If you're an affiliate marketer then you understand the fact that the more products you have to promote, the better commission cheques you're going to receive at the end of every month.

If you're used to promoting one or two programs at a time, it's time for you to explore a new option which will allows you to increase your profits more than you ever thought possible.

The world of internet commerce has created more opportunities for affiliate marketers than any other program ever has - the opportunity to have an entire online storefront, full of products you can make commissions off of, all based in whatever niche you choose!

Plus, there are so many tools to automate the whole process of setting up e-commerce stores. Below, you'll find me recommending one of them which I have personally tested. This one is so easy to use that even beginners can set up online stores in an instant.

Building Your Own eCommerce Online Store

Having your own online store is actually much simpler than most people think. A way to build an affiliate ecommerce store is by using datafeeds. Datafeeds make it possible to display products from one or more merchants in the same web site.

Datafeeds are similar to RSS feeds used by blogs - an ecommerce store set up by a traditional offline business will place descriptions, pictures, and prices of their products into these feeds, and then affiliate marketers can incorporate these feeds into their own store and make a commission off of each individual product sold.

You can either build your own online store (which eats up a lot of your time, believe me - I've been doing it manually for quite a while now…), or you can utilize the services of an ecommerce solutions company like Datafeedr who will walk you through all the steps and support you as you get your online presence built.

Using a tool like Datafeedr takes out all the hassles of having to manipulate the original raw Datafeed yourself. To be honest, I hate doing that because it's so easy to mess things up. And that's true even if you're having quite some experience already since most of us are still using MS Excel to clean the datafeed from superfluous rows and entries.

Which affiliate networks are supported?

Currently, they have: CJ.com, Shareasale.com and Linkshare.com (the "big 3") plus Clickbank, Netshops and Bridalux.

I recommend using the services of an ecommerce solutions company when building your online store, simply because they already have put in the ground work to provide the datafeeds in a usable way.

Datafeeds are the lifeblood of an online store, as they can be used to automatically add new products for you to promote on your site. Adding products manually to your online store is certainly possible, but it is a very time consuming process.

Datafeeds take all the guesswork out of adding new products to your site, making it easier for you to make better profits with a wider selection to offer your visitors. With Datafeedr, you can automate the whole process and even have the products drip feed into your online store.

How is this online tool being used?

You can use Datafeedr on simple Wordpress blogs by installing their proprietary plugin which gives you access to their system. Everything can be set up very quickly and there are millions of different products that you can choose from for your online store. They are ready to help you get your web site up and running in no time!

The only requirements are that you need to be accepted into the individual network as a publisher and you also need to be accepted by the merchant who is providing the details for his products in order to show their products on your site. But there are several merchants with datafeeds available which have "auto accept" for affiliate signups activated (I know this from personal experience on Shareasale) so it's not difficult to find merchants you can promote.

Not all the merchants from the networks have been made available, yet, (there are over a thousand) but they're working on it. For now, they've been focusing on the ones with the best EPC (earnings per click).

Watch the video at their site (it's what made me understand everything in a way that I wanted to sign up straight away because I know how many hours it will save me setting up niche affiliate stores) and see how easy it is to set up your own affiliate data feed stores.

Ah, and by the way, you're not limited to a specific number of stores you can set up. Set up as many as you want…!

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You've probably noticed that I am not promoting a lot of the big "hyped up" launches anymore….

There is a good reason for it: Most of it is just stuff that has been published many times over, under different names and with some slightly different features.

After more than 5 years of being a full time Internet marketer, I have seen it all and as I said before, I am getting tired of it. Instead of using the knowledge to sell products in niches, most are just selling crap to confused IM newbies since they can't differentiate between a good or a bad product.

I want to offer something that will help you to build your business without having to go through dozens of ebooks or courses - I have published one (my Revenue Blueprint at http://www.revenueblueprint.com/ ) myself and that is enough.

If you've been following the steps explained in there, you're well on your way to making a full time income… (but most people are having problems in taking Massive Action and that's why they're not reaching success or why they are taking much longer than necessary!)

Since most people are still attracted to the "make money online" niche, I want to tell you that it's not easy to get into the inner circle of gurus who are rubbing shoulders and promoting each other's stuff on a weekly basis.

And personally, I don't want that anymore.

My goals have changed. While in the early days, it was one of my biggest goals to get into this "inner circle" as well, I now rather like to focus on my niche markets and on teaching Internet marketing to a German audience.

