Celebrating ViralURL’s 2nd Anniversary!

This week we’re celebrating ViralURL‘s 2nd Anniversary. Our new special offer can help you achieve a great conversion rate so we don’t want you to miss out on a great opportunity to promote the system!

ViralURL has more than 60,000 active members and is still growing thanks to the support of its members!  These are fantastic results and we want to celebrate this with an amazing special offer that you and your referrals will never see again.

You can save $70 on your annual Elite Membership upgrade for the next 48 hours only (until the end of October 27th)! This is truly a win-win situation. You get the commissions and your referrals get a unique opportunity to become Elite members at a discounted price.

This offers will only last 48 hours, so make sure you act fast.  It’s even certainly less by the time you read this blog post… Simply mail your list or publish a blog post yourself about this offer and get a chance to make some cash fast.  No doubt you’ll achieve a higher conversion rate with that offer.

Let your contacts grab our great one-time offer for the Gold Membership and help them get their way to the discounted Elite Membership upgrade.  They will simply never be able to upgrade to the most complete version of ViralURL at such a low price again. Don’t forget that you can find a wide range of promotional tools within the member area.  Simply log into the system and click the ‘Promotion Section’ link: text ads, banner ads, email copies…

As if being an Elite member was not already awesome, we’re offering 10,000 text ads credits and 10,000 banner ads credits to ALL Elite members.  If you are an Elite member, simply log into the system and click the ‘Ad Credit Section’ link.  From there you’ll be able to claim the credits by entering the coupon code you have or will receive by email.

Thanks for using and promoting ViralURL. If you’re not a member yet, make sure you join now so you can grab the most complete membership for a very good price!

Author:
Julien
Finding Good Joint Venture (JV) Partners

Finding good JV Partners for your online product is not as easy as you may think. You want to make sure that you find the right persons who will promote your product the best possible way. Whatever your product is: an ebook, a software, a membership site… you should put a decent effort into searching for good JV Partners as they could have a decisive influence on the overall success of your product. Some internet marketers are just so good at promoting online products and services. You don’t want to miss out on these big shots because they can boost your online revenues in no time.

Finding JV Partners

By good JV Partners we mean partners who will actually promote your product, on the long-term (and not just as a one-off). Just don’t pick people randomly, but make sure they would be interested in promoting your product and actually be able to do it well. It’s even better if they have promoted a similar product in the past, or if they have a product or service that is complementary with yours.

Here are some of the techniques we use to find good JV Partners:

– Your existing contacts

If you’re a well-established internet marketer, you certainly already have a list of contacts. Who do you think would be able to promote your product the way you want it? Write a nice email and send it to them. Don’t forget to mention how much money they would earn on each referral. If you’re totally new to the industry, try the next technique.

– Warrior Forum

Warrior Forum is simply the best internet marketing forum you can find on the web (no offense to other forums). Check out their ‘Warrior Joint Ventures’ section or simply search for products that you think would fit with yours and contact their creators.

– Google

Simply search for products that you think would be complementary with your own product, and contact the site admins. You need to send them a nice, customized email. Don’t just blast them with a generic email that will not stand out from the other JV inquiries. Ensure that the sites have a decent Alexa ranking, so you are sure that they actually have traffic.

– Referral contests

Several sites organize referral contests (like we do on ViralUrl and ViralHosts). If you can check the contest rankings, you can see who are the best at promoting the product and thus quite likely to promote your own product the best possible way. The best promoters like to do it their way, but make sure you offer your JV Partners promotional tools so they can blast their list or put banners on their site with only little effort.

– Directories and networks

There are several directories and networks where you will be able to make a JV offer for your product. Mike Filsaime’s JV Network is one of them, but there are several other ones. Browse around and see if you can find what you’re looking for.

– Social networks

Just tweet about it! Or whatever your favorite social network are, just let people know that you are searching for JV Partners. That’s a really cool way to interact with potential JV Partners but you then have to decide whether or not they qualify.

There are of course several other ways to find good JV partners for your product. Feel free to share your own techniques with us! We would love to hear from you.

Author:
Julien
How To Get Quality Inbound Links To Your Site

With HubPages, Squidoo, Tumblr, Posterous… and ViralHosts!

