By Luis Galarza
Affiliate marketing has become a complete top Internet income generating industry of is own for merchants and the affiliate. But before you jump on the affiliate internet marketing profit train, you need to first really understand that an affiliate marketing business venture it's not easy but is a simple way to start a lucrative online business.
As an affiliate marketing entrepreneurs like you need to always look for the targeted niche market that gives the biggest profit. But don't think it is a magic affiliate internet marketing formula that is readily available for you. In fact, it is more complicated than that. It is just good affiliate marketing practices that have been proven over years of hard work and dedication.
I can name many tactics that have worked before with internet marketing and is continuing to work in today's the affiliate internet marketing world. With these top three affiliate marketing tips, you will be able to increase your web conversion rates and survive the affiliate marketing online.
What are these three affiliate internet marketing survival tactics?
1. Have a unique blog, web pages or blog post to promote each separate affiliate product you are marketing. Don't lump all of it together just to save some space or time. The best way to increase affiliate marketing conversion rates is to have a website or blog focusing on each and every affiliate program product and avoid a big links or banner mess, because that don't work anymore.
It's really important to include affiliate product reviews on the website or blog so your visitors will have a better understanding on how that affiliate product can solve their problem. Do you need testimonials? Actually, you must put testimonials from users who have already purchase the affiliate product you are marketing and have excellent feedback for it. You need to be sure that the merchants are more than willing to allow you to use their customer's testimonials on the website of the specific affiliate product in the promotion.
Also, you must write articles highlighting the uses of the affiliate product and include them on the blog or website as an additional page, this is a little trick called "The Affiliate Marketing Pre-selling" super technique which is a very powerful way to get the visitor to click the affiliate link and take action. Design the pages attractive compelling and include calls to action on the article content.
The headline need to mention the main benefit and should attract your website or blog readers to try it and read more, or even contact you. Make sure you Highlight your special benefits. This will help your visitors to learn what the blog is about and will want to find out more, and eventually, click on the affiliate link.
2. Give away free reports to your readers with information related to the affiliate program you are promoting and the content of your blog or website. For better results position them at the very top side of your page so they simply cannot be missed. You can use this ultimate viral marketing tool as your super affiliate marketing weapon for direct affiliate promotion and to build you mailing list by creating autoresponder messages that will be mailed to those who input their personal information into your opt-in box (check your Affiliate Cash Secrets Club email training for more tips on how to use viral marketing tools to automate sales, to build a opt-in list, and to optimize your affiliate marketing venture).
According to research, a sale is closed usually on the seventh contact with an online prospect.
After all the Only two steps that a your blog or website visitor can possibly do are: Buy the affiliate product or the prospect leaving your affiliate marketing ready blog or website and you will loose that visitor forever. But, if your place useful targeted content into their inboxes at a weekly specified period, you will remind them of the affiliate product they thought they may want later and will discover that the sale is closed. Make sure that the information is directing toward the specific reason "Making The Purchase". Avoid sound like a sales pitch, instead provide articles and tips on how this product will help them solve their specific problem. That's good affiliate internet marketing.
Your Mission is to help your visitors solve their problem by focusing on important benefits like how the affiliate product that you are recommending can make their life easier and more enjoyable. Put catchy subject lines in the email. As much as possible, avoid using the word “free, money, opportunity, and others” because there are many spam filters that will dumps those kind of emails into the junk box before letting anyone reading it. You need to explain this to those who opt-in for your free reports and ezine that they will be missing something big of your products and services or special bonus if they do not white-list your email on their email service.
Managing a mailing list for affiliate marketing can take a little of work at beginning but as soon it's set you can just let it go and only check it a few times per week. Some affiliate marketers use opt-in mailing list as their only affiliate internet marketing strategy, and they are become very successful because they focus on only one affiliate marketing tactic.
3. Generate top quality web traffic that is targeted to your affiliate marketing blog or website, and the affiliate product. Because, if the person who visited your blog has no interest in what you are promoting, they will be among those who move on and never come back. You can build a good amount of web traffic by writing articles for article sites or directories also for publication in e-zines and e-reports. This way you can locate publications that are related to your target market and what you have put up might just grab their readers interest. Article directories are very good for this because they can give you direct target visitors, plus other websites or online publications can pick your articles for their ezines which will have an "about the author" resource box with your information and link to your affiliate marketing website.
