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10 Steps To Bigger Affiliate Commissions!
If you're having trouble making money from affiliate programs, or are looking for ways to increase your existing income from them, here is a quick list to get you going: 1. Learn how to PRE-sell your visitors instead of hard-selling them. Using...
15 Reasons to Become an Affiliate Marketer
© 2004 Rosalind Gardner - All Rights reserved -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- There are HUGE benefits to promoting affiliate programs with your own home-based Internet business, and I've come up with a list of 15 great reasons to become an...
Don't Make This Mistake...New Affiliate
Don't Make This Mistake...New Affiliate Copyright 2004 By Michelle Cobbs Joining more than 2 programs at a time is something you don't want to do. I did this when I started as an Affiliate. If I were to advise a 'newbie' getting involved online I...
How To Be A SUPER Affiliate
What makes an affiliate a 'Super Affiliate'?
Super affiliates are able to sell ALOT more of the products they are promoting than regular affiliates. Because super affiliates are able to outsell the competition, they are rewarded with higher...
How To Increase Affiliate Click-Through Rate
When you join an affiliate programs, what is it that you want to achieve? Of course, we want to gain commission from the merchant. How can we do that? Commissions are gain when visitors that we refer purchase products or services on the merchant's...
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"Work Those Affiliate Programs and Make Some Cash!"
So you've joined your first affiliate/associate program and slapped that big old banner on your site. All you have to do now is sit back and wait for the bucks to come rolling in. Not so fast there, Bucky...there's a lot more to making money with affiliate programs than that. If your best effort is going to be that banner, don't plan on retiring any day soon.
As with everything else online and off, what you get out of an activity is equal to the effort you put into it. So if you want to make some serious cash with those programs you're joining, you're going to need to promote them. There are a variety of methods you can use. Here are a few that I've used with success:
My first suggestion to you is to join only those programs that relate to the theme of your website. Make sure they're a "good fit" with your site and that they pay out "healthy" commissions. A $2.00 bounty is hardly worth the work involved to earn it, like:
Weaving the URL's throughout your site. Make sure you weave the URL's throughout your site or devote whole pages to their topic.Don't just use banners, use alternatives like text links within your pages. Banners have become so saturated online that a lot of folks tend to ignore them,not to mention the extra weight they add to your pages.
Most programs you join will give you a variety of ads to use in your promotion efforts, but for best results you really should be creative and write some of your own. All too often I see the same old advertisement repeated over and over online until I want to scream. A little creativity stressing the benefits of your product will take you a lot farther then canned ads that 10,000 other affiliates are using.
Make a habit of scanning discussion boards and look for any opportunity to answer a
question or give advice using your affiliate link. At the least, make the link a part of your signature line and use in your e-mail correspondence and newsgroup postings.
If you publish your own ezine, make sure you keep a list of text ads for all of the associate programs you participate in and pick two or three to put in your newsletter every time you publish. If you've purchased the product yourself, a personal endorsement will pique your subscribers' interest and motivate them to click through. Your subscribers trust you, so don't recommend something you don't believe in.
Don't forget about placing your ads in other ezines that cater to your target audience. There are plenty of inexpensive newsletters just waiting for your ad copy. Say an ad cost you 10.00, and from that ad you make three associate sales that add up to $100.00. That's a pretty nice return on your investment.
One trick that has worked well for me over the years is placing my associate links in e-books that I've written. Since the books are given away for free there's no telling how many people will see those links and possibly make a purchase. If your book is well written and popular you could stand to make some decent revenue from the associate programs that you've placed in it.
Associate programs really are a great way to make some cash online, but a banner alone is not going to do it. Start promoting your "special link" every chance you get....and you'll be rolling in the dough in no time at all.
About the Author
Merle http://www.EzineAdAuction.com "Where some of the BEST Deals in Ezine Advertising are Made" Buy & Sell Ezine Ads in a live auction setting! Publishers sell off your excess inventory and Buyers pick up some Fantastic bargains. Go now.
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Affiliate Programs - Your guide to the best web affiliate programs. |
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Affiliate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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Apple - iTunes - Affiliate Program |
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Affiliate Programs Directory |
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eBay Affiliate Program: Welcome to the eBay Affiliate Program |
The affiliate program on eBay pays web designers, internet publishers and affiliates to drive users and leads to eBay and for bids and buy-it-nows; ... |
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AffiliateFuture |
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Affiliate Network - Affiliate Window |
Affiliate network offering tracking and management solutions for maintaining an affiliate program. |
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webmasters affiliate programs |
Webmasters earn money with today's most effective online advertising technology, contextual advertising at a cost effective metric of CPC, PPC, CPM or CPV. |
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UK Affiliate Marketing Forum - a4uforum.co.uk |
UK Affiliate marketing industry forum from affiliates4u featuring news, discussion, and affiliate program resources. |
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Affiliate programs directory - Associate Programs.com |
A searchable directory of rated affiliate programs. |
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Affiliate Summit 2007 West - Affiliate Marketing in Las Vegas ... |
Affiliate Summit 2007 West at Bally's Las Vegas, January 21-23, 2007. Keynote Speaker will be Michael Sanchez, CEO and Co-founder of ClubMom.com. |
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Affiliate Programs Marketing Training |
Most recent up-to-date developments in the affiliate marketing industry. ... The Affiliate Classroom is a step by step training program to help you easily ... |
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Affiliate Programs Directory - Affiliate Match.com |
Affiliate programs directory with searchable, categorized listings. |
www.affiliatematch.com |
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