Advanced Affiliate Marketing Strategies that Work

Affiliate Marketing: Fuel Your Passion

By Dave Cooper  

"Tell me the secret to being a successful affiliate marketer!" I get this type of email on occasion. I always dutifully read the email and send a polite reply. In the reply email I always try to stress the following points:

There are no secrets in affiliate marketing! I don't care what the guru's tell you. Being successful in affiliate marketing isn't a matter of luck, or the result of some type of magical wizardry. Being successful in affiliate marketing involves knowing the ingredients that makes other affiliate marketers successful. One of the common threads that I have observed in all successful affiliate marketers is their ATTITUDE toward their affiliate marketing business. Jim Martell, Rosalind Gardner, Jim Edwards, Allan Gardyne and many other highly successful affiliate marketers, that you may not have even heard of, all LOVE affiliate marketing. They have the passion a burning desire to be successful in their affiliate marketing endeavors.

Passion for affiliate marketing has to be the one key ingredient to achieving success, not only in affiliate marketing, but in any pursuit you undertake in life. Without a passion for your affiliate business, you are traveling down the road to failure. Your passion is what will keep you moving forward one tiny step at a time when your affiliate marketing business is going through difficult and trying times. That same passion will be the key factor in ultimately moving your affiliate marketing business toward the rewards of financial success!

Do you have this type of passion? I don't know. Only you can answer that. I do know that without belief, interest, and determination you will never develop the passion that pushes other successful affiliate marketers to extreme heights of affiliate marketing success.

Let's take a look at some of the traits that will fuel your passion to be successful in affiliate marketing:

Belief

Do you believe in the opportunity you have to be successful with affiliate marketing programs? If you don't, then you need to start right now. You MUST believe that you will be successful in your affiliate marketing efforts. How do you get this belief? Simple, do some research on affiliate marketing. You will find that many ordinary people, like you, can and are doing quite well in the world of affiliate marketing. Some people who were once in the same position you are in right now are earning thousands of dollars a month through their affiliate program marketing efforts. Don't be fooled into thinking that only the Cream of the Crop, the Super Affiliates with their names plastered all over the internet are the only ones making money with affiliate marketing. That isn't the case. Many people you have never heard of are making a very nice income from affiliate marketing; they just choose not to attract attention to themselves.

What is your goal for your affiliate marketing business? Maybe you can't answer that right now. Do your research. Set a reasonable goal for this month. Write it down. Do everything in your power to make that goal a reality. Once you've achieved that goal, move on to your next goal. You have to crawl before you can walk, walk before you can run, eventually you will be off and running. Affiliate marketing is a marathon, it isn't a sprint. Pace yourself. These frustrating days you may be experiencing now will soon be a distant memory. BELIEVE that you will be successful. It can be done. It isn't going to be easy, but then again anything worth having is going to take time and effort.

Interest

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As an affiliate marketer you have to have a genuine interest in the merchant products that you are promoting to your prospects. To me, it means you should own and use these products. Why? You can give your prospects a fair and honest evaluative review of the product or service. Point out the features that make this particular product unique. Stress the benefits that your prospective customer will receive by using this product or service. The benefits that you have derived are probably some of the same benefits that your prospects are looking for. They need validation!

Think of it this way. If you have a genuine interest in the product and service you are promoting and you own and use the product for your own benefit, you have the advantage of putting yourself in the shoes of your prospective customers. You will become acutely more aware of their needs and are in a much better position to answer those needs.

You can truthfully share your interest in the product and experiences with the product. Even the most casual and curious browsers will be attracted to your product because you wrote a review or gave a testimony to a product you already own and use! Honest reviews and powerful testimonies about the benefits of a product or service are two of the most powerful tools that you have in your affiliate marketing arsenal. Use them often and use them wisely. Remember, your credibility is at stake!

Determination

Be Determined! You must set your chin and be determined to succeed in your affiliate marketing business. I am a huge College and Pro football fan. I am firmly convinced that the Pittsburgh Steelers are the world champions today because of the determination of their head coach, Bill Cowher. He willed that team to victory throughout the playoffs and the Super Bowl. He was not daunted by several previous setbacks in AFC championship games. He found new and better ways of getting the job done. Today he is a world champion.

You can do the same with your affiliate marketing business. You cannot get too high or too low in the world of affiliate marketing. Don't let a few setbacks get you down. Chalk each set back up to a lesson learned. Go back and rework your idea or plan. Find another way of approaching a problem. Find new and better ways of promoting and pre-selling your affiliate products.

When belief, interest and determination are present in your affiliate marketing business your passion for affiliate marketing and the goods and services you are promoting will shine brightly. All of your prospects will be able to see and feel your passion. Find your passion and you will have captured the most highly sought factor for your success in the world of affiliate marketing.

David Cooper is the editor of the Affiliate Marketing Articles Newsletter. David specializes in helping people fuel their passion to be successful in affiliate marketing by offering real world tips and strategies. Subscribe to his FREE newsletter at: [http://www.affiliatemarketingarticles.com]

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Affiliate Marketing for Beginners - Quit Chasing your Tail!

