Affiliate Tip - Create A Free Ecourse
Free ecourses are a win-win situation for both you and your
visitors. The ecourse is a great way to capture your visitors'
email address and provide them with content that they were
looking for while also offering your affiliate products
repeatedly.
Your visitors will appreciate receiving the information they
were looking for in their inbox every few days.
An ecourse is generally a series of 5 to 7 related articles on a
particular topic that you load into your autoresponder. You will
be able to incorporate one or more affiliate products in each
lesson of the ecourse, while providing your reader with great
information.
I like to use an ecouse to promote one particular affiliate
product throughout the entire ecourse. These are usually
products that pay me a decent commission per sale. They also
tend to be pricier items that the customer may not want to buy
on a whim from a stranger. The ecourse allows me to show my
readers that I know what I am talking about and gives me a
chance to gain their trust by establishing myself as an expert
in the field that the ecourse covers.
Of course you can also promote several related affiliate
products, in your ecourse. Each of them could provide a solution
for a problem that you are addressing in your ecourse.
Determine what topic or related topics you want to cover in your
ecourse. Start by writing an introduction article that gives
your subscriber an idea of the overall topic and what you will
be covering over the next few days. Next you launch into your
actual lessons, or articles and finish your ecourse with a quick
recap and some information on where they go from here. This
could involve recommending additional resource books, products
or sites (which will of course pay you a commission if they buy)
or offering them more great information on your own website.
Once you have your content ready, load the individual lessons in
your favorite autoresponder ( like aweber.com) and add a signup
box to your site. Or to be even more effective, create a
separate landing page for the ecourse that highlights the
benefits of the course and what the reader will learn. You can
get subscribers by linking from your main page to the landing
page, writing articles that use the link to the ecourse sign-up
page in your byline, or by purchasing ppc or other
advertisements.
Watch your affiliate income grow with every ecourse you create
and with every new subscriber that joins your ecourse. The
beauty of creating ecourses is that you do the work once, and
your ecourse will continue promoting your affiliate products for
as long as you allow people to sign up. Gotta love passive
income.