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Relationship Building With Your Prospects in Affiliate Marketing
Your success in affiliate marketing will center in two major areas; first, the amount of effort and time invested in learning and properly marketing your products, and, second, the relationships that you will be able to build not only with the customers, but also with the merchants and sub-affiliates which you recruit. Don’t look at people mostly as “dollar signs”; you must take sincere interest in them as people if you are to expect their loyalty and cooperation in helping you build your business.
Here are some important points to consider as you develop these relationships;
1) Try making favorable first impressions. Your website should be attractive, well organized and carefully thought out. Navigation should be easy, with attractive and original content. Leave options for comments and e-mail opt-ins. Answer questions thoroughly and in a timely manner .Media such as audio and video are a plus.
2) Personalize your email communications. Write your correspondence as if you were talking to a friend. Do not push products in your e-mails. These should be used to draw the interest of your customer, and establish your knowledge and authority in related subjects. Let the product more or less sell itself.
3) Try to elicit feedback from your customers in a personal way. For example, you can use a survey form to elicit responses from your customers. People are usually quite willing to answer surveys. These responses will guide your efforts as to how to present your product to entice the customer in a more effective manner.
4) After the sale, be sure to send a “Thank You” note or else refer the customer to a “Thank You” page. Be sure to leave contact info in case there are any issues with the product. If possible, a “Thank You” phone call would be ideal.
5) Establish an honest presence. Do not try to “short-change”. If a customer wants a refund, give it promptly without creating a conflict or argument. A well handled customer complaint can sometimes result in the customer buying one of your other products or referring other customers to your business. Give the customer more than what he or she expects, and your business will grow steadily.
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Affiliate Marketing Basics – Four Things a Beginner Should Know
As I’ve said in my blog, Affiliate Marketing is probably the best, easiest and fastest way to get an internet business up and running. And, as I said, the best way to learn the business is to invest in a training course, preferably one that offers step-by-step instructions on what to do, how to do it (this one’s really important!), and when to do it. You can visit my website to see the one that I use myself.
But before you do that, there are a few things that you need to know about this business.
1) THIS IS A BUSINESS. You’ll need to approach it like one. That means, among other things, you need to take a few minutes to decide just what it is you want to accomplish, and how much work you’re willing to put in. Make some goals, plan your work, and work your plan. I know that you’ve seen offers claiming that you can make millions and work 15 minutes a week. Really?! If you’re trying to make an extra fifty bucks a week, maybe that’s all the effort you need. But if you’re trying to make real money, enough to, say, support a family in style, then I’m afraid you’re gonna have to actually work at this. That said, you won’t have to work 8 or 10 hours a day. But be prepared to give this a few hours (yes, hours, not minutes) a week.
2) This Is Not A Get-Rich-Quick Scheme. Just like anything else in life, anything worth having is worth waiting for and working towards. If you know someone who’s making big money as a lawyer, or doctor, or business owner, I promise you that their success did not come overnight. On the other hand, one of the absolute best things about Affiliate Marketing is that you don’t need 4 years of college plus 3 years of law school or 10 years of medical school and residency before things start to happen. The curve here is much, much shorter. You can see real results in months, not years. Just don’t expect to see success in days.
3) There Will Be Some Costs. If you select a training program, there are costs. If you want to make money on the internet, you’ll need a presence on the internet. That means you’ll need to register a domain (about $ 10 – $ 20 per year, per domain), host it (about $ 5 – $ 10 per month), and, depending on how your model is structured, maybe an autoresponder (about $ 20 per month). That said, the startup costs of an Internet Affiliate Marketing business (about $ 50) are WAY less than the startup cost for a traditional brick & mortar business. So if you’re balking at $ 50 to start a business that could, in less than a year, net you $ 3000 to $ 5000 per month (conservatively), consider that just the franchise fee for most fast-food chains is between $ 30,000 and $ 70,000! And that doesn’t include the building. Or the french-fry machine!
