Affiliate Marketing Success

By Ran Aroussi

One popular way you can make money with your website or blog is by promoting affiliate programs. Many people however have found that they do not make money with affiliate marketing - so what are the secrets? How can one ensure that they do make money from affiliate products?

The first step in making money with affiliate products is to have some way of capturing leads. Few people make sales the first time someone comes to their website or blog so you need to create some way of staying in touch with those who are interested. If you have a website this can be done using a lead capture page, if you have a blog you may wish to offer a newsletter on your blog or some free product that people need to give you their email address for.

This brings us to the second point: people won’t generally just give you their email addresses on a lead capture page or a blog. You need to offer them something free! Either create, have created or find a product with giveaway rights related to your affiliate products that you can give to your customers in order to get their email address. Once you have given them something of value and you have their email addresses, you will find your affiliate marketing that much easier.

If you create a freebie or have it created for you then turn it viral. This means that you allow other people to give it away as well and so you multiply your marketing. Embed the freebie with your affiliate links and then when people give out your product and follow the links they will be your affiliate links and you will gain the commission. This means that you now have a whole free sales force advertising your affiliate products for you.

Another important aspect of affiliate marketing is targeted advertising. Use forums, article marketing and email groups to advertise your affiliate products to people who are genuinely interested in the subject. Find forums on your topic, write (or have written) articles where you can advertise your affiliate links and join email groups where you can post helpful advice related to your affiliate products.

The secrets to affiliate marketing therefore lie in having a way to follow up on people who are interested in your affiliate products. An easy way to do this is by giving away a valuable freebie. Even better is if you can make this a viral freebie with your affiliate links in it so that you can multiply your affiliate marketing efforts. Use targeted advertising to get leads to come to your page with forum marketing, article marketing and email groups related to your affiliate products.

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How To Guarantee Your Affiliate Profits Increase Daily

By Graham Hobbs

How come so many affiliates are unable to make consistent and increasing profits from affiliate programs?

If you look around you’ll find that the Guru’s seem to do it without effort, yet if you talk to the average affiliate marketer their statistics at best roller-coaster and at worst stay the same or decline over time.

The answer, in a nutshell, is simply this: the unsuccessful or stagnant affiliate doesn’t invest enough money back into marketing.

But how do you know how much to invest, people sometimes ask me. Well, fortunately there is formula you can use to make sure that you are always continuing to make more money as an affiliate marketer.

Let’s use an analogy to get started on this. Lets suppose that you just bought yourself a brand new Mercedes. It’s in your driveway and draws the attention of anyone who happens by. It’s beautiful, and sleek, and fast. But let’s suppose you aren’t willing to put fuel in the gas tank. You love the car, but you aren’t willing to invest in it.

You are going to go nowhere. You’ll only be able to dream of driving this sleek vehicle though country lanes, past your best friend’s house, to social gatherings, etc. The reality though, will be that you and your car will stagnate and you will get little pleasure from it.

It’s the same with some affiliate marketers. They have some great affiliate programs they could be making lots of money with, but they don’t want to put money into the one vehicle that will make them a profit – advertising.

Let’s say you can make a commission of $3,000 every time you make an affiliate sale (this is not an imaginary figure. I am affiliated with a company that actually offers this commission). And let’s say you made your first sale. Suddenly you have $3,000. Should you go out and spend it on a new flat screen TV? Or should you reinvest it in marketing your business?

I’m sure you know instinctively what the right answer is. That’s right, you should re-invest it.
Here’s why.

Let’s say you put that $3,000 straight back into a marketing campaign. This can easily produce 3 – 6 sales. That’s $9,000 to $18,000 profit!

Let’s be conservative and suppose you profit $15,000, or a factor of 1:5. Here’s what we are now going to do with that $15,000 to guarantee our continued success.

The Affiliate Marketing Formula (you may want to make separate notes to keep track of how this system works)

We are going to take the original $3,000 and put it in the bank, and reallocate 80%, or $12,000, back into a new affiliate marketing campaign.

