Affiliate Marketing Secrets for Your Success

Affiliate Marketing Secrets for Your Success
By Russell Hamel

Winning Affiliate Marketing Strategies

Affiliate marketing is by far the fastest way to get started making money online. This is when you refer traffic to someone else's product sales page; they do everything else! (They make the product, design the sale page, handle the billing and support, etc.), and you get a percentage of the sale price as your commission (usually 50% or more for digital products).

Here Are Just a Few Benefits

• You're able to start instantly without having to create a product, set up a website and sales page, develop the website, create marketing materials, or get a merchant account and CRM (Customer Relations Management aka Support).

• It runs on auto-pilot for you because the product owner does all the hard work of support, maintenance and billing.

• You have nearly zero risk because you already know the product sells. The product owner has already done all the research, development and testing. So you know that your traffic will result in sales.

Obviously affiliate marketing makes sense - these benefits make it a clear winner!

OK, But It's Not All Rosy...

You work hard to send the traffic to the product owner's website, but once you do that you will never see those visitors again. Less than 10% of the visitors you send will actually buy the product. That's fine for the product owner because she can sell to them again and again... but you can't.

Is There a Way Around This?

YES! And it's simple: You must get your visitors' email addresses before you send them to the product owner's website. By getting their contact info, you can follow up and increase your odds of making the sale by sending them back to the product owner's website multiple times. And if you're a super star affiliate, you'll provide high-quality content before sending them to the product website.

Here's what these affiliate marketing strategies will do for you:

• You'll be building your own list of potential customers that you can market to again and again.

• You're generating good will by giving them high-quality content. This way, they are much more likely to make a purchase when you send them to the sales page.

Here's what you'll need to create affiliate tools like this:

• A squeeze page, and even better a Video squeeze page.

• Several high-quality content pages

• An email series with at least 5 high-quality content emails

You'll use the squeeze page as the place to send your visitors instead of using the product website. This page is where you collect your visitors' contact info and add them to your autoresponder, which in turn starts sending them the multi-part email series. Once your visitors have been subscribed to your email series, they are sent to your content pages.

These high-quality content pages provide value and build good will. This way your visitor is more likely to buy when they get to the product owner's website. And at the same time, the email series begins following up with them to get them back to the sales page, in case they don't buy on the first visit.

All of this together increases your chances of making the sale by up to 500% so it's well worth the effort of setting it up. After setting it up, you simply send visitors to your squeeze page instead of the sales page. And the rest runs on auto-pilot.

If you don't have the time or expertise to set it all up yourself, you can use a pre-packaged DFY (Done For You) service. These kinds of services will build the whole system for you and then just give you a video squeeze page (with video), pre-written emails, content pages, etc. The major benefit of using a service like this is that you can get started right away, and for a whole lot less than it would cost to do it all yourself. 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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