(although there's still a long way to go since I have been really lazy with regards to building a German list but most of the "basic stuff" is still "revolutionary" here)

It's a lot more satisfying to be DOING the things that other marketers are only teaching about without having any prior practical success with niche marketing.

But this email is not about me.

My goal is to make YOUR life easier by not giving you tons of print materials or 2 dozen DVDs in a package but by giving you basically an (affiliate) businesses in a box with my Niche Content Websites.

I figured that probably not everyone wants to be committed to monthly membership payments and that's why I decided to open my Unique Niche Content Websites Vault to everyone without them having to be a member.

Moreover, I've also left the video section of the vault unsecured. Meaning, once you have chosen one of my unique websites, you can see what to do with the sites AND how to promote them.

But monthly paying members still have an advantage: Basic Members are getting 2 shared websites which are unique to my site at a ridiculous price.

And Elite Members get everything done for them. They don't have to register a domain, they don't have to look for a reliable hosting company and they don't have to edit or upload the sites.

Last but not least, if you were interested in one of my shared sites which I've personally produced prior to May, I now added them to an archive from where you can get them at 50% off! Not only that but because I don't want to put dozens of my unique websites into the archive by the end of the month, I decided to give a 50% discount coupon on them, too!

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YOUR ACCESS LINKS & DISCOUNT COUPONS
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Meaning, at both links, you'll be saving 50% off the price!

1.) UNIQUE CONTENT WEBSITES VAULT (incl. access to the video area):

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GET 50% OFF with the following coupon code: ncw573w333

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2.) ARCHIVE OF EARLIER (2008) WEBSITES:

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Get 50% OFF with the following coupon code: ncw454v599

Both coupons will be valid until May 31. If you make a purchase after this date, you'll have to pay the price in full.

I have added preview pictures to both sections now so it's a bit easier to make a choice between the sites.

==> If you have already purchased one of the unique websites at full price, please contact me via my helpdesk (see below for URL) and you'll get A SECOND WEBSITE free of charge! Just let me know which one you want and paste your receipt for your first purchase in there.

And if you want one of the monthly options, you can still go to: http://www.nichecontentwebsites.com/ and sign up from there.

That's it for today.

I hope, this has been great news. Please also watch out for tomorrow's email because I want to give you free access to an online course on Internet marketing. More about that later…

To Your Success,

Detlev Reimer

Need to contact me? Visit:
http://www.ethicalinternetmarketer.com/helpdesk

Tags: adsense, affiliate, ebook, internet marketing, websites

Christmas is only days away. The new year is around the corner…

It's time for me to decide where my business will be heading to in 2008. I want to do my best to bring you products and services which you really want and need.

I can only do this with your feedback…

Therefore, I've created a little survey with mainly multiple choice answers which won't take you very long to complete (maybe 5-8 minutes).

Please, you will help me enormously if you're taking it and it will benefit yourself as well:

http://viralurl.com/visitus/2008-Business-Survey

And just in case you aren't in the right Christmas mood yet, I want to give you links to 2 videos which feature my all time favorite Christmas pop songs:

Do they know it's Christmas? - Band Aid:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jEnTSQStGE

Last Christmas - Wham:
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This is my last email to you before Christmas…

I wish you: "A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!"

Wanna have a good laugh…? Let's ROCK IT:

==> http://www.myvideo.de/watch/2932532

All the best for 2008,

Detlev Reimer

P.S.: Rich Schefren just released his "Business Acceleration" Home Study Course. If you've put aside some money for business investments then now is the time to spend it (it's tax deductible for 2007!).

Rich simply is the master of Business and Internet marketing strategies and his results speak for themselves.

Get prepared to compete with the "big guys" in Internet marketing in 2008 - Get a copy of Rich Schefren's Business Acceleration Program:

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P.P.S.: Dirk's "Crazy Christmas Event" will be closing its' doors on Monday. If you haven't picked up your personal best deals of 2007, it's your last chance to do so here:

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Last but not least, the Niche Video Site Builder is selling like hot cakes… Will you miss out or have you gotten your copy already? It's available here:

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It will make a good Christmas gift for yourself )

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Tags: adsense, internet marketing

What I am about to show you is not just Internet marketing related… It's about everything you do in life that has an importance for you. When you're not giving everything you have inside of you, you probably won't find the success you deserve. You are capable of achieving great things in life. Just watch the video, it is truly an inspiration for what is possible if you want something with all of your heart:

Think of this video the next time you're about to give up on your Internet marketing ventures. If one way doesn't cut it for you, try the next one. But never, never give up if making money online is what you're dreaming of. It might take a little longer but if you don't give up, you will get there - guaranteed!

