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Affiliate Marketing Secrets27 August 2011

Learn Top Affiliate Secrets

If you want to get started quickly and easily making money online, then affiliate marketing is for you. This is when you send visitors to someone else's product sales page, they handle the sales, support and billing, and you get paid 50% or more

These are a some of the benefits

  1. You're able to start almost instantly without having to create a product, set up a website and sales page, develop the website, create marketing materials, or do support, billing and maintenance.
  2. There's no time investment from you because you don't have to do the customer support or deal with billing or technical issues.
  3. Your efforts are risk-free, because the product owner has already made sure the product sells. So you already know that the visitors you send will result in commissions for you.

There's no denying that these benefits make affiliate marketing the best thing going!

There is one major drawback...

Once you send your visitors to the product sales page, they are gone forever. Most of them will not buy on their first visit, which means you're losing over 90% of the traffic right off the top. 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.

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What's the solution?

What you need to do is capture the contact info of your visitors before sending them to the product website. If you do that, you can contact them again and send them back the product website multiple times. This will increase the number of sales you make. 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:

  1. By building your own list, you're creating a renewable resource that you can tap again and again for instant profits.
  2. 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.

If you want to create an affiliate marketing system like this, you'll need the following:

  1. A Video Squeeze Page (with video)
  2. At least a few pages of great content
  3. A multi-part email series with at least 5 emails in it

You'll use the squeeze page as the place to send your visitors instead of using the product website. This page is where you collect your visitors' contact info and add them to your autoresponder, which in turn starts sending them the multi-part email series. After subscribing them to your email list, it redirects them to your content mini-site.

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. And at the same time, the email series begins following up with them to get them back to the sales page, in case they don't buy on the first visit.

There's no doubt that it's worth the effort to put a system like this in place, because doing so will increase your profits by 500% or more. And once it's set up, it runs automatically - you just send visitors to the squeeze page, instead of the product website.

If you don't have the time or expertise to set it all up yourself, you can use something like Affiliate Silver Bullet. These kinds of services will build the whole system for you and then just give you a video squeeze page (with video), pre-written emails, content pages, etc. The major benefit of using a service like this is that you can get started right away, and for a whole lot less than it would cost to do it all yourself. The downside is that other people will be using the same affiliate tools as you. But the internet is pretty big, so this isn't much of a concern.

The other route you can take is to hire people on Elance to create and implement the various aspects for you. Either way, it's an important step that you need to take if you're going to be serious about your affiliate marketing.

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