Online Affiliate Marketing For Home Business

By Shankar Pandiath  

Online affiliate marketing began as a natural outgrowth of the popularity of "linking" to other sites. To put it simply, online affiliate marketing is a time tested strategy for making money online. It it is a network of online partners who refer business to your website.

It does not matter whether you have a website that sells a product or a website that has nothing to sell. But by adding online affiliate programs, you can not only add value to your website, but also maximize potential revenue.

Affiliate Programs, they say are the ideal way to make your website profitable.

Online affiliate programs began in the mid - 1990's and are currently a popular way to earn money online. In fact, research shows that affiliate marketing is the most cost-effective way to generate online sales. The concept of revenue sharing paying commission for referred business, predates affiliate marketing and the Internet. The translation of the revenue share principles to mainstream e-commerce happened almost four years after the origination of the World Wide Web in November 1994.

The simplest way is to just introduce your visitors to the business opportunities, products and services that they need, and, make money based on commissions from these sales. In fact, online affiliate marketing is a great work from home business available to anyone with a computer and a desire to run their own affiliate business.

However, there is a catch to affiliate marketing. That is to say over 80% of affiliates never get a check over $100, the 15% get the occasional check and it is the remaining 5% who really get monthly checks of any real size from affiliate programs.

To get started in affiliate marketing, you must know the fundamentals. For which you're going to need an affiliate marketing guide to teach you the basics. Once you've studied the basics and grasped the "idea", I don't think there is any looking back.

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Now, there are dozens of books advertised on various websites, making claims of massive earnings that can be achieved easily. Most of these guides are resell rights of other peoples' ideas which are marketed under the marketers' name. Now, there will be a time you may be doing the same thing what they are doing now. This is a natural phase most people go through and isn't that what affiliate marketing is all about!

I am not saying those books are bad. But there are better ones out there. There is The Affiliate Marketers Handbook and the Super Affiliate Handbook. Recently, another book that is drawing much attention, purely because of the number of sales it has generated in such a short time is the Rich Jerk. The name justifies his character and the book in general, doesn't convey much. However, the ideas he has put forward seem to work and as a result the book seems to be on top of the charts. Now what more can you say, but to commend on his niche idea.

You can also look for more such good product(s) and which are in high demand from the ClickBank Mall. Just type "affiliate marketing" or affiliate marketing guides and you would get instant access to loads to such products. Provide them your credit card details and voila! you can instantly download the book of your choice. What more do you want - you have a product with no investment which you can market and make money.

Although most affiliate marketing books are good in their own way, what boils down is to how you implement the knowhow you gained from it practically. Although this may take up some some time, it is to be noted that no books nor any marketing courses can come anywhere close to pure practical experience. Some good affiliate guides are given below in the resources section.

Learning to market on the internet as an affiliate is only step one. If you're serious about online affiliate marketing, then you have to plan and set up a basic affiliate campaign. This is a start to finish campaign to getting started in affiliate marketing. It explains keyword research, finding profitable partners and markets, information on affiliate networks, guides and resources to making money online.

There is relatively an easy way to make a parallel income during the early stages of your online affiliate marketing home business. It can also help you avoid the common mistakes most of us make during that period. I am quoting this from personal experience.

Try and get hold of a FREE Web Page, containing a few successful affiliate programs. There are a few companies that give away such a page so that newbies can get a feel of what affiliate marketing is all about. You can use it and learn how to run an affiliate campaign, at the same time learning the ropes of affiliate marketing. If you market this well, the chances are you will make money. Your main and only job would be to advertise your FREE website, by submitting it to search engines, e-mail it to friends, colleagues and others. If all goes well, within a month or so you shall see some income trickling in.

In addition to that, you also get familiar with search engine marketing, affiliate networks and affiliate directories, and other areas of online affiliate marketing.

Once again, welcome to the world of online affiliate marketing and home business.

Shankar Pandiath is a blogger and an online affiliate marketer Feel free to reprint this article online, as long as you do not make any changes in its content. 

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The Top 5 Mistakes Newbies Make in Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate Marketing Using Commission Junction

By Jason Gazaway  

Affiliate Marketing is currently one of the most popular and lucrative business opportunities online. It is an agreement between the merchant, or the one with the product to sell, and the website owner or the affiliate, or the one who allows the use of his site to promote the merchant's product or service. Thus, affiliate marketing is a relationship between the merchant and the affiliate.

Meanwhile, an affiliate-marketing network is a program that involves a network of individuals and organizations with the purpose of helping each other through affiliate marketing. There are many affiliate-marketing programs where both merchants and affiliates can go to find what they need. In such affiliate marketing networks, affiliates can choose from thousands of products to advertise. Similarly, the merchants can proffer their products and look for affiliates who will advertise their products.

The Commission Junction Affiliate Program is, one of, if not the largest affiliate marketing networks in the internet today. It is a leader in performance based online marketing offering excellent opportunities for both merchants and affiliates. The company serves millions of clients making it one of the largest ad networks today.

It facilitates the relationship between advertisers and affiliates and leverages its expertise in the affiliate marketing business to ensure the best results for its clients. Commission Junction has affiliate programs mostly for physical goods. The company excels in niche markets, as most niche markets require physical goods as affiliate products.

