Are you tired of living off handouts from big-name marketers, earning meager affiliate commissions?

If you truly want to live and breathe rarefied air of super-marketers, what you need is not a change in method, but a change in attitude and mindset.

You need to start thinking like a top gun and create your own identity instead of feeding off efforts of others. Here are some ways of achieving that goal.

1. Be Unique. Write Your Own Content

Create, don't copy. You are never going to become a top marketer or ezine publisher if you keep publishing regurgitated information from other top guns. The only people who benefit from that exercise are top guns themselves.

Start writing about your own unique experience as a marketer and share it with others. Write your own unique website content, reports, eBooks if you want to become a "household" name in marketing community.

2. Be The Content Creator, Not The Distributor

Instead of publishing other people's newsfeeds on your website, think about how cool it would be to have YOUR own feed published on thousands of other sites. And then DO it. Create a feed using your own content like I did here and allow others to syndicate your articles.

http://ebizwhiz-publishing.com/ebizwhiz.xml

3. Be The Product Seller, Not The Affiliate

The ones who make most money out of a product are product creators. The affiliates and resellers are always lower in food chain because they do selling for them.

No doubt affiliate marketing can make you a lot of money, but if you want to be at top of food chain and make kind of riches that top guns make, you do need your OWN product.

It not only allows you to pay others to promote for you, but also builds your credibility in eyes of marketing community.

4. Get Linked To Without Linking Back

The marketing top guns have thousands of people linking to them... and they never have to provide a link back to them. How do you get people to link to you? Simple. Just use steps I outlined earlier to -

* Write content so good that others will WANT to link to it.

* Create a product and start an affiliate program that pays others for linking to you.

* Write unique articles and distribute them with your link in your resource box.

Do these and you'll get thousands of people linking back to you without even thinking to ask for a link back.

5. Get Referrals WITHOUT Asking For Then

Customers are tough cookies. They're extremely media aware and increasingly cynical – it's a clever marketeer who can get under their skin. Online surveys reinvent traditional format and offer a unique way of interaction – all benefits of internet without programming.

Here are ten reasons why they may be silver bullet marketeers' need, complete with examples supplied by Martin Day, managing director of Survey Galaxy - one of a new breed of websites making online surveys quicker and cheaper

1. It's cheap as buttons

Select right survey website and creating surveys can be free of any charge and cost to publish is minimal. Useful information harvested from surveys can be reused and repackaged in other marketing and PR for use in press outlets making it a very efficient form of information gathering.

2. It's easy peasy

Anyone can develop an online survey. Survey sites allow people who are interested in benefits of surveys, rather than technicalities, to side-step required programming skills and create relevant up-to-the-minute surveys, instantly – surveys that are even easier to complete than they are to make.

3. Anyone can play

Once survey is online it's a simple step to promote it, either through email (with a link enclosed), via a link from a website or referenced by other forms of advertising. Anyone who has link can be connected instantly to survey, at a time that's convenient to them, 24x7.

4. We've all got an opinion – and we like to give it

Customers like surveys – they're not seen as spam, but as an empowering opportunity to make their voice heard and a chance to have an impact on a brand. They can be particularly good for broaching sensitive subjects with concerned employees; a survey asking a workforce on their opinion of change allows key issues to be raised in a positive way and encourages employee participation. Online surveys allow message to reach each individual and invite feedback in a manageable form.

5. Get inside their heads

You can lead a customer to an advertisement but you can't make them think. Surveys actively engage respondents, who think about question before giving their response.

6. Beautiful relationships start here

It needn't all end at end of survey – while you have their attention and are in mood you can ask if they want to sign up for more information or a regular newsletter – making most of window when you have their interest.