Here are some practical step by step, word by word from the title above.
Let us start with the last word in the phrase.
1. BUY
You want one kind of visitor in this business - a buyer.
As nice as it might be to have a "high-traffic site" with some crazy traffic graphs in Google Analytics - at the end of the day, who really cares unless they made you money?
I do not know about you, but I am not in this business for the charity. I donate my own money as appropriate - but my websites sure better be profitable!
And so I target buyers.
People with credit card in hand, looking for the order form - NOT just "information".
In terms of building affiliate sites, this means that I focus on product-related keywords and keyphrases. People searching for products do so to research and "make sure" about a purchase decision, in most cases. And some are literally searching for the order form.
A small percentage do so for other "non-buying" reasons, but the majority are either on the verge of buying and in need of a little "push" - or they're simply looking for the place to insert their credit card number because of previous research.
Why it is not rocket science:
Just build a site that includes info-pages and/or reviews for the popular products in your target niche and make it VERY EASY for the visitor to get to the vendor's site...
...through your affiliate link, of course!
How hard is that?
2. LOTS OF PEOPLE
For the longest time, I truly believed that the only "chance" I had to make a good online income is if I could dominate some sort of un-tapped niche.
Finding a "gold mine" niche that had no competitors.
What a load of rubbish!
You can make more money on page 30 of Google's results in a high-demand niche than you can by "dominating" some piddly little untapped micro-niche.
It is true.
By selling or promoting what millions of people buy, that means that you are casting your "fishing net" into a lake that is absolutely TEEMING with fish!
Who cares if you are only collecting a fraction of the fish that your competition does - there is plenty to go around.
And if you target the "buyer profile" keywords, than the competition factor is far less of a barrier than you might think, anyway.
I have sites in ultra-competitive niches getting hundreds of visitors a day that are barely even visible in the SE's - except for a multitude of long-tail & product keywords.
And man, do they pull it down!
So forget what you have heard about 'niche domination'.
Instead, consider the reality of just how possible it is to simply ENTER a massive niche, harnessing the easy traffic due to the sheer demand that exists on the long-tail, the mid-tail, the "product-tail" the "misspelled, unique & crazy keywords"-tail and all the rest of it.
Go after the buyers in ultra-competitive, high-demand markets and just watch what happens when you start building backlinks.
3. SELL
I see so many sites and blogs that could make a KILLING if they would simply place their affiliate promotions more visibly.
But instead, they "hide" all their links at the bottom of their articles.
Or they just get lazy, and put up a banner somewhere - or otherwise "promote" from some dark corner of their site, as if they think that their visitors might get offended if they "over-promote".
What a sad loss for them.
I jam my promos right in my visitor's faces. Front and center.
The first thing they see when *ANY* of my site's pages load is a damn good reason to go and buy something that, in most cases, is what they're already looking for.
This way, I have seen even my "very low" traffic sites make several sales a week - a result of visitor targeting AND effective visitor funneling.
And the profits will explode as your traffic levels increase over time from organic listings.
But you can expect mediocre profits at best if you are afraid of SELLING.
4. JUST
You know, it used to take me MONTHS to roll out a simple 20-page site.
That is because I would over-think, over-plan, over-strategize and "perfect" things to DEATH.
I had have 52 autoresponders lined up, some crazy user-based viral marketing campaigns lined up, and God knows what else.
And in the end - those few alleged "masterpieces" ended up being my worst performers.
Ironically, one of my most profitable sites is absolutely the ugliest, most un-planned DISASTER ever. It sucks. I don't even show it to other marketers, more out of embarrassment than "niche protection".
But it is a classic SEO-friendly, HTML site with targeted title tags, H1 tags and unique content, it sticks the offer right in the visitor's faces, and it has more than 10,000 backlinks.
(It is not in the marketing niche, by the way - none of these types of sites are)
So stop planning things to death.
And no, you do not have to build a list in every niche, and you do not have to orchestrate some master-plan to conquer your niche in 15 days with the world's best marketing plan like your favorite Guru.
Just tap into the existing "buyer traffic" and make some easy commissions.
And then do it again and again.
Then - use those profits to start developing your own products, authority sites, etc. so that you can use this kind of "leech" strategy to fund the development of a business with a rock-solid foundation in a matter of a year or so.
All the while pulling down a full-time income, if you take it seriously enough.
And that's all there is to it.
Like I said - it ain't rocket science
In summary...
Enter into an actual, high-demand niche with millions of buyers.
Anti-adware, acne removal, weight-loss pills, and so on are a few examples of HUNDREDS of other niches that fit the bill.
Set up a simple site that reviews each major product, with maybe a few articles, etc. Put your affiliate promos in the top-fold of the page, FRONT AND CENTER.
Optimize your pages for SEO, targeting the "buyer keywords".
And then build as many backlinks as possible - Google "how to get backlinks" to find out more about that.
Work hard, and monitor your stats closely to see what happens when your site gets indexed and your rankings start to climb.
When the sales start to trickle in, reinvest all your profits to strengthen your rankings, increase backlinks, etc. until you have got some serious SE presence.
The traffic will be roaring in a few months - and so will the sales, if you are in a niche full of buyers.
Then - do it again, and again, and again, and again...
It could change your life.
And it is not rocket-science.
For more affiliate marketing tips, visit my other blogs at http://josephyap.com/affiliatemarketing and http://josephyap.com/freestuff. Feel free to distribute this article in any form as long as you include this resource box. You can also include your affiliate link when you sign up at this website: http://affiliatecashsecrets.com/go/64663/1.
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Friday, April 25, 2008
Ever Thought Of Using Google Alerts To Sell Your Products
Want more traffic to market your existing products? Need more leads to your webpage?
Here is a quick tip which will help you sell more of your products and help establish yourself as an expert on a particular topic or product.
The first step is, know what keywords that people who are interested in your product will search for. Know where the traffic is coming from, for your niche product and ensure you are visible to those people all over the Internet. Be everywhere that they are and in their face with your offer. Be a stalker for the conversation.
To do this, simply use Google Alerts.
Whenever someone posts on a blog or forum with the keywords you have selected, go there and participate. This will ensure you are visible to those who are interested in the product you are marketing. In this way, you will also place yourself in the forefront as the expert in the topic of discussion. You will gain recognition and ultimately blend in your product during your discussion whereby you can advertise the benefits of your products. Be the expert and let people know it all over the Internet. Let Google do the spy work for you.
At the same time, find the publishers involved in your conversation and make them partners and affiliates. That is another way to expand your business.