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As the market leader in affiliate marketing solutions, Commission Junction offers many advantages for both merchants and affiliates. The Commission Junction system is excellent and full of good features for both parties. As a Commission Junction merchant, you only need to sign up and have your affiliate program available to thousands of potential affiliates. New merchants are listed on the homepage of the Commission Junction Account Manager. Affiliates will be able to see this listing upon log in, ensuring maximum exposure for the merchant. In this manner, the merchant has the opportunity to attract the best affiliates to carry his product or service.

Another advantage that Commission Junction offers to merchants is the promotion to the Commission Junction affiliate network upon sign up via the Commission Junction email newsletter. Being in the Commission Junction affiliate network provides excellent opportunity for the merchant to find quality affiliates who can bring in more clients and more sales.

Since the key to affiliate marketing success for merchants is finding the right affiliates, Commission Junction offers the best way for merchants to succeed, by bringing merchants and affiliates together. The merchant's affiliate program will also be listed in the Commission Junction Account Manager for life giving you more exposure. You can also purchase special listing for higher affiliate exposure.

Commission Junction also has many advantages for affiliates. It has more merchants than any other affiliate marketing company today. An affiliate of Commission Junction has access to the largest directory of affiliate programs encompassing thousands of products and services. Affiliates have the luxury to choose what product they will advertise.

Commission Junction has an excellent record of accomplishment in the affiliate marketing business, so it makes sense for any affiliate to be a Commission Junction affiliate. The company offers a huge number of affiliate programs in every category of products and services. In addition, affiliates of Commission Junction receive notices via email whenever new affiliate programs are added. Commission Junction offers the best opportunities to make a profit for both merchants and affiliates. It combines resources to further the sales or profit of each party.

However, Commission Junction also has its downsides. For one, the commissions are relatively lower, being in the 7% to 20% bracket. Yet, despite of the lower income potential, Commission Junction is still one of the best options for affiliate marketers. Commission junction has also had its share of setbacks such as during the early part of 2002 when merchants dropped out because of the hike in prices.

All the same, Commission Junction remains as one of the best choices when it comes to affiliate marketing. It offers the best features and opportunities for merchants and affiliates. Its marketing solutions help marketers increase their profits. Indeed, there are many reasons why any affiliate or merchant who want to succeed should join Commission Junction.

Discover how you can create a turnkey internet marketing system that builds massive downline for you, attracts hungry prospects automatically, and generates income non-stop, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week!

Find out more here: Visit How To Become Successful today!

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5 Affiliate Marketing Tips and Tricks - How to Increase Affiliate Sales

What Is Affiliate Marketing? How To Profit From It? (Robert Kiyosaki‏ ex...

Online Affiliated Marketing

By Muhammad Shahzad Naveed  

Online Affiliate Marketing is a revenue sharing venture between a website owner and an online merchant. The website owner will place advertisements on his websites to either help sell the merchant's products or to send potential customers to the merchant's website, all in exchange for a share of the profits.

Affiliate Marketing Program ¶

An affiliate marketing program is sometimes called an affiliate program, but also may be referred to as a pay-for-performance program or an associate program. An affiliate program is a marketing tool for the e-business that operates it, called merchant or advertiser and a source of revenue for the e-business that participates in it, called an affiliate or associate or publisher.

There are three ways to earn money through affiliate marketing:

1) Pay per Click or Cost-per-click affiliate programs: Every time a potential customer leaves the affiliate website by "clicking" on the link leading to the merchant's website, a certain amount of money is deposited in the affiliate's account. This amount can be pennies or dollars depending on the product and amount of the commission.

2) Pay per Lead or Cost-per-lead affiliate programs: The merchant pays the affiliate a set fee for each visitor who clicks through and takes and action at the merchant's site, such as completing an online survey, registering at the site, or opting-in to receive e-mail.

3) Pay per Sale or Cost-per-sale affiliate programs: Every time a sale is made as a result of advertising on the affiliate's website, a percentage, or commission, is deposited into the affiliate's account.

The Amazon Story

The world's biggest bookstore has one of the most successful examples of an affiliate program (called their associate program). Amazon now has well over 1 million affiliates! That is over 1 million websites actively promoting their products every single second of every single day. Amazon generates over 40% of its revenue through its affiliates program. That is over $3 billion in revenue every single year! As another (somewhat humble by comparison) example, Zeald generates over 50% of its revenue using its own unique affiliates program. Admittedly, not quite billions of dollars but that is definitely millions of dollars of revenue every single year.

Thousands of diverse e-businesses operate affiliate programs: E.g. barnes&nobale, dell,1-800-flowers, rackspace managed hosting etc.

Affiliate Programs as a Marketing Tool

The two major Advantages to merchant

1. Tie marketing effort directly to a lead or sales.

2. The merchant pays only for results.

The two major Advantages to affiliate

1. Additional source of revenue for affiliate who also sells products/services

2. Primary source of revenue for affiliate who offers entertainment or information

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Two Approaches to Operating a Successful Affiliate Marketing

1. Acquire a huge and affiliate membership. e.g. The Amazon associates programs have over 1 million members as diverse as:

- RVPart - Sells parts for recreational vehicles and motor homes.

