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Today, Affiliate Marketing!

Affiliate Marketing
How to make the most money online

What is Affiliate Marketing?

Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the past twenty years, you know about the Internet and you also know that there are many people out there making a KILLING working it to their advantage. You may be considering jumping into the great big bad world of Internet Marketing and learning how to earn the big bucks, but where to start?

Have you thought about Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate Marketing is a method of promoting a web business in which you, the affiliate, are rewarded for every visitor, customer, subscriber or purchase made from your website.

What it boils down to is this: You have a website. On your website you promote, sell or have customers subscribe to things for other businesses. Let’s say you have an affiliate link on your website that, if clicked on, will direct a visitor to a website where they can purchase garden supplies. When a visitor clicks on that link, goes to that website and makes a purchase, you get a percentage of that sale.

Or

You have a product that you wish to sell on the Internet. It’s a great product or service. You can hire Affiliate Networks to promote your product and/or service. They will take care of the tracking and the money and will charge you a healthy chunk of change in return. There are Affiliate networks that will charge you a large fee for set up, others don’t charge as much.

Depending upon what you want to do and where you want to go with your program, you’ll have to choose which option suits your needs. Affiliate Marketing is a form of Internet Marketing to advertise products and services.

There is great deal of money to be made in Affiliate Marketing, but you have to have the proper tools with which to get your Affiliate Marketing business off and running. You want to make sure that you pick a popular product if you’re going to promote one. Do your homework before you jump in and it will save you a lot of grief later.

Starting Out

Perhaps you’ve already tried to make a go of your Affiliate Marketing and it hasn’t given you the results you were expecting. Where are the big profits that others keep talking about? Why aren’t they falling into your hands?

It might be because you haven’t deployed the classic Affiliate Marketing tools, redirects, cloaking and branding in a way to optimize your business.

One of the essential ‘tricks’ of Affiliate Marketing is to make your links look good, inviting visitors to click on them and make YOU some money. If your links are enticing and clean, visitors will click on them 8 times more than on links that look techie and uninviting.

Links can sometimes be hacked. This means that an evil troll (hacker) has gone into your links and hijacked them so that instead of going where you want to send a customer, the hijacked links will send your customers to another website entirely. This results in lost commissions for you and that’s not good.

Cloaking your links and encrypting them will help you avoid being hacked.

Sell More Than One Affiliate Product

If promoting one product brings in the money, imagine being able to promote more than one product at a time, using the same sites you already have set up. Link Branding is a way to make this happen. Your link will send your customer to your sales page as usual, but it will also do something else: you will show your customers a small strip at the top or the bottom of your sales page that contains a message from you. You can tell your visitor they can get more information by going to your blog, or that there is something else they might be interested in and then give them the link. This technique of Link Branding works well and can bring in more profits for your site.

Play Sneaky and Get Paid

In order to compete in the online market place you have to use all the tools at your disposal because you understand that other Affiliate Marketers are putting on the speed in order to get there first, win the race and make the most commissions possible.

You can do it too, and you should. You can get around unwanted barriers to your commission check by using Covert Linking. There many benefits to this stealthy Covert Linking. If you find a weak sales page, you can bypass it and send visitors to your sales page, which you will have created to be a more powerful sales page. You can create your own squeeze page, bypassing the other page in order to save your commission.

Cloaking your links will help you increase your affiliate sales.

Test a Product & Your Computer Becomes a Cash Machine

There are so many products, services and businesses out there to promote, how do you know which products to choose? Once you choose a product, how do you know that your Affiliate Marketing strategy is going to be successful?

Tracking and Testing. In order to know if your sales copy is working, you’ll need to split test it. This means sending half your visitors to one site with one version and the other half to another site with another version of your sales copy. There are many things you can split test in order to find which portion of your page brings in more conversions:

. Headline: color, size, fonts
. First few paragraphs: fonts, words, pitch
. Test with a deadline:limit the time they have to respond
. Test a delayed payment option:limited free uses
. Test different price options: offer different prices
. Test an upgrade or a downgrade option
. Test a guarantee: money back within a certain amount of time?
. Test to see which product you should be promoting: is this a quality product? In demand?

In order to test all of these things you’d have to spend a great deal of time and effort to set up each split test. There are different ways to accomplish this, including using Aweber, a company that gives you the tools to split test.

If you want to test two different products in order to see which one is the one that is more popular, simply enter two links into the program and the software will automatically send half of your traffic to one link and half to the other.

Testing is a pain and I don’t know anyone who likes to do it, but it’s an important step in discovering which of your sales pages converts more visitors. Once you know what is working and what isn’t, which products are most profitable to promote, then you can easily turn your computer into a cash machine and watch those commission checks start rolling in.

Work Smarter Not Harder

In every walk of life, you can work harder or you can work smarter. Once upon a time most labor was manual, from ditch digging to pounding nails. Then people got smarter and earth moving machines and nail guns were created so that people could work smarter with less effort.

It’s the same thing with an online endeavor. You can work harder or you can work smarter. Let me give you a hint about which one is your best option; work smarter!

Working smarter means that you will reap more benefits and spend more time on the profitable projects. This means you’ll work less for the best possible results. First you’ll have to figure out just how to work smarter.

For example, in Affiliate Marketing it’s sometimes difficult to discover who your customers are, where they’re coming from and how they came to you.

If you know where your visitors are coming from and what they want, then you can better focus your efforts on what is working and what is making you the most commissions. You’ll be able to change the things that aren’t working, like ads and put ads on that DO work.

If you know which sites are profitable and which aren’t, you’ll be able to spend your time on the sites that bring in more money and let the ones go that aren’t bringing in the cash. Tracking your visitors and your conversions is the best way to find out what’s working and what’s not.

Conclusion

Affiliate Marketing can be a very profitable endeavor if you go about it the right way and work smart. Remember to do your homework on the products you want to promote in order to maximize the commissions you’ll make.

You can become an affiliate for Amazon or eBay or even Paypal. The products to promote on the Internet are endless and it makes sense for you to sift through them until you find the ones that work best for you and for your clients. Some are high end income and other’s may not pay out very much in commission checks when you make a sale.

If you have a product you want to sell and you need to have affiliates promote it, you may want to think about opening a Clickbank account where Affiliate Marketers come in search of products to promote. If your sales page is compelling and your product solid, then you should have no trouble finding your pot of gold at the end of the affiliate rainbow.

Hope you learned something!

ECS Dave

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