Tuesday, June 9, 2009

7 Ways To Increase Your Affiliate Marketing Business

So, you have started your affiliate marketing business and doing all you can to increase your business but it seems what you did were futile. Doesn't the scenario sound too familiar? It is just too frustrating that nothing seems to grow your business.

I understand how that feels. I have been there and that is why I know there are other ways that you can use to build your affiliate marketing business,

1. Unique

Promoting your affiliate marketing business doesn't mean that you have to follow how the other affiliate marketers promote their business. One very important criteria in a successful affiliate marketing business is that you let your customers see that you are unique.

And the easiest way to be unique is to add value to what you are doing. Let's say you are promoting your affiliate marketing business with blog, what else can you add to your blog besides text? Can you add video to it? Some merchant’s do provide you with the video code, you can use it make your blog look different.

Being unique doesn't mean that you have to spend a lot of money. You just think differently.

2. Feedback. Feedback. Feedback.

If you are interested to make money with affiliate marketing, it is crucial that you understand what your customers are thinking about your offer and the ways you market it.

What if your customers prefer text in your blog rather than video?

If you don't take the initiative to ask your customers, you will never know and you will continue to make the mistakes. No wonder you never grow your affiliate marketing business.

3. Attention

Since you have your customers' feedback, are you going to celebrate and stop there? Of course not. But a lot of affiliate marketers did.

They either are too arrogant to correct their mistakes or they delay their work until they totally forgot about that. Now, your customers pointed a way for you to start making money with affiliate marketing and you choose to ignore them. So, you have to suffer the consequences.

So, please avoid making the same mistakes as them. Reply your customers with a thank you email and you should look into the possibility of realizing their feedback.

4. Incentives

Just to let you know, people are motivated to buy when you offer them extra bonuses. Of course these incentives have to be valuable to them in some ways and are related to your offers.

Imagine you are affiliated to digital cameras and your bonus is an ebook "how to brew the perfect coffee in 3 easy steps". Does that make sense to you? If you are the customer, will you buy the digital camera?

Now, things can be different when you offer an ebook "how to shoot the perfect pictures in 3 easy steps".

5. Mind your budget

Even though you have a lot of money to spare, that doesn't mean that you can continue to dump money into something that doesn't seem to convert. If you have done all you can and you are not earning anything from that niche for a long time, it is probably time you move on with different niche. There are a lot of niches in affiliate marketing and I believe you can find other profitable niche else where.

With that being said, what if you are building this business with limiting budget. You should watch how you spend your money even more.

6. Turn back the clock

Many new affiliate marketers thought that they have to use the newest and so call most innovative way to make money with affiliate marketing. That is nothing wrong with that, but do you know that the newest and most innovative ways are more expensive way to build your business?

It is not shameful to use the tradition way to promote your affiliate marketing business. Let's take a look at article marketing. It might be old school to use the techniques but when you write the articles properly and put in the right message, it can be an enormous money printing machine for you.

7. Too techie

For some reasons, some affiliate marketers like to use the techie terms in their niche. They thought this can impress the customers and make them look professional. Instead, your customers might think that you are trying to show off.

Let's look at it this way, when you go to buy a shampoo, do you want to the salesperson to tell you what chemicals they use in the shampoo and how the specific compound detach and reattach to make your hair silkier and smoother? You probably will fall asleep and walk away. That is exactly what happen when you are too techie when you are promoting your business.

So, be simple and make sure your message is easy to understand.

So, I apologize if I ever confuse you with any techie terms and I hope you will tell me how I can fix that for you. :-)

Create your success,

Wong Michael. :-)
http://www.beyondaffiliatecash.com/

Remember, making money with affiliate marketing 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 online income with ease.

No comments: