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The Truth About
Earning $1,000 or More Weekly From Affiliate Programs
By Terry Dean
Everyone is talking
about them. Almost everyone is a member of at least a few of them.
Affiliate programs are hot. You can usually sign up for free and be
selling products within 5 minutes. The web sites, sales letters, and order
shipping are all done for you. All you have to do is promote. But...Is anyone making
money from these programs except for the affiliate program owner? It is a surprising
statistic when you find out that only around 10% to 20% of affiliate
members do enough to ever get a check. Then, only a small percentage of
those go on to earn really good incomes from affiliate programs. It isn't the affiliate
program either. Although some affiliate programs have pitifully small
payouts (5% to 10%) and limit their members that way, the real problem
comes with the fact that affiliates have no idea how to sell from their
affiliate sites. The affiliate owners usually don't have any idea how to
help them either. I own several
affiliate programs myself, so I have spent a considerable amount of time
studying my top affiliates and the top affiliates in programs all over the
Internet. The principles below
are true of almost everyone of the top affiliates in every program I have
looked at. If you want to succeed and earn at least $5,000 or more per
month from affiliate programs, then you will have to be following the five
steps below. If you don't, it just isn't going to happen...and you have no
one to blame but yourself. 1. Create Your Own
Web Site. Although almost every
program gives you a web site to use to promote with, you really shouldn't
be promoting with that site. The top affiliates always have their own web
sites which they promote from. Then, they link to the affiliate program
sites. I never drive traffic
directly to any of the affiliate programs. I drive it to my site, get
their name on my opt-in list, and then promote affiliate programs. If you
are serious about earning profits online, then you will do the same.
Having your own site
and linking to your affiliate program gives you some additional advantages
as well: * You can write up a
short two to four paragraph endorsement and testimonial for the site
yourself. * You can generate
subscribers to your opt-in list first (this is the key to Internet
profits). * If the affiliate
program ever stops or changes your link, you still have all the traffic
you worked for at YOUR site (this happens quite often). If you don't currently
have a web site, but want to earn through affiliate programs, you need to
get one today. 2. Generate Traffic You can't earn a
single penny in any affiliate program without generating traffic to your
site. No traffic equals no income. Combine the right ingredients of an
opt-in list, good site design, and the right sales offer...and your income
will be directly proportional to the targeted traffic you generate. An advantage that I
didn't mention above in why you should own your own domain is getting
listed with the search engines. The pages given to you by your affiliate
program owner aren't going to receive virtually any traffic from the
search engines. They won't have top rankings because there are at least
1,000 other pages just like them (from the other affiliate members) and
many software programs create pages which can't even be indexed by the
search engines. Having your own domain
will give you the freedom to create web pages which achieve high rankings
on the search engines. Each of the major search engines such as AltaVista,
Infoseek, Hotbot, and the others have their own ranking algorithms which
change virtually monthly. You can stay on top of
them though by using a program such as Web Position which actually
monitors the search engines for you and helps you prepare doorway pages
which will achieve the top rankings you are seeking after...and the
traffic which comes from having those top rankings. You can read more
about Web Position and everything it can do for you at our site. You can
also even download a trial version for the three of the major search
engines which is good for 30 days to try it out free. Check it out and
download the trial at:
http://www.bizpromo.com/webposition/
Search engines are not
the only way to build traffic to your site. You can trade links with
sites, place free and paid classifieds, and even use banner advertising.
There are dozens of ways to generate traffic. If you want to make money
from your affiliate programs, you will be using them. 3. Start an Opt-In
List. I checked my affiliate
members' checks this month and noticed a very interesting trend. All top
10 affiliates have their own opt-in email lists and are pretty aggressive
marketers to those lists. They all mail to their opt-in list at least
weekly and the number one affiliate this month mails to his list every
single day. That is where my
income is coming from also. Over 90% of my income comes through using
opt-in email in one way or another...either through my newsletters or
through my autoresponders with follow-up. If you don't know how to use
email, then your always going to be living on barely get by street in the
online market. The web sites which I
send the most traffic to have one purpose to them...and one purpose
only...to sign them up on my newsletter lists. All of the content that I
have on my site is for that one purpose.
If you can't get a
visitor to sign up for a free newsletter, then you aren't going to be able
to get them to fill out your order forms and order. Get them on the list,
and then start emailing them as often as you can put out good content
(along with the ads). Although I prefer to
personalize my newsletter using software you have to buy (I get mine from
Postmaster Online). If you are just starting out and are on a budget, you
can start your list using a free Listbot from
http://www.listbot.com 4. Develop a Unique
Web Position. Here is a trick to
increase your sales from ANY affiliate program, but people rarely ever
mention it. Any successful web site finds a way to make their products and
or services unique from their competition.
When you are an
affiliate though, you have thousands of competitors selling the exact same
product at the exact same price. Every other affiliate in that company is
your competition! You will have to
become unique if you want to beat the other affiliates competing against
you. You may think it would be difficult to do, but it isn't. All you have to do is
add on some extra bonuses to those people who are purchasing from you. For
example, if you're an affiliate for a video course, then add in a special
free report on the same subject which is ONLY good for those who order
from you. Your free report can be emailed to those who order so it won't
cost you a penny of your commissions. If you own an opt-in
list like you should, you could give a free ad to anyone who orders an
affiliate product from you. For example, you could write that anyone who
orders the ________ (you would list the product here) before midnight
tonight will also get a free ad ($30 value) in your newsletter...or three
free ads. Buy submission software and submit their site to 1,000 search
engines if they order today.
Do something like this
and tell your opt-in email list subscribers and web site visitors about
it. You will be setting yourself apart from the competition and be giving
your purchasers an even better deal than buying from the affiliate owner!
Special limited time
offers work extremely effectively when combined with your own opt-in list. 5. Generate
Multiple Streams of Income. If you follow all four
of the principles above, then you are going to be able to earn money from
many different affiliates programs, and that is exactly what you should
do. You should join several non-competing programs which sell products to
the same targeted market. For example, if you
have chosen to sell to Internet marketers, you may join:
You can find several
programs which target any specific niche group.
You can be earning 3
to 10 streams of income from the same visitors at your web site and
subscribers to your newsletters. Having several streams of income helps
every visitor to your site be worth more money to you!
Terry Dean, a 5 year
veteran of Internet marketing, will Take You By The Hand and Show You
Exact Results of All the Internet Marketing Techniques he tests and Uses
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