The Internet is growing constantly with no signs of stopping or slowing down any time soon so if you’ve made the decision to get into Affiliate Marketing you have made a good decision. Affiliate marketing is going to be around for along time. As a new affiliate marketer you want to sell in a program that is sold through a billing environment that is totally secure. One constantly asked question in Affiliate marketing is “Where to find the absolute best affiliate products to sell?”
When selecting a product there are some things you should look for, the price of the product as well as the percentage on commissions, this is very important because everybody is looking for a great return on there time and investment. Some sites make it harder to earn a good profit because the price they charge for there product is very cheap for e.g. sites like Amazon sell there product so cheap that the percentage pay out on that site would be very low, Compare $16.95 hard-cover books to a 49.99 e-book – if you got 50% commission on both which would you choose to promote?
A good program to start is an Affiliate Clickbank Program by selling products from Click bank. They have thousands of products to promote with very high percentage payouts and most importantly they pay you your commission on time, they pay you directly not like a lot of other affiliate programs that pay late or sometimes not at all. They have products to sell in nearly any niche market plus commissions range can form 50-75% with products with a high price tag.
As an affiliate marketer you might want to try different affiliate systems to see which one works best for you. One of the good things with Affiliate marketing is that you don’t have to limit yourself to promoting only one site, you can promote as much as you want and increase your profit potential. Other good sites to consider are Commission Junction, LinkShare, PayDotCome, Success University and PIPS all these are just as good as Click bank.
Combining different affiliate programs allow you to make money from different sites, at first you might just use one affiliate site but as your skills improve you might decide to promote more than one or just specialize in a particular niche. One site that combines six affiliates is the Plug in Profits site, this site consists of - Adminder, SFI Marketing, Success University, Leisure Audio Books Empowerism, and Host4Profit.
When making a choice may it be an affiliate Clickbank program or any other, you need to be very careful because the first thing you want to do is build an opt-in list and start building a relationship with your subscribers, you want to offer your subscribers the best possible products and not stain your reputation by offering bad affiliate products. Most of these big affiliate sites have training material and free software to help you promote you site so make sure and look for it; this can help you make tons of money. To learn more about Affiliate Clickbank Program check out the attached link.
8/09/2009
@How To Choose The Best Affiliate Program For You?
Choosing a good affiliate program is an important step to start your affiliate business, especially if you're a newbie. Choosing a wrong program will ruin your business. Many of my students ask me, "how to generate traffic and sales for my website?" When I see their niche, it's always about "money making". Oh gosh, that's the must-avoid niche for newbie.
Find affiliate programs that are free to join. There are hundreds of choices, so don't waste your money to join a paid affiliate program. Select an affiliate program that suited with your payment time. Different affiliate program have different schedule to pay commission checks.
Another thing to analyze is hit per sale ratio. Hit per sale ratio is the average number of hits takes to generate a sale. Find an affiliate program that has a high traffic ratio. Most newbie failed because they promote a product that has low sales from affiliate statistics.
Find out how long your affiliate cookie remains in the system. Make sure the program can track you as the person who refers those people. Search for a program that has a longer period of time. Most visitors don't buy the product at the first time.
Some affiliate programs also pay for impression and hits. This could be a benefit if the programs have low sales. Some of the programs also pay commissions for 2 tier. That means you will get commission for each sales from your affiliates you refer. So you will get double commissions.
Lastly, the most important thing that cannot be missed is how much the commission paid. You can find affiliate programs that give commissions up to 75% in clickbank. Don't waste your time to promote a program that only give you commissions lower than 50%.
Make sure you analyze the product before start to make a website and promoting it. These are only a few aspects that you need to analyze first.
Everybody knows that affiliate marketing is an easy way to earn money online. Unfortunately, everyone knows it and everyone doing it. The competition is getting high and you need to stand out of the crowd to be succeeded in this business.
There are always new challenges every day, as people began to develop new kinds of strategy and tactics to promote their affiliate programs. That’s why you must always think out of the box so your affiliate program will work effectively and getting more earnings.
