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Hi guys, in my last post I shared with you a blog post by Matt Carter who was giving a list of buyer keywords, I also told you to read the comments there to see what others were adding.

I thought it would be a nice thing to make another buyer keywords list. What I want to say first is that generally, to get buyer keywords, you need to add keyword modifiers. These modifiers are additional words that reveals a behavior. So of course what we want to target is the buying behaviors of people.

If you know what buyers are typing in their search engines queries then these keywords can make you some big bucks. There are more than one phase a buyer can go through before making a purchase.

Let’s see an example, if John searches for…

• Apple Iphone 4 – We know that brand and model names are buyer keywords but at this stage John is still in research mode, he is clearly interested in this model but may want to know more about the features. He could of course just want to buy it, but this keyword would be included in most buying phase searches.
• Apple Iphone 4 vs AnotherPhone – John is comparing phones, which one is more appropriate for him, or which one will give him more satisfaction for the price, which one has more features… He’s researching and comparing. That indicates he really needs a phone and you can build comparison pages/reviews or add a comparison to your review to help him make more sales.
• iphone 4 reviews – John wants to know what others are thinking about it. Users feedback is important, you can find reviews on Amazon as well as video reviews on YouTube.
• Apple Iphone4 price – John may just want to know what is the price, but also where can he get the best price. So other variations like “best price iphone 4″ are also phrases you should consider (think “cheap”, “deals”, “promo”).
• Iphone 4 on sale – Now he’s clearly searching for a discount. Other keywords could be “iphone 4 coupon codes” or “iphone amazon coupon”. These are really hot keywords.
• Buy iphone 4/buy iphone 4 on sale/order iphone 4 online – Self explainatory.

Now what if your content could include these keywords. Some of them or all of them?

Well if you can structure your page by describing features (and BENEFITS!), user feedback (you can add a video), then comparison with another similar product, tell where to get it at the best price (maybe the top 3 best place to get it), and have keywords modifiers like (on sale, cheap, best price), then you can target multiple keywords.

Or you can target one main keyword for one page (like Iphone 4 review) and have other articles to target other keywords and link to your review. One post will compare the product to another and say, check our review. Another one will give a coupon code, another one will demonstrate one super cool feature and link to the review again to check all the other stuff included.

Okay now, it’s time to throw out keywords, buyer keywords that you can use in your content to get the best targeted traffic to your review and sales page. Identify them for each phase they may belong to. And add your own, what keywords do you use to look for a product you want to buy?

• cheap, budget
• best buy
• sale, on sale, for sale
• inexpensive, affordable
• low priced
• price, best price
• cost, low cost
• compare
• new, used
• limited edition
• deals, best deal on
• promo
• vs (versus – product A vs product B)
• brand + model, model number/name
• review(s)
• colors (these target specific model and the color the user would like the product to be, “blue electric scooter”)
• size (great for clothing, shoes : 9 birkenstock medina, Hugo Boss shirt medium (or XS, S, M, L, XL, Plus size…)
• buy, order, purchase
• discount, bargain
• coupon code, code, promotional code
• outlet, clearance, closeout
• shop, store
• pre-order
• in stock
• free shipping, overnight shipping, overnight

Some modifiers can also be questions. Yahoo! Answers is a great place for questions where lots of people are asking where they can buy/get/grab/find certain product on sale. Now you can take advantage of this by answering those, or go a blackhat route by asking and answering questions yourself (there’s a right way to do it, search for it).

You can also submit articles with these keywords:

• Where can I buy Insane Muscle Building Miracle Pill on Sale?

People who are truly desperate for a solution are also proven buyers. They will ask questions, join forums, and search online.

• How to
• How can I
• Where to
• What (and tons of questions after that)

These questions can be about buying, learning, stopping a problem/symptom (preventing from)…

Some desperate buyers will even scream in their topics : “HELP ME solve my problem!” “Help” is clearly a word someone in need of a solution would use. If you can come up with a solution for them that would be cool.

Now these last examples can be used to create your content and target buyers, but also to find niches. Just go to Google and type “where can I buy”, without quotes and see suggestions. You can then add an “a”, “b”, “c” and find many suggestions that you will really be pleased to answer, on forums, answer sites, blog posts and your own articles.

