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ADVANCED AFFILIATE TACTICS
Running your own affiliate program is THE way of getting ahead online. You'll be sharing your advertising efforts with people that can sometimes have more marketing experience than what you have. Plus this means you will have others selling your products for you. You could almost just sit in the shade.
It is the most profitable way of selling online and even big companies are finally recognising they have to adopt the new internet ways.
Right now, there is nothing stopping you from making some money by recommending customers to other people's products. Many people are quitting their jobs without ever owning a product!
You can go hunting for affiliate programs and get yourself some quick money. Be smart about it though. Find a program that suits the interests of a particular group of people and take it to them!
If you know of a company that will sell fishing supplies and pay you a percentage on every sale then, join a newsletter where you can find people interested in fishing! Participate in online discussions or forums and soon enough you'll have them buying from you!
One of easiest ways to make a profit using affiliate promotion is by advertising on an ezine or newsletter. You can easily find an ezine on the internet by using a search engine like Altavista or Yahoo! or even Google.
Let's assume you're making $10 per sale on a product you're an affiliated with. Once you do find an ezine you should make sure it has over 10,000 subscribers.
If you pay $140 for an ad and the conversion rate or sale rate is of 1% then, if you're getting $10 per sale you'll have made an easy $1000. Taking the cost of the ad this means you had a $860 profit for15 minutes of work or less.
You can find literally tons of affiliate programs on the internet. One of the best places to go if you're looking for affiliate programs to promote is Commission Junction.
This company specialises in bringing advertiser and publisher together which helps you find the best program to suit you.
The best part is, as fast as you can start making these referrals you will be making money on the internet.
But there is a catch! An affiliate URL (Uniform Resource Link) usually ends with your username that was registered with the company you're affiliated with. This is how they recognise you and know the sale is happening because of you.
So if your name is Keanu Reeves (just an example) your affiliate link might look like:
http://www.bigbucksaffiliate.com/affiliate/sale.cgi?keanureeves
But the trick is, if you are an advanced internet user, you might know that if you replace the username with someone else's, you'll be stealing the commission for the sale. If you look at the example below:
http://www.bigbucksaffiliate.com/affiliate/sale.cgi?moneythief
Now this user called moneythief will get the percentage for the sale. This is happening on the internet today and hard working people are getting their commission cheques totally slaughtered thanks to affiliate thieves.
Luckily, we;ve got a treat for you. It's the Affiliate Defender Tool which will protect you against any losses on your affiliate percentage.
This is a way of sending your prospective customers to an affiliate link without them ever finding out.
In fact, when they look at the URL box at the top of the page, they will see YOUR website address!!! And no matter what they click on your affiliate ad page, they will always see your address. This is extremely professional and will make people feel more confident in buying from you.
It may sound ridiculously sad, but many people will delete your ID from the URL just because they are jealous and don't want you to make any money at their expense! Even though they don't know you. It doesn't even help them buy the product cheaper but they will still do it.. Ridiculous isn't it?
The irony is, this type of destructive behaviour will get them nowhere.
To be successful you have to make sure others succeed. The richest people in the world today know this lesson and got where they are because of practicing just that!
Anyway, it's not about greed, all of us have bills to pay so why do we do this to each other?
Jean Paul Getty (1884-1976), a very rich and successful oil tycoon, said in his best selling book "How to be a successful executive", the 3 secrets to success are:
He was right on the money years before the internet became a success!
Just a few more words on affiliates that you should know...
If you recommend a product to someone saying that you have tested it and couldn't be more happy about it, and that it fits every possible use you can think of, you will be making sales because people trust you and value your opinion.
And since you are recommending it, they will believe it really is worth it. Make sure you're always standing behind the best possible product, you don't want to upset your subscribers.
Point out to your subscribers all the features you think make the product worth buying.
Affiliate programs are in most cases free to join. You can join many affiliate programs and promote them on your website, e-book, subscriber base, or whatever method you can think of.
Affiliate links are usually a bit long. If you're advertising your affiliate link on a newsletter or ezine, you might want to get your Affiliate URL (Uniform Resource Locator) reduced in size.
You can do this for free at TinyURL
If you want to have unbeatable products to sell or you just want to join a pretty incredible product make sure you have done your research and are promoting the best product! With these tactics you're building a solid base for better things!
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