Today I will show you the most powerful promotion tool that will increase your sales greatly, streaming videos. Show them in video forms, what are the capabilities of your offered product. They will be interested on how they will able to do it too. Most importantly, they will believe that you are offering them a good product.
How to create a streaming screen captured video? I recommend Camtasia software. It is the best screen capturing software that I ever found. It is very easy to create a video and everyone can do it at the first time. You can record the process on how to use the program you are promoting, or show them your online bank account and the program is really making your bank account explode.
With Camtasia, you can record anything that happens on your monitor. It recorded directly and you can convert them into web pages instantly. After that, just upload the pages and people can see your video in streaming mode.
When people see your video, those who are skeptics will believe what you’ve show them. It will also reduce refunds, because you have showed them how to use the programs. You can use the video to be promoted on social networking site like myspace or friendster. When you write your affiliate website, they will come to your site if they think that they need more information. Don’t forget to put your website in your video.
Based on the survey, a promotion that includes images will increase sales by 400%. It will be higher if it were videos. You can also minimize the communication with your customers. You have showed them how to do it on the videos, and if any of them can understand, so does the others.
You can use video for entertainment and fun purposes with Camtasia. It can also become a viral marketing strategy to make people pass your video to their friends.
Do you want to learn more about how I do it? I have just completed (yesterday) my brand new guide to affiliate marketing success, 'Internet Marketing Success'.
Find affiliate programs that are free to join. There are hundreds of choices, so don't waste your money to join a paid affiliate program. Select an affiliate program that suited with your payment time. Different affiliate program have different schedule to pay commission checks.
Another thing to analyze is hit per sale ratio. Hit per sale ratio is the average number of hits takes to generate a sale. Find an affiliate program that has a high traffic ratio. Most newbie failed because they promote a product that has low sales from affiliate statistics.
Find out how long your affiliate cookie remains in the system. Make sure the program can track you as the person who refers those people. Search for a program that has a longer period of time. Most visitors don't buy the product at the first time.
Some affiliate programs also pay for impression and hits. This could be a benefit if the programs have low sales. Some of the programs also pay commissions for 2 tier. That means you will get commission for each sales from your affiliates you refer. So you will get double commissions.
Lastly, the most important thing that cannot be missed is how much the commission paid. You can find affiliate programs that give commissions up to 75% in clickbank. Don't waste your time to promote a program that only give you commissions lower than 50%.
Make sure you analyze the product before start to make a website and promoting it. These are only a few aspects that you need to analyze first.
Everybody knows that affiliate marketing is an easy way to earn money online. Unfortunately, everyone knows it and everyone doing it. The competition is getting high and you need to stand out of the crowd to be succeeded in this business.
There are always new challenges every day, as people began to develop new kinds of strategy and tactics to promote their affiliate programs. That’s why you must always think out of the box so your affiliate program will work effectively and getting more earnings.
Today I will show you the most powerful promotion tool that will increase your sales greatly, streaming videos. Show them in video forms, what are the capabilities of your offered product. They will be interested on how they will able to do it too. Most importantly, they will believe that you are offering them a good product.
How to create a streaming screen captured video? I recommend Camtasia software. It is the best screen capturing software that I ever found. It is very easy to create a video and everyone can do it at the first time. You can record the process on how to use the program you are promoting, or show them your online bank account and the program is really making your bank account explode.
With Camtasia, you can record anything that happens on your monitor. It recorded directly and you can convert them into web pages instantly. After that, just upload the pages and people can see your video in streaming mode.
When people see your video, those who are skeptics will believe what you’ve show them. It will also reduce refunds, because you have showed them how to use the programs. You can use the video to be promoted on social networking site like myspace or friendster. When you write your affiliate website, they will come to your site if they think that they need more information. Don’t forget to put your website in your video.
Based on the survey, a promotion that includes images will increase sales by 400%. It will be higher if it were videos. You can also minimize the communication with your customers. You have showed them how to do it on the videos, and if any of them can understand, so does the others.
You can use video for entertainment and fun purposes with Camtasia. It can also become a viral marketing strategy to make people pass your video to their friends.
Do you want to learn more about how I do it? I have just completed (yesterday) my brand new guide to affiliate marketing success, 'Internet Marketing Success'.