Inbounds links are useful for two main reasons: they can generate additional traffic to your website and, most importantly, influence search engines in the ranking of your pages. There are plenty of ways to get inbound links to your website. One of them is becoming increasingly popular: through user generated content websites and micro blogging platforms.

HubPages

HubPages is certainly the most popular user generated content website. It has been designed around sharing advertising revenue for high quality, user generated content. Some of the pages – all built by web users – are very popular and generate a significant amount of traffic. Just so you know, some people are making heaps of money with these kinds of websites. I’m not explaining you how to make money with them though, but how to get more quality inbound to your website. Anyway, HubPages is the first website you want to look at.

Squidoo

Squidoo was founded about a year before HubPages and is also very popular. It doesn’t generate as much traffic as HubPages but is still a big player. Squidoo was designed to help web users easily find useful overview pages – called lenses – written by real people. With Squidoo, you have the option to give your earnings to charity, which is a good thing if you’re not really interested in monetizing your page.

Tumblr

Tumblr is a micro blogging platform that allows users to post text, images, videos and other types of content to their micro blog. Tumblr is popular for its customizability and ease of use. This is not the ultimate blogging platform, but if you’re not too familiar with blogging, or just want a simple but effective blog, then you should consider Tumblr. Signing up on Tumblr only takes a few seconds, and everything has been done to make you publish your content in the most simple way possible.

Posterous

Posterous is another micro blogging platform but is slightly different from Tumblr. With Posterous, you can publish blog posts by simply emailing your content to a dedicated email address. If you’re confused about blogging, well this might be the best option. I just cannot think of a more simple way to publish content. You email your content and… that’s it. Your blog has been created. You don’t even need to log into the system to publish your content. You can do so though, if you really want to, to edit your existing blog posts for example… It is not as big as Tumblr but I really like the concept. Give it a try, it is definitely worth it.

ViralHosts

ViralHosts is also a great way to get more quality inbound links to your site. This all-in-one cPanel hosting, list builder and mailer system allows you to host and build a site in no time. With ViralHosts, you can link to your main site, squeeze pages or any other pages you want. You know how much value search engines give to inbound links… ViralHosts is your chance to get quality ones! To be honest with you, I just can’t stop finding new benefits to using ViralHosts, so make sure you join free today and see how this system can help you build a strong online presence!

Otherwise, you may want to look at alternatives like Google’s Knol, SpongeFish or LaunchTags. Browse around and choose the ones you like. If you’re really after inbound links, then create a page on each of these websites. Keep in mind that not all will allow you to post links without a rel=nofollow attribute (which basically remove the value of the link for search engines), or only allow you to do so once your page is considered as a high quality page. Focus on quality and don’t insert too many links, one or two (to different landing pages) are usually enough. There is no use linking twice to the same address on the same page.

Author:
Julien
ViralURL Has More Advantages Than Originally Thought!

Some of you may have heard of John Marshall lately. John is an Iraq War veteran and fellow internet marketer who decided to take on the challenge to release 60 marketing tips in only 30 days. Make sure you check out his videos. Some of his tips can be really useful, whatever your level is…

How to become a better copywriter with ViralUrl

John raises a very good point in one of his videos. He talks about ViralUrl and explains how the service has helped him become a better copywriter. Not everyone is good at copywriting. If you’re not good at it, there’s no shame in that. You just need to work out a way to improve your skills… and ViralUrl can be part of it! Thanks to ViralUrl, John has started to write better headlines and email copies. There is no need to explain you how important it is for internet marketers to be able to write a good email copy… and an eye-catching headline is must have!

With this technique, John became a better copywriter, and he seems pretty happy about that, because he knows how important it is. Take a look at how John has managed to do that. Watch his video:

ViralHosts can help the same way. No matter if you use ViralUrl or ViralHosts, if you think you’re not good enough at copywriting, make sure you really benefit from this not so obvious advantage. What do you think of John’s tip? Has ViralUrl helped you the same way? There are certainly more not so obvious advantages of using ViralUrl… Please share your own with us!

