If you want to get started quickly and easily in
internet marketing, then affiliate marketing is for you. This is when you refer traffic to someone else’s product sales page, they make the sale and deliver the product, and you keep 50% or more of the sales
The benefits of this are:
You’re able to start right now without having to develop a product, write the sales page, design the website, develop marketing materials, or set up the ordering, billing & delivery system.
You have basically zero investment of your time because they handle the billing, support, maintenance, etc.
There’s no risk for you, because the product owner has already made sure the product sells. So you already know that the visitors you send will result in commissions for you.
There’s no denying that these benefits make affiliate marketing the best thing going!
There is one major drawback…
After all your hard work of
generating traffic to the sales page, you will never see any of those visitors again. Most of them will not buy on their first visit, which means you’re losing over 90% of the traffic right off the top. And of the 10% or less that do buy, the product owner will be able to sell to them again, but you will not.
Is there are way around this?
What you need to do is capture the contact info of your visitors before sending them to the product website. This way you can follow up with them and keep sending them back to the sales page to increase your chances of making the sale. And if you’re a super star affiliate, you’ll provide high-quality content before sending them to the product website.
Here’s what these
affiliate marketing strategies will do for you:
You’ll be building your own list of potential customers that you can market to again and again.
You’re generating good will by giving them high-quality content. This way, they are much more likely to make a purchase when you send them to the sales page.
Here’s what you’ll need to create affiliate tools like this:
A squeeze page, and even better a Video squeeze page.
At least a few pages of great content
An email series with at least 5 high-quality content emails
You’ll use the squeeze page as the place to send your visitors instead of using the product website. It captures the name and email of your visitors and puts them into your autoresponder, which then begins sending out the 5-part email series. After subscribing them to your email list, it redirects them to your content mini-site.
These high-quality content pages provide value and build good will. This way your visitor is more likely to buy when they get to the product owner’s website. And at the same time, the email series begins following up with them to get them back to the sales page, in case they don’t buy on the first visit.
There’s no doubt that it’s worth the effort to put a system like this in place, because doing so will
increase your profits by 500% or more. And after you get it all set up, it runs on total auto-pilot. You just refer people to your lead capture page, instead of the product sales page.
One option, if you’re not up to the challenge of setting this all up yourself, is to let someone like
Affiliate Silver Bullet do it for you. These kinds of services will build the whole system for you and then just give you a video squeeze page (with video), pre-written emails, content pages, etc. On the plus side, you’ll save a ton of time and money vs. trying to build this yourself. Plus you can get started instantly. The drawback is that you won’t be the only one using these affiliate tools. But the internet is huge, so this shouldn’t really affect you.
Alternatively, you can use a service like Elance to “outsource” each of these components. Whichever way you decided to go, it’s critical to get an
affiliate marketing system like this in place, if you’re at all serious about your business.