Using Google Alerts is a fantastic idea, but if you do not use the appropriate keywords, you will quickly realize that you will get zillions of 'false positives' in your inbox. In order to use Google Alerts effectively, and not drown your inbox with mostly irrelevant alerts, you must use selective, long-tail keywords.
Apart from long-tail keywords, you can use [Exact Search] and "Phrase Search". How many false positives you get will vary based on your niche.
I can see how doing that regularly would not only help you really be able to stay on top of the "pulse" of your market, but could help you earn the position of an expert in the field too.
Yes, and it can also help you build a relationship with people in your niche - both customers and partners. Focus on helping people find the answers they are looking for and they will hold you in high regard.
Okay, so exactly how do you turn on Google Alerts?
Go here: http://www.google.com/alerts?hl=en
Keep in mind you are limited to 32 words!
Another great way to use Google Alerts is to insert keywords that would indicate new information so you can post content to your blogs. For example, if your topic is weight loss, then enter "weight loss research" or "weight loss study" into Google Alerts and each day you get the latest, greatest scientific breakthroughs on weight loss that you can post about on your blog giving you ample interesting, highly credible and up-to-the-minute information.
With the above information at hand, now you can post in forums asking subscribers their opinion towards this latest, greatest scientific breakthroughs -- what do you think, what is their opinion, does it make sense, is it something you have experienced? -- again, establishing yourself as the expert on the topic.
With this knowledge, my hope is that you will make many extra sales per day.
For more affiliate marketing tips, visit my other blogs at http://josephyap.com/affiliatemarketing and http://josephyap.com/freestuff. Feel free to distribute this article in any form as long as you include this resource box. You can also include your affiliate link when you sign up at this website: http://affiliatecashsecrets.com/go/64663/1.
Here is a quick tip which will help you sell more of your products and help establish yourself as an expert on a particular topic or product.
The first step is, know what keywords that people who are interested in your product will search for. Know where the traffic is coming from, for your niche product and ensure you are visible to those people all over the Internet. Be everywhere that they are and in their face with your offer. Be a stalker for the conversation.
To do this, simply use Google Alerts.
Whenever someone posts on a blog or forum with the keywords you have selected, go there and participate. This will ensure you are visible to those who are interested in the product you are marketing. In this way, you will also place yourself in the forefront as the expert in the topic of discussion. You will gain recognition and ultimately blend in your product during your discussion whereby you can advertise the benefits of your products. Be the expert and let people know it all over the Internet. Let Google do the spy work for you.
At the same time, find the publishers involved in your conversation and make them partners and affiliates. That is another way to expand your business.
Using Google Alerts is a fantastic idea, but if you do not use the appropriate keywords, you will quickly realize that you will get zillions of 'false positives' in your inbox. In order to use Google Alerts effectively, and not drown your inbox with mostly irrelevant alerts, you must use selective, long-tail keywords.
Apart from long-tail keywords, you can use [Exact Search] and "Phrase Search". How many false positives you get will vary based on your niche.
I can see how doing that regularly would not only help you really be able to stay on top of the "pulse" of your market, but could help you earn the position of an expert in the field too.
Yes, and it can also help you build a relationship with people in your niche - both customers and partners. Focus on helping people find the answers they are looking for and they will hold you in high regard.
Okay, so exactly how do you turn on Google Alerts?
Go here: http://www.google.com/alerts?hl=en
Keep in mind you are limited to 32 words!
Another great way to use Google Alerts is to insert keywords that would indicate new information so you can post content to your blogs. For example, if your topic is weight loss, then enter "weight loss research" or "weight loss study" into Google Alerts and each day you get the latest, greatest scientific breakthroughs on weight loss that you can post about on your blog giving you ample interesting, highly credible and up-to-the-minute information.
With the above information at hand, now you can post in forums asking subscribers their opinion towards this latest, greatest scientific breakthroughs -- what do you think, what is their opinion, does it make sense, is it something you have experienced? -- again, establishing yourself as the expert on the topic.
With this knowledge, my hope is that you will make many extra sales per day.
For more affiliate marketing tips, visit my other blogs at http://josephyap.com/affiliatemarketing and http://josephyap.com/freestuff. Feel free to distribute this article in any form as long as you include this resource box. You can also include your affiliate link when you sign up at this website: http://affiliatecashsecrets.com/go/64663/1.
Just Sell What Lots Of People Buy
Here are some practical step by step, word by word from the title above.
Let us start with the last word in the phrase.
1. BUY
You want one kind of visitor in this business - a buyer.
As nice as it might be to have a "high-traffic site" with some crazy traffic graphs in Google Analytics - at the end of the day, who really cares unless they made you money?
I do not know about you, but I am not in this business for the charity. I donate my own money as appropriate - but my websites sure better be profitable!
And so I target buyers.
People with credit card in hand, looking for the order form - NOT just "information".
In terms of building affiliate sites, this means that I focus on product-related keywords and keyphrases. People searching for products do so to research and "make sure" about a purchase decision, in most cases. And some are literally searching for the order form.
A small percentage do so for other "non-buying" reasons, but the majority are either on the verge of buying and in need of a little "push" - or they're simply looking for the place to insert their credit card number because of previous research.
Why it is not rocket science:
Just build a site that includes info-pages and/or reviews for the popular products in your target niche and make it VERY EASY for the visitor to get to the vendor's site...
...through your affiliate link, of course!
How hard is that?
2. LOTS OF PEOPLE
For the longest time, I truly believed that the only "chance" I had to make a good online income is if I could dominate some sort of un-tapped niche.
Finding a "gold mine" niche that had no competitors.
What a load of rubbish!
You can make more money on page 30 of Google's results in a high-demand niche than you can by "dominating" some piddly little untapped micro-niche.
It is true.
By selling or promoting what millions of people buy, that means that you are casting your "fishing net" into a lake that is absolutely TEEMING with fish!
Who cares if you are only collecting a fraction of the fish that your competition does - there is plenty to go around.
And if you target the "buyer profile" keywords, than the competition factor is far less of a barrier than you might think, anyway.
I have sites in ultra-competitive niches getting hundreds of visitors a day that are barely even visible in the SE's - except for a multitude of long-tail & product keywords.
And man, do they pull it down!
So forget what you have heard about 'niche domination'.
Instead, consider the reality of just how possible it is to simply ENTER a massive niche, harnessing the easy traffic due to the sheer demand that exists on the long-tail, the mid-tail, the "product-tail" the "misspelled, unique & crazy keywords"-tail and all the rest of it.
Go after the buyers in ultra-competitive, high-demand markets and just watch what happens when you start building backlinks.
3. SELL
I see so many sites and blogs that could make a KILLING if they would simply place their affiliate promotions more visibly.
