Ideas To Boost Your Affiliate Commissions
Affiliate marketing is one of the simplest ways to start making money online. You don’t need your own website when starting out and you don’t have to deal with anything related to the product, including refunds. Simply join an affiliate program, promote the product, and earn your commissions
Let’s say for the sake of this post that you are already involved in an affiliate program. What would be the next thing you would want to do? Earn bigger commissions, right? So… how do you do that?
Here are some powerful tips on boosting your affiliate commissions…
Know the best program and products to promote. Obviously, you would want to promote a program that will enable you to achieve the greatest profits in the shortest possible time. In my last post, I discussed choosing the right affiliate program as there are several factors to consider. Choose the ones that have a generous commission structure, have products that fit in with your target audience and that has a solid track record of paying their affiliate easily and on time. If you cannot seem to increase your investments, dump that program and keep looking for better ones. You can be picky.
Write free reports or short ebooks to distribute from your site or blog. You will be competing with other affiliates that are promoting the same program so if you write a short report related to the product you are promoting, you will stand out from other affiliates. In your report, provide valuable information for free and if possible, add some recommendations about the products. You will establish credibility and your potential customers will see that.
Build your list! Get an autoresponder service and collect the email addresses of those who download your free ebooks. They have opted in to receive more emails from you and it is a known fact that people do not make a purchase the first time. You may have to send out your message more than just one time to make a sale – the follow up.
Also, set up a squeeze page. Get the contact information of a prospect before sending them to the vendor’s website. Redirect them to the sales page after they give you their email address in exchange for your free report/ebook. Keep in mind, you are basically providing free advertisement for the product owners because you get paid only when you make a sale. If you send prospects directly to the vendor site, chances are, you will lose them.
Publish an online newsletter or ezine. It is always best to recommend a product to someone you know (your list) than to sell to a stranger. This is the purpose behind publishing your own newsletter. It also allows you to develop a relationship based on trust with your subscribers since you will be providing them with quality information.
This strategy is a delicate balance between providing useful information with a sales pitch. If you continue to write informative articles, you will be able to build a sense of reciprocity in your readers that may lead them to support you by buying your products.
Write strong pay per click ads. PPC marketing is one of the most effective means of advertising online. As an affiliate, you can make a small income just by managing PPC campaigns, i.e. Google AdWords. Always monitor and test to see which ads are more effective and which ones to get rid. You can get some really great training at PPCClassroom.com.
Give these strategies a try…and watch the difference they will make to your commissions.
Filed under affiliate marketing by on Oct 20th, 2009. 4 Comments. 
So Many Affiliate Programs! Which One Do I Choose?
I love affiliate marketing! It’s one of the best ways to get started in online marketing because you don’t need to create your own product. You can join an affiliate program, promote, and earn commissions which can certainly be a steady source of income.
The biggest question is “Which affiliate program should I choose?” There are so many different affiliate programs out there, that this can sometimes be a daunting task. I know in my case, I receive tons of emails everyday asking me to join this affiliate program, that affiliate program and promote their product. It certainly depends on what niche you are in, what you are passionate about, but once you’ve determined that, you should do your research before joining any affiliate program.
Ask questions first before you join an affiliate program. Get some answers because they will be the deciding point of what you will be achieving later on. Below are some ideas of what types of questions you should be asking.
Will it cost you anything to join? Most affiliate programs being offered today are absolutely free of charge. So why settle for those that charge you some dollars before joining.
When do they issue the commission checks? Every program is different. Some issue their checks once a month, every quarter, etc. Select the one that is suited to your payment time choice. Many affiliate programs are setting a minimum earned commission amount that an affiliate must meet or exceed in order for their checks to be issued. Many affiliate programs are also done through Clickbank.com and they pay out every two weeks like clockwork.
What is the hit per sale ratio? This is the average number of hits to a banner or text link it takes to generate a sale based on all affiliate statistics. This factor is extremely important because this will tell you how much traffic you must generate before you can earn a commission from the sale.
