Affiliate Marketing Secrets We're Not Supposed To Know

I was beyond frustrated. For eight years I tried everything under the sun to make money online, with no success. That changed in a single afternoon. I finally began making money online when I learned about the power of writing online product reviews.

I really wasn’t sure if the information I had been reading about this topic was a scam or not. But heck, I had tried tons of other supposed ‘quick money making plans’ before now, why not give this a test too?

So wrote a few reviews, followed what was suggested in the guide...and started earning affiliate commissions! I was honestly surprised. Blown away. Something so simple took 8 years for me to stumble on.

I can only imagine where I’d be today if I had found that information back when I first went online back around 1994. Anyhow, writing reviews was how I learned to make money promoting affiliate marketing products.

BUT THERE’S A CATCH TO MAKING THIS WORK.

It takes money or some serious amount of creativity (and sometimes both) to promote other people’s affiliate products online in public areas.

Social networks and video sites are great places to promote affiliate products ‘free’ -- when there's no competition. If you can get there first or stand out the best you'll make money. Really, though, you’ll quickly find others will try to knock you out of popularity by flooding the networks with their own real or fabricated ‘experiences.’

HOW TO NEUTER COMPETITION

Usually it’s best to write reviews on your own sites when there’s competition afoot. That way no one can directly compete against you in the same space – because you own your website and control what goes there.

Oh. If possible, use a blog for your reviews. There’s less hassles setting up and monetizing a blog (see my video detailing how to setup blogs at http://nichebloggingextreme.com/) than it takes to setup and manage a bunch of separate web pages.

With a blog you just type in your comments, save, and instantly you have a website with great content and a great appearance online. No web design skills ever needed unless you want to create a custom blog design [not worth the hassles and not recommended].

Plus a side benefit is Google LOVES product reviews posted on blogs more so than in web pages. (I know this firsthand).

To learn more about writing product reviews to promote affiliate products I recommend you grab a copy of this report: http://www.andrebell.com/rj.html

...then write a few product reviews yourself.

I can just about guarantee this will work for nearly anyone.

THE WHOLE TRUTH

After I learned how to make money with affiliate marketing I “cheated” a bit on my product reviews...

I used a software program I had a programmer create called, Clickbank Commander. The software was able to create over 30,000 computer generated “reviews” instantly.

Basically I created a standard review template and the software filled in the blanks with thousands of product reviews for me automatically.

I then eventually added some RSS feeds and other elements to try to make each page seem somewhat unique, to avoid getting penalized by Google for duplicate content.

[Currently this is within the scope of the terms of services agreement of most affiliate marketing programs. A few might immediately close your account for doing this though. So don’t create computer generated reviews unless you don’t mind the risk of having an affiliate account closed, or unless you have multiple accounts and are willing to test doing the same on a ‘throw away’ account. I no longer create computer-generated reviews. I guess for me, it’s more of a matter of been-there-done-that. I tested it. It works. Now to move to something else. Oh. Earlier I mentioned a dude who’s made over $100,000 in a single month. This is exactly what he is doing right now. So to each his own...]

These reviews DID get indexed by Google but did NOT rank high in search engine results. But as you can imagine, the combined results of having over 30,000 affiliate product reviews out there generated some cool commissions I never did any real work to get. Was like getting free money in the mail every two weeks.

Well, I felt I had to tell you that so you have a complete picture of what I did to make money online. That way folks can’t later claim I was holding back some ‘secret’ details about my online successes.
What should you do?

If you have a little money:

a) setup your own websites and domains and post product reviews to the sites.

b) beg, trade, or buy QUALITY resell rights products. Then create write reviews for those products. That way you keep 100% of the commissions instead of share commissions with the owners of affiliate products. Or skip writing reviews and instead write high-converting sales letters of your own, if you have that skill. Not all do. Plus a sales letter requires you promote the sales page like crazy, online and offline. Seldom gets the same free attention the search engines give to product reviews.

