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"Discover How You Can Cash-In On this Booming Online Digital Media Trend Before Others Realize It"

A turn-key, ready-made opportunity with
no inventory, no overhead and no employees
-- that enables you to quickly and easily
create a valuable additional income stream for yourself with ZERO investment down!

 

Dear Entrepreneurs and Internet Marketers,

You probably know that to be successful, you can do three things:
 
1. Ride on a Wave / Trend
When you jump on a hot trend at the right time, you can make a fortune. We've seen it happen many times before. In the early Internet days, did you see the beginning of the e-commerce trend? Well, Pierre Omidyar and Jeff Skoll did and they wasted no time after realizing that the Internet would become a global marketplace for the sale of goods and services. In 1995, we saw the birth of their Internet auction site. No prize for guessing what happened to it... eBay is well known all over the world!

2. Partner With A Successful Giant
If Steve Jobs offers you partnership in his ipod business before he officially launched it to the public, would you jump in? I don't know about you but I definitely would. Steve Jobs has proven himself with lots of creative innovations and will continue to successfully bring Apple Computer, Inc. to new heights. If you've read his commencement address to 2005 graduates of Stanford University, you can get a glimpse of what this 'stay hungry. stay foolish' giant's life motto is and his zest for pursuing things he loves to do. Chances of you succeeding are significantly increased if you can partner with someone or some company who has the experiences to avoid obstacles and challenges along the way.

3. Model Yourself After the Best Individual
If you want to become or stay the best, you must know more than what your competitors are up to. Likewise, if you want to make money, then you have to look at what business have created the most millionaires. With the digital revolution, many individuals have made their wealth through various Internet businesses in far less time than it takes for the traditional businesses where millionaires are made. What can you learn from this?

I can't promise you'll be the next eBay nor Steve Jobs will offer you a partnership, but I can promise you these:

  • You can ride on the waves of an amazing trend
  • You can partner with a reputable company to ride on this trend
  • You can leverage on the power of the Internet to make money in this trend

Interested? Read on... 

"Discover a quick and easy path into an
incredibly fast-growing online sector"

Every twenty years or so since the Industrial Revolution, a group of new technologies has had a major impact on economic life. I'm sure you've heard of a few of these trends that have made people rich beyond their wildest dreams...

  • Steam power
  • Railroads
  • Telegraph and Telephone
  • Electricity
  • Road transport
  • Radio
  • Air transport
  • Television
  • Computers
  • Information Technology
  • Internet
Just imagine the kind of fortune you might have made if you had known these trends well in advanceHow many more trends are you going to miss out on? Sit up and pay attention. Put up your radar and do not let more ships sail off without you.

If you look closely at the above trends, they can be classified as general enabling technologies (such as electricity or steam power) which change the way production is organized or consumer technologies (such as television) which create new consumer goods that command a large fraction of household time or expenditure.

Enabling technologies transform business life. Consumer technologies transform domestic life.

The Internet transforms both business and domestic lives. Has it become a part of your life? Look at your work place and your home. We might laugh at some people who claimed that they cannot live without the Internet.

But it is true. 

These people cannot live without Internet. They are not sick, they are tech enthusiasts  -early technologies adopters before the rest of the world catches on. They write blogs, they listen to podcasts and watch online videos, they have the latest MP3 players, they play Second Life and so on. The digital revolution is here. The digital lifestyle era has begun! Are you listening?

Knowledge Worker, Continual Learning
Various Online Digital Media
Growing Sales of MP3 Players and Other Digital Devices
No Time, Save Time, Buy Time

Look at the terms above, can you deduce the extraordinary income opportunity emerging from the hottest new trend that's revolutionizing the world we live in?

If your answer is online digital media distribution, then you've hit bull's eyes! More money is going to change hands with this digital media trend than almost any other Internet business in the next decade. Online digital media delivery is one of the fastest-growing market sectors on the Web that is expected to create more millionaires than any other income opportunity this decade. Just look at the huge success of YouTube, iTunes and the podcasting phenomenon.

