EFFECTIVE PRE-SELLING IN AFFILIATE MARKETING
Pop quiz: name the fastest way to online success?
If your answer is product creation, then you would have to
reconsider the time and effort needed to come up with
merchandise that would sell.
If your answer is telecommuting, then you would have to remember
that such is almost tantamount to being an employee and working
for a boss, albeit, in the comforts of your own home.
The answer is quite clear. The fastest way to online success is
something that does not require an onerous financial investment,
if ever such is demanded which is rare, and something that does
not entail product conceptualization and execution. It does not
even require other obligations like the retention of a payment
processor or the installation of a digital delivery service.
Affiliate programs have long been hailed as the easiest and
speediest way to earn a fortune online, and for good reasons!
You won't have to build your own products and test-drive them to
death. You'd have an entire inventory of proven products to
choose from! You won't have to come up with a digital store that
would process payments from a variety of payment solution
options in the World Wide Web. This would be provided for as
well. You won't have to hire an expensive copywriter to prepare
a sales page for you. One would be provided, with a proven
conversion rate at that.
What's best is that you won't be limited to only one affiliate
program to join. You could enroll in as many affiliate programs
you want! The more programs you join, the better your chances
are of earning a lot!
Affiliate programs, of course, are agreements between an
affiliate merchant and an affiliate, which would be you, for the
latter to pre-sell the products of the former. For every
successful sale that the affiliate would refer to the affiliate
merchant, the affiliate stands to earn a commission. Not just
piecemeal commissions, mind you. But generous commission in the
range of 20% to 95%!
The keyword in affiliate programs is pre-selling.
Pre-selling is very much different from actual selling. You
won't to concern yourself with the usual demands of actually
distributing a product for profit. All you have to do is to
market the affiliate merchant's products and drive people to
affiliate merchant's sales page. Thereafter, the affiliate
merchant's system would take care of the rest, from accepting
and processing payments, to delivering the goods, to customer
support.
So how do you effectively pre-sell an affiliate product?
You would be given an affiliate link for every product you would
choose to pre-sell. The trick is in displaying this affiliate
link in as many places in the World Wide Web as possible, so
that it would be exposed to many people.
Here are some proven strategies you could employ to drive people
to the affiliate merchant's sales page en masse. Hopefully, the
probabilities are much higher when you manage to generate
referrals in droves.
* ARTICLE MARKETING. Write an article about a topic related to
the affiliate product you are pre-selling. Include a resource
box which contains your affiliate link. Submit the article to as
many article directories as you could find. A lot of people
refer to these article directories for information, and once
they read your piece as well as your resource box, you're bound
to win some referrals.
* FORUM MARKETING. Join as many relevant forums as you could
find. With your membership in each of them, you'll be allotted a
signature box where you could place your affiliate link. Your
signature box would appear in every post that you would make.
Try to make informative posts instead of sales pitches, as the
former have been proven to perform better.
* BLOGS. Blogs figure prominently in search engine page results.
Having your own blog would help your promote your affiliate
links. Simply pattern your entries as reviews or informative
pieces with suggestions, and strategically place your affiliate
links therein.
* HEADQUARTERS. Having your own website would help centralize
your promotional campaigns. You could have your links displayed
like products for sale, even though you're just pre-selling
them. All you have to do is to generate traffic for your website
through some marketing strategies and search engine optimization
(SEO) techniques.
These are just some of the more popular ways of pre-selling the
affiliate merchant's products. Remember, there is always
strength in numbers, so try to drive as many people as possible
to the affiliate merchant's sales page, and you're quite
guaranteed to enjoy a rewarding experience with affiliate
programs.