Okay want an example? Here’s something you can try:

“What is the best” in Google will give you suggestions you can market right now, again add a letter and see what comes up. I found “what is the best product for acne”, I think it has some potential . In a next post I’ll give you solutions to make the process of building buyer keywords list super quickly and easily. But in the meantime, just use the knowledge you got here.

Most people don’t take action, so if you can create a little plan around these keywords to build a website and create your marketing content then you will make money. I already gave you one little plan (the review + other articles that link to it).

Tom

You have certainly heard that you need to optimize your content around keywords so your traffic is targeted for the information you’re providing. Now, more than just delivering information, as an internet marketer you want to make some money. Not always of course but when you’re promoting something, the best targeted traffic is a buyers traffic.

So how do you get buyers to visit your website? Well… with Buyer Keywords!

It is often keywords that relate closely to a product or service but not only. Words that tell that people are ready to buy, or almost ready to buy. I came accross a blog post from Matt Carter simply called Buyer Keywords. He’s sharing a list of modifiers that most buyers would use.

Some easy examples are buy, reviews, cheap, etc. But can also be clearly claiming for a solution to a problem.

So when you write your content for affiliate offers, you may want to include those in the body of your copy or even use these as your main keywords. If you can rank for cheap laptops, do you think you can make money?

Check the post, and also the comments, people have shared their thoughts, I even added my humble contribution.

My last post was about achieving your dream lifestyle by setting goals, SMART goals even better. Now achieving a goal may simply means getting what you want. What it is that you really want? What are these things. You may need a sheet of paper and write these things down.

Of course nothing is going to happen by simply wanting it, but if you can remember what you want then you will put yourself in a discipline, focus mode that will move you towards your goal. Again this has something to do with taking action. We stop ourselves from doing because we fear of not getting results, we are scared to take a risk, we think about wasting time and that the outcome is not there at the end.

We just freeze and don’t move on. This may be inconscient but what we do is focusing on all the negatives side. So once you have a decsion to make here are few qestions to ask yourself:

• become a 60 seconds decider (I got this from Jason Fladlien): Will this or that action/decision will completely change your life or business? If yes, you may need to take more time, otherwise in 60 seconds you should be able to decide if this action should be done or not, and move on.
• What is the worst thing that could happen to your business if you take that action? Is it irreversible? Most of the time, it’s not.
• What is the cost of NOT taking action? What is the outcome of doing nothing?
• What results do you expect from that action? So do it!

This introducion may look a bit long but I thought it is dedicated to get your mindset on ACTION mode.

Achieving Goals Step By Step

So you may want to lose 20 pounds, do it 1 pound after the other. Of course set your goals the SMART way (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic and Time-targeted).

For income goals you need to know HOW you’re going to achieve it. You may have decided to reach $10,000 per month. How? By having 10 websites to generate $1,000 each. Just an example, you can have your own numbers.

Of course you still don’t know how easch site will perform but we’re not going to discuss niche research, product selection, keyword research and competition analysis.

But either as an affiliate or a product creator (or both), you can decide the money to be made with the $ per sale you get.

$1,000 per month is about $34 per day. You may make more or less commissions depending on various factors but you shouldn’t think about that. What you need to focus on is getting the site up and getting traffic and sales/commissions and then improve if needed.

Basically you need to register a domain, install WordPress (or another site/blog platform you like), have content, monetization, and traffic. The details are omitted on purpose. Most people know how to create a website, create content, build backlinks and so on.

Once you have been marketing online for some time you know what to do, it may just look boring. Have a clear plan, each of your actions should be laid out and you should be able to go through these one by one, or step by step. Outsource your plan if you can.

Let’s dig in our example a bit more:

If you decided to monetize an site with AdSense, you may have 20 pages. To reach $34 a day, each page should generate $1.7. It’s certainly doable right? Remember you can monetize with affiliate offers too, or have your own product.

Build one website and market it so you can generat an income and invest it in content creation. If you already have money to invest then you can have your first website content done for you, and focus on the marketing until you reach your goal.

Hey how many $5 articles can you buy with $1,000? The answer is 200! Or 20 articles x 10 sites. So if you have one website profitable you can and you SHOULD re-invest in your business and reach your goal much faster!

For your first site, writing 20 articles is just writing 1 article, and then another article, until you’ve done it 20 times. Again, just divide each goal, each task and FOCUS on it 200%.

