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Automate Your Way To Affiliate Marketing Riches

If you want to generate a sustained internet based income with affiliate marketing, you'll need to automate both the front end and the back end processes.
Here are a few tried and true tips to ensure that you'll be easily making affiliate commissions while you sleep...
1. Research and determine the most desireable affiliate products and related affiliate programs which best fit your targetted market and that will allow you to earn the most amount of money for the least amount of work in the shortest amount of time.
You want to ensure that the "affiliate vendor" (if they offer their own program) or the affiliate network (who offers a variety of affiliate vendor products/services) has a reputation for paying affiliates within committed timeframes with a simple method for affiliates to sign up (get their affiliate ID/link), track their progress (clicks, sales, etc), and get paid (ie: direct deposit into a paypal account versus receiving a check).
Select products or services that offer high commissions and that have a top notch sales page that gets high conversion rates (turns lookers into buyers).
Always review the sales page to determine if it entices youto buy the product. If not, it probably won't entice others either. Keep in mind that digital products or services offer a much higher commission percentage than a physical product simply because they cost less for the product owner to develop, advertise, inventory, and deliver. If you do decide on a physical product, try combining it with a related digital product to increase your overall commissions. An example would be selling a gardening device with an associated "how to grow the fattest, juiciest apples" downloadable report.
And don't forget that an affiliate product or service with a monthly subscription fee (ie: a gardening club membership site)
provides an ongoing steam of income for work you did once. For maximum income possibilities, you should have a mix of "one time cost" and "monthly recurring cost" products that relate to your desired market.
You should also plan to promote additional products to those that have bought from you, be sure that the affiliate network you decided on has a variety of "complimentary" products you can introduce. Since people usually purchase more than one product on a topic they are excited about, this will lock in a continuing stream of money from your initial marketing workd. Although you can transparently sell products to your market from a variety of affiliate programs at the same time, it will be less stressful on you and your ability to stay on top of your affiliate activities if you have as few affiliate vendors and/or affiliate networks to manage as possible.

2. Focus on ONE product or service at a time to avoid "activity overload".
You must know if your marketing efforts for a specific product or service are paying off or if you are just wasting your efforts. You need to observe and tweak until you have a continous stream of money from your selected product or service. If it doesn't happen, drop it and move on to another one.
Get all marketing and upsell tasks (ie: squeeze page, pre-sell page, free reports, autoresponder series, etc.) identified and ready to function on autopilot before moving on to promoting a 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc.
Automation of each affiliate product or service's procedures allows you to turn your efforts to developing additional streams of income without disrupting your previous affiliate income stream.

3. In the know affiliates ALWAYS capture prospects name/emails for maximuming income potential
Since the affiliate vendor or affiliate network doesn't provide you with a prospect or buyer's name and/or email address, if you route your prospects directly to the affiliate vendor's webpage, you have lost them forever (even if they buy, you won't know who bought, only that you completed a sale). Therefore, you won't be able to leverage your initial marketing efforts by presenting other products or services to those who either expressed an interest or actually bought.
Therefore, prior to sending your visitor to the affiliate vendor's webpage, you first want to send them to a page that you have generated to capture the prospects name and email address. This webpage is known as a "squeeze page" or "opt-in" page. On that webpage you'll need to offer something for FREE (ie: a report, mini-ebook, software tool, newsletter subscription, etc.). Something with VALUE that will entice them to give up their information.
Since it is a common fact that most people won't buy on their first exposure to a person or product or service, you also have to follow up with the people that have downloaded your FREE item (your list). Since studies have proven that it often takes 7 exposures before a prospect is comfortable enough to purchase, you need to have a process set up to ensure that you follow up in a timely manner.
Setting up an autoresponder with a series of messages that are automatically sent at set intervals, is the best way to make it happen. This email series should be set up so that it helps you to establish a relationship as well as position you as a trusted advisor in your targeted marketplace. This will make it easier for your visitors to buy from you.
By continuing to provide FREE, valuable information to your readers along with additional promotions built into your email series, it will ensure that your readers will continue to stay "subscribed". That they will continue to open your messages and eventually buy one or more of your affiliate promotions.
4. Get the most exposure to your affiliate promotion
There are numerous ways to get exposure for your affiliate offer (both free and paid). In other words, traffic to your promotional offer. The maximum marketing effort is made upfront. After that, if done right, a "viral" effect takes place and your marketing efforts will take on a life of their own.
Free ways:
Article writing - Write related articles and send to article directories. Articles are then picked up by numerous website webmasters, ezine owners, and others looking for internet content. Your article's "resource box" should have a direct link to your promotional "squeeze or "opt-in" page (which can't be removed by the publisher). So, every time someone publishes your article, you'll get free traffic.
Forum participation - look for related forums and join in the discussions. Ask questions, offer answers from your experience/educaton (not a sales pitch). Just configure your "signature" to route to your promotional "squeeze page" and Let your "signature" do your selling for you. Just be sure that the forum offers this type of signature (most do).
Blogging - seek out related blogs and write comments, again with a link to your promotional "squeeze page" or "opt-in" page.
Joint Ventures - locate others in your target marketplace that have "lists" that you can market to and vice versa. If they present your promotional link to their list, you'll introduce their product in your autoresponder messages to your list.
Paid ways:
Google Adwords PPC (or other PPC Services) - Write & publish PPC (pay per click) ads. Each time someone clicks your ad, you are charged a certain fee. Keep in mind that you are charged this fee when they "click" your link, not if they "buy" the product. So, if you aren't managing your PPC budget closely, you may spend way more money on "clicks" than you'll ever make on affiliate commissions. Don't forget to read and understand the T&Cs of any PPC service before you attempt to use this advertising resource.
If you are too busy or simply don't want to do these tasks yourself, you can always/could easily outsource them to be performed by others. But, make no mistake, they do need to be done. As usual, its a trade off of your time or your money.

5. Make more cash than other affiliates promoting the same product or service
Once you have established a solid track record as an affiliate who can bring in the sales, you can request a higher than standard commission from the merchant. Just contact the affiliate product owner and negotiate a larger percentage of the pie.
Since the merchant doesn't pay you anything unless you've made a sale, they have a zero risk investment in you. If you have been a producer with them or can demonstrate your success with other affiliate efforts, many will accommodate you. Since less than 5% of their affiliates ever produce revenue for them, they won't want to lose one that does. Just be reasonable in your request.
Use these tips and you'll soon see a BIG increase in your affiliate earnings in no time at all.

Article Source: http://articlenexus.com

Cleo Craig is the founder of Internet Marketing Scout, a research group dedicated to helping newbies find proven, low cost, and easy to implement stratagies for generating an online income. See her latest recommendation at www.internetmarketingscout.com

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