Monday, November 20, 2006

3 Ultimate Survival Tactics for Successful Affiliate Internet Marketering

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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