The ListBuilding Club Affiliate Blog

You do my friend, especially if you want to be successful as an LBC affiliate.

You will need a website for your affiliate marketing. If you are doing article marketing your website will be included in your bio box. If you want to blog to drive traffic you’ll need a site to host the blog. And you should always be building your list, so you will need to have an opt-in form on your site so you are able to collect names and email addresses.

Now that you understand why you’ll need a site let’s talk about Hosting which is where your site and web pages live. It is the physical equivalent of a bookcase stocked with books. Your website and pages are filed on the server and are accessed by your visitors.

Many people make the mistake of using some type of free service to host their web pages in the beginning. This is a mistake as those free services will shut down your account if you use it for sales and marketing purposes. Free blog sites such as Blogger are intended for peer to peer recreational use, not businesses.

Never fear, you can go out and buy your own hosting for less than $10 a month. We strongly recommend Hostgator to new and established online marketers. They are rock solid, and very reliable. We here at Overcome Everything have had nothing but good experiences with them.

We have step by step video trainings inside the LBC that explain in detail how to buy your domain, setup hosting and get your site up and running. We’ll give you a quick rundown here though so you can get going if your not a member of the LBC. You can also access some FREE videos explaining these steps here.

Start by going to www.godaddy.com and buying your domain, since you are interested in promoting the Listbuilding Club get something that can be associated with the LBC, try to pick a domain name that has lbc or listbuildingclub in it. Get creative.

Next head on over to www.hostgator.com and get yourself some hosting. If you just have one domain then you can get going with the Hatchling Plan. It’s under $10 right now. If you use the promo code HOSTGATOR it will get you your first month free.

Now you are ready to rock! With your own domain and hosting you are free to sell and promote as much as you want. You can install a blog on your domain and post to it every day, driving customers to the Listbuilding Club through your affiliate link. You don’t have to worry about a shopping cart, sales pages, billing or anything like that. It’s the beauty of being an affiliate! You send the customers and get paid. Just like that.

Tellman Knudson got his start in Internet Marketing as an affiliate, and he pulled in over $800,000 his first year. Tellman strongly recommends new comers to the online world start as affiliate marketers. You can make great money doing it, and it also gives you the chance to see how others run their businesses. Becoming an affiliate is the quickest way to begin generating income.

What about more advanced hosting? Something that you could build a whole business around, and that can take a ton of traffic? You can use Hostgator for bigger sites, many people do.

Another option that is popular with larger sites is a company called Rackspace. We use them, and they are very robust and have excellent customer and tech support. Rackspace can be a good option if you are growing rapidly and need the capability to handle large amounts of traffic, such as a launch.

But if you are just starting out Hostgator will work perfectly.

If any of the above information sounds confusing or complicated to you don’t worry. We’ve put together a step by step system to guide you through the process at www.listbuilding.com. If you are already a member of the Listbuilding Club then you have access to Brian’s videos that explain each of these steps in detail. Login and watch them today.

What about those of you that already have hosting with another company? Should you switch? Not necessarily, if it’s working for you then stick with it. We teach all our new students to use Hostgator, not because we are in any way affiliated with them, but because we know Hostgator rocks and we want our customers to use the best tools out there.

Ready to kick it into high gear? Head on over to the Listbuilding Club Affiliate Center. It’s packed with tons of FREE training, tools, videos and all kinds of tips to get you up and running quickly as an LBC affiliate. We look forward to sending you bigger and bigger commission checks!

Your affiliate mentors,
Pat Marcello and Victor Grosser

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Because if you understand redirects and how to use them it will benefit your business immensely.

Here at Overcome Everything we use redirects every day. From redirecting our affiliate links to affiliate pages, all the way to redirecting our own pages they are an important tool.

What I want to talk to you about is how you can use redirects in your affiliate marketing, specifically when you are promoting the Listbuilding Club. You see, a standard affiliate link is somewhat ugly, they often look like this: http://www.listbuilding.com?affID=youraffiliateID. If you are sending a broadcast to your list or including a link in the resource box of an article you DON”T want to use a link that looks like this.

Many people are hesitant to click on links that look like that, some know they are affiliate links and others don’t know what they are and it scares them. Still other people who are affiliate link savvy will sign up for the program you are promoting as an affiliate themself, then they will take your affiliate link and switch out the affiliate ID with theirs, and buy the program. It’s a devious way to get the commission for themselves on a product they purchased. This practice is commonly known as link theft.

There are two ways to use redirects to get around this. One way is to use a php redirect. For example you have a website, the address is www.yourdomain.com, and you want to promote the Listbuilding Club. All you need to do is create a directory on your site called /lbc (or something similar) the url will then look like this: www.yourdomain.com/lbc. With me so far?

Now all you need to do is put a redirect at www.yourdomain.com/lbc with your affiliate link as the redirect address. It’s much cleaner, and more people will click on that link. You can get the redirect code and instructions on how to use it here in the LBC affiliate center. Definitely check out all the resources in there. We put it together to help you get started making money promoting the LBC.

The second way to redirect your affiliate link is by buying a domain and forwarding that domain through your affiliate link. The process is simple, pick a domain that is relevant to what you are promoting. Buy that domain through a registrar, we use Godaddy. Then inside your account you will forward that domain to your affiliate link. It can take up to 24 hours to update across the web. Once you are able to type that domain you bought into your browser and end up on the page your affiliate link promotes you are all set. Just put that domain address in your emails, resources box or where ever you are promoting from and your all set!

Once again make sure to check out the Listbuilding Club Affiliate Center. It’s full of tools to help you succeed online!

All the best,

Your affiliate mentors Pat and Victor

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