Beginner's Guide To Affiliate Programs
Affiliate programs
are also called associate, referral, reseller, partner, bounty, revenue
sharing, programs.
Brief description
You send visitors
to a web site. They buy something, or sign up for something, and you
get paid a commission. This revenue sharing arrangement is called affiliate
program. As a web site owner, you are rewarded for sending customers
to the web site.
These affiliate
programs are usually easy to join. After signing up, you place a banner
ad, small graphic or ordinary text which links from your site to the
vendor site. If someone clicks on the link and buys a product or service
from the web site, you receive a commission.
For more information
about our affiliate program, click here.
How to make good money with affiliate programs?
The fastest way
to get you up to speed on how to make good money with affiliate programs
is Ken Evoy's free five-day "Affiliate Masters" email course.
To get it, just
send a blank e-mail to: tamsvideopro@sitesell.net
It's pure gold.
No charge. I highly recommend it.
Actually this
web site, Working-At-Home-Business.com,
originated from Ken's "Affiliate Masters" email course. Take
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Have you sent
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else.
More tips about affiliate programs
Harness
your passion
The best way is
to concentrate on a small niche. Choose a topic in which you are passionately
interested, and create a web site around that theme. Then select affiliate
programs which fit the theme of your site and blend them into the site.
If possible, write
about the products from first-hand knowledge, so that you become a credible
information source.
The huge advantage
of basing a site on a topic in which you are passionately interested
is that you will enjoy running your web site and marketing the affiliate
program - it will be much more like a fascinating hobby than a job.
Select
your target first
Before doing anything,
decide whom you are going to market the products to. Don't select the
product first. Select your target audience first.
You're looking
for an easily identifiable target. There's no sense in building a web
site and then trying to figure out how to attract audience.
Obviously, the
primary target audience for Working-At-Home-Business.com
are those who are looking for ways to make money on the Internet. There
are lots of opportunity seekers online but few are actually making serious
money. Many people keep trying MLM schemes one after another and end
up with no sales year after year.
We provide perfect
info products for opportunities
seekers teaching them the "real" way to make a fortune on
the Internet.
It doesn't mean
you should have a Internet related site to promote these books. Not
at all. You just need to figure out a "link" between these
books and your audience's desire. Think of how a profitable Internet
business can meet their needs in life.
For example, if
you are running a site targeting at Mums, good! Is it fantastic for
your visitors to discover new income streams while staying at home?
Running a jobs
site? Great! What else can be better than working for your own online
business?
A site about car?
Well, just use your imagination...
A site only attracting
CEOs? Think twice before signing up.
You
need lots of traffic
If you already
have a busy site and the product you choose to promote is attractive
to your visitors, you should start earning money straight away. If you
have a new, low-traffic site, you have a lot of work ahead of you.
Merely attracting
traffic isn't enough. You have to learn how to encourage people to click
on the links and buy something. So make sure you trigger that hot button
in their mind!
Think of how a
successful Internet business can make their life happier!
Honestly, it may
take months to receive your first check if your site has only 5 visitors
a day. But anyway, you have nothing to lose. Whatever you earn is extra
money. Why not?
If you are serious
about making money with affiliate programs, see Ken Evoy's Make
Your Site SELL! for tons of good traffic-generating tips.
When
will you be paid?
Some web sites
pay you only after you have accumulated $100 or $200 in commission.
I have even encountered a site who has $1,000 minimum payout requirement!
If you have a very busy site, that's ok. For a small site without much
traffic, it could take a long time.
There's even the
odd site which won't pay you at all unless you generate a certain level
of business. Read the affiliate agreement before you sign up.
With Our
Affiliate Program managed by SellShareware,
you get paid every month as long as you make a minimum $50.
Go
for quality
The most important
consideration when assessing affiliate programs is to examine the product
or service offered. Is it really helpful to your visitors? Does it offer
valuable information? The better the product or service, the more enthusiastic
you will be about recommending it, and you'll have a better chance that
people will buy it.
With our
eBooks and software products, you can be sure that your visitors
will be eager to buy because they offer valuable information that will
help them make a much more comfortable living on the Internet.