How are referrals from an affiliate’s site tracked and for how long do they remain in the system? You need to be confident on the program enough to track those people you refer from your site. This is the only way that you can credit for a sale. The period of time that those people stay in the system is also important. This is because some visitors do not buy initially but may want to return later to make the purchase. You want to know if you will still get credit for the sale if it is done some months from a certain day.
What are the kinds of affiliate stats available? Your choice of affiliate program should be capable of offering detailed stats. They should be available online anytime you decide to check them out. Constantly checking your individual stats is important to know how many impressions, hits and sales are already generated from your site.
Does the affiliate program also pay for the hits and impressions or leads besides the commissions on sales? This will, of course, add to the earnings you get from the sales commission.
Who is the online retailer, company, or individual? Find out whom you are doing business with to know if it is really a solid opportunity. Know the products they are selling and the average amount they are achieving. The more you know about the retailer or individual offering you the affiliate program, the easier it will be for you to know if that program is really for you and your site.
Is the affiliate a one tier or two tier program? A single tier program pays you only for the business you yourself have generated. A two tier program pays you for the business, plus it also pays you a commission on the on the sales generated by any affiliate you sponsor in your program. Some two-tier programs are even paying small fees on each new affiliate you sponsor. More like a recruitment fee.
Lastly, what is the amount of commission paid? Take a look at all figures and you’ll understand why the average sales amount and hit to sale ratio is important.
These are just some of the questions that needed answering first before you enter into an affiliate program. You should be familiar with the many important aspects that your chosen program should have before incorporating them into your website and internet marketing portfolio.
Filed under affiliate marketing by on Oct 8th, 2009. 7 Comments.
3 Tips For A Successful Landing Page
I’m not going to lie to you. Affiliate marketing is hard if you don’t know what you’re doing. Sure it’s easy to sign up with all the affiliate merchants, collect your affiliate link and banners for as many products as possible with the intention of promoting all the products but it’s just not going to happen unless you have a proven strategy.
Here are 3 tips to help you create powerful landing pages that will not only add more buyers to your subscriber list but also rank you high in the search engine results page.
Tip 1 – Include a sign-up form to build a buyer’s list.
This is important! You want to collect the names and Emails of every single person that lands on your page. If they’ve happily given you their information you are allowed to follow–up with them and perhaps make more sales. Not only that but you’ll be able to build a database of trusted buyers who will respond highly to you in the future if you’ve got another interesting product to promote either as an affiliate or a product of your own!
Tip 2 – Include a bonus package for buying through you!
People actually ‘Google’ product names for reviews and bonuses. They want to see what exactly a product is about without all the hype and want to see what bonuses are available for that product. When they’ve made a decision to buy they want to see who’s offering the best bonus package. Make a mental note of this because this is your chance to shine and out-do your competition!
Tip 3 – Optimize your landing page for specific keywords!
Don’t waste your time trying to target the highly competitive keywords that all the mainstream websites are after. You’re much better off picking a handful of high-targeted keywords based around the product’s name, a review of the product’s name, problems with the product’s name, the product’s name with ‘bonus’, and so on. Add these keywords and phrases to your title tags, meta description tags, h1 tags, h2 tags and on the first and last paragraph of your page. Not only will you find it easier to rank highly in the search engine results page but you’ll be attracting the ‘buying’ traffic that you’re after.
Creating quality landing pages can really be time consuming I know…However, I have come across a great new site, Killer Preseller, where you can pick up a new free template every month for free. This is an excellent resource to get you started on creating top notch landing pages. You can check it out here – Killer Preseller.
landing pages, presell, affiliate marketing
Filed under affiliate marketing by on Oct 2nd, 2009. Comment.
PLR Wholesaler Progam Review
As most of us know, PLR content gives online marketers the best of both worlds in creating their own product(s). Content that they don’t have to write but can be turned into their own product, or allows them to quickly fill up their websites and blogs with great content, put together issues of their newsletter, create new products and giveaways, etc. One of the many questions is “where do I get quality plr? not some rehashed, outdated stuff”.