- Dilbert - Site for view cartoons, play games, send electronic greeting cards etc

- Books for Managers - Site for business reviews and lists of the currant top-selling business-related books provided by Business week, The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and other publications.

- HaperCollins - Its site to promote its authors and their books. However, like many book publishers. HaperCollins sells its books through bookstores and not directly to the public.

2. Acquire a smaller number of highly effective affiliates that have a high volume of website traffic and offer web page content, products and services that are directly related to the merchant's products and services.

Affiliate Programs as a Revenue Source

Participating in an affiliate program and then getting the most out of your participation involves:

- Selecting the appropriate merchant and affiliate program for your e-business

- Understand the terms of the affiliate agreement

- Add custom links to merchant's site from affiliate Web pages

- Build traffic at affiliate site to increase click-troughs to merchant site.

Top 10 Tips for Choosing the Affiliate Program That Is Right for You

1. You have to identify a product or service for which there is a need. The product should be such that you would love and enjoy promoting it. You could start by searching for "Affiliate Programs" in the Search Engines.

2. The product or service should be relevant to your website.

3. It is always wise to join an affiliate program that is long standing, safe and secure and has a good reputation in the Internet world. This can be easily verified from the Better Business Bureau or other similar organizations. Visits to Forums and Discussion Groups will also provide you with a lot of useful information.

4. Most affiliate program providers provide a commission of 5% to 50%. The commission you earn for the sale of a product is your main income. So while choosing an affiliate program you should study the commission paid out and decide on a program that pays at least 35% for you to run your business successfully.

5. There should be a proper tracking system in place to record all the clicks and sales made through the text links and banners placed on your website, e-mails and other advertisements.

6. One important factor that is often overlooked is the "hits per sale ratio". This indicates the number of hits that have to be made to a Text Link or Banner to generate a sale. This will give you an idea as to how much traffic is needed before a sale is made.

7. How often are commissions paid? This is another important matter that should be considered. Most reputed organizations pay their affiliates monthly or when they accumulate a minimum commission of $50 to $ 100 or as indicated by you. You should avoid any program that requires too many sales to reach the minimum amount.

8. Affiliate Programs are generally single tier or two tiers. A single tier program pays you for whatever business you have generated. On the other hand a two tier program pays you for the business you have generated and also a commission for the sales generated by a sub- affiliate, you have sponsored. A two tier program is always advantageous.

9. Long standing reputed organizations provide a whole range of tools and resources such as Banners, Text Links, Brochures, Websites and training for their affiliates. When choosing look out for such organizations because they certainly make life much easier and helps you grow your home based business.

10. Finally, you must read and understand the agreement before you join as an affiliate even if it happens to be the best organization in the world.

Understanding the Affiliate Agreement

The affiliate agreement created by the merchant and agreed by the affiliate, defines all aspects of the affiliate program and typically includes:

- Types of Web sites merchant will accept into the affiliate program

- Types of links allowed and guidelines regarding their use.

- Schedule and payments terms of fees and commissions

- Terms of usage of merchant logo, name and web content

- Technical specification that your web site must meet, if any

- Restrictions on types of content that may appear on affiliate sites

- Requirements for compliance with all government laws, ordinances, rules, and regulations.

Affiliate Tracking Systems

- Allow merchant to control how it credits click-throughs

- Monitor window of time in which affiliate can get credit for a click-through

- Record and store affiliate information

- Provide commission/fee reports

Affiliate management networks

An affiliate management network is a third-party entity that recruits affiliates, manages the registration process, tracks and properly credits all of the fee and commissions and arranges for payment. In return for these services, the affiliate management network collects from the merchant a percentage of each referral transaction's fee or commission-perhaps as much 30 percent.

Well-established affiliate management networks: Example: Commission Junction, LinkShare [2]

Affiliate tracking technologies

To achieve this we develop a strategic online relationship with advertisers to improve the creation, management, and analysis of online marketing and sales activities. These activities are supported by a scalable and reliable tracking technology. Keeping track of the click-throughs and properly crediting the affiliates is a complex programming task. Companies such as BeFree and ClickTrade sell software that automatically monitors and credits all followed links resulting in a sale. Note that ClickTrade was acquired by Microsoft and is now co-branded as part of Microsoft bCentral.

Some tracking technologies are following:

- Custom links containing affiliate information or affiliate and merchant information

- Tracking cookies

- Third-party tracking software

- Application service provider tracking service

- Sub Domain tracking

- Database record matching.

Affiliate Marketing Risks and Challenges

Affiliate marketing is not without certain risks and challenges primarily form unethical affiliates and the negative perceptions online consumers have about tracking technologies.

Unethical Affiliates

- Cookie stuffing - Multiple cookies placed on visitor's hard drive during a single visitor affiliate site.

- Spyware - General term used to describe software that has been installed on a personal computer without the owner's permission, its unknowingly download and install spyware when you download games, screensavers, freeware utilities and so forth.

- Parasiteware - Redirects affiliate links and Replaces content of existing tracking cookies

- Spammers - Merchant is responsible if affiliates use spam to promote sites

- Negative perception of tracking cookies - Many consumers install and use blocking software which includes Block tracking cookies and Delete tracking cookies.

