by ZK on February 23, 2010
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My Affiliate buddy Jonathan Volk launched a step by step guide for aspiring affiliate marketers titled – Affiliate Marketing 101. He generated over $ 4 million last year in affiliate sales and know what he is talking, he is the right person in case you wish to learn affiliate marketing. It’s a free download, all you need to do is subscribe to his email newsletter to get access to the affiliate marketing guide.
The book has very solid resources and tips to help you make your first dollar with affiliate marketing. Johnathan covers almost all aspects of affiliate marketing in the book, he focuses on how you can making money using social media and PPC resources.
Below are the sections that you ll find in the Affiliate Marketing 101 Guide :
- Introduction -
- What Is Affiliate Marketing?
- What Is An Affiliate Network?
- Recommended Affiliate Networks
- How Does All This Come Together?
- The “Pregame”
- The “Pregame” Pt. 2 – Know Your Demographics
- The “Pregame” Pt. 3 – Setting Up Hosting / Domain Name
- Setting Up A Simple PHP Redirect
- The Landing Page
- Affiliate Marketing Methods (Basic Overview)
- Social Media Affiliate Marketing Guide
- Pay Per View Affiliate Marketing Guide
- Pay Per Click Affiliate Marketing Guide
- Media Buying Affiliate Marketing Guide
- After Your Campaigns Are Ready To Launch
- Conclusion
Jonathan is also running a promotion to launch the guide, when you download the book you are automatically entered into the promotion with a referral id. The contest is to send as many referrals as you can to the affiliate marketing guide. The two most referrals will win an Apple iPad. Jonathan also has random prizes and giveaways. It’s a great concept to promote an ebook launch.
Download the Affiliate Marketing 101 Guide.
by ZK on December 16, 2009
Affiliates are arguably the most important thing when you launch a product – even if the product isn’t amazing, as long as you have plenty of affiliates, your project could still be a success. That’s just an example of the power of getting affiliates to promote, and indeed sell, your product.
However, although the power of using affiliates is unrivaled when it comes to sources of sales, if you don’t use the right tactics, you won’t attract affiliates, and in this scenario you won’t make any affiliate sales. This would quite simply be a disaster.
So, how can you encourage affiliates to sign up to your program and, more importantly, make some sales? I’ve listed a few techniques below that will hopefully help you out.
High Commission Rate
The first and most obvious thing you need to do is to set a reasonably high commission rate. If potential affiliates see that they could get amount by selling the product, they’re more likely to sign up. It’s just basic common sense really, but I’ll include it anyway. Commission rates of 30 % upwards is a great motivating factor for any affiliate to promote your products.
Limited Time Offers
If you’ve ever launched a product, one of the methods you may use to increase sales and brand exposure is a limited time offer, whereby people can get the product at a discounted price or with a bonus, but only for a certain time period. This is a really effective way of increasing sales, and it can also be applied to affiliates.
For example, the way to do this is to offer affiliates a larger commission, so long as they do something by a certain date.
Let’s use an example to illustrate this further…
You are planning on launching your product on the 1st February, and want to give affiliates a 30% commission. Here’s what you can say to potential affiliates:
• ‘If you sign up to the affiliate program before 15th February, you will earn 50% commission on all products you sell’
• ‘Any sales you make between the 1st of February and the 1st of March will come with a 50% commission’.
You can develop this point further, just as long as you put some sort of time limit on the offer, you should hopefully see an increase in affiliate sign ups and sales.
Run An Affiliate Contest
This is, in my opinion, one of the best ways. You can run a competition where affiliates can compete to win prizes. I saw a contest like this recently where the first person to make 500 sales won a holiday, and I’ve even seen prizes such as cars being given away! Whilst your contest doesn’t have to be quite as elaborate as this, they’re a great way of increasing affiliates’ productivity.
Create Some Awesome Graphics
No doubt when you visit blogs, you’ll see adverts. There are even some on this blog, and I have them on my site, too. A lot of the ads you will see are affiliate adverts, and you always seem to see the same ones over and over. This is because the company has provided affiliate with adverts that the affiliates will happily display on their website.
