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Feature
Article: How
To Boost Your Affiliate Commissions
Copyright
© Dennis Chew
The
beauty of being an
affiliate
marketer is that
you do not need to have your own website (but it is recommended that
you should have one in the near future), dealing with customers,
refunds, product development and maintenance. For those who are new to
this type of business, this is one of the easiest and best way of
launching into an online business and generating passive income.
You must be asking where do I find products to sell?
Well ClickBank is one such market where the best
downloadable digital products are listed.
Below
is also another
popular market
place for internet marketers :
.
Assuming
you are already
into an
affiliate program so what would be the
next thing you would want to do? Double or even triple your
commissions. Am I right? But how do you do that?
Here are some useful tips on how to boost your affiliate
program commissions:
1.
Research the best programs and products to promote. Obviously you
would want to promote a program that will enable you to achieve huge
profits in the shortest possible time. That is a no brainer but this is
only part of the equation. The most critical part is that of
getting traffic to the programs or products that you are promoting.
There are several factors to consider in selecting such a program.
Choose the ones that have a generous commission structure and products
that fit in with your target audience. It also must have a solid track
record of paying their affiliates easily and on time. An
important step that you must do is to check out each program's payout
policy e.g. some will pay out commissions to affiliates every 2 weeks
or some 1 month later. Some will only pay out only if you reach a
certain amount set by them. You would want to know when you are getting
paid right? There are thousands of affiliate programs online which
gives you the reason to be picky. You may want to select the best to
avoid losing your advertising dollars.
Write free reports or short ebooks to distribute from your site. There
is a great possibility that you are competing with other affiliates
that are promoting the same program. If you start writing short reports
relating to the product that you are promoting, you will be able to
distinguish yourself from the other affiliates. In the reports, provide
some valuable information for free. If possible, add some
recommendations about the products. By writing ebooks your credibility
is enhanced. Customers will see that in you and they will be enticed to
try out what you are offering.
2.
If you are giving away free products (e.g.
ebooks or software) make
sure that you collect and save the names and email addresses of those
who download your freebies. It is a known fact that people do not make
a purchase on the first offer. You may have to send out your offer more
than six times in order to make a sale. A simple reason why
you
should collect contact information of those who downloaded your
freebies is that you can send them follow-up messages to get them buy
your product, offer them new products or send them freebies to build
your relationship with your subscribers. So instead of
one-time
sale you could be earning recuring commissions. In short you
have
loyal subscribers that you can do email marketing to them whenever you
want to and generating income at the same time.
As a affiliate marketer you are promoting products created by another
person i.e. you are providing free advertisements (at your own expense)
for the product
owners. What you are also doing is you are sending traffic to
the
product owner's website which is not a good idea because once your
potential customer is directed there chances are you will lose them
forever. Not only you lose your potential clients you also
lose
your potential income. This is the reason why it is important
that you get the contact information of a prospect before sending them
to the vendor’s website for reasons mentioned in paragraph
no. 2. To do this use presell pages for affiliate
programs to build your list. This technique is used when
promoting someone elses product. Before you drive traffic via google
adwords or other means to the affiliate site....it is best to create a
landing page, in where you can create a short blurb on the benefits of
this program, and then create your subscription box that will refer
them to the affiliate site. This way you can capture your
leads contact info, and mail them offers
in the future. You will need an autoresponder email marketing software
to enable you to capture and store your contacts information. There are
many of
these out
there in cyber space but I would recommend only 2, not because they are
popular with internet marketers but more for their reliability.
To understand and learn more about autoresponder go
to Getresponse.com
and Aweber.com.
Read
this free report on "Your Guide To Boosting Email
Deliverability".
3.
Publish an online newsletter or Ezine. It is always best
to
recommend a product to someone you know than to sell to a stranger.
This is the main purpose behind publishing your own newsletter. This
also allows you to develop a relationship based on trust with your
subscribers. This strategy is a delicate balance between
providing useful information with a sales pitch. If you continue to
write informative editorials you will be able to build a sense of
reciprocity in your readers that may lead them to support you by buying
your products.
4.
Ask for higher than normal commission from merchants. If you are
already successful with a particular promotion, you should try and
approach the merchant and negotiate a percentage commission for your
sales. If the merchant is smart, he or she will
likely
grant your request rather than lose a valuable asset in you. Keep in
mind that you are a zero-risk investment to your merchant; so do not be
shy about requesting for addition in your commissions. Just try to be
reasonable about it.
5.
Write strong Pay-Per-Click (PPC) advertisements. PPC
search
engine is the most effective means of advertising online and a powerful
means of getting traffic to the products that you are
promoting.
As an affiliate marketer you can make a small income just by managing
PPC campaigns such as Google
AdWords, Yahoo-Search Marketing
(formerly
Overture) and Bidvertiser
etc. Make
sure
to
monitor them to see which advertisements are more effective and which
ones to dispose of.
Affiliate marketing is one way of starting your own internet home based
business. The good news is that the cost of failure with having your
own internet home based business is very small. In the "brick and
mortar" world you need to evaluate things very carefully before you
decide to open up a business. It's almost always necessary to invest
thousands of dollars to get a brick and mortal business off the ground.
However, on the Internet you can often start a successful business for
less than $100. This is one good example -
an automated income streams from 6 affiliate program : Instant
Setup - Income
From 6 Affiliate Programs
You simply need to get IN THE GAME... Each moment that you stay "out
there," you're wasting valuable time that you could be learning and
skills necessary to build a successful home based business. In fact, if
you're not in the game yet, you're ALREADY behind time. Make the leap
to creating a successful home based business today!
About
the
Author:
Dennis
Chew is the owner of http://www.easymoney2make.com
and is dedicated to
researching the best home based business ideas, affiliate
programs
and
internet marketing tools that can help you kick start a new home
based
business.
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