Also, independent product reviews convert into sales much better than direct sales pitches. Think about it. What do people go online for? To get hammered at with sales messages or get free information?

For the most part people are looking for free information. Give it to them in the form of product reviews.

If you have no money at all:

If you don’t have $8 to register a domain name plus another $8 or $9 a month to host the domain, write reviews on free blog sites, social book marketing site, etc. Then link to an affiliate product you want to promote. Follow the steps in the rich jerk program.

You will get passive income from the search engines and from folks searching the topic within the social book marketing site. Honestly though, writing reviews on free sites will NOT work well if you are dealing with internet marketing products or other high interest niches.

If you are promoted something that appeals to internet marketers, they will ‘steal’ your commissions. For one they will remove your affiliate link when they visit the sales page and replace it with their own. That way they earn a commission off their own purchase instead of you earning it :-(

I once dropped the price of one of my products all the way down to $3 just to make a special offer to folks on a particular site. The product sold for way more to everyone else. Well, some slime bag on the forum took my $3 link and added his affiliate id and got the product for 70% commission paid to himself.

Come on. What kind of a loser rips you off on a three dollar sale?!!!

I was pissed. Though there was no loss to me (other than my damaged pride when he emailed me saying he did it for my ‘own good’ to protect me from others), I just couldn’t believe anyone would be this cheap.

Lesson is, there are crooks out there who will rob you for no reason other than that they are crooks. So you are better off concealing your real links to buy the products or better off sticking with product niches where the average buyer knows nothing about affiliate marketing. That’s pretty much all other categories of products being sold or promote online or offline.

Really, less than 1% of internet surfers are involved in internet marketing. So you are pretty safe using this strategy with those other niches. You might still get ripped off here and there by some scum bag and never know about it. But not to the same high degree as if you were promoting internet marketing stuff.
How to keep 70% of all sales

Oh. If you’re still looking for your first affiliate product to promote, check out my new software at http://www.seogoldsoftware.com/

The affiliate program currently pays out 70% commission for each sale.
Yes, that’s kind of high but because the products are delivered digitally my costs are low. Plus, since you are handling the bulk of generating an affiliate sale, you should get the bulk of the commission.

Also nice is the affiliate program allows you to see your clicks and conversions in real time. You always know when you’ve earned a commission. No guess work on when you will be getting paid.

Anyhow, the affiliate signup link is below.

Ok. That’s pretty much everything I wanted to say about promoting affiliate products online.

I hope something in here proves profitable to you.

Yours in success,

Andre Bell
www.SEOGoldSoftware.com
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Resources

How To Write Reviews:
http://www.andrebell.com/rj.html

hosting:
I highly recommend www.hostgator.com if you plan to host your own websites.

Hostgator currently allows an unlimited number of domains on each account. That is really smart option if you are on a budget and plan to do your own promotions. It can be a bad idea if you plan to primarily do SEO to drive traffic to your site though.

Answering why that is is beyond the scope of this report. Just keep in mind when Google sees ‘clusters’ of sites grouped together, you lose a little credibility.

Long term, you are better off using several different hosts on different IP ranges for your sites. Otherwise everything you do gets grouped together in Google’s eyes. Good or bad.

To get started though, this isn’t much of an issue. But as time continues though, you might be better off to switch to your own dedicated servers.

Ok, all that was technical gobbly-gook. I had to mention it though because you will hear conflicting stories as you continue growing. Well, I said my piece on the subject, so no one can ever say I didn’t speak up beforehand.

Really, what you choose to do later down the line for hosting is your choice. It’s all on you.

I sold ClickBank Commander to a UK company as an exclusive license to resell the software. No clue what they are now doing with it. The site I originally hosted the software on is no longer online. Last I heard through the grapevine is that the company was earning six figures each month using that approach.

That's a heck of a lot of cash. I kick myself every time I think about what I sold off, out of being tricked by a partner to sell the company. Maybe I should've gotten rid of the partner instead. Lol.

