How To Cash In Promoting Affiliate Programs
1. Build your site around a topic you enjoy.
Becoming a webmaster will require a lot of time on your part.
Make sure that you first build your site around a topic that you
enjoy and can spend time on.
Think about what topics you enjoy most, and that you know a lot
about. This will allow you to easily write about that topic to
your visitors and share your insight.
2. Keep narrowing your focus until you find your niche that
makes your site unique. For instance instead of sports, make
your site about your favorite team or instead of marketing
choose to make your site about ezine publishing.
3. Once you've decided on a topic for your site, you have also
selected your target audience, and are ready to join affiliate
programs that sell products to that audience.
4. When deciding on affiliate programs to join look for
affiliate programs that offer a line of products -- this will
allow you to earn further commissions when your referrals come
back and order something else.
5. Choose affiliate programs that offer a two-tier commission
structure, where you get paid a commission on the sales of
people that you refer to the affiliate program, or affiliate
programs that offer you the chance to earn a residual income.
6. Track your promotional efforts. This is essential in helping
you identify what ad copy generates the most sales and what
marketing techniques are most profitable.
7. Generate repeat traffic to your site by making your site a
valuable resource.
Publish your own articles, tutorials, ebooks, your ezine
archive, as well as the promotional materials provided to you by
the affiliate programs you've joined.
8. Keep your site updated regularly with new material.
9. Write recommendations.
Make a recommended links or products page where you share with
your visitors the benefits that the products that you promote
will provide to them -- how those products have helped you.
10. To increase your commissions promoting two-tier affiliate
programs, also provide a top rated affiliate programs page where
you recommend your affiliate opportunities to your visitors.
11. Follow up with your visitors by providing free e-mail
courses.
Your courses can be those provided to you by the affiliate
programs you promote, or you can create your own free e-mail
courses from your own articles or tutorials.
12. Publish an ezine.
Running an ezine will allow you to successfully drive more new
and repeat traffic to your site, successfully market your
affiliate programs to your visitors by keeping in touch with
them, and also allow you to promote several different affiliate
programs within your ezine's content.
Publishing an ezine is also an excellent way to establish
yourself as an expert or resource in your field which will
generate more commissions for you as your subscribers respond to
your recommendations.