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Market Research and Planning can be time consuming and tedious. The payoff is that you will offer what the visitors to your site are looking for. This will mean great conversion rates and great income.
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Start With an Outline Writing in any form is the process of following a path. An idea forms in your head and thoughts start rolling out; creative chaos follows with a salad of images, fragments of sentences and free flowing concepts. What do you do to make something out of all of this?
Early Brainstorming
Get a pad, notebook , your home computer, or better yet, a white board, and just start jotting down what comes to mind. Your product idea, things that might relate to your product, anything you think will add value. If you have done your market research you will have a good idea of what your potential customer is looking for. Put yourself in his/her place and think up some more ideas of what problems to solve or needs that may arise. Get it all down on paper or into your word processor.
Create an Outline
With your list of ideas and thoughts you are ready to move to the next step. Take what you have and you will begin to see some trends or patterns emerge. You are now ready to create your outline or script. There are some elements that are basic to all written formats. For example, you will want an introduction page; a copyright page is a must to establish your ownership of the product; a disclaimer page to protect yourself from potential liability (you are a business and businesses can get sued!). You will have the body of the product, often broken down into chapters or sections depending on the nature of the product. All this is followed by a Conclusion and Appendix or Resource list.
Sub Sections and Outline Content
With the basic layout of the product on paper, you are now ready to move to the next step; filling in outline content. You can take each chapter or section and begin filling in sub sections that follow your idea flow. For example, if your product is about weight loss, you might start with the need to lose weight, and then follow up with the barriers people face when trying to lose weight, followed by the factors that go into deciding to lose weight, the decision to lose weight, exercise, support and keeping the weight off. I think you can begin to see the process.
Writing Phase
With the sections and sub sections worked out, the writing is easy. It’s a matter of filling in the space with material you have already researched. Whether you write it yourself (the preferred option), or hire a ghost writer, by the time it reaches the writing stage, all the hard work has been done. Your internet marketing program is well on the way to full development.
Edit and Re-Edit Phase
Writing will mean multiple drafts, tweaking and changing that go with any written project, but by this stage you are well along your way to completion. Once the final draft is ready, leave it for a couple of days and then go back and take another look. Send out copies to trusted editors to take one final look. There will always be some last minute corrections before the decision is made to roll out the information product. But by this stage you are done and ready to go. How and when to roll out an information product is the subject for another article. Suffice it to say that your planning should be just as careful and prepared as the effort that went into creating your information product. Unfortunately, that is not the case for many roll outs. So take the time to learn that process as well.
Conclusion
The process of creating an information product does take time and effort, but if you follow a well thought out plan it can actually be fun and very rewarding. So give it a go and see where your creative thoughts take you. You may have the killer affiliate marketing program just waiting to be launched.
May Your Travels Be Prosperous
Before you approach a high end merchant to sell his/her product for your affiliate marketing program, make sure your Web site or landing page is ready and fully tested. The top merchants will check to see if you are up to professional standards.
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Affiliate Marketing-MMP PPC Profit Calculator
There is a new piece of software out that lets you run numbers on a potential PPC campaign you may be planning.
It is interesting because it makes you analyze key factors before you actually spend any money to test your offer.
It requires that you calculate your total exact match search volume to begin the exercise. It then asks you for a percentage estimate of how many of those exact searches will turn into impressions triggered by your ads. A typically conservative number is 10%, a more agressive number is 15%.
It then wants you to input a number for a click through rate, a cost per click, conversion rate, price of the product and your commission.
It then takes all that data and renders a profit or loss. Along the way it will give you days to a sales, click per day and per month and other pertinent data.
It assumes a $1 a day budget to start testing. Yes that’s right $1 a day. There is a column to input a higher budget if you want.
The point behind the exercise is that you can play with different scenarios to see if an offer makes business sense or not. You can play with different cost per click, conversion rates, click through rates and total search and impression counts.
All in all it is a great tool for researching the pricing and probability of success in planning a campaign.
I took a look at an offer with an 8% commission and a product line of $90 items and determined I needed a 15cent cpc and 6% conversion rate to make money. Not a good prospect, so I decided to look for something else.
It is a great tool for campaigns already running because you can get numbers to tell you how high to bid and set you budget. Increasing budget is not the best way to increase profitabilty unless you increase your search rate and impressions. The best way to do that is to add keywords with good search volume.
The MMP PPC Profit Calculator is a great planning tool and at $10 per month more than pays for itself in the money saved from weeding out duds before you pay for them.
So check it out and see if works for you.
May Your Travels Be Prosperous.
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