How To Use Articles To Build Your Affiliate Program

How To Use Articles To Build Your Affiliate Program
By
Michael Southon

Articles are the perfect promotional tool for your affiliates -
they bring in more sales than banners, book covers, and ezine
ads. Your affiliates can post them on their website, use them
in their newsletter, or turn them into a free eBook.

One the easiest ways to build your affiliate program is to
offer your articles as a zip file and allow people to replace
the link in the resource box with their affiliate link.

Here is how to do it:

1. Copy all your articles as text files, formatted to 60
characters-per-line, to a single folder on your hard disk.

2. Create another text file in the same folder called `index of
articles` which lists each article by title and file name.

3. In the `index of articles` write a brief message explaining
how to join your affiliate program and how to customize the
affiliate link in the resource box.

You can see an example of this at:
http://www.ezine-writer.com/michael-southon-articles.zip (http:/
/www.ezine-writer.com/michael-southon-articles.zip)

Then just zip your `articles` folder using WinZip. WinZip is
free and can be downloaded from: http://www.winzip.com/
download.htm (http://www.winzip.com/download.htm)

To create a zip file using WinZip, just follow these steps:

1. Open WinZip and click on `File` and `New Archive`.

2. In the `New Archive` box, choose a folder where you want to
save your zip file

3. Choose a name for your zip file and press OK

4. In the `Add` window, browse until you find your `articles`
folder and double-click

5. Click on `Add with wildcards`

That`s it! Your articles zip file has been created.

Offer your articles zip file for free download in as many
places as possible: on the index page of your website on
your affiliates tool kit page in the welcome message for your
newsletter in your email mini course as a bonus gift to your
customers in your sig file

This technique will not only increase sales of your existing
affiliates - it will quickly bring you dozens of new affiliates.

Good luck with your articles!

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