But instead, they "hide" all their links at the bottom of their articles.
Or they just get lazy, and put up a banner somewhere - or otherwise "promote" from some dark corner of their site, as if they think that their visitors might get offended if they "over-promote".
What a sad loss for them.
I jam my promos right in my visitor's faces. Front and center.
The first thing they see when *ANY* of my site's pages load is a damn good reason to go and buy something that, in most cases, is what they're already looking for.
This way, I have seen even my "very low" traffic sites make several sales a week - a result of visitor targeting AND effective visitor funneling.
And the profits will explode as your traffic levels increase over time from organic listings.
But you can expect mediocre profits at best if you are afraid of SELLING.
4. JUST
You know, it used to take me MONTHS to roll out a simple 20-page site.
That is because I would over-think, over-plan, over-strategize and "perfect" things to DEATH.
I had have 52 autoresponders lined up, some crazy user-based viral marketing campaigns lined up, and God knows what else.
And in the end - those few alleged "masterpieces" ended up being my worst performers.
Ironically, one of my most profitable sites is absolutely the ugliest, most un-planned DISASTER ever. It sucks. I don't even show it to other marketers, more out of embarrassment than "niche protection".
But it is a classic SEO-friendly, HTML site with targeted title tags, H1 tags and unique content, it sticks the offer right in the visitor's faces, and it has more than 10,000 backlinks.
(It is not in the marketing niche, by the way - none of these types of sites are)
So stop planning things to death.
And no, you do not have to build a list in every niche, and you do not have to orchestrate some master-plan to conquer your niche in 15 days with the world's best marketing plan like your favorite Guru.
Just tap into the existing "buyer traffic" and make some easy commissions.
And then do it again and again.
Then - use those profits to start developing your own products, authority sites, etc. so that you can use this kind of "leech" strategy to fund the development of a business with a rock-solid foundation in a matter of a year or so.
All the while pulling down a full-time income, if you take it seriously enough.
And that's all there is to it.
Like I said - it ain't rocket science
In summary...
Enter into an actual, high-demand niche with millions of buyers.
Anti-adware, acne removal, weight-loss pills, and so on are a few examples of HUNDREDS of other niches that fit the bill.
Set up a simple site that reviews each major product, with maybe a few articles, etc. Put your affiliate promos in the top-fold of the page, FRONT AND CENTER.
Optimize your pages for SEO, targeting the "buyer keywords".
And then build as many backlinks as possible - Google "how to get backlinks" to find out more about that.
Work hard, and monitor your stats closely to see what happens when your site gets indexed and your rankings start to climb.
When the sales start to trickle in, reinvest all your profits to strengthen your rankings, increase backlinks, etc. until you have got some serious SE presence.
The traffic will be roaring in a few months - and so will the sales, if you are in a niche full of buyers.
Then - do it again, and again, and again, and again...
It could change your life.
And it is not rocket-science.
For more affiliate marketing tips, visit my other blogs at http://josephyap.com/affiliatemarketing and http://josephyap.com/freestuff. Feel free to distribute this article in any form as long as you include this resource box. You can also include your affiliate link when you sign up at this website: http://affiliatecashsecrets.com/go/64663/1.
Let us start with the last word in the phrase.
1. BUY
You want one kind of visitor in this business - a buyer.
As nice as it might be to have a "high-traffic site" with some crazy traffic graphs in Google Analytics - at the end of the day, who really cares unless they made you money?
I do not know about you, but I am not in this business for the charity. I donate my own money as appropriate - but my websites sure better be profitable!
And so I target buyers.
People with credit card in hand, looking for the order form - NOT just "information".
In terms of building affiliate sites, this means that I focus on product-related keywords and keyphrases. People searching for products do so to research and "make sure" about a purchase decision, in most cases. And some are literally searching for the order form.
A small percentage do so for other "non-buying" reasons, but the majority are either on the verge of buying and in need of a little "push" - or they're simply looking for the place to insert their credit card number because of previous research.
Why it is not rocket science:
Just build a site that includes info-pages and/or reviews for the popular products in your target niche and make it VERY EASY for the visitor to get to the vendor's site...
...through your affiliate link, of course!
How hard is that?
2. LOTS OF PEOPLE
For the longest time, I truly believed that the only "chance" I had to make a good online income is if I could dominate some sort of un-tapped niche.
Finding a "gold mine" niche that had no competitors.
What a load of rubbish!
You can make more money on page 30 of Google's results in a high-demand niche than you can by "dominating" some piddly little untapped micro-niche.
It is true.
By selling or promoting what millions of people buy, that means that you are casting your "fishing net" into a lake that is absolutely TEEMING with fish!
Who cares if you are only collecting a fraction of the fish that your competition does - there is plenty to go around.
And if you target the "buyer profile" keywords, than the competition factor is far less of a barrier than you might think, anyway.
I have sites in ultra-competitive niches getting hundreds of visitors a day that are barely even visible in the SE's - except for a multitude of long-tail & product keywords.
And man, do they pull it down!
So forget what you have heard about 'niche domination'.
Instead, consider the reality of just how possible it is to simply ENTER a massive niche, harnessing the easy traffic due to the sheer demand that exists on the long-tail, the mid-tail, the "product-tail" the "misspelled, unique & crazy keywords"-tail and all the rest of it.
Go after the buyers in ultra-competitive, high-demand markets and just watch what happens when you start building backlinks.
3. SELL
I see so many sites and blogs that could make a KILLING if they would simply place their affiliate promotions more visibly.
But instead, they "hide" all their links at the bottom of their articles.
Or they just get lazy, and put up a banner somewhere - or otherwise "promote" from some dark corner of their site, as if they think that their visitors might get offended if they "over-promote".
What a sad loss for them.
I jam my promos right in my visitor's faces. Front and center.
The first thing they see when *ANY* of my site's pages load is a damn good reason to go and buy something that, in most cases, is what they're already looking for.
This way, I have seen even my "very low" traffic sites make several sales a week - a result of visitor targeting AND effective visitor funneling.
And the profits will explode as your traffic levels increase over time from organic listings.
But you can expect mediocre profits at best if you are afraid of SELLING.
4. JUST
You know, it used to take me MONTHS to roll out a simple 20-page site.
That is because I would over-think, over-plan, over-strategize and "perfect" things to DEATH.
I had have 52 autoresponders lined up, some crazy user-based viral marketing campaigns lined up, and God knows what else.
And in the end - those few alleged "masterpieces" ended up being my worst performers.
Ironically, one of my most profitable sites is absolutely the ugliest, most un-planned DISASTER ever. It sucks. I don't even show it to other marketers, more out of embarrassment than "niche protection".
