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This video describes what is affiliate marketing and the basics of affiliate marketing.




This video describes how to convert PowerPoint presentation to video.



This video is about Search Engine Optimization for affiliate marketing.

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How To Convert PowerPoint Presentation To Video and Add Narration To It

If you have a great PowerPoint presentation and do not know how to convert it into a video and upload to video sharing sites, then you have come to the right place. You can also make product explanatory videos easily with PowerPoint presentations and use it to promote your products for affiliate marketing. More over, you can easily add narration to it. This way we can reach more audiences. So, I will go through step-by-step how to do it. This is a picture how-to article, so just hover over on the thumbnail image to see the original image.

Basic requirements for creating your video from PowerPoint presentation are:
1. Windows XP or higher.
2. Windows movie maker (this is built in with Windows XP).
3. Internet Connection.
4. Knowledge about how to make your own PowerPoint presentations.
5. Creativity.

Open your PowerPoint presentation and press Save As from the file menu. Don’t forget to save it in a place where you can easily remember. In the Save As Type drop down press JPEG File Interchange Format.


You will be asked “do you want to export every slide or current slide only” press every slide. Then press ok.


Open Windows Moviemaker. It will mostly be in Start Windows → Programs.


Windows Moviemaker will look like this.


In moviemaker, press File→ Import into collections

Go to the location where you have saved your PowerPoint presentation as JPEG format. Point the cursor at the first slide → press shift key → press last slide → press Import.

Your slides will be imported like this.

Click Show Storyboard

Now drag the slides and place in the storyboard. You can change the order of the slides as you wish. After finishing your narration, press Stop Narration. Your narration will get saved. Press ok for the prompt. Press “done” which is just below Stop Narration. Your narration will get added automatically.

Now, it is time to add narration to our video. Press the microphone icon. Make sure that you have inserted your microphone. You can also add pre-recorded narration, which we will see below.

Press Start Narration.

While narrating if you want your slide to be shown a little longer, use the arrow in between the slides to extend the time a slide is shown.

To add a pre-recorded narration, import the narration (the wave file) as we did previously for importing the slides.

Drag the wave file in to the Audio/Music tab.

Adjust the time the slide is shown based on your pre-recorded narration. You can preview before saving by pressing play in the video player on the right hand side. Now we are almost done.

Now, we have to save into video. Press Save Movie File from File Menu.

Save it in My Computer

Enter a file name for your video

Now press Next and once again Next and save the video. It will take some time for the video to get converted and saved. After that press finished.

Great!!!! You have made your first video from PowerPoint presentation. If you want to learn how to add credits to your video or want to see a demo of how to convert PowerPoint presentation to video, please see my YouTube video below. If you found this picture article useful, please do not forget to favorite it or pass it on to your friends.


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How To Get Started in Affiliate Marketing


Getting started in affiliate marketing is one of the basic and easier step to do in affiliate marketing.  The first step is to join one of the market places where you can find products to sell.  How to start affiliate marketing without investing money will guide you in that.  Most of these market places are free to join and it takes a little time to join them.

Selecting a Product:

Selecting a product is the most important step in affiliate marketing.  We have to select a product that is not too popular.  If it is too popular already there would be lots of affiliate marketers selling it and so the market would be saturated.  At the same time selecting a less popular product will lead to lots of refunds and even damage your credibility.  Less popularity of the products may be because of several reasons.  Some of them being the product is a new product in the market place, the profit is not too good in the sales of the product, and it is a bad product.  If the product is a new product there are good chances that we can make it a popular product.  If the profit is not high, it is not worth selling the product and we should not go near the bad product.  This tool will help you analyze about a ClickBank product.

Building Your Own Affiliate Website:

We need to have our own affiliate website, so that we can drive traffic to this site.  Even if we are unable to make sales from each customer, we can collect their contact information on our site and develop our own opt-in mailing list.  Then, we have to send the buyer from our site to the product sales page.  By using this opt-in mailing list we can keep in touch with our customers and we can also inform them about our future products.  One thing we have to keep in mind is NOT TO SCAM.  For having our own website, we need to buy domain and webhosting.  Domain and web hosting for affiliate marketing will help you to learn more about cheap and best domain and web hosting.

Search Engine Optimization for Our Affiliate Site:

Search engine optimization is important if we want to have traffic from search engines.  We need to do a thorough keyword research on our product and do on-page SEO using those keywords on our website.  Search engine optimization for affiliate marketing covers more about this topic.