You need to design awesome adverts to give to your affiliates if you want a successful program, so if you’re not too hot on designing them yourself, it’s well worth spending the money to get cool graphics. It’s a small price to pay for a successful affiliate program!
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by ZK on November 30, 2009
This article is guest posted by Melvin from MelvinBlog.com
Affiliate Marketing has been in the business since the late 90’s (or some would even early 90’s) and it has just continued to thrive and grow bigger and bigger as of today. For those who don’t know, affiliate marketing, in the simplest way, is a person promoting other people’s product or offer in exchange for an affiliate commission when a sale or lead has been generated.
I would say affiliate marketing is the most hardcore way of making money. Although its probably risky because its easy to lose a ton of money in it, once you get the proper stroke you could start really making big sort of income faster than what you could imagine. But how? Well I believe affiliate marketing is a broad topic and today I am going to give you different types of business models for affiliate marketing. Without further ado, here they are:
PPC Affiliate Marketing – This is what most “behind the scenes” affiliate marketers do. The process is simple. They pick an offer from an affiliate network, do a landing page (or some just direct-link) and then go to major pay per click networks like Google Adwords, MSN AdCenter and Yahoo Search Marketing to purchase traffic. The main challenge here is to do a lot of testing and tweaking. Most people lose big money at first, but then as soon as they find the right keywords, best ad copy and whatever, they start raking in really a big amount of revenue.
“Bloggers-style” Affiliate Marketing - Most of the well known bloggers do well by using this style. Basically this happens when two bloggers have a business relationship and decides to do joint ventures. One blogger would actually write a review of a product of the other blogger and when someone buys under him, the blogger would get compensated. Popular bloggers like Yaro Starak, John Chow and Darren Rowse are the ones that benefit from this the most. Not a lot of people become successful with this because in order for one to make a considerable amount, he/she must first have a huge influence and following
Social Media Based Affiliate Marketing – Have you seen those IQ Quizzes and Tests? How about those free downloads? This is what I call social media marketing. The idea here is to pick an offer that would entice a certain demographic in social media sites like Facebook, MySpace and etc. Since weight loss and male enhancement offers don’t suit that much with the people in these social sites, affiliate marketers opt to run quizzes types of offers and it has proven to really give a good return for them.
Incentivized Affiliate Marketing – If you’ve seen people offering something in exchange for making a purchase under them, thats incentivized marketing. This one can fall into the “bloggers-style” marketing, but I prefer to have them separated because there are huge number of websites (they are not bloggers) doing it . Those get-paid-to sites are usually the ones who are thriving for it because of their huge member’s list.
Note: Most offers don’t allow incentivization so make sure first to confirm this with them before trying to incentivize.
What’s the best method? As like anything, it depends. Depends on what type of business you are, how much start-up loss you could handle, and what can suit you the most. For me, I would say the PPC Affiliate Marketing is the one I like the most simply because it’s the one of the first things I’ve done online.
So what’s your say? Is there still something to add on the list? Or am I missing something important? Let me know what you think by using the contact form below
This guest post is written by Melvin Dichoso. Melvin is a young internet marketer and blogger who’s been doing online business for more than 2 years now. He blogs at MelvinBlog.com where he shares all the good stuffs he has for his readers. You can follow him at Twitter as well.
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by ZK on September 23, 2009
Affiliate marketing is a big and growing online industry, most of the top internet marketers are also super affiliates. While the potential to make money with affiliate products is huge, the ‘know how’ or the ‘how to make money with affiliate products’ is not easy to find.
There are only a handful of good resources online that will help you get started with affiliate marketing and teach you how you can make money promoting affiliate products. But these good resources cost money and that can be a road block for a newbie who wants to learn about affiliate marketing.