It is precisely this reason that Merlion Audio is formed to provide audiobooks to the new digital generation. This opportunity is so exciting that it could ultimately compete with printed books as the Internet's top selling product line.

Here are solid statistics:

In 2004, the off-the-shelf audiobook industry (i.e. cassettes and CDs) was $800 million strong (Source: Audio Publishers' Association).

By the end of 2005, audiobooks sales had reached an estimated $871 million. That means it grew by 4.7% in 1 year (Source: Audio Publishers' Association).

Nearly one in four Americans (24.6%) have listened to an audiobook in the past year. (
Source: Audiobook Market Survey: Customer Profile, Usage Patterns, and Experiences published by The Audio Publishers Association (APA) Sep 2006)

Audiobook Market Demographics -
The Audiobook Market Survey by The Audio Publishers Association (APA)defines the typical audiobook listener in the United States.

Compelling demographic data shows
(Affiliate Tip
: Target your market)

  • younger listeners,
  • split evenly between male and female
  • live in slightly larger households (many with children) 
  • command a higher income than has been reported in previous surveys.
  • have more education and buy and read more printed books than non-listeners.

Audiobook listeners are well-read and ardent fans of both the spoken and the written word.


But as with all trends, if you act fast you stand to make the most money on a long-term basis once you've staked your virtual real estate (websites)

Within the next year or two, everyone and their family will jump on this digital media bandwagon and try to steal the lion's share of profits. But by then, it'll be too late because forward thinking pioneers like yourself would have already secured your share of this multimillion-dollar pie

I urge you to read this webpage carefully. I don't want you to miss a word because when you "get this" you'll stay awake all night while your brain explodes with income possibilities you've never dreamed of

Mark my word:

"Downloadable spoken word audio; in one form or another will OUTSELL printed books within 10 years. Furthermore, downloadable audio will OVERTAKE printed books as the No. 1 top selling product line on the Web."

Here's the compelling reason why you can make additional income if you act fast. 

People are busier than ever -- and time has become a dwindling commodity. Therefore, people are constantly looking for ways to make the most use of their "dead time" -- such as the time they spend commuting, jogging, gardening, working out, doing chores, running errands, etc. 

Faith Popcorn, world famous trend forecaster, marketing futurist, and author of the Popcorn Report and other bestselling books on consumer trends, wrote: "Time is the new money. People would rather spend money than time. Anything that can put time back into your life is a good investment."


With the rising popularity of MP3 players such as the iPod, people have just started to discover that music is not the only thing they can listen to while going about their day. 

Downloadable audiobooks not only fills a need but it also meets an enormous demand - a demand that will only get bigger as time goes on because its growth coincides with the explosion of MP3 players and other digital devices. At the time of this writing, Apple has sold more than 90 million iPods since the product was launched in October 2001 -- and there's no end in sight as far as the demand is concerned. And what about other MP3 players? You do the figures!

41 mln MP3 players to ship in 2007
MP3 players continue to drive the audio market. CEA projects that MP3 players will account for 90% of the $6 bln in revenues for the portable entertainment market. 34 mln MP3 players shipped in 2006 and an additional 41 mln are expected to ship in 2007,

26.7% of US households have an MP3 player
26.7% of US homes own or rent an MP3 player. Households with the presence of children 12-17 years of age are nearly 2-1/2 times more likely to own or rent an MP3 player than compared to the US totals. The share of homes owning an MP3 player has risen by 149.5% since Q3 2003, Nielsen Media Research reports.

100 mln digital music players sold by 2011
As the MP3 digital music player market moves beyond early adopters who purchase multiple devices and upgrade regularly, the user base will steadily increase from 37 mln in 2006 to over 100 mln in 2011. JupiterResearch also finds that the installed base of mobile phones capable of playing MP3 quality songs will surpass the number of music devise users beginning in 2009, but actual usage of music phones is nascent in the US.