Anyhow, if automated product reviews is the route you want to go, here’s something comparable to what ClickBank Commander could do.

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How To Become An SEO And Web Marketing Consultant

Local SEO consulting is one of the hottest career fields to re-emerge in today's new economy.

If you're even remotely thinking of buying into any one of the plethora of make money with offline 'gold' riches type programs, I want to warn you not to buy or subscribe to any SEO or offline consulting program. At least not until you've read this revealing report.

After reading story after story of 'every day' people making $1,500 to $5,000 a day selling their online marketing skills to local offline businesses I got excited. I bought just about every workbook, guidebook, report, and video I could get my hands on that promised to teach me these 'insider' secrets.

But once I read all that stuff and came back out of the ether...reality set in. All those products fell short on their promises in three big ways.

Failing to recognize those challenges can lead to untold frustration and wasted energy. Not to mention the cost of lost opportunities. Those challenges lead to losing out of earning real money and gaining real clients real fast. That is a lose/lose proposition.

This FREE report shows how to eliminate these time-wasting hassles. So you can focus on actives that earn money you can deposit instead of costing you your valuable time.

Here are the big three threats to watch out for...

The first is finding high-quality, well-paying potential clients fast.

Most 'offline gold' type require would-be consultants to spend countless hours running around chasing business people who don't know them, don't trust them, and don't want to talk with them.

Go through the high-rejection motion of cold calling and chasing enough complete strangers and you'll soon find yourself feeling like a gerbil on a treadmill -- expending a lot of effort, but not really going anywhere.

How do you overcome this image of being 'just another salesperson'? First you need to target and uncover high-probability clients -- before you speak to anyone.

One way is to grab the yellow page directories and go online. Check the web ranking of every local company for their likely keyword combinations. See how well the companies rank for your city, county, and state. You want to know who is ranked well and who isn't.

Automating this process is the quickest way to find potential clients who actually need offline services. But you can do the steps by hand too, it will just take longer to do by hand what a computer can do in seconds or minutes.

Getting Paid

Some offline consulting programs say to just walk into any business and ask "how's business," hoping the owner will start a conversation complaining about how bad life is. But that's not going to happen.

Only the most depressed and disgruntled will tell a customer the truth. All other business owners will lie so customers think the business is doing well. So instead of walking out with a big fat check you walk out with egg on your face looking like an idiot because you had nowhere to go in the conversation after the owner lied about business being great.

Honestly. You are fooling yourself if you believe you can walk into any business while knowing absolutely nothing about a company's online performance, and expect to walk out with a check for $1500 or more. It just isn't going to happen like that. That's a fantasy.

To walk out with big fat checks in hand you must walk in with something specific to talk to the companies about i.e. their exact poor search engine performance and proof you can beat what they are already doing.

Not Another Slimy 'Snake Oil' Sales Person

Once you know where the individual businesses stand, convert yourself from being an unwelcome pest into a welcome guest. How? By contacting the businesses intelligently. Discuss with them what's important from their perspective. That's their company and its performance.

Never ever just go into a business and try to 'pitch' your services without knowing in advance a specific SEO marketing need exists. You'll create resistance because the 'pitch man' approach is antiquated. And is associated with snake oil days of scam sales reps who promised everything and anything to get a sales, only to end up ripping people off.

In this day and age prospects are more informed than ever. The moment a business person detects 'sales speak' a defensive wall goes up. They begin to mistrust you. Don't try 'pitching' your services. Instead be sincere, honest, and ethical. And focus on sincerely helping people. Sincerity sales.

Instant Expert.... Just Add Credibility...

To be believed you must position yourself as a local expert, not approach businesses as just another sales person. You can do this by writing books, articles, reports, and publishing survey results. Also can do speaking at local events or work on getting referrals.

Another method for becoming known as an expert in your community is to send prospecting letters and postcards designed to grab attention and build trust and familiarity. A direct mail sequence is very powerful at positioning you as someone who truly knows what they are doing. The quality of your mailing will separate you from the also-rans.

