Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Affiliate Marketing: The Top 7 strategies for success

Affiliate marketing is one of the fastest growing marketing methods many people and organizations are using to do business online. In fact, hardly can any organization survive in today’s high tech environment without having an affiliate program in place. The foregoing points to the profit potentials of affiliate marketing, many affiliates in this program are already earning substantial income.

In order to make huge profit using this program, the following marketing tips can make you stand out from other affiliates, fast tract the process of increasing your earning potential. Important, affiliate marketer do not need to own a website or own products and services. The following are the seven strategies to profit in affiliate marketing.

Do a research on your target customer/audience
Many online marketing analysts consider affiliate marketing as one of the easiest ways to earning profits online, and most make good incomes right from the start. In order to craft an effective online marketing strategy, the first thing to do is to conduct a thorough research on your target audience, and choose a great program to join, as well as find the best possible products or services to sell or refer, as this will give you the best vehicle for getting a significant amount of profits in the shortest time possible.Choose The Right Products And Services To Market. Research the products and services that are in tune with the preferences and needs of your potential target customers, as there may be similar products in one category. Choose the products or services that have a solid brand name, image, pricing scheme, and are in constant demand. By doing this, you will be able to accelerate your goal of getting substantial profits through a high sales volume.
Become an affiliate

From the research findings, look for companies that sells the product and services and become their affiliate. You get commissions from the sales generated from your marketing efforts. Once a product gains customer approval and acceptance, customer levels of confidence will rise and they will learn to trust you the more. This will also entice customers’ to try other products on your list. The more products and services you promote the more profit you make.
Put In an EffortThere is no such thing as earning profits without putting in any effort in this world. In affiliate marketing, the goal should be to create as many exposures for your links as possible on the Internet. This process will require you to keep on the lookout for new marketing strategies in planting links, crafting creative business strategies, and so forth. All these require a great deal of determination, discipline, initiative, and significant time and effort.Drive Targeted Traffic.There is the need to ensure that you are not sending any traffic to a site, which will not bring in sales. This is important because you need ready buyers to visit your marketing page, so that they will be more likely to take action and buy through your page, hence the quality of the traffic counts a lot.Create a customer list or database. Create an opt-in list, to capture visitor's information such as name and email address, as some individuals will usually not buy on their first visit to a Web site. This is vital because an opt-in list will help you to maintain an email list of visitors whom you can contact with newsletter of new product release or sales.

In my next article, I will include in the discussion ways to get link exposure for your product/service on the internet.

By Gloria Instead

http://www.richglotepnetwork.info


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Web Traffic: Strategies for Profit Maximization

The internet has fundamentally changed the rules of business. The communications capability and the low cost outlay have all brought about the possibility to create new market opportunity. The rule of the making money on the internet lies in ones ability to reach potential customer with a profitable business offer even if only a small percentage of the targeted customers makes purchase. While the importance of product research analysis and target audience analysis cannot be taken for granted; the need to get customers to visit the website and make a purchase becomes imperative. Hence the strategies to increasing web traffic are discussed as follows:

Know your Market
Affiliate marketing is a very competitive program on the internet. For this reason, you must search out details of the product you intend to market, and your competition. This would mean knowing:
The keyword that are getting the most traffic for the product or service you intend to affiliate
The price bid for those key words
This knowledge is essential because with the right key and the right budget- you can generate traffic to your web.

Start a campaign
Based on your keyword search- you can create a compelling advertisement using Google Ad word and yahoo search marketing. You can also advertise in doubleclick.com, AOL, MSN, Adbrite. These vendors are the top advert servers in 2008 which enjoyed million of viewers.

Build link popularity
This is achieved by sending email to similar website like yours and requesting them to link to your website. You can check www.ringsurf.com

Write to free article sites or ezine
This way you can get a lot of back link to your website. There are many sites which will accept your written material; the catch is that you are giving it away for free. The benefit, however, is that you get to include a link to your site in the article, meaning every time someone clicks on your link, it brings free traffic to your site.

Submit to search engines
The best way to increase traffic is to register your website with the major search engines. Then, when a search engine user looks for a particular word or phrase, the search engine looks into the database and produces the results, usually sorted by relevance according to the search engine algorithms
Google_ AOL search, Click4Carbon, CompuServe Search, MySpace Search, Netscape and ripple
Yahoo_ AltaVitsa, AlltheWeb, GoodSearch, Rectifi
Live Search_ A9.com, Tafiti, Ms.Dewey
Ask.com_ Hakia, iwon and Lycos

Join Social Networking sites
Register with social networking sites such has face book which has about 140 million registered users; MySpace has about 253 million registered users; Window Live Spaces about 120 million, twitter etc. You will get easy traffic to your sites using these sites.

Making money has never been so easy with the coming in of the internet. However, proper planning and adequate information on the best ways to share part of the money on the web is valuable. While the techniques are inexhaustible, using the above method will help ensure success in whatever business endeavor on the internet.

By Gloria Instead

http://www.richglotepnetwork.info


© Gloria Instead –All Right Reserve


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