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		<title>Increase Your Conversion Rate By Limiting The Risk</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:53:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Milson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever thought about what can prevent your visitors buying the product or service you’re promoting?

They may afraid of paying online with credit card, or just buying a product they never heard about. But how can you lead them believe your product is the best and they need to buy it?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffatbanker.com%2Flimit-the-risk%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffatbanker.com%2Flimit-the-risk%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p>Have you ever thought about what can prevent your visitors buying the product or service you’re promoting?</p>
<p>They may afraid of paying online with credit card, or just buying a product they never heard about. But how can you lead them believe your product is the best and they need to buy it?</p>
<p><strong>Remove the risk</strong></p>
<p>Make a list with the possible reasons of your visitors’ hesitation and pre-empt their objections to buy. </p>
<p>If your product is something that your visitor feels ashamed to buy, highlight the privacy and discreet packaging. Just think about the penis enlargement products. With the discreet packaging you gain trust. Chances are your prospect won’t hesitate to take out the credit card.</p>
<p>If your product has a solid money back guarantee of 60/90/180 days, then you must display it in bold text and highlight it. 30-day is the average money back guarantee online, having more than this can make your product easy to sell. If the merchant offers a longer money back guarantee than most products in the online industry, point this out and make a <a href="http://fatbanker.com/unique-selling-propositions/">unique selling point</a>. </p>
<p>You can also highlight the secure ordering processes, data protection etc.</p>
<p>Build your potential customers&#8217; confidence and put them at ease. The more you remove the risk, the more chance of the sale.</p>
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		<title>7 Commission Killers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Milson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever tried to purchase the product you’re selling (or pre-selling)? The pre-sell is very important because it gives you a chance to convince the surfer that this product is the perfect choice and he needs it now. But no matter how good you are at convincing your visitors and how good is your [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffatbanker.com%2F7-commission-killers%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffatbanker.com%2F7-commission-killers%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p>Have you ever tried to purchase the product you’re selling (or pre-selling)? The pre-sell is very important because it gives you a chance to convince the surfer that this product is the perfect choice and he needs it now. But no matter how good you are at convincing your visitors and how good is your conversion rate, if they don’t know how to buy, you will lose sales.</p>
<p>If the merchant is making the process difficult, the prospects’ may give up without buying anything. Check the following 7 points on the merchant’s site, check the process of buying before you start working on your site and your content.</p>
<ol>
<li><strong>Page loading.</strong> Are the pages loading quickly? Once your visitors click on one of your great <abbr title="Call To Action">CTA</abbr>, they are ready to buy the product. They need to get to the merchant page immediately or they become bored. Maybe they give up. Heavy use of flash can kill your commissions.</li>
<li><strong>Trust.</strong> Can you trust the merchant? Most people are still cautious when buying online. It’s important to give the potential customer every reason to trust the merchant. An address, a phone number, a privacy policy, a clear return policy can help a lot. Another good way to inspire confidence is an <abbr title="Secure Sockets Layer">SSL</abbr> certificate, because every credible merchant offer secured order form using encryption technology. Merchants must do everything possible to make prospects feel safe about buying something from a total stranger on the Internet.</li>
<li><strong>Site structure. </strong>Can you find the order form easily and hassle-free? Won’t believe, but there are sites where you need magnifier to find the purchase button. A link with a clear <abbr title="Call To Action">CTA</abbr> from every page on the site can reduce the chances of losing prospects. The more difficult the website to use, the less people will buy.</li>
<li><strong>Phone order.</strong> If you can buy via phone, is your tracking code visible on the      site? Does the telephonist ask for the tracking code during the order process? The <a href="http://fatbanker.com/top-affiliate-networks/">reliable affiliate networks</a> wouldn’t let you lose sales via phone order.</li>
<li><strong>Required information.</strong> Do you feel you’re wasting your time while you’re filling out the order form? One of the biggest mistakes merchants make is asking too much information. They shouldn’t waste the prospects’ time asking for things they don’t need to know.</li>
<li><strong>Clear prices.</strong> You might spend $150 on a product, but when you find out the      shipping is $100 on top of that, you’re unlikely to continue the sale. With an IP to Country database it’s      easy to work out where a user is from and show them the delivery cost.</li>
<li><strong>Multiple payment options. </strong>How can you pay? Does the merchant offer      multiple payment options? The more options offered, the better your chances of covering your visitors’ needs. Some people love to use their Credit Cards, some may prefer PayPal, and others want to send cheque. If they won’t be able to pay, it wasn’t worth your hard work.</li>
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<p>You work so hard to get your customers visit the product&#8217;s or service&#8217;s site with they credit card in their hand. It would be very pitiful if you sold well to a prospect and something goes wrong when he is ready to pay.</p>
<p>Do you know any other point that can make you lose sales?</p>
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		<title>The Best Affiliate Network to Start With &#8211; MoreNiche</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 11:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Milson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MoreNiche is one of my favourite affiliate networks. They are one of the largest growing networks and their affiliates are extremly successful.
