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.
Article by writer, Ken Hill. Get more marketing tips by
joining Ken's Top Notch Marketing Ezine at:
http://www.netpromarketer.com/
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