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It’s our birthday, but we want to give you the presents. 1&1 could not think of a better way to celebrate it’s 20th anniversary than to reward it’s loyal customers and affiliates with the launch of a huge prize giveaway! This eNews will tell you what and how you can win big in this contest. If that’s not reason enough to read our March eNews, keep reading to find out more about this month’s Special Offers, our brand new Ad Creatives and Secrets To Success, PLUS free affiliate bonuses you might not have seen. You also don’t want to miss our spotlight article: “The Unspoken Secrets of True Web Traffic Success.” It is the first of a 3 part series. This eNews is full of goodies. So take 5 minutes and read on. You may be on a Jamaican beach in a few months, or watching a new big screen TV and thanking us for this email. Reminder: missed last month's issue? Click here. |
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Yes, it’s time for our annual giant Affiliate sales competition! It’s easy to participate and every affiliate who refers at least 10 new hosting customers has a chance to win big. As a 1&1 customer, you already have an affiliate tracking link you can start promoting –so don’t wait – get started today. A trip to Jamaica, a big screen TV, a laptop, and an iPhone are just a few of the many prizes you can win just by promoting your 1&1 affiliate link! Did we mention you can also earn up to $300 per sale even if you don’t win the competition? You can visit our Contest Page for all the pertinent details including a full list of prizes and official rules. If you still have any questions or just want to tell us how excited you are about this amazing contest drop us a line at emarketing@1and1.com Here’s how YOU could win our trip to Jamaica Any 1&1 Affiliate who makes 10 commissionable sales through their affiliate link in the three months from March 1, 2008 to May 31, 2008 will earn an entry for the contest. Each subsequent 10 commissionable sales made in that time span will earn additional entries. There is no limit to how many entries an affiliate can earn. The more hosting customers you refer, the better chance you have to win! But even if you can only refer 10 new hosting customers – you still could win the Grand Prize trip to Jamaica! If you haven’t started to promote your 1&1 affiliate
link, you're really missing out. With huge commissions and great
prizes being given away there is no better time to be a 1&1 Affiliate.
NEW! “Tell A Friend” Email function Added to 1&1 Control Panel The 1&1 Affiliate program has a whole new way for you to earn! We have added a easy-to-use “tell a friend” email script to your 1&1 Control Panel. Just go to our special affiliate Tell A Friend page in your 1&1 Control Panel. Fill in the email address of the person(s) you would like to refer to 1&1. Make any optional edits you’d like to the message we have provided and then click OK. It’s that simple. Your affiliate link is embedded in the email so any hosting purchase your referral makes though that link earns you a commission! You can refer up to three people at a time and there is no limit to how much you can earn. Start referring your friends today!
1&1 March Special Offers HOSTING: Now you can get Microsoft or Linux hosting that is Free for the first 3 months. This is a great offer to promote to your website visitors who are looking for a reliable solution to build or expand a web presence. The Home Hosting Package is already a top-seller, so combined with this great offer you will be able to convert even more of your referrals – and earn an easy $20 commission.
VPS SERVERS: We are offering the first 3 months Free on our VPS III package. VPS hosting is perfect for people who want to grow beyond shared hosting. 1&1 VPS hosting is both powerful and inexpensive and if you help us sell a VPS hosting account, you can earn $80! For a full list of our commissions please review our affiliate commission table.
SERVERS: We
are offering a $1 set-up fee and 3 months Free on our Business II
Dedicated Server hosting. This is a strong offer on our world-class
servers, not to mention, you could earn between $80 and $300 commissions
depending on what specific Server your referrals buy.
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The Unspoken Secrets of True Web Traffic Success – PART
1 Today you’re going to learn 3 things about web traffic no one else will dare tell you. These are the real secrets of web marketing…the 3 things that, if you learn and apply them to everything you do, they’ll virtually guarantee your success online. No fluff, no marketing mumbo-jumbo…just straight-talk about what it really takes to get more traffic to your site and make more money as a 1&1 affiliate. Here you go… Unspoken Traffic Secret #1 - Never ever (ever!) waste your time “Creating Traffic”. If you want to get more traffic, never fall into the trap of trying to create it yourself. Instead simply figure out where the traffic already is, tap into it, and siphon their most profitable customer back to your own website and on to your email list. Why? Because it’s fast, easy and extremely profitable How Fast & Profitable? I make over $100K every year from this one tactic alone. But notice I said “customers”…not visitors. It’s a small but important distinction. If you are a web-marketing mastermind who’s supremely adept at the dark art of online sales conversion, then go for “visitors”. But for the rest of us, simply pluck the sugar sweet, low-hanging online fruit that proven customers truly are. In fact, I’d trade 100 visitors for 1 happy customer. Here are 3 quick and easy ways you can apply this lesson to your own marketing: Create a bonus for another product – Customers love bonuses because they get more value when they make a purchase. Merchants love bonuses because it improves their conversion rate. And you’ll love bonuses because they give you easy, profitable access to proven customers. Simple write an eBook or create a software tool that adds value to someone else’s product and let them give it to all their customers for free. This could be a simple 7-10 page PDF document covering a topic the original product missed, or even be as simple as a spreadsheet that helps buyers implement lessons from the product. A classic example of this tactic is Trafficology’s Web Traffic Explosion course that is offered as a bonus to Mark Joyner’s Best-Selling Book Simpleology… see it live here: http://www.Trafficology.com/trafficexplosion. Tap Into Unused Virtual Real-Estate – There are dozens of places on every website that almost every web marketer neglects…places that, if you know where they are, you can tap into and drive their customers back to your own site. The classic example is the “Thank You Page”. This is the page that appears after someone joins your email list or purchases a product. Most sites simply say “Thank You” or provide a few details about the product or service just purchased. This is a missed opportunity. Instead if the owner of the site simply placed a recommendation for another product or service (such as 1&1) then they’ll instantly create a massive amount of additional revenue with absolutely no extra cost – pure profit! Another chunk of virtual real estate almost every web marketer neglects is their auto-responder series…especially their new customer autoresponder. Typically most merchants send just 1 (or at most 2) emails to people who’ve just purchased a product. These messages typically thank buyers for their purchase…and unfortunately that’s it. Merchants could make an enormous amount of extra profits per customer if they just spent a few extra hours writing up a series of emails to be sent out over time that teaches buyers how to properly use the product, building up a deeper relationship with each customers and recommending other products or services customers would also be interested in – but the fact is, very few do. So to make more money, first of all tighten up your own marketing, identify all the unused virtual real estate on your site and develop a strategy to maximize the revenue from them (such as recommending 1&1). Secondly, look at other popular sites in your niche and at the sites of other marketers you know. Reach out to them and help them better monetize their own virtual real estate. For example, you could offer to improve their welcome email series in exchange for using your 1&1 affiliate link in the messages. Or you could offer a bonus to drive customers back to your own email list and then send them multiple recommendations for 1&1. Contribute Content to Membership sites, Blogs, Magazines and Newsletters – Businesses with recurring publications like Membership Sites, Blogs, Magazines and Print Newsletters are always looking for great content to publish. A quick, profitable way for you to take advantage of this is by writing high-quality how-to articles and submitting them for publication. For example, you could write an article about how to pick the best web hosting company and then recommend 1&1 using your affiliate link. If your article is well written and a good match for the publications audience then they’ll be glad to publish it for you…in fact some publications (like Trafficology.com) will even pay for your article. There you go…3 great ways you can immediately tap into already
existing sources of traffic, siphon it over to your own site and
make even more 1&1 affiliate commissions. Unspoken Traffic Secret #2 - If you’re not feelin’ it, your failing Passion is such as huge part of web marketing that, if you don’t absolutely love what you’re doing, then you’re doing something wrong. The bottom line is, there are fun ways to build a web business and then there’s work. If you’re working and you’re struggling, then you need to find a different way to do it. Even the most stubborn, persistent person in the world can only
grind it out for so long. There are too many fun, exciting and rewarding opportunities online
to waste your time toiling away doing something you hate. There
are dozens of fun and free ways to drive traffic to your site (which
I’ll reveal next month) so figure out which ones you love and
let your passion and vision energize your life and super-charge your
affiliate sales. Unspoken Traffic Secret #3: It’s all about the “O” I call it “The Great Web Traffic Debate: Creation vs. Conversion”. Over the last 10 years fellow Trafficology members and top web marketers have weighted in on what is more important…getting people to your site or turning the browsers on your site into buyers. It really is a “chick and the egg” conundrum. And for nearly a decade I’ve ruled there are just two-sides to the same coin…to be profitable, you can’t have one without the other. But…one realization completely changed my POV: Conversion actually creates Traffic. What? Yes, it’s hard to believe until you see it…but it’s true. The process of optimizing your conversion rate and lifetime customer value actually creates new sources of traffic many people have never even heard of. In fact, if you own a highly optimized site with a proven conversion and monetization process, then the people in your niche who already have all the traffic will find you. Now…obviously you need to have a little traffic at first in order to optimize your site. But that’s easily generated via Pay-Per-Click or SEO. And I’m not saying you should spend your whole life trying to build the ultimate conversion machine. But if you’re sitting there asking yourself, should I spend more time on driving more traffic to my site or on improving the conversion rate, then to me the answer is obvious…. Figure out how to get more visitors to opt-in, build a stronger bond with your list, get more people to buy front end products…and get current customers to buy again. Your list of current customers is often one of the most overlooked source of high quality, highly profitable traffic. By optimizing both your front and backend sales processes you’ll have significantly more buyers from the traffic you already have…and each one will put substantially more money in your pocket. So there you go…the 3 keys to Web Marketing Success that you’ll never hear anyone say out-loud (well 2 out of 3 anyways). If you take these guiding principles and apply them to everything you do, you’ll soon be living the coveted “Internet Lifestyle” too. Enjoy!
Dearl Miller PS: Keep your eyes out for the next issue of the 1&1 Affiliate Newsletter, where I’ll share an in-depth lesson on how to apply Unspoken Web Traffic Secret #2 and reveal a Dozen Fun and Free Ways to Create Even More Web Traffic Now! ============================================================
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One of the easiest ‘set it and forget it’ things you
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tag that expresses your knowledge of and experience with 1&1.
Just make sure to include your affiliate link! Below is a sample
email signature you can place in your outgoing emails to friend,
family and other contacts. Remember to replace http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=xxxxxxx with your own actual affiliate link! Regards, Your Name Phone: 123-456-6789 | Fax: 123-456-6789 | www.yoursite.com We trust 1&1 Internet. Inc. for all our hosting and e-mail needs. Visit http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=xxxxxxx to see why!
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We hope you enjoyed our March Affiliate eNews. Remember, just 10 hosting sales, and you could be the lucky winner of our great prizes. The feedback we have received has been very encouraging – keep it coming. Please bookmark this month's eNews, return often, and tell others about our program services and the value it creates for you. Our 1&1 affiliate team is dedicated to helping you succeed in you affiliate endeavors, no matter how big or small. Our affiliate managers have a wealth of experience and are happy to share it with you so feel free to contact us at emarketing@1and1.com Sincerely, Joshua, Jesse, Benjamin and the 1&1 Internet Team.1&1 Internet Inc. 701 Lee Road Suite 300 Chesterbrook, PA 19087 |
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