4) This Requires Discipline. To make money as an affiliate marketer, you have to take action, do the work, and keep doing the work. Even when it looks like it’ll never work. Keep at it. Besides, if it took you a whole year to start making $ 5000 a month, ask yourself, do you make $ 5000 a month at your day job? And if you do, how long did it take you to get to that point? I’ll bet it took longer than a few months!
So be disciplined, and be optimistic, and keep working on it. The money will come before you know it! Just keep in mind, every person making a living online today has, at one point asked himself, “What the heck is a blog?!” But, and this is what’s important, they found out, and kept moving forward!
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How Do I Set Up My Affiliate Marketing Campaign?
So by now you have found a product that you want to promote and have a market audience in mind. You have the answer to their problems. You are eager to get started. Now how do you build a campaign in order to sell to them easily, well you might want to think about this one real hard…
You Need a Sales Process Map
What I mean by this is that you have to map out the paths that people will take in order to get to the product you are promoting. Will they read an article you are promoting, click on a link, end up on your page, and then get sent to the product’s pitch page? What will their state of mind be as they go along this path? Figure out what works best for your product and your audience. Every combination is unique.
Traffic Strategies and Consistency
You have to have some traffic generation strategies in place. How are you going to send people to your site or your product’s pitch page? You can use a number of ways like creating videos, PPC, paid, articles, classifieds, etc. Those are just some ways you can generate traffic. The part you should really focus on though is being consistent and persistent. Keep on doing this every day. If you post on forums, then post every day. You can’t just take a shower once, you must do it every day. If not, you will smell bad.
Building Destinations Depending on their State
Is your audience interested in your product or do they have a desire to get it right now? These are the types of things you should know about your target audience. If your audience was just interested in what you had to buy, then you obviously wouldn’t send them to the pitch page. You would need to have a page of your own where you get their name and email address. Then you have a chance to shape (or whip) them into buying what you have to offer. Send them to different places depending on their state of mind.
The Incorporation
Incorporate your marketing campaign into your daily schedule (I bet you thought I was going to say incorporate your company). What do you have to do every day in order to be successful? Write it down on a piece of paper. It should look something like this: 9:00AM – Advertise on forums, 11:00AM – Improve PPC Campaigns, 1:00PM – Split test landing page, etc, etc, etc. Think of this as an action plan. You brainstorm the actions you must take so that you can focus every day.
Hopefully these tips were helpful. You can go ahead and use them now. Remember to be consistent and to test things out. Testing is very important. This is me signing off…
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Three Must Know Tips For Affiliate Marketing Beginners
Affiliate marketing is perhaps the easiest way to create an income on the internet. You do not need to have your own product or even your own website. As easy as it may be, many affiliates struggle to make a living off of it, and it is probably because they are not following these tips…
Choose One Marketing Strategy
The reason that so many new affiliates are saying “how come I’m not making any money?” is because they want to try everything at once. So many beginners are writing articles, managing a PPC campaign, linking, and creating videos right on their first day of being an affiliate. They try to learn everything at once thinking that they will make more. But the truth is you are just spreading yourself to thin. Go out there and look at all the different strategies. Pick one and stick to it for at least 3 months. It is better and much easier than sticking to 10 things for 3 months.
Stick with One Product
Another thing you should be aware of especially when you are just beginning is that you should only market one or two products. As you start getting more successful, you will be mature enough to market 5 products at a time and so on. The reason you should stick to one in the beginning is because you will be able to soak in more knowledge and experience. You will have more focus. You can improve upon your mistakes and have a clearer view of what is going on.
Find a Mentor
This is the most important part. I bet that you are thinking that it is not worth paying for any kind of knowledge or mentorship. The truth is that you will make money much faster if you just let someone else teach you all the shortcuts. Let them build you a foundation and then just add on to it as you go along with your own experiments. You don’t always have to pay for this kind of help; you can simply just read the articles (or videos) of those whom interest you for free. But they always leave important pieces out. Just buy their stuff and see what can happen.
