Sunday 3 February 2013

Affiliate Marketing And Me

By Sylvester B. Ford


Online marketing is probably the most difficult of all promotional strategies at present. Unlike traditional marketing for a specific product with a defined target audience, online marketing covers a vast share of potential clients. It aims to reach different kinds of people regardless of basic demographics like age and geographic location. As marketing experts usually claim, all rules are bent when it comes to online marketing.
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Affiliate marketing is essentially where you would find someone else's product to promote. They would give you, what's called an affiliate link. This affiliate link is unique to you. You would then use this affiliate link to refer other people to purchase THEIR product. If someone that you referred purchased their product, you would get a commission. It's pretty simple really. You promote other people's products or services. You make money. You don't have to mess with customer support, product fulfillment, or anything else that is related to selling your own product.like actually MAKING A PRODUCT!What I would recommend is that you promote information products or downloadable software.

The reason for this is because the markup on these types of products is nearly 100%. It costs the owner of the product almost nothing to sell and eBook or a downloadable software program. You can earn commissions as high as 75%. Generally the rates are 50%-75%. Which happens to be a great commission rate?

BENEFITS OF AFFILIATE MARKETING ARE,Working Your Own Hours Working at Home,Time Freedom,Tax Benefits of Being a Business Owner (This Is Big) No Employees,You Do Not Handle Returns,Flexibility,You may be asking. How can I be successful if I try affiliate marketing? Here are some very important tips you should follow:

One of the most important factors to consider in affiliate marketing is choosing quality products and services to promote? Do your homework to bring the highest quality products and services you can find to market. It can make or break your earnings. The easiest rule to follow is to find a product or service that you are interested in and then join that affiliate program. So start making a list of your interests and see what affiliate programs come up from that list.

One of the best ways to make money online is you must have a website or a mini site so you can build an email list of prospective customers. I recommend Word press it is the easiest to use and builds you quality websites very quickly and it is easy to learn. You can find several tutorials for using Word press on You Tube. Make sure that your site is easy to navigate and is keyword rich and has a direct call to action and always provide value to you prospects. Then provide them a sign up form- then they are compelled to sign up and possibly purchase your affiliate offer that you are promoting. A quality landing page is key and has a call to action for your targeted visitors to do what you need them to do. It must have well written text that rates or reviews the product or, a video tutorial that lets visitors learn how to benefit and use the product well and an opt-in form.

Many people confuse affiliate marketing from doing actual referrals. Actually, the difference is very minimal. Both strategies require third-parties to promote products and attract potential customers. However, referrals are more personal in its approach. In doing referrals, there has to be trust between the person marketing the product and the audience. Affiliate marketing, on the other hand, can be done on a purely business level.

There is different ways on how you can drive people to your website. Using social networks and letting people know about your affiliate sites, or you can talk to friends and family. There are other ways to get attention to your site through press releases is one way. Writing articles can get attention to your site. Forums or blog posts will help as well. Just be creative and see what works and what does not Do your due diligence; examine your chosen market and test, test, test. Finding a mentor will definitely speed the process. Mentors can be expensive but well worth the money in the long run. Remember the building of any business takes time and hard work, but, if you are diligent and focused you will have success.




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