Affiliate programs are everywhere. There are pretty good programs out there but you may not have enough targeted sites to promote them all. You don't want to bombard your ezine readers week after week with tons of products that you are promoting and also if you own your own product, you want to focus on that first before anything else.
So what is a marketer to do? You want to open up more income streams but you don't want to go into overkill and not get a dime for your efforts. You also at the same time want to be able to promote your bread and butter product (s) and services.
Simple, start an information site.
Many of us have focused so much over the past couple of years on flash and cute designs that we forget that one of the main reasons people are online is to look for information. Information gives them the tools to buy your products.
If you have signed up with various types of affiliate programs, create sites for them.
First find a domain that will match the quality of the information you want to give. Say for instance, you want to focus on internet marketing.
1. Grab a domain through Go Daddy http://godaddy.com. Once you are set up, find a hosting account, if you don't already have one. http://kdmpublishing.com If you already have hosting account, set it up to add on another domain name.
Once that is set up, look for some simple templates. Information sites don't need all the razzle and dazzle that you think. As long as the navigation is good and clear, and people can get to the information they need, you are doing fine. Look for some templates here http://www.kdmpublishing.com/templates/index.html
2. Now create a separate page for each affiliate program you belong to. Place them in categories. Since the theme is internet marketing, then you can have categories such as email marketing, pay per click marketing, search engine performance, blogging and rss feeds, etc. Get the idea?
3. Create eye catching links. Not just the usual "Click Here" but something that catches attention like " Find Out How To Blog For Free" Don't go overboard and sound like a spammer but use your old marketing noggin for catchy links.
4. Grab articles to go with each page. Use informative articles that help, not just a hidden sales letter in disguise. Grab some free articles of all topics here http://reprintedarticles.com Write up your own ads. Don't just go by what was given to you. Be unique.
6. If you are marketing by email, then have a good lead capture page that makes people want to sign up for your information. Subtitle the key points and show them how you can help them.
7. Sprinkle your ad sense ads around but don't make it the only focus on your pages. You want them to buy from you, not leave your site forever. Make sure they are relevant not just a bunch of ads with no content.
8. Keep sign up boxes for your ezine so they will remember you. Keep them coming back. Offer something free that they can grab now from your site, brand it with your url (s)
9. Don't forget to write articles that will lead people to your site. The power of article marketing is at its peak now, take advantage of it.
10. Finally, get your blog going. Add your own personal insights on the topics you are talking about. You can also plug in your affiliate links this way as well. Use Word Press, it is one of the most popular, it's free, and you can find tons of ways to customize it. http://wordpress.org
One last thing, look at your site when its done as a consumer. Does your site give you the information you are looking for?
Read over your site and think about what search terms people would need to use to find your site. Does it make sense, or are you just putting up wasted space?
There are tons of ways to enhance your income. An information site is priceless and the search engines love them. People are always looking for information and they will thank you for it. Keep your content updated, and try to update and add a few pages every week to keep it fresh.
This way you are maximizing your affiliate links and your main products and services. Make sure that the information site you create ties in with your main product so they know they cant live without the other. From that point, you can create even more smaller, niche sites that will benefit everyone.
Now go create and make some money...
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