These tips are yours to keep and to follow. You can either ignore me and move on to reading another article, or you can take my advice and apply this into your own life. Remember to keep on learning and keep on adapting, this is me signing off…
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Get Started With Affiliate Marketing the Right Way!
For one reason or another you decided to get involved in affiliate marketing or some other form of online marketing. Regardless of what you are going to do I will try to give you some tips that should help your business take off more smoothly. This will not be one of those “how to get rich quick” guides. While it is possible to make thousands of dollars a day, if you are just starting out, focus on making one sale at a time. This is how real businesses grow and this is by far the fastest way of making money online. Enough chit chat, so how do you get started:
1) Make sure you have realistic goals and expectations. Like I said above it is possible to make a lot of money online. More and more people are using the internet and that means that there are more and more transactions made in the eWorld. If you want to have a piece of this cake you might want to focus on the step you are taking right now. Forget for a second about building a big mailing list if you do not know how to set up an opt in form. Make sure that you know how to set up a blog, Twitter or Squidoo account before you start thinking about lunching a new campaign. Focus on the basics and perfect them instead of looking for that next new trick.
2) Make sure that you are learning from the right people. There are so many educational products coming out every year that I could not even keep track of them, unfortunately not all of them are good. Before buying something look for reviews threw Google or any other search engine. Make sure that the person you are learning from has some experience behind them and is not just another self proclaimed guru who is selling the same rehashed information from years past.
3) Look for free samples or some other way to find out for yourself if the product is worth anything. Most of the guys out there, if they have really quality material, will send you free eBooks, links to some videos and even provide online forums in which you can ask your questions and talk with similar minded folks. Even when you move up to the more advanced stuff expect to see bonuses such as free manuals or training videos. Nothing in this world is free, but a good bargain is something that everyone is entitled to.
These are only 3 quick points but I if you apply them, you will quickly notice that about 70% of products out there just fall to the side. Making money is definitely possible; just make sure you go about it the right way.
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3 Keys to Making Money With Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing is one of the easiest ways to get started making money online. It requires very little money, no product to develop and no inventory to keep. You can operate your business from just about anywhere in the world. So if it is so easy to get started, why isn’t everyone successful at creating a long term profitable Affiliate Marketing business? The internet is loaded with information on just about every topic imaginable. With all this information just a click away, it’s easy to get side-tracked and lose your focus. Everyone has the latest and greatest way to make money online and it is easy to get caught up in all the hype. The next thing you know is you are going from one business plan to another and never following through to the end on any of them. The bottom line is that it all boils down to 3 keys to success.
The first key is to find a good proven product to sell. There are many ways to accomplish this task but one of the more popular ways is to use the Clickbank Marketplace. You must first find a market that people are spending money on. Preferably this market is something that you are personally interested in or have considerable knowledge about. Once you have found a popular market that people are willing to spend money on, you must then find a product or products that are currently “hot” sellers. Using Clickbank’s gravity numbers and % referred numbers can help you determine which products are hot. Take a look at the sales page of the product. Would you buy it? If not, you need to move on to another product.
Once you find your market and product to offer you must then create an opt in list to promote your product. Most unsuccessful marketers will run an ad or publish an article or two and send the people directly to the product’s sales page. The problem with this is that it usually takes about 7-9 contacts or visits before the average person purchases the product. The worst case scenario is they never purchase the product and you never come in contact with that person again. The best case scenario is the person does purchase the product, you make a commission, and you never come in contact with that person again. The only person that benefits in the long run is the product creator. Their product has sold and they have added the person to their list. In order for you to benefit, YOU must capture the person’s name and email address. This will allow YOU to build a long term relationship with that person and in turn build a long term stable business.
Lastly, you must then drive targeted traffic to your list so you can grow that list and have a large base of people that will know you and trust you and follow your recommendations. You can drive traffic to your website by paying for it, (like Google Ads), or free (like Ezine Articles). The quickest way to get targeted traffic to your list is to use a pay per click search engine like Google or Yahoo. However, you must use caution when using this method because if you don’t do it correctly, it can cost you a lot of money quickly and with minimal result. You must decide what is best for you which will depend on your available budget and time to devote to your business. Usually a combination of both free and paid sources to drive targeted traffic to your list is the best.
