September 2015 – Page 2 – TP Javeton WebNet

Resume components and objective

The resume document is comprised of one or two-pages summarizing an individual’s career objectives, professional experiences and achievements, and his/her educational background. If you are the preparer of your own resume, its heading should contain your name, address and contact information, while the body of your resume should be broken into these sections: career objective, profile summary, professional experience, achievements, scholastics, and references.

While your career objective should be brief (up to two sentences), it should give your potential employers an idea of how you wish to move forward in your professional life. A concise profile or a summary should discuss who you are and how your skills and experience best apply to the job in which you are interested. The summary, as well as other parts of your resume, should not contain personal information that discloses ethnicity, sexual orientation, marital status, age, living situations, or any other personal information that is not directly related to your career.

Personal profile summary should only contain a few well-written sentences that convey what you can bring to the table in terms of the specific job for which you have applied. It is recommended that you use this section to attract the employer’s attention, but don’t go overboard in trying to be creative; keep it professional. Your experience listing should include information on one to five jobs you’ve held, starting with your current or last job, and listing previous positions in chronological order.

More about the resume

In addition, your education should include college, graduate and post-graduate work, as well as any courses or professional certifications which are relevant to your career development. Achievements, volunteer positions, publications and interests should be listed only if they are relevant to your professional work experience; and references should be listed if requested; best practices suggest not to list generic statements about references being available upon request as this is understood. Keep the information relevant and concise ion order to present your well-written resume to potential employers.

The Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Curriculum Vitae or CV is a collection of documents that describe your education and professional history, focusing on your achievements and showcasing higher level of detail than a resume. Individuals who typically use CV as a form of application are those seeking positions in education, entrance into graduate and post-graduate programs, and/or research; and they are required, in most cases, to discuss their professional philosophies.

While resumes are often limited to one or two pages, a CV is comprised of a compilation of documents, and has no limit on length; which means it can extend over several pages (typically four or five pages, but can be more based on experience and achievements). In this respect a Curriculum Vitae contains similar information as your resume, but it places greater emphasis on education and scholastic accomplishments.

Philosophically speaking

Unlike your resume, a CV would contain information on scholarships you may have received; texts or research you have completed and published; grants you received; community and volunteer work; teaching philosophy; and other such academic work. You will begin by listing your career objective, in summary form, to showcase the level of commitment you have to your goals and the steps/actions you are willing to take in order to achieve them.

If you are applying for a teaching position, for example, you would provide a brief outline of your teaching philosophy. Immediately following your goals, you’d list your achievements, highlighting your education first. Here, you can mention your thesis project or dissertation, courses that support your career objective, publications and research (in progress or completed), certifications, studies abroad, languages, etc.

In concluding your CV

Following the goals and achievements section should be a section for your experience which should emphasize a work history that supports your career objective. This should be the extent to which you go in providing information and therefore should conclude your CV. If you are unsure which form of application to use, do the appropriate research and create a resume or CV that best fits the format commonly accepted in your industry.

A perplexing Web-based marketplace?

The Web-based business structure is a bit more puzzling than the standard offline business prototypes most of us have been familiar with before being introduced to all the new technology driven businesses that have sprung up over the last two decades; and if you are not really knowledgeable about Web-based business models and the digitally advanced marketplace in which exist, then it may be doubly perplexing.

It’s a cold, hard fact, but those who fall into the “not-really-knowledgeable” category will be left completely blank, asking themselves what type of online business is best for them; but if and when they find the answer to that question, it may very well have something to do with affiliate marketing, a business model defined by revenue sharing relationships between advertisers, merchants and sales driven networks (merchants, for purpose of this post); and Web-based publishers and affiliates (affiliates, for the purpose of this post).

Affiliate marketing is a low cost marketing method which many merchants utilize to sell their products and services. In this type of Web-based business, a merchant doesn’t have to take as many risks as compared to other businesses because s/he is not required to pay an affiliate unless, and until, the affiliate’s activities result in a sale. Once a customer is referred by an affiliate and that customer makes a purchase, a portion of the profit from the sale to that customer will be paid to the affiliate as commission.