But if you want to learn about affiliate marketing at no cost to you then you need to check out Sean Morrissy’s 6 Day Weekend. It’s an educational affiliate marketing training program that will teach you everything you need to know about affiliate marketing and its absolutely FREE. Now, this is not a free run of the mill ebook downloads, the free membership site is an extensive set of 90 videos that will teach you everything you need to know about starting an affiliate marketing business and profiting from it.
Each video is about 8 minutes and very easy to understand. Now 8 minutes x 90 videos is 720 minutes or 12 hours of FREE affiliate marketing & training videos and all at no cost to you.
FREE Affiliate Marketing & Training Videos
These FREE video’s are categorized into lessons that are critical to your success as an affiliate marketer. The categories are mentioned below :
-Affiliate Basics
-Affiliate Content Factory
-Introduction to Information Marketing
-CPA Networks
-Pay Per Click
-Search Engine Optimisation
-Social Marketing
-Email Marketing
-Outsource
-Personal Philosophy
-Web Mastering
Some of the affiliate lessons have more than 12 videos that focus on all aspects of the affiliate lesson. Sean has been a successful affiliate marketer himself so it will be worthwhile to spend your time watching these affiliate marketing & training videos.
Sean Morrissy’s Apprenticeship Program
Sean also runs a one on one coaching program to help you become a profitable affiliate marketer, the login site also has live examples of people who joined Sean’s Apprenticeship program have become successful affiliates making a six figure yearly income from marketing affiliate products. The best part about the program is the personal touch and without any coaching through ebooks or online webinairs.
Check the FREE Affiliate Marketing & Training Videos
What is T3Leads ?
T3Leads is an affiliate marketing company that operates in a very specialized niche, it focuses on lead generation or CPA (cost per action ) offers in the financial domain.
What do I have to do as an Affiliate Marketer ?
As an affiliate marketer if you promote T3Leads’ advertisers you’ll be paid on a cost per lead basis. The cost per lead basis can be anywhere between $ 5 to $ 75 per lead. The CPA (cost per action or lead) model is a very lucrative model where as an affiliate marketer you don’t have to worry about getting your commission based on sale. As soon as your blog reader fills in a small form and a few fields of information you make a commission.
T3Leads has high payout offers for their affiliate products, if you have an audience that is targeted for the product you market T3Leads products will add to your blog revenue.
T3Leads has offerings in the following niches : Insurance, Mortgage Loans, Foreclosures, Auto Loans, Debts & Payday Loans affiliate program. The affiliate network also has high payouts for payday loans leads and their other affiliate products.
Below are 5 reasons why you should become an affiliate marketer with T3Leads
1) Exhaustive promo tools :
If you want to succeed as an affiliate marketer, you need to have an arsenal of promo tools – banners of various sizes, emailers and ppc marketing keywords and ad samples. Without access to any of these tool, it wil be next to impossible for you succeed as an affiliate marketer. T3Leads provides you with exhaustive promo tools that are constantly refreshed by their creative team.
2) High conversion rates :
The high quality of T3Leads promo tools ensures high conversion rates for affiliate marketers. T3leads guarantees the highest conversion rates in the affiliate industry ranging from 1:6 to 1:9
3) Strict code of conduct for generated leads :
T3leads does not resell generated leads. Their affiliate program directly cooperates with a large network of banks and other financial institutions. They sell generated leads through a unique auction system that allows affiliates to make maximum profits. They pay for each customer sent to them when they respond to your offers for qualified products and services.
4) Friendly support system :
- Friendly affiliate support is always available, and ready with answers to any question. The support team can also help with technical problems. You can also find answers to commonly asked questions on their forum.
4) Get rewarded for being a top affiliate :
- T3leads is one of those few affiliate networks in which top performing affiliates are rewarded by giving them surprise gifts like iPod Classic, Camcorders, Digital Camera, iPod Touch, Laptop etc. Also once you earn $300 with them, then you can order a free ePassporte card for your convenience. You can get a VIP ePassporte card free of charge, with a total maximum transaction limit of 10K per day.
Join T3Leads as an Affiliate Marketer
