10 Sizzling Tips For Affiliates
By Ken Hill
1. Create an infopacked mini site. Build your mini site for a
specific niche audience and then choose affiliate programs
specifically for that niche audience.
2. Test and track your ads and promotions for your affiliate
programs.
Tracking and testing your ads will show you exactly which ads,
promotions and affiliate programs pay off the most for you and
are excellent choices for you to continue to promote.
3. Publish an ezine.
Your ezine will give you a powerful way to promote your
affiliate programs to your subscribers.
Choose affiliate programs that relate to the content of your
ezine and that make it worth your while to promote them.
4. Promote your affiliate programs by recommending their
products.
You could recommend your affiliate programs to your ezine
subscribers in your publisher`s note or you could create a
recommended resources section where you promote your affiliate
programs in every issue.
You could also recommend your affiliate programs to your
visitors by creating a recommended affiliate programs section
where you list your favorite affiliate programs along with
descriptions of their products or services.
In addition, you could create a best affiliate programs section
that helps you build up your second tier by listing the
affiliate programs that have paid off the most for you.
5. Write product reviews where you detail the benefits you like
about your affiliate program`s product.
Make your product reviews honest and hype f~ree and post them
on your site along with your other articles.
6. Write your own ads for your affiliate program.
A good way to create your ads is to look at the ad copy on the
site of the business you want to promote and also ads they
provide for their affiliates to use, and use their unique
selling proposition or USP to write your ads.
Their unique selling proposition is a unique benefit that they
promote in their ad copy that their competitors don`t stress
or offer to their visitors.
It could be that their product saves lots of time, is easy to
understand, that their product is a complete answer to a
problem, or it could involve their price.
Some businesses develop more than one USP so you`ll be able to
choose the one that you think works best in getting more
targeted visitors to their site.
7. Try out the support of the companies you want to promote by
asking questions.
This will help you to find out how long it takes them to
respond to emails (if they respond to emails) and how
professional they are.
8. Create freebies that promote your affiliate programs.
You could offer your visitors a f~ree email course, an ebook
filled with your tips or articles or an ebook that provides
your visitors with places to promote their businesses.
When creating freebies for an affiliate program that is 2 tier,
increase your profits by letting your affiliates in your
second tier use your freebies as a promotional item.
9. Create a directory.
Your directory could be an article, ezine, ebook or affiliate
program directory.
List your own resources within your directory to increase your
commissions. For example, you could add your own affiliate
programs to your affiliate programs directory or your ebooks
to your ebook directory.
Add a what`s new section to your directory to garner more
repeat traffic from your visitors.
You could also provide a tutorial on the subject of your
directory, or add things to your directory that your visitors
can use on a regular basis to get more repeat traffic.
10. Run ezine ads for your affiliate programs.
You could purchase sponsor, feature, classified or solo ads for
your affiliate program.
Choose ezines with subscribers targeted to be interested in the
products of the business you want to promote.
Run your ads for multiple issues in a row when possible to
maximize the profit you get from your ads.
You can also run f~ree ads in ezines as many ezines offer f~ree
advertising on a weekly, monthly or per issue basis to get
more new subscriptions.
Running f~ree ads can help you find out which ads work best,
and which ezines are most responsive before you purchase ezine
advertising.
Written by Gian Luigi Ruggeri © 2001 - All rights reserved
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