@Affiliate Marketing: Characteristics Of A Good Affiliate Program
Affiliate Marketing has developed into an Internet marketing specialty. Not everyone can do it effectively. It’s not real hard, but it is tedious work and requires some attention to detail. The best affiliate marketing programs all have certain characteristics that make them successful. Here are a few of the most important characteristics of an affiliate marketing program:
Pays monthly - This is a big one. If you don’t pay often enough you’ll lose affiliates and you can’t grow without affiliates.
Pays generously - This is perhaps the most important determinant of whether an affiliate marketing program will succeed. Pay your affiliates well and they will stick with you. Don’t, and they will leave.
Two-tiered structure - Two-tiered affiliate programs are under rated, but the best affiliate marketing programs pay people for recruiting other affiliates. The second tier doesn’t have to be much. It can be about 10% or even 5% of the affiliate commission (which I highly recommend be about 50% for most products), but at 5% of the affiliate commission your affiliates will recruit others to join their sales team and you will succeed all the more.
Provides support materials - Banners, sales pages, other resources. Whatever will help your affiliates be better affiliates, that’s what you need to do. Support them and they’ll support you.
Communicates with affiliates on a regular basis - Really. Don’t leave your sales team hanging. Either write a blog just for your affiliates, start an e-zine just for them, or both. But you have to communicate with them on a regular basis so that they don’t feel abandoned.
Offers specials - Every now and then you need to run a special, or a contest. This is motivational. It gets people excited and motivated, excited affiliates work harder to sell your products.
If you want your affiliates to be successful, you’ve got to give them the tools to do so. Otherwise, they will abandon you like a sinking ship and you’ll be left selling your own cold, stale products.
Pays monthly - This is a big one. If you don’t pay often enough you’ll lose affiliates and you can’t grow without affiliates.
Pays generously - This is perhaps the most important determinant of whether an affiliate marketing program will succeed. Pay your affiliates well and they will stick with you. Don’t, and they will leave.
Two-tiered structure - Two-tiered affiliate programs are under rated, but the best affiliate marketing programs pay people for recruiting other affiliates. The second tier doesn’t have to be much. It can be about 10% or even 5% of the affiliate commission (which I highly recommend be about 50% for most products), but at 5% of the affiliate commission your affiliates will recruit others to join their sales team and you will succeed all the more.
Provides support materials - Banners, sales pages, other resources. Whatever will help your affiliates be better affiliates, that’s what you need to do. Support them and they’ll support you.
Communicates with affiliates on a regular basis - Really. Don’t leave your sales team hanging. Either write a blog just for your affiliates, start an e-zine just for them, or both. But you have to communicate with them on a regular basis so that they don’t feel abandoned.
Offers specials - Every now and then you need to run a special, or a contest. This is motivational. It gets people excited and motivated, excited affiliates work harder to sell your products.
If you want your affiliates to be successful, you’ve got to give them the tools to do so. Otherwise, they will abandon you like a sinking ship and you’ll be left selling your own cold, stale products.
@Review Of A New Promising Affiliate Program – Affiliate Junktion
I just enrolled into Affiliate Junktion as I find it looks promising as an affiliate program.
Here are the details:
Affiliate Junktion is now recruiting new affiliates to join the Affiliate Junktion Program. Affiliate Junktion, a global leader in providing internet marketing and affiliate marketing services online, is now recruiting new affiliates to join the Affiliate Junktion Program. It is completely Free to join, with 1-on-1 personal online support from your very own dedicated Affiliate Manager.
When you join the Affiliate Junktion Program you can expect quality results, superior personal support and an ongoing income online through our performance-based program. We set a high industry standard for program quality and provide the most sophisticated tools. Affiliate Junktion operates the only truly global affiliate marketing program where you are guaranteed to earn money.
The earning potential is great as well...take note of their guarantee of payment if you do not achieve daily income.
Here is a review of Gitte Dabek who joined the program a bit longer than me:
I have tested a new program for you. It is called Affiliate Junktion, and it is all about affiliate marketing.
