Affiliate Marketing Product Website Or To Your Own Website!
Author: isha mahajan
Positively! From my experience in the trenches the list really is the key. It’s the key to having the ability to selling to a pre-qualified group of people who have let you have their email address who are interested in something that you are selling. The beauty is that you can sell to them over and over again when you come up with a better product or service. You can educate them in what it is they need to know about said product or service. You can build a relationship with them that can last for years.
But before you get a list you need to choose what it is that you want to sell. I am involved with affiliate marketing and the beauty of it is that you do not need your own product to begin making money. There are thousands of practical products existing that you can make a dollar on. All you have to do is find the customers and send them to the sellers and collect the cash.
Whatever your interest is there are an unbelievable amount of products that you can make money selling. There are websites setup exclusively for this that have literally hundreds of products in a multitude of categories. You have no excuse for not being able to find a product that you have some interest in. If you are creative there is also a surplus of room for you to make and promote your own product.
This is called being an affiliate for the product that you choose to sell. Affiliate marketing is very easy to get started doing. You just need to sign up for their affiliate program, promote it, and watch the money start rolling in. This is great, for more details visit to www.money-secret-exposed.com you can’t believe how easy this is, but then what? Most likely you would just find another product and start all over again. If only it was that easy.
Picture this, when you pick or create this new product you already have a list of hundreds or thousands of people to instantly notify about it? You can fire off a snazzy email and immediate have money coming into your pocket. Because this is your list and they have already shown an interest in the type of product you are selling they are much more likely to buy it. Especially from you, who they now have a trust in, since you have built a relationship.
Then you can start advertising this product and add more people to your list to grow it even more. Then the next item you pick or create you will have all the more people to sell to. As you can see this method can have on a snowball effect. In a relatively short period of time your primary income will be from your online business. Wouldn’t it be sweet to work from home!
But the key question is how do you go about starting a list? Sounds easy enough but no one has mentioned the technique of acquiring this list.
One of the most often used ways is to create a squeeze page with some type of offer on it in exchange for their email address. This is a simple one page website that is designed to capture your visitors name and email address. If you offer them something of value they are more likely you give up their precious name and email address. There are plenty of things that you can get for free, for more details visit to www.success-affiliate-marketing.com like reports, charts, ebooks, that you offer to them.
Once you have captured their name and email address you add them to your auto responder and they are a part or your list. You now have a person who has shown an interest in your particular product or service and really wants more information. At this time you would redirect them to your affiliate product website or to your own website with a link. I have found it best to first send them to my own site to warm them up for the affiliates website by telling them all of the virtues of the product or service.
You now have a potential customer for your current and your future products. And they are more likely to buy than if you just sent them to an affiliate website because they showed they had enough interest to give up their precious name and email address.
When you email them regularly, every other day or so, make sure that you are giving them something of value. Some ideas are useful information, free reports, free software, or news articles you’ve come across. Try to show your personality in the email.
You can than show them your product and recommend a link to your product or affiliate page. Promote your product with a strong sales message. Tell why they need it and why it is better than other alternatives, stress any freebies that are available with purchase. Do not over use your list or they will shut you out. This is your most valuable resource and should not be jeopardized by overselling to them.
If you only promote the best products and always give good information you should do fine. You must not try to cheat or misrepresent anything to your list. Be a person that they can trust and get good information from and you will be able to make money from your list for years to come.
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November 30, -0001
12:00 am #comment-1
choosing a niche first would give you a headstart.
Choose a niche with low competition and good demand and
then choose the top selling product in that niche.
November 30, -0001
12:00 am #comment-2
One of the best ways to control your affiliate marketing is by building your own website and build a stream of visitors through valuable content. There are a few great web hosts that can assist you in setting up an affiliate business around your interests.
You can find many affiliate products that fit around your interests through affiliate marketing channels.
I would suggest that you take a look at web hosts that assist, provide tools and help you find affiliate product options.
I would also suggest that you compare several options to find the right match for you. You can take a look at the host that I use as one of your comparisons. http://affiliatemarketing.sitesell.com/UnstoppableDreams.html
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November 30, -0001
12:00 am #comment-3
Hi John,
You could certainly do either of those but normally I’d recommend linking to your own site as you have much more control over it.
Firstly, many people sending people straight to the vendor will include an ugly looking affiliate url in the bio box. This then shouts ‘affiliate link’ and so many people will not click it just for that reason. You could of course use a redirect script to get around that problem.
Secondly, sending a visitor straight to the vendor means you lose any chance of collecting the visitors information so you can promote to them again in the future whereas sending them to your own site or even directly to your own squeeze page gives you this chance.
November 30, -0001
12:00 am #comment-4
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November 30, -0001
12:00 am #comment-5
Like you, I used Clickbank for the first 5 months I did affiliate marketing and made about $200 a month. I just did not find many of the products that great to try to sell and most did not convert very well. So, I did some research and found this guy named Matt Bacak who brought to my attention that Clickbank is not the only affiliate network out there. This Bacak guy is actually a millionaire and offers great advice if you want to check him out – http://www.mattbacak.com.
I joined a couple of different affiliate marketing networks such as Commission Junction, Share A Sale, and Clix Galore. I can’t really say which one is going to make you the most money since I don’t know what kind of products that you want to promote, but here is what I do to get the most out of my affiliate marketing sites.
I check the networks to see what kind of products they have based on the keywords I have chosen for my site. Then, I compare them to see which product or service looks the best and which one has the history of doing the best. Then, I pick that product and go with it for at least 1-2 months and then re-evaluate it to see if one of the other products may be better.
Sometimes I find that Commission Junction is the best and other times it may be Share A Sale that makes me the most money. It all depends on what type of product that you want to try to sell and what topic it is on. Do your research and don’t put all your eggs in one basket.
Oh, and I have been doing affiliate marketing now for almost a year full-time after getting laid off and I have now reached the same amount of monthly income that I had at my engineering job, so you can make full-time AM your goal and success can be achieved.
May 13, 2008
12:10 pm #comment-6
Affiliate Product Marketing, choose product first or niche???
When setting up an affiliate marketing blog should I choose a product from the Affiliate list first or should i think of my niche then try to find the affiliate product??? thanks on any help you can give.
June 12, 2008
10:06 pm #comment-7
how to sell a product thru affiliate marketing?
if we want to sell other companies product, how to contact them? should we approach them in person?in what basis they pay commission? if a reader buy thru my website, how shall we take account ie how do we know that he buys from our site?
July 29, 2009
5:17 am #comment-8
Where Can I Find A Decent Internet Marketing Product?
I am looking for a product about Affiliate Marketing, where can I find that?
September 24, 2009
2:03 am #comment-9
Which affiliate marketing networks can I make the most money from?
I have been using Clickbank for affiliate marketing products for the past 4 months and I just made the payout last week since you have to have 5 different transactions to get your first payout. I only do affiliate marketing part-time on 3 blogs and 1 niche website, but I would love to eventually do it as a full-time job and make more than $75 a month to do so. For people who have experience with different affiliate marketing networks, which one do you see the most sales and income from?
May 1, 2010
12:26 am #comment-10
When promoting an affiliate product through article marketing…?
…should one put a link in the “article resource box” to one’s affiliate-marketing blog for that product, or directly to the vendor’s sales page?
September 27, 2010
9:15 pm #comment-11
This is a great article, very informative and ideal if you want an overview of the affiliate marketing process. Also, I have to say that many of the follow-up comments have proved useful too – thank you to you all!