Do whatever it takes to ethically and legally remove the image of being a self-centered, commission-chasing sales rep. That way when you do speak with a business owner or decision maker, you are no longer viewed as a stranger or unwelcome pest.

You've repositioned yourself as a welcome guest. Someone who's poised to start making a 5-figure monthly income in 30 to 90 days as a local SEO consultant. One of the hottest career fields to emerge in quite some time.

When Local SEO Is A Waste of Time and Money

A common marketing belief is local SEO is a waste of time for community-oriented business websites. That is only partly true. This article explores two reasons for this misconception and why the myth presents real dangers any business seeking attention from their local markets.

First let me ask you, are you familiar with the phrase "if you build it they will come?"

I often hear people say this as they try to justify not putting any effort into local search engine optimization. They believe that just putting up a site and waiting is enough.

If only that were true.

When it comes to local search engine optimization, this is one of the most damaging cliches a business owner can buy into. This attitude is like a person going through the trouble and expense of getting all decked out for senior prom and then climbing into a closet, hoping someone --anyone-- will mysteriously and magically find them hiding there.

As far-fetched as this might sound, this is exactly the situation with most community-oriented business websites. The sites are created, exciting and glamorous content is added, the sites are published online, and then the owners sit back and hope some magical and mysterious client or customer will find the site among the mass of over six billion other websites indexed in Google alone.

There are two reasons for this poor search engine optimization misconception.

The first, is assuming local clients and customers do not use the Internet to find vendors, suppliers, manufacturers, or retail companies to do business with. This is what I call ostrich marketing. Basically the person who says this is burying his or her head in the dirt and pretending that reality is limited to what they can see at that moment. Since the 'ostrich' business owner or decision-maker might not be familiar with search engine optimization themselves, they assume the reality of local search engine marketing reflects their personal perception of reality.

The second reason is assuming that all local clients and customers land on your site by going online and specifically typing in your company name or your website address, which eliminates the need for any kind of search engine optimization. After all, if your traffic is driven by your advertising, your sales calls, and your off-line marketing activities then there's no need for local search engine optimization. Right?

This reasoning assumes that local clients and customers already know you're website address. And it assumes that the only people interested in your site are those who already have or know you're website address.

But this is not the case. Research shows that is much is 87% of businesses use the Internet for selecting new vendors and new suppliers. And as much as 43% of consumers use the Internet before making purchasing decisions. What percentage of these Internet surfers are direct referrers to sites and what percentage are referred by search engines varies.

What I can tell you is this, when business owners take time to evaluate and review the actual key words in use for the products and services that they offer, they are usually surprised by what they find. I good number of surfers are using the search engines and social networking sites and social bookmarking sites to find product and service suppliers to buy from. The numbers are usually much higher than the numbers of people who go direct to the sites by typing in the web address directly.

When a business owner puts up a website and does little or nothing to promote it through search engine optimization, a good number of local web surfers are overlooked. These potential clients and customers end up buying from the websites of your competitors, instead of yours.

This is why local search engine optimization is so important. You position your site to attract attention of local buyers who would not find your website any other way.

If you'd like to learn more about the power of local SEO, check out my blog post Local SEO Gets Sexy.

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Keywords: local search engine optimization, seo, local seo

5 Sure Fire Ways to Invite Competitors To Dominate You Online

Optimizing a site for local search marketing dominance can be an overwhelming task. Some companies imagine it can't be worth the effort of trying.

It isn't necessarily a matter of not caring. It's just that every company has staff to deal with, vendors to juggle and ‘alphabet soup agencies’ to keep happy. Finding time to research and grasp unique internet marketing opportunities can be more difficult to handle under these circumstances than most people are willing to deal with.

But doing nothing can be as dangerous as outright inviting competition. Here’s a quick little checklist to see if you're inviting competitors to dominate you online. See if you are thinking of making any of these mistakes:

1) Stay offline.