Why Affiliate Marketing Is Profitable for E-Business

If you have been considering an affiliate marketing venture, there are some very good reasons why you should go with this method of generating recurring revenue. Here are some of the ways that affiliate marketing can be a lucrative means of creating income that will be stable and allow you to grow exposure over time.

- One of the first advantages of affiliate marketing for the new entrepreneur is that the startup cost is very low. Most companies that offer affiliate marketing programs do not require any type of monetary investment on the part of the affiliate.

- The second expenses are limited to what you have to pay to connect with the Internet, the software you may need to load on your computer, and a web site where the ads associated with the affiliate marketing program can be placed. With web site hosting such an inexpensive service these days, setting up your own web site for the affiliate ads will be a breeze.

- Another reason that affiliate marketing is such a moneymaker is the fact that there are so many different types of ways to set up the program. You can go with the pay per click option, which works out great when it comes to promoting special offers. Ads that lead to product review sites often are a way to allow product users to go through your portal and leave comments on the items they purchase.

First Thing's First-Avoid These Silly Affiliate Marketing Mistakes!

While affiliate marketing is a great way to earn a living, the fact is that many people become discouraged and drop out of programs. In many instances, the failure to be successful with affiliate marketing has to do with making a few simple mistakes. Here are some examples of those mistakes and why they should be avoided.

- A low-quality website with no original content and tossing in some affiliate links. While it is certainly true that you need to have a web site up and running in order to participate in an affiliate program, there is also the need to apply some effort to getting the word out about your site. Otherwise, the chances of people visiting your web site and clicking on one of the links are pretty slim.

- Another mistake many affiliate partners make is not choosing products that have some relevance to the content of your web site.

- Keeping your site content and the ads more or less relevant to one another will make it easier to generate revenue, and not fail as an affiliate marketer. Now, this may seem intuitive - but many make this mistake in subtle ways (i.e. they mismatch their customers with products).

- One final mistake that many affiliate marketers make is not sprucing up their web sites from time to time. Keeping the content fresh is one way of building and keeping a loyal reading audience because keeping the same old look and the same old text with nothing new to entice people back is a sure way to limit your chances at being a successful affiliate marketer. The fact is that you do have to proactively promote your site, keep the content fresh, and make sure the ads have some connection to the subject matter of your site.

What You Need Before Getting Started and Affiliated Marketing

While there is not a lot of expense in starting up as an affiliate marketer, there are a few things that you need to do if you really want to make money marketing other people's products.

Here are some basic tips to help you line up all your things to do before you ever sign up for that first affiliate program.

- One of the basic needs for any successful affiliate program is to have a web site of your own. While it is possible to purchase ad space on sites and to advertise through Google Adwords, this is short term strategy setting up a basic web site that has a particular focus will make all the difference in the world to the success of your program. Keep in mind that your web site does not have to be complicated with a lot of flash media, animation or other fancy bells and whistles.

- In fact, if you plan on focusing your attention on affiliate marketing strategies that target the home consumer, you are better off with a basic site that will load quickly on a dial up connection. After all, dial-up is still extremely popular in a number of locations.

- Online payments are a great way to easily receive your affiliate payments and keep track of your earnings. From this angel, you may want to look into opening an account with one of the more popular online services that send and receive funds. i.g PayPal

- Another important aspect is determining just what your contact information will be, regarding communication with your affiliate program. This would include an email Address and physical mailing address. The email address should be one you have set aside specifically for your marketing business.

How to Pick the Best Product with the Best Payout and Great Demand

- One of the first things to think in terms of when it comes to affiliate marketing is determining where your talents and expertise happen to reside. One of the keys to picking the best products for your particular situation have to do with what you know and how much you know about it. As an example, a person that has worked in telecommunications for a number of years will probably know a great deal about telephony, related services, and technology that are used within that industry.

- Another aspect about setting up with the right products to promote has to do with where you see a niche to fill in. Finding a population or business sector that appears to be largely ignored in the marketing process can provide the inspiration you need to create a successful affiliate marketing program.

- Do not allow yourself to get discouraged simply because everything is not crystal clear as you begin this part of the process. Practicing some patience and giving yourself time to find the right products to promote as part of the program will only serve to make you more dedicated to the success of the program

In the end, you will find the products that will lead to a very successful affiliate marketing scheme and provide you with not only a handsome revenue stream, but also a lot of personal satisfaction.

Recommended Top Affiliate Networks on the Internet

When you decide to enter the world of affiliate marketing, there are a number of markets that are worthy of consideration. Here are three programs that have captured the attention of a lot of people, simply because of their stability and reliability.

1. Perhaps the best known of the three programs is Click Bank: clickbank. There a number of reasons why people find ClickBank such an attractive option when it comes to affiliate programs. One aspect is that the revenue generated by any purchase made through the ad portal is credited to your account within two minutes of the completion of the transaction. Because Click Bank provides such a comprehensive tracking program.

2. pavdotcom is also an excellent choice as an affiliate network. Just as with ClickBank, PayDotCom provides an easy to use affiliate interface that allows you to view your numbers in real time. You can easily track such data as the number of clicks on the ads and the amount of commissions you have made by directing visitors over to the marketplace through the portal on your web site. One of the advantages of PayDotCom is that this program will interface with your PayPal account, which means that vendors can send your monthly commission directly to your PayPal account. It is important to note that not all vendors will use PayPal as a payment method, so you may still receive payments by check as well.

