Who are you Promoting?
Written on May 31, 2008 by William
I want to start off with a scenario today. Lets say there is a great new program that was just launched.
It has a great product, great conversions, and a killer commission plan.
You get an email about it and decide to check it out. The sales letter sucks you in and you make a purchase.
You are excited about the commissions and think it’s a great product. You want to promote the product right away.
If you have been building a list, you simply log into your auto responder account and send a broadcast email, or maybe work it into your followup series. You tell your subscribers all about this great new product. Your work is done, now you can go back to building your list.
If you haven’t built a list you might hurry and log into all your traffic exchange accounts, change your URL to your new affiliate link, and assign however my credits you have to it.
If you don’t have a lot of credits then you start surfing as much as you can and assign more credits. You keep surfing and assigning credits to your affiliate link.
If you were one of the first people to do this you might get a few sales but, then as your surfing you start seeing other affiliate links for the same site. Before you know it there are 100 other affiliates doing the same thing you are.
The site is still getting the same amount of people joining from traffic exchanges as before but you now only have a 1 in 100 chance that it is going to be from your link.
You are not getting very many (if any) signups anymore. It seems like the program is just not converting anymore, so you look for the next big thing to promote.
Do either of the above sound familiar to you?
I was the second person in that scenario for a long long time. It took a while before I realized the people that were actually doing good online were those that were sending the emails I joined things from.
It was then that instead of spending all my credits on the next big thing, I spent them on building my list.
I stopped changing my URL’s every time a new program came out and started only to change them when I was testing a new page that built my list.
If I get excited about a new product now, I will tell my list about it, but I continue building my business first.
If you find yourself in the second category above, take a moment to think about those around you that are more successful than you. See what they are doing and see how you can apply it for yourself. And start promoting you instead of someone else.
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William,
I could not help but laugh when I read your post. It really is funny when you think about it. But… it’s me I’m laughing at.
I remember when the “13 Deadly” first hit the exchanges. I said “This is hot!” and the race was on.
Fast forward… now I’ve applied what the book says, I’m building my list, and my autoresponder quietly makes sales of your book consistently and effortlessly.
No more short term races. It’s a marathon!
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