Author:
Julien
Author:
Julien
New Appointment at ColinKlinkert.com

Hello! I’m Julien Duc, and I have recently been appointed VP of Operations at ColinKlinkert.com. I am originally from Bordeaux, France but spent most of the past 4 years in Australia. I have worked in various industries including computer hardware, magazine publishing, website design and software development.

I recently graduated with a Master of Business from the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. I had the chance to undertake several internet marketing courses and work while studying, which allowed me to turn my knowledge into practice in no time. After my studies, I decided to become an internet marketing consultant and to take on this great opportunity to work with Colin.

My role at ColinKlinkert.com encompasses assisting Colin with running and promoting his existing businesses, developing future projects as well as with general and technical support and various other tasks. I am also his new JV Manager so feel free to contact me if you’d like to joint venture with Colin.

I am currently working on ViralHosts (a new all-in-one hosting, list builder and mailer system), which is to be fully launched soon, on a site about Kenneth Cole Shoes and a few more very exciting projects that you should hear about soon. I am really glad to be part of Colin’s team. Be sure we will continue to provide you with the keys to online success, as Colin and I both share the taste for perfection.

Feel free to contact me via the help desk or provide me with your IM address if you would like to chat! I’d love to hear from you!

Author:
Julien
7 Reasons To Cloak Your Link With ViralURL

Building a list is considered to be required to make money online, as you build your contacts, you build their trust and then you market them relevant and helpful products that will solve a need or desire they might have.

With Viralurl you don’t only build a list on Autopilot but you can also profit and build an ongoing income at the same time. In this post I will have a look at the 7 main reasons why you should cloak EVERY link you share with Viralurl:

1) It’s Super Easy! – Once you have a Viralurl account, cloaking links becomes a ‘2 click’ walk in the park with the use of our very cool ViralPlugin for FireFox.

2) You can make the links short, which makes them easy to share and nicer to click on.

3) You can track the ‘click stats’ on your links and also the referrer stats, so you can see what source your clicks come from

4) You can protect your affiliate links if you are promoting products and in the process increase your sales by up to 300%!

5) Build a list on Auto-Pilot that you can mail down 5 levels (7 if you are a Viralurl gold member) each week.

6) Earn up to $1 for every member that joins Viralurl from your link. We run a promotion that for 5 days a month we pay up to $1 per referral you send that joins Viralurl, even if they don’t pay us a cent! So basically we are paying you to build your list!

7) Open up a new revenue stream! Viralurl converts at around 6% from free to upgraded members, and you can earn up to 60% in referral commissions. This means if you are a gold member, and earn $98 per year on the One Time Offer upgrades, maths suggests you will earn over $500 for every 100 total referrals you make. That is over $5 per member, even if they don’t upgrade. (not including the $1 promotional offers we run)

Interesting to note is that we offer yearly or monthly memberships, meaning as a referer you will get paid over and over from the same referral for the life of the site, or until they cancel their upgraded membership! This allows you to build a solid, ongoing income from referrals you send to Viralurl

Bonus Reason 8) We are currently, and often, hold contests where we award cash and prizes to members promoting and using Viralurl. Currently we are running a contest for the top promoters, which at time of writing is still anyone’s game, AND also viralurl’s top users. So cloaking all your links with Viralurl can even win you prizes and cash!

Remember, as you cloak links and get them out there into ‘internet cyberspace’ they can bring you referrals for years to come! So for the SAME amount of effort as highlighting a link and clicking ‘right click’, then ‘copy’ and then ‘paste’ you can just as easily use ViralPlugin along with Viralurl to unlock amazing leverage and possibilities!

With great power comes great responsibility so please… No Spamming, play by the rules, but get out there and make some money with the power of Viralurl!

Author:
Colin Klinkert
Using Google For Affiliate Marketing

Google is the king of the search engines right now, and a good ranking in Google searches can get you a lot of traffic.  If you are just starting out in affiliate marketing, then you need a lot of traffic to build up your initial customer base.  So, how do you leverage the immense reach of Google to help you do that?

The answer is in Web 2.0 sites.

Web 2.0 is a name used to describe the new kinds of websites that have come about in the past few years.  Social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook, content sharing sites like YouTube and Digg – all of these are Web 2.0 sites.  They  are enormously popular, so they get constantly indexed well by Google and other search engines.

