subject: How to Make Serious Affiliate Money in 14 Steps [print this page] How to Make Serious Affiliate Money in 14 Steps
Affiliate marketing can be one of the easiest ways to make money on line. If you want to make serious affiliate money, you need to follow some quidelines that will make your promotions the most effective.
The problem is most people think that they can just grab a couple of banners, throw them upon a website, sit back, and wait for the money to come in. This is not realistic. If you would like to promote affiliate products successfully, here are some steps to take to make money online with affiliate programs.
1. Know your product. If it is at all possible, own the product or service that you are promoting. In order to be a successful affiliate marketer, you want to become an expert on the product you promote.
In order to become an expert, you need to purchase the product yourself so that you know that it is a good product and have firsthand knowledge about the benefits of owning the product.
When you own a product that it is a quality product, it is much easier to be passionate about promoting it. By purchasing the product, and reading or using the product, you can let people know firsthand about all the features and benefits, how it helped you and why they should purchase the product.
2. Work alongside your affiliate program owners. Since the owner of any affiliate products wants to make the sale just as much as you do, why not contact them and see if you can work out a deal for a higher commission if you are willing to set up your own site and write articles to promote the product. Many times, affiliate programs owners are willing to offer more commission if you are willing to put in extra effort promoting.
3. Write articles using targeted keywords for the affiliate products. Submit your articles to directories and sites in your target market. Check with other webmasters with an email list in your target market and see if they would be interested in using your content. To find targeted sites, simply type in "yourkeyword articles" in the search engine and you will find tons of great sites. Next, check out their newsletter and alexa ranking to see if they offer a good newsletter. See if they have a decent size list and rank well. Then simply submit your articles.
4. Build a separate email list for each affiliate program. Set up an ecourse with content about the affiliate programs subject. Write anywhere from 7 to 30 emails and upload them to your autoresponder. Put your affiliate ads in every few issues. Next, send traffic to a squeeze page made especially for building subscribers to this list.
When you make your squeeze page be sure to put the most important benefits above the fold. Many people will not scroll the page at all so make sure you put a great benefit inspired headline and the email form where it can be seen without the need to scroll down the page.
Yes, many affiliate programs offer autoresponder emails you can use to promote their programs; however, it is more effective if you write your own so that yours is unique. If you have 3000 other people promoting the same affiliate program using the emails they provide, it will not be as effective as it would be if yours were unique. Having your own list to promote your affilaite products will insure your success in aquiring more affiliate money making opportunities.
5. Create blogs with your articles. Set up a separate blogs for every one of your affiliate programs that you are promoting. This way you can place advertisements or banners targeted specifically to the product you are promoting. Include a signup form on every page of your blog.
6. Write 10 or 15 articles and put them together in an ebook. Make sure to include ads and information about your affiliate product after each article. Next, submit your ebook to ebook directories and offer other web masters your ebook to give away to their web site visitors.
7. Instead of using the ads that the affiliate programs offer, write your own ads. By writing your own ads, you give people a fresh look at the product. People get very discouraged when they receive dozens of emails with the exact same ads and after while they just delete the email the second they see the ad. When you write your own ads, they stand out from all the rest and you can include information that the prewritten ads do not include. Be sure to look for all the best of benefits of your product so that you can mention them in your ads.
8. Offer your own package of bonuses. If you have a unique bonus that is highly targeted to complement the affiliate products, you increase the chance of getting this sale over your competition.
9. Spend time participating in forums and chat rooms related to the target market of your product. Get to know people first by offering them useful information before you try to promote your products. Make sure use the signature file to let people know about your affiliate products autoresponder email list. Make your signature file short and to the point but make sure to include the benefits of signing up for your list.
10. Write a review about the product. Make sure to list all the benefits that the product has to offer. This is one reason why it is recommended that you own the product you are selling through affiliate programs. By owning the product, you can put together an effective review that lets people know exactly or benefits the product offers and how much these benefits have helped you. When you give an honest heartfelt review about a product, people are more likely to purchase from you.
11. Use videos to promote your affiliate products. Say for example that you are selling a weight loss ebook. You could make a video with 10 hot tips for losing weight. At the bottom of your video, make sure to include a link to your affiliate program email list that includes more weight loss information. Make sure that the link is easy to remember so that people can type it into their browser at the end of the video easily to sign up for your list.
12. If you find a great affiliate program that you want to promote but the sales page is not wonderful, why not write your own sales page. Make sure to list all the benefits that you found to be useful. By putting together your own one page sales letter, you can presale people on the affiliate program. You can also let them know about any extra bonuses that you will be adding to the package when they purchase it from your link.
Test different headlines. Your headline has to grab your visitor's attention immediately or if they will be headed for the back browser. Make sure your headline is worded to let your visitors immediately know how it will benefit them.
Let them know the benefits that can be achieved in your headlines. Make sure it is believable with proof and be very specific. If you cannot get your visitors attention in the first 3 to 5 seconds they are on your site, they do not see any reason to read any more or stay to find out more.
13. Buy a domain name and set up a web site or word press blog just for the affiliate program. Make sure that the domain name is a great fit for the affiliate program and uses targeted keywords to get attention. You can add plenty of excellence content using your own targeted keywords and affiliate ads and banners that you have written and designed yourself to promote the affiliate program more effectively.
14. Post to other blogs every day and subscribe to as many blogs as you can in your target market. Use the URL to your blog or subscriber form page on every post. When you subscribe to other blogs, many times the owner of these blogs will check out the sites of the subscribers. Also the more you post to blogs using your squeeze page URL, the better your chance for people to click on your link. This is also a great way to build backlinks so the search engines will pick up your pages.
Make sure to post useful information and not just put "nice article thanks!" The better your post the better the response that you get from it. Not only will this improve your link popularity, but it gives you a chance to brand yourself as well informed on the subject. Follow these steps and make some serious affiliate money.
