Start Your Affiliate Marketing In 6 Simple Steps
Affiliate marketing is a quick'n'easy to start business model to make some relatively easy bucks online.Theses 6 steps are brief and quite simple. However, all 6 steps are important to ensure your affiliate marketing success.
1. Choose a Niche Market
Why to choose a niche market first instead of product? First, what if you find a product you like but there is no market for it? Second, you want to be able to put more products in your pipeline later down the track. So first, search for available products or services you can sell as an affiliate.
You have to choose a market which suits you too. Obtain detailed information about it. Know what types of people you're going to target. Do they have money? Where do they hang out? Waht are they buying already? Research things like that first. When you think you have found a profitable market, go product hunting.
2. Pick a Product to Sell
When you have picked a specific niche market, now it is time to select a product to sell as an affiliate. Of course you will want to choose a product specific to your niche. You can't sell lawn care ebooks to fishing fanatics.
You will probably feel that you want to promote and sell all the products at the beginning, but it is advised not to do this in the start. Start with one or two. If you choose a ton of products to promote in the beginning, you will lose track of everything and end up going no-where.
Choose a product that is good value and has a nice commission payout for you. Make sure you choose from a reliable website so you can rest assured you get your affiliate commission and they are contactable in case a problem arises.
3. Set up an Autoresponder Email Series
After you get started with your affiliate campaign, you need to create a follow up email series, which is also called an autoresponder series. This is the magical part that will put your affiliate marketing on autopilot.
Follow up, follow up, follow up! An autoresponder will do this automatically!
This series must have good information about your niche market and also info about the products you are selling that will make your prospect want to buy your recommendations.
For example, if you are selling golf clubs, you can build an email series telling them about how to improve you swing and how these golf clubs will help you improve.
Try to be creative. Mix in the sales pitch quaintly and tell your visitors how they can purchase those golf clubs. You can also compare different golf clubs, state the benefits and advantages. Write about some major golfers in the world.
It is typical that during first few weeks, prospects do not buy. It takes them time to warm up with good info and good deals. Make about 10 short emails in your series spread out over about 2 months. It can be longer, but preferably not shorter.
4. Build a Squeeze Page to Capture Emails
Once your email series is in place, create a page on your website where you will capture information (names and email addresses) about your prospects so you can send them your follow-up series. This is often called a "squeeze page". If you are building a business, having your own web site is a necessity. It may cost some money but it will be 100 times harder to get this system in place without your own website.
Not only can you have your squeeze page on your website, you can write about and display your affiliate products to the website visitors - and make you look like an expert.
5. Get Targeted Website Traffic
Once your auto-pilot affiliate money machine (website and auto-responder) is up and running, all you need now is traffic!
It depends on your niche as how to go about getting traffic. Where do people interested in your niche hang out? If it's Youtube, make videos and upload to youtube. If its forums, hot the forums and add your links in your signature. Email marketing is often effective but be careful about buying email lists.
6. Find additional related products
Once you have started to drive traffic and are building a list of prospects and hopefully seeing some sales, its time to add some new products to your products list. Again, make sure they're related to your target market and offer value
If it's the "Make Money Online" niche you want to target and don't know how to do anything technical like set up a squeeze page or find hot selling products, I recommend Affiliate Cash Secrets. They have done 90% of the work for you. All you have to do is follow their easy strategies and your first affiliate commission is around the corner.
Anyone can get started with Affiliate Cash Secrets because it's all plug and play. Theres no guess work, just follow the steps and affiliate dollars are yours!
To your success,
Stuart Stirling
Labels: affiliate-marketing-for-beginners, affiliate-marketing-help, easy-way-to-make-money-online
posted by 'Disco Stu' @ 4:27 PM
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