The Instant Affiliate’s Dream and Tapping into your Affiliate salesforce.

Starting your own affiliate program can be a very worthwhile exercise, and if you can organise yourself with the right tools and get motivated affiliates, then you have a golden opportunity to take your earnings to the next level.

A lot of you will be very familiar with the power of exponential traffic that is generated by affiliate marketers, so with this in mind let’s look at some of the big players who expertly manage this resource to explode their earnings. I have often thought about getting into this lucrative area of marketing, it stands to reason that having an army of affiliates promoting your product is going to drive traffic and pay out big time. Now assuming that your product is the next big hot potato on the market, I just can’t see how you can lose. But of course even if you have the next best thing since waffles, if you can’t generate interest or setup a solid marketing campaign then you might as well go home.

Part of The Solution the tools of the trade

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This being a very popular subject you can find plenty of examples of affiliate systems that offer an easy shortcut to solve your woes. These so called turnkey affiliate systems can be up and running in literally minutes. To give you an idea of a good affiliate program just check out any of the top Internet marketer’s offers, I’m pretty sure most of you will have used some of the more popular scripts that proliferate the web; these scripts allow affiliates to logon and gather promotional materials for their websites, emails, forum signatures and many other tools.

Next Step; Finding Affiliates to promote your product

Finding affiliates to promote your site isn’t easy. In fact, unless you’re already an established ‘name’ in your market, it can be almost impossible. So, what to do! Well even if you do everything in your power to get affiliates motivated, only a small percentage will ever take any action! So it’s critical for any successful affiliate program to continually recruit motivated affiliates.

Where do you look for motivated affiliates?

To get the best results you have to look at the affiliate directories, and unless you have a bottomless pocket then this is the most cost effective method. You can of course spend your hard earned through advertising which could run into thousands of dollars. If you have a big list then you can promote your affiliate program by email. So get yourself listed in the affiliate directories, as many as you can submit to. Getting listed in directories is an essential component to any successful affiliate program.  It’s a very effective way for top affiliates to find you.

There’s also another point you should consider, there are dozens of top directories out there and submitting to all of them can be long and tedious! You can find it literally takes you an entire day to submit a single product. If you have more, then it could take over a week! You can outsource it, which will cost you again but there is a better solution. Start using custom auto submit software to take all the agro and stress away from this task. Here’s a link for you to check out “Instant Affiliate Submitter” and no, it’s not an affiliate link. I’m sure there is lots of other submitters out there, just Google it.

Another example for affiliates to use

JV scripts or Joint Venture scripts are used by all the top IMs, and the list building stats can be very impressive and are well founded. This is also a great place to recruit fresh affiliates although the turnover will be determined by the popularity of the event.

What is a JV Giveaway Event?

The term JV stands for Joint Venture which means that 2 or more marketers join up with the goal to increase their return of investment. In terms of internet marketing this means that many marketers come together and each of them gives a downloadable product away for free. These can be ebooks, software, graphics or whatever benefits the visitors of the giveaway event.

At a giveaway event marketers, also called contributors, signup for free to list their free ebook inside the member’s area. This mostly happens when the event is in the pre-launch phase. Once the event launches, members can signup and download the different free offers… but not instantly… they have to signup for each product that they want to access. This way the contributor gets the name and email address from a member and has the person on his opt-in list.

I hope this article has given you food for thought, perhaps some of you may allready have your own affiliate program. Let me know of your experience with any tips that you may have for the readers.  Thanks’ for reading

Forum Marketing is for a lot of marketers a very happy hunting ground for prospects, but more importantly to tap into the rich feedback from newbie’s. So with this in mind I will start off with an introduction into Forum marketing and expand and explore this medium in the coming weeks.

If you are serious about promoting your website or blog on the Internet, then you could do no worse than forums, a great option for you. These forums are easy to join and require no upfront cash deposit to be a member. Forums are a storehouse of information and accessible to anyone, these forums are an ideal way to go about advertising your wares, whether it’s your site or an affiliate product.

Depending on your choice of forum they can act as social networking centers, where topics are discussed and information exchanged. So if one can find a forum where discussions are relevant to your own product or field, then the chances of getting your website noticed and popularized are far greater. If you are new to promoting then this should be one of the first steps towards establishing your identity on the Internet.

The thing to remember though, as it is with all kinds of marketing…finesse and decorum is everything. In your rush to get noticed do not over do the charm offensive, just slowly get a feel and settle in. It’s probably wiser to act calm and not seem like you are desperate to market your product. Over eagerness like this is often more likely to offend customer sensibility, leading to possible bans against your website with allegations of spamming.

It is better to leave frequent yet understated messages informing about what’s on offer. Or rather go to forums, which have questions put up regarding matters close to your product and then respond to them. So go and read the threads posted on the forum, figure out how best you can respond to the queries.

Over time this is will help you build a customer base, as people on the forum trust you to be helpful and genuine. Once you have achieved this, all you have to do is subtly lead your prospect to your product.

Overall forum marketing is an easy and profitable option to add to your promotion because it is absolutely free, and you can target a certain niche clientele very easily. Things to avoid… try and avoid promoting your website on irrelevant threads as it might hamper your reputation. Do your promotion in a friendly manner and always follow up enquiries about whether the directed person found your website or blog helpful or not.

Forums are a great way to get feedback, which will help you to improve your product or service, build client rapport, and get new customers. You can tune into their attentiveness, their likes and dislikes. And finally the most important thing to keep in mind, that though beneficial for marketing, these forums are for discussion not sales. So keep this in mind and you will succeed in gathering new friends and more importantly, respect.

Next week: “Why is Forum Marketing so effective?”

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Part 5:  Q & A on Resell Rights

When you purchase resell rights, you will need to do some research to find out whether purchasing the resell rights will be profitable for you. Not all resell rights products are worth having, believe me there is a lot of junk out there.

First off, take a look at the product itself. Is it a quality product? Even though your name is not on the product itself, your name will be associated with selling the product, and you don’t want to sell junk. So, make sure that the product does what it promises, and that it is indeed of value and worthy of your attention, put yourself in your customers shoes, would you buy it?

Next step, you need to research the market. Is there a market for the product? An easy way to find out is to do a search in Google using keywords that potential customers would use to search for the product. Look at the sites that are advertising similar products. Some key factors to look out for…

The sponsored ads are the ones you are interested in. People and companies do not continually spend money advertising products that are not selling. If money is being spent on advertising, then there is a market for the product. Also look at related magazines to see if money is being spent on advertising.

Read the license agreement before buying the product. If it is not available to you without purchasing first, then walk away. You will want to check the license to make sure that you can market the product effectively, using methods that you know work.

You want to know if the sales letter converts, ask the vendor for conversion rates. Also you will want to make sure that you are allowed to change the sales letter as you see fit. At the end of the day it’s to your advantage to leverage as much control over the sales copy as you can for maximum sales potential.

Also see if you can find out how many people are currently reselling the product. Is the market flooded? Remember that 90% of the people with resell rights either won’t be reselling the product, or they don’t know how to effectively market the product. This is your chance to utilize a missed opportunity by other marketers.

After you’ve looked at all of these issues, and answered all of these questions, you will know whether you should purchase the resell rights product or not. If the product has profit potential, it’s worth buying. So with a bit of number crunching and research on your part you can profit.

Thanks’ for reading, please feel free to leave a comment

Next Week:  Finding the Best Places to Search for Quality Products to Resell

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