3 Tactics Needed To Survive Online As An Affiliate Marketer

Thursday, January 17th, 2008 at 9:35 am

3 Tactics Needed To Survive Online As An Affiliate Marketer
By Martin Lodey

All affiliate marketers are looking for that successful market that gives the fattest paycheck. Sometimes they think it is a magic formula that is readily available to them. Actually, especially for the newbie, it can be far more difficult than that. It consists of good marketing practices, dedication and hard work. These 3 tactics that I am about to share with you have worked online before and continue to work in the affiliate marketing online world today. Using these 3 tactics together will allow you to increase your sales and survive in the affiliate marketing world.

1. Use unique websites to market each product, you are promoting, separately

Do not just lump everything together. Domain names and web hosting are so cheap today, saving a few dollars on webhosting could cost you many more in sales. It is far better to dedicate a site to just a single product.

Include a product review on the website so the visitor gets that initial understanding of what the product is about, be honest in your review and highlight any down sides that you may have found to the product. It is a good idea to include a testimonial or two on the site from users of the product.

You can also write additional articles highlighting how you have used the product, some extra tips, or possibly even a tutorial, you can include these as additional pages on your website. Be sure to make your pages attractive to the eye, and include a clear ‘call to action’.

2. Use an opt-in form on your site to capture visitors emails.

You have to offer something to your visitors in exchange for their name and email address. Free reports, audios or videos are good, try to offer something unique that cannot be found else where for free. Position the sign-up form at the very top of your page so that it cannot be missed. Create autoresponder messages to follow up with your prospects as, according to research, a sale is closed usually on or around the seventh contact with a prospect.

Only 2 things can happen when someone visits your website, either a closed sale or the visitor leaving never to return again. By capturing email addresses you can send useful and timely information into their inboxes. Make sure the content is directed towards specific reasons to buy the product but do not make it sound too much like a sales pitch.

Include compelling subject lines in your emails to get them opened and read, focus on what the product can do for them, especially highlight ‘emotional triggers’ – this will make the visitor return to your site. Try to avoid using words such as ‘free’ and ‘money’ as these are likely to trigger spam filters. If your email ends up in the spam folder, chances are it will never be read. Convince those that signed up for your free offer that they will be missing out if they do not purchase your product or service.

3. Generate targeted traffic.

Just think, if your website visitor has no interest whatsoever in what you are offering, chances of making a sale are zero, they will be in the category ‘never to return to your website’. Get targeted visitors by writing articles for publication in e-zines or e-reports, this way you can locate publications that focus on your target customers.

Try to write two or three articles per week of about 300-600 words in length. By continuously writing articles and submitting them to directories you can generate as many as 100 targeted visitors to your site in a day.

If your budget extends to it, you could also use pay per click methods to drive highly targeted visitors to your site.

Always track your visitors as it is very important to know which methods are working and which are not. Once you know this you can dedicate more time to testing and tweaking the methods, that do work for you, to achieve an optimum conversion rate.

The three tactics above are not difficult to do, they just require a bit of time and a little planning on your part.

Try to use these tips to promote several affiliate marketing programs. You can achieve a good source of passive income and survive in the world of affiliate marketing.

Besides, just think of all those huge paychecks you will be receiving…

Martin Lodey is a successful part-time internet marketer earning a passive income online. Did you know that with the right system, you can earn a passive income online? Discover how this system can work for you at => http://www.autoprofits.info

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