5 Essential Tools of the Successful Affiliate MarketerWritten by Curtis Sexton
In time I have been running my internet home business I have realized that there is a wealth of information available about ‘working at home’. Unfortunately a lot of this info does nothing more than waste your time and money. It has become very difficult for beginner entrepreneur to get started successfully in online world. I am writing this article because I believe I have found 5 essential tools necessary to run a successful home business as an affiliate marketer. The tools outlined below play biggest role in operation of my home business and they don’t break bank either. Essential Tool #1 - Your own Website The first step is finding a good product to sell along with a nice website to promote it. For average person this can be a little overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be. Thanks to PlugInProfit, anybody can now have a fully functional website up and running and accepting orders within 24 hours. What you get is a very professional looking website as well as memberships into 5 of internets most successful affiliate programs. When I found out about this opportunity I really couldn’t believe it. Thanks to Plug in Profit I was really able to kick-start my home business and start promoting my products almost instantly. You can find out more by clicking link below. http://www.homeworksolutions.biz/pips.html Essential Tool #2 – An Email Auto Responder Now you will need a means to drive traffic to your website and that’s where our 2nd essential tool enters picture, email autoresponder. Where do you get such a program? Well, you see what I didn’t tell you about PlugInProfit is that you also get your very own 360 day business newsletter which is in turn hooked up to an email autoresponder, so basically whenever someone signs up for your free newsletter, they will receive 360 days of emails from your business promoting your website. Doesn’t that sound great? If you would like an example of newsletter that comes with PluginProfit click on link below and then enter your first name and email address in box at left of screen. That will sign you up for my newsletter. http://www.homeworksolutions.biz Ok, now you are probably wondering how someone would find your newsletter and get entered into your autoresponder. There are basically 2 ways to get potential customers into your autoresponder. 1. Visit your website and signup. This requires your website to rank fairly well in search engines or be advertised somewhere. We will talk more about that during essential tools #3 and #4. 2. Buy leads that get entered into your autoresponder automatically. There are many places out there that sell leads for this purpose. Here are 3 examples: List Opt, Leads Factory, Traffic Oasis. Once leads get entered into your autoresponder it becomes completely automated. You can sit back and watch your business grow. Having an email autoresponder has really made my work a lot easier and definitely continues to play a key role in success of my business.
| | Equipping Your Home Voiceover StudioWritten by Peter Drew
To make a living, voice over talents used to have to physically go to gigs recorded in commercial production facilities. Now, gigs can come to them-in home studios and through Internet. But for many voice over talents, newbie and old pro alike, outfitting a home studio is technically baffling. So, how do you make that spare bedroom or corner of your studio apartment (no pun intended) into a functional voice over facility, with decent acoustics and appropriate equipment? Let's take a look at basics involved in setting up a home voiceover studio.Selecting Your Studio Space A studio of any size or recording purpose starts with space in which it will be located. Isolation from outside sounds is important. If you live in a studio or one-bedroom apartment, then try to locate your "studio" in a corner as far from door to hallway and away from windows. Also, a closet can work well as a recording booth. Set up your recording equipment just outside closet and your microphone inside closet. If you live in a two-plus bedroom unit or a single-family home and can dedicate an entire room to your studio, then you'll have more options available for controlling acoustics of space. You'll want to make sure room doesn't sound too "echoey" or "hollow." Treating these problems can be as simple as putting some overstuffed furniture in room, along with a rug and some drapes over windows. Have a lot of old clothes sitting in an attic or basement? You can use them to create a recording "booth" around your mic. Fill three or four rolling clothes racks with clothes and then position them on sides and back of your mic position. Of course, you can use professional acoustic materials to control sound reflections. You'll find an excellent primer on acoustical treatment-in plain English-at Auralex. Check out these acoustical treatment production companies, too: HSF Acoustics; Silent Source; Vocalbooth; Whisper Room. Selecting Your Equipment Once you have your studio space selected, you'll need to properly equip it in order to deliver pro quality voiceovers to clients. With latest in digital recording technology and reasonably priced pro microphones, you could spend as little as $1000 for a very basic, yet serviceable, home voiceover studio. That's assuming you have a decent computer sound card and speakers. The list is quite short: $200-$250 for a microphone. $40 for a mic pop filter to prevent "popping" your Ps, Bs, and Ts. $45 for a mic stand. $200-$250 for a USB or Firewire digital recording interface. $65 for shareware recording software. $45 for headphones. $40 for cables. $100 for sundries. Bare bones, but it will work.
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