How To Get Your Affiliate Sales Rolling!

What can Michael Jordan, Ed McMahon and hundreds of other highprofile product endorsers teach you about cashing in withAffiliate sales? Tons! In effect, they're Super Affiliates.

After all, what is the role of an Affiliate? It's to gain salesby endorsing a product.

Would Nike have sold as many sneakers without Mike? Or, wouldThe Publishers Clearing House have sold all those magazineswithout Ed? Not a chance.

Why are companies willing to pay their endorsers such big bucks?Simple. They know all too well that trust and credibility sells.

Let's put it this way: What if Nike had hired me, Joshua Rose,to endorse their products? Pretty ridiculous, huh? Why in the world would someone buy some Nike's if I told them to? Theywouldn't.

It's exactly the same in the online world. Why should someonebuy a product you're endorsing as an Affiliate? Who are you?Why should I listen to you? I don't know you. Your endorsementis next to meaningless, sorry. If you want my business, you must first convince me that you'reworth listening to in the first place. But gain my respect andtrust, and the opportunities are endless.

The key to Affiliate success is to at first focus your efforts away from your products and *towards* marketing vehicles thatgive you the opportunity to win trust. In other words, the firstessential step to Affiliate success is to SELL YOURSELF.

For example:

• Write a 3-10 part Free Report brimming with insightful anduseful information and I'll start paying attention to you.
• Publish a newsletter with more of the same. And let me geta sense of who you are as a person. I like what I see. Now I'llthink more seriously about your endorsements.
• Write a Free E-book that's going to help me. It can be inyour own words or a compilation of the work of others. Help meand you'll gain my respect ... and my ear.
• Submit articles to ezines. The more I see your name, the morecredibility I'll associate with you. I'll sign-up for yournewsletter to learn what else you have to say.
• Show me that you've used the products you're suggesting. How,exactly did you benefit? What were the results? Is there anydownside at all? (You see? Now you've got me paying attentionand asking for more information).

Get the idea? Affiliate sales are all about buildingrelationships, not promoting products. You can promote untilyou're green in the face, but if you haven't developed a personalrelationship with your prospects, and earned their respect andtrust, it's unlikely you'll ever get more than a handful ofsales.

And remember this, Affiliate success does not come overnight.

Like anything worthwhile, it takes effort and commitment. The good news is that once you establish who you are and winthe respect of your leads, it does indeed become easier.

After successfully crossing the trust and credibility threshold,it's not difficult to transfer this influence to additionaltop-notch products and opportunities.