It’s called RAPBank, after the payment system Rapid Action Profits.

One of the big advantages of using RAP as a payment processor is, that it’s possible to have your affiliates earn instant commissions.

It’s exactly these kind of instant paying products using Rapid Action Profits that are listed in this RAPBank affiliate directory.

So, if you want to promote other people’s products and receive instant commissions, check out this new affiliate directory.

After signing up, you can use a variety of affiliate links to send traffic to this great new affiliate directory (and that’s exactly what I do here). If that leads to a sale, you will earn an affiliate commission just as if you were sending your visitor to that product site directly. And it works for ANY product listed on RAPBank — not just the one you sent them to see!

But there’s more, much more!

Because RAPBank lets vendors using RAP integrate their sales pages directly into the affiliate directory using a free add-on. So, within minutes after installing the add-on at your RAP site, your products get listed in RAPBank. How is that for extra promotion?

You’re only allowed to register one domain name for free. You can add additional domain names though by buying them in pack of 5 at 5 dollars per name.

The affiliate directory is a membership site in Wordpress, integrated by another RAP add-on. It’s so new, that it’s a tad confusing as to what you should do first, so let me help you a bit here.
In the Dashboard, you’ll need to click on ‘Getting Started’. There they explain how to verify your PayPal account in order to get your affiliate link.
The download page for the FREE RAP Bank Vendor Add-on is: http://rapbank.com/vendor/

There is a need for instant commission affiliate products. Some people, for instance at the Warrior forum, tried to generate a huge list of this kind of affiliate programs, but it’s a lot of work to keep such a list updated. That’s exactly what this new affiliate directory does.

Some amazing marketers, product owners, and especially a great number of affiliates have found RAP Bank already. Some “BIG Name” marketers are not only joining, but promoting!
Right now the affiliate directory contains a 350+ products, yes… with 200+ in the queue, submitted for approval.

I hope the next step is a kind of index system, that shows affiliates which products sell well. Sort of like Gravity in the Clickbank Marketplace. That will give a great indication of which products to promote.

But this is a great addition to the existing affiliate directories. In my opinion, recurring commission affiliate programs are amongst the best to promote, but there also definitely is a need for instant commissions.
RAPBank provides an overview of them and all you need to promote them is your primary PayPal email address.

Check it out. Sign up at RAPBank. It’s free, doesn’t cost you a penny. And if you see an interesting program, either buy it, from which I receive a nice commission , or promote the program.
Affiliate marketing doesn’t come easier than this.

After signing up, let me know what you think.
Do you think RAPBank is a great affiliate directory?
Post your comments below.

Looking forward to see your comments.

Regards,
Case

This is a post from Affordable Internet Marketing, http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com by Case Stevens.

RAPBank, Affiliate Directory for Instant Commissions

There have been a few moments that I needed to know how to fix a laptop.

At some point, mine had hiccups and they finally resulted in the famous blue screen of death.

To make it worse, I was traveling at that time, so I wasn’t able to take it to the repair shop.

I didn’t know at that time, but it wouldn’t have mattered.

You see, many shops offer PC repair services, but not very many are covering laptops. They just take it from you and send it to the manufacturer’s repair service.

Then you have to wait for a message from them, telling you what’s wrong and you then have to decide whether or not having your laptop repaired. That procedure took weeks in my cases.

The reason for that, as they told me, is that laptops are manufactured so tight and so compact that repair shops don’t have the means to test them out and take them apart.

They have learned to fix desktop PCs, but they just don’t know how to fix a laptop. And that means they are leaving good money on the table.

Since they can’t, oftentimes for the owner simply buying a new one is more economic than having it send to the manufacturer’s repair service and miss the laptop for a couple of weeks.

A huge problem, since laptops can have many failures like failing screens, hinges, keyboards, power jacks and power cords, batteries, lockups, bootup failures, upgrade problems, etc., not to mention spilling coffee on the laptop of even worse, the famous blue screen.

Maybe it’s time to learn how to fix a laptop?

Pay attention and see if you can agree with my conclusions.

1. There’s a huge demand for laptop repair, as they often have failures at moments we can’t afford them,
2. there’s little supply as most repair shops don’t know how to fix a laptop, and
3. the laptop users market is willing to pay for laptop repair, since they’re also willing to pay for their laptop replacements!

As you can see, knowing how to fix a laptop isn’t only a valuable skill to save your butt in times of trouble, it may also be a great home business opportunity.

Since you also know a lot about marketing, it shouldn’t be too difficult to establish yourself as a professional laptop repair service and charge a great hourly rate for it.