Now, people can "listen" to books, teleseminars, lectures and podcasts while they're on-the-go -- and when they don't have time to read. And since today's selection of downloadable audio books is not limited to just fiction and literary works, but runs the gamut from how-to manuals to business books and self-help information, today's mobile society has found out that they can download an unlimited amount of information into their brain, learn a skill, enjoy a murder mystery or an epic romance novel -- and even increase their cultural literacy instead of listening to drive-time radio.

Audio books and other spoken word recordings have become brain food for the time-strapped multi-taskers of the world!

Here's more reasons why I know without a doubt that downloadable spoken word audio is poised for an explosive takeoff:

As of this year, almost all new cars are now capable of playing digital audio files. Ninety-seven million Americans drive alone to work everyday, and commuters are stuck in traffic an average of 62 hours per year. That's 32% of the entire U.S. population -- and that doesn't even include those who commute by bus, train or car pool! Hence, the huge popularity of audio books with commuters. Now that audio books can be easily played in cars, their popularity will surely skyrocket even further.

More than 25% of US consumers can play MP3s in their cars

More than 25% of US consumers own MP3 player equipment for their vehicles, according to Consumer Electronics Association. This may seem like a far cry from the majority (97%) who own the long time standard AM/FM radio, but the new study shows digital audio alternatives have gained a significant foothold in the automotive electronics market. MP3 players, cell phones, mobile and portable video navigation and factory-installed autosound equipment contributed to the $6 bln (27%) growth of mobile technologies in 2005. CEA estimates that $27 bln worth of mobile electronics products was shipped in 2005 and more than $30 bln will be shipped in 2006.


When you add up the number of book lovers (who'll be transitioning from printed books to audio books), multi-taskers (who'll be buying audio books to make use of their "dead time") and commuters (who want something to get them through the rush hour), what total do you come up with? Why, that’s practically the entire adult population! And that's not even considering the huge children's market that's fast embracing downloadable audio books.

Excited? Here's a plan detailing how you can get involved in this rapidly expanding market place. You can take and run with it:

  1. Hire a team of highly experienced programmers to develop your very own digital media distribution system. This will take a few years.
  2. Spend several more years demonstrating the newly developed system to the big publishers in a bid to persuade them to allow you to add their content. When they finally agreed you'd move on to step 3.
  3. Start the arduous task of drafting up legal agreements with the publishers lawyers.
  4. Finally, execute; the incredibly time consuming task of converting tens of thousands of hours from CD and cassette into a digital format suitable for downloading.

I've missed out several other major steps in the process, but I'm sure you get an idea as to what a massive project this is.

But there is an Alternative! And it's one that means you don't have to do any of the above, because you can leverage the work that someone else has already done. That's where Merlion Audio comes in...

"Why Partner With Merlion Audio?"

Merlion Audio is a Professional Downloadable Audiobook Mega-Store consisting of over 5000 audiobook titles from the world's leading publishers (with new audiobooks added every week). This means you can offer a huge range of titles to your website visitors covering over 160 different categories -- everything from self-help and business through to best-selling fiction titles from authors like Dan Brown, James Patterson, Stephen King, Michael Connelly, Patricia Cornwell, Nancy Taylor Rosenberg, Tom Clancy, Jack Canfield, Ken Blanchard, Robert G. Allen, Robert T. Kiyosaki and many more. This is the creme de la creme of audiobooks from publishers like, Harper Collins, Simon & Schuster, BBC, Time Warner (Hachette), etc.

The downloadable audiobook prices are, on average, 35% lower than their physical audiobook counterparts found in off-line bookstores. This means you'll attract a larger share of the audiobook buyers.

All our data (including photos of every audiobook, and streaming audio samples) is continually updated. This includes new releases and book promotions from publishers. We provide you with a multitude of special offers you can promote each month. We will also notify you to time your promotional efforts with special occasions and buying seasons where we offer coupon codes to drive sales or to reward customers. All our valued customers are also offered discounts.