MoreNiche is the best choice for people who are new to affiliate marketing as they teach you everything you need to know to start making money online right now. Once you signup you&#8217;ll find [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffatbanker.com%2Fbest-affiliate-network-to-start-with-moreniche%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffatbanker.com%2Fbest-affiliate-network-to-start-with-moreniche%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p>MoreNiche is one of my <a href="http://fatbanker.com/top-affiliate-networks/">favourite affiliate networks</a>. They are one of the largest growing networks and their affiliates are extremly successful.</p>
<p>MoreNiche is the best choice for people who are new to affiliate marketing as they teach you everything you need to know to start making money online right now. Once you signup you&#8217;ll find lots of free start up guides, ebooks and tools.</p>
<p>MoreNiche gives its affiliates hundreds of articles you can rewrite. Improve your sites with more content. Unique content! They also give you free website templates and guides how you can set up your website. You can create <a href="http://fatbanker.com/do-affiliates-need-a-website/">your own affiliate website</a> with unique content within hours. Google and buyers will love it! <img src='http://fatbanker.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>The free guides will also explain ways to attract free targeted traffic to your site from search engines so you can build your own money making systems that work for you while you sleep!</p>
<p>Your website with great content is worth nothing without products that you CAN sell. I mean&#8230; Products that really solve the desperate buyers&#8217; problems, give them solution and make them happy. Unlike other affiliate programs, MoreNiche select their merchant based on strict approval guidelines. Their products are amazing! The weight-loss and men-health products are converting like crazy.</p>
<p>Frankly, no other affiliate network gives you this much to help you make money online. And you get paid for every sale &#8211; phone orders, returns and even up-sells&#8230; I have nothing but good experiences with them. They are dominating the UK marketplace but the products are easy to sell outside the UK.</p>
<p>The MoreNiche Support Team is available everyday for you. You can reach them by phone, via their ticketing system or you can visit their forum. They are really friendly and helpful.</p>
<p><strong>MoreNiche is a great opportunity you shouldn&#8217;t miss!</strong></p>
<p>Join MoreNiche and start earning money online with free how-tos, help guides, site templates, articles and huge payouts!</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://fatbanker.com/go/moreniche.php"><strong>Join MoreNiche network today and receive $45 bonus!</strong></a></p>
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		<title>Weak Men Wait For Opportunities, Strong Men Make Them</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 11:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Milson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Weak men wait for opportunities, strong men make them. Are you strong enough to make the necessary steps?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffatbanker.com%2Fyour-opportunity%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffatbanker.com%2Fyour-opportunity%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p>Why are there so many people who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity?</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve received my third email today about a new membership site &#8211; <a href="http://fatbanker.com/go/opportunity.php" target="_blank">Opportunity.com</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Opportunity.com isn’t one of those super expensive marketing products. It’s actually inexpensive and affordable for almost anyone (more on the price in a moment).</p>
<p>WHAT THE HECK IS OPPORTUNITY.COM?</p>
<p>Opportunity.com is being called, &#8220;The ultimate service for the ultimate online business.&#8221; John Reese calls Affiliate Marketing the ultimate online business for a number of reasons…</p>
<ul>
<li>Run Part-Time Or Full-Time</li>
<li>Run From Anywhere</li>
<li>No Inventory To Keep</li>
<li>No Products To Ship</li>
<li>No Payments To Collect</li>
<li>No Customer Support</li>
<li>No Recruiting</li>
<li>HUGE EARNING POTENTIAL</li>
</ul>
<p>John has earned millions of dollars in affiliate commissions and started Opportunity.com to help anyone start and grow an Affiliate Marketing business. Opportunity.com has a huge Training Center with step-by-step tutorials and lesson materials the help you succeed with Affiliate Marketing. But Opportunity.com is so much more than that…</p>
<p>It has a massive Offer Directory that John&#8217;s team is constantly scouring the Internet to find new and promising affiliate programs for.</p>
<ul>
<li>It has a Research Department to save you hundreds of hours of your time and reports back to you with the latest news on trends, hot products, keyword activity, seasonal opportunities, and much, much more.</li>