So what is your plan? Can you clearly see each step? Then move on.

In the very beginning of this post I asked you what it is that you really want. So it can be the car, the house… And unfortunately these things are not free, but not impossible to get providing you do the right things and focus on what makes you money.

If you’re not sure if something is worth doing, ask yourself the questions we’ve seen earlier and also this one: will this move me towards my goal or away from it?

If this is something that can be incorporated to your plan then it is fine, otherwise are you really going to use it? An example would be automation softwares. If you saw an offer for an article directory submitter, it can be great if you’re an SEO and article marketer by doubling or tripling your efforts. But if you plan to get traffic with PPC or PPV then is it really worth it?

So yesterday I blogged about my blogging challenge and mentioned that it can be considered like a goal to achieve. I made the challenge public:  just adding one blog post per day here. It’s a nice and easy goal but goal setting can really help you stay focus, get motivated and achieve the dream lifestyle you always ever wanted.

Can you imagine living the dream (and not dreaming the life) ?! That’s awesome isn’t it? Fact is, most people would think that it is impossible. The big house, the sports car, travelling around the world…

So let’s start with a definition, I searched for a way to define it but it was too long so here’s one to the point:

Goal setting involves establishing specific, measurable and time-targeted objectives.

I took this from wikipedia and this is something you should always have in mind when you set goals. If you want an even more complete technique check this post on SMART goals (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Timed).

The realistic criteria may or may not be accurate. In the 4 Hour Work Week, Tim Ferris says to set really BIG goals, something that you would not think possible right now, but that you will achieve and surpass anyway. This is a trick to make you think big. Because your mind will have to docus on that and you will take massive action.

Now of course, some will say if it’s not realistic, you will think it’s not attainable and not take action.

So here’s a tip: every goal is attainable, so it is always realistic. The route to achieve it my require more work, but it can be done. Period. Never doubt. And alwyas take action, just do something.

Here’s your new motto. Do you know Nike and Adidas slogans?

Just Do It and Impossible is Nothing.

I love these quotes, and if you keep those in mind, combined together nothing should prevent you from not achieving your goals. But doing things has more to do with procrastination or productivity and it will be another post subject I guess.

Back to goals setting, and to the main criterias : Specific, Measurable, Time-targeted.

Saying I want to make a lot of money is not specific. And irrelevant. A lot of money is not the same amount depending of where you live on the planet and the economy of your country.

I want to make $10,000 per month, or $100,000 a year is better, but not completely specific. You also need to tell how you’re going to do it.

Have more websites, build a list and create products to sell them, conduct high ticket webinars… How?

You may also want to tell yourself why: it can be to buy that car, be able to travel 5 times a year.

Once your goal is specific you can draw a route to that goal, by visualizing steps, which may be intermediary goals, and dissecting these steps.

If you want to have more websites, you may say you will do it by outsourcing all content, design creation and marketing. (that’s another “How”). Creating your own products may mean have a low entry one of $17, and another one at $97 and another one priced at $497.

Now about the measureable criteria. You can see the measure by the numbers. How much money, and make it progressive:

I want to lose 10 pounds in 30 days from now, by exercising 4 times a week. Each week then, you are able to track your progress.

Now the last main criteria is to have a timed goal. You need a deadline, otherwise you will never focus on it and forget about it. Even when you’ll get back at it, you will not have this “pressure” that tells you to get it done in 10, 30, 90 days or a year.

That’s pretty much it. I’m not a self improvement guru so my words may not be the best but I think you can see the point of all this.

Define a specific goal that you will achieve in a fixed time-frame and that you can measure and track. And stay focus!

Now your goals can be short term, long term. Very long term as well as very short term. Have you ever set goals for your work day. Today what do you want to achieve? It is certainly something you have to do, but it’s not defined very well so you don’t focus on these things.

Why not something like “Today, I will write 5 articles by searching and focusing on each topic for 20 minutes each”.

It can be building XY backlinks in one hour as well as becoming a recognized expert in your field in 1 year, or be a mllionaire in 3 years.

These are professional goals, but you can apply it to all your personal goals too.

Okay, I’m saying success and it’s not over, if you don’t know what I’m talking about I’ve chanllenged myself to write at least one blog post per day for 30 days. So on November 22nd I should have 174 posts published on my blog. I’m currently already at 169 with this one.