Merlion Audio Affiliate Program

You earn between 12%-18% commission on all sales generated by you. This is higher than industry payouts of other online retailers. You will be paid every month automatically via Paypal. In fact, our backend system handles all financial transactions, refunds and charge-backs, if any. 

As an audiobook affiliate of Merlion Audio, you don't have to worry about media licensing, new content from publishers, hosting all of the audio files, provide streaming for audio samples etc. Merlion Audio takes care of it.

You can run your website(s) hands-free. Whenever someone orders from your website(s) all of the back-office work such as credit card transactions, digital delivery of the audiobook and technical support are done for you. There's nothing required of you to get started, all you have to do is add your affiliate links on your website(s) and drive traffic to it.

Since you're earning from 12% on every sale (higher than what other online retailers pay), how much money can you expect to make? Well, depending on the kind of traffic you bring to our mega-store, you could make anywhere from decent to phenomenal profits. Whether you make part-time or full-time income is up to you. 

Commission Structure

We reward your promotional efforts based on sales you generated.

 Affiliate Level

Commission 

 Bronze
 Automatically upgrade to Silver the following month when monthly sales exceed USD3,000

 12%

 Silver
 Automatically upgrade to Gold the following month when monthly sales exceed USD5,000

 15%

 Gold

 18%

Note: All of our affiliates start from Bronze level. There are exceptions - for example, if you are an experienced top affiliate with track records, we will be happy to review your application and start you off at a higher commission level. Email us for more information.

Sidenote: We encourage our affiliates to earn an income not only from referral sale of our audiobooks. Affiliates can also generate valuable additional income stream by having Google AdSense ads displayed on their site. You can display your own banner ads on your sites promoting other sites you run. This means that you can promote other suitable products (as long as it is within our affiliate terms and conditions) to your visitors for which you're an affiliate. You could even sell the ad space to other web site owners! 

Here's where this gets really irresistible...

Start Getting Your Ideas Flowing

If you own non-commercial content-only websites or blogs that feature specialized information on things such as golf, karate, cooking, sailing, handicrafts, you can now add a hands-free profit center in the form of a customized webpage selling downloadable audio books about your specialty. 

Merlion Audio offers you the chance to sell downloadable audiobooks to all of your visitors. You would have your own online "niche" site specific audio titles or a collection of titles within a specific niche. You could choose titles from Merlion Audio online audiobook mega-store. For example, you could have "all-things-Shakespeare" audiobook store or an audiobook store that sells items of interest to scrapbooking afficionados or tennis enthusiasts; or choose from a wide variety of niche markets -- and the audiobook niche site would link to Merlion Audio main mega-store which may help you to get more sales from other titles your visitors buy.

You could also be people or organizations in specialized markets like churches (that might want to sell audio Bibles or audiobooks by T.D. Jakes, Joel Osteen and other Christian leaders); book clubs (that might want to sell bestsellers to their members); foreign language study groups (that could sell Chinese/Mandarin Language Learning resources, or Japanese, English or Spanish as a Second Language). 

If you happen to be fundraisers for schools and organizations -- Merlion Audio can offer you a brand new way to raise money by creating a customized audiobook website with items that would be of interest to prospective donors. (This is better than selling the usual chocolates, greeting cards or magazine subscriptions -- and their donors would LOVE buying downloadable audio books, for a change).

As online entrepreneurs and commercial website owners that are looking to earn additional revenues by having a niche audiobook store selling items that would be of interest to your customers, I invite you to share with Merlion Audio what you have in mind and we will try our best to work out something for you.

And what's the cost to you? 

ZERO Investment. No cost down, period.

If you have no technical skills or have never built a website before, we will also provide some support at a nominal fee. Merlion Audio will not leave you to fend for yourself. We will give you all the support you'll need to make your business soar. All you do is bring your entrepreneurial spirit and the drive to make a success out of it.

Once you signed up, you'll have access to your Merlion Audio Membership Area where you can signup for our audiobook Affiliate Program and have access to various marketing tools, real-time sales report and etc. 

