Why Aren't You Making a Ton of Cash as an Affiliate?
5 keys to you becoming a successful affiliate:
1) HAS THE OWNER OF THE PROGRAM DONE HIS OR HER RESEARCH?
Before you become an affiliate for someone, you want to know one
major thing. You want to be very sure they've taken the time to
test their whole sales process!
Have they invested some of their own time and money into
fine-tuning and improving their sales letter until it really
converts visitors into buyers? Is their ordering process simple
for your prospects to navigate?
The last thing you want to do is spend a lot of your time and
money to generate traffic to a sales letter that can't sell its
way out of a paper bag, right?
One way to figure this out is to use a little common sense. How
does the sales letter affect you? Is it professional? Does it
suck you in? Do you find you can't stop reading it because you
just need to know how this product can help solve the problem
it's saying it can?
Does it make you want to buy? The last thing you want to do to
the lifeblood of your business (your prospects) is sell them
"junky" stuff.
2) $25 MINIMUM
You should pick a product that pays you at least $25 for each
sale. Unless you become an affiliate for more than one product
(we'll touch on this point a little later), stick to the $25 as
a minimum price point so you can take your advertising costs out
and still make a profit.
3) FREE TO JOIN
It must be free to join an affiliate program. If they are
charging you to join, or require you to buy their product first,
it's not an affiliate marketing program.
4) WHERE TO FIND GOOD AFFILIATE PROGRAMS
A great place to start is Clickbank. They have one of the
largest affiliate marketing programs you can find. Just go to
http://www.clickbank.com and get a clickbank ID.
At Clickbank's home page, go to "Earn Commissions" and search
for products that fit you and your site. They are even ranked in
order of popularity. That's another sign of whether it's a
program worth your time.
Another place you can go is http://www.lifetimecommissions.com .
Amazon has a good affiliate marketing program. Go to
http://www.amazon.com and click on "Join Associates" near the
bottom of the page. You won't get as much of a commission for
each sale as you will from Clickbank or Lifetime Commissions but
it does accumulate over time.
5) USE A CONTENT SITE
The real key to being successful with affiliate marketing is to
develop a good content based website and weave your affiliate
links into all your content. You want to "pre-sell" your
prospects rather than "sell" them.
Leave the job of "selling" to the sales letter page you are
transferring them to. Your job is to provide your prospects with
good, quality content regarding whatever they are interested in.
Inside this information, when it's relevant, just "recommend"
that they click to an offer you honestly believe will be of
immense help to them.
Wouldn't you rather have a friend recommend you something of
value and allow you the time to consider whether it's right for
you rather than be "sold"? Everyone who visits your site feels
the same so remember this.
We mentioned earlier that we'd discuss becoming an affiliate for
more than one product and how it affects the minimum commission
you're willing to accept. If you put together a content site as
we're recommending, the $25 minimum isn't as critical.
Of course, you'd like the maximum, fair commission possible, but
if you have 15 or so programs you're recommending, you can offer
quality products for less. If one of your products brings you
$10-$15 in commission and you have some others paying you $25,
$75 or more, you can see you're averaging a good return
over-all.
Why aren't you making a ton of cash as an affiliate? Follow
these 5 points and we see big profits in your future!
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