You have joined ViralURL, taken the one time offer, now what?

It’s time to start sending your emails!

I have been using ViralURL since launch day and I will share my experiences with you now.

The first thing you have to enter is the email subject line. You can personalize both the subject line and the email itself.

Everything is about testing and tracking.

I have tried emailing with the name of the recipient at the end of the email, in the middle and at the beginning. I have gotten best results from using the recipients name at the beginning. I suggest you try them all and see what results you get. If your subject line is long, personalize it at the beginning otherwise the recipients name may be cut off when displayed in the their email client.

Use subject lines that are compelling and intriguing. Your subject line should be as short as possible. It has been proven that emails with subject lines less than 50 characters get a higher click through rate.

You should keep an email subject line swipe file. Later today, go look through your emails, see which subject lines grab your attention. Make a note of them. If they grab yours, they will grab others attention too.

Check out these winning subject lines, modify and adapt them for your own use.

Bob, will you test this?
Martin, do me a favour?
All bets are off, Sam.
Sarah, sorry you couldn’t make it.
Jim, seen this yet?
Remember this, Chris?
Frankly, Becky, I’m puzzled.

Before writing the actual body of your email, I will quickly touch on where you should and should not be sending your prospective subscribers to.

You should NOT send people directly to an affiliate site.

You must send them to your own squeeze page.

Get these random prospects on YOUR list.

If you need squeeze pages that convert at 70%, check out Affiliate Cash Secrets.

You can then send follow up emails time and time again.

The body copy of your email should be personalized with the recipients name, you can also personalize the copy, but don’t over do it.

Keep your body copy short, highlight the benefits of what you are selling, be it a product or your newsletter. Create curiosity with your copy, and your click through rate will be through the roof.

Your one and only aim is to get the recipient to click on that link, let the squeeze page actually do the selling (or should that be ‘capture the email address’?!).

Break up your copy into short paragraphs, no more than one or two sentences long. Insert your link, that you want clicked on, after each paragraph.

Use the PS to highlight the benefit one last time and include your link.

Continuously track and test your email subject line and body copy. If you don’t track your results, you won’t know what works for you and what doesn’t.

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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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