The goal is not really in the number of published posts but in the daily postings. So I plan to follow up and deliver some stuff. This is my post for today, I have not really anything to say but that’s a post I have to make. So there may be a lesson here and that’s the one of making your challenge public.

When you do this everyone knows about it and will know if you fail so… I don’t want to fail this and plan to succeed.

This is a little goal to achieve, so in my next posts we’ll discuss goal settings, and achieving those.

Take care,

Tom

Hi all, hope your week end has been great, I just wanted to share some thoughts about your affiliate offers for Christmas. In about a month and a half people are goint to offer each others tons of gifts. Gifts which are… phisycal products.

Since I’ve been discussing product reviews of physical products recently I thought it should be worth telling you should focus NOW on promoting physical products. People are already buying gifts for their families and friends and there are tons of niches you can promote.

Need a plan?

Just go to Amazon, check all the bestsellers in many categories, target product types and product names as your keywords and you get traffic to these. Create a new website with WordPress or free Blogger blog if you don’t have money, create content and put it out there.

As an example I’ve been able to I’ve done that exactly one month ago with a product I’ve found on Amazon, with a free blogger blog. Just 2 articles submitted to top article directories, doc sharing sites, and social bookmarking. I made 2 sales since then. That’s not that much I know but as a test it was very interesting. I can just build more backlinks and drive more traffic to make more, and it was all free.

Now of course it will take you the same effort to promote a low priced product than a more expensive one so if competition is similar promote some higher priced products. If they are good sellers, have good reviews and you can send targeted traffic there then you can only make money.

So… if you need a plan, choose products that…

• have at least $100,
• have at least 15 reviews
• have at least 4 out of 5 rating

No I’m not going to tell you how much competition, how much search volume the keywords should get. Why?

If the product is selling, you can make a commission. You know it is selling because it gets reviews. You can see the bestsellers for each categories and sub categories on Amazon. You can sort results in bestselling order That’s all that matters.

• Create a website, or free blog and write 2 articles (1 review) for each product
• Ping your blog/website
• Social bookmark your website
• Submit the RSS feed of yoru blog to RSS aggregators
• Write 2 other articles for each article
• Submit your articles to top article directories (I’ve already gave you this list, don’t submit to all though it doesn’t hurt, but 10-15 is already enough)
• Ping the article directories (with your article URL)
• Submit the articles to doc sharing sites (Scribd, Docstoc), you’ll have to convert your article to PDF (use Open Office to do that, it’s completely free)
• Ping the URLs of your articles on doc sharing sites too

If you target one niche or product type you can just have one website, it’s ok.

I gave you the link for the topa article directories, but really when you need to find a top list. Just use Google. So if you need a list of social bookmarking sites, just google top social bookmarking sites, or best social bookmarking sites, list of bookmarking sites… Same for web 2.0 pages, RSS, and anything that you can get a link from.

The plan given is really easy, if you’ve been online for some time you can certainly do it. You can outsource it or do it yourself. 5 products, 4 articles each that’s 20 articles. I think you can write all of these and submit and publish 3-4 days appart and have everything done in one week.

Track your sales, hits, conversions… Improve, do a little more here and there.Duplicate.

No secret.

Hi world, just a quick update to tell you the deadbeat super affiliate course by Dan Brock is going to raise in price from $37 to $67.

If you want to get a solid knowledge on how to build review sites for physical products, this one is worth its price. Period. Now I’m not pressuring you to get it to make a commission.

If you already have knowledge on building review sites and make money as an affiliate you should then have a plan and make your site as best as possible to get traffic and conversion.

If you already make at least $3,000 per month as an affiliate then it’s not for you, you should go to the next level, I suggest you outsource your system and duplicate your income. Or create your own products.

If however you wants real affiliate marketing training, nothing all so special, just simple stuff. You know what’s cool about simple stuff? It works.

Keep It Super Straighforwardly Stupidly Simple. That’s the KISSSS method. Brand new (cough).

Okay it’s the last time I’m telling you about the Deadbeat Super Affiliate. Cheers!

P.S: Do you already have review sites? Have you enhanced your reviews like the Google Proof Product Review Formula suggest? How are you doing with it? Please share your thoughts and ideas.