But it is a classic SEO-friendly, HTML site with targeted title tags, H1 tags and unique content, it sticks the offer right in the visitor's faces, and it has more than 10,000 backlinks.
(It is not in the marketing niche, by the way - none of these types of sites are)
So stop planning things to death.
And no, you do not have to build a list in every niche, and you do not have to orchestrate some master-plan to conquer your niche in 15 days with the world's best marketing plan like your favorite Guru.
Just tap into the existing "buyer traffic" and make some easy commissions.
And then do it again and again.
Then - use those profits to start developing your own products, authority sites, etc. so that you can use this kind of "leech" strategy to fund the development of a business with a rock-solid foundation in a matter of a year or so.
All the while pulling down a full-time income, if you take it seriously enough.
And that's all there is to it.
Like I said - it ain't rocket science
In summary...
Enter into an actual, high-demand niche with millions of buyers.
Anti-adware, acne removal, weight-loss pills, and so on are a few examples of HUNDREDS of other niches that fit the bill.
Set up a simple site that reviews each major product, with maybe a few articles, etc. Put your affiliate promos in the top-fold of the page, FRONT AND CENTER.
Optimize your pages for SEO, targeting the "buyer keywords".
And then build as many backlinks as possible - Google "how to get backlinks" to find out more about that.
Work hard, and monitor your stats closely to see what happens when your site gets indexed and your rankings start to climb.
When the sales start to trickle in, reinvest all your profits to strengthen your rankings, increase backlinks, etc. until you have got some serious SE presence.
The traffic will be roaring in a few months - and so will the sales, if you are in a niche full of buyers.
Then - do it again, and again, and again, and again...
It could change your life.
And it is not rocket-science.
For more affiliate marketing tips, visit my other blogs at http://josephyap.com/affiliatemarketing and http://josephyap.com/freestuff. Feel free to distribute this article in any form as long as you include this resource box. You can also include your affiliate link when you sign up at this website: http://affiliatecashsecrets.com/go/64663/1.
Monday, March 31, 2008
Is Affiliate Marketing The Fastest Way To Cash In?
If you want to consider Affiliate Marketing to help you generate additional income, you need to consider its benefits and pitfalls.
We often are bombarded with videos or blogs / emails or in an ebook where a person claim to earn $50,000 or $500,000 per month. More so if the time it takes them to earn this income is relatively short, like 6 months to a year. In your mind, you would be wondering whether this is possible or is it for real!
The great advantage with selling as an affiliate is you get a ready proven product with a sales page that works (assuming you do your research properly). That relieves you of one burden; product creation and making a sales page. So it leaves you free to concentrate on the other problem; getting traffic. So it leaves you free to concentrate on the other problem; getting traffic.
To that extent, affiliate marketing is a great way to start but, because it is not your own product, you don't get 100% of the sale and there is no scope for doing joint ventures or having your own affiliates.
You need to generate your own traffic from scratch. If you are just starting out, be wary of spending vast amount on advertising such as AdWords because if you do not do it right, it can clear your bank account faster than a hacker. An advise would be to look carefully at claims of vast earnings by people in a short space of time to see how much of that gross figure is actual profit.
If someone collects $50,000 in commissions but spends $40,000 on AdWords, they would probably sleep better at night if they used all that time they have to spend monitoring their AdWords account, on marketing methods that cost nothing but a bit of time (such as articles, Squidoo, HubPages and others). Not only do you get better and more receptive customers from these methods than from advertising (you get to pre-sell yourself), but it is perfectly possible you could match the $10,000 or even exceed the profit achieved by risking vast amounts with AdWords, yet all you have risked is a bit of your time. And articles and Squidoo lenses stay around for ages, unlike an ad, which requires a constant trickle of money to keep running.
Plus, with affiliate marketing, you have the added problem of having to compete with other affiliates selling the same product. You have to be more aggressive than them, spend more money, take more chances and so on.
Affiliate Marketing is not necessarily fast and easy. If you are prepared to learn and work hard, it will be great. But if you go in thinking it is quick and easy you could be disillusioned. For every every person who made it, there are 5,000 other affiliates that have been at it for over a year and still trying to make it to their first $300.
Each choice we make today affects the direction we are heading in and choices we will make later. Learning to choose wisely may be the hardest obstacle to overcome in building a viable business. In conclusion, this is your business and you have to take all things into consideration before embarking into this business. When you do, here is my best wishes to you, if not I applaud you for having consider all and decided to do something you are more capable of.
For more affiliate marketing tips, visit my blog at http://josephyap.com/affiliatemarketing. Feel free to distribute this article in any form as long as you include this resource box. You can also include your affiliate link when you sign up at this website: http://affiliatecashsecrets.com/go/64663/1.
We often are bombarded with videos or blogs / emails or in an ebook where a person claim to earn $50,000 or $500,000 per month. More so if the time it takes them to earn this income is relatively short, like 6 months to a year. In your mind, you would be wondering whether this is possible or is it for real!
The great advantage with selling as an affiliate is you get a ready proven product with a sales page that works (assuming you do your research properly). That relieves you of one burden; product creation and making a sales page. So it leaves you free to concentrate on the other problem; getting traffic. So it leaves you free to concentrate on the other problem; getting traffic.
To that extent, affiliate marketing is a great way to start but, because it is not your own product, you don't get 100% of the sale and there is no scope for doing joint ventures or having your own affiliates.
You need to generate your own traffic from scratch. If you are just starting out, be wary of spending vast amount on advertising such as AdWords because if you do not do it right, it can clear your bank account faster than a hacker. An advise would be to look carefully at claims of vast earnings by people in a short space of time to see how much of that gross figure is actual profit.
If someone collects $50,000 in commissions but spends $40,000 on AdWords, they would probably sleep better at night if they used all that time they have to spend monitoring their AdWords account, on marketing methods that cost nothing but a bit of time (such as articles, Squidoo, HubPages and others). Not only do you get better and more receptive customers from these methods than from advertising (you get to pre-sell yourself), but it is perfectly possible you could match the $10,000 or even exceed the profit achieved by risking vast amounts with AdWords, yet all you have risked is a bit of your time. And articles and Squidoo lenses stay around for ages, unlike an ad, which requires a constant trickle of money to keep running.
Plus, with affiliate marketing, you have the added problem of having to compete with other affiliates selling the same product. You have to be more aggressive than them, spend more money, take more chances and so on.
Affiliate Marketing is not necessarily fast and easy. If you are prepared to learn and work hard, it will be great. But if you go in thinking it is quick and easy you could be disillusioned. For every every person who made it, there are 5,000 other affiliates that have been at it for over a year and still trying to make it to their first $300.