Given the same 1:5 profit factor this marketing investment should conservatively produce about a $60,000 profit return.

Next take out 40%, or $24,000 and reallocate the remainder, 60%, or $36,000 into your next affiliate marketing campaign. This will mean you now have $27,000 in your bank account (less money to eat).

And we continue. The $36,000 we allocated to this campaign should produce approximately $180,000. From this we are going to put a mere 40% into our next affiliate ad campaign – that’s $72,000. Now we should have about $145,000 in the bank.

But we’re not done yet. That $72,000 should reap around $360,000 in profits. We’ll take 80% of our profits, or $288,000 and reallocate a mere 20%, or $72,000, into a new affilaite advertising campaign.

By now you should have about $433,000 in the bank.

This time you have earned about a $360,000 profit return. We are going to take out another 80%, or $288,000 and stick it in the bank, allocating a meager 20% to our next affiliate ad campaign – that’s $72,000 back into direct marketing. We’ll now have around $721,000 in our bank account.

And if we do the same thing again, using 20% of our profits for advertising costs, we’ll end up with around $1,900,000 (over one million dollars) in the bank.

The outcome

Now, although I can’t guarantee these exact figures, they are consistent with affiliate marketers who use this system. These are the people you read about in the sales ads and in magazines and ezines. These are the marketers who seem to be doing the impossible. Fact is, their success is inextricably linked to marketing and the way they allocate their profits.

And you don’t need to have a $3,000 affiliate product markup. This formula will work with $3,000 or $300 affiliate profit markup, or even less. Don’t worry about the figures, concentrate on the formula.

Bottom line. You will come out far ahead of the crowd financially by employing this approach to your affiliate marketing efforts.

Graham Hobbs is a successful writer and Webmaster. You can find out more about this approach to marketing at his Prosperity Automated System website.

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Make Your Own Website for Free and Earn Easy Money

By Anthony Joseph

The easiest way to make your own website for free is to start your very own web-log, usually referred to as a blog. Blog websites typically consist of journal-style entries, thoughts, ideas, personal commentary, reviews, or any topic the author chooses to write about.

Several blogging services are available to anyone who would like to begin blogging, but I suggest the one service where you can submit all of your entries, post images, and make a few bucks too. As if that’s not enough, it’s completely free: http://www.Blogger.com

Why Use Blogger.com?

Blogger.com is extremely easy to use. You don’t need to know anything about building a website, programming, or coding. The Blogger website is very easy to navigate and will walk you through the entire process—even a child can do it.

When you sign up for your own free blog website with Blogger.com, you have the option to include Google Ads on your website, a program called AdSense. Then, when readers visit your site, some may click on the AdSense ads, and you’ll get paid for every click.

It’s free to set up, and you can start making money online today. Keep in mind, though, that there are rules you need to follow when using AdSense Ads on your blog. I suggest you read the following help document: http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=42281.

To recap: The fastest way to make your own website for free is to create a blog at http://www.Blogger.com. In addition to being the fastest, it is also the easiest because you don’t need to know any HTML code or programming, you just need to know how to type and be able to follow simple instructions.

Content for Your Own Blog Website

The only drawback to using a blog is adding content. Many beginners struggle with writing simple blog entries and end up spending too much time writing, editing, and rewriting content.

Some Internet marketers copy articles from other websites, but that technique isn’t great either because finding the perfect articles related to your website may take hours or even days.

For more information, I recommend Building a Blog Empire for Profit to learn proven tips to make money with your free blog. This ebook contains advanced tips on selecting the best type of blog based on your interests and tells you how to build traffic. It also offers effective money-making strategies.

Make More Money with Affiliate Marketing

So, blogs are a great way to make your own website for free, and Google Ads are a good way to make money with your blog. But there is an even better way to get started that is also free. It’s called affiliate marketing.