Tags: adsense, internet marketing

First of all, I guess, the expression "datafeed" is not known to everyone and therefore, I will try to give you a short explanation:

Usually, a datafeed is the whole inventory of a merchant store all written into one .txt file. It has URL's, product images, categories, prices and descriptions included and the different sections are separated from each other. The links will have a generic affiliate
expression included like aid=XXXXX. And your job as an affiliate is to replace that XXXXX with your affiliate ID.

Some datafeeds are generated with your affiliate ID already included, though. This is dependent on the merchant or the network you're using.

What datafeed formats are there?

The most common formats are pipe delimited (|), .csv (comma separated values) and tab delimited ( - a big space in between the different areas). In order to make changes to such a file, the best thing would be to open it in MS Excel. Because Excel will be able to use the separators and actually display the content in a neat way, in lines and rows so it will make sense when you're looking at it.

What software do you need?

There are several tools available on the market which can bring your datafeed to life. In combination with a Wordpress blog, you can automate the posting to your website. Of course, you'll need to use a datafeed which has enough products in it in order to have content for a few days or weeks.

One of these tools is called Affiliate Feed Generator by Michelle Timothy and it's the one I'm personally using whenever I am putting that kind of sites online. This software will take the raw text file and convert it into a file which you can use in combination with RSS2Blog (having the "break" tags included already). But that's not all: It will also produce a RSS file for you with an .XML ending.

Meaning, you can upload this XML file to your server, fire up any tool which can post entries from RSS feeds to a blog and you're set. You've just automated a huge part of the content creation and posting process. You still have to add articles and reviews and that kind of content, too, in order not to be seen as a "thin affiliate" (Someone who doesn't bring any additional value to their product promotions e.g. by just copying and pasting the ads the merchant provides. These ads can then be found on hundreds of websites…).

Why should you care about datafeeds?

Well, it's one of the easiest way of posting content to your site on a regular basis. Especially if you're using blogs, the whole process can be automated. If you combine datafeeds with posting regular articles, you will have your income on autopilot.

That's because every product that gets posted there has the potential to make you money as your affiliate link is always included. Moreover, by posting it in between your real content, it acts as additional content (most of the times, the product descriptions are long enough to count as real content) - thus making your content more "unique" in the eyes of the search engines.

Your content will be seen as unique as soon as you have added at least 25% of different content to your HTML page. In other words, as soon as you're adding additional material like pictures, videos and additional text and you're not just posting the same article like everyone else, you will have an advantage in the search engines.

So if you're using a combination of Article Builder to make e.g. your private label articles unique AND you're also adding datafeeds to the mix, you can bet that you will have no problems with your content being seen as duplicate content even if you're using the same articles as everyone else!

Where can you get datafeeds?

You can either get them directly from the merchant you want to affiliate with (you probably have to ask them) or you join an affiliate network like Commission Junction (CJ.com) and Shareasale (Shareasale.com). The difference between these 2 networks is that Commission Junction wants you to pay a fee (around $200) to use their datafeeds while datafeeds on Shareasale are free.

Personally, I love the Shareasale network (as it is very easy to navigate and they are listing all the merchants which are offering datafeeds). So if you want to find merchants with datafeeds, you just go to the section "Find/Join merchants" in your Shareasale admin area. Next, you click on the link "View those with datafeeds". And last but not least, you click on "Join program" to the right of the merchant's listing.

Conclusion:

If you want to promote more than just Clickbank products, using datafeeds is a good alternative. Of course, you'll have to choose merchants which have a high payout on physical goods (a minimum of 5% on high priced goods) so it really is worth your time. Just compare some of the merchants which are in the same categories and you will get a feel for this.

And the additional content perspective should not be neglected, either. In times of everyone screaming "duplicate content", it can be a good idea to differentiate yourself from others by adding something useful to your pages. Even if these are just product descriptions - but you will gain keyword density and probably get ranked for keywords that you never knew would bring you visitors. Just check your web stats and you
will see what I mean…

Tags: adsense, affiliate, clickbank, search engines, tags, websites