How Nutritious Your Affiliate Diet
Written by admin on September 18, 2008
Think of banner ads as the spice in your affiliate diet. Sprinkle them around, but for a heartier helping of sales, you’ll need something more solid! Learn to give your visitors longer, more descriptive pre-sales text. Revamp your affiliate advertising using these simple steps:
- Pull the Reader in
- Introduce the Product
- Explain the Product’s Significance
- Tell the Reader to Make a Purchase
Pull the Reader in
To convince your audience that your text is worth reading, make your first sentence or two very interesting. Make a bold statement, say something seemingly ridiculous, or appeal to your prospect’s emotional side. Then, tie this grabber in with the rest of your copy.
Introduce the Product
What is the product you’re advertising? What does it do? Directly after your grabber, give a compact explanation of your product. Keep this explanation short, while still being very clear. This should still be a very short section of your text.
Explain the Product’s Significance
What will it do for me?
By writing your own copy, you can directly target your unique audience. Make the most of this opportunity! Clearly explain how your readers will benefit from this product.
No one knows your audience like you do. Suggest a variety of product uses just for them, and give examples. This is the time for details - make this section long and rich.
Tell the Reader to Make a Purchase
You’ve come so far - you’ve laid out exactly what the product is and how it will help your unique audience. Now, seal the deal - tell your readers to purchase the product! Include your affiliate link in this section.
This step may sound strange, but it’s necessary. Often, people hear about a product and are genuinely interested, but fail to actually make a purchase. A clear call to a simple action cuts down on buyer ambivalence. Don’t be pushy - just change your verb tenses to the imperative. Instead of:
“If you think that you fit this profile, you might want to think about buying this product.”
Say: “Click here to order an account today.”
Drive Sales - Use Long Copy
If you don’t feel ready to write long copy yourself, ask your affiliate program manager for help! Many companies release well-written articles by respected authors that you can reprint free of charge.
The novelty of the Web is wearing off. People online now are busy. Surfers won’t make a purchase unless you make a great case for what they’ll get out of it. And you’re not going to do that with just a banner ad.
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How to Become A Super Affiliate
Written by admin on September 17, 2008
Do you want to become a super affiliate?
In every affiliate program there are the average affiliates and then there are the super affiliates. If you are really serious about your business you will want to be a super affiliate. Now this will take dedication and perseverance but you will find it pays off handsomely. Here are a few points to help you achieve this status.
Attitude: Make a choice and decide that you will succeed and do whatever it takes to make it happen. Being a regular affiliate is one thing, but being a super affiliate takes drive and determination.
Build your own list: This is a list that you can personally promote to and it will allow you to sell more. To do this you will need to set up your own landing page and not rely on your sponsor’s mirror site. Offer a free newsletter to capture email addresses, by putting a subscription box on this landing page.
For more information on building your list: Read this article
Programs that we highly recommehjyub asaxskja uqiu8 Nwq7nqnd to make this process easy:
Aweber - Aweber Free Trial
GetResponse - GetResponse 30 Day Free Trial
Constant Contect - Constant Contact 60 Day Free Trial
Have your own website: When you have your own website you can promote at a faster and more cost effective speed. Not to mention that your chances of increasing your PR (Page Rank) and traffic are also increased. You can either make a mini site or theme content site. If you make a theme content site you can promote more than one related affiliate program or service. You can submit it to the search engines and drive targeted traffic to it through creative SEO means (DMOZ Submission Services, Manual Directory Submission services, ect.). Think creative and unique content to optimize your site traffic and draw more targeted visitors.
Join networking sites: Join networking sites like ryze.com where you can contact people in the same industry as you. They will often join your newsletter or even your affiliate program and will very likely eventually buy from your sponsor.
Joint Ventures: Do joint ventures with people who have products and will pay you a commission. This is a great way to learn more while earning money at the same time.
Using mailers: Supers affiliates set up mailers to give more information and help to get click throughs to their sites.
Try to implement these points and see how you can work up to being a super affiliate and earning an income online. This is the real way to make money and a good living as an affiliate marketer. Take advantage of the free trials mentioned above because autoresponders can work wonders for your affiliate business.
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Affiliate Marketer Case Study: Autoresponders
Written by admin on September 17, 2008
The concept of the follow up autoresponder revolutionized Internet Marketing. Now, “Auto Message Setup” promises to bring the field an even greater degree of efficiency.
This recent innovation lets experienced marketers painlessly transfer marketing know-how to their entire downlines. A marketer can now provide each of his downline representatives with a follow up autoresponse system that is already packaged with the marketer’s pre-written messages.
The result? Just a few minutes of work on the part of an experienced marketer, and each of his reps is set up with the same tried and true marketing messages.
Case Study: Marketer Matt and the New Breed
For example, take a look at the case of a fictional network marketer named Matt M:
For years, Matt has been successfully marketing All Natural Pharmaceuticals using a follow up autoresponder. In fact, much of his success can be attributed to the set of seven messages e-mailed to all of his potential customers. Matt has carefully crafted those messages over the years, and they’re really great.
Recently, Matt has been trying to pass what he’s learned along to his downline representatives. He explains his marketing principles over the phone, and he knows that several of his reps pass his follow up messages around amongst themselves.
