3 Items to boost your affiliate program

terça-feira, 16 de outubro de 2007 ·

I have found this post on the Limao Orange blog and wanted to share with you!


"The ideal world an of affiliate marketer is one that does not require the affiliate having their own website, dealing with any customers, processing refunds, getting involved in product development and maintenance.
Affiliate marketing is one of the simplest and easiest ways of launching youself into an online business and potentially earning more profits.

Firstly, assuming that you are already involved with an affiliate marketing program, what do you think would be the next thing that you would want to do?
You would like to double, or even triple, your affiliate commissions, right?
Well how do you do that?

Below, are some powerful tips on how you can boost your affiliate commissions overnight!

1. You need to know the best programs and products to promote.
Without a doubt, you would like to promote the program(s) that enable you to achieve the greatest profits in the shortest possible time.

To start with there are several important factors for you to consider when selecting such a program. You should choose the ones that have a generous affiliate commission structure. The programs that have products that fit in with your target audience and niche. And ones that have a solid track record for paying their affiliates easily and on time. If you are unable to increase your affiliate commission, the best thing for you to do is dump that program and continue looking for a better one.

To make it easy for you, there are thousands of online affiliate programs, which gives you more than enough reason to be picky. You will want to select the best pogram to avoid losing or wasting your precious advertising dollars.

To promote your affilaite program, write some free reports or short ebooks that you distribute from your site. Keep in mind that there is also a great possibility that you will be competing with other affiliates that are also promoting the same program. If you start writing short reports related to the product you are promoting, you will easily be able to distinguish yourself from the other affiliates.

In these reports, make sure you provide some sort of valuable information for free. If it is possible, add recommendations about the products.
By writing ebooks, you get almost instant credibility. Potential customers will see that in you, and they will be enticed to try what you are offering.

2. Collect and save the email addresses of the people who have download your free ebooks.
It is a well known fact that a majority of people do not make a purchase with the first contact. You may have to send out your message more than six times to make a sale.

This is the reason that you have to collect the contact information of those who have downloaded your reports and ebooks. That way you can send follow-ups to these contacts, reminding them to make a purchase from you.

Make sure you get the contact information of all prospects, before sending them to the vendor’s website. Also, keep in mind that you are providing free advertising for the product owners. Which means, you get paid only when you make a sale. If you send all your prospects directly to the vendors, chances are that they will be lost to you forever.

When you get their names and email addresses, you can always send other marketing messages to them. That way you may be able to earn an ongoing commission, instead of a one-time sale, from the same person.

By publishing an online newsletter or Ezine, it is always better to recommend a product to someone you know as opposed to selling to a stranger.
This is the purpose behind creating and publishing your own newsletter. This also allows you to build a relationship based on trust with your subscribers.

Be careful, because this strategy has a delicate balance between providing useful information and something that resembles a sales pitch. If you continually write informative and useful editorials you will slowly be able to build a sense of reciprocity with your readers that may lead them, at a later date, to support you by buying your products.

3. Ask your merchants for higher than normal commissions.
If you already have success with a particular promotion, you could approach the merchant and negotiate a higher percentage commission for your sales.
If the merchant is smart, and most are, he or she will more than likely grant your request, rather than potentially lose a valuable asset in you. You need to keep in mind that you are almost a zero-risk investment to your merchant; so do not be shy about requesting for an addition to your commissions. Remember to try to be reasonable about it.

Writing strong pay Per Click ads. PPC search engines are the most effective means of advertising anything online. As an affiliate marketer, you could make a modest income just by managing one of the various PPC campaigns such as Google AdWords and Overture. You should try and monitor them to see which of your ads are effective and which ones you need dispose.

Try out any or all of these strategies and watch the difference it will make to your commission checks and maybe even in the shortest period of time."

Source Limao Orange

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