5 Best Ways to Make Good Money by Promoting Amazon Products

Keeping in mind the economical condition of Pakistan where thousands of people are unemployed and have no source of income at all, internet is an alternative which comes to mind whenever you think about possible sources to earn some money.

However people totally misunderstand the concept of making money online. Let me tell you, it is possible and you can make healthy amount of money (more then what a salaried person can expect) but for that you need to understand that money never grows on trees. All you need to do is to learn as much you can, work hard, understand the basic concepts and research and then deploy your techniques and keep experimenting.

Most importantly take it as a business just like any other real life business.

There are many ways you can make money on the internet for example freelancing, affiliate marketing, selling etc. But I am going to get you through the affiliate marketing, an area of my own interest.

If you are a newbie and want to earn quick money online, I suggest you try promoting physical product instead of digital products. Now, there are many physical products vendor out there, but the most popular one is Amazon. It is better for you to use Amazon as a starter instead of Clickbank.

So, I will tell you why you should promote Amazon products. That’s because it is easy to make sales when you promote Amazon product, as long as you drive enough traffic to your landing page. Here are 5 best ways to make good money by promoting Amazon products:

P.S. I am assuming that you understand the terms such as affiliate marketing, blogging, adding affiliate links in your posts and so on.

1. Focus On Squidoo

Why should you focus on Squidoo? That’s because it’s free and you have all the tools necessary to promote Amazon products on Squidoo. Moreover, if you can set your lens right, it will look attractive and interesting for your readers. You know that website design is one of the most important factors that will improve your conversion rate.

Squidoo offers nice website design, and it will definitely help you to boost your conversion rate for your promotion. Just pick a product to promote from Amazon and write a simple review for that product. Then, publish your review on Squidoo. Don’t forget to add interesting images and videos to enhance the look and feel of your review article (i.e. Squidoo lens).

2. Build A Review Website On Small Niche

Pick a small niche. For example, you can pick digital photography as your niche. Then, what you need to do is to build a review website around this digital photography niche. You can call this website: digital photography review. Here you will publish around 30 product reviews related to your niche. So, in this instance, you will write about cameras, video camcorders, and so on. The next thing that you need to do is to drive traffic to your website using various means of traffic building. Don’t forget to make your website stand out from the crowd by using an attractive design and a good logo for your website.

3. Create A List Of Best Products

You can create a list of best products around certain product category, such as 10 best cameras under $500, best LED TV under $300, and so on. When you create a list of best products, you are promoting multiple products in one article. In this way, you will increase your chance of success in generating sales from your promotion. Also, you can create a list of best products related to specific target market, such as best video games for kids, best fitness equipment for men, and so on. Additionally, you can create a list of best products based on current event, such as best Valentine gift ideas, best Christmas gifts, and so on.

4. Create Comparison Article

People usually compare multiple products before actually choosing the one to buy. So, for example, you can compare two different products by stating its positives and negatives side by side, such as Samsung LED TV vs. LG LED TV. Of course, you need to compare specific product name in order to get the best result from this method. Then, you can publish your comparison article either on free blog or your own website. Just make sure to create comparison for popular products so that there are enough people that will read your article.

5. Small Niche Blogging

The last method to earn money from physical product is by creating a small targeted niche blog. For instance, if you really like playing golf and want to promote some golf products to your readers, then you can create a small niche blog about golf. In this blog, you will update it with good tips related to golf. Also, in this small niche blog you’ll create a page where you will recommend many golf products to your readers. You are going to establish yourself as an expert while your readers will be following your recommendation.

These are the best ways to earn money promoting physical product. It is one of the easiest ways to earn money online, and you shouldn’t miss this opportunity. Follow the tips above to make your first income online.

BlackBerry 10 Apps Touch the 100,000 Mark

A great news for the fans of the BlackBerry 10 platform is that the number of apps in the BlackBerry store has just reached 100,000. Of course, numbers don’t tell the whole tale but still its quite an achievement for a store which came into existence just 7 weeks prior to reaching the milestone.

The news also came just a day before the Z10 smartphone hit the all-so-important US market.

The milestone was achieved sooner than any of the platform’s rivals including Windows Phone, which is currently being declared its biggest competitor. Unlike Microsoft’s platform though, it at least had 70,000 apps to its name prior to its release including the abysmal Android ones. Windows Phone app market still has an upper hand in terms of quality apps and at the end of the day, they are what matter most.

With apps increasing at such a fast pace, its easy to see that even developers thinking or at least hoping that BlackBerry will make a comeback and capture the market as it once did.

Martyn Mallick, Vice President of Global Alliances at Blackberry mentioned that the response to the BlackBerry 10 platform and applications has been outstanding. Customers are thrilled with the applications already available, and the catalog just keeps growing, now with more than 100,000 apps. Top brands and application providers are joining us every day and are seeing the benefits of being early supporters of the new platform.

