Learn Top Affiliate Marketing Secrets

One of the easiest and fastest way to earn a living online is through affiliate marketing. What “affiliate marketing” means is that you just send traffic to someone else’s website, they do all the hard work of making the sale and supporting the customer, and you get a percentage of the sale price as your commission, which for digital products can be 50% of more.

These are a some of the benefits of affiliate marketing

1. You can start right now with no up-front costs and no need to make a product, set up a website and sales page, develop the website, develop marketing materials, or set up the ordering, billing & delivery system.
2. It’s completely hands-free for you because you don’t have to do the customer support or deal with billing or technical issues.
3. There’s no risk for you, because the product owner has already made sure the product sells. So you know that your traffic will result in sales.

There’s no denying that these benefits make affiliate marketing the best thing going!

There is one major drawback of affiliate marketing…

You work hard to send the traffic to the product owner’s website, but once you do that you will never see those visitors again. Unfortunately, the majority of those visitors (at least 90%) will not buy on their first visit. And of the 10% or less that do buy, the product owner will be able to sell to them again, but you will not.

What’s the solution?

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 want to do it like a pro, you’ll give them some great content before sending them to the sales page.

Here are the benefits of doing affiliate marketing like this:

1. You’ll be building your own list of potential customers that you can market to again and again.
2. You’ll be warming them up by providing valuable information and then casually linking to the product sales page in the context of this information.

In order to set a system like this up, you will need the following affiliate marketing tools:

1. A lead capture page, preferably with video
2. Several high-quality content pages
3. An email series with at least 5 high-quality content emails

The video squeeze page is where you’ll direct your traffic instead of directly to the product sales page. 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. Then it redirects them to your content pages after they subscribe to your email series.

The content pages provide valuable information for your visitors and make them more receptive to the sales message that you’ll link to from inside the content. 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.

Putting all of these pieces together will increase your sales by 500% or more, so it’s obviously worth the time and energy to do it. And once it’s set up, it runs automatically – you just send visitors to the squeeze page, instead of the product website.

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. The major benefit of using a service like this is that you can get started right away, and for a whole lot less than it would cost to do it all yourself. 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 decide to go, it’s critical to get an affiliate marketing system like this in place, if you’re at all serious about your business.

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