Many companies do not have a website at all. Peruse just about any Chamber of Commerce website and take a look for yourself. Many of the companies have website. But usually most do not.

This trend is the same with non-chamber businesses too.

After speaking with a number of companies in my own area, I estimate that only around 10% of all Central Coast companies have a website of their own.

This is sad. Every local merchant, retailer, professional and service provider should have a website to give directions, transact sales where possible, and develop business relations with existing and potential new clients and customers.

It amazes me that in this day and age when it’s reported that 87% of businesses use the internet to find new vendors and 43% of consumers are expected by the year 2012 to make purchases influenced by the internet –if not directly transacted online– that any company would choose to opt-out of this primarily free source of revenue.

Worse than simply walking away from free revenues, not building a site leaves doors wide open for local competitors and competitors outside your area to rank high for searches that should belong to businesses in your area. This is a compounded loss.

If you own a business and do not yet own a website, you are in essence ’stealing’ resources from your community. The money that local buyers are sending to competitors outside your community is money that is not being reinvested into your community.

As an SEO consultant, I'm excited when I see those kinds of opportunities. It allows me to increase my value in the eyes of my clients as we expand into additional communities where appropriate.

Before you say to yourself that this is a little thing, consider that perhaps 90% of businesses in your area are making this same mistake. That has to be a huge amount of money that is no longer available to strengthen your local economy. All because only a few companies appreciate how important it is for businesses to be online.

2) Buy into the myth that erroneously claims, ‘if you build it they will come’.

Of the companies that do have websites, the majority lack an online presence.

What I mean is the site exists online, but they are poorly positioned in search results. Few net 'surfers' ever find the sites when searching common expected keywords.

So instead of finding local sites, the surfers end up landing on pages that have nothing to do with any company in their community. Junk searches and out of area companies tend to show up first, when relevant local or niche industries should be reflected in search results.

Why is this happening?

Because many local companies that do have sites online have imagined that internet marketing is a case of 'set it and forget it'. That is, they think that just putting up a web page online or listing their web address in paid ads and on their business cards and stationary is going to drive massive amounts of traffic to the site.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

Creating a great looking website that no one can find while searching online is like building a major superstore and placing it in the middle of the Amazon Rain Forest — sure it’s there, but who can find it?

With over six billion competing pages listed in Google alone, there’s slim chance many people will find a site that is poorly positioned for critical and relevant keywords and phrases.

3) Hire a SEO ‘expert’ to spam search engines with useless content and dirty tricks.

Using illegal "black hat" SEO tactics and scams can and will get your site blackballed. Eventually.

All it takes to bring you down is one disgruntled employee or annoyed vendor or competitor to report you. Your site will get blacklisted. In some cases permanently.

Might as well shoot yourself in the foot at this point because now your site will never show up when people go online to buy. A better approach to search marketing is to operate with full integrity.

Never mislead visitors or try to trick the search engines. You’d only end up hurting yourself in the end.


4) Believe that SEO is limited to altering meta tags, title tags, and other on-page elements.

This is sad. I’ve lost track of the thousands of pages I’ve scanned in Google of so called SEO experts who charge huge four and five-figure fees to alter meta tags and other simple on page factors, while claiming that is what SEO is all about. It isn’t.

Trust me on this one. I’ve been online since before the world wide web existed. Back in the early days of online marketing, having tons of on-page words and phrases was the key to fast SEO ranking advantage.

But over the past four or five years the search engines have gotten smarter. Way smarter.

The SEs know spammers falsify meta tags and other on page factors. That is why the major search engines ignore keyword meta tags alone. Instead, the search engines’ algorithms focus on other relevant data to build search results.

Spamming your site with fake content doesn’t cut it. More is required. Much more.


5) Spend $10,000 a month for ‘guaranteed’ 1st page results in Google.