One excellent resource is PLR Wholesaler and the really wonderful thing about this site is that membership is free. You can sign up as a VIP Member, which won’t cost you a cent, and you can download a huge amount of PLR material for free! I was overwhelmed and excited at first with the amount of content inside the members area, but quickly learned just to take it step by step, project by project. The content will be there and new content is being added on a regular basis.
You can take the material inside the member’s area and sell that material yourself as part of your own internet marketing business, and of course, you can change any part of the product to suit your target audience.
Don’t be put off by the free part either, in terms of the quality of the material, these plr products are definitely high quality. The quality of this material is just as good, if not better than actually paying someone to write the materials for you.
In addition to the free PLR material you can download as VIP Member, you can also access heaps of great information about how to improve your internet marketing business.
You also have the option of paying a small one-time fee to become a Full Member of the site, and that will entitle you to even more fantastic PLR products to download and sell,but the free membership is fantastic as well. You can also become an affiliate of PLR Wholesaler and receive a great commission whenever somebody you refer signs up as a Full Member.
Regardless of whether you’re a paying member or not, you will have access to a regular newsletter that gets sent out, and if the testimonials are anything to go by, it’s definitely one newsletter that’s worth your while.
So, do yourself a favor and check PLR Wholesaler out. It’s definitely worth taking a few minutes of your time regardless of your level of experience in internet marketing.
Keep on selling…
Filed under private label rights by on Sep 22nd, 2009. Comment.
Tweet Dynamite Review – Wow!
Dave Nicholson has just released a totally awesome product called ‘Tweet Dynamite’. Basically, it’s a high quality video series that shows you everything you need to do, from scratch to totally ‘Exploding’ your Twitter followers. Dave even shows you how you can start making serious cash from your Twitter account.
I’ve had the chance to check this out and personally, the best thing about it is the fact that he shows you how to do all of this on complete autopilot, apart from a tiny bit of ‘general maintenance’ there is nothing you need to do once this is set up!
Also, there are NO additional costs involved for anything at all and that’s always nice to know! So, really, in my opinion, all you need is Tweet Dynamite and you are ready to ‘EXPLODE’ your business, quite literally! This is one of the best Twitter video series out there, bar none!
Dave has a special ‘launch price’ going on at the moment with a MASSIVE DISCOUNT, so I highly recommend you go take a look! And if you’re like me, you’ll definitely think this is awesome and grab it while it is still discounted.
You can get there from Here!
Here are just some of the things you will learn in Tweet Dynamite:
# You will learn how to generate MASSIVE amounts of followers that will be targeted to your chosen niche, using fully legitimate methods.
# You will learn how to start generating SERIOUS amounts of cash from your twitter account, FOREVER, and on full AUTOPILOT!
# You will learn how to give Twitter users excellent, high quality content, that is fresh and up to the minute!
# You will learn how to FULLY AUTOMATE your content, so not only will you give users excellent, high quality content, but you won’t have to lift a finger once it is set up!
# You will learn how to TARGET your content on YOUR chosen niche, whatever it may be. This will give you targeted followers who are interested in what YOU have to offer!
# You will learn all the ‘basics’ that you need to know about Twitter, so even if you do not have a Twitter account yet, you will have no problem at all with Tweet Dynamite!
# You will learn how to maintain your Twitter account, so you will not have to worry about any problems that may arise in the future.
# You will learn how to customize your Twitter account with custom backgrounds etc. So you will look totally unique and appealing to anybody who sees you.
# You will learn how to do all of this and much, much more, with No Additional Costs! There are absolutely NO additional costs involved for anything at all, once you have Tweet Dynamite!
After you’ve grabbed your copy, get back to me here and let me know how you are enjoying this video series… 
Filed under Uncategorized by on Sep 10th, 2009. 3 Comments.
Are You Missing Out On This Essential Element?
What do you think is the most important part of any business, project or personal venture?
Let me give you a clue, it’s something that many people often overlook, however, it is something that is absolutely essential to you if you want to have any chance of succeeding online.
