It's a simple fact.
The most lucrative affiliate programs will have the most
competition.
Take for example web hosting, which is a very profitable type of
affiliate program, pays as much as $10 a month for sales. If you
wanted to buy pay per click advertising on Overture you would
have to pay over $8.00 for the #1 position and around $2.00 for
the #40 position.
So how do you get qualified traffic to your affiliate link
without spending thousands of dollars? Simple, make them pay to
look at your affiliate link.
What do I mean by this? The best prospects you will ever get are
people who have already bought a related product from you. If
you earn their trust through giving them more than they expected
they are very likely to buy from you again.
Setting this up is simple. Find a product related to the program
your promoting. This is not as hard as you might think. Go to
any search engine and type in resale rights, you will get
thousands of results.
Then concentrate on selling as many copies as possible. Dont
worry about making anything on the initial product sale. You
want to just focus on the back end.
Create an affiliate program for the product with a very high
commission. 75% percent would be a good level to keep it at.
Then start emailing webmasters with sites related to your
product and offer them the 75% commission. With a commission
that high you will definitely get a few to take you up on the
offer.
The key step in this process is setting up your customer
follow-up system. You'll need a follow-up auto responder for this.
Here's a simple guide to setting this up.
Message 1: This should be a message to thank the customer for
buying your product and should make a small mention of how the
affiliate product can help them.
Message 2: This should give the customer a special unadvertised
bonus to further earn there trust. Plus you should mention the
affiliate product again. Even better would be to make the bonus
a report or ebook and work the affiliate link into it.
Message 3: Create a special offer that your customer can only
get through your affiliate link. Make sure you offer something
that is as valuable if not more valuable then the affiliate
product. Write good sales copy explaining the benefits of both
your bonus and the affiliate product.
Message 4: Add on yet another bonus for them to order through
you affiliate link. Again write good sales copy for this bonus
and continue to stress the benefits of the affiliate product.
Don't worry about repeating yourself, repetition sells. The more
times you expose your prospect to the affiliate product the more
likely they are to buy.
Message 5: This should be batch email sent to the entire
customer list periodically send an offer to this customer list
that is both time and people sensitive. For example: For 50
people only, if you order affiliate product in the next 24 hours
you will get xzy bonus. Make sure you stick to these limits or
else your offers won't be taken seriously.
This system is especially effective with affiliate programs that
pay recurring or lifetime commissions. To see this system step
by step in action go to:
http://www.twistedmarketing.com/example.html
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