Archive for October, 2008

Successful affiliate marketers usually have a bag of tricks up their cyber sleeves that help with their marketing and sales efforts. Not actually tricks, per say, but preferred methods, some of these work well for some Internet marketers, some work better for others. So experiment to see which ones work best for you and your campaigns and promotions.

1) Even though the affiliate products may come with their own sites, you may want to set up your own website as a central base for all of your promotions. This site will help bring prospects and clients back to your site instead of that of your affiliates Plus it can definitely help in cases where the affiliate products are discontinued or sold out, resulting in dead affiliate links or redirects to entirely new products or simply the affiliate’s own website.

2) You may want to set up a niche blog for each niche category of products you are selling and then link the blog to your main web site above. On the blog, post articles, comments, digital photos and other images, audio / video clips, text snippets and other information about your products, with each post linking to the product sales page through a banner, classified of other type of ad. Invite blog visitors to contribute and interact for example, by posting comments and by completing surveys.

3) Set up a leads capture form with an autoresponder learning series of messages about your products for your website visitors. Invite people to sign up and receive a freebie, like a free report or guide about your products. Then insert an ad spot with sales link at the end of each message in your learning series.

4) Create short classified ads inviting people to sign up and get your freebies and read your blogs. Add these classifieds with links and autoresponder email addresses in your emails, forum posts, blog posts and other communications, online and off. Add them to your business cards, postcard, newsletters, flyers and brochures.

5) Seek help continually through forums, articles, ezines, magazines and other media for your affiliate marketing needs so that you can keep up to speed, growing your strategies as technology advances. Seek help in your niches, too, to keep up with information in your fields of interest.

6) Network with others to team up on joint efforts. You could promote to each others lists or create products and campaigns together, for example.

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Just like with nearly everything else in life, there are good things and bad things about affiliate programs. Learn more about each and you’ll have a healthier, happier affiliate marketing program in place for your business.

Here is some tips to help you sort through the good and the bad with affiliate programs:

1. Make sure you understand the program before you go through the process of signing up and setting up marketing and sales promotions. For example, if payout levels are so high that you need 5 or more sales before you receive any commission, you may want to rethink your plans if you need extra income now. Some affiliate programs pay immediately after a sale is made.

And with some affiliate programs involving blogs, in order to qualify, your blog has to meet certain requirements, like having the entire blog posts show on the home page and not just excerpts. So check in advance.

2. Look for good, quality products in the affiliate program. No one wants junk, even if it’s not yours that you are selling. And people do remember where they shop. So focus on maintaining a good relationship and sell only good products.

3. Research the affiliate program first to make sure members are making money. You can begin by reading through testimonials on the affiliate program sites and contacting the people who sent in positive comments to see if they are still satisfied and making money.

4. Some affiliate programs pay out under 10 percent, others pay 50 percent and more. In order to make the most ROI (return on investment) of your time, effort and marketing campaigns and funds, choose programs where their compensation plan pays out 30 percent or more as you are starting out. If you want to go lower after you are established, you may consider changing this strategy later.

5. Choose affiliate programs that have products for your target market. You want to make sure there is a need for the items, otherwise, you’ll be wasting your time, effort and money with promotions.
Use free tools like the software to check out the number of searches performed each month on your products’ keywords.

You can find some related tools here:

• Keyword Research Tools
• 101 Online Business Software Store

If at least 10,000 people are not searching for your product, choose something else to start with, so you have plenty of traffic possibilities.

6. Choose an affiliate program that has stats so you can monitor your progress.

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