For example, one
of our eBooks, How to Create a Fortune
on the Internet In Just Four Simple Steps, is written by
Corey Rudl, the most well-known
and successful Internet business guru in the world today. Corey's course
"The
Insider Secrets to Marketing Your Business on the Internet"
literally crushed the competition and became the #1 best-selling Internet
marketing course overnight - at the price of $197!
In his new eBook How to Create a Fortune
on the Internet In Just Four Simple Steps Corey revealed
the same 4-step formula he's personally used to make $6.2 million per
year online. And the price is just $37 - really good value for money!
Beware of anyone
who raves on about the money you can make and forgets to tell you about
the product or service. Most of the MLM programs are like that. The
sales blurb can be tempting, but make sure you have a solid product
to market.
Earn
good commissions
This one is rather
self-explainable. Remember, those links and banners are helping persuade
visitors to leave your site. So look for programs which reward you generously
for recommending.
Most web sites
pay you 10% to 30%. Some big ticket items may only pay 2%. We pay you
50% of the selling price you generate. Interested? Sign
up now.
Seek
good tracking
When you market
affiliate programs you want to know straight away how effective your
promotion work has been. Then you can increase your sales and commissions
by concentrating on the things that work. That's why you need instant,
or real-time, tracking - you need to quickly see which of your promotions
work and which ones don't.
Our
affiliate program is managed by a well known third party, SellShareware.
Everything is tracked. You can log into your SellShareware
account anytime to check your statistics and commissions in real-time.
Every time a visitor
at your site clicks on the link and visits our site, a "cookie"
will be set in her computer. The cookie enables us to know that this
visitor is referred by you. That way, you will not lose your sales if
she does not buy the first time she visited our site. You will get credit
for the sales even if she buys our ebooks
months later!
Look
for lifetime commissions
Imagine you set
up a bookshop as an associate of Amazon. Someone visits your site and
- hey! you're in luck - buys a book. You earn 5% or 15% from Amazon.
Next time, however, that customer will probably just go straight to
Amazon, and might buy $100 worth of books. You won't receive a cent
on that purchase.
A few programs
do pay you for the second and third and fourth etc purchase by the customer.
The best one I know of is Ken Evoy's
SiteSell program, whose products include:
Make
Your Site SELL! - the BIBLE of site-selling
Make
Your Knowledge SELL! - The BIBLE of selling what you know
on the internet
Make
Your Price SELL! - how to choose the right price that can
literally triple your net profits.
Make
Your Words SELL! - filling you with mission-critical writing skills
to sell on the internet.
And more. Visit
SiteSell
for details.
And Ken has made
it clear that they will keep developing new products. Whenever a visitor
referred by you buys a product, you get paid - even future products
that don't exist yet now. That means the customer is yours, forever.
They mean what
they say. When I bought the Make
Your Site Sell course, it was Ken's only product at the time.
In our case, if
someone referred by you buys multiple times from us, you get paid all
the commissions.
Don't
lose the plot
Some web site
owners sign up for dozens of affiliate programs and clutter their site
with links so much that it's difficult to see the theme of the site.
Other webmasters try "banner farms". Don't waste your time.
It won't work!
If you want your
visitors to keep coming back, your site needs to have an obvious, memorable
reason for its existence.
You need original
content which your visitors feel helpful. And then blend the affiliate
links with your site.
Personal
endorsements increase sales
The most effective
way to increase your click-through rate and sales is to write an honest
review or endorsement of the product. Or talk about your personal experience
with the product. Successful affiliates buy the product so that they
can write a genuine, honest review of it. Don't you think actually using
the product is the best way to find out why your visitors should buy
it too?
Slightly critical
reviews work as well.
The
worst way to do it
The dumbest way
to promote affiliate programs is to use spam - bulk unsolicited email.
In plain English, don't send marketing email to someone who has nothing
to do with you. You can wreck your reputation, lose your Internet connection,
and forfeit any commissions you've earned.
You were warned!
That's it for
now. I will write more tips if you guys ask me to.
But hey, why not
send a blank email to tamsvideopro@sitesell.net
and get Ken Evoy's free five-day "Affiliate Masters" email
course? You will receive tons of gold!
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