You are promoting a fully-stocked online audiobooks store consisting of over 5,000 titles from the world's leading audiobook publishers, with new content being added weekly
You get paid between 12%-18% for sales through your affiliate sites.
Detailed real-time reports that show you how many sales you've made and which titles are selling best.
A dedicated support site for customers you refer where we will handle all of the technical queries so you don't have to.
A powerful link generating tool so that you can quickly create text or graphical links for your own sites with your own affiliate links.
The SellDirectTM feature gives you the ability to create ecommerce enabled mini-sites without having to worry about the backend processing system [see below]

The ContentDirectTM feature, Merlion Audio can provide you with content pages on a best effort basis.

The SellDirectTM Technology

This feature we provide can help you with the code you need to easily create customized audiobook sites for yourself and add to your own-branded sell-through sites.

Here's how it works in a nutshell: 

  1. You simply add some snippets of code generated by SellDirectTM Technology to your site.
     
  2. People order from your site - the whole sales process appears as though it's happening on your site (even though it's actually being processed at our end). 

Affiliate Tip: If you create a site to sell Audiobooks for a topic of interest, the sales page, order page, thank-you page and download page could all have exactly the same graphical header. This increases sales dramatically, because it reduces shopping cart abandonment by customers that might get confused (or discouraged) when they are transferred from your sales site to another when placing an order.

Are You Ready? Get Set And Go, Go, Go!

Since you've read this far, I'm assuming you're very interested in becoming our Merlion Audio affiliate partner. You now only have one one question to ask yourself: 

"Am I Qualified As Your Affiliate Partner?"

Before you get all excited about Merlion Audio’s Affiliate Program, there are only two qualifications you must have and criteria you must satisfy in order to be successful as our affiliate partner.

1) You must be computer literate and ideally have a basic working knowledge of how to use an HTML editor, or are willing to learn to use one. If you are technically challenged, you are welcome to join the optional Merlion Audio Private Forum at $5/month where we will assist you by answering all questions you may have in your online business. Chartered members get access to it free, opt-in to the signup form below to find out how.

2) You need to treat it as a real-world business. You must have a burning desire and be willing to devote your time to promoting it. Although there's a ZERO investment down, it warrants your full attention to market it. You’re investing your time in one of the fastest-growing multi-million dollar industries - an industry that has an amazing growth rate, with a product line for which there’s an insatiable demand.

1. Ride on a Wave/Trend
Online Digitial Media Delivery: Audiobooks

2. Partner With A Successful Giant
Merlion Audio, Spoken Network System Licensee

3. Model Yourself After The Best Individuals, Who Have Proven Their Success Over Time

The Internet has created more millionaires than any other industry. As a Merlion Audio affiliate, you have 

- no employees
- no inventory
- no overhead
- and no time commitment (you work as many, or as few, hours as you want -- and choose what time of day or night you want to work) 

... and furthermore, you won't be tied down to the same location but will be free to run your business from anywhere in the world, even while sitting on a beach in Hawaii.

You know yourself whether our affiliate program is right for you.

I hope you recognize this hot trend as an opportunity for you to create an additional income stream that will pay you dividends for years to come if you promote it the right way.

If you are a person that sits on an opportunity and does nothing, then this is not for you.

If you are a doer, for your future net worth, I hope you'll ride the coat-tails of this hot trend and make full use of what I have presented to you while our program is still open. An opportunity like this may never come your way again.

That said, I look forward to welcoming you to the Merlion Audio's Audiobook Affiliate Program.

To get started promoting and profiting as soon as you can, simply Fill in your First Name and Primary Email in the form below. You will then have access to instructions via email to sign up for our Audiobooks Affiliate Program.

 We respect your privacy and will never rent, sell or giveaway your details.


To Your Success!
The Merlion Audio Team

P.S. This is a great opportunity to be involve in a growing industry and make money as our affiliate partner.

P.P.S. If you have any questions you'd like to ask before joining our Affiliate Program, please do not hesitate to let us know. We're here to help. Please send your questions to adminATmerlionaudio.net (replace AT with @).


 


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