However, Matt finds that his pearls of wisdom rarely survive this ‘telling and retelling’ intact. He knows his reps aren’t getting anywhere near what they could out of his knowledge. He wishes there were a way to harness today’s technology, and put it to use for the greater good of his downline…
Enter Auto Message Setup
Using an Auto Message Setup system, Matt’s downline reps can order their own follow up autoresponse accounts that are already packaged with Matt’s pre-written messages. They can reap the fruits of Matt’s experience with ease.
Each rep will customize Matt’s messages for himself by logging in to his new follow up autoresponder account, and entering his own contact information.
Here is Matt’s original autoresponse message:
- Hi LEAD NAME,Thanks for stopping by the Military Den web site today! We hope you come back soon!
Best Regards, Matt M.
matt@MilitaryDen.com 918 Awl St.
Natural, PA 22314
Notice that the message greeting uses a variable, (LEAD NAME). The variable ensures that each of Matt’s leads will receive a message personalized with his or her own name. Notice, also, that Matt’s name and address are at the end of the message.
Case Study: Downline Dan and the New Breed
Dan is one of Matt’s downline representatives. He’s ordered his own follow up autoresponder through Matt. Since Matt is using Auto Message Setup, Dan’s account came pre-packaged with Matt’s marketing messages. Dan personalized those messages to himself by answering a few questions in his Online Control Panel. Now Dan is sending his own personalized version of Matt’s messages to his customers! All of the basic content is Matt’s, but Dan’s contact information is on the letters. Here is the autoresponse that Dan sends to his potential customers:
- Hi, LEAD NAMEThanks for stopping by the Military Den web site today! We hope you come back soon!
Best Regards, Dan D.
dan@militaryden.com 5 Farm Way
Sootuh, TN 88457
Notice that the contact name and address at the end of the e-mail are Dan’s, but that the greeting at the beginning of the message still includes the name of Dan’s lead.
Mission Accomplished
With Matt’s experience in hand, Dan is now marketing more successfully than ever before. And he isn’t the only one - Matt’s entire downline is now using his marketing messages! Matt’s commissions are growing exponentially.
Matt and Dan’s situation is not unique. Any network marketer with an established downline can take advantage of the opportunities available in an auto message setup system. There’s no better way to put more auto in your autoresponder.
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The ABCs of List Building
Written by admin on August 13, 2008
List Building ABC
Building your opt-in list gives you endless ways to pre sell; up sell, and backend sell for long-term and short-term profits. It is important that you set the ground work to make building your list possible, so that you can get maximum returns.
First, Always carry a regime of affiliate products that not only fits your niche but also converts well with high payouts. If you are selecting a CPA then I would recommend you opt for a fast conversion such as email, or zip submit. However, there are affiliate products that you can purchase or purchase resale rights to related products and services that you know your subscribers will find useful.
You can promote your affiliate products or services as primary front end products, in your newsletter. Then build an announcement list for those who like bargains and need more tools and services. No, too much work, we want this to be simple… Why create two lists when you can add announcements to the bottom or in the beginning of your newsletter? I know it’s doesn’t really make sense… You will be surprised at how many people will read the announcements, and make purchases at discounted rates (special subscriber rates) even when they didn’t think the product fit within their needs. The trick is to make sure these products and services are highly targeted for your subscriber niche and to go about selling your products and services as an actual useful announcement and not an up-sell, and to keep your newsletter relevant and informative.
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Search Engine Optimization Guidelines
Written by admin on August 3, 2008
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Search engine optimization is important because it improves the volume and quality of traffic to a web site from search engines. Do you want to put your website in the high ranking? Here are some tips you have to consider:
Website Optimization = Unique Content + Links = High Search Engine Rankings
1. How Does Google Measure Link Popularity?
Higher link popularity scores = Higher search engine ranking
Link popularity is by far the most important factor for determining your search engine ranking. You need to know what link popularity is, why it is so important, and how Google measures your link popularity (over 50% of all search engine traffic comes from Google, and if you can get to the top of Google, you will get a decent amount of recognition from the other players).
Link popularity - the number of links (votes) that SE have for your site.
Here is a link for a good tool that measures the link popularity from Search Engine’s. It shows you the link popularity from the major Search Engines and lets you see the history report to figure out the rise of your site. Well, there are a few resources that will help you with SEO and marketing online, I would suggest you do a Google Search and check the results for link popularity or you can try MarketLeap or the resources section.
2. Articles/ Unique Content:
Consistency is the key. It is a fact that as more and more articles are added to article directories, your article will go lower in the listings, but if you constantly and consistently submit new articles, or create original content, then you will continue to reap the benefits. Making articles is a great way to build up the link popularity of your website. It gives you life-time links.
• Always close your articles off with a link to your site if you are planning on guest blogging, submitting articles to article directories and so on… The link should be relevant to the content of the article. Hyperlink the keyword with your url. As a quick heads up, a pretty popular blog is seeking guest posts for their blog, The Beef Jerky Blog is looking for guest bloggers so get a ton of recognition for producing just a few minutes of original content.
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