Telecom Consumers Registered 33,310 Complaints With PTA During 2012

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has said that it received 33,310 complaints from users against telecom operators during FY2012, out of which 99 percent complaints were addressed and resolved.

PTA said that telecom consumers registered these complains through various channels, i.e., online, email (complaints@pta.gov.pk), hotline (0800-55055), written complaints and faxes sent to PTA headquarter addresses and zonal offices.

These consumer complaints were against cellular operators, fixed line, wireless, broadband, LDIs and other telecom licensed operators.

PTA said that 71% of total received complaints were against cellular operators – with over 120 million subscribers base – while 27 percent out of total 33,310 complaints were against PTCL which has just 3.5 million customers.

Following graphs will give you a glimpse of complaints, their types, and share of complaints against various operators.

Summary of Consumer Complaints FY 2012

Share of Complaints by Category

Cellular Operator Wise Complaints Received and Resolved During 2011-12

Consumer Complaints Against PTCL During 2012

Effective Measure Endorsed as Digital Audience Measurement standard in Pakistan

The Pakistan Advertisers Society (PAS) has officially awarded Effective Measure as the industry endorsed service for digital audience measurement in Pakistan, said a release issued by the firm.

The recognition of the Effective Measure platform will give Pakistan’s advertising, publishing and digital media sectors a new level playing field to accurately assess, measure and develop their valuable digital assets.

PAS is the representative industry body of Pakistan’s advertising industry and its collective membership looks after the interests of 80 percent of the advertising spend of Pakistan.

The endorsement was awarded to Australian founded Effective Measure after a rigorous and thorough review process by the PAS Research Committee. Under PAS’s governing guidelines there will be a yearly independent audit of the service to ensure the reliability and validity of the data to ensure the highest levels of service.

“We have endorsed Effective Measure for their depth in service, technological expertise, global footprint and their guiding principles that will allow them to provide reliable and credible data to the industry” said PAS Executive Director Qamar Abbas.

Under the alliance Effective Measure will be working in collaboration with PAS to establish a world class digital audience measurement service for the Pakistan industry.

“The highest potential for media growth in the MEA region is on the digital platform, given the favourable youth skewed demographics and the strong uptake of smartphones and tablets. Pakistan plays an important role in this swing to digital platforms and advertising spend. We are excited about bringing greater digital transparency and insight into markets in the MEA territories, which we believe will accelerate growth in digital spend and awareness amongst advertisers across the region,” said Effective Measure Regional Managing Director MEA, Brendon Ogilvy.

The Effective Measure solution benefits advertisers and media owners by offering superior access to audience reach and demographic data.

“The alliance gives the dynamic Pakistan media industry, choice and diversity in selecting the best of breed solutions for managing their digital media assets, advertising spend and placement. Additionally it opens the door to a whole new layer of rich data analytics and exploration of audience behaviour across multiple digital platforms,” said Effective Measure Country Manager – Pakistan, Imtiaz N. Mohammad.

PAS members will be instructed on how to take advantage of the new measurement resources that Effective Measure provides and details will follow on how digital publishers can sign‐up with Effective Measure and get their sites tagged free of charge.

Snapdragon 600 based Samsung Galaxy S4 is twice as fast as Galaxy S III and iPhone 5, easily beats HTC One too

Yesterday we got some potentially bad news for Europe – that the Galaxy S4 version in sold in Sweden will use the Snapdragon 600 chipset instead of the Exynos 5 Octa that geeks were hoping for. The same version will be sold in North America. However, then we saw some reassuring benchmarks and now we can add one more.

Primate Labs, makers of the Geekbench app took interest in the Samsung Galaxy S4 performance and made a chart to see how the new Galaxy flagship performs. Using data from a benchmark run by Android Authority, the Primate Labs chart shows that the S4 is over twice as fast as its predecessor.

It also beats the HTC One, which uses the same chipset though at a lower clockspeed (1.7GHz for the HTC, 1.9GHz for the Samsung). As for competition from other platforms, the Apple iPhone 5 scores almost the same as the BlackBerry Z10, both with about half the score of the Galaxy S4.

The Samsung Galaxy S4 used for the benchmark is the Qualcomm Snapdragon 600, meaning it uses slightly updated Krait 300 cores compared to the BlackBerry Z10 and the LG Nexus 4. Also note that the Galaxy S4 used for the benchmark has not been running finalized software.

As Primate Labs points out, the iPhone 5 will be updated soon and the iPhone 5S will improve performance and we’ll have to wait and see how it stacks up. But the Z10 is it for BlackBerry, their other model coming this year, the Q10, uses a lower-end chipset.

Shame that we don’t have a score for the Galaxy S4 version with an Exynos 5 Octa – the Cortex-A15 cores are supposed to blow the Kraits out of the water, battery willing.