Affiliate Marketing Secrets
Secrets of Affiliate Marketing
One of the easiest and fastest way to earn a living online is through affiliate marketing. This is when you send visitors to someone else’s product sales page, they make the sale and deliver the product, and you keep 50% or more of the sales
Here’s just a few benefits
- You can start almost instantly with no up-front costs and no need to create a product, set up a website and sales page, design the website, create marketing materials, or set up the ordering, billing & delivery system.
- There’s no time required on your partbecause they handle the billing, support, maintenance, etc.
- You have nearly zero risk because you already know the product sells, because the product owner has already made sure the product sells. So if you send visitors you will get paid.
There’s no denying that these benefits make affiliate marketing the best thing going!
There is one major drawback…
After all your hard work of generating traffic to the sales page, you will never see any of those visitors again. Less than 10% of the visitors your send will actually buy the product. The 10% or less that make a purchase now belong to the product owner. She can sell them additional products, but you can never sell to them again.
What’s the solution?
It’s simple: You must get your visitors’ email addresses before you send them to the product owner’s website. If you do that, you can contact them again and send them back the product website multiple times. This will increase the number of sales you make. And if you want to do it like a pro, you’ll give them some great content before sending them to the sales page.
Here’s why you want to implement these affiliate marketing strategies:
- You’ll be building your own list of potential customers that you can market to again and again.
- You’ll be warming them up by providing valuable information and then casually linking to the product sales page in the context of this information.
Here’s what you’ll need to create affiliate tools like this:
- A lead capture page, preferably with video
- One or more content-rich “warm up” pages
- A multi-part email series with at least 5 emails in it
You’ll use the squeeze page as the place to send your visitors instead of using the product website. It captures the name and email of your visitors and puts them into your autoresponder, which then begins sending out the 5-part email series. After subscribing them to your email list, it redirects them to your content mini-site.
You content mini-site builds the good will, so that when you send them to the product sales page, they are in a buying mood. And even if they don’t buy on the first visit, your email series sends them back to the product sales page again and again to increase your sales.
There’s no doubt that it’s worth the effort to put a system like this in place, because doing so will increase your profits by 500% or more. And after you get it all set up, it runs on total auto-pilot. You just refer people to your lead capture page, instead of the product sales page.
One option, if you’re not up to the challenge of setting this all up yourself, is to let someone like Affiliate Silver Bullet do it for you. Services like this design the enter system (the video, the video squeeze page, the email series, the content pages, etc). On the plus side, you’ll save a ton of time and money vs. trying to build this yourself. Plus you can get started instantly. One negative is that there will be other people using this same affiliate marketing system. However, the odds of you and them both finding the same visitor are so small, that it doesn’t really matter.
The other route you can take is to hire people on Elance to create and implement the various aspects for you. Either way, it’s an important step that you need to take if you’re going to be serious about your affiliate marketing.
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