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A Simple five-Step System To Start Affiliate Marketing Today
It’s been said before that a dream has a lot of power. But without action, that same dream never amounts to anything. How do you ensure that your dream of making money online will come true? How do you know if it will or not? The truth is, you don’t know if it will or not. Only you can know that. But the only way to make any progress is simply to struggle on. It’s true that if you follow the right plan to a “T” you will see results. So why do so many people fail? The truth is, they either don’t know how to follow a plan, or they lose faith in it. In any case, the point is not a plan; the point is seeing real results and acting on them. When I was first starting out online, the thing that really changed everything for me was when I could “SEE” real results for myself. That was the most encouraging thing that I found. So how do you see real results? How do you see your progress if you haven’t even made one affiliate sale online? How, how, how…
If you haven’t even made “ONE” affiliate sale online, then let me address this next part specifically to you. When I was working with Squidoo and making my first affiliate sale online (Squidoo is where I started), it actually surprised me when I made my first sale. I knew that’s what I was doing it for…but in the process of doing it I had actually kind of lost track of the fact that I was doing it for money. The reason for this is that I was working on visitors; I was working on getting organic search results, things that are very concrete, real goals, but that have nothing to do with money. You too can do this, and I’m going to show you a few goals that you can have, that have nothing to do with money…
1. Clicks
2. Visitors
3. Organic Search Results
4. “Likes” or other sharing results
5. …and others
No matter if you’re using a social media content site like HubPages or Squidoo, or if you have your own website, you should always be able to track the visitors or organic/paid/direct traffic you’re getting. It’s important for one thing, and terribly interesting for another thing. If you know that 99% of your traffic is coming from paid traffic, even though you’re doing tons of article marketing, this could be a very bad thing. Something about your article marketing just isn’t cutting it. If, however, you’re getting a healthy amount of organic search traffic then you’re probably doing something right. Try to set some simple goals like this for yourself if you can, and see if you don’t start to get motivation to work harder. When you get addicted to this kind of goal-setting, eventually sales will roll in and you will say to yourself, whew, how did that happen?!
Affiliate marketing is indeed the lazy man’s best friend to making money online. In fact I would surmise a guess that 90% of people started internet marketing doing affiliate programs.
If you are new to internet marketing, I like to share with you how you too can profit from affiliate programs. Some technical know-how on using webpage editor like Microsoft FrontPage to do up a simple sales letter web page with an opt-in form will certainly be an advantage. In this short article I have to assume you do. Otherwise go to additional resource at the end.
With some practice, you can easily replicate these 5-step system in a day and create as many affiliate sites as you like.
Step 1 : Choose A Profitable Market
Decide on which market you like to enter. Try and choose something that you have either a deep passion in or some expert domain knowledge.
Research on what is the market potential by going to yahoo overture at [http://overture.inventory.com] and find out how many people search on a related keyword or keyword phrase last month! A number above 50,000 will be ideal.
Step 2 : Choose A Profitable Affiliate Product
Next go to clickbank.com which is the world’s biggest online marketplace for digital products. Look for a profitable affiliate product in your niche under Marketplace.
Take your time to shop for the best program to promote. If you can, try out the product yourself to see if it passes your quality check. You certainly do not want to recommend a lemon to your customers.
A good program is one that :
• pays you above 50% referral commission
• ranks high on the popular and best-selling charts
• has a well-written sales pitch page that you yourself are convinced
Once you selected the program, sign up with Clickbank and get your hoplink to your chosen program.
Step 3 : Create A “Look-alike” Opt-In Page
Next, create a simple Opt-in page that sort of resembles the look and feel of the merchant’s pitch page.
Do not just copy and paste text from your merchant’s website. This is not ethical unless you sought prior consent from the owner. It may be quick and fast but the market will know soon enough trust me unless you are some kind of fly-by-night business which will self-destruct on the internet as all the fundamentals of business practice will still apply online.
An opt-in page is one where you can collect your subscriber’s name and email before you point them to the hoplink (the merchant’s sales page). By doing so, you are building yourself a list of customers where you could build relations with instead of starting from ground zero again when you market a 2nd affiliate product.
Try and give away a freebie for people to opt-in if you like.
Step 4 : Use An Autoresponder
Your prospect may not buy from you at the first attempt. If you know how to use an autoresponder, this is where you could simply write a series of “sales-pitching” emails to convince your prospect over time. A good rule of thumb is about 5 to 7 emails.
Highlight one unique selling point of the affiliate product in each email.
Do not spam your list. If they will not buy from you after 5 emails, they probably will not buy from you at all.
Step 5 : Drive Traffic To Your Opt-In Page
With all your autoresponder emails set up, the last task which is the most difficult is to drive traffic to your website.
For quick results, invest a little in pay-per-click ads from Google, Yahoo or other smaller search engines. If you have painstaking performed each step so far and have picked the best affiliate product to recommend with a strong and convincing sales letter coupled with equally well-written follow up emails, you should clocked some sales after a while.
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