7 Tips To Become a Master Affiliate
This are 7 useful tips that can really put you in the right
direction to become one of the affiliate marketers that really
make money promoting on the net products of other companies.
1- Keep in mind that becoming an affiliate marketer on the
internet you are gaining access to customers of all the world
instead of just having access to a local customer base. With the
internet you can reach millions of potential buyers instead of
hundreds or thousands.
2- Do some basic analysis researching the market you want to
sell to. A useful suggestion I can give you is to use the SWOT
Analysis to consider existing competition:
- Strengths
- Weaknesses
- Opportunities
- Threats
3- When selecting an affiliate program to promote look at the
following criteria as basic requirements:
- Affiliate programs that pay you at least $10 per sale.
- Affiliate programs having limited option for the ordering
process (e.g.: you don't want that the affiliate program pays
you only if the customer buys using clickbank and on the site it
is available also the option to pay with Stormpay that does not
earn you the commissions you deserve)
- Affiliate programs that don't have many external links to
other programs you don't get credits for.
4- Create a web page that cloaks your affiliate URL and use it
to promote the affiliate program instead of directly promoting
the affiliate URL. This is important because this way the
prospect, the potential buyer, will not be able to remove your
affiliate ID and you are more likely to get credits for the sale.
5- When using paid advertising try to capture the contact info
of the visitors like name and email address. You will be able to
contact them again if they did not buy at the first visit to try
to convince them to purchase from you, and you won't have to pay
again to resubmit them your offer.
6- Be informative about the products you are promoting with
your potential customers. You can write articles or reviews
telling your own experiences about how the product or service
you promote was useful and helpful to solve a problem or a need
you had.
7- Use paid advertising to promote your affiliate programs.
Some of the best paid advertisings available are PPC (Pay Per
Click, like google AdWords), email advertising like ads in
newsletters and ezines (even better if you build your own
mailing list), paid links in targeted high traffic sites.