Hello world, I’ve been promoting Deadbeat Super Affiliate by Dan Brock recently, I talked about his review formula to write great reviews that get buyers traffic and convert well and yesterday I also provided a link to Michel Fortin’s blog on how to write better benefits for your reviews.

Well I’m just doing that currently, enhancing my reviews with more content and trying to provide real value at the same time. It feels great.

I’m improving a website that makes me some nice money every month, and as I go through my review pages I see some are just made of 200 words or less. It’s not that hard to turn these to 700 – 1000 words, it’s quite fast because most of the job is already done once you have compiled all the facts. It’s just a matter of formatting and presentation.

But at the end of the day you can be a proud affiliate that didn’t try to fool visitors by just saying what they can learn elsewhere and adding that you recommend it with your link. Nope, writing your reviews should be HELPING PEOPLE make a purchase decision.

If you can help them making the best decision of purchase (or not) then you are trustable (does that word exist?).

Be cool, be great, be helpful. If you help people do, work, sleep, live better (that includes tons of stuff), then they may help you make more money by clicking on that link.

Okay I don’t know if this post was worthwile to you but that was a natural follow up to what happened to me during the last days.

So if you didn’t spotted my damn affiliate links to the Deadbeat Super Affiliate course by Dan Brock, here it is again…

CLICK HERE

Have a good night, or day depending on where you are on this planet.

Okay so I just mentioned in my previous post I would tell you how to write better benefits for your product reviews. Actually I won’t, but Michel Fortin will. Here’s a post I want you to read:

Forget Benefits and You Will Sell More

You may already know you should emphasize on benefits instead of features, meaning you have to answer the customers question “What’s in it for me?”. In this blog post Michel Fortin tells you how to write REAL benefits, and I’d say it has to do with the end result the customer is searching for, but you need to be more personal and not keep things general.

Read the post in full, some examples are shared at the end of the article.

Michel is a great copywriter, he can teach you how to write better benefits so your offers and affiliate promos convert better and thus it’s easier for you to make more sales and affiliate cash.

This last sentence is an example in itself. I could have stopped it at “benefits”, but personally, what you want is to make more money.

Okay, this is just a quick post to teel you that the Deadbeat Super Affiliate that I’ve talking about for a few days is now live, actually since yesterday. So if you want to make a killing as an affiliate promoting physical products, this is a course I highly recommend.

Starting with an extra $3,000 a month is quite decent right?

Dan Brock, the creator launched this upgraded version of ProfitZon and filled it with great content. If you’ve watched the videos and download the reports he made available as his prelaunch content then you got some great free training. I’ve learnt some great things, or re-learnt some and have taken action on these.

For example I’m going through my profitable sites and improving the reviews I’ve written to see if I can get more traffic and more conversion. The Google Proof Product Review Formula was extremely useful. I just finished turning a very basic 300 words review into a 870 words one, with the elements Dan highlights in the formula.

And it was really easy and fast. When you already know a bit about the product it’s really simple to aff few paragraphs here and there to really engage the visitors, and provide them real value by offering solutions they’re searching for.

I’ve added video, user reviews, good and bad, and emphasized the benefits. I want to share another link with you about writing better benefits for products or service features you’re providing, it’ll be in my next post as I don’t have the link under my eyes, it just popped into my head and it helped me crafting my new review.

So from my own experience, I can give you another way of writing product reviews, using the formula of the Deadbeat Super Affiliate:

Just write a general review, you should already have enough information to write about the product and may end with something like 300 words. Then as I did, fill it with all the missing elements (quick review, images, benefits, pros vs cons, video review, Q&A, Comparison, user reviews).

Also, and I don’t remember if Dan mentioned it in his formula but it’s obvious, have a call to action. Dan just puts his affiliate links naturally in the review. Something like : “You can get PRODUCT NAME at the best price on Amazon” and I encourage you to do it too. But nothing prevents you to add a stronger call to action like a big button in the beginning and end of your review.

Okay that’s it. I like the content Dan Brock releases and I think Deadbeat Super Affiliate is a great course to make a full time income from promoting Amazon products (and other networks too). It’s $37, with cool bonuses, and certainly worth more. Check it out and watch the video, I didn’t expect to see him like this. He’ll show you real proof and without hyper hypee sales pitch and a great headline .

Visit Deadbeat Super Affiliate.