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Getting traffic to your website is your priority. Getting targeted traffic is an extra bonus. Bonus traffic is an incredibly powerful way of doing this. It’s like chocolate meeting peanut butter, only you’re mixing integration marketing with listbuilding. Here’s how it can work for you.
Step One is Forming a Partnership
Basically, what you start with is forming a partnership with someone who already has a membership site or a download page. It has to be within your niche to work. In this partnership, you make an exchange where your product goes on their website as a free bonus. In return, you get to communicate with their list, and thereby import them to yours.
This accomplishes several things that both parties can enjoy. For them, they get the extra reputation points and opt-in power for giving away an amazing product or service. For you, it’s a chance to build your reputation, and it expands your list immensely. From this particular list, you can draw traffic to your site, which equals highly targeted traffic.
Granted, this doesn’t mean you’re making sales on the product that you’re giving away. However, it works Read More→
Affiliate marketing without a list is a lot like fishing in a swimming pool. You may have all the right poles and tackle, but you’re not likely to catch anything. It may be that someone occasionally throws a bass in your pool out of pity, but again, it won’t keep your family fed.
Listbuilding is Essential for Successful Affiliate Marketing
How do you think that the top dogs of affiliate marketing sell so much stuff if they’re not listbuilding? You can evaluate their pages all you want, and chances are they aren’t any better than yours, except for one thing—they have an opt-in box. Even if you have an opt-in box, you’re not going to get anywhere if no one knows about it.
The only thing that separates you from them is the relative size of your lists. They can sell a gazillion widgets because they have a stocked pond to fish from. Now, let’s talk about how you can turn your swimming pool into a fishing pond.
Building Your List by Driving Traffic to Your Website
The first thing you need to know is how to start building your list. You do this Read More→
Want to know an essential listbuilding technique? You should endorse multiple products and build lists through all of them. This is a super way to build a massive list in no time flat. Pulling it off is a no-brainer.
Building Your List through Multiple Opt-Ins
It makes sense that building your list through several opt-in opportunities makes list building go faster. Having several opt-ins all over the Net builds your exposure. More exposure equals more traffic. Most of the time, more traffic equals more list opt-ins. More list opt-ins equals more chances to convert to a sale.
These days, if you’re in a big hurry to get your list going, you should probably use the Web 2.0 strategies that best suit you. Facebook, Twitter, and Myspace are the top contenders in the Web 2.0 market. All you have to do is post links in your updates, and everyone that runs across them will head your way.
Cross-Posting Your Lists Can Draw Subscribers from Different Lists
One product may not catch your precise targeted audience, but another could. This is where cross-posting other lists becomes helpful. When you’ve “done it all” with one product, this is a great way to move on to the next. This is also Read More→
When a newbie marketer gets a healthy affiliate marketing list, the idea of e-mailing them can be scary. The idea of a mass exodus of un-subscribers can be terrifying, but don’t let it get to you. Fear is failure and the forerunner of failure. You have to be positive and upbeat in your mailings and YOU HAVE TO MAIL.
Entertain Your E-mail List
If a lot of people un-subscribing from your e-mail list is your concern, there are some ways to make sure that they stay on. An important way of doing this is to entertain your subscribers. By now, you have a good idea of what kind of people are on your list. Use this to your advantage.
Your niche will reflect the way you’ll entertain your readers. You can use humor, either making it niche-specific or according to the type of people on your list. Naturally, if you have a lot of white collars on your list, “You might be a marketer if” jokes probably won’t fly very well. You might be better off entertaining them by “declaring war on the search engines” or a similar sort of performance.
Doing an Occasional Product Review is a Plus
You can either mail out a product review to your list, or Read More→
Two of the ripest social media sites for affiliate marketing are Facebook and Twitter. They’re among the top ranking social websites on Alexa, and they’re both catch words in every home. In fact, phone companies have “there’s an app for that” as a slogan, which includes stuff you can use on Facebook and Twitter.
Posting Affiliate Links on Twitter and Facebook
One of the greatest things about Twitter and Facebook is that you can post your affiliate links directly in your posts. The trick of it is that you have to remove the HTML part. Many people think that you have to have a Twitter or Facebook tool to post your affiliate link, but it’s not necessary or even desirable.
You want your links to look like anyone else linking to a website. The only way this works is to do it “as if” you’re merely linking to a cool site you’ve found. Just look at the script in your affiliate link, select the URL part, paste it, and there you go.
This is, of course, assuming that you’re not affiliating with a vendor that is already aware of the Read More→
There are so many common mistakes people make when they’re new to affiliate marketing. It all begins with making the wrong assumptions about what it takes to make it in the business. Here are a few of the most common problems and their solutions.
Spending too Much Time Selling Products
While selling products is “technically” what you’re doing, selling the product without any authority on your part isn’t going to get you anywhere. Few products are so awesome that they sell themselves. Sell yourself, connect with your audience, and THEN pitch the product.
This is the formula of good sales copy. The general idea is that you establish yourself as someone who has become a success in your niche: You had all the same problems that the visitor has encountered, and this product is the answer to the problem. You spend a decent amount of effort establishing yourself, a lot of effort connecting with the viewer, and virtually mention “in passing” that the product fixes those problems.
In selling yourself, this should go beyond the sales copy. You have to spend time Read More→
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