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Friday, October 25, 2013

Achieving Success Through Affiliate Marketing

By Tracy D. Olson


Have you been working 50 to 60 hours a week still don't have any money at the end of the week? Maybe you just do not have time for your family because the job requires your time nearly all the time even when you are home. Maybe you just want to make some extra cash for yourself and your family, after the bills are paid. Whatever your reasoning may be, if you want to make money online, affiliate marketing can just what you are looking for.

You could wake up and decide that your water glass on the nightstand is half empty and you may end up having a not so good day. You could take a more positive outlook about that same glass of water and say to yourself that the glass is half full. Words may be just words to you but they really do mean a lot and have a lot to do with how you think.So, let's get some education going and finish filling up that water glass. Here are some of my best tips for anyone who is interested and wants to be part of an Affiliate Marketing program.Find something, product/company, that you feel very positive about,Request an affiliate link from the company's marketing program,Secure a domain name as well as a host ,Create a website or a blog (WordPress works great),Create a YouTube account,Learn to do your own keyword research,Upload and share videos via YouTube and/or Traffic Geyser Submit blog posts to various article sites using Traffic Geyser

The reason for this is because the markup on these types of products is nearly 100%. It costs the owner of the product almost nothing to sell and eBook or a downloadable software program. You can earn commissions as high as 75%. Generally the rates are 50%-75%. Which happens to be a great commission rate?

Most of these affiliates are based online. This is more preferable because they can be grouped based on demographics like geographic location, market reach, and online skill. The more affiliates there are to a business, the bigger the chances are of tapping on even the most remote areas. This can increase the probability of the product or service being sold.

Affiliate marketing aims to encourage people to purchase a specific brand's product or avail of a particular service. Eventually, the goal becomes focused on turning these people into actual clients and ensuring that they would be long-term customers. The affiliates can use various available tactics online in sharing information about the product. They can do blogging, social networking, email marketing, and search engine marketing.

One of the best ways to make money online is you must have a website or a mini site so you can build an email list of prospective customers. I recommend Word press it is the easiest to use and builds you quality websites very quickly and it is easy to learn. You can find several tutorials for using Word press on You Tube. Make sure that your site is easy to navigate and is keyword rich and has a direct call to action and always provide value to you prospects. Then provide them a sign up form- then they are compelled to sign up and possibly purchase your affiliate offer that you are promoting. A quality landing page is key and has a call to action for your targeted visitors to do what you need them to do. It must have well written text that rates or reviews the product or, a video tutorial that lets visitors learn how to benefit and use the product well and an opt-in form.

Many people confuse affiliate marketing from doing actual referrals. Actually, the difference is very minimal. Both strategies require third-parties to promote products and attract potential customers. However, referrals are more personal in its approach. In doing referrals, there has to be trust between the person marketing the product and the audience. Affiliate marketing, on the other hand, can be done on a purely business level.

Travel agencies and resort franchises are among the companies that make use of the benefits of affiliate marketing. They offer subscription to the resort or agency and the affiliates would be marketing them to encourage people to attend to it. For example, an affiliate marketer can inform us if they have received an email or confirmation from the client for the booked subscriber's book.People also prefer to do affiliate marketing because of the financial returns. Since the job is paid on a commission basis, affiliates have more chances of receiving bigger salaries depending on the number of clients they are able to gather. At last statistics, affiliates can earn at least $150 to at most $12,000. But there are also a lot of other benefits aside from the entire salary. Some companies offer monetary benefits to the affiliates. They also give out bonuses for working affiliates for every time that a big sale is made from the successful referral.




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