The
Truth About Earning $1,000 or More Weekly From Affiliate Programs
By Terry Dean
Everyone is talking about them.
Almost everyone is a member of at least a few of them. Affiliate programs
are hot. You can usually sign up for free and be selling products within
5 minutes. The web sites, sales letters, and order shipping are all done
for you. All you have to do is promote.
But...Is anyone making money
from these programs except for the affiliate program owner?
It is a surprising statistic
when you find out that only around 10% to 20% of affiliate members do
enough to ever get a check. Then, only a small percentage of those go
on to earn really good incomes from affiliate programs.
It isn't the affiliate program
either. Although some affiliate programs have pitifully small payouts
(5% to 10%) and limit their members that way, the real problem comes with
the fact that affiliates have no idea how to sell from their affiliate
sites. The affiliate owners usually don't have any idea how to help them
either.
I own several affiliate programs
myself, so I have spent a considerable amount of time studying my top
affiliates and the top affiliates in programs all over the Internet.
The principles below are true
of almost everyone of the top affiliates in every program I have looked
at. If you want to succeed and earn at least $5,000 or more per month
from affiliate programs, then you will have to be following the five steps
below. If you don't, it just isn't going to happen...and you have no one
to blame but yourself.
1. Create Your Own Web Site.
Although almost every program
gives you a web site to use to promote with, you really shouldn't be promoting
with that site. The top affiliates always have their own web sites which
they promote from. Then, they link to the affiliate program sites.
I never drive traffic directly
to any of the affiliate programs. I drive it to my site, get their name
on my opt-in list, and then promote affiliate programs. If you are serious
about earning profits online, then you will do the same.
Having your own site and linking
to your affiliate program gives you some additional advantages as well:
* You can write up a short
two to four paragraph endorsement and testimonial for the site yourself.
* You can generate subscribers
to your opt-in list first (this is the key to Internet profits).
* If the affiliate program
ever stops or changes your link, you still have all the traffic you worked
for at YOUR site (this happens quite often).
If you don't currently have
a web site, but want to earn through affiliate programs, you need to get
one today.
2. Generate Traffic
You can't earn a single penny
in any affiliate program without generating traffic to your site. No traffic
equals no income. Combine the right ingredients of an opt-in list, good
site design, and the right sales offer...and your income will be directly
proportional to the targeted traffic you generate.
An advantage that I didn't
mention above in why you should own your own domain is getting listed
with the search engines. The pages given to you by your affiliate program
owner aren't going to receive virtually any traffic from the search engines.
They won't have top rankings because there are at least 1,000 other pages
just like them (from the other affiliate members) and many software programs
create pages which can't even be indexed by the search engines.
Having your own domain will
give you the freedom to create web pages which achieve high rankings on
the search engines. Each of the major search engines such as AltaVista,
Infoseek, Hotbot, and the others have their own ranking algorithms which
change virtually monthly.
You can stay on top of them
though by using a program such as Web Position which actually monitors
the search engines for you and helps you prepare doorway pages which will
achieve the top rankings you are seeking after...and the traffic which
comes from having those top rankings.
You can read more about Web
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Search engines are not the
only way to build traffic to your site. You can trade links with sites,
place free and paid classifieds, and even use banner advertising. There
are dozens of ways to generate traffic. If you want to make money from
your affiliate programs, you will be using them.
3. Start an Opt-In List.
I checked my affiliate members'
checks this month and noticed a very interesting trend. All top 10 affiliates
have their own opt-in email lists and are pretty aggressive marketers
to those lists. They all mail to their opt-in list at least weekly and
the number one affiliate this month mails to his list every single day.
That is where my income is
coming from also. Over 90% of my income comes through using opt-in email
in one way or another...either through my newsletters or through my autoresponders
with follow-up. If you don't know how to use email, then your always going
to be living on barely get by street in the online market.
The web sites which I send
the most traffic to have one purpose to them...and one purpose only...to
sign them up on my newsletter lists. All of the content that I have on
my site is for that one purpose.
If you can't get a visitor
to sign up for a free newsletter, then you aren't going to be able to
get them to fill out your order forms and order. Get them on the list,
and then start emailing them as often as you can put out good content
(along with the ads).
Although I prefer to personalize
my newsletter using software you have to buy (I get mine from Postmaster
Online). If you are just starting out and are on a budget, you can start
your list using a free Listbot from http://www.listbot.com
4. Develop a Unique Web
Position.
Here is a trick to increase
your sales from ANY affiliate program, but people rarely ever mention
it. Any successful web site finds a way to make their products and or
services unique from their competition.
When you are an affiliate though,
you have thousands of competitors selling the exact same product at the
exact same price. Every other affiliate in that company is your competition!
You will have to become unique
if you want to beat the other affiliates competing against you. You may
think it would be difficult to do, but it isn't.
All you have to do is add on
some extra bonuses to those people who are purchasing from you. For example,
if you're an affiliate for a video course, then add in a special free
report on the same subject which is ONLY good for those who order from
you. Your free report can be emailed to those who order so it won't cost
you a penny of your commissions.
If you own an opt-in list like
you should, you could give a free ad to anyone who orders an affiliate
product from you. For example, you could write that anyone who orders
the ________ (you would list the product here) before midnight tonight
will also get a free ad ($30 value) in your newsletter...or three free
ads. Buy submission software and submit their site to 1,000 search engines
if they order today.
Do something like this and
tell your opt-in email list subscribers and web site visitors about it.
You will be setting yourself apart from the competition and be giving
your purchasers an even better deal than buying from the affiliate owner!
Special limited time offers
work extremely effectively when combined with your own opt-in list.
5. Generate Multiple Streams
of Income.
If you follow all four of the
principles above, then you are going to be able to earn money from many
different affiliates programs, and that is exactly what you should do.
You should join several non-competing programs which sell products to
the same targeted market.
For example, if you have chosen
to sell to Internet marketers, you may join:
- An Internet Training Program
- A Web Hosting Program
- An Autoresponder program
- A Business Opportunity
You can find several programs
which target any specific niche group.
You can be earning 3 to 10
streams of income from the same visitors at your web site and subscribers
to your newsletters. Having several streams of income helps every visitor
to your site be worth more money to you!
Terry Dean, a 27 Year Old Indiana
Farm Boy, Reveals His Secret Formula for Generating New Automatic Streams
of Internet Income For Any Business In 72 Hours Or Less...Free Report:
mailto:formula@bizpromo.com
http://www.bizpromo.com
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