That lie is a scam! No one can guarantee #1 position on Google. But don’t take my word on it… here’s what Google says about guaranteeing 1st page results:

"Beware of SEOs that claim to guarantee rankings, allege a "special relationship" with Google, or advertise a "priority submit" to Google. There is no priority submit for Google. In fact, the only way to submit a site to Google directly is through our Add URL page or by submitting a Sitemap and you can do this yourself at no cost whatsoever."

Source: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35291

So what are these ‘guaranteed’ companies guaranteeing?

Non-competitive and low competition phrases, like your own company name. This is a no-brainer. Anyone who owns the ‘official’ site for a company should rank relatively high on Google very easily for that name. After all, there is only one ‘official’ site for anything and Google wants to provide the highest user value possible.

That usually includes first of all delivering up the official sites for all relevant searches. This doesn’t cost $10k to accomplish. In fact it’s usually free and is automatic. Don’t fall for the scam.

Ok. That's the checklist. If you feel your site isn't optimized for achieving highest local rankings possible, take heart. You’re company probably won't go belly up because of it.

You simply will be missing opportunities to increase sales and to develop better relationships with current and future clients and customers that your competitors just might snatch up. You will be inviting competitors to dominate you online.

I can't imagine anyone would want that. Check out my local SEO article to learn of successful SEO principles, uncover why local SEO is important, and learn why having a site online isn’t enough for competing in today's economy.

9 Remarkable Ways to Recession-Proof Your Business

Nearly every company wants to make more money.

Or at the very least gain the peace of mind that the money they are already earning will continue coming in predictably, like clockwork.

But few people really have the time to make their marketing more effective....get better results....convert more leads....make more sales....and increase profits in the minimum time possible.

Basically, force every marketing dollar work harder - to do the job of 2 or 3 or 5 or 10 dollars. In fact, of all the companies I've advised over the years, only one came even close to realizing their full marketing and profit potential. On paper.

Even this client, as admirable as her efforts were, failed to reach true profit potential not because of a lack of knowledge, but because something always seemed to get in the way. Employee issues. Wasted dollars on image ads. And life in general just seemed to keep her off balance a little too much to really bear down and focus on systematic marketing programs.

Her dream of taking the company to new heights never materialized. The perils of focusing on working in her business instead of building her business eventually forced her out of business.

You may be in the same boat. Perhaps you're seeing lukewarm results. You aren't getting the number of qualified leads you need. You aren't increasing your customer base as quickly as you'd like. Or not at all. Sales are in a holding pattern. And you know you aren't generating the kind of profits you really need to keep your business healthy.

Well, it doesn't have to be that way.

Getting a handle on marketing an established company is far easier than most people ever imagine. It does take effort. But it isn't rocket science.

Usually there are just a few factors that are limiting profits. Fortunately there are 9 simple, inexpensive, powerful steps any company can take to leverage their marketing.

To make each of marketing dollar work as hard as possible to increase your effectiveness, boost your profits, and cut your expenses.

I've published a white paper called 9 Remarkable Ways to Recession-Proof Your Business. The white paper is free. Simple go to my main marketing blog and get a copy of the report.

Then you will know the exact nine steps needed to increase sales and recession-proof your business.

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Do Yellow Pages Still Work?

Many people no longer use the Yellow Pages as actively as ten years ago, or even five years ago for that matter. Why? Because other media are taking market share away from the Yellow Pages.

Of all the competing media, the internet has had the most adverse affect on the effectiveness of advertising in the Yellow Pages.

Despite the huge exodus of shoppers abandoning the Yellow Pages, the directories continue increasing rates year after year. That's like gas companies charging higher and higher rates for gas and at the same time only giving only half a gallon or worse, just a measly pint for more than the cost of a gallon.

Here's the thing though...

Though fewer people now 'let their fingers do the walking' in the yellow pages, ad agents still claim paying for ads created by the reps is a good value.

Uhm... no.

After years of tossing money down the drain wondering if it will ever come back, many former Yellow Pages loyalists have chosen to "opt out" of advertising in the Yellow Pages altogether. For them, the ads just aren't paying back what they are costing.

