inside information. I hope you enjoyed this article

You know when I started in this affiliate business three years ago I knew diddly-squat about making money online. It all started when I was made redundant from my secretarial job in London. I came out of it with a bit of redundancy money and thought what the heck I’ll just chill out for a bit, relax, take a deserved break and then look for a job when my redundancy money was getting low. No problem. Things will be fine. Jobs are in abundance in London.

WRONG. I was so so wrong. I struggled trying to get re-employed. Every job had a hundred or so applicants so the competition was tough. So there I was jobless and pretty nearly broke.

It was while browsing through the ‘situations vacant’ in newspapers trying to find that elusive job that I came across various advertisements for business opportunities. You know the kind of thing: ‘Make $30,000 A Week From Your Kitchen Table’ or ‘How I Made $50,000 Before Breakfast’. Jeez, I have to tell you I was excited and sent away and paid for various ‘opportunities’ with the last remnants of my money. Well desperate people do desperate things huh?

Anyway most were scams or totally unworkable but still I sent away for them. It became a drug and I became obsessed with trying to find the perfect business. I was such a good customer for these things that I was on everyone’s mailing list and literally tons of business opportunities would be on the front door mat in the morning. The postman must have had one van designated to him just to deliver my mail.

My first attempt at one of these opportunities was to stick up a review web site for a product on ClickBank. I remember it took me ages to get the hang of setting up a website and even longer to upload it with a review of the product I was promoting. Then I just sat back and waited for the money to start rolling in. It didn’t. What I didn’t know then was that I had to do a bit of research on the product before trying to sell it. My first real mistake was selling something that people didn’t want. Doh!

They were frustrating times for me and after a couple of years and sill trying to make it online I received a mailing from a quite well known entrepreneur with a very long sales piece inviting me to an affiliate marketing seminar in La Manga in Spain. The price tag was just under $4,000 which included flight, accommodation and the seminar.

Now let me tell you right now I didn’t have $4,000. No where near it. But I did have a couple of plastic cards. Next thing I know I am on the plane to La Manga excited, full of hope and looking forward to listening to and watching the experts show me how they became millionaires.

This was my last shot at the big time as money was now so tight that if this affiliate marketing seminar didn’t show me once and for all how to make money online I was finished. I would just have to go and do any job just to make ends meet. I would just have to tell everybody that they were right and that I had wasted my money and time.

But the seminar was an inspiration. I came back buzzing with ideas and couldn’t wait to get started. They told me that this was the best business in the world and boy let me tell you that it is. It is the cheapest business to start that can make you very high profits in weeks if not days. I so wish this affiliate marketing seminar was around when I first started out. I would have saved myself a small fortune.

I was taught how to get a domain name, set up a website and market affiliate goods in any niche that I wanted. Then came long tail keyword research and article writing and also lots of help on writing product reviews. A lot of ground was covered in just two days and my head was buzzing with information and ideas. In fact I came home with a blue print of step by step actions to get me up online and doing business in a very short time.

It’s great being an affiliate marketer. There is no product to create as the merchant you are an affiliate to creates the products. You also don’t have to deliver or produce the products, so all you have to do is select what you are going to sell, set up a website, get the affiliate links from your merchant and get started.

You can start with very little money. Obviously you need a computer with Internet access but most people these days have a computer in their home. But this is the cheapest business you can start on the Internet. There are many free tools available to help you until you start making some real money.

By attending an affiliate marketing seminar you will gain knowledge on how to set up your business and succeed and it is up to you to put this knowledge into action. You will not make money overnight so you have to be patient. Remember that the merchants do all the hard work all you have to do is focus on promoting their products through their affiliate link.

Alternatively, if you fancy being a merchant, having an affiliate program on your website could shoot your profits through the roof. Having an army of affiliates selling for you will drive tons of traffic to your website. More traffic means more money.

Affiliates are doing all your hard work by marketing your site. If you have trained them well and they do a good job then you don’t need to spend any more money on advertising. All you need to do is make sure that your products live up to buyer’s expectations and keep your affiliates pumped up and motivated to sell your product.

I recommend to everyone out there that wants to make it online to attend an affiliate marketing seminar. Trying to go it alone with just you and your computer is an isolating experience so attending these seminars should be your number one priority.

Not only that but you will also meet and network with like minded people who’s goals match yours. And it’s fun. I’m still in touch with people that I met in La Manga and we help each other out continuously. It’s a great feeling and somewhat reassuring to know that you have a network of friends out there in the same business as you swapping affiliate marketing ideas.

I also recommend that you read everything you can on affiliate marketing. The Internet is full of ebooks, courses and seminars on this subject. But my biggest recommendation to you is to JUST START. I remember that it took me ages to pluck up the courage to just start something. I had all the books, manuals, courses and blueprints. I would read them, put them down, and never do anything with them. Please don’t waste time like I did. JUST DO IT. You’ll be glad you did.

By: Stacy Haertel

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Author: Stacy Haertel is a product developer and publisher and has been online for 3 years. If your website has an affiliate program and you are still struggling for traffic go to www.virtualaffiliatetrainingguide.com for a FREE Online Traffic Generation Seminar where a five figure a day marketer teaches his traffic secrets for free.