So if you can only learn how to repair laptop computers you will have knowledge that is in high demand. You can either step into a computer repair shop and offer your services or even start your own laptop repair business and make up to $65/hr or more.

If that opportunity is of interest to you then you might want to check out this video.

By the way, that’s an affiliate link from which I may make a commission.

It could be the start of a thriving business.

Let me know what you think.

Want to learn how to fix laptops?

How To Fix a Laptop – Home Business Opportunity

It is written by Lena Morrish & Dima Nikolayenko, who provide a service on this topic.

I like their post, because it emphasizes again the use of appropriate keywords that are often forgotten when creating a page or a blog post.

While creating great content, it only takes a tiny bit of time to also research the keywords you should target in that content.

Hence this post. Enjoy!

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One of the key traffic generating techniques for websites is to increase its ranking in search engines.

You can easily find many tips and advice regarding this but almost all of them will stress on the importance of keywords. This importance is clearly the reason for SEO (or Search Engine Optimization) and application of keyword suggestion tools.

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Judicious use of SEO will bring the traffic to your website. And, what’s more, it very likely will be targeted traffic, because through the help of keyword suggestion tools you know what people are searching for in relation to your products and services.

When you build your website, you are really keen about its look. You take care that it feels and looks good, is visitor friendly, fun to browse and an overall great experience.

There is a lot you can do, a pleasing look, the right colors plenty of interactive features widgets and other tools. The website should be a pleasure to visit and use.

All this will be worth the efforts only if there are visitors to use your website. The single most important factor is to bring targeted traffic to the website.

Undoubtedly SEO plays an important role in this aspect. The best way to make your website SEO friendly is the effective use of keywords.

Keywords are essential to represent your business and the products/services on offer. You may think it is quite easy for you to come up with keywords as you know your business inside out.
All that can be said is it is an educated guess as to what a person sitting half way across the world will type in to search for products or services that you are selling.

You can easily use online keyword suggestion tools that will help you generate a list of popular keywords with respect to your business. The tool will give you a fair idea of the way your potential clients may think. Using these keywords effectively will give a major boost to traffic to your site.

A word of caution here, it is not as simple as it may sound.
You may have multiple sites related to your business or may be you have multiple small businesses and related sites, and then you can’t just embed the same keywords in your websites. Because each website should have unique content, especially if similar keywords apply.

There are other ways to increase traffic to your website. You can explore them and even use techniques like link bait to make your site more search engine friendly. But you will soon realize that nothing works better to the extent of your business targeting keywords using keyword suggestion tools. Others can only be used in tandem with keywords.

You may also use the services of an SEO expert who can help you make your website search engine friendly with the help of various options. Be careful when you choose one as you wouldn’t like to waste your money on a scammer.

You may even search the web for various techniques and tricks to make your website search engine optimized. Be careful as you may get carried away and end up spending hours searching on the net.

Take care to make your website interesting and informative. At the same time use the right tools to make it search engine friendly so that you may reach your goal of a successful business.

About the Authors:
Lena Morrish & Dima Nikolayenko, publishers of InternetBusinessBTS.com, can help you build your website that is profitable. They will show you how using keyword suggestion tools will not only make your content exciting and interesting, but also will get people “simply” flood your website!

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Case again.
What are your thoughts?
Do you use keyword suggestion tools when creating content?
Post your comments below!

This is a post from Affordable Internet Marketing, http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com by Case Stevens.

Keyword Suggestion Tools: Most Effective Way to Bring In Traffic

But soon after you start selling a few of your own products, you probably have to deliver support to your customers from time to time.

So, what do you do?

Right, on the download page you display your support email address and tell your customers to send a message in case anything goes wrong, right?

Then, after some time, you’re going to sell more and more and the number of emails you receive soon grow above your head.

Because there are not only support request, but also invitations for events, requests for guest posts, reviews and JV’s, and then, sometimes, even a friend wants to email you.

If you reach that point, you’re ready for some help desk management software.

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That’s the kind of software that makes you seen as a top professional by your customers.

Because having a well organized, fully automated, centralized and reliable customer support system ensures that every issue is handled as efficiently as possible.
And that on its turn dramatically improves customer gratification, commitment, and retention. It shows that you’re really interesting in helping your customers instead of only chasing after their hard earned cash.

As a spin off, your speed of resolving problems will increase, (staff) productivity will be optimized and you and your service pros, if any, will be more informed and responsive.
Also, you’re able to manage your time more effectively.