And for advertisers still wondering if they should spend money on yellow pages or not to attract more clients and customers, the confidence that that big annual fee will pay off just isn't there. Too many people drop their yellow pages straight into the recycle bin soon as the directories are dropped off on their doorsteps.

The family of a close friend owns a restaurant. They have never paid for ads --in any media-- in their 25+ year history. Now the economy has gotten crazy they are asking should they give the yellow pages a go...pay that huge monthly fee.

Well, shrinking users isn't the only reason our friends family should consider whether there's potential for getting a positive return on their investment. A second big problem is competition here is fierce. More fierce than any other kind of advertising or marketing. Potential customers see the ads of advertisers at the same time the potential customers see competing ads -- all on the same page.

So succeeding in the yellow pages has two requirements.

First, and foremost, your potential customers must actually use the yellow pages to search for what you sell. Really, what's the point of paying that fee if no one who matters ever sees the ad. And don't give me any crap about 'branding'. You can't brand your business if no one sees your marketing message. You may as well flush that 'investment' down the toilet. The end result will be the same.

No matter what ad agents claim, not everyone uses the yellow page directories. A truth that's being overlooked is that an entire generation of teenagers and young 20-somethings don't have a clue about using the yellow pages to find vendors, suppliers, or retailers. That entire generation is blind to the yellow pages. That is just one of many groups that primarily avoids using the yellow pages at all, in favor of using other media. Like the internet.

If your market does use the yellow pages to search for what you sell, the second requirement for success is that your ad must actually be an ad. Not an oversized glorified business card.

The greatest advertising "sin" committed in the Yellow Pages is a form of advertising incest. Basically all the ads designed by the directories are created 'cut and paste' one from another using a common template. There's no variation other than name, rank, and serial number. And just like real incest, these ads get dumber and dumber more useless as they continue to reproduce.

For proof just look at the ads in any Yellow Pages directory. They all have name, phone number, maybe a picture of the staff or owner, some lame 'touchy feely' slogan that anyone else can also claim. What should be an effective and competitive ad is reduced to nothing more than an oversized, ineffective business card.

Whether you, like my friend and his family, are considering advertising in the directories, or are already advertising in the directories, or are looking to earn a living writing better ads for people who advertise in the directories you must recognize that the key to succeeding with yellow pages is to design ads that stand out and appeal and catch the dialing fingers of the millions of people who still let their fingers do the walking through the yellow pages to find what you or your clients sell or provide.

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Andre Bell is a market researcher and direct response copywriter at www.YellowPagesPain.com, a complimentary 130-page Yellow Pages Advertising ebook is available for a limited time at www.YellowPagesPain.com/free-guide/

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Santa Maria Business Consultant

I've been accused of spending too much time helping national and international businesses, and not enough time helping local businesses.

So yesterday I launched a new website to specifically show my support for local businesses seeking a Santa Maria Business Consultant.

The new site is www.SantaMariaBusinessConsultants.com/ .

Hopefully local Central Coast companies seeking marketing assistance will now realize my support and dedication to help our own Santa Maria Valley businesses and surrounding Central Coast communities.

Thanks for coming by...

Here's the purpose of my blog...

...to help you increase your sales, attract new clients, and sell more to your existing clients using nothing more than words--guaranteed.

Here are a few helpful resources that you may be looking for:

• Free online marketing course: http://www.andrebell.com/marketing-course.html
• Recommended copywriting resources: http://www.andrebell.com/recommended.html
• A list of services that I offer: http://www.andrebell.com/services.html
• My home page: http://www.andrebell.com/
• And a link to contact me: http://www.andrebell.com/contact/

If you are looking for a direct response marketing resources not covered by any of the above items please just ask. Maybe others will benefit from your question too. If I can find a resource for you I will post an answer here in my blog or email you directly.

Thanks again for stopping by.

Andre Bell
www.AndreBell.com

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