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Affiliate Marketing for Newbies

by Kim Haas
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Affiliate marketing is a great way to build a business or earn an extra income. Affiliates are paid commissions to advertise products or services for other companies. As with any business, you must remember that you are not going to get rich overnight by promoting affiliate programs. You must put effort into anything to make money! There are many resources available for those who wish to promote affiliate programs.

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Affiliate marketing is a great way to build a business or earn an extra income. Affiliates are paid commissions to advertise products or services for other companies. As with any business, you must remember that you are not going to get rich overnight by promoting affiliate programs. You must put effort into anything to make money! There are many resources available for those who wish to promote affiliate programs.

Here’s a few tips that will help you increase your affiliate sales:

Make more commissions from the affiliate programs you join by giving your own endorsements for the products. They usually pull more sales than ads. For example, you could say, This e-book sent chills up my spine! I highly recommend buying it! Another example, All I have to say is, ‘Wow! Its that good!’

Start your own affiliate program directory. Join a large number of affiliate programs and list them all in a directory format on your web site. Then just advertise your free affiliate program directory. You will earn commissions and gain sub-affiliates. Plus you could start an affiliate-related e-zine too.

Write your own affiliate program ads. If all the other affiliates use the same ads that you do, it won’t give you an edge over your competition. Use a different ad to give yourself an unfair advantage over all the other affiliates. If you have sub-affiliates, tell them to do the same.

Use a personal endorsement ad. Only use one if you’ve actually bought the product or service for the affiliate program. Tell people what kind of benefits and results you’ve received using the product. You need to purchase the product or service in order to write a honest endorsement. Advertise the product you’re reselling in your signature file.

Use an attention-getting headline and a good reason for them to visit your affiliate site. Make sure your sig file doesn’t go over 5 lines. Also include your name, occupation, business name and e-mail address.

Participate on web discussion boards. Post your comments, answer other peoples questions, and ask your own questions. Include your affiliate text link under each message you post. If they read your message and like it, they may click to see what else you have to offer them.

Create a free e-zine. Use your e-zine to advertise the affiliate programs you’ve joined. Submit your e-zine to online e-zine directories and promote it on your web site. Trade e-zine ads with other publishers. Announce your e-zine to e-zine announce lists. Make money from web sites that dont have an affiliate program by doing a joint venture. Set up the affiliate program through a third party for them. By doing that for them you could require that you become their only affiliate. You would instantly become a super affiliate because you would be the only one with no competition.

Make your target audiences experience reading your ad positively. You could educate them, tell a joke to make them laugh or compliment them to make them feel good. If their experience is enjoyable thats all it might take for them to decide to buy your product, subscribe to your free e-zine or join your affiliate program. All these actions can lead to income for you.

Analyze all your promotional efforts. Concentrate on the ones that work and drop the ones that dont. Dont waste your valuable time. For example, if you have an affiliate program that hasnt made a sale for two months, drop it or test a different ad. You want all of the ‘real estate’ space on your web site making some kind of profit for your business.

Make residual income from your customers by selling back-end products. If you don’t have any, you could sign up to related affiliate programs. For example, you could say Thanks for ordering our product. If you would like to learn more about web marketing, I highly recommend (affiliate product)!

Use a redirect page to boost your sales. People think the long affiliate URLs look unprofessional in e-mails, so you could redirect them to a web link. For example, if you sign up to an affiliate program and it has a really long URL, you could use a redirect page to shorten it in your ad. It would take your customer to the redirect page and then send them to the target web site.

Join affiliate programs that go with the theme of your web site. Youll just be wasting valuable space and time if your visitors arent interested in them. For example, if your target audience is softball players, you would want to join affiliate programs that sell softball bats, balls, uniforms, magazines, etc.

Maximize the effectiveness of your banner ads. Don’t just use the same ad on every banner, use a variety to attract the greatest number of clicks. If you are hosting banner ads on your web site for affiliate programs you have joined, you could use a banner rotator to give each one equal exposure.

If you’re new to affiliate programs and want to find out more, read Rosalind Gardner’s Super Affiliate Handbook ( >http://womans-net.com/cgi-bin/prolinkz/pl.cgi?sa ). Rosalind explains how she earns a phenomenal income online by promoting other peoples products. She explains in clear terms what it takes to be a Super Affiliate and how to work toward achieving success in affiliate marketing.

If you can’t or don’t want to develop your own product but still want a way to make an income, then try Rosalind’s Blueprint for affiliate marketing ( http://womans-net.com/cgi-bin/prolinkz/pl.cgi?sa ). Another great way to get started in Affiliate marketing is by reading James Martell’s Affiliate Marketers Handbook ( http://womans-net.com/cgi-bin/prolinkz/pl.cgi?wahng ).



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About the Author
Kim Haas has been working online since the Internet was a series of BBS systems. She is a successful writer and owner of http://elrincondelantropologo.com
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