Affiliate Marketing, the 3 essential resources you need

You have found a great affiliate product you want to sell, you have identified the niche to sell into. So, what do you need to start making money from affiliate marketing. What resources are so important you cannot do without them. 1. A WebsiteThe first thing you need is a website, there are ways you can sell some affiliate products without one but if you want to make a regular income you need a good website. The style of website you need will depend on the type of product or products you are selling. The two main types of website you can use to sell affiliate products, blogs and sales style website. Blogs are a ideal choice if you are going to sell multiple products into the same niche. You can crate regular posts and constantly add new content. You can fill your blog with articles, reviews, testimonials and your experience with the product in question. If you are going to sell multiple products through your blog make sure they all fit into the same niche. You cannot sell affiliate marketing products and dieting courses on the same blog.If you want to sell just one product you are better with a site dedicated to just that one product, we have all seen those long webpages or sales letters that contain big headlines, features, benefits and testimonials. The reason these sales pages exist is because they work, they convert visitors into customers. A good sales page must cover what you product does, how it can help the visitor, how easy it is to use and testimonials from existing customers. 2. Tracking SoftwareWhen you start getting visitors through into your site you need to know where they came from. Using tracking software you can determine how you visitors came to your website. This is really important as it will let you now which of your traffic sources and marketing methods are giving you the best responses. Using this data you can then spend more time working on getting visitors from the most successful places.Other features of tracking software allow you to track the geographical location of the visitor, which pages they viewed on your site, how long they spent there etc. You can even see some really cool stats such as the visitors operating system, web browser, screen resolution, speed of connection etc etc. This is info can be really useful if you are running location based campaigns. The more technical is used a lot by web designers so they can design websites that can be viewed by the maximum amount of visitors.3. Auto Responder A auto responder is a web based program that lets you create a mailing list. A list is one of the most important things you can do to start making big cash online. A list makes you money in two different ways. (1.) When a somebody buys your affiliate product they are added to your list, this means you can send them emails on new products that would be relevant to them. A customer who has already bought one of your products will trust you and understand that you have their interests at heart.   (2.) When a new visitor comes to your site you need to capture their name and email address so that you can email them with product recommendations, newsletters etc. However the days of just putting a box on your website asking for details have long gone. You have to give something away to entice the visitor to join your list, you can give away a free ebook, report, mp3 audio, video etc. Essentially you have to give them something for nothing. The more you can give them the more likely the chances of buying your products.I wish you the best of success.