3 Tips To Succeed With Affiliate Programs


Dear friends, when it comes to promoting affiliate programswe all follow a certain defined process. We first go togoogle.com, type affiliate programs in the search field. Whenthe results get displayed we look for "high paying" affiliateprograms. By "high paying" I mean those who pay 25% commissions.

Then we visit each and every website listed and join theprograms becuse they are free! to join. We put all sorts of banners and text ads on our links page and expect to see a check in our mail box the next morning.

Well, I am here going to reveal a very different way of promoting affiliate programs. Let us revise the processone-by-one.

Step 1: Search for affiliate programs with your favoritesearch engine. Look for only those affiliate programs whcichhave products which interests you. For example if you are interested in "radio controlled airplanes" then look for suchproducts first. Don't start with promoting "herbal shampoos"or "yoga cd's" just because they pay 40% commissions.

Since you already know a little about rc planes it wiil bemuch easier for you to promote various aspects of theproduct.

So when selecting the affiliate prgram keep in mind the following sequence

a) Product which you know about or are interested in.

b) Qulaity of the product. To know the quality of the product it is advisavle to buy the product yourself first.

c) The organisation associated with the product. Look for the promotional material they are giving to affiliates. This shows the confidence of the manufacturer in their own product.

d) Commission structure. Some webmasters provide 2 tier commission structure. Some have a threshhold amout before the affiliates get paid. Here is a nice place to sart with. This is a list which contains 50 affiliate Programs That Pay AT LEAST 50% commissions.

Visit http://www.myfriendlyebooks.com/Aff/a1.htm

Step 2: Design a simple landing page to "presell" the productbefore sending the visitors to actual sales page. Now this stepis extremely imporant. Why do you to presell the product ?. Thisis because this is internet. No one knows you here or has seenyou personally.

Normally when someone buys from the internet he is going to lookfor similar 4-5 products before he gets to the final decision.Here if he comes to your affiliate landing page it becomesmuch easier for him to compare the product you want to promotewith similar 4-5 products in the category.

The landing page you have designed can have testimonials, whichyou can borrow from the sales page. It can also contain your own experience about the product. You can use before/after situations for describing the benefits of the product. You can use photographs of yourself using the product successfully. Thisadds instant credibility to the product you want to promote.

Step 3: When the visitors reach your landing page you must havea system to capture their names and email addresses. Because as I said earlier there are many people who look for similar4-5 products before buying. By capturing email addresse you can"follow up" your subscribers later on using newsletters orproduct features using email autoresponders.

The best way to capture email addresses is to provide a free gift related to the product. This free gift can bean eBook written by you or many webmasters already have anebook written for the affiliates. So again this is a very important point, join only those programs where you will find a decent promitional material already prepared for the affiliates.

That's it friends. I hope these words were helpful. I wish you good lick in your affiliate promotional journey

Copyright 2005 Shrinivas Vaidya

Shrinivas Vaidya is the webmaster of http://myfriendlyebooks.com

To help you start with right affiliate progrmas I have assembleda list of 50 affiliate programs that pay AT LEAST 50% commissions.You can access the listing for free at the following url: http://www.myfriendlyebooks.com/Aff/a1.htm