Friday 17 July 2009
Affiliate Marketing Secrets!
Affiliate Marketing has become a huge industry. More and more people start to promote affiliate product, but not all of these marketers generate sales. Here in this article you'll discover 2 essential affiliate marketing secrets. There are 2 ways that I've discovered work best for selling affiliate products.
The first way is to build up an email opt-in list and then promote different affiliate products to this list.
The second method is to create Pre-Sale Pages, also called Review Pages for different affiliate products.
The advantage of the second method is that you can make sales for months after publishing your website beause it stays there forever.
We'll have a closer look at the first method now because building your own opt-in list is pure gold. There are several ways to drive traffic to your signup page, but there is only one way that people will give you their name and email address. The big secret here is that you need to offer something for free in return for getting people's name and email address. You could give away a downloadable report, an e-book or software... whatever you give away, it must be something that your website visitors want to have. Your Signup Page, also called Lead Generating Website, should be a small page with a picture of your free gift, a description of it and of course the opt-in form from your autoresponder. A short statement that you won't sell or share their email address and personal details should result in a higher signup rate. Also your picture, phone number or address on the bottom of the page can increase conversions.
The second method for generating affiliate sales requires more work but will have the effect of automated income due to creating more and more web property. Imagine having review pages for 50 different products out there... how many sales would you get daily? I don't know, but you'll get a lot of sales since people search for products on google. So once you know how to get your review pages listed on the top 10 results in google you'll get the sales. There is of course a lot more to know about creating websites, but the basic idea alone should get you started to digg deeper into this topic. After all I can assure you that affiliate marketing can lead to a huge income. A lot of work is needed but once some time goes by you'll find yourself having an opt-in list of 10,000 subscribers and 10 review pages out there. Then you'll be able to generate income on autopilot with your review sites and also with the push of a button through your email list.
To be successful with affiliate marketing you need to master several different techniques. Mostly it's the little things that keep you from earning, like a bad wording on your opt-in page or the wrong email follow up sequence...
That's why you need to study affiliate marketing, that's why you need to go out there and get your hands on the top affiliate marketing ebooks. Learn from those who have already mastered to build up a full time monthly income from affiliate marketing.
Copy the Super Affiliates and you'll succeed as well. What I mean by copy them is that you get their ebook where they talk about their strategies. Then go out there and research their work, check out if they are telling the truth, if they are for real.
Sunday 12 July 2009
Affiliate Marketing Partnerships!
An affiliate marketing partnership between a publisher and affiliate can take many different forms, although only a few are genuinely popular.
In all cases the affiliate receives a payment for getting a visitor to complete an action, whether that is purchasing a product, subscribing to an e-mail list or just visiting the page.
Below are the four most common forms of affiliate marketing partnerships.
Cost Per Sale (CPS)
Cost per sale is the most common form of affiliate marketing. It simply means that for each sale the publisher make as a result of the affiliate, the affiliate get pays a commission. Usually this commission is a percentage of the profit made by the publisher for that particular sale. This form is popular amongst publishers as it means that they only have to payout when they've made sales, and is popular amongst affiliates because the commissions can be generous.
Cost Per Acquisition (CPA)
CPA is also sometimes referred to as cost per action. In a CPA affiliate partnership, the affiliate is paid money whenever a visitor completes a certain action. For example this action could be filling in a survey, joining an opt-in list or in some cases making a purchase. CPA affiliate marketing has become more and more popular in recent years amongst affiliates because you can receive reasonably high payouts for some actions. Also, getting someone to join an e-mail list for example is often easier than getting someone to buy a product. The money paid out for each action or acquisition varies for each publisher, and there are many CPA networks with thousands of CPA offers on the internet.
Cost Pet Thousand Impressions (CPM)
Cost per thousand impressions is when a publisher pays an affiliate a certain amount of money for every thousand visitors sent, regardless of how many of these bought the product or completed an action. This kind of partnership is much less common today than CPA and CPS, mainly because publishers know that it is not the amount of visitors that they get to their sales page but the quality of the traffic that's important. This kind of system also isn't popular amongst affiliates because the payouts are generally much less than CPA or CPS, reflecting the low value publishers give to this sort of partnership. However there are some companies that still offer CPM affiliate partnerships.
Cost Per Click (CPC)
This is similar to CPM, but instead the affiliate is paid on a per click basis. Again, this kind of partnership isn't favoured by publishers because the affiliate is paid regardless of whether any sales were made. The vast majority of affiliate partnerships, some estimate up to 99% on the modern internet, take the form of CPS and CPA. This is because they give the greatest monetary benefits for both the affiliate and publisher.