Give up?
It is … Driving Traffic to your Website, Product or Project! Don’t you agree?
Without traffic you are all alone in the world!
Picture your traffic situation as a shopping mall that is deserted. If there are no people in the mall then there will be nobody to buy anything from the shops, if the shops do not make any sales than they will have to close down.
Do you want your website or business to close down? I didn’t think so!
Let’s face it … There’s not much point having a superb website, product or shop if nobody actually knows that it exists, is there!
Many people often think that traffic will automatically start flowing to their website as soon as they launch it.
Well, they are dead wrong!
Have you ever wondered how all the big names in Internet Marketing get loads and loads of visitors to their websites and products? Well, I’ll tell you this, the visitors do not ‘magically’ appear at their websites, they have to be ‘guided’ there.
What you need to do is to give visitors directions, you need to show them how to find you and drive them to your website, product or auction using ‘Targeted Traffic Methods’.
The only way that traffic will come to your website or product is if you give it a helping hand. Let me extend the helping hand that you need: Total Web Traffic…
I know a lot of people are not savvy with the whole web traffic scene, that’s why Total Web Traffic different. It is targeted on beginners and offers a whole range of great methods, advice, tips, tactics and information. Even if you have never used any traffic methods before in your life, you will find this traffic course really easy to follow.
Total Web Traffic is a web traffic course that is targeted on beginners, so if you have never used traffic generation before, now is the time to start.
Even if you have an established and well known website you really should be using the types of methods shown in Total Web Traffic. Let’s face it, why settle for a few hundred if you can have a few thousand, and why settle for a few thousand when you can have a few hundred thousand visitors.
This really is a great program that absolutely anyone can use, go take a look for yourself and also let me let you in on a little surprise…I’ve managed to secure a nice 50% discount off the normal price, but this is strictly for a limited time only, so don’t miss out. You can check it all out right here – Total Web Traffic!
You won’t regret it!
Filed under affiliate marketing by on Sep 8th, 2009. Comment.
This Video on Traffic is INSANE…
Okay, so this past Thursday, my friend Chuck Mullaney and I put together one killer webinar – all on TRAFFIC! It was a tremendous chance to get step by step methods for generating targeted traffic (which is everything) to your offers. You guys should know by now, I love any secrets I can get my hands on when it comes to traffic, and I can tell you this webinar was nothing short of awesome.
Chuck revealed why MOST people out there lose money with Pay Per Click advertising, why most advertisements suck and how you can turn that around in five minutes flat. Plus so much more.
So here’s the deal, if you missed the webinar, this is your Last Chance to view it for free.
In fact, not only is this video insane, but you’d be insane to not click this link and watch that video. I have already had a ton of emails from folks who watched the video and they are totally psyched about this thing.
After reading those emails, I contacted Chuck and told him that there’s no way he can just close this thing right now. I asked him to keep this webinar alive, at least for a little while so those that missed it can view it. I told him that my peeps were going nuts for this information and not to pull it down. Guess what? He agreed!!
So, lucky for you, you have another opportunity to view this awesome webinar on traffic. I’m telling you, it was great.
So, stop everything you are doing right now. Yes, seriously… Put the kids to bed, close the door, shut down all those tabs you have open in your browser and hold on to your mouse, because this is a Must See Video! Hey, there’s even been some “gurus” (you know the ones – with the fancy lifestyles) saying that they jumped on this…
Go ahead…sprint over to this video. Like a saying from one of my favorite movies – Run Forrest, run!
=> Right here!
Filed under affiliate marketing by on Sep 5th, 2009. Comment.
Creating Audio and Video Products
Quite often in internet marketing when people think about product creation they automatically think ‘ebook’ or ‘report,’ but that can be a big mistake – limiting your products to this one thing. I realize that when just starting out in product creation, an ebook or report is probably the easiest way to go. After that though, and especially with how important audio and video have become in online marketing, you should consider creating your own audio or video products. In a previous post, I talked about creating the interview product, which of course can fall into the audio product category as well.
Let’s look at some reasons why you should be creating audio, video, and even physical products.
** Audio Recording:
Some people hate reading ebooks and would much prefer to buy an audio product where they can instead listen to the information being offered. So if you only offer ebooks then you’re limiting your market. You also need to consider the fact that audio products usually have a much greater perceived value which can help to increase your sales.
Many people are discouraged from creating an audio product however because maybe they feel embarrassed at their own voice being recorded, and that’s perfectly understandable, however the more you do it the easier it becomes. A great way to overcome this is to have someone else asking you questions on the recording. This makes it easier because you don’t feel like you’re the one talking all the time! Of course you could interview someone else and let them do all the talking – and this is a great way of creating a quality product.
** Video Product:
This is another product creation option to consider, and probably has an even higher perceived value than audio. Video products are becoming more and more popular online, and are hot! This will likely only increase further still in the future.
One idea would be to create a Camtasia presentation, or if you feel comfortable with it you could also talk to the camera.
** Creating a Physical Product:
Just because you’re an internet marketer it doesn’t mean that you can’t create and sell physical products. Why not put your audio or video product onto a DVD? You could also do this with an eBook on CD or DVD. That’s what I do – put ebooks on cds and sell them as physical products. I manage to do the work myself but there are companies out there that will do this for you, and they will even handle the distribution to your customers. This is a wonderful way of adding value to your product, and people really like to receive something in the post that they can actually hold.
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Filed under affiliate marketing by on Sep 4th, 2009. Comment.
Profit From PLR By John Thornhill Last Chance!
If you’ve read my last post, it was a review of John Thornhill’s new Profit from PLR. I’m posting again today to give you heads up that the 60% discount is about to end and the special launch price of only $37 is valid until 11:59pm August 25th 2009. Then the price jumps up to $97. This is an extraordinary deal and if you have ever purchased one of John’s products in the past, you already know the top notch quality that he provides.
Private Label Right products in a nut shell are yours to own, edit, sell, resell, grant resale rights to and more. Basically you are the author of the product without writing or creating a thing.
It certainly doesn’t take a genius to realize the value of these products. You can use PLR as your own and sign your name as the creator. Making this simple, you have a business in a box within minutes writing a single word.
When you have your own PLR products you can:
** Sell them on their own mini site – Use the PLR material to create your own mini website and sell your products from there.
** Add them to bigger packages – Take 3 or 4 related PLR products and add them to a larger package. This is turn will allow you to sell your package for a much higher price and create for yourself a great source of income for very little effort.
The choices are endless when you have the content at your disposal.
The only thing that eludes us sometimes is exactly how to box it all up and market it in the correct manner, this is where John comes in.
His new product, Profit From PLR, shows you exactly what to do with the PLR content you have. In the form of video tutorials, John will walk you through a series of phases which will learn you the techniques needed to make your PLR a success.
John actually states on his sales page (Profit from PLR) that “it’s like I am actually sitting next to you teaching you what to do”. I’ve watched quite a few of John’s videos and this is so true. The videos in this series are so good and informative. Not only will John show you the way to create your PLR and package it up for resale, he will also show you how to find your niche and market your products too.
This is a “hand holding” course from start to finish and to top it all off you have complete full support from his team too.
The small price you pay is no brainer for the content you get. If you are going to buy one item this month buy Profit From PLR you will double, triple, quadruple your return in weeks.
All of John’s training products have been a major success and this one is no exception.
The truth is nothing is held back – there are no hidden secrets with John. This is his product and he will lay it all out for you in a simple and easy to follow blueprint which you can go back to time ad time again.
The choice is yours and it’s up to you to follow your dream and make it a reality.
If PLR is your thing go for it. If it’s not then try something new and still go for it.
Opportunities pass us by all of the time guys ~ Hang on to this one with both hands! And take the time out today, to get Profit from PLR at a 60% discounted rate!
As always…To Your Success!
Filed under private label rights by on Aug 24th, 2009. 1 Comment.
