Affiliate Network
http://www.affiliatenetwork.com
The Affiliate Network is an International
Affiliate Network. The site doesn’t have as many merchants as Commission Junction,
but the advantages of centralized payment are the same. They also offer the
option of being paid via PayPal.
Affiliate Programs Guide
http://www.affiliate-programs-guide.com
This site provides links to hundreds of
affiliate programs that you can add to your website for some extra revenue. The
affiliate programs are organized by category
Amazon Honor System
http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/subst/fx/home.html/ref%3Dtab%5Fz%5Fz%5F9/104-8965752-1772760
If you feel your web site provides valuable
information, entertainment, and community, you can ask your site’s viewers to
show their appreciation and defray the cost of maintenance by asking them to
make a contribution using the Amazon Honor System. Amazon provides code for a
paybox graphic that viewers can optionally click to make a contribution. Using this
system, you can collect credit card payments as small as $1.00 with Amazon’s
patented 1-Click technology. For providing service, Amazon collects 15% of the
total payment per transaction plus $.15.
Cold Calling for Cowards™
http://www.footinthedoor.com/
Expert salesman, Jerry Hocutt, conducts the Cold
Calling for Cowards™ seminars throughout the U.S. He has a seminar specifically
designed for cold calling on the telephone and calling on top-level decision
makers. If you can’t make it to the seminars, their website sells seminar audio
tapes. The website includes sales tips and a free e-mail newsletter. For a fee,
you can subscribe to their Keep in Touch customer contact program where they
manage your contact list, sending out email postcards on a regular schedule to
your business contacts.
Commission Junction
http://www.cj.com
Earn additional income by hosting advertising
banners on your website. Although this is not a new idea, Commission Junction
adds a new spin by centralizing payment for affiliate programs offered by
companies like hotjobs.com and eBay. Rather than enter into affiliate programs
for each of these vendors individually, you can select from Commission
Junctions list of participating companies and receive payment for any sales
commissions from one source.
Corporate Alumni
http://www.corporatealumni.com/
A great way to build a contact list and network
with colleagues is to join CorporateAlumni.com. This site maintains alumni
lists of former and current employees of hundreds of companies. When you join,
you have access to the alumni list for your company and you’re notified of
upcoming get-togethers. There are three levels of membership. The basic level
is free and entitles you to a listing in the directory, access to the calendar
of events, member Yellow Pages, and the career center, including job listings.
Full membership is $19.95/yr and provides additional services including full
access to member profiles, ability to email community members and post on
member news, and you can advertise your services in the Yellow Pages section.
For $29.95/yr, you get additional search capabilities. The great thing about
this site is that many of the company alumni lists allow former and existing
contractors to sign up, so if one of these companies is a client of yours, you
can still join.
Guerrilla Marketing Association
http://coldfusion.affiliateshop.com/AIDLink.cfm?AID=038465&BID=4288
This site is operated by Jay Conrad Levinson,
author of the "Guerrilla Marketing" series of books. For $49.95 per
month, this site provides an interactive small business support group that
exists to help its members increase their profits with Guerrilla Marketing
tactics and techniques. Membership benefits include The Guerrilla Marketing
Insider newsletter, the Guerrilla Marketing Coaching Forum where you can
interact with Jay and his coaches, a weekly interactive telephone Q&A
session, the Guerrilla Marketing Daily Intelligence e-newsletter, and access to
streaming videos of experts and successful guerrillas revealing their marketing
secrets. One unique benefit the site provides is evaluation and testimonials or
blurbs from Jay for members' products or services. If your product or service
meets the standards of guerrilla marketing, GMA will give you their endorsement
to use in your marketing.
MyProspects.com
http://www.myprospects.com
MyProspects.com provides direct mail lists over
the internet. You select your list from a database of 14 million businesses and
180 million consumers using pre-defined profiles and characteristics that best
describe your target audience. MyProspects delivers the names, addresses, and
phone numbers of only those prospects that match your criteria. You select a
list based on geographic, demographic, and behavioral profiles, and then
download the list. You can download as few as 100 names and you only pay for
the information you actually download.