Each choice we make today affects the direction we are heading in and choices we will make later. Learning to choose wisely may be the hardest obstacle to overcome in building a viable business. In conclusion, this is your business and you have to take all things into consideration before embarking into this business. When you do, here is my best wishes to you, if not I applaud you for having consider all and decided to do something you are more capable of.
For more affiliate marketing tips, visit my blog at http://josephyap.com/affiliatemarketing. Feel free to distribute this article in any form as long as you include this resource box. You can also include your affiliate link when you sign up at this website: http://affiliatecashsecrets.com/go/64663/1.
There is No Definites in Any Business
Wont it be nice if the person standing on stage or in the video or in a blog / email or in an ebook who claims to have found THE strategy for making millions of dollars in Internet Marketing really had all the answers?
Alas, they do not.
Unfortunately there will be people that will spend their lives searching for some magical solution to solve all of their problems. Just because something works for one person does not mean that it will work for you. But yet everybody seems to look for a pot of gold and do not realize that the answer lays within each of us.
We can accumulate all the knowledge and tools necessary to building a business and still end up failing. Perhaps one of the hardest lessons to learn in this business is that often, you will only know what works for YOU by rolling up your sleeves, testing, tweaking, and learning from your mistakes.
We must first learn how to take that knowledge and tools, and form it into a workable plan that is suited to our personality and abilities.
The most important thing in your business is you. If you don't put the effort in to building your business properly it will fail. If you fail to gain the proper knowledge to conduct your business it will eventually fail. If you sit on your hands and do nothing your business will be doomed to failure.
It kind of boils down to this, you must take control of both of your life and business if you desire to have a chance to succeed. It takes a commitment on your part to seek out what works for you. There are no guarantees in life and business but the more we weigh that scales in our favor the more likely we will achieve the goals set forth.
There are many things that influence our life and business that we have no control over. These things we must adapt to and search out ways to use them to our advantage. There are things in life that will happen that we have absolutely no control over, so there's no reason to get bogged down by these events and worry about them. Look for things in your life that you can change such as what business decisions you make.
Each choice we make today affects the direction we are heading in and choices we will make later. Learning to choose wisely may be the hardest obstacle to overcome in building a viable business.
Live life to the fullest.
For more affiliate marketing tips, visit my blog at http://josephyap.com/affiliatemarketing. Feel free to distribute this article in any form as long as you include this resource box. You can also include your affiliate link when you sign up at this website: http://affiliatecashsecrets.com/go/64663/1.
Alas, they do not.
Unfortunately there will be people that will spend their lives searching for some magical solution to solve all of their problems. Just because something works for one person does not mean that it will work for you. But yet everybody seems to look for a pot of gold and do not realize that the answer lays within each of us.
We can accumulate all the knowledge and tools necessary to building a business and still end up failing. Perhaps one of the hardest lessons to learn in this business is that often, you will only know what works for YOU by rolling up your sleeves, testing, tweaking, and learning from your mistakes.
We must first learn how to take that knowledge and tools, and form it into a workable plan that is suited to our personality and abilities.
The most important thing in your business is you. If you don't put the effort in to building your business properly it will fail. If you fail to gain the proper knowledge to conduct your business it will eventually fail. If you sit on your hands and do nothing your business will be doomed to failure.
It kind of boils down to this, you must take control of both of your life and business if you desire to have a chance to succeed. It takes a commitment on your part to seek out what works for you. There are no guarantees in life and business but the more we weigh that scales in our favor the more likely we will achieve the goals set forth.
There are many things that influence our life and business that we have no control over. These things we must adapt to and search out ways to use them to our advantage. There are things in life that will happen that we have absolutely no control over, so there's no reason to get bogged down by these events and worry about them. Look for things in your life that you can change such as what business decisions you make.
Each choice we make today affects the direction we are heading in and choices we will make later. Learning to choose wisely may be the hardest obstacle to overcome in building a viable business.
Live life to the fullest.
For more affiliate marketing tips, visit my blog at http://josephyap.com/affiliatemarketing. Feel free to distribute this article in any form as long as you include this resource box. You can also include your affiliate link when you sign up at this website: http://affiliatecashsecrets.com/go/64663/1.
Monday, March 24, 2008
Some Of The BIGGEST Mistakes Internet Marketer Makes
I figure, if newbies want to be helped, it might pay to learn what NOT to do more so than 'what to do', as that information is available everywhere.
Here is a compilation what NOT to do:
Writer #1.
My biggest mistake was not focusing on the LONG TERM. That and not thinking in terms of building list first and then building relationships. I never really mastered list building techniques when I was a full time techie. And the worst part of it is one of my clients is a master of all things opt-in (shakes head).
Writer #2.
My biggest mistake was falling for every single sales letter when I first came online. It was all so new to me, I actually believed the hype...and MOST of it was pure junk! I wasted all my money buying this ebook, that ebook, joining various MLM programs...information overload and NOT focusing on ONE thing was my big mistake.
Writer #3.
My biggest mistake was planning. I planned. And planned. And planned... I planned too much and never took action. Wasted the best part of 9 months planning things out, learning and such, whilst not actually doing anything. I think if I could go back now I would take action while learning things.
Writer #4.
Jumping around too much, I had no focus. First I tried adsense sites, if they did not work in a couple of weeks, I tried ebooks, then affiliate programs and then back to adsense etc. I wanted everything to happen for me quickly and easily but realized after a while that it just does not work like that.
Writer #5.
My biggest mistake was not doing the obvious, things like Unblockable pop-ups, OTOs, PDFs rather than EXE books and Sign-up Form on every page. Just changing those things made a big difference to my bottom-line.
Writer #6.
My biggest mistake was having too many unrelated projects. It was more than I could handle successfully and consequently none of them brought in the money it could have. I also ended up having many unfinished projects. It is better focusing on one thing and doing it 100% until it succeeds or fails.
Writer #7.
When I first started out I was relying on PPC for traffic, which is fine. But I got a little too "smart" for my own good, cheated the system and got banned! So here I was starting to build my business and losing my only good traffic resource. Smart guy! I guess the silver lining is that it forced me to concentrate on SEO and natural traffic to the point where I have never needed PPC again. So my lesson too other newbies is forget about all the tricks, black-hat tactics and questionable shortcuts. They always backfire! Build your business to last.
Writer #8.
My biggest mistake was not backing up my site to only wake up one morning and everything was gone and the host had gone out of business! A mailing list of 24,000 was lost because I used to run my list from the host plus all the other products. Now that was a nightmare...
