Affiliate Marketing is exciting And it's also the easiest way to make money online. But let nobody fool you- It takes time effort and old fashioned persistence to rake in the cash. And you need to be creative as well. People have planted this misguided notion in their heads that Affiliate marketing is a one trick pony. That you can laugh all the way to the bank overnight. If that were the case, there would be no need to to bust our behinds would we? However, in as much as you want to work hard to reach the promised land, you have to work smart as well. Let me show you a few tools to help set you apart from other affiliates.
Get Yourself A Website/blog
You need to get yourself a website/blog. Sure you can succeed in affiliate marketing without a website but a website/blog can help you in terms of tracking statistics about various aspects of your marketing such as number of visitors to your website, sales, return of orders e.t.c Most importantly, it helps increase your earnings and if visitors to your website like the information and the products they will pay you a return visit over and over again. Your website/blog doesn't need to be fancy but it must be smart in appearance and design. You can use a strategy such as use of landing pages to get people to sign up to your newsletter by compiling their email addresses and then broadcast email messages through an autoresponder to your subscribers with updates about latest products and information on your website/blog. This should earn your subscribers' strike
Just merely slapping flashy banners and links on your site will not help rake in the cash. Three words will help you rake in the cash-----information, information, information. As the old Internet Marketing goes, information is king. The only way your cash register is going to start ringing is if you provide your readers with information for them to even consider buying your product. The information you provide should satisfy a growing need need with a view to helping them solve a problem. Another way you could help your readers is writing reviews of products within your chosen niche. These reviews should help your readers make a buying decision so long as the content is of interest to them.
Most importantly by writing these reviews, you establish yourself as an expert in your niche . You provide value for your readers and improve your rankings on the search engines. Even better, you build a loyal following who of course come to trust the information that you give them.
Give Out Incentives
If you want people to really purchase your products, give out incentives. Incentives are basically freebies which you use to entice people to buy your product. The freebies could be an ebook, free software, e.t.c, so long as they are tied to your niche.This strategy is a lot more effective especially if you are getting to people to sign up to your newsletter. To get them to sign up to your newsletter get their names and email addresses online. Once you've gathered all their contact details, you send valuable information to your subscribers on updates on your products through the email autoresponder that i referred to earlier. Of course you also send information that will be of help to them as well. By sending this information regularly, you build trust among your subscribers that I also mentioned earlier. In so doing you get one leg up on the competition.
Do Serious Link Building
You may like to hear this but you need to do serious link building. So long as you write quality content, webmasters in your niche may consider linking to it. Article Marketing is one way of building links.... Just write and submit articles relating to your niche to as many article directories as possible You then place your website/blog link in the resource box for readers and the traffic will start flowing to your site. However, if you find having to manually send your articles to these directories too much of a drag, there is software that can help you send your articles to all the directories at one go. This strategy saves you precious time and energy . Another way to build links with other webmasters is by visiting forums that are relevant to your niche. Sign up with forums related to your niche and post your link in these forums. There you help other forum members with problems marketing their sites by offering solutions as to how to go about marketing their sites. . The more you help forum members the more forum traffic will be heading in your direction, and possibly converting to sales.
Well, that's a wrap on "A Few Tools To Help Set You Apart From Other Affiliates" Hopefully the above suggestions will help propel your affiliate marketing business to the next level.
Cheers!
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Monday, September 10, 2012
A Few Suggestions on Making Money With Affiliate Networks
Signing up with affiliate networks has become real exciting for a lot of people. You have a whole host of products to choose from, and not only that. But you can choose as may as you want....If you can handle them all. Of course there is also tons of money to be made from promoting these products. But there are fundamental steps you need to take as an affiliate marketer to succeed if you want to see prosperity flowing tom your end. Here are a few suggestions on how to make money with affiliate networks.
Choose Your Niche
When I say choose your niche I mean choose an area that addresses a need. Choose a subject where area that nobody but you is the expert. You do not want to choose a niche where competition is keen. You will be crowded out if you do.Most importantly you must have a passion for that subject. Your readers will tell right away whether you are you are lying through your teeth or not .Have fun with i then the money will start flowing.