3. shareasale is a third option that is rapidly gaining recognition among affiliate marketers. As a program that is designed to match up to the content of your existing web site, Share sale is free to join as an affiliate.

Rising to the Super Affiliate Level - What Constitutes a Super Affiliate?

A super affiliate is a marketing affiliate that has created a network that provides a high volume of traffic to affiliate products and a high percentage of completed sales from that traffic. The super affiliate is not one who reaches this level once, or even once in a great while.

- Creativity is an hallmark of a super affiliate. The ability to present the same old information is new ways will keep people interested. Super affiliates know how to look at products from a variety of different angles, determine a series of ways to present the product, and then go out and find an audience to match up with each one of those ways. For the super affiliate, there is always one more way to draw attention to a product, and find a larger audience than ever before.

- Another characteristic of a super affiliate is the desire and ability to master technology. This does not necessarily involve becoming an expert in information technology. But it does involve learning enough about existing technology to make good use of avenues already open on the Internet to promote products.

- Making the most of your status as a super affiliate means enjoying the opportunities that come to you through word of mouth; additionally, it means taking matters into your own hands and promoting your status in such a way that you increase your visibility.

The Super Affiliate Marketing Tactics Exposed!

So what is it that allows a super affiliate to make hundreds or even thousands of sales when you struggle to make 5 sales of the same product? Why is that super affiliates rake in the cash while you struggle to get by? Think about this carefully: you are both selling the exact same product. The only possible difference is the tactics you use to market it. Below, we have included a couple tactics that we should use to sell more like super affiliates. Try to incorporate them into your strategy.

Tactic #1: Play the Long Game

Whenever some new launch is coming up, they will throw together a promotional website; and try to direct traffic to it using pay per click search engine advertisements or solo ads. But there is a major flaw with this approach: almost without exception, people will purchase a "big launch" product from an Internet marketer they already know this is why you have to play the long game, rather than focusing on each individual launch, prepare an approach that will work consistently for years to make more sales.

Tactic #2: Steal from Super Affiliates Whenever Possible

Many super affiliates are also big name Internet marketers. They have public personas that we can follow quite easily. We can find their user ld's, blogs, mailing lists and their web site's. Through this approach we can learn from each of them.

Tactic #3: Ignore Talk; Look for Revealed Preference

Talk is just that: talk. Many Internet marketers will talk about all sorts of different methods you can use to make money. They will tell you to advertise using Google AdWords or to build a list or to create viral reports. While some of this information may be useful and legitimate, we should ignore what they say and watch what they do. This is called "revealed preference.

Tactic #4: Make Friends with the Seller

Believe it or not, the seller wants you to be successful, too. So contact him ahead of time, make friends with him; and see if he has any particular advice for you on selling the product. Keep in mind that he talks to a lot of affiliates on a regular basis (especially around big launches) and has the best understanding of the tactics they actually use.

Become a Supreme Affiliate Marketing: Additional Supreme Affiliate Marketing Tips

If you want to make a six figure income - and possibly a seven figure income - then you have to do something that is truly different than what you are doing now. The big question is "how can I do this"? Here's following suggestion:

Tip #1: Start Acting Like a Business Owner

If you want to be a successful affiliate product marketer, you have to find people who can augment your weakness (and, trust me, no matter how smart you are, you have plenty of weaknesses). Additionally, affiliate marketers do not work in isolation. Most of them are friends with the marketers they sell products for; and this gives them far more leverage and information than you have access to. So start thinking of yourself as a business owner, rather than a completely self-sufficient Internet marketer.

Tip #2: Concentrate on Regular Sales

Regular sales are easier to quantify and predict; and, for this reason, it is far easier to continually ramp up small, regular sales until you are making hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars each year. So don't worry if you're the top affiliate for some major new product launch. Instead, focus on regular sales and regular increases in sales.

Tip #3: Do What They Do - Not What They Say

Observe the channels of marketer through which he promotes his product. Watch carefully to determine what methods he's using to make sales, so you can replicate his successes, rather than chasing after dreams he's written about.

Conclusion

We may conclude that choosing an Affiliate Program that is right for you might be time consuming but a worth while process. Going through the above whole process will also be a learning curve for new entrepreneurs who are serious about starting a successful home based business. So there is an opportunity for business students and young entrepreneur to develop a simple website with limited budget that can be arranged easily through their own personal savings. This website can be developed with only $100 to $200 (Approximately). You can increase your business growth through adopting the approach where you can affiliate your business with different websites having relevancy with your business and internet heavy traffic as well.

Finally there's no single path to affiliate marketing riches - and that's a good thing. Instead, there are many pathways through which you can make your millions. So scout carefully, look for functional methods you can use, and implement them in your own efforts. You may be surprised with the results. But whatever you do - don't continue to use strategies that haven't worked in the past. Always think like super affiliates because they use a range of tactics and adopt different ways in order to consistently outperform other affiliates. But one thing you should always play the long game and build lists, create forums, and secure a captive audience in advance of product releases.

