Choosing is a important decision that should not be made lightly based on weak reasons like , Wow what a webpage look at that promise of all thoughts 1,000's of dollars a week with no sales, promoting or anything else ever... Ok where is the money coming from? And if you don't have to do anything to earn 1,000's why do they need you? This is a interesting question that they have never been able give a good to answer, I'm not surprised really! Ask yourself is their a need for their service or product? Is it a large market like say Myspace or is it a special new gadget that has no real purpose? Is it of lesser appeal than the competition a new Myspace without pictures or music oh yes that would appeal, but only to people who have never seen Myspace and you would loose them the second they did see it, can you blame them no! you couldn't your catering to only their need's this is a golden rule!! So you need something which offers more than say the currant Myspace service to cater for their need's like say adding video chat instead of text, video dating over text and things to help in real life video resume or video conferencing . They will stay once they find the competition Myspace service and this would be a greatly excepted product as Myspace has hundreds of millions of members that is one big market!!! But you to believe in your product and have faith in its market, marketability or you will not put in the hard yards. Sorry to burst you bubble the truth is its all up to you! It is in your hands alone blame no other but ask for help when needed. O.k. so you have choosing the new Myspace service what next? a) Learn about your product/'s. b) Read all the marketing and pay-out plans to make sure its all adding up! c) Decide how committed your are and start promoting like mad!

Advertising that's a biggie how, what, where, when, free or paid. Well welcome to the costly minefield of disasters lol.. This is based on personal experience and research

FFA's how well to they work? Arrrr they don't put simply, yes you can use auto submission and have your add sprayed over 8,000 FFA pages in seconds, but you are also agreeing to receive email from every one of those 8,000 FFA site's and trust me YOU WILL for a long time to come. But your add will only stay there until another 30 or so people place their add over yours then your of the screen (but not the email list ) this will normally take under 24hrs. But the killer is no one ever goes to a FFA site for another reason than to try and get free advertising, less than .001% customers. Free Classifieds... yep that to is where people only go to get free advertising oh of course you get a few buyers, but when have you or one of your friends say I found it on this impossible to find free classified adds site?? Get my point. No they to just are not worth the time it takes. Linking to other sites now that's a good way to get traffic but how are you going to get a popular site to list your link on their site? Well ask!!! But first they must be in the same interest group as you! Ever see a porn link on a bible study site??? So you need to get real with your request! I would offer to place a link of their liking on my site yes agree to a banner if need be they are doing you the favor remember! Banners I like banners myself colorful flashy little things that they are, but they are a powerful tool each banner contains the link to your site no matter where it is, no matter what site it is on. One click and bang they are on your site! The easiest thing to get onto any high traffic site and they are cheap! Paid banner adds are one of my favourite forms of advertising. One site I use is in a group of fourteen one of their deals is 350,000 banner impression for $7.50 (14 site 25,000 on each) these are PTR/PTC site where the members get paid to read emails, click on adds, paid to click adds in members area theses members are made to view these adds for a set time before they get paid, These are one of your target group they are looking for ways to make money!!! Which leads us into the next one. Paid to click this is the same PTR/PTC sites wear you can get 2000 15sec views of your add starting form $0.50 the member gets paid 0.10cents at the end of 15sec's just think if they will do that what would they do if your Affiliate opportunity is good! YES THEY JOIN gotta love it!! Spamming is sending email to anyone that you do not know in a nut shell! DON"T DO IT period! You will piss people off big time they will report you to your affiliate to your ISP provider. Your affiliate will kill your membership and keep any money they owe you, they mite even sue you for damages. Your ISP will kill your internet on the spot some will report you to the authorities who can charge you, you can get big fines and jail time. Emailing if you feel that you would like to send email use a site that pays its members to read them this is the only safe way. But what are you going to advertise this is the big question are you going to use the link the affiliate program has given you which is the same as every other members it just has your use name or No. in the URL (website address) like this one www.friendswin.com/?sponser=7463 yes these are professional looking websites but their all the same. But if your not into the same just learn the basics of html it is quite easy to learn you can get HTML 4 DUMMIES on www.anozon.com or your book shop and buy your own domain and get paid hosting (no adds) and some advise it look like you're a joke when you are tell people who good a business opp is if your on a free site, it is bad bad form. It tells them that you can not afford to pay for anything where it be true or not. With paid hosting you get a lot of tools web stats is very very important it tells you what site your traffic (visitors) are coming from this is very important to finding out what advertising is and isn't working. If you are lucky and join up under someone who has made there own page which is better in your opinion them the affiliates like I was, you can send your sponsor a email asking to use the html code (you must do this its their copyright) but you will need to include your use name and No. so they can check to see if you are sponsored by them. After all they made that web page to give them selves a advantage. This is my sponsor page www.friendswinning.com/sponsor.html and with the basics of html I turned what was a great web page into some great but more me'ish as you can see www.friendswinning.com just with basic html which is just typing no tricky programs nothing like that at all. As you can see it is always good to get your site name to be compatible to what you are promoting. Search Engines now that you have your own site the best free advertising is from search engine traffic but there not dumb they know all the scams people sell to you to get listed so the best way is for them to find you!! How? Get a paid link on a top ten listed site in your interest if you can a month should be fine the search engine crawler robots should have found you by then. There are also site that sell link to top traffic site's this will cost $150- $350pr mth depending on the sites ranking and traffic but could be money well spent. You will also need to start to learn about, meta tags, content rules, key words, key word spamming yes to much in a totally different area to cover here.

Hope this has been of help to you. Noel Visser

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I have been online for a couple of years learning at affiliates and advertising the hard way, hopfully this will save you some of my mistakes.