Online Buying - The Buying Cycle - Phase One

People go through a specific cycle when they want to make a purchase online.

It is called the Buying Cycle, and it has 3 phases:

1. Browse 2. Compare/Shop 3. Buy

At the Browse Phase - a person uses general - broad - generic keywords
and search terms.

Why ?

Because at this point the person is unclear about what he/she really
wants to buy…

……what product, brand, model, features, price, etc……

Simply put - the browse phase is mostly used for gathering information,
and from an affiliate point of view, in this phase it is very difficult to distinguish between real buyer and… tire kicker/freebie seeker.

Super affiliates don’t target “browse keywords” first.

Why ?

…because they are:

too dangerous

too risky

too costly

Basically, the intent of the searcher is unclear; does he/she want
to buy or not?

Facts about the Browse Phase:

- people just doing research online at this phase,
- doesn’t reveal the searcher’s intentions,
- even real potential buyers are still not ready to buy at this phase,
- browse phase’s keywords are expensive,
- search volumes are very high and untargeted.

Facts about the Browse Phase keywords:

Volume: most traffic,
Competition: most competitive,
Cost: most expensive,
Click Through Rate: lowest,
Conversion: lowest.

Online Buying - The Buying Cycle - Phase Two - see next post

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Is Clickbank Pirate A Good Source Of Residual Income

Doesn’t matter if  you are a student (like I’m),  soon to retire baby boomer or even a lucky one having  steady paycheck -  looking at today’s economy you can’t help but wonder about your financial future.

Whether you retire wealthy, stop worry about loosing your job  or have enough spending money entirely  depends on what you will  do NOW.

Securing a stream of dependable residual income is the key for you to get money in your pocket, get wealthy  and eventually retire comfortably.

So what is residual income?

It is a steady flow of  income which comes from the initial investment of time  and effort you  put in to build it. It will continue to bring money in your account  while you sleep,  are on vacation or while you are sick  staying home.

Prime  sources of residual income:

- musicians, composers,  and book writers continue to get royalties from their songs and books for many years after they have done the initial work,

- yearly or quarterly dividends from your stocks/bonds porfolios,

- monthly income from your various rental properties.

But how do you go about setting a residual income if you just ‘don’t have this book or song in you‘,  you’re not an investor or a property owner?

The answer is - full or part time residual income online business.  And residual income using the power of affiliate marketing is one of the easiest and most effective wealth creation techniques on the Internet today.

Finding the right residual income opportunity can be hard and time consuming, but once you find a good one, with initial  hard work  you put in, you will continue to reap the benefits for years to come.

For example, let’s say you decide to become  an affiliate marketer promoting a new membership site - Clickbank Pirate.

You initial investment is $67 = less than $2.50/day. For your investment you get five (5) Clickbank packages on various topics, complete with a free reports, thank you pages, download pages, emails, banners and even your blog. Your affiliate links are everywhere possible and everything is tweaked to even more improve conversions.  The package is hosted by the developers of  Clickbank Pirate, so you don’t have to spend money for your domain, hosting  ($7.95/month) or autoresponder service like Aweber ($19.00/month).  Without these expenses, your initial investment goes down to $40 = $1.30/day.  The cost to stay in this membership is $27/month - so your continuous expense is exactly what you’d have to pay to maintain your own hosting and autoresponder.

How much your financial independence is worth for you?

Each new customer you get to sign up for Clickbank Pirate  membership site will earn you back the initial investment of $67,  plus  each sale you generate will earn you $27.00 per month for the lifetime of that customer! That means each customer you bring in is worth $324.00 per year and your membership is at this point free!

That is  a nice chunk of money when you think about it especially if  that this amount is just for one package and one consumer.  You have four more packages to promote plus a new one being added each month!

I haven’t set up all my packages yet, so I don’t know the exact earnings, but for the sake of this post let’s run some hypothetical numbers.

Each package brings avg. $15/month x 5 packages = $75/month for each consumer.  Being new to this whole Internet Marketing business, I assume that in 3 months time it will be possible to have 10 consumers (?).  So after three months, concentrating on driving traffic and promoting  Clickbank Pirate blogs, the potential earnings could be $750/month.  Sounds good to me and definitively worth a try!

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