Aknowledgement

The Author indebted to Ms.Umera Imtinan, Lecturer Comsats Unversity,Lahore for her suggestion to write this article.

References

1. Napier Albert. "Book: Creating a Winning E-Business", 2nd edition, p256-257

2. Article, "Affiliate marketing",zeald.com/Services".

3. Article, "Affiliate Marketing Strategy for E-Business", "resources.alibaba.com".

4. Article, "Affiliate tracking", "kleindesigns.com".

5. Online Book, "Super Affiliate Marketing Secrets: Gain the Edge You Need to Become a Super Affiliate Marketer" "free-ebooks".

6. Internet Article, "Top 10 Tips for Choosing the Affiliate Program That Is Right for You"," articlesbase.com"

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Hi folks
Over the past while I have got a number of requests to change my blog -- firstly to something more concrete and specific and also to be a bit more consistent but also varied -- I have decided to address affiliate marketing for a few weeks and then look at email marketing.  Also if you have any ideas then let me know
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Are You an Internet Marketer?

By Barry Sheppard

Marketing on the internet is a great way to generate revenue for any business. Chances are, if you own a business and are an internet user you are already using at least one form of internet marketing and you may not even realize it. There are a variety of different ways that entrepreneurs can promote their products or services online. Marketing on the internet is not limited to a full scale, organized internet marketing campaign. This article will discuss a few of the more common ways the internet can be used as a marketing tool.
Most business owners have a website to provide clients and prospective customers with information about the products or services they offer, even if their business isn't operated online. Even if your website is not updated on a regular basis and you may not actively promote it to generate more traffic, it is still a tool that can generate new clients for your business. This type of low maintenance advertising is referred to as passive marketing on the internet.

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Another common form of internet marketing that many business owners do unintentionally involves participation in message boards and forums. Many entrepreneurs interact with others who share their interests on various forums and message boards, some closely relating to their specific industry. If you participate in a forum, include a link to your business website in your signature line to generate more interest in the product or service you are offering. This is an enjoyable and subtle form of marketing on the internet that can see tremendous results, especially if you frequent boards related to your product.
Search engine optimization (SEO) and keyword density are two highly influential terms in the field of internet marketing and, like many other methods of online marketing, both of these techniques are often practiced without knowing it. If you use specific words on your website to describe your business that are words commonly used by internet users to search for businesses like yours, you are marketing on the internet through search engine optimization. This natural use of wording in your web content allows your website to be indexed by search engines so potential clients can find your site. Even without having advanced knowledge of these widely used internet marketing techniques, you can enjoy their benefits.
Another easy way to use the internet to market your business is with the use of online surveys. Asking your customers for their opinions and feedback about your products and services can be very beneficial to the growth of you business. Online surveys, email questionnaires, and other methods of soliciting feedback online are all considered forms of marketing on the internet. This type of marketing has been practiced for years as a means of growing and expanding a business.
There are many, many different ways that business owners can use the internet to market their products and services. From a simple business website with natural keyword SEO to participating in forums and soliciting customer feedback online, you have probably already been marketing on the internet without even realizing it. Business owners who are already enjoying some of the benefits of internet marketing through these subtle techniques may want to further their results with a more complex internet marketing campaign. There are professional internet marketing consultants you can hire to help you produce the most effective campaign.
Barry Sheppard is the author of 15 books, featured on Amazon & Google. He is now concentrating on writing various Ebooks and articles for his members. Subjects are diverse such as Making Your Video, Writing Your Ebook, LottoBuster, Cooks Secret Recipes and Writing Your Novel.
Being a very experienced writer with over 25 years experience, he has helped budding authors and can help you to get your book written. http://www.novelmaster.com

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The Secrets To Online Marketing Success Revealed

Negative Secrets Revealed About Your Internet Marketing Business And How They Will Help You

By George Pierce

One Magical Site...one quick visit... one instant download...and PRESTO...in just one step, your Internet Marketing Business finds overnight Internet riches?
Now revealed: negative secrets about your Internet Marketing Business!
BAD NEWS, BUT... MOST DEFINITELY, WORTHY OF YOUR ATTENTION
If you have, or are about to start an Internet Marketing Business...please read on...you will be glad you did.
Can an Internet Marketing Business really turn you into an instant MILLIONAIRE? Yes...but it is something like drilling for oil. Drilling for oil? If you are like Jed Clampett, your chances of striking oil are slim to none. If you are a large, rich, oil company with vast resources, cutting edge technology, the latest and greatest equipment and a little luck...your chances are much improved.
If you are an aspiring Internet marketer, there is not likely going to be one book or one report or one tool or one piece of software or one membership site or one download that will make you rich. Can you get rich off the net...again, yes...but your chances are about the same as in any other business... about 3 to 5 % and latest figures lean more toward 3%.
Can you make a living off the net? Yes, but still only a small percent do so. Here are some of the secrets that you need to be aware of....THE NEGATIVE SECRETS!
The negative secrets?