The cream of the affiliate crop

Usually an affiliate receives a commission for referring clicks, leads or sales to the merchant’s website; but the affiliate income can be a fixed dollar amount or a percentage of sales produced. From this simple commission-based referral system, some affiliates become experts on this field. In fact, some of them have been known to earn more than five figures every month as a result of their prolific marketing methods and the resulting sales.

However, among the thousands of affiliate marketers on the Web, it is only a very low percentage (between 1 to 5) of them that have attained the level of success which can be referred to as super affiliate; and if you’re among the lucky ones who achieve this so-called elite level, you can then be aptly referred to as a “super” affiliate.

This means you are capable of achieving noteworthy percentages of product sales, or traffic to your merchant’s website. Super affiliates are not only experts on search engine optimization, they are also excellent operators in methods such as newsletter marketing, email marketing, reciprocal linkages, keyword optimization, link exchanges, advertising in forums and other methods to advertise and promote their products and services.

from affiliate to super affiliate

So the question is, how does an average affiliate (or average John/Jane Doe) become a super affiliate? And how can s/he overachieve a way into super affiliate stardom? If you, as an aspiring super affiliate, wanted to make your way to super affiliate stardom, the first thing you will need to know and accept is the fact that it will not be as easy as you might imagine; and it surely won’t happen overnight. Keep in mind that you will need to embrace some tactics, get active in effective online business strategies, and of course, make a hefty time commitment to that objective.

You can’t be a super affiliate without the requisite blood, sweat and some tears that the super affiliate trailblazers have experienced on their way to success; and you certainly can’t do it without the following traits: patience, persistence and thirst for knowledge. Matched with an effective, efficient strategy, these three traits will provide you with a workable formula towards super affiliate stardom.

Affiliate marketing strategies are a bit difficult but they are achievable; you just have to work hard on them. First, look for a unique and exceptional niche and focus on it. Keep in mind that the reason individuals in the affiliate marketing business didn’t turn out to be very successful is because they tried to offer too many varied products (everything under the sun?), instead of devoting all their attention in a particular niche market.

Focus, focus, focus!

If you want to become a super affiliate, try not to scatter all your efforts; concentrate on your niche and make it grow by means of promoting, advertising and selling it well. The next step you must take after you have established your affiliate store house is to promote it. Most affiliates resort to pay-per-click engines; but what’s more advisable is to learn how you can create organic search results. Or better yet, hire a search engine marketing company; and through this entity, you can avoid losing your profits on pay-per-click search engine ads.

Then, familiarize yourself with your product and know your audience. Remember that credibility builds trust, and you can only provide information that boosts your credibility through your knowledge of the products and services you offer via your website. If your target audience don’t trust you, how could you expect them to purchase from your affiliate storehouse? Moreover, if you take time to learn the products and services you are recommending, it will be very easy for you to establish a website that converts well, which will enhance your affiliate income in return.

Try to promote and resell products from different merchants, as there is absolutely nothing wrong with this strategy since it is just a way of protecting your business and broadening your horizons. This methodical expansion helps to protect you from the so-called famine effect. Aside from that, promoting different merchants on the same site provides your site visitors a handful of destinations to choose from. This strategy will also make you aware on what your visitor want to see; and it can also help you find out how well various merchants perform against each other.

Thirsting for knowledge is a positive trait

As mentioned earlier in this page, a super affiliate wannabe should have this trait – thirst for knowledge. It is because this trait can help him/her stay up-to-date and remain on top of the trends. If you are knowledgeable in internet marketing, then you know that what was adopted few months ago may not be applicable at today. So it is important to seek knowledge and make sure that you are updated on what’s new about affiliate marketing on a daily basis.

Keep in mind also, that super affiliates take time to read, learn and embrace the changes in other Web-based marketing businesses. Ultimately what is most important is to never, ever give up; because being engaged in the affiliate marketing business is hard, that’s why you must be equipped with patience and persistence. Check your statistics and find out what things are working and those that are not; and make changes if the situation demands.

These are just few suggestions and ideas you could study and utilize if you really want to boost your affiliate income. However, this is important enough for me to reiterate: you have to be patient, persistent and knowledgeable. Then, you must adhere to the above mentioned strategies, and you could really find yourself on the road to super affiliate stardom.