<li>It has a special Alert System to notify you when new opportunities are found that meet specific criteria that you define.</li>
<li>It has a &#8220;My Opportunities&#8221; function that helps you manage the vast number of opportunities that are all over the Internet.</li>
<li>And much, much more!</li>
</ul>
<p>Opportunity.com literally contains training materials that rival some $2,000 marketing courses, but if you act fast you can take advantage of introductory pricing and get a full membership of Opportunity.com for only $39.95 a month, and you cancel at anytime. It’s the ultimate no brainer when it comes to learning how to grow your online income.</p></blockquote>
<p>Wait a minute, opportunity.com. Damn, this domain is huge. It&#8217;s almost 15 years old. This domain alone worth tens of thousands of dollars. <img src='http://fatbanker.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>John Reese is the Godfather of the affiliate marketing<br />
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<p>and his offer sounds like an excellent opportunity. The video is not just really impressive but makes it sound like anyone can do this and can<br />
be successful at it.</p>
<p>This $39.95 seems reasonable and I&#8217;m sure that anyone can benefit from his program. <a href="http://fatbanker.com/affiliate-business/">Affiliate marketing</a> is one of the best<br />
places to <a href="http://fatbanker.com/top-affiliate-networks/">start making an income online</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Weak men wait for opportunities, strong men make them.</strong></p>
<p>Are you strong enough to make the necessary steps?</p>
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		<title>Most Often Repeated Mistakes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 07:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Milson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have heard affiliate business is easy, so you started to promote some affiliate programs. But what is going on? No results after weeks?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffatbanker.com%2Fmost-often-repeated-mistakes%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffatbanker.com%2Fmost-often-repeated-mistakes%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p>As I mentioned before only 1-5% of all affiliate marketers are succeed in <a href="http://fatbanker.com/affiliate-business/">internet business</a>. The others fail.</p>
<p>What are the most often repeated mistakes you should avoid? I want to show you some very basic mistakes I made myself and many &#8216;marketers&#8217; are still making.</p>
<ol>
<li><strong>Signing up for every affiliate program</strong> &#8211; Most of the <a href="http://fatbanker.com/top-affiliate-networks/">affiliate networks are free to join</a> and offers thousands of merchants. Affiliates who participate in too many programs will not have enough time and money for promote all of them. Instead of focus on one vendor or niche they are trying to make huge money by offering hundreds of products. They bite off more than they can chew&#8230;</li>
<li><strong>Promoting unrelated programs</strong> &#8211; I wouldn&#8217;t recommend a software on a jewlery site. But sometimes marketers do. If your visitors are not interesting in what you are promoting, you will never see them again.</li>
<li><strong>Poor website</strong> &#8211; There is a lot out there&#8230; I&#8217;m sure you know what I&#8217;m talking about. Poor design, hard to read sites, worthless and duplicated contents, &#8216;useful&#8217; widgets (weather etc).</li>
<li><strong>Banners only</strong> &#8211; Some of the &#8216;marketers&#8217; thinks that a banner is enough to sell those products. They found some great banners in the affiliate resources area so they put some of them here and some there. Now they <em>&#8216;do the hard work&#8217;</em> and waiting for the results. But what we really need is unique content, CTA (call to action) graphics and targeted traffic.</li>
<li><strong>Abandoned affiliate sites</strong> &#8211; Would you ever buy something from an affiliate who can&#8217;t remember when s/he saw his/her site last time? Updates are really important. There is always something happening in your niche. You should talk about it.</li>
<li><strong>Hard selling</strong> &#8211; Don&#8217;t sell, recommend. People are not stupid, they know when you want to sell something. Build a website, get targeted visitors and just talk about a product that makes your/our life easier.</li>
<li><strong>Pay Per Click traffic</strong> &#8211; Setting up a successful PPC campaign is really hard. Newbies should stay away from PPC (Google Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing, Microsoft adCenter). Organic traffic is the most important way to get visitors to your website.</li>
</ol>
<p>Of course this is not a whole list of mistakes but avoiding the above mentioned mistakes can help you making your first commissions.</p>
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