I recommend you to write a minimum of 2 to 4 articles per week, with at least 300-600 words in length. If you continuously writing and maintaining these articles you can generate as many as 100 targeted readers to your site in a day, and a lot more after a while. Just remember that only 1 out of 100 people are likely to buy your product or get your services, meaning that If you can generate as much as 1,000 targeted unique visitor to your website or blog in a day, you can make 10 sales based on the average statistic tested by top online marketers.
The affiliate marketing tactics I lay out for you above does not really sound very hard to do, if you think about it. It just needs from you a little time and an action plan.
Just try to put these affiliate promotion tips in action for different affiliate marketing programs. I know you can maintain a good source of income and surviving in this affiliate marketing business that not all marketers can do. Anyway, think of the huge affiliate paychecks you will be getting on the mail…
Like some affiliate marketing experts said "It's like printing your own money."
All the best,
Luis Galarza, Affiliate Marketer and
Affiliate Cash Secrets Club CEO
Luis Galarza, is an Affiliate Marketer and CEO of LocalMarketingVoice.com where he provides Free Unique Digital Marketing Training, Tools, and Free Reports. For more information go to:
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Monday, November 20, 2006
Friday, November 17, 2006
[VIDEO] Affiliate Submmit 2006 "How to Use Blog for Affiliate Marketing" Vidoe Seminar
By Luis Galarza
Is me the none affiliate marketing guru again with a special video from the 2006 Affiliate Submmit Seminar that talks about the use of blogs for affiliate marketing and SEO automation.
Is time for you to get some extra blog advice for affiliate marketing from Blogging guru Dave Taylor, who will take you on a controversial and very entertaining video tour of blog technologies, explain which are considered ... "critical" by the affiliate marketing blogging community, and explain all about the pros and cons of each. Also how to become a better blogger.
Plus, he'll talk about blog marketing for affiliates and business in general, what really works and why. Should you moderate comments? Should you allow trackbacks? Should you timestamp your entries? Do you need to even use the word "blog" to have a weblog? All this and more will be addressed in this affiliate marketing with blogs video session. So, don't way anymore and press play!
Hope you enjoyed. And remember to take action... Affiliate marketing is all about action!
All the best,
Luis Galarza, CEO Performance Marketing Blog
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Is me the none affiliate marketing guru again with a special video from the 2006 Affiliate Submmit Seminar that talks about the use of blogs for affiliate marketing and SEO automation.
Is time for you to get some extra blog advice for affiliate marketing from Blogging guru Dave Taylor, who will take you on a controversial and very entertaining video tour of blog technologies, explain which are considered ... "critical" by the affiliate marketing blogging community, and explain all about the pros and cons of each. Also how to become a better blogger.
Plus, he'll talk about blog marketing for affiliates and business in general, what really works and why. Should you moderate comments? Should you allow trackbacks? Should you timestamp your entries? Do you need to even use the word "blog" to have a weblog? All this and more will be addressed in this affiliate marketing with blogs video session. So, don't way anymore and press play!
Hope you enjoyed. And remember to take action... Affiliate marketing is all about action!
All the best,
Luis Galarza, CEO Performance Marketing Blog
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Monday, November 06, 2006
Forum Long Lost Marketing Trick Part 1
By Luis Galarza
Every time you hear forum marketing tips you get the same over used trick "Put Your link On The Forum Signature File", which is a good advice but is not a killer marketing tactic only if you use it in a different way which you can read on the forum marketing trick part 2. Right now I'm going to let you get the insider long lost forum marketing trick of all times.
Do the top Internet Marketing Gurus know about this old ultimate trick? Well, the answer to that question is a big YES...
Actually some of them didn't want me to reveal this exclusive secret that have the power to do the prospecting and pre-selling for you with a 567% better income generating results than any type of signature file you can ever use...
So, how you can be able to turn forums into a better direct marketing tool?