This frequent indexing means that if you submit content to these sites and insert links back to your website, those links will be indexed quickly.

So what’s the strategy?

First thing to do is to prepare a lot of articles about the product you are selling.  You should not use the same article over and over again.  Search engines have duplicate content filters that will block some of them from results.

Once you have these articles, upload them to sites like Associated Content, Ezinearticles, and others like them.  Include a link back to your site in either the content of the article, or in the resource box (some sites have these boxes, some don’t).  Once the article is uploaded, you’ve accomplished two very important things:  you’ve spread word about your product topic on a site that gets lots of traffic every day; and you’ve created a valuable backlink from a website that has a high Page Rank.

Continue to do this (unique content every time) and you will build a lot of traffic for your site.

A Site For Example:

I have a site about Kenneth Cole Shoes and it ranks 4th in Google at time of writing this for the term, Kenneth Cole Shoes. Now that search term gets over 150,000 searches a month and the only sites that beat me out are The main site itself and a very large online shopping site.

Be sure to join my mailing list on the top left of my blog to see a followup post outlining exactly how I did it, so that you can do it too! 🙂

Author:
Colin Klinkert
Affiliate Marketing Without A Website

If you have the ability to write compelling sales copy, but can’t build a website for the life of you, it’s not really a problem, because a website isn’t required to be a successful affiliate marketer.  This is done by utilizing a variety of Web 2.0 sites,  which allows you to build an online presence using the in-place infrastructure of already popular websites.

There are a lot of content websites that are completely dependent upon user submitted content.  Sites like Associated Content and eHow are comprised almost exclusively of articles that are written and submitted by average users.  These sites get a lot of viewers and are usually at the top of many searches, so use that popularity to your advantage.  This isn’t some sort of nefarious scheme, it is an equal trade; the content sites get quality content you produce, and you get free space to promote your product.

Here’s how you can make it work:  write a bunch of articles about the product you are promoting or the about the topic in general.  Make sure that each of these are unique, because if you submit duplicate articles to many different sites, search engines like Google won’t count them and could even penalize them.  And make sure the articles are rich with the keywords related to your product.

These sites will usually allow you to place affiliate links either in the body of the content or in a special resource box on the page.  People searching for those keywords, will come across your articles on these sites (because web 2.0 sites generally achieve very high page ranks) and, if your sales copy is compelling, they will click through your affiliate link and purchase the product.

The amount of success you will have is completely dependent on the quality of your sales copy, but the beauty of this method is that it requires no start-up costs.  You don’t need to register domain names and build websites.  Just write the articles and start making money.

Author:
Colin Klinkert
Can you still Retire Rich in the Current Crisis?

“The collapse of the economy has led me to drastically restructure my own retirement plan,” says Dr. Richard Besdine, the 69-year-old director of the Brown University Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research. “It’s a lot simpler now — I’m just going to die in the office.” – CNN Money

Funny… but unfortunatly, due to events taking place over the last two years, potentially true. The retirement age of Average Americans is likely to increase by 10 years due to the setbacks being seen right now. Not sure about you, but the though of working until 75 doesn’t sound too appealing to me.

There simply has to be a better way to earn an income then ‘working for the man’! This is where the internet puts it’s hand up and yells: “Pick Me… Pick Me!”

Truly, anyone can do it, provided you think about each action you take. The saying “Every action has a reaction” wasn’t made up purely because it ryhmes. Don’t do any action without thinking about it first. Why go and post a spam link on other peoples blogs promoting a ponzi scheme? How long will it take before that comment is deleted, if it is approved at all? How many people reading that comment are likely to think “Wow, this sounds good?” I would go as far as to say none will, but everyone else will think of you as just another spammer. That really is NOT the way to do it. Rather, eductate yourself on what successful people do, and think about each action you take. Ensure there is purpose behind it.

I thought about this post before writing it. The reason for me making this post is because I know I can help you to take actions that produce the positive kinds of results. So drumming it in that you can do it, if you do it the right way, should, lead to you signing up to my mailing list and following my posts.

Follow me on Twitter: http://www.TwitterColin.com/ – i’ll follow you back 🙂

Author:
Colin Klinkert