Your Affiliate Business Online, Issue 11
Friday, Jan 2, 2007
If you're going to become an affiliate marketer, why not go for the gold? Why not become a Super Affiliate? After all, Super affiliates are just ordinary people like ourselves who have developed some extra skills in marketing. The following articles, Clickbank Super Affiliates Toolbox, and Secrets of Super Affiliates, spell this out in more detail.
. . . . . June
Clickbank Super Affiliates Toolbox
By:
Turcanu Codrut
Listen up:
Clickbank is the hottest opportunity
to make large amounts of affiliate
sales, quickly and easily... if you
know how to use it wisely.
HINT: As every mechanic can tell
you, in order to be a good workman,
one should have good tools. In order
to be a Clickbank super affiliate,
the very best affiliate one can be,
it is important to have the proper
supplies in ones virtual toolbox.
Taking time to gather the best
supplies can pay off in the end in
big dividends, literally. A good
merchant will do his or her best to
supply their affiliates with the
best tools possible and a good
affiliate will do the best that they
can to gather the best tools
available.
A tool such as the clickbank
calculator found at
http://www.clickbankguide.com/calculator.htm
will help you to immediately be able
to ascertain exactly what your
commission will be on a product.
This is further enhanced by the
table with the common prices which
will help you to see exactly how
this sort of thing works and be able
to make your own table, using the
prices and rates with which you will
be dealing with.
An affiliate will want to have a
good selection of templates.
This will enable you to make and
send out advertising information
without having to start at the very
beginning each time.
A good merchandiser will supply his
or her affiliates with the best
tools available. Giving them the
best tools will help them to do a
better job for the merchandiser as
well as for themselves. If an
affiliate has a good supply of
articles and information concerning
the product, this will enable them
to write their own articles and
email letters and newsletters and to
have the proper information right at
their finger tips.
Another tool in the super
affiliate’s toolbox is a good group
email tool. Being able to send out
emails to large groups of people who
have shown an interest in the
product is advantageous and will
save time. It is important not to
misuse this sort of a tool so that
what is sent out becomes spam, then
nothing will be appreciated coming
from that source and is apt to be
immediately deleted without even
being glanced at, thereby defeating
ones purpose, but used properly,
this can be a very good tool to
have.
Another tool is a contact list of
people who have been interested in
becoming affiliates. Sometimes one
finds that there are those who are
anxious to enter into the cyber work
field and might become the
affiliate’s competition. Instead,
the affiliate might want to consider
approaching them with the idea of
their joining into his team so that
as they are making money he is also.
When this is done, it is important
that teamwork be emphasized. Team
members don’t work against each
other; they work together for mutual
benefit.
TIP: A good supply of keywords is
important also. You will want to
attract people to your website that
might possibly buy the product.
Those people will be using certain
keywords as they take advantage of
search engines so it’s important
that in articles which you write,
you will want to include a number of
keywords which the potential
customer might well be using.
A very useful *free* resource can be
found here:
http://www.goodkeywords.com
In order to be a Clickbank super
affiliate, you will want to have the
best equip toolbox possible. Taking
the time to assemble such a tool box
is important and is the sort of
thing that makes the difference
between an affiliate and a super
affiliate.
The proper tools are as important
for an affiliate as they are for a
good mechanic, take time to assemble
the right ones and a super tool box
may soon make you a Clickbank super
affiliate.
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Secrets of Super Affiliates
by: Ron Pioneer
Have you ever wondered why
it is very difficult for you
to make a headway in the
affiliate marketing game?
Why have you signed up for
so many programs with so
much expectations and yet
you have never being able to
make a dime out of them all
while some people are
screaming about them making
over $5,000 in the same
program you signed for?
These people called "super
affiliates" are just
ordinary people like you but
they do things differently
from the rest of the crowd.
They see the game from a
different angle and they
play it with a different
strategy. How then do these
super affiliates play their
game?
