Affiliate Marketing Basics: How To Convert Traffic Into Sales
Irena Whitfield

Whether you are in the online business for weeks or for years or whether you’re just getting started in Affiliate Marketing, one of the most important things you need is traffic specifically targeted traffic that you convert into sales.

Why? Because although it’s become somewhat of a cliche these days, the truth is, the money is in the list but that means YOUR list, not the list of the people whose products you’re selling at least not if you want to be successful.

Here’s why. As an affiliate, your job is to find people who want to buy the products you’re promoting. So, to do that, you need to write an ad and send people to a website where they can buy the product.

BUT there’s a serious problem with using this method. Do you see what it is?

Anywhere from 60 to 95% of the people you send to the sales page probably aren’t going to buy the first time.

1. Most people want to be certain that they’re making the right decision, so they usually need to see or hear from you between 5 to 12 times before making a buying decision.

2. If you’re paying for the ad and sending people to the seller’s website, the ones who don’t buy disappear forever. And neither you nor the seller will benefit.

3. Of those who do buy, if you’re only sending them to the sales page, YOU still lose them forever because you have no way of knowing who they are.

Here’s the solution:

1. Write your ad and send prospects to a well-written squeeze page YOUR squeeze page. A squeeze page is a single page website that has one purpose to convince prospects to give you their contact information. Squeeze pages should be simple no flash, no links, and if you use a graphic or photo, keep it simple and make sure it relates to the purpose of the page. How do you convince prospects to give you their contact information? By giving them the information they are looking for in your website. The information must be useful for your audience.

2. Offer them an incentive to give you their contact information. This could be a free report, a free newsletter, an audio or video product just make sure it’s related to the niche or affiliate product.

3. After they’ve opted in to your autoresponder, send them to your affiliate sales page.

4. Follow up with them on a regular basis mixing good information, free bonuses from time to time and additional affiliate products.

Lather, rinse, repeat. Once you’re making money from your first affiliate product, move on to the next and then the next and the next.

The best thing about this is that you can set most of it up on your autoresponder, so you turn it into a system and it runs almost on autopilot. However, there is NO SUCH THING as a business that runs 100% on autopilot and don’t believe anyone who tells you differently. Any real business takes work and effort. But by setting this system up this way, your autoresponder does the majority of the work, and you will only need to do simple updates and make sure you keep fresh information flowing.

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Today's Tip On the Book Worth Having

The Market Has Spoken... ... and people are loving how easy this is!
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I would like to mention especially the one below:

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Today's Tip On Learning

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Being a member of many sites will allow you to integrate your various social bookmarking activities still further, thus making your bookmarks, blogs and websites accessible to the users of as many social bookmarking community sites as possible.

Social bookmarking communities are websites that are relatively easy to use, which are nevertheless extremely effective for driving large numbers of extremely targeted new visitors to your site in record time.

Social bookmarking is, therefore, something that you should start doing as soon as possible if you have not already done so.

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Today's Useful Tip

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I'm sure you know who Mike Filsaime is. If you don't, you've obviously been out of town for an extended period of time.

Mike is the undisputed King of viral marketing and has been for the past several years. But I believe he just started his own de-throning!

Rod Beckwith has been around as long as Mike has and is the genius behind this, and many other sites.

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Check this out: Mike and Rod are giving away (as in for free) one brand new, brandable report every month that YOU can brand with your affiliate information. Then you can take those reports and give them to your list, or use them as in incentive to gain new subscribers.

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Today's Special

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