3 Tactics All Affiliate Marketers Need
Almost every affiliate marketer looks for the market that gives
the biggest paycheck.
Most think there is a magic formula that is readily available
for them. Actually, it is more complicated than that. It is just
good marketing practices that have been proven over years of
hard work and dedication.
There are tactics that have worked before with online marketing
and is continuing to work in the online affiliate marketing
world of today. With these top three marketing tips, you will be
able to able to increase your sales and succeed in affiliate
marketing online.
What are these three tactics?
1. Creating unique web pages to promote each separate product
you are marketing. Do not lump all of it on one website just to
save some money on web hosting. It is best to have individual
site focusing on each product.
Always when possible, include your personal input like product
reviews on the website so visitors will have an initial
understanding on what the product can do for them and include
testimonials from satisfied users. Make sure that these
customers are more than willing to allow you to use their names
and photos on the site of the specific product you are
marketing.
You should also write articles highlighting the uses of the
product and include them on the website as an additional page.
The pages should be attractive, compelling and include calls to
act on the information. Each headline should attract the readers
to read further into your copy. Highlight your special points
with bullets. This will help your readers to learn what the page
is about and arouse interest.
2. Offer free reports to your visitors and position them at the
very top side of your page so they would not be missed. Try to
create autoresponder messages that will be mailed to those who
input their personal information into your opt-in box.
Statistics shows that a sale is usually closed on the seventh
contact with a prospect.
Only two things can possibly happen with the web page alone:
closed sale or the prospect leaving the page. By capturing
emails allows you to place useful information into their inboxes
at certain specified period, you will remind them of the product
they thought they want later and to reinforced their need to
have the product. Be sure that the content is directed toward
specific reasons to buy the product.
Focus on important points like how the product can make life and
things easier and more enjoyable. Include compelling subject
lines in the email. Avoid using the word "free" because there
are still older spam filters that dumps those kind of contents
into the junk.
3. Acquire traffic that is targeted to your product. If the
person who visited your website has no interest whatsoever in
what you are offering, they will be among those who move on and
never come back. Write articles for publication in e-zines and
e-reports. This way you can locate publications that is focusing
on your target customers and what you have put up might just
grab their interest.
Try to write a minimum of 2 articles per week, with at least
300-600 words in length. By continuously writing and maintaining
these articles you can generate as many as 100 targeted readers
to your site each day. Always remember that only 1 out of 100
people are likely to buy your product or get your services. If
you can generate as much as 1,000 targeted hits for your website
in a day, that means you can made 10 sales based on the average
statistic.
The tactics above are not difficult to do. It just requires a
little time and an action plan on your part.
Try to use these tips for several affiliate marketing programs.
You can end up maintaining a good source of income and surviving
in this business that not all marketers can do. Besides, think
of the huge paychecks you will be receiving...