Affiliate Marketing, selling other people’s products is indeed a great way to make money online and the only way for a newcomer. But usually you have to sell a membership or a product to earn commissions. Affiliate Junktion offers another way: pay per lead. That is to say, you will earn commissions by convincing people to sign up for free. So this program is not sales-based, but performance-based and it is much easier to convince people to sign up for free than convincing them to open their wallet and buy something.
After signing up every new affiliate will get his own affiliate website customized with his affiliate link and will be able to start right away. If he signs up for hosting, buys anything you don’t have to care about – you will be paid just because your referral signed up fro free.
And that’s the deal Michael Davies,the CEO of Affiliate Junktion is proposing: “You will start earning within 5 days or we will pay you $50 in cash for each day you are on our program”.
Okay that sounds a bit like the everyday hype you find on the Internet, but if you check the Terms and Conditions, you will see, that this promise will come true.
There is a simple reason, why you can expect some serious earnings with this Affiliate Marketing Program, even if you never made money online: You don’t have to sell a paid membership or hosting for making money with your referrals, all you have to do is to get them to sign up for free. So Affiliate Junktion is a pay per lead system, paying you $1 to $3 for every person signing up for free under you. Because the website converts well and signup is free, you can expect a very high conversion rate about up to 70%. Michael Davies tells about conversion rates of 70-85%. Well I would not go that high but I think the Average Joe really can reach a conversion rate of nearly 70% or more.
The program gives you a very easy to understand Fast Track Guide on the hand and lists some basic steps about how to start driving traffic to your affiliate site. The 1-on-1 personal support is a great help and your affiliate manager will be very friendly and helpful - I tested the system.
The only thing I am missing is more promotional tools. As this program is dedicated to newcomers and to people who never made money online, there could be some more professional designed material, some emails people could modify, keyword lists and ppc ads as a working base fort he inexperienced.
Putting all together and weighing it, I have to rate Affiliate Junktion as a great program. I can give my fully recommendation because:
* It is free to join,
* It is easy to work with,
* It needs no more work than 3-5 hours a week,
* It makes you easy money on a pay per lead base,
* You are guaranteed to earn money within just 5 days.
Here are the details:
Affiliate Junktion is now recruiting new affiliates to join the Affiliate Junktion Program. Affiliate Junktion, a global leader in providing internet marketing and affiliate marketing services online, is now recruiting new affiliates to join the Affiliate Junktion Program. It is completely Free to join, with 1-on-1 personal online support from your very own dedicated Affiliate Manager.
When you join the Affiliate Junktion Program you can expect quality results, superior personal support and an ongoing income online through our performance-based program. We set a high industry standard for program quality and provide the most sophisticated tools. Affiliate Junktion operates the only truly global affiliate marketing program where you are guaranteed to earn money.
The earning potential is great as well...take note of their guarantee of payment if you do not achieve daily income.
Here is a review of Gitte Dabek who joined the program a bit longer than me:
I have tested a new program for you. It is called Affiliate Junktion, and it is all about affiliate marketing.
Affiliate Marketing, selling other people’s products is indeed a great way to make money online and the only way for a newcomer. But usually you have to sell a membership or a product to earn commissions. Affiliate Junktion offers another way: pay per lead. That is to say, you will earn commissions by convincing people to sign up for free. So this program is not sales-based, but performance-based and it is much easier to convince people to sign up for free than convincing them to open their wallet and buy something.
After signing up every new affiliate will get his own affiliate website customized with his affiliate link and will be able to start right away. If he signs up for hosting, buys anything you don’t have to care about – you will be paid just because your referral signed up fro free.
And that’s the deal Michael Davies,the CEO of Affiliate Junktion is proposing: “You will start earning within 5 days or we will pay you $50 in cash for each day you are on our program”.
Okay that sounds a bit like the everyday hype you find on the Internet, but if you check the Terms and Conditions, you will see, that this promise will come true.
There is a simple reason, why you can expect some serious earnings with this Affiliate Marketing Program, even if you never made money online: You don’t have to sell a paid membership or hosting for making money with your referrals, all you have to do is to get them to sign up for free. So Affiliate Junktion is a pay per lead system, paying you $1 to $3 for every person signing up for free under you. Because the website converts well and signup is free, you can expect a very high conversion rate about up to 70%. Michael Davies tells about conversion rates of 70-85%. Well I would not go that high but I think the Average Joe really can reach a conversion rate of nearly 70% or more.
