How to Market Affiliate Products Online: 16 Steps

How to Market Affiliate Products Online: 16 Steps

Don't want to work for someone but wish to make an income at home selling their products for high commissions? Affiliate marketing is for you. There are many ways to do affiliate marketing. You have to be creative.



Steps


1. Learn about the product, use it, and see what its like. Rate it out of 10 and decide if other people would want it.

2. Set up a domain and Web Host so you can market their product.

3. Use unique web pages to promote each separate product you are marketing.Do not lump all of it together just to save some money on web hosting. It is best to have a site focusing on each and every product and nothing more.

4. Always include product reviews on the website so visitors will have an initial understanding on what the product can do to those who buys them. Also include testimonials from users who have already tried the product. Be sure that these customers are more than willing to allow you to use their names and photos on the site of the specific product you are marketing

• You can also write articles highlighting the uses of the product and include them on the website as an additional page. Make the pages attractive compelling and include calls to act on the information. Each headline should attract the readers to try and read more, even contact you. Highlight your special points. This will help your readers to learn what the page is about and will want to find out more

5. Join various programs you would rate 9/10 and begin marketing them online, set up web pages and use Google AdWords to promote your site.

6. Write articles that are compelling, succinct, and get your customer thinking, "I've got to have this!"

7. Promote, promote, promote! Keep promoting your site till you get a flood of traffic.

8. Monitor your results every day for testing. Track every keyword.

9. Offer free reports to your readers.If possible position them at the very top side of your page so it they simply cannot be missed. Try to create auto-responder messages that will be mailed to those who input their personal information into your sign up box. According to research, a sale is closed usually on the seventh contact with a prospect

10. Only two things can possibly happen with the web page alone: closed sale or the prospect leaving the page and never return again. By placing useful information into their inbox at certain specified period, you will remind them of the product they thought they want later and will find out that the sale is closed. Be sure that the content is directed toward specific reasons to buy the product. Do not make it sound like a sales pitch.

11. Focus on important points like how your product can make life and things easier and more enjoyable. Include compelling subject lines in the email. As much as possible, avoid using the word “free” because there are still older spam filters that dumps those kind of contents into the junk before even anyone reading them first. Convince those who signed up for your free reports that they will be missing something big if they do not avail of your products and services.

12. Get the kind of traffic that is targeted to your product.Just think, if the person who visited your website has no interest whatsoever in what you are offering, they will be among those who move on and never come back. Write articles for publication in e-zines and e-reports. This way you can locate publications that is focusing on your target customers and what you have put up might just grab their interest.

13. Try to write a minimum of 2 articles per week, with at least 300-600 words in length. By continuously writing and maintaining these articles you can generate as many as 100 targeted readers to your site in a day.

14. Always remember that only 1 out of 100 people are likely to buy your product or get your services. If you can generate as much as 1,000 targeted hits for your website in a day, that means you can made 10 sales based on the average statistic

15. The tactics given above does not really sound very difficult to do, if you think about it. It just requires a little time and an action plan on your part.

16. Try to use these tips for several affiliate marketing programs. You can end maintaining a good source of income and surviving in this business that not all marketers can do.

Tips

• When promoting your services try to advertise on a site with a large population. Try to attract attention by using catchy words or make yourself different among others in one way or another (Large Font, Caps[Don't do all caps you might lose peoples interest in your website], or if available use colored text.
• Another way to drive traffic to your website is via PPC (Pay Per click). All you have to you do is find a a good PPC network and start sending traffic to your site for as low as 0.05$ USD per click. If you use PPC engines monitor closely what you are spending
• Write articles that review the product and then send the reader to your web page.
• Driving traffic to your affiliate site is done just like any other site. Advertise your website, make sure that it is search engine optimized with good, specific keywords, and keep it up to date. As you are visited, your site will get more and more hits that will drive it higher in the search engine rankings.

Warnings

• You might have to spend money to do this marketing. Don't go overboard and spend all of your income on this, it might NOT work.
• Try look for free options and training when you first start out, so that you don't risk blowing all your money before you return a profit.