FORGET EVERYTHING you’ve read about making money online…
•It’s not easy.
•You won’t become a millionaire over night.
•There are no “fully-automated” or “turn-key” systems
Unfortunately, people selling “get rich quick” products don’t want you to hear this. They want you to think that you can build your own “copy and paste” dot-com empire in just “5 minutes a day”.

It’s easier for these self-proclaimed gurus to sell HOPE-IN-A-BOX than it is to sell realistic expectations.

If you arrived at this site hoping to get rich quick or buy a magic success pill, I have bad news - I’m fresh out. But don’t worry… there are thousands of huckster’s online who are ready to take your money.

If you’re still reading this you’re more serious about making money than the guy who just hit the back button. If this is the case, and you understand that success requires time and hard work, then the Black Ink Project is exactly what you’re looking for.

You Can Succeed, But You Need to be Realistic
While it’s possible to make a substantial income as an affiliate, it’s unrealistic to think you can go from $0 to six-figure-success in minutes a day or from buying some automated money-making system.

Don’t get me wrong, some of these products are good, but most aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on. More time is invested in the product marketing and sales letter than the training material.

The fact is most of these gurus don’t care if you succeed, as long as you have enough money on your credit card to buy their latest product.

The Truth About Making Money Online
Based on my experience and observations, only a small percentage (less than 10%) of new affiliates ever go on to make any money. Even fewer go on to quit their jobs or become super affiliates.

There are a number of reasons new affiliates don’t make it. Here are few of the most common:

•Unrealistic expectations
•Too much time learning and not enough time doing - Most are anxious to learn, but few actually create and execute a well thought out plan.
•Failure to research markets and understand customers
•Lack of skills - You don’t have to be a graphic designer or have a degree in computer science, but a basic understanding of how to build and manage websites - or - knowing how to outsource goes a long way.
There’s no shortage of blogs, forums, or books to help you get started in this business. These learning materials serve as a great guide and reference, but without a step-by-step plan they’re not very useful.

The Best Way to Learn Affiliate Marketing
In order to become proficient in any skill you must first learn, then do, and repeat. This cycle of continuous improvement is what makes you successful.

Most resources and guides help you learn, but few show you exactly how to do.

Listen to this song in the context that you are serious in making money online.

I have listened to many professionals and attended seminar on sales letter writing and will be sharing 23 tips that will skyrocket your products or services you are promoting.

1. Use no more than 17 words in your headline.

2. Use a strong call for action on the PS and probably a link to your order button. It is a fact that your potential customers will spend between 3-7 seconds only on your site so you need to fully maximize their time.

3. Try to use a 360 days money back guarantee where possible. It will increase your conversion rate by 6% and reduce chargeback by 38%.

4. Use a favicon. This will create professional branding when they bookmark your page and separates you from amateur sites. For more information visit http://www.1stsitefree.com/howcani/favicon.htm

5. Use a yellow highlight background for your pre-background.

6. Use 20 point striking red Tahoma font for your headline. Remember to keep it less than 17 words. This will increase your conversion rate by 17%

7. For normal text, use 12point Aerial font. Will increase readership by 30%

8. Use a dropcap letter as this will increase your readership by 40%. This is widely used in novels and books. http://www.washington.edu/lst/help/documentation/word/img/dropcap.gif The ‘W’ is a dropcap letter for those who are not familiar with this.

9. Use headline in your testimonial boxes. This will increase conversion rate by 34%

10. Put your best testimonial below your PS, this will increase conversion by 19%

11. Always write and promote about benefit to the customers and not features of your products. For example you are selling SE Nuke, do not promote that it is able to bypass all captcha automatically but instead promote that you can save customers’ precious time and focus on more money making activities.

12. Use video testimonials instead of written text if possible. Video connects on a more personal level to your audience.

13. Use easy to read sub headlines throughout your copy. Do not write long essays and bore your audience. Create catchy, benefit driven headlines for your customers.

14. Insert your order link near testimonials. Sometimes you trigger the exact emotions to buy and they want to order immediately so spread out your order buttons to make things easier.

15. Use large yellow button that says ‘add to cart’ for your order button. Increases conversion by 14%

16. Insert money back guarantee below your order button.

17. Put a red dash form around your order button. Increases order up to 28%

18. Offer value bonuses and highlight them. Do not treat your customers as just cash cows, offer them value and spend time explaining what are the bonus values they are getting.

19. Change your pricing to end with the number 7. $19.97, $29.87. This is said to increase conversion by 17%

20. Use your digital signature below the headline, will increase conversion by 19%

21. Offer scarcity or scare tactic, ‘will be sold to 15 customers only’ or ‘price will be back to normal in 48 hours’ and honor them! Again this is the Internet, so cheat your customers and words will spread like wild fire that you are a big cheat.

22. Use dear friend throughout the sales letter. Supposedly to make the reader feel warmth.

23. Use good words such as ‘Discover’ instead of ‘Learn’. People associate learn with hard work.. Never use ‘that’ in your copy as this is the no.1 bad word. The 3 best words you can use will be ‘free’, ‘you’, and ‘your’. Pick up some ebooks or search for strong keywords to use for your sales letter.

I hope with these tips, you will see an increase in your opt in list or sales and all the best in your Internet Marketing.

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