Writer #9.
Finding out that there were free ebooks with the information I bought early on! You would not believe how much useful the information was on offer for free or at rock bottom price!
Writer #10.
Mistakes I learn from...
- Focusing on more than one thing at a time
- Not outsourcing enough and trying to do everything myself
- Not taking enough breaks!
I have made some of these mistakes myself and learn valuable lessons from them. Nothing venture, nothing gain.
Here is a compilation what NOT to do:
Writer #1.
My biggest mistake was not focusing on the LONG TERM. That and not thinking in terms of building list first and then building relationships. I never really mastered list building techniques when I was a full time techie. And the worst part of it is one of my clients is a master of all things opt-in (shakes head).
Writer #2.
My biggest mistake was falling for every single sales letter when I first came online. It was all so new to me, I actually believed the hype...and MOST of it was pure junk! I wasted all my money buying this ebook, that ebook, joining various MLM programs...information overload and NOT focusing on ONE thing was my big mistake.
Writer #3.
My biggest mistake was planning. I planned. And planned. And planned... I planned too much and never took action. Wasted the best part of 9 months planning things out, learning and such, whilst not actually doing anything. I think if I could go back now I would take action while learning things.
Writer #4.
Jumping around too much, I had no focus. First I tried adsense sites, if they did not work in a couple of weeks, I tried ebooks, then affiliate programs and then back to adsense etc. I wanted everything to happen for me quickly and easily but realized after a while that it just does not work like that.
Writer #5.
My biggest mistake was not doing the obvious, things like Unblockable pop-ups, OTOs, PDFs rather than EXE books and Sign-up Form on every page. Just changing those things made a big difference to my bottom-line.
Writer #6.
My biggest mistake was having too many unrelated projects. It was more than I could handle successfully and consequently none of them brought in the money it could have. I also ended up having many unfinished projects. It is better focusing on one thing and doing it 100% until it succeeds or fails.
Writer #7.
When I first started out I was relying on PPC for traffic, which is fine. But I got a little too "smart" for my own good, cheated the system and got banned! So here I was starting to build my business and losing my only good traffic resource. Smart guy! I guess the silver lining is that it forced me to concentrate on SEO and natural traffic to the point where I have never needed PPC again. So my lesson too other newbies is forget about all the tricks, black-hat tactics and questionable shortcuts. They always backfire! Build your business to last.
Writer #8.
My biggest mistake was not backing up my site to only wake up one morning and everything was gone and the host had gone out of business! A mailing list of 24,000 was lost because I used to run my list from the host plus all the other products. Now that was a nightmare...
Writer #9.
Finding out that there were free ebooks with the information I bought early on! You would not believe how much useful the information was on offer for free or at rock bottom price!
Writer #10.
Mistakes I learn from...
- Focusing on more than one thing at a time
- Not outsourcing enough and trying to do everything myself
- Not taking enough breaks!
I have made some of these mistakes myself and learn valuable lessons from them. Nothing venture, nothing gain.
The BIGGEST MISTAKE Semi-Successful Marketers Make
A lot of the discussions on the internet center around the mistakes that newbies make but I want to take this opportunity to discuss the biggest mistake that semi-successful marketers make.
I say 'semi-successful' because technically these marketers could be making lots of money, but they are not 'uber-successful' because they do not realize the full-potential of their business.
So What is the Biggest Mistake?
The biggest mistake semi-successful marketers make is that they are too intent on what THEY want and not what their CUSTOMERS want.
Here is an explanation:
This is especially true of services marketing. Your objective should be to provide your clientele with what THEY want provided that it is profitable for your business. If they want something different than what you offer, adapt your business model to ensure that you are providing your customers with what they want.
It is easy to get lost in what is most convenient for you, and if you are getting super wealthy off of it then by all means keep going, but great services companies continue to LISTEN to what their customers want and provide them with those solutions in order to continue to grow and leverage their business.
Because of the fact that these semi-successful entrepreneurs are typically making some decent cash it is easy to get lost in that notion, easy to have a bit of an ego, etc. When this starts happening they become less likely to LISTEN to their customers because they attribute making money to being successful -- and while to some extent this is true, it doesn't mean they are maximizing the potential of their business.
All of this becomes especially true if your company relies on varying demographics of people.
This Example Should Help Clarify
Let us say I mow lawns for a living. I have a service where I will mow your lawn for $30 bucks every month provided you sign a 6 month deal with me, and that is my only option.
What if a young married couple has an atrocious yard. The husband has been bogged down at work and hasn't had the opportunity to mow it lately, and his father-in-law is coming to dinner for the weekend and already thinks he is a bum. Since he usually mows his yard (albeit maybe not very well), but this time he wants a really GREAT job done just this once.
Well, obviously I do not have an option for him. He does not want to pay for 6 months that he is not going to use. Would not make sense for my lawn mowing service to have a one-time-fee of something like $45 dollars?
This is a relatively crude example, but do you see what I'm getting at?
Summary:
In marketing, especially in services marketing, leave the ego and what you want at the door and make certain that you are providing your clientele with what they want or you will be making the biggest mistake a semi-successful marketer makes.
Another tips is, if someone takes the one time service and they enjoy the service immensely, provided they do actually need the long-term or membership service, they might be very inclined to make that commitment. You benefit in the end.
For more affiliate marketing tips, visit my blog at http://josephyap.com/affiliatemarketing. Feel free to distribute this article in any form as long as you include this resource box. You can also include your affiliate link when you sign up at this website: http://affiliatecashsecrets.com/go/64663/1.
I say 'semi-successful' because technically these marketers could be making lots of money, but they are not 'uber-successful' because they do not realize the full-potential of their business.
So What is the Biggest Mistake?
The biggest mistake semi-successful marketers make is that they are too intent on what THEY want and not what their CUSTOMERS want.
Here is an explanation:
This is especially true of services marketing. Your objective should be to provide your clientele with what THEY want provided that it is profitable for your business. If they want something different than what you offer, adapt your business model to ensure that you are providing your customers with what they want.
It is easy to get lost in what is most convenient for you, and if you are getting super wealthy off of it then by all means keep going, but great services companies continue to LISTEN to what their customers want and provide them with those solutions in order to continue to grow and leverage their business.
Because of the fact that these semi-successful entrepreneurs are typically making some decent cash it is easy to get lost in that notion, easy to have a bit of an ego, etc. When this starts happening they become less likely to LISTEN to their customers because they attribute making money to being successful -- and while to some extent this is true, it doesn't mean they are maximizing the potential of their business.
All of this becomes especially true if your company relies on varying demographics of people.