Great help desk management software should at least have the following items:

• Unique ticket tracking,

  necessary to identify support requests beyond any doubt and relate the request to the unique customer.

• Ticket categories / departments

  to separate and organize different websites, products or services and to possibly assign each request to individual staff members.
  The latter is often solved through email piping: certain problems are sent to certain staff members.

  This also includes setting ticket priorities to allocate your time more effectively and deal with urgent or emergency support requests first.

• Searchable client / ticket database

  to search through these for specific terms, or filter them by status and to build a history of archived closed tickets.

• A FAQ / Knowledge Base

  makes it very easy to supply and erase FAQ’s on your website and see how many times each entry has been viewed.

  That enables you to evaluate possible problems your customers have with your sites, products and services. It also may give an indication for new products.

Of course help desk management software should be able to send email messages, preferably personalized and features like follow-up satisfaction surveys and reporting / statistics are very welcome.

There’s a lot of software available, from free to a couple of thousands of dollars, from great to really worthless. In the past I’ve tried a few of them with varying success.

The one I like very much is Three Pillars.

Granted, I’m biased here. I’ve seen it being developed by my good friend Willie Crawford.
I saw how he desperately needed help and how he build an extremely practical help desk management software package.

Proof of this practical application is that a new customer doesn’t have to go through the boring procedure or registering (again) before submitting a ticket. She can do that right away.

So, if you need an outstanding help desk management software package, check out Three Pillars.

If that’s outside your reach, or if you just starting out, check out my simple starters help desk management software package.
Very simple to install script, for free!

Comments?
Post them below.

This is a post from Affordable Internet Marketing, http://www.affordable-internet-marketing.com by Case Stevens.

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Whats an Info Product

Common examples of info products include:

• ebooks
• reports
• video series
• manifestos

They are distributed digitally (usually), which makes them cheap to produce.

It takes just one person to create and distribute an info product – so the opportunity is available to anyone.

Do I Need to Be an Expert?

No – you don’t need to be the best in your field or niche.  You simply need to be ahead of the curve.   Use your experiences that might be of value to others to form the basis of your product.  For example, I spent the last 5 years flipping websites and building one of the largest flipping teams on DigitalPoint.  This knowledge became the basis of my book.

Of course, you can’t be a fraud.  If you have nothing unique or of value to say, don’t say it.

Is It Difficult?

Yes. To create a hot selling info product, you need to spend lots of time dedicated towards the project.  Ebooks created by ghost-writers in India will only damage your brand because as soon as someone reads it, they won’t be happy.  Spend the time creating your own product.  I spent a year on mine and all the review were positive.   Spend the time now and reap the rewards later.

Free or Paid?

Should you release a free ebook to promote your blog, or sell a paid product for an income.  I recommend starting out by creating a free product.  Giving away something free will help persuade people in the future to purchase something from you later down the track.

Of  course if you’ve got a killer ebook, there should be nothing stopping you from selling it.

I love info products.  I have found some really quality ones which have helped me (99% of them are junk but there are amazing gems in amongst the clutter).  If you’ve ever thought about releasing your own product now is the time.  Things are really hot.  I’m experiencing record sales and so can you.   Stay tuned for my next post on BAYB on launching your info product

I blog about Lifestyle Design and cashing in on your passions at Feint.me

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Regardless of the affiliate network, I like to be a member of as many as I can. This can be beneficial for finding new programs, as well as participating in the ones that are worth the most money.

For example, I joined Panthera Network to promote an exclusive Vista Print certain offer that only lasted so long. After making $32, I haven’t found an offer to make money with again, however I’m sure something else will come up.

As much as I like Logical Media, I found a great competitor with similar offers.

MySavings Media

Programs offering something free is by far one of the easiest things to convert in my opinion. A lot of times you can find something that relates to your niche, or find a way to incorporate it.

For example I wrote an article that Website Magazine featured. They ranked the top 50 affiliate networks. At the end of that post I included a link I earn money for every time someone subscribes to a free subscription. While each lead isn’t a lot, stuff like that can add up.

MySavings Media offers free offers just like that. Whether it’s free magazines, samples, newsletters or promotions you can find something to earn money with.

They also have their own widget that you can throw in your sidebar, or dedicate an entire blog page to. I did that here, and was able to make about $10-$15 last month with little promotion.

Referral Program

Another component I often value is the affiliate program. A standard rate for an affiliate program seems to be about 5% give or take.

MySavings Media offers a 10% commission on all approved affiliates! The only downside is they only offer that fee for the first 10 months after they sign up. Any commissions generated after that aren’t credited to you anymore.

