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When you want to work as either an independent contractor, be self-employed in your own business, or just earn a handsome side income real estate is essential to rounding out your portfolio. The problem is that when you take classes at most colleges they don’t really teach you how to make real money with real estate. Even if you go through training as a realator they don’t give you the tools to make a killing in real estate because that wouldn’t help you sell the homes they have under contract, and therefore not make the agency money.

A great way to learn techniques that will help make you into a real estate mogul are the classes at Nouveau Riche University. A true real estate investment college that offers classes such as such as Short Sales, Wholesaling, Foreclosures, Buying and Holding, Lease Options, Tax Strategies and more.

Nouveau Riche University was recently featured in the January 2008 Issue of Your Business at Home Magazine. This magazine chooses only 1 company per month to feature in it’s magazine so choosing Nouveau Riche is certainly an honor for the university. Visit the Nouveau Riche University website for look at what all the fuss is about.

Many affiliate marketers have taken lessons from the television marketing techniques that they observe. Particularly those that create info products and require websites that act almost like an online infomercial themselves. These sales copy websites are almost exactly like an infomercial except that visitors need to read it instead of just watching it. On top of this smart internet marketers use what they observe and take those techniques into consideration for themselves when they create their own marketing campaigns.

One thing that I believe many internet marketers lack in terms of ingenuity is the use of offline marketing methods. Spending so much time online it is easy to think that offline marketing is a waste of time. I don’t think it is. Many of the infomercials you see are directly related to either earning money from internet marketing, or how to set up an Ebay business. Why do they make these? Easy. It works. Same exact thing with catchy short commercials.

Although there are many inexpensive ways to market online, it can’t be overlooked that there is a lot of power marketing on television. In fact I would guess that there are many instances that make television much more profitable to an online business simply because the competition for many of the affiliate products, or services is almost non-existent. In fact, locally you probably won’t find a single competitor! Take a look at a bit of television marketing options that are available and think a bit about how they could help your online business.

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The site is currently specialising in deals offering 12 months free line rental in the UK.

I am told that these deals are genuine, but there are a few loopholes the mobile phone retailers use to get out of giving the phones away completely free, but, for the smart consumer they are a genuine way to get a completely
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Although, I had braced for the possibility that this was going to be frowned upon by Stumble so I decided to do it from a different IP address and account than I have my actual stumble account on. Just to be cautious.

Anyways, my plan was to use forums that had little Stumble groups to get a bunch of people to Stumble 4 of my affiliate links for various internet products. Each product was correctly categorized in Stumble for my target markets, with good buying term tags for them each. I probably was able to pick up a good 75-100 Stumbles for my links and was pretty proud of myself. This was really just a test to see if Stumblers actually went for these types of programs when they were randomly selected to see it.

After about a week I think I tracked approximately 1500 views from Stumble directly to my aff links. Really not quite as high as I had expected, but none-the-less, a pretty good picture of noticing a small trend at least. My purchase rate on these particular affiliates for PPC campaigns was around 8% so it wasn’t exactly a sure thing either way. How many sales did they create? Zero.

What else happened? Surprisingly there must have been a rash of “Thumbs Down” for my links because they fell completely off the map. Eventually my account was closed as well because I guess Stumble isn’t real excited about people submitting affiliate links into their system.

So…how else can Stumble be used? I am trying a couple different methods now. The obvious is directly writing blog posts and use it as articles (This is the recommended way), and the other, which can be more extensive is to try and create a number of lenses in Squidoo that I can simultaneously Stumble with basically the same content as the blog post, and even more related affiliates to the ones I am currently promoting.

Realistically there are better ways to go about this, but I figured I’d run some tests with Stumble and see just what I can and can’t get away with in regards to affiliate marketing. Squidoo is great for SEO regardless for any site so I figure at least that will be less intrusive to Stumble. IT also probably has a bit of a more professional look than many of the crappy sales pages for affiliates.

None of this is particularly a great way to work affiliates, but since3 I tend to use Squidoo and Stumble often for boosting SEO links I figured I’d try to combine them a bit and look for quicker ways to pump aff links out with out having to spend money on PPC, or write a ton of articles.

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Does it make you any money? I’ve heard many claim that it is great, but once I actually looked into it I can’t find any real reason to promote it all that much. It is a classic pyramid scheme in which you only get paid when someone you refer as an affiliate actually BUYs something from them. Pretty lame right?

Interestingly enough I see quite a few products on there that would be helpful to affiliates in that they don’t really try and hide shady software packages, nor do they rally try and hide that fact that DealDotCom itself wants you to basically spam people.

The major issue with the program is that you really aren’t promoting products that you can sell yourself. They make you promote the affiliate program and then when someone buys something you get a cut. Pretty hard sell isn’t it? You don’t have referral links for products to use. People must sign up first through your affiliate program link, and THEN buy the product. Great scam on their part as it essentially means that the majority of people who buy something won’t be referrals of someone else. IF you promote a product through them you are essentially cutting yourself out of the deal because you are going to have to make the person who wants to buy go through an additional step just so that you are able to get paid on the transaction.

Here’s what their site says:

How do I become a DealDotCom affiliate?

If you have a free DealDotCom account, then you already are one. Just go to the Your Account page to find your affiliate link. Whenever you tell someone about DealDotCom, just make sure they click on that link so you get credit for the referral. To make it even easier, on the Your Account Page there is a link “click here to send this link to your friends” that will automatically open up your email for those of you who are too lazy to copy and paste.

What is this two-tier affiliate business?

Whenever you refer someone to DealDotCom via your handy-dandy affiliate link, you get paid 35% of DealDotCom’s profit for every item that they buy. If someone you referred to DealDotCom refers someone else, you get paid 15% of DealDotCom’s profit every time they buy something for the rest of your life. This is a big commitment, so we suggest you take it very seriously.

Essentially you really have no reason to promote their products, and they don’t give you product affiliate links. What’s the point of just promoting DealDotCom itself then? Well…I suppose if you have an affiliate site and your readers are mainly affiliate marketers the products will be targeted to them in most cases. So if they sign up for it they may want to buy one of the products they are promoting on a daily basis.

IS there potential to make money with it? Certainly. Is it designed in an affiliate friendly way? Not particularly when you don’t get actual product affiliate links IMO.

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