Sending Traffic To the Affiliate Website and Promoting the Product:

The more number of people we send to our website, the more number of people will view our product and hence the more number of sales we will make.  There are lots of methods to get traffic to our website.

1.    Participating in blogs related to our product.
2.    Participating in forums related to our product.
3.    Submitting our site to directories.
4.    Submitting our site to search engines like Google and Yahoo.
5.    Bookmarking our site in bookmarking sites.
6.    Using free and paid classifieds to gain exposure.  Here is a list of top 10 pagerank free classified sites.
7.    Writing articles and submitting to article directories.
8.    Using videos to promote our product.
9.    Using networking sites to promote our product.
10.   Using traffic exchange sites.  How to get traffic through traffic exchange will help you with this.

100 affiliate marketing tips for newbies explains about lots of tips and tricks for newbies.

When we do all the above steps correctly, the last step, i.e., earning commission will fall in place on its own.  Always learning to earn will not help us get started.  Start earning that is the only way to be motivated.  This is the right time to implement what all we have learned and put it into practice.  So, let’s arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached.

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100 Affiliate Marketing Tips For Newbies



As this is a long article here is the first part of 100 Affiliate Marketing Tips For Newbies.


51.    When you are struck with writing read other people’s work to inspire you.  Don’t copy and paste.
52.    Participate in forums.  The best forums to participate are your niche-related forums.
53.    Use Google search to find your niche-related forums.
54.    Genuinely participate in the forums, don’t just sell your products in the forums.
55.    Share your knowledge about your niche with the forum members.
56.    Don’t be afraid to share your knowledge.
57.    Don’t think that too much of knowledge sharing will affect the sale of your product.
58.    Don’t just give one- or two-word answers in the forums.  This won’t help you.
59.    Read and obey forum rules for better participation.
60.    Don’t just spam the forums with your links, try to participate genuinely.
61.    Use pay-per-click (PPC) wisely.
62.    Being a newbie, it will take some time to learn the nuances of PPC, so better go slowly.
63.    Select products that will give high ROI (return on investments).  So, it is better to select products with commissions 75% or above.
64.    Plan ahead before investing in PPC.
65.    Be motivated as it takes a while before you see profits in PPC.
66.    Do not bid for high-paid keywords.
67.    Go for keywords that have less competition.
68.    Placement of your ads can also affect your click-through rate, so do experiments with it or read about the experiments that have been done with it.
69.    You can learn through only trial and error basis.
70.    Read a lot before investing in PPC.
71.    Use online classified ads to promote your product.
72.    Free classifieds may also be as beneficial as paid classifieds.
73.    Write attractive ads.
74.    Take time to write the title of ads.
75.    Get inspiration from ad copies written by great advertisers.
76.    Post your ads on classifieds with high PR.
77.    Mention about the freebies in your ads.  Don’t forget people like freebies.
78.    Give the correct affiliate link in your ad.  Verify your affiliate id.
79.    Don’t refer from the ad directly to the product sales page.  First refer to your affiliate site and then to the product sales page.
80.    You can even outsource posting free ads.
81.    Here is a list of top 10 pagerank free classified sites.
82.    Tweet about your affiliate product.
83.    Don’t spam, respect others privacy.
84.    Participate in social networking sites like Facebook, Myspace, etc.
85.    Spread the word about your product.
86.    Bookmark your affiliate site on the bookmarking sites.
87.    Submit your affiliate site to directories.
88.    Don’t submit to all the directories in one day.  Submit at regular intervals.
89.    Submit your site in the correct category.
90.    Submit your site to major search engines to get indexed.
91.    Here are the links to submit to Google and Yahoo.
92.    Digitalpoint and Warriorforum are the best forums in affiliate marketing.
93.    Participate in blogs related to your product.
94.    When leaving comment leave the link to your affiliate site.
95.    Create a Squidoo lens about your affiliate product.
96.    Create a Hubpage about your affiliate product.
97.    Use videos to promote your product.
98.    Learn about How To Convert PowerPoint Presentation To Video and Add Narration To It.  Don’t miss the Youtube video in the end.
99.    Think about innovating ways to promote your product.
100.    The most important thing than all the above tips is not to lose hope and to stay on.

Once you are well versed with the above list you are no more a newbie in affiliate marketing.  Don’t just keep on learning, implement whatever you have learned.  If you liked this article, please don’t forget to share it as I have spent a fair amount of time in making this.  Good luck with your endeavor.