Affiliate marketing essentially pays you a finder's-fee to bring new clients to a business. So you might get paid a certain amount for each visit ("pay per click"), for each person who registers ("pay per lead"), or for each customer or sale ("pay per sale").

Amazon.com is a good example. Anyone with a website can join Amazon.com’s affiliate program. When you join, Amazon will provide you with links, containing your unique affiliate ID, to products on the Amazon.com website. You can then use these links on your blog. When the readers of your blog click the link and make a purchase at Amazon.com, you get paid a commission on the sale. It’s that simple.

There are thousands of merchants like Amazon.com that want you to help them make sales and they will pay you to do so. Gigantic companies like eBay, Apple iTunes, and Walmart all offer affiliate programs that you can join for free.

To get the most bang for your buck, ClickBank is one affiliate network you should partner with. ClickBank manages affiliate programs for more than 10,000 products, and you can earn between 1% and 75% on each sale. Even if you promote 50 products from ClickBank, you only need to visit one website to track all of your sales and profits. Also, you will only receive one check from ClickBank, versus 50 individual checks from multiple affiliate programs, which makes for easier bookkeeping.

Make Your Own Website for Free: Software

Another way to make a free website is to use software that will do the work for you. These programs create everything you need with just a few clicks—the content, the pages, the code, and programming to make your own website for free.

There are a few software packages that will build an entire website based on a topic you choose. Some are much more expensive than others. I decided to try HyperVRE because it’s free. Other software packages I reviewed, such as Adsense-Realestate.com, cost as much as $397 and charge an additional monthly membership fee.

How Does HyperVRE Work?

First, you select a topic you would like to use for your website. We’ll use "burn fat." The software will then search several article databases and build each page of your website based on the titles of each article. For example, one page of our "burn fat" website will be an article called "Best Exercise to Burn Fat."

The most powerful feature of HyperVRE is the ability to automatically include AdSense ads in every page as well as inserting your affiliate links to related Amazon.com and ClickBank products. All you have to do is enter your Amazon.com and ClickBank affiliate IDs into HyperVRE, and the software generates your affiliate links on the fly.

HyperVRE is very powerful in terms of time-saving features and ease of use, but it’s weak in many areas—most notably, website design. The software includes several different layouts for potential websites. None of them are visually appealing. And unless you know HTML, you’ll be stuck with a below-average, unprofessional-looking website.

Hosting is another issue. Yes, the HyperVRE software is free and you can create 100 different websites—all free. But your free websites will be stuck on your computer’s hard drive until you actually pay for hosting. This is where the cost can get you.

I recommend using HyperVRE only if you are willing to pay for website hosting. If you decide to use HyperVRE, I recommend 1and1.com for website hosting. 1and1.com allows you to host 20 different domain names for only $2.24/month.

Most people don’t realize how easy it is to make your own website for free—and even make money at it. I recommend Blogger.com first and foremost, and then you can build from there. It just isn’t that hard to make your own website—for free—and start earning easy money.

Anthony Joseph is a successful affiliate marketer and is a firm believer that anyone can make money online with the right guide. Currently, Anthony is testing the "Traffic Middleman Webiste" http://www.infodogs.info/, which is based on one of the many techniques discussed in the world famous Rich Jerk ebook.




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Affiliate Marketing: Secrets of the Super Affiliates

By Paul Jerard

How does one Super Affiliate earn twenty times as much, in affiliate commissions, as most affiliates? One of the biggest reasons for this is action. Super affiliates do not hesitate to take action. They know exactly what they want. They have a team assembled to build a website, write content, maintain search engine optimization, and run an automated Email marketing program.

Super Affiliates understand goal setting skills. They map out a project, in a specific sequence, build it, maintain it, and move on to the next affiliate project. Consider this: Most Super Affiliates are general contractors in the “virtual world” we know as the Internet.