By using the Forum Question and Answer trick
Top marketers has been using this technique to promote their own products and products from an affiliate partner for years and they never though this tactic will come out to the open, until now.
This is the way it works:
For faster results first you need to find a forum or newsgroup very closely related to the affiliate product you are promoting, then you will sign-up for the niche forum using 2 or 3 different email accounts and you need to set them up like this:
- First one is the person with the question
- Second one is the one answering or recommending
- Third one is the testimonial (person who owns the product) with a strong recommendation.
NOTE: First become part of the community by giving your advice, answering questions, asking questions, writing comments or feedback, and point of view. For at least a month or a few weeks...
The Question: Here you need to ask something in a desperate way (This is the title of your post) like: "My anniversary is in 5 days, can you point me to...?" Make them click to read the rest by using the surprise effect that entices a problem on your questions.
On the body tell why you are looking for it, what are you looking for it, and when you need it? And always leave a feeling of urgency on all your messages. Remember to talk about the problem and that you need a solution ASAP.
The Answer: Here you need to talk a little bit about the problem and recommend two or three solutions (your affiliate links). Never mention only one or it will look like marketing to the members.
You can recommend an article about the problem which is on your blog, a review of the merchant or merchants who have the solution. And a link direct to a different affiliate product that can also solve the problem. This way you have three chances to show your affiliate links and make a profit from.
The Testimonial: Here the pre-sell story from someone that solve his problem by using one of the merchants mention on the "Answer". Don't over do it or will look like a promotion.
Why this technique is so effective? Because it look like a regular forum posting where someone has a problem and get help tips from forum members.
SUPER TIP: Don't over use this technique, and do not put your signature file promoting the same things. You can link to your personal blog or main social media profile if you want...
All the best,
Luis Galarza, CEOWebMarketingDude.com
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Every time you hear forum marketing tips you get the same over used trick "Put Your link On The Forum Signature File", which is a good advice but is not a killer marketing tactic only if you use it in a different way which you can read on the forum marketing trick part 2. Right now I'm going to let you get the insider long lost forum marketing trick of all times.
Do the top Internet Marketing Gurus know about this old ultimate trick? Well, the answer to that question is a big YES...
Actually some of them didn't want me to reveal this exclusive secret that have the power to do the prospecting and pre-selling for you with a 567% better income generating results than any type of signature file you can ever use...
So, how you can be able to turn forums into a better direct marketing tool?
By using the Forum Question and Answer trick
Top marketers has been using this technique to promote their own products and products from an affiliate partner for years and they never though this tactic will come out to the open, until now.
This is the way it works:
For faster results first you need to find a forum or newsgroup very closely related to the affiliate product you are promoting, then you will sign-up for the niche forum using 2 or 3 different email accounts and you need to set them up like this:
- First one is the person with the question
- Second one is the one answering or recommending
- Third one is the testimonial (person who owns the product) with a strong recommendation.
NOTE: First become part of the community by giving your advice, answering questions, asking questions, writing comments or feedback, and point of view. For at least a month or a few weeks...
The Question: Here you need to ask something in a desperate way (This is the title of your post) like: "My anniversary is in 5 days, can you point me to...?" Make them click to read the rest by using the surprise effect that entices a problem on your questions.
On the body tell why you are looking for it, what are you looking for it, and when you need it? And always leave a feeling of urgency on all your messages. Remember to talk about the problem and that you need a solution ASAP.
The Answer: Here you need to talk a little bit about the problem and recommend two or three solutions (your affiliate links). Never mention only one or it will look like marketing to the members.
You can recommend an article about the problem which is on your blog, a review of the merchant or merchants who have the solution. And a link direct to a different affiliate product that can also solve the problem. This way you have three chances to show your affiliate links and make a profit from.
The Testimonial: Here the pre-sell story from someone that solve his problem by using one of the merchants mention on the "Answer". Don't over do it or will look like a promotion.
Why this technique is so effective? Because it look like a regular forum posting where someone has a problem and get help tips from forum members.
SUPER TIP: Don't over use this technique, and do not put your signature file promoting the same things. You can link to your personal blog or main social media profile if you want...
All the best,
Luis Galarza, CEOWebMarketingDude.com
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