The exciting aspect about affiliate networks is that they have thousands of products for you to promote in your subject area. If you find a product you want to promote but you want to know a little bit more about it, do a little research. Read reviews on the product or ask about it on affiliate marketing forums. That ought help you decide whether you want to promote the product or not.
Offer Them A Freebie
One way to get readers interested in your product is to offer them a freebie. You could write an ebook on your subject area and give it to them for free. It could be do's and dont's or free tips . The report shouldn't be too long(about 20-60 pages). But it should cover the same niche as the products you are trying to promote. Of course it will be strange if your report has nothing to do with the niche you are dealing in.
Create a Squeeze Page
A squeeze page is perfect especially for your ebook. Some of you are probably wondering "What in the world is a squeeze page?" Well, a squeeze page is a landing page you use to opt-in or sign up readers as subscribers to your newsletters. You basically collect their email addresses and then send emails through an autoresponder such as Aweber, informing them about new information on your blog or sight and information about latest products that you are promoting. Having an autoresponder is absolutely crucial as it captures the email subscribers of your newsletter. Squeeze pages are known to increase conversion rates by as much as 60 %. I suggest you consider using this marketing technique to your advantage.
Send Traffic To Your Squeeze Page
Now that you have finished designing your squeeze page you can start sending traffic to your squeeze page. Now this is where you need to get a bit creative. Now there is nothing wrong
with using AdWords, but they can be very very expensive. You could try cheap strategies such as article marketing, and social media marketing, and forum marketing. These three strategies can bring you substantial traffic, and so long as you're sincere you are bound to get conversions.
Well, that's a wrap on "A Few Suggestions on Making Money With Affiliate Networks". Making money with Affiliate Networks has never been this straightforward. Just follow the above suggestions and you will be laughing all the way to the bank.
Cheers!
If you are tired of 9-5 and want to carve a niche in affiliate marketing, Download the Super Affiliate Handbook. This book has been dubbed by affiliate marketing insiders as the Bible of Affiliate Marketing.
Choose Your Niche
When I say choose your niche I mean choose an area that addresses a need. Choose a subject where area that nobody but you is the expert. You do not want to choose a niche where competition is keen. You will be crowded out if you do.Most importantly you must have a passion for that subject. Your readers will tell right away whether you are you are lying through your teeth or not .Have fun with i then the money will start flowing.
The exciting aspect about affiliate networks is that they have thousands of products for you to promote in your subject area. If you find a product you want to promote but you want to know a little bit more about it, do a little research. Read reviews on the product or ask about it on affiliate marketing forums. That ought help you decide whether you want to promote the product or not.
Offer Them A Freebie
One way to get readers interested in your product is to offer them a freebie. You could write an ebook on your subject area and give it to them for free. It could be do's and dont's or free tips . The report shouldn't be too long(about 20-60 pages). But it should cover the same niche as the products you are trying to promote. Of course it will be strange if your report has nothing to do with the niche you are dealing in.
Create a Squeeze Page
A squeeze page is perfect especially for your ebook. Some of you are probably wondering "What in the world is a squeeze page?" Well, a squeeze page is a landing page you use to opt-in or sign up readers as subscribers to your newsletters. You basically collect their email addresses and then send emails through an autoresponder such as Aweber, informing them about new information on your blog or sight and information about latest products that you are promoting. Having an autoresponder is absolutely crucial as it captures the email subscribers of your newsletter. Squeeze pages are known to increase conversion rates by as much as 60 %. I suggest you consider using this marketing technique to your advantage.
Send Traffic To Your Squeeze Page
Now that you have finished designing your squeeze page you can start sending traffic to your squeeze page. Now this is where you need to get a bit creative. Now there is nothing wrong
with using AdWords, but they can be very very expensive. You could try cheap strategies such as article marketing, and social media marketing, and forum marketing. These three strategies can bring you substantial traffic, and so long as you're sincere you are bound to get conversions.
Well, that's a wrap on "A Few Suggestions on Making Money With Affiliate Networks". Making money with Affiliate Networks has never been this straightforward. Just follow the above suggestions and you will be laughing all the way to the bank.
Cheers!
If you are tired of 9-5 and want to carve a niche in affiliate marketing, Download the Super Affiliate Handbook. This book has been dubbed by affiliate marketing insiders as the Bible of Affiliate Marketing.
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