Tips for Marketing Affiliate Programs

O.K., You've decided to sell goods and services on the Internet.You've also decided to do so using the multitude of affiliate programs that exist on the World Wide Web. Great! There's plenty of money to be made selling other peoples products and the benefits are many.

Sign up is usually free. (I take exception with programs requiring me to spend my own money to sell their products.)

Upon Sign Up you'll recieve a package to market with. It usually comes with text ads, banner ads, solo ads, all linked to your unique sales page. You then use these tools to drive traffic to your new sales page.

Well that's easy enough, Right? Remarkably it does work. However, Converting your traffic to sales is very, very slim. You'll need thousands and thousands of visitors before you see your first sale.

So, After spending a lot of time, effort, and money getting all of those visitors to your affiliate sales page, you finally make a sale and earn a referral fee or commission. To ad insult to injury, you discover your commission doesn't reach the minimum payout and you can't get paid until it reaches that minimum. So back you go to get another sale and finally get paid. Probably next month.

GOOD GRIEF!

Don't despair! Affiliate Marketing is a great way to make money, and Lots of It, You just have to know some of the secrets. Here's one. "Don't send visitors directly to your affiliate sales page." There's a four step process that works Quite well.

Find those 4 Steps Below.

1. First, Providing something of value is a Must. The most valuable thing you can give away is information. Not just any old information that can be found by doing a 10 minute search, But Unique Information that will help your visitors solve a problem. An informative email course, special report, or ebook that you've written are all great ways to give away free information. What's that? You haven't written anything 'cause you can't write. Well, If that's a problem maybe I can help. Recently, there have been quite a few Private Label Content sites that provide subscribers with content they can use in every way imaginable. Such as email courses, special reports, or ebooks. Ring any bells? I use <a href="http://www.best-resale-deal-ever.com/IGR.html" target="blank">InfoGoRound</a> which is Top of the Line. They even provide an option which allows you to enjoy your subscription at no cost to you.

2. No email address No information. You must capture the name and email address of your prospective sale in order to be able to implement the next step.

3. The information that you are providing must be good and must help people, If not then you will not earn their trust. If you get information that saves you time, money, or effort; then you are probably going to read anything that they send you - as long as the information is still valuable. This is why it is so important that you get that name and email address before you start giving away your information. Now you can stay in touch via an occasional email to your prospect.

4. Finally, Providing value and building trust are the main ingredients of successful marketing. People that have been helped by you, have learned to trust you, are more likely to buy from you. This is especially true if you can convince them that what you are recommending will help them and that it is worth their money. The easiest way to do this is to recommend something that you have actually purchased and use yourself. Just tell them how it helped you and why you think that it was worth what you paid for it!