This Example Should Help Clarify
Let us say I mow lawns for a living. I have a service where I will mow your lawn for $30 bucks every month provided you sign a 6 month deal with me, and that is my only option.
What if a young married couple has an atrocious yard. The husband has been bogged down at work and hasn't had the opportunity to mow it lately, and his father-in-law is coming to dinner for the weekend and already thinks he is a bum. Since he usually mows his yard (albeit maybe not very well), but this time he wants a really GREAT job done just this once.
Well, obviously I do not have an option for him. He does not want to pay for 6 months that he is not going to use. Would not make sense for my lawn mowing service to have a one-time-fee of something like $45 dollars?
This is a relatively crude example, but do you see what I'm getting at?
Summary:
In marketing, especially in services marketing, leave the ego and what you want at the door and make certain that you are providing your clientele with what they want or you will be making the biggest mistake a semi-successful marketer makes.
Another tips is, if someone takes the one time service and they enjoy the service immensely, provided they do actually need the long-term or membership service, they might be very inclined to make that commitment. You benefit in the end.
For more affiliate marketing tips, visit my blog at http://josephyap.com/affiliatemarketing. Feel free to distribute this article in any form as long as you include this resource box. You can also include your affiliate link when you sign up at this website: http://affiliatecashsecrets.com/go/64663/1.
Sunday, March 16, 2008
3 Tips An Affiliate Marketer Requires To Survive Online
The main objective of a traditional business venture is that it gives you the biggest return on your investment. Similarly in a successful affiliate marketing venture, you will want the biggest return on your investment also. Good marketing practices over the years have been proven to be that of hard work and dedication. Similarly in affiliate marketing the same marketing practices is required, ie. hard work and dedication for success. Technics that have worked before with online marketing, will continue to work in online affiliate marketing world today. Below are 3 tips any Affiliate Marketer should do to increase sales and to survive in the world of online affiliate marketing.
What are the 3 tips?
1) Ensure unique web pages to promote separate products you are marketing.
Do not lump all your products into a single web page to save money on web hosting. You may lose a visitor who is looking for a specific niche product but feels overwhelm with loads of other information on the web page.
On the web page, include product review for the product you are marketing. Make sure visitors have initial understanding of what the product can do for those who chooses to purchase them. Include testimonials from users or customers who already tried the product and are more than willing to use their names and photos on your web site of the product you are marketing.
Try to write articles highlighting the uses of the product and include the link on your web page to these articles. Your web page must be attractive and compelling to the reader, including a call to act on the information with urgency. Each of the headline should attract reader to try and read more of the content, even to contact you for more information on the product. Remember to highlight your special points of the product you are marketing, to help reader learn what the web page is about and trigger their interest to want to find out more.
2) Offer free reports to your readers.
It is best to position the offer of free reports at the lop side of your web page, that cannot be missed out by reader. Create autoresponder message that will send mail to those who input their basic personal information into your sign up box, ie. name and email id. According to research, a sale is closed usually on the seventh (7th) contact with a prospect.
When a visitor visit your web page, 2 things can happen. Either (i) a sales is closed or (ii) prospect leave web page and never return. By placing useful information relevant to your product into prospects' inboxes at certain specified period, this will remind prospect the product they thought they want later and will find out that the sale is closed. Be sure the content is directed toward specific reasons to buy the product and not make it sound like a sales pitch.
Focus on important points on how the products can make life and things easier and more enjoyable. To attract the attention of reader, write compelling subject lines in your email. As much as possible, avoid using the word “free” because there are still older spam filters that dumps those kind of contents into the junk before even anyone reading them first. Inform those who sign up for free reports, what they will miss out on something big if they do not avail of your products and services.
3)Get the kind of traffic that is targeted to your product.
If a person who visit your web page has no interest whatsover in what you are offering, they will be among those who move on and never come back. Write articles for publication in e-zines and e-reports. This way you can locate publications that is focusing on your target customers and what you have put up might just grab their interest.
Try to write a minimum of 2 articles per week (about 300-600 words in length). By continuously writing and maintaining these articles, you can generate as many as 100 targeted readers to your site in a day. 1 out of a 100 people are likely to buy your product or get your services. If 1,000 targeted hits for your website in a day, that means you can made 10 sales based on the average statistic.
The tips given above is not difficult but it does require you spending a little time and set an action plan to track and achieve on your part.
Try these tips for several affiliate marketing programs. You can end up maintaining a good source of income and surviving in this business that not all marketers can do. Besides, think of the hugh returns you will be receiving and the vast knowledge and experience you will gain along the way.
For more affiliate marketing tips, visit my blog at http://affiliatemarketertips.blogspot.com. Feel free to distribute this article in any form as long as you include this resource box. You can also include your affiliate link when you sign up at this website: http://affiliatecashsecrets.com/go/64663/1.
What are the 3 tips?
1) Ensure unique web pages to promote separate products you are marketing.
Do not lump all your products into a single web page to save money on web hosting. You may lose a visitor who is looking for a specific niche product but feels overwhelm with loads of other information on the web page.
On the web page, include product review for the product you are marketing. Make sure visitors have initial understanding of what the product can do for those who chooses to purchase them. Include testimonials from users or customers who already tried the product and are more than willing to use their names and photos on your web site of the product you are marketing.
Try to write articles highlighting the uses of the product and include the link on your web page to these articles. Your web page must be attractive and compelling to the reader, including a call to act on the information with urgency. Each of the headline should attract reader to try and read more of the content, even to contact you for more information on the product. Remember to highlight your special points of the product you are marketing, to help reader learn what the web page is about and trigger their interest to want to find out more.
2) Offer free reports to your readers.
It is best to position the offer of free reports at the lop side of your web page, that cannot be missed out by reader. Create autoresponder message that will send mail to those who input their basic personal information into your sign up box, ie. name and email id. According to research, a sale is closed usually on the seventh (7th) contact with a prospect.
When a visitor visit your web page, 2 things can happen. Either (i) a sales is closed or (ii) prospect leave web page and never return. By placing useful information relevant to your product into prospects' inboxes at certain specified period, this will remind prospect the product they thought they want later and will find out that the sale is closed. Be sure the content is directed toward specific reasons to buy the product and not make it sound like a sales pitch.
Focus on important points on how the products can make life and things easier and more enjoyable. To attract the attention of reader, write compelling subject lines in your email. As much as possible, avoid using the word “free” because there are still older spam filters that dumps those kind of contents into the junk before even anyone reading them first. Inform those who sign up for free reports, what they will miss out on something big if they do not avail of your products and services.
3)Get the kind of traffic that is targeted to your product.