Most of us are not a “one man show.” Realize what your strengths are, and take the time to outsource work, which consumes too much time or is not cost effective for you to do.

Here is an example: “I can write content for my own site, and for my clients, but I don’t understand HTML.” This is not a problem. Your solution is to outsource those projects, which you don’t understand.

You could learn all of the secrets of HTML, or search engine optimization, but how much time will go by while you are learning and “playing the lone wolf?” You have to learn as you go, familiarize yourself with Internet tools, and stop worrying about, “having all your ducks in a row.”

So, how do twenty percent of all affiliates get eighty percent of all the affiliate commissions? They do not worry about making a mistake, day dream about results, or let a week go by, without checking their statistics. Your statistics will tell you what, when, and where to change.

Let’s look at mistakes on the Internet – You can always correct them. Most of us start out with an “ugly site.” It may not have the “polish” of a professional Internet Marketer or a Super Affiliate, but we will learn how to improve our web sites as we move forward with our projects.

Therefore, be prepared to make mistakes, learn from them, and move on. Do not make ethical mistakes. Most of us know right from wrong, so if something does not seem ethical, put it aside and move on.

Day dreaming, procrastinating, or putting things off is fine, when you are on vacation. Otherwise, do the most difficult tasks first or pay somebody to do it for you. If you day dream too much, you may not be able to afford a vacation.

Once your web site is up and running, you should install some tracking software. This will show you where your traffic is coming from, what keywords are producing, where you a losing your prospects, how much traffic you are getting, and give you some future direction.

© Copyright 2006 – Paul Jerard / Aura Publications
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Internet Affiliate Marketing Programs: New Playing Field for Super Affiliates?

By Paul Jerard

Has Google changed the rules for affiliates? For “organic” search engine optimization, not too much has immediately changed. Google has been, and still is, looking for quality content, and your affiliate site must be relevant to your particular niche. In regard to Google’s pay per click program, which we know as AdWords, much has changed for affiliates quite recently.

The important issue is to understand the new rules, and why, because Yahoo and some of the smaller pay per click programs might just follow this same path. The days of putting an affiliate page together with “tons of hyperlinks,” and little or no content are, for the most part, over.

This will only hurt those affiliates who have not adjusted to the new rules. In truth, you should be familiar with, or have tried, the products and services you recommend to others, for your affiliate commissions. If this is so, all you need to do is write a review of each one of these products or services. Writing relevant content has been a foundation for search engine optimization and is worth the exercise. If you don’t have the time, hire a copywriter or a personal assistant.

What should you do to develop an affiliate site that sells? Here is a Super Affiliate secret to success: You must have a newsletter for Email marketing. You must be ethical in your Email marketing efforts. Permission based, double confirmed, opt-in, Email marketing will help you avoid any Spam accusations.

You should have a firm privacy policy, stick to it, and post it on your site. As a rule, do not ever share your lists for joint ventures. If you want credibility on the Internet, you have to establish a reputation of integrity. Instant money is tempting, but compromising your ethics, will ruin repeat business. As a result, you will be out of business.

Adding a Blog or Forum to your website will help develop free, relevant, and valuable content. Depending on what kind of Forum or Blog you set up, you may have to weed out some content Spam from people who would be better off to use their marketing efforts on relevant sites to their niche.

However, content Spam clean up issues aside, the feedback you receive from your members will be full of relevant keywords. Your answers to comments should be full of relevant content, as well. This strategy will serve as a “magnet” to targeted Internet traffic.

How can affiliate managers help their own affiliates? Again, a Blog or Forum will help; as it becomes a coaching tool for all of your affiliates, regardless of their level of experience.

Are the days of “sky scraper mini-sites” over? Not really, but if you want to run an AdWords campaign, you must have connected pages, which are full of content. Otherwise, you can pay five to ten dollars per click. Once you “do the math,” you will see the value in adding content to your affiliate site.

© Copyright 2006 – Paul Jerard / Aura Publications

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