Three Keys to Successful Affiliate Marketing
What are three keys to being a successful affiliate?
Affiliate marketing is one of the most profitable ways to make money online. You don’t have to worry about creating a product, graphics, drawing up a sales plan or following up with buyers. You’re only responsibility is driving traffic.
Here are three keys to being a successful affiliate:
1. Product.
Choosing the right product to promote is your first key step.
You have an endless list of products to choose from as an affiliate, but that doesn’t mean that all of them will make you money. Before you put your time and energy into creating a marketing campaign for affiliate program, be sure to do some niche research.
Is the niche saturated?
Is there a lot of competition in the niche or will you be able to establish yourself pretty quickly?
How does the sales page for the product look?
Would you buy from that website?
Carefully evaluating the niche and the product will help you find a product that will actually sell.
If I am recommending a product I want to know it’s good.
2. Prospects.
Building YOUR own list of customers is an often overlooked part of affiliate marketing. Yet it is one of the most important.
As an affiliate, you should be building a list as well.
Before you direct your visitor to the sales page for the product, you should offer them something of value for free in exchange for signing up. You can create a report on a product and give it away before forwarding the visitor on to the sales page. By building a list, you create a long term relationship with the visitor and offer them additional value and product offers.
3. Promotion.
Setting up your own blog is one of the best ways to promote affiliate programs due to the variety of ways you can use a blog. Seasoned affiliates understand that their long term income comes from sales of multiple products in the same niche. One of the best ways to sell multiple products is to start a niche blog. Your blog can link to several different affiliate products so you have many opportunities to make money.
How about an example?
After doing some research, you discover that BBQ is a hot topic. You start a blog on how to BBQ. On the blog, you can write articles related to BBQ and link to several BBQ products available on Clickbank. You can also give away a "How to Smoke a Brisket” report on your blog to build your list.
Cheers!
Mark
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Great info :)