Prosper as an Affiliate Marketer in These Tough Economic Times

As I'm sure you are aware, we're in probably the toughest economic downturn since the Depression. I'm sure some of you have all kinds of crazy thoughts swirling around your brains like "Are my profits going to be wiped away by  derivatives?" and so on. Not to worry, it wont get that far. You can prosper as an affiliate marketer in these tough  But some good news though. Turns out that affiliate marketers have defied the burning flames of the downturn. If anything, the affiliate marketing industry is growing quickly than most people imagined.   Youou can join the growing band of  crisis-immune affiliate marketers if you  apply the following tips.

Focus on Keywords

Keywords  are probably the most important factor for any online business in this crisis. You have to make ranking your keywords as high as possible your primary objective in these tough times. You must re Get started with less competitive(or multi worded) keywords and then work your way down to more popular keywords.Try aiming for top five listing, particularly on Google . Once you succeed you should have no problem ringing  your cash register. For effective keyword research I suggest Rapid Keyword.

Keep in Touch with Potential Customers

Keeping in touch with potential customers  is absolutely critical. Make use of your autoresponder  to send messages to your customers and establish relationships with them. In so doing, you build a huge contact list of these customers who should have subscribed to your newsletter on your affiliate website. You can achieve this goal through social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace. These sites, in a way also act as autoresponders and list builders as they create opportunities for list building. But if you are looking for a traditional autoresponder, try GetResponse.

 Hit on Residual Income

Residual income will come in handy for you in these difficult times. Make one sale and you get paid as long as that customer continues to patronize your product. Now how is that for regular cash flow?  Even better it frees up time for you to go on vacation and other things that you otherwise never had time to do. If you have. When you get back, you can concentrate on promoting your product while the cash register continues to ring. I know of someone who is making residual income from his first sale that he made five years ago. Go figure. If you are looking for affiliate directories that have affiliate programs with residual incomes, I suggest affiliateseeking.com, and affiliateguides.com

Hook Up with the experts. 

If you're just getting started with  Affiliate Marketing,especially in this economic downturn, you need to hook up with the experts. You need to seek out those who've been there and done all that and learn how  they got started and what tactics they employed to be successful in their businesses.  I suggest you sign up for Alan Gardyne's Affiliate marketing newsletter on his associate programs.com forum. He is one of the heavyweights of the affiliate marketing industry. I really learnt a lot  from his newsletter. Another affiliate marketer you definitely want to learn from is Rosalind Gardner. Her best selling  book Super Affiliate Handbook  breaks it down in simple English how she got started and uses real life examples including her own affiliates sites as illustrations of how to succeed in affiliate marketing and much more.


So, it's possible to prosper as an affiliate marketer in these hard times. you just need to be smart by following the above suggestions.. Do that and you should be laughing all the way to the bank