subject: Secrets And Tips For Affiliate Marketers [print this page] Learn Top Affiliate Secrets Learn Top Affiliate Secrets
If you want to get started quickly and easily in internet marketing, then affiliate marketing is for you. What "affiliate marketing" means is that you just send traffic to someone else's website, they do everything else! (make the product, design the sale page, handle the billing and support, etc.), and you earn at least a 50% commission.
Here's just a few benefits:
1. You can get started almost immediately because you don't have to develop a product, write the sales page, develop the website, create marketing materials, or get a merchant account and CRM.
2. You have practically zero time investment because you don't have to do the customer support or deal with billing or technical issues.
3. You have nearly zero risk because you already know the product sells, because the product owner has already made sure the product sells. So you already know that the visitors you send will result in commissions for you.
There's no denying that these benefits make affiliate marketing the best thing going!
The downside is...
You work hard to send the traffic to the product owner's website, but once you do that you will never see those visitors again. Most of them will not buy on their first visit, which means you're losing over 90% of the traffic right off the top. The 10% or less that make a purchase now belong to the product owner. She can sell them additional products, but you can never sell to them again.
How can you avoid this pitfall?
It's simple: You must get your visitors' email addresses before you send them to the product owner's website. This way you can follow up with them and keep sending them back to the sales page to increase your chances of making the sale. And if you're really on top of your game, you'll then send to a content mini-site in between.
Here's why you want to implement these affiliate marketing strategies:
1. Owning a list of potential buyers gives you the ability to market additional products at the push of a button.
2. You're generating good will by giving them high-quality content. This way, they are much more likely to make a purchase when you send them to the sales page.
Here's what you'll need to create affiliate tools like this:
1. A Video Squeeze Page (with video)
2. At least a few pages of great content
3. At least a 5-Part Email Followup Series
You'll use the squeeze page as the place to send your visitors instead of using the product website. Your squeeze page adds your visitors to you autoresponder. This is how you start building your list, and at the same time begin sending them useful information. After subscribing them to your email list, it redirects them to your content mini-site.
The content pages provide valuable information for your visitors and make them more receptive to the sales message that you'll link to from inside the content. And at the same time, the email series begins following up with them to get them back to the sales page, in case they don't buy on the first visit.
There's no doubt that it's worth the effort to put a system like this in place, because doing so will increase your profits by 500% or more. After setting it up, you simply send visitors to your squeeze page instead of the sales page. And the rest runs on auto-pilot.
One option, if you're not up to the challenge of setting this all up yourself, is to let someone like Affiliate Silver Bullet do it for you. With a service like that, you don't have to do anything. They make the video, build the squeeze page, write the email series, develop the content mini-site, etc. And then just give you a finished package. The major benefit of using a service like this is that you can get started right away, and for a whole lot less than it would cost to do it all yourself. The drawback is that you won't be the only one using these affiliate tools. But the internet is huge, so this shouldn't really affect you.
Another way to accomplish this is to hire "outsourcers" through a website like Elance to build and put your system together for you. The important thing is that you start using affiliate tools like the ones described here right now! Otherwise, you're wasting your time and money.
