Affiliate Marketing Secrets
One of the easiest and fastest way to generate income online is through affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing means that all you do is sendtraffic to someone else’s website, they make the sale and deliver the product, and you get paid 50% or more
These are a some of the benefits
- You’re able to start almost instantly without having to make a product, set up a website and sales page, design the website, develop marketing materials, or get a merchant account and CRM.
- There’s no time investment from you because they handle the billing, support, maintenance, etc.
- Your efforts are risk-free, because the product owner has already done all the research , development and testing. So if you send visitors you will get paid.
Obviously affiliate marketing makes sense – these benefits make it a clear winner!
OK, but it’s not all rosy…
After all your hard work of generating traffic to the sales page, you will never see any of those visitors again. Unfortunately, the majority of those visitors (at least 90%) will not buy on their first visit. The 10% or less that make a purchase now belong to the product owner. She can sell them additional products, but you can never sell to them again.
How can you avoid this pitfall?
What you need to do is capture the contact info of your visitors before sending them to the product website. This way you can follow up with them and keep sending them back to the sales page to increase your chances of making the sale. And if you’re really on top of your game, you’ll then send to a content mini-site in between.
Here are the benefits of doing affiliate marketing like this:
- Owning a list of potential buyers gives you the ability to market additional products at the push of a button.
- You’re generating good will by giving them high-quality content. This way, they are much more likely to make a purchase when you send them to the sales page.
In order to set a system like this up, you will need the following
- A lead capture page, preferably with video
- At least a few pages of great content
- At least a 5-Part Email Followup Series
Instead of sending visitors directly to the product sales page, you’ll send them to your lead capture page first. It captures the name and email of your visitors and puts them into your autoresponder, which then begins sending out the 5-part email series. Then it redirects them to your content pages after they subscribe to your email series.
The content pages provide valuable information for your visitors and make them more receptive to the sales message that you’ll link to from inside the content. While they’re reading the content you’ve provided, your email system is already following up with them to send them back to the product website again and again.
All of this together increases your chances of making the sale by up to 500% so it’s well worth the effort of setting it up. After setting it up, you simply send visitors to your squeeze page instead of the sales page. And the rest runs on auto-pilot.
If you don’t have the time or expertise to set it all up yourself, you can use something like a Services like this to design the entire system (the video, the video squeeze page, the email series, the content pages, etc). The benefit is that it’s much less expensive then you could do it yourself, and it’s instantly set up. One negative is that there will be other people using this same affiliate marketing system However, the odds of you and them both finding the same visitor are so small, that it doesn’t really matter.
Another way to accomplish this is to hire “outsourcers” through a website like Elance to build and put your system together for you. The important thing is that you start using affiliate tools like the ones described here right now! Otherwise, you’re wasting your time and money.
