subject: Affiliate Marketing Sales: 3 Ways To Avoid Wasting Your Time [print this page] One of the most common ways to make money with affiliate marketing is selling products for an affiliate merchant. Most people who join affiliate programs never make a sale. They ultimately end up wasting their time which is a shame both for them and the merchant as well.
Let's talk about three things you can do to make some sales and help avoid wasting your time doing affiliate marketing.
1. Use your products. It is amazing how many affiliate marketers have not used the products they are trying to sell.
If you are new to this kind of work one of the best things you can do is purchase your own products. You will find that selling the product is easier once you have learned about it.
When using the product jot down what you like about it and what you do not like. This will come in handy in the next step.
2. Review what you have learned. Sending your potential consumer directly to the affiliate sales page is a bad idea.
A better strategy is to create review pages where you talk about the advantages and disadvantages of the product you are promoting. This is where personally using the product is good.
Writing an honest review will actually help you sell more products. It is okay to write things that you do not like about a product as well because nobody believes everything is always perfect.
As an affiliate marketer you are given free websites to promote. You will want to start your own blog or website personally and then link to those sales pages on your review pages.
These used to be call pre sell pages. Today you really do not want to pre-sell your prospects as much as you want to just offer facts and opinions about the product you are reviewing.
If you write a decent review it will serve as a pre sell page. You can then link to your affiliate sales page via a banner or text link ad.
3. Create a follow up system. This is an important part of succeeding.
All you really need is an auto responder and a series of messages to follow up with your prospects. Most affiliate programs will give you a landing page to promote.
One thing you can do is put your landing page on your review pages. This is a way to capture your prospects contact information before passing them through to your affiliate sales page.
You will find you waste less time on affiliate marketing sales if you use the products, review them, and create a future follow up system!