So that’s it. If you spend your efforts on these 3 keys to making money with affiliate marketing you will be successful. It’s not necessarily easy but it is simple. Do Not Make It Complicated. The most difficult part is getting started. Once you get started and are seeing results, you will be on your way to creating a strong and profitable business. You can do it. You must be committed to doing it. Then, you must take action. You do not need to do it alone. In fact if you do try to do it alone your chances of success are very slim. However, with a proven business model to follow, a mentor or two to provide guidance, and taking consistent action you can and you will succeed.
OK. Now is the time to take action. Go find a product in a market that people are spending money in. Then create a simple opt in list for people to sign up and start promoting that list every chance you get. Remember to stay focused on your business model and take action every day. You will be successful.
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5 Reasons to Reconsider Getting Into Affiliate Marketing
This is probably one of the worst articles for someone like me to write, but I think it will probably save a lot of you some money and frustration. So in the interest of others, here goes.
The first reason has got to be that this is not an easy job. It takes hours of dedication, research and some skill too. All internet marketers will tell you it is super easy, blah, blah, and blah. IT IS NOT. It only becomes easy after months of learning and trial and error, and then it will still take a lot of your time. These people forget how lost they felt when they first started out in this business.
The second reason is that when you start out, you will probably buy a few products, that promises to do all the work for you. The only thing these products do for you is make you poorer, and the guy selling it richer. I come back to this point so many times. If you are going to buy products online, then only buy products that sell information. I equate this to going to school. If you pay money for education, then at least you got something for your buck.
The third reason is that you will probably buy an info product now, and you got there by searching for “make money online”, or some “how to work from home”, or such keyword. I can guarantee you that the first thing they will tell you is to re- advertise the product you just bought. THIS IS HARD. The “make money online” niche is probably the most competitive niche out there. Getting in there when you start from scratch is near impossible, as you are competing with seasoned marketers.
The fourth reason is that if you are middle aged and not used to school, and don’t have the drive to study anymore, DON’T WASTE YOUR MONEY. This takes more studying than I have done in my final year at school.
The last, and maybe the most important, is that if you don’t understand that it takes money to make money, then you can just give up now. Sure, the potential gains are pretty attractive, but you only see how much the guy got in. You don’t see how much he spent promoting these products in the first place.
In conclusion, all I can ad is that I hope you take all these things into consideration before you jump in on the deep end. If you can see yourself avoiding these pitfalls, then maybe you have a shot
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Affiliate Marketing and How it Can Make You Money Online
Affiliate Marketing is a fascinating topic and it is definitely a major tool to make very good amounts of money online. The world is in a state of recession and everyone is experiencing the issues that come along with such financial tightness. There is absolutely no reason why anyone should not give Internet Marketing a try and start earning some extra money online.
Advertising campaigns are more popular than ever. They don’t require you dump loads of money into it and they are pretty cheap. If you get very lucky, they may even be free. If you are in a tight spot and want to have more money, here is a way you can start your Affiliate Marketing career online without having to spend a lot of time doing so.
First you have to pick a niche. Where do you think your business will flourish and have the most potential to shine? All you need to do is start looking for what people are doing on search engines and what they want to know. You can do this with such tools as Google Trends. You also want to find a place that will give you free keyword research. You can also do this using Google Keyword Tool. Keywords are the most important part to a successful Internet Marketing career.
After choosing your niche, you should build a website around the product you wish to sell. You can design a full-blown website or even just create a blog on the topic. How your blog does however, is all up to you. You should make your website eye catching, but it doesn’t need to be. In my opinion, simpler is better and easier to understand.
