Your Affiliate Business Online, Issue 14
. . . . . June
Smart Marketing and Good Affiliate
Program equals Growing Residual
Income
by Herman Dias
Smart marketing
and good affiliate programs are the
two main sources that pump in the
monthly check and will earn you
residual income for a long time to
come, Just having a good affiliate
program would not help because if
you don't market it to the people
looking for what your selling you're
not going to get anywhere.
Affiliate programs are a great way
to make a residual income. They
allow you to take part in an
established system that has already
been tested and built up. All that
is left to do is take control and
build a down line.
Combine an affiliate program with
smart marketing and it equals a
great way to make residual income.
Affiliate programs are often
misunderstood. Originally the idea
of building a down line and making a
residual income off recruiting
people was called a pyramid scheme.
These pyramid schemes didn’t work
because they relied solely on
recruiting and not at all on
selling. The main idea behind them,
though, was a good one, so the
affiliate program was created. An
affiliate program is more than
building a down line of people, it
also is based on selling real and
useful products. Affiliate programs
work because a person earns money
through their down line and through
product sales.
Affiliate programs are also very
easy to get started in and most are
completely free with no costs to get
started. Most programs offer a
website and plenty of help and
advice on how to get the business
going. A person gets help from the
people in their up line, too. The
biggest challenge, though, is
marketing. No matter how much help a
person gets, they still have to
master marketing on their own.
Nobody can really teach someone how
to be a successful marketer, they
just have to learn it on their own.
Marketing involves learning how to
use the tools provided by the
program to get customers and sign
others up for the opportunity. The
affiliate program will provide a
person with written ads and their
own website, among other things. The
website is the central hub of all
the marketing efforts. The main goal
should be to get people to visit the
website. Once there they will be
able to buy products and sign up to
be an affiliate. The hard part is
not getting people to buy or sign
up, but to get them to the website
in the first place.
A person has to take the ads and
other marketing tools and place them
where people will see them. One of
the biggest marketing platforms are
search engines. Most affiliate
websites are a simple website, but
with a little work a person can
optimize it to make it rank high on
the search engines. A good way to
get started is to add a blog to the
website and write entries everyday.
These entries should be keyword rich
and informative. Search engines like
articles or blog entries and will
assign the site a higher ranking if
they have them. Another way to go is
to place links and ads on other
websites. A person should choose
websites that compliment the
affiliate program, but that are not
in competition with it. By using
these marketing methods a person
should be able to get a good start
in marketing.
Affiliate programs and good
marketing efforts can really help to
get a good start in residual income.
Building an affiliate program will
take some time, but they are made to
produce a great residual income.
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Is this the ULTIMATE
Affiliate Marketing Formula
?? by
Jonathan Moss
Why affiliate marketing ?
Well, affiliate marketing
allows you to advertise
products created by others
on your website, and then
earn up to 75% commission
for each sale. You can
choose from affiliate
programs that sell almost
anything, but you tend to be
able to make the most money
through selling electronic
products such as ebooks,
reports, software or videos.
This article will provide
you with a number of tips to
help you make a start in
affiliate marketing.
Why participate in affiliate
marketing programs? Here are
four simple tips.
• Find a program in a niche
that you like and are
interested in.
• Look for a program that is
associated with experts
• Find a product in a
growing market to help
ensure more and future
demand for the niche.
• Make sure the program has
a good range of useful tools
and resources to help you
promote the product and grow
your business.
When you have decided on
your chosen niche, and
selected the products you
want to promote you must
consider why customers would
want to buy from your site.
So, you must remember the
following when designing
your website.
• Develop unique web pages
to promote each product you
are marketing - your site
must focus on each product
individually and nothing
more.
• Always include product
reviews and testimonials on
your site, and offer free
content or reports to your
visitors.
• List the benefits of the
product and focus on points
like how the product can
make life easier and more
comfortable.
• Write articles for ezines
and e-reports highlighting
the uses of the product and
include them on your site.
Try to write a couple of
articles per week (300 – 600
words). Remember that search
engines like article sites
and ezine sites such as
ezinearticles.com.
Clearly you want all of your
visitors to click the order
button, but converting them
to customers is a challenge.
On average only 1 out of 100
visitors are likely to buy.
Therefore, if you can
generate as much as 1000
hits to your website every
day, on average you can make
about 10 sales. But how do
you get people to visit your
site ?
I have mentioned writing
articles already as a way to
get people to your site for
free. A popular way to
generate traffic for your
website is by paying for it
using pay per click (PPC)
advertising on the main
search engines such as
Google or Yahoo. PPC is one
of the most cost effective
ways of targeted internet
advertising. The idea is
that you write really good
short adverts which appear
on the search result pages,
and you only have to pay
when someone clicks on your
link. Your ranking in the
search engine results is
determined by the amount you
are willing to pay for each
click on your advert. The
highest bid will be ranked
number 1, followed by all
equivalent lower bids.
There are of course many
other ways to get traffic to
your site, and these can be
found either by searching
the internet, or by reading
the answer to my next
question - where do you go
from here ?
The answer - you should
subscribe to a course which
can teach you the basics of
affiliate marketing, an easy
to follow step by step
guide. My personal
recommendation is a free 27
day course by Matthew
Glanfield. Matthew has been
marketing online for over
three years. In the second
half of 2005 he generated
over $100,000 of sales from
only one of his websites. He
now runs a number of really
successful websites to help
others to be able to start
their own Internet business.
This course takes you from
planning your first
affiliate sales on day one
to having a fully active
website promoting your
selected product by the end
of the course. It is packed
with valuable information
and videos to get you on
track as soon as possible.
By signing up for this
course you will also receive
a free chapter, The secret
formula for successful
Affiliate Marketing, from
one of Matthew’s courses.
You will also receive a copy
of a brand new ebook called
Copy 101 which will help you
write really effective PPC
ads.
Jonathan Moss has been
working in Internet
Marketing for over 12
months. To find out more
about affiliate marketing
please visit
http://27daycourse.jvmuk.com
.
See you soon!
Norm and June McHardy
http://www.affiliate-zone.net