• You are usually working alone, instead of with others. Two or more heads are better than one. If you have a question, problem, or need advice, you have only yourself (find a reliable source of help...see author's bio).
• You have no boss. Bosses can be of help, bosses can train, bosses can answer questions, can correct mistakes, etc.
• You have no plan. You will need a plan, a process, an outline, a track to run on.
• You do not treat your Internet Marketing Business like a business. Most Internet marketers treat their Internet Marketing Business as a hobby or a sideline. If it is just a hobby, OK. If you want to realize growth and profit and more, you will need to run your business like a business.
• You are led to believe that there is a magical, mystical process (ebook, download etc. that contains all the answers). You will find that your Internet marketing business will take time...uh oh...time...NOT instant...NOT overnight. "The Process" is a learning process ...a continuous learning process which takes TIME.
• You spend unnecessary money on these magical processes. Most aspiring Internet marketers are guilty of purchasing these magical processes, only to find that they were USELESS (experienced marketers...will purchase these individually or as a group in order to test drive them before recommending them as an affiliate).
• You are not aware of an overwhelming learning curve that CANNOT be bypassed. You purchased your magical process and that is all you think you need....WHOA! If you were lucky enough to make a GOOD purchase...you still and always will have much to learn...never ending. If your purchase was a poor process, then you are building your Internet marketing business on a bad foundation, and you do not know it.
• You are not aware of the time and effort that you will need to invest. You will need to spend time for your business and you MUST set aside time to learn and learn and learn.

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Am I trying to depress you...NO. Why so negative, then? Your being aware of these facts will be of significant help.
HOW? How can all this negative stuff be of any help or value? Please bear with me.
If you are running a business and there is a problem...you fix it. With a new Internet marketing business and with many established Internet marketing businesses, there may be a number of problems...but...these problems are not fixed. Huh? How can you fix a problem...if...if you do not know that you have a problem...if you do not know what the problem is...if you know what the problem is, but are not aware of the solution. If you are fortunate enough to be able to identify the problem(s)...you are probably able to fix it or will soon find a solution. Knowledge is the key, and you can only acquire this knowledge through dedicated learning.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it...unfortunately, for most, it is broke and you don't know it!
Enough negatives...let us look at some positives that might help.
Knowledge...be aware that you have much to learn and since the net is changing so fast, be aware that you will always need to be learning. Ugh, all this learning sounds like work. If you are allergic to work, well, you are probably too lazy to read this far, but if you have read this far ...do us both a favor (email me ...see author's bio...when you find that one hour per day Internet marketing business plan that will create thousands or millions of dollars, overnight).
Do you really believe that you can get something for nothing? "You reap what you sow" is not just a saying, it is a
LAW OF NATURE. You can ignore that law...it is still the law. You can embrace that law, exploit that law, and make some money! The more you sow the more you reap! Think about this, please. The more you put in, the more you will receive. Yes...that means work, time, and effort...but you will be rewarded accordingly.
There are few opportunities other than Internet marketing that can offer so much (if you will do your part). I remember a supervisory position that I had, I ran 90%+ production and 2-3% reject rate...the other supervisors averaged 70% production (Uptime) and 12-15% reject rate. So what...who cares...bottom line was that after a few years I had gotten all the raises that I could (I made $5.00 per week less than my boss and could only advance if someone left or died). The "reap what you sow " law had maxed out, but will never max out on the net! PS...how did I achieve such results...after about a year, I learned how to be in two places at once, which made things easier-grin.
I wish that I could say that if you learn all you can and work as hard as you can that you will be assured of Internet Marketing Business success. I can promise you this...do not learn and do not work and you can definitely be assured of failure! There are also other ingredients such as attitude and self esteem...see author's bio.
I have put together websites full of resources and helpful information (see author's bio), and the thread that runs through these websites, ebooks, reports etc., is...the necessity to learn and learn and work and work at your Internet Marketing Business.
There are laws of nature that apply to all businesses and the Internet is no different. There are many scammers that want you to believe that there is a secret magical formula which will make any Internet marketing business rich in no time and they have it...and you can download it for so many dollars. It has been our experience that over 90% of these offers are worthless, so be careful when making a purchase. This unfortunate fact has led us to the establishment of an Internet Marketing Business testing and review committee...membership is free but each member has their share of testing, evaluation and cost. What does this mean to you? Our ability to do more testing and find more products that are worthy not worthless! Our intention is that we do not recommend any product, service, software, download etc. that we would not use ourselves. By the way, "What goes around, comes around" is another one of those laws, and we choose to embrace it.
Most internet marketing business opportunities are designed to capitalize on "GREED", "YOUR GREED". Again, please be careful about your purchases.
Why?
Cost, of course, is important and wasting your money is no fun...but even more importantly, is the fact that you will get burned and burned and burned and sooner or later, quit. If 9 out of 10 opportunities are useless, then your chances of getting the help and direction that you need are only about 10%...not too good. With care and research (do not buy on impulse), your chances are much improved.
In conclusion: Your Internet Marketing Business will benefit more from wise and generous investment of your time and effort, rather than your money. When you do make a monetary investment for your Internet Marketing Business, please look before you leap...uh oh...another one of those laws?-smile.
I hope you have found value in this article. Please visit author's Bio for information and help.
Thank you for reading and much success,
George Pierce
Founder of: The Place to be is Here
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