If a person who visit your web page has no interest whatsover in what you are offering, they will be among those who move on and never come back. Write articles for publication in e-zines and e-reports. This way you can locate publications that is focusing on your target customers and what you have put up might just grab their interest.
Try to write a minimum of 2 articles per week (about 300-600 words in length). By continuously writing and maintaining these articles, you can generate as many as 100 targeted readers to your site in a day. 1 out of a 100 people are likely to buy your product or get your services. If 1,000 targeted hits for your website in a day, that means you can made 10 sales based on the average statistic.
The tips given above is not difficult but it does require you spending a little time and set an action plan to track and achieve on your part.
Try these tips for several affiliate marketing programs. You can end up maintaining a good source of income and surviving in this business that not all marketers can do. Besides, think of the hugh returns you will be receiving and the vast knowledge and experience you will gain along the way.
For more affiliate marketing tips, visit my blog at http://affiliatemarketertips.blogspot.com. Feel free to distribute this article in any form as long as you include this resource box. You can also include your affiliate link when you sign up at this website: http://affiliatecashsecrets.com/go/64663/1.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
A Day In The Life Of An Affiliate Marketer
Being in the affiliate marketing business is not that hard now with the internet at your disposable. It is much easier now compared to the days when people have to make use of the telephones and other mediums of information just to get the latest updates on the way their program is coming along.
So with technology at hand, and assuming that the affiliate is working from home, a day in his or her life would sound something like this…
Upon waking up, switched on the computer to check the sales for the day and after that wash up and have breakfast. Back to the computer to check out new developments in the network, new things to update and statistics to keep track on.
Review the site design for changes to be made to increase signs ups from visitors as a marketer knows the importance of a well-designed site. This will help in the affiliate’s conversion rates.
Next, submit affiliate program to directories where affiliate programs are listed. Purpose of these directories are to attract people in joining your affiliate program. A sure way of promoting your affiliate program.
That done, now its time to track down the sales you are getting from your affiliates fairly and accurately, including phone orders and mails to track down. Check to see if they are new clients checking the products out. Take note of contact information that might be a viable source in the future.
In order to stay visible and accessible, sort out the ads, banners and button ads available. Ensure to give out sample recommendations as this is one sure way of ensuring more sales for the marketer.
Remember to answer questions from visitors quickly as you do not want to turn off a customer with an unanswered email. Ensure your answer are short and to the point and should appear professional yet friendly too.
Joining a chat room where a marketer can interacts with other affiliates and those under that same program is important. He or she needs to logged in frequently to discuss things on how to best promote their products. Through these discussion, sharing of tips and advices is a positive way of showing support for each other and at the same time may enticed others out there who are still seeking for opportunities which may ultimately bring in sales.
The newsletters and ezines were updated days ago, so it is time for the affiliate marketer to see if there are some new things happening in the market. This will be written about in the marketer’s publication to be distributed to the old and new customers.
These same publications are also an important tool in keeping up to date with the newly introduced products. The marketer has put up a sale and promotion that customers may want to know about. Besides, they have to keep up with the deadline of these sales written in the publications.
It is that time to show some appreciation to those who have helped the marketer in the promotions and sale increase. Nothing like mentioning the persons, their sites and the process they have done that made everything worked.
Of course, this will be published in the newsletters. Among the more important information that have been written already.
The marketer still has time to write out recommendations to those who want credible sources for the products being promoted. There is also time to post some comments on how to be a successful affiliate marketer on a site where there are lots of wannabees.
Two objectives done at the same time. The marketer gets to promote the product as well as the program they are in. Who knows, someone may be inclined to join.
Time flies. Missed lunch but is quite contented with the tasks done. Bed time….
This gives you an idea of how an affiliate marketer spends his or her marketing day, a dedicated one that is.
For more affiliate marketing tips, visit my blog at http://www.josephyap.com/affiliatemarketing. Feel free to distribute this article in any form as long as you include this resource box. You can also include your affiliate link when you sign up at this website: http://www.affiliatecashsecrets.com?64663.
So with technology at hand, and assuming that the affiliate is working from home, a day in his or her life would sound something like this…
Upon waking up, switched on the computer to check the sales for the day and after that wash up and have breakfast. Back to the computer to check out new developments in the network, new things to update and statistics to keep track on.
Review the site design for changes to be made to increase signs ups from visitors as a marketer knows the importance of a well-designed site. This will help in the affiliate’s conversion rates.
Next, submit affiliate program to directories where affiliate programs are listed. Purpose of these directories are to attract people in joining your affiliate program. A sure way of promoting your affiliate program.
That done, now its time to track down the sales you are getting from your affiliates fairly and accurately, including phone orders and mails to track down. Check to see if they are new clients checking the products out. Take note of contact information that might be a viable source in the future.
In order to stay visible and accessible, sort out the ads, banners and button ads available. Ensure to give out sample recommendations as this is one sure way of ensuring more sales for the marketer.
Remember to answer questions from visitors quickly as you do not want to turn off a customer with an unanswered email. Ensure your answer are short and to the point and should appear professional yet friendly too.
Joining a chat room where a marketer can interacts with other affiliates and those under that same program is important. He or she needs to logged in frequently to discuss things on how to best promote their products. Through these discussion, sharing of tips and advices is a positive way of showing support for each other and at the same time may enticed others out there who are still seeking for opportunities which may ultimately bring in sales.
The newsletters and ezines were updated days ago, so it is time for the affiliate marketer to see if there are some new things happening in the market. This will be written about in the marketer’s publication to be distributed to the old and new customers.
These same publications are also an important tool in keeping up to date with the newly introduced products. The marketer has put up a sale and promotion that customers may want to know about. Besides, they have to keep up with the deadline of these sales written in the publications.
It is that time to show some appreciation to those who have helped the marketer in the promotions and sale increase. Nothing like mentioning the persons, their sites and the process they have done that made everything worked.
Of course, this will be published in the newsletters. Among the more important information that have been written already.
The marketer still has time to write out recommendations to those who want credible sources for the products being promoted. There is also time to post some comments on how to be a successful affiliate marketer on a site where there are lots of wannabees.
Two objectives done at the same time. The marketer gets to promote the product as well as the program they are in. Who knows, someone may be inclined to join.
Time flies. Missed lunch but is quite contented with the tasks done. Bed time….
This gives you an idea of how an affiliate marketer spends his or her marketing day, a dedicated one that is.
For more affiliate marketing tips, visit my blog at http://www.josephyap.com/affiliatemarketing. Feel free to distribute this article in any form as long as you include this resource box. You can also include your affiliate link when you sign up at this website: http://www.affiliatecashsecrets.com?64663.
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