The first strategy super
affiliates adopt, is that
instead of sending traffic
to the site of the program/
product they are promoting,
send it to theirs. You see,
most people advertise their
affiliate sites which people
will go to and never buy
anything.
Super affiliates understand
that people are not inclined
to buy anything at their
first contact with the
product, that they will need
to be contacted on so many
occasions before they can
make the precious purchase.
Super affiliates use this as
an edge over their
competitors.
When they drive traffic to
their sites, they entice
them to join their opt-in
list by offering them
something "nice" in return.
After joining the list, the
people can then be
advertised to as long as the
super affiliates want and so
long the subscribers are not
complaining.
So, it is very important for
you to know that if you want
to make it big in the
affiliate game, you must
have your own opt-in list.
Stop spending money to send
traffic away, instead bring
them to your site and make
them join your list by any
means, it is very IMPORTANT.
Super affiliates do get to
know the product they
promote inside out. That is
another advantage they
exploit over their
competitors. They buy the
product they want to promote
and they digest all the
contents of the product so
that they will be able to
tell their prospects what is
in it for them.
How many times have you
signed up to promote a
product you don't even know
about? Do you think if a
sales person turns up at
your door to tell you of a
product, he cannot even tell
its usefulness to you, will
you buy from such a person?
No! That is why some people
will not buy whatever you
promote, because they don't
really know what it will do
for them and what it has
done for you the promoter.
Get to know what you are
promoting so that you can
tell your prospects what the
product is all about and how
it can be of help to them.
Your own personal
testimonies matters a lot
because it is what will
motivate them to buy from
you.
Another super affiliate's
game plan is that they stand
out from the crowd.
Hello! How many times have
you seen hundreds of people
advertising the same product
using same banners,
classifieds and reports/
articles? If a prospect had
seen so many of those at
other sites, what gives you
the impression that he will
buy from you?
Super affiliates understand
this, so they write their
own classifieds, use their
own banners and also write
special reports to promote
their programs.
Prospects always get drawn
to those who are doing
something different from the
maddening crowd. So if you
want to be upgraded to the
level of a super affiliate,
STAND OUT!
The EXTRA also stands out
make one a super affiliate.
They add extra(s) to the
product they are promoting.
People always want to make
purchase from those who
offered more value for their
money.
Let's assume ten affiliates
approach you with the same
product and nine of them
offer the same thing and the
last one chose to offer some
extra bonuses to the product
you are buying at the same
amount. Which one will you
probably buy from? The last
one of course!
You can adopt this method
too by offering a free
report, course, freebie you
got of the Net, an ebook or
another product that is what
the value of the one you are
promoting. You have to offer
MORE if you wish to sell
MORE.
Lastly another super
affiliate game plan I will
wan to talk about, is that
super affiliates always
promote products in their
chosen field.
How many times have you
promoted some products in a
field you don't even know a
hoot about? When you promote
products in your own niche,
you will find out that you
will be more enthusiastic
about it and even if you
have not gone through the
product before, you can
easily recommend it to
people.
The manner you will say
something about it will just
look as if you have already
gone through use the
product. Marketing a product
in your own niche market,
will always give you an
added advantage because it
is your area of expertise.
never bother looking at
which area is HOT!
Just check your own niche
market out and then promote
any product you find
adopting all the strategies
highlighted above and see
what becomes of you. If you
happen to be a tennis buff,
and you happen to be
promoting golf products,
which you don't know
anything about? :(
What if a prospect decides
to ask you a question about
golf? :( Do you think you
will have anything to say?
That is why it is important
to stay in your own niche.
I believe you too can become
a SUPER affiliate in no mean
time, if you will adopt the
game plan mentioned above.
If others are doing it, why
not you?
Never get discouraged by the
mistakes of yesterday, look
up to tomorrow with bright
hope. NOW is the to get
started!
Ron
Pioneer -
Learn the secrets to
becoming a super affiliate
from my website:
http://www.affila.com/
contact@affila.com
See you soon!
Norm and June McHardy
http://www.affiliate-zone.net