Your success is all on you. The work you put in is usually what you will get out of it. There are many programs that will push you in the right direction if you get stuck or don’t know where to start. Just remember, keep your head up and stay focused on helping others with their problems and you will be making money online faster than you know it.
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Affiliate Marketing – 2 Important Tips For Newbies
If you have just heard of Affiliate Marketing and seem to be something that would interest you then it’s time to learn about the technique. You must have knowledge of any subject before you start in or else you can waste a lot or your time. There are a huge amount of Affiliate Marketing information on the internet as well as many tools (some free) and techniques that can make your venture successful and profitable.
Here is some information, especially for a Newbie, that will help you get started with Affiliate Marketing:
1. What is Affiliate Marketing? In simple terms, what you are doing is getting visitors to your website so that you can show them the benefits and features of the products or services being offered by the company you have signed the agreement with. You should have a very visible link on your website with a compelling reason for the visitor click. This will immediately send them to the sales page of the company selling these products or services. The visitor will then be able to buy these products and, when they do, you will get an agreed commission.
You do not have to sell the product – that’s up to the owner of the sales page. You are strictly the pre-seller or go-between person.
Affiliate Marketing can be a very lucrative business for you because there is little or no money needed and you have no inventory or responsibility of dealing with returns, complaints or any other customer service.
2. What’s In It for Me? Affiliate marketing can be a great option for your online business. You don’t have to restrict yourself to working with a specific company. You can sign up with as many companies as you want which gives you flexibility and frees you of potential problems if a single company suffers a heavy loss and shuts down. You always have the other companies to support your business.
The efforts required on your part are very low. You can use blogs, forums and even your own website to generate interest in the readers and check out the company in question.
Just as with any business, Affiliate Marketing might take a little time to become successful with your ventures, but stick with it because it’s a great way to earn good money with the least efforts.
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Educating Yourself is the Key to Affiliate Marketing Success
Getting into internet marketing is difficult, not because there is a lack of information, but actually the opposite reason – there is too much information floating around out there! With this information overload individuals become paralysed and unable to take action as their brains are cluttered with too many thoughts, ideas and questions. One of the prime factors in internet marketing success is the ability to sort through all the nonsense, find the valuable information and digest it.
So the question is; how can marketers cut through the hype and select the top products with which to educate themselves? The maxim ‘you get what you pay for’ holds just as true in internet marketing as in any other profession and so marketers serious about training themselves are happy to spend a lot of money on the latest tutorials and info-products for good reasons.
1. There will of course be exceptions, but a paid product will generally be more valuable than a free product. Free products by their nature, exist for reasons other than educating readers, or viewers. Now, there is nothing wrong with free information products, but they tend to be incomplete and the methods, hints and advice that they contain are read by thousands and thousands of people and so become ineffective and out-of-date very quickly. For real and proven methods marketers must go to the leaders in the field, but people who teach valuable methods always charge a premium.
2. There are many information products that are released each day claiming to teach the latest methods, the most lucrative techniques and be the most recent. However, often the only good thing about the product is the sales page! Marketers must be able determine whether the author of the product is offering good value to the customer. One way of doing this is to check the comments in the sales thread if the product is being sold in a forum, as well as checking the prior posts of the author to see if they seem to know what they are talking about. A person who has consistently offered useful information in a forum thread is likely to be supplying even better information in a paid product.
3. Everybody is looking for the shortcut to success, that one thing that will help us hit the bullseye. The truth is though; there is no secret to success online, just a lot of work and learning. If there is a secret, or short-cut, it is to get the best education and then act on it. A high-priced product will offer case studies of successful campaigns and will show in great detail what works and what does not work. Products like these will fast forward your learning and get you to a point of knowledge that would otherwise take many years to discover for yourself. The bottom line is that marketers need to purchase the best products, regardless of cost, that will boost their business
In summary; free information is always incomplete and generally so widely distributed as to be ineffective, reputations are important and when a good reputation is combined with a high-priced product one may assume that this is a quality product. The high cost of quality products is offset by the actionable information contained in the product and the results that it brings when implemented.