Overall MySavings Media is definitely worth checking out.

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Last month I was terminated by the first affiliate network since ShoppingAds became a “closed network” (but that’s a whole different situation). This wasn’t due to a program change, it was due to traffic. I don’t like to curse, but this was bullshit.

Hydra Network Termination

I’ve never heard of traffic levels being unfit for an affiliate network after already getting approved, sometimes I don’t run any offers on a network for months at a time. With some offers I can generate $500 in a month, then $0 the next, it just depends on what I am working on.

I hadn’t worked with HydraNetwork in a while since several lucrative months over the summer. I was able to piggy back my offers on some newsletters through a few online friends who weren’t into affiliate marketing. Throughout my experience with Hydra (1-2 years) I broke $1,000 in earnings, so it wasn’t like I never used them.

Recently, I started inquiring about different programs like Vista Print to get active again with Hydra. Several days later,  I received an email about how I promoted a Bidz offer I was running and had been off and on for months. I responded with my website url and then the next day I received a termination letter.

Bullshit MOVE

What I HATE about this whole thing that if there was some sort of problem, I would have been fine discussing and working it out. Other than that poor excuse of an email by Kollene McGinley (affiliate manager) I was terminated without a “warning” or any REAL information as to why I was terminated.

Let me stress again, I’ve never been singled out and terminated from ANY affiliate program and I’ve been doing this since 2005.

Compliance Letter

They have some “fine print” on the email I received so I am not going to publish it word for word.

However after “reviewing my account” including my monthly uniques, experience and “other criteria”… my “traffic” is not a good fit for Hydra.

The ONLY thing they did right in this situation was that they paid me my pending commissions of $15.50 in about two weeks.

Have you ever experience something like this before?

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We always try to keep up with what Kontera is doing, whether it’s a contest or promotion. They have a great company and have even added us to their blogroll on their blog!

If you don’t know what Kontera is, they offer in-text advertising from the top advertisers. It’s a great ad network to add to your websites to make more money. You may even see some Kontera ads in this post!

Double Commissions

If you aren’t a publisher yet Kontera has a great promotion where you can earn DOUBLE. Make sure to sign-up with this special promotional link.

New sign-ups through this promotional link, Kontera will match new publishers first month earnings. As long as you make at least $10, Kontera will double WHATEVER you make.

This offer is valid for new publishers ONLY until January 1st, 2010 so make sure to join now and start earning double.

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Working with a freelancer gives you more of a one on one connection with the person working on your project.  This makes for better communication to make sure your freelance project is completed the way you want it to be. With the unique community features available you can build a long lasting relationship for repeat business and success.

Lime Exchange

If you are a freelancer or looking to hire an expert for a freelance project, you might want to check out LimeExchange.com. With a community covering over 150 countries and skill areas such as web developers, writing and translation experts, graphic designers, software programmers, and audio/video specialists, you are sure to find a match for your project.

If you are a freelancer who is looking for a freelance job then they have a Basic Plan that is free.   They have Online Certifications and Skill Tests, a Project Message Board, Certifications highlighted on Profile and Enhanced Profile and Portfolio Features.  All of that and more is included in the Basic Plan.

The site offers multiple payment methods such as:

a.. Paypal
b.. MoneyBookers
c.. LimeExchange Mastercard
d.. Check (US Only)
e.. ACH

If you are looking to have a freelance project completed by a freelancer they offer options such as paying by fixed price, hourly or per task. I think this is great!  Some freelance sites only offer hourly.  I think you may be able to find a better value using this method instead.  They do not charge any fees from a buyer to hire a provider. After you post your project you can search and invite providers to bid on the project.

LimeExchange also offers a buyers reward program.  You can earn the reward points from every project you complete through them that are worth up to 4% of the project value!  The reward points you earn can be used as easily as using cash.  You can use them as cash towards future projects, free LimeExchange services and special discounts or to shop from the product catalog (including such items as iPods, iPhones, Digital Cameras, Camcorders, Gift Vouchers and more).

Another great feature of LimeExchange is their 1099 tax form service! LimeExchange issues 1099 Tax Form to the Service Provider and the IRS on your behalf.  All you have to do is to opt in when you post a project on LimeExchange. They will also send you a consolidated receipt of all the 1099 Tax Forms that were issued on your behalf in any financial year.  One less thing for you to keep track of.

In my opinion, the site was very easy to understand and navigate.  I was not lost at all while checking out the available features.  Like I mentioned, there is a free plan available which will give you what you need to get started and try it out for yourself without much commitment.

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