OnPoint Marketing
http://www.onpoint-marketing.com
This target marketing company provides free
marketing case studies and a marketing glossary.
Onvia
http://www.onvia.com
Onvia.com, Inc. provides a service that connects
your business to government opportunities. They help businesses secure
government contracts and government agencies find suppliers. They do this by
providing The Onvia Guide, a customized daily report filled with projects and
new business opportunities including Requests For Proposals (RFP) and quotes
from more than 300 government agencies nationwide in the $400 billion state and
local government marketplace. Currently, The Onvia Guide costs $49/month.
Postcard Marketing Secrets
http://www.postcardmarketingsecrets.com
In addition to purchasing a copy of the
electronic document Postcard Marketing Secrets, you can sign up for their free
e-mail newsletter to get tips on marketing with postcards.
Public Relations Society of
America (PRSA)
http://www.prsa.org/_Jobs/career/survey.asp?ident=job6
With nearly 20,000 members and 117 chapters,
PRSA is the world’s largest organization for public relations professionals. Contact
them to find a public relations professional for your business. The society
provides a service called PR Power that can search its database for
professionals with the public relations skills you require. Then they contact a
number of candidates to determine their availability and present the resumes of
several candidates. After you interview the candidates by telephone or in
person, you select a qualified professional who meets your needs. In most
cases, you complete the process in three days or less. They also conduct a
salary survey of their members, however they charge a $50 fee for non-members
to receive a copy of the survey.
Roving
http://www.roving.com/
If you’re considering an email newsletter,
Roving offers Constant Contact, a do-it-yourself email marketing service where
you can create and send email newsletters, promotions, and announcements. They
provide ready-to-use templates for your eNewsletter or, for a fee they’ll
design a custom template for you. They provide you with HTML code for your website
to make it easy for web browsers to signup for your eNewsletter. They also
provide tools to track the results of your email campaign. The first 50
subscribers is free. After that, pricing is based on the number of subscribers,
starting at $10 per month.
Summit Consulting Group
http://www.summitconsulting.com
Master consultant and author, Alan Weiss
maintains this site. Alan is author of Million Dollar Consulting: The
Professional’s Guide to Growing a Practice (McGraw-Hill, 2003) and many other
books on consulting. In addition to a wealth of free information and articles
available for consultants, Alan maintains the Summit Resource List. He provides
this list for free to those who are seeking subcontractors in consulting,
speaking, training, facilitation, and similar business services. For a one-time
fee of $50, you can add your name to the list. Alan actively markets the list
in his books, newsletters, and articles.
SwitchBoard.com
http://www.Switchboard.com
If you’re listed in any local business yellow
page listings, you may already be listed on this site. For additional fees you
can add a directory listing that links to your existing Web site, an enhanced
listing that links directly to your Web site and promotes additional
information about your business, an online “coupon” (direct link to promote
your special offer), and a one or two-page web site.
Talion
http://www.talion.com
If you don’t want to do your own cold-calling,
this low-cost PR firm will do the job for you. You can select from small,
medium, large, or custom publicity campaigns for your product or service. They
can work with a list you provide or can provide a media list from their
database. Programs start at around $450 per month.
WinWriters
http://www.winwriters.com
Online publication focused on those who develop
online documentation. The site provides a resource directory of online help
developers. You can get a free listing by filling out their online form.
Zairmail Express Direct
http://biz.zairmail.com
Zairmail Express Direct is an online direct mail
company that allows you to send letters, flyers, and postcards straight from
your PC. You compose your mail piece, upload your address list or select one of
Zairmail’s nationwide lists, preview your mail piece, and then let Zairmail
handle the rest. Zairmail routes your job to a print facility near where you live
where your mail pieces are automatically printed, stamped, and mailed.
