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Intriguingly, you can make significant commissions advertising items you didn't design!
Like anything else in life, it takes numerous practices to
reach the top. I promise to shorten your learning curve and decrease guessing
and errors on the following pages!
Let's briefly explore the first of four ways to enhance
affiliate marketing and income!
Use Traffic Exchanges
If you're new to traffic exchanges, read and comprehend
this:
Traffic exchanges help market affiliate programs. Most
well-defined, strong Internet niches have traffic exchange. Casinos, gambling
sites, specialist forums, and Internet marketing sites use traffic exchanges. Traffic
exchange features numerous interactions.
Most traffic exchanges serve two main purposes:
1) You may browse sites, get credits, and cash them in;
2) You may post ads or dynamically created link boxes on
your site to gain credits, which you can cash in. Most exchangers promote
visitors to your site by cashing in credits.
Finding the most trustworthy traffic exchanges with fair
point systems is a smart place to start. Some traffic exchanges enable cheating
and have faulty exchange systems that favor paying members over non-members.
Given your budget and goods, you want the best exchange.
Use this service to find top traffic swaps. Ask friends
whether any transaction went well for them:
http://www.paramind.net/paramindtrafficexchanges.html
After choosing an optimum exchange, you'll want to optimize
high-quality traffic from it.
Do impressions or clicks earn credits? Do impressions or
clicks deduct credits?
Since exchanges have varied regulations on this, this is
vital to question. If you lose credits depending on impressions, obtain the
most clicks per impression. This requires overselling advertisements and making
showy banners (if they allow them).
If you pay per click, your adverts should only appeal to the
most interested purchasers. Match your approach to a revenue-generating
strategy.
Promoting what on a traffic exchange is the final thing to
consider.
How would you market your affiliate product?
Will you send people to the affiliate page?
Will you link to your product page?
Will you send them an opt-in form that collects their
information and gradually persuades them to buy?
Avoid the first and do the last or second.
Social Networking Sites
Social media isn't only for teens anymore. Social networking
sites have changed from adolescent girl-dominated networks to something else
entirely.
Social media now attracts all demographics. Niche social
networking sites, like skateboarding or investing, target individuals with a
shared interest. Teens are still more likely to utilize them than adults.
Businesses are joining teens and adults on social media.
That's right: numerous corporations are entering social networks to promote
subtly and then replicating their message via social network platforms.
Facebook is the most popular. Facebook has 2.23 billion
monthly active users in the second quarter of 2018 (and rising!).
If your affiliate product has wide appeal, you may choose to
advertise it on Facebook (fan page) to reach the greatest audience rapidly.
Facebook offers several opportunities to sell your affiliate
goods. Create a profile and add friends every day.
Depending on your objectives, you may want to add a personal
profile for yourself and then speak about your company/product on your page, or
you may want to establish a business profile and advertise your product.
After promoting on Facebook, investigate other social media
platforms.
Whatever website you choose, your objective should be to
build a network of individuals who have a similar interest and may be
interested in your offering.
To avoid being blacklisted, focus on expanding your network
and exposing them to your affiliate product.
Use Free Viral Reports
Did you realize that affiliate marketers' most lethal weapon
is the free viral report?
It boosts productivity and cuts marketing expenditures. The
marketer only has to create a viral report at little or no expense, insert an
affiliate link in it, and find ways to distribute it to as many groups as
feasible.
However, creating free viral reports requires exact
computation and back-end system configuration. Simply writing crap, adding an
affiliate link, and sending it to everyone you know in.txt format won't help
you or get other marketers to disseminate the report.
Start again. Your affiliate product's theme must be
identified.
Do they require product info? Do they require product use
instructions? Make sure your viewpoint matches client needs and your affiliate
goods.
Create the viral report and include your affiliate link many
times. If you have a site and a list, you may wish to connect to your list and
employ back-end processes to sell.
Last, verify this viral report:
a) Reaches the most people;
b) Reaches those who will freely disseminate it. Free viral
report dissemination is key here.
Forums may spread your viral report. You should share some
concrete experiences connected to the report's theme well before its
publication date.
Start promoting your release and emphasize that the report
is free. Joining a list may also lock folks in for instant email dissemination.
Visit http://www.marketingsherpa.com/ for viral marketing case studies.
Check out https://rebranderpro.com to make viral PDF
reports.
After establishing forum buzz for the research, you should
approach e-zine owners in your niche and offer them a free report on your
topic. Distribution multiplies sales.
I will send a free viral report to promote my affiliate
product. It eliminates development.
The grandest plan, which I kept for last (but most
crucial!), is:
Build Your Own Mailing List
Affiliates make one of the worst errors nowadays. To avoid
the same error, I'll tell you:
Affiliates' worst error is not creating a list!
Instead of lists, affiliates provide visitors with affiliate
links. They naively wagered that visitors would purchase on the first
interaction. Not usually.
Visitors require several visits and more information to warm
up to a product before buying from a person or company. Lists help here.
Affiliates may solve this by establishing lists. They may
also warm up traffic and drive it to future purchases. They might try to sell
the same customer many things over time.
The affiliate must buy tools to achieve this. I recommend
http://www.aweber.com for autoresponders.
Aweber offers spam checkers and macros for $19/month. Its
99% delivery rate and whitelisting by numerous email clients make it the best.
This service manages and builds lists. It offers free tools
to develop online forms, pop-ups, and hover-ins to boost opt-in rates.
If you don't have a website, you'll need to establish one before
buying the autoresponder service. Add your opt-in form to a page on your
associated site if you already possess one. If not, get an inexpensive name and
hosting to host your list forms. Bluehost provides some of the lowest hostings.
After setting up your site and autoresponder, the last two
tasks are producing a course relating to the affiliate items you will offer and
constructing a conversion-optimized opt-in form.
Easy portion one. Choose a theme and outline it over five to
seven days. Remember to write like you're talking to someone, not like an
article.
If you're uncomfortable writing these pieces, you may hire a
ghostwriter at http://www.elance.com for $5-15 for every issue, depending on
size.
After creating your autoresponder series, feed it into your
autoresponder, put up text ads for the affiliate product you want to sell, and
construct an opt-in form for your list.
After setting up your opt-in form, you only need to bring
traffic to it, gather email addresses, and wait for commissions!
Conclusion
As the book nears its finish, I want to remind you that the
knowledge you now have is yours to use.
I'll be the first to acknowledge that starting now—or doing
nothing—won't provide immediate benefits.
Like any other skill, affiliate marketing requires practice to master.
You now have over 4 strategies to increase blog traffic at
your disposal!
Mix & match any of them, and monitor your affiliate
profits!
Have a nice journey on your affiliate marketing quest to make a
living!