Recently, MarketLeverage.com sponsored a contest on my blog, in which the winner would recieve their choice of a
HD Flip Mino or an iPod Nano.

There were many terrific submissions, but I’ve chosen,

Kailash
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Secret World Outside PPC.

Yes, I know most of the top affiliate marketings and those super affiliates are promoting their affiliate programs via PPC. But tell you what, PPC is not the only thing you should do to make money via affiliate program. You have to look at the world outside search engines for a super success.

Here are few ways you can do the stuffs :

- Promote your site via youtube, metacafe etc via video marketing. These will bring some long term traffic.

- Search engine optimization – yes, few marketers go the other way (SEO) instead of paying for PPC campagins. SEO could be costly initially but it will also bring long term traffic. while on PPC, if you stop paying, your campaign ends.

- Facebook, Myspace etc – Teenagers and some other people visit social networking sites more often than search engines. Target these audience too.

- Keep writing reguarly some unique articles on your blog. keep promoting the product – not only on one blog, but on other sites/blog too. Point all the sites to your main landing page.

- Link baiting – all knows about this.

- Participate in forums, Blogs and related communities and plug your site wherever you get the chance.. (but within rules )

- Email marketing – yes this is also a great way to market your landing page/campagins. Build a big email list or you can buy some. Check aweber. This is also a long term promotion method.

- Free stuffs – give some free stuffs – softwares, ebooks, etc. Don’t forget to plug your site.

Try them out… don’t rely totally on PPC or you will not earn much Or you might even lose. Though this will not bring great $$ initially, but they will bring small revenue for a long long time.

While I don’t necessarily agree with all of these marketing strategies, the post was offered up some valuable suggestions.

Congratulations Kailash. Please contact me at missyward /at/ gmail /dot/com, so that I may forward your information over to the folks at MarketLeverage.

Follow @MarketLeverage on Twitter for the big announcement of the Grand Prize winner on January 5th.

Market Leverage is running a contest going through the month of December and MissyWard.com will one of the sponsors of it.

What Market Leverage and I are looking for is a text or video comment on this post, telling us your secret to making money online.

There will be one winner from each of the blogs sponsoring the contest. The winner will get their choice of the HD Flip Mino or an iPod Nano.

To top it off, there will also be three Grand Prize winners , selected from the sponsoring blogs that will win a Market Leverage Grand Prize Pack that includes a Kindle, a $100 Market Leverage Rewards Card and a $50.00 iTunes Gift Card.

The grand prize winners will be announced on January 5, 2009.

Full details on qualifying can be found below.

So now’s not the time to be quiet. Share your secret for a chance to win some great prizes!

In fact, I’ll start you off with a tip from me…

“Passion and Consistency. Create a website around something that you’re passionate about. Whether it be cooking, dining out, home repair, apparel, electronics – or whatever floats your boat. Creating content around a niche that you’re fanatical about becomes a labor of love and something that you’ll be able to be consistent with, instead of being a daily chore that you’ll begin to lose interest in. If you’re site becomes recognized as a good source in your particular niche, site visitors will come back for more.”

So that’s my tip – Now, what’s the dope on your success?

The Fine Print

i. You can only use Market Leverage as an example network in your submission.
ii. Your entry can be submitted by a text or video comment on this blog entry. For a video comment, please upload your video to Youtube, tag it with “Market Leverage Share Your Secret” and submit the link to your video in the comments section of this post.
iii. All entries must be submitted by 7pm on December 31, 2008.

On August 16th, Jen Fluker from Market Leverage and I did a 20-mile (almost) training walk to get ready for the Seattle Breast Cancer 3-Day / 60-mile walk benefitting the Susan G. Komen Foundation for the Cure.

Jen and I, along with 9 other Affiliate Marketers will meet up in Seattle on September 11th and spend the next 3 days walking, talking, having fun and stopping breast cancer. Our goal is to raise $40,000 and we’re nearly there.

Follow us along on our journey at www.AffiliateMarketersGiveBack.com or on Twitter at www.twitter.com/amgb.

If you’d like to make a donation please visit www.missys60milewalk.com.