The program gives you a very easy to understand Fast Track Guide on the hand and lists some basic steps about how to start driving traffic to your affiliate site. The 1-on-1 personal support is a great help and your affiliate manager will be very friendly and helpful - I tested the system.
The only thing I am missing is more promotional tools. As this program is dedicated to newcomers and to people who never made money online, there could be some more professional designed material, some emails people could modify, keyword lists and ppc ads as a working base fort he inexperienced.
Putting all together and weighing it, I have to rate Affiliate Junktion as a great program. I can give my fully recommendation because:
* It is free to join,
* It is easy to work with,
* It needs no more work than 3-5 hours a week,
* It makes you easy money on a pay per lead base,
* You are guaranteed to earn money within just 5 days.
@Why It Is Good To Offer An Affiliate Program On Your Site And What Is Affiliate Software
To have an affiliate program on your site is a great idea for those people who get a good amount of traffic. When web surfers find a site that they like and they can find the products they want they will keep coming back. Chances are they will also recommend the site to their friends. Affiliate programs that are used recently saw an 81 percent use the revenue share or Cost per sale as their compensation method. The other 19 percent use Cost per action. Only about 1 percent uses the Pay per Click or Pay per Impression.
There are positive reasons as to why you should use an affiliate program on your site. Merchants actually really like the affiliate programs because they use the pay per performance. The merchant does not have to worry about any set up expenses unless the conclusions are realized. There are thousands and thousands of websites that are making a lot of money via affiliate programs. Some companies use their own affiliate programs called In House and others use the common Third Party method.
Affiliate Software is software that you can get online and even download for free. This software allows the user to monitor the affiliate programs that are doing well. Affiliate software lets you choose your method of payments. You can choose Cost per Impressions, Pay per Sale, Pay per Click and you can choose multi tier commissions up to 10 tiers.
Most software has the feature of a tracking system using Flash Cookies for the best reliability. Some of the best software is Post Affiliate Pro and it works with PayPal, World Pay, Cart Manager, Zen Cart, Pay Systems and Yahoo! Store. Most affiliate software (http://www.affiliateseeking.com/affiliate-software/1.html) has real time reporting, no set up charges, technical support and you can customize it any way you choose.
If you are going to have any ads on your site at all then you should use affiliate programs. They pay the best and they are more compatible to your site content than some of the contextual ads out there. There are some affiliate programs and networks that will be perfect for you. In some instances unless you know where to look they can be a bit hard to find. Once you sign up and establish the programs, make sure you place them on your site where visitors can find them, it is very important.
There are positive reasons as to why you should use an affiliate program on your site. Merchants actually really like the affiliate programs because they use the pay per performance. The merchant does not have to worry about any set up expenses unless the conclusions are realized. There are thousands and thousands of websites that are making a lot of money via affiliate programs. Some companies use their own affiliate programs called In House and others use the common Third Party method.
Affiliate Software is software that you can get online and even download for free. This software allows the user to monitor the affiliate programs that are doing well. Affiliate software lets you choose your method of payments. You can choose Cost per Impressions, Pay per Sale, Pay per Click and you can choose multi tier commissions up to 10 tiers.
Most software has the feature of a tracking system using Flash Cookies for the best reliability. Some of the best software is Post Affiliate Pro and it works with PayPal, World Pay, Cart Manager, Zen Cart, Pay Systems and Yahoo! Store. Most affiliate software (http://www.affiliateseeking.com/affiliate-software/1.html) has real time reporting, no set up charges, technical support and you can customize it any way you choose.
If you are going to have any ads on your site at all then you should use affiliate programs. They pay the best and they are more compatible to your site content than some of the contextual ads out there. There are some affiliate programs and networks that will be perfect for you. In some instances unless you know where to look they can be a bit hard to find. Once you sign up and establish the programs, make sure you place them on your site where visitors can find them, it is very important.
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