Monday, February 2, 2009

7 Affiliate Marketing Tips That You Need To Consider...

Unlike offline marketing, affiliate marketing provides you the flexibility to adopt a few marketing campaigns at the same time and if you feel they don't work, you can change it any time you want. Since you are here, I believe you are interested to make money with affiliate marketing and to help you do so, I have summarized 7 of the widely practice affiliate marketing tips for you. Hope you find them useful. :-)

1. List your website

Listing your website or blog is super important for your affiliate marketing business. This is to make sure that your prospects can find your page in the search engines. You can start do it free here, at Yahoo and you need a Yahoo account), MSN and Google.

2. Building traffic

You should be well aware by now that you are not going to make money with affiliate marketing when there is no traffic to your website or blog. Imagine having a traffic jam to your site (not crashing your site of course). You are going to earn enormously with all this traffic seeing you product.

In order to do that, you can use article marketing, Adwords, search engine optimization (SEO), submit links or advertise on other affiliate marketers' website.

3. Be specific

The key here is that you send specific customers to specific websites. Never mix them up. There are a lot of affiliate marketers who put all their affiliate products in one website. Imagine your customers are looking for coffee beans and your main page is about video games. You are lucky that your customers might stay and look for the coffee beans tab but most of them will question why you send them to an unrelated page and they will leave.

Affiliate marketing is about satisfying your customers need as fast as possible before they change their mind. When you make them wonder, your customers might just leave.

4. Testimonials

Time and time again, testimonials have proven to be a reliable marketing tool because your prospects are more convince when someone else has used the product and it has proven to be worth the money.

So, keep in contact with your customers and ask them for testimonials after they buy the product.

5. Be different

Let's say you are affiliating for coffee beans. Do you think you are the only person doing that? Quite frankly you often have to muscle your way through the competition. And to help you do that, I will suggest you to give you sample or trial pack for your visitors.

And one very important thing when you are releasing sample or trial to your visitors, remember to get their contact because you want to know how they feel about the freebies so that you can convince them to get your product.

6. Be trustworthy

Since you got your customers contact, your job now is to prove that you are a trustworthy person. Let me ask you, are you willing to buy something from a stranger? Will you give your money to someone you are unfamiliar of?

So, share what you know about the topic and help your subscribers as best as you can. Only then can you make them feel safe and they can be sure they invested into the right person.

7. Personal guarantee

Your offer will sound more reliable when you are able to give guarantee to your customers. Even you are more open to buy something when the merchant assure you that you can get your money back when you are unsatisfied with your purchase.

Since you don't own the product when you are doing affiliate marketing, what you can do is to join the affiliate programs that provide money back or satisfaction guarantee.

The tips above are as your reference and you are certainly not limited to only the 7 tips above. You can spend some time in this business and discover your own winning affiliate marketing tips. When that happens, I hope that you can tell me about them too. :-)

Create your success,

Wong Michael. :-)
www.BeyondAffiliateCash.com/amd.php

Remember, earning big is easy when you know how. :-)

P.S. Building a successful affiliate marketing business can be devastating sometime. Still, you can always talk to me and get more tips of how you can earn your affiliate income with ease.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

Thanks for sharing all the stuff. It is amazing.