3 Basic Tips for Affiliate Marketers Survival

As an affiliate marketer your are always searching for that market that will earn you the most money - obviously. Some though, think there is some magic practice that will reveal this to them when it is actually just proven marketing practices, hard work and dedication. And of course, always continue to learn affiliate marketing.







The strategies that have worked well before for online marketing, and are continuing to work well in today's online affiliate marketing world, are pretty straight forward. There are three top marketing methods that if followed, will increase your income and chances of survival in affiliate marketing.







What are these three techniques?







1. Best practice is to use a unique website to promote each unique product you're marketing. Do not bunch all dissimilar products into one site just to save time or money on webpage development.







Always include product reviews on your websites so visitors will have a clearer idea of what the product can do for them if they buy it. Also include endorsements from people who have already purchased the product. Be sure these customers are willing to allow you to use their name and photo on your site for the product they purchased so you can market it to others.







Writing articles highlighting the product and submitting them to article directories for publishing is recommended, with a backlink to your website. Make the article persuasive and include calls-to-action if you add the article as a page on your website.







Article headlines should persuade readers to want to read further. Do this by highlighting benefits in the title. For example, 'Lose 15 Pounds In 15 Days...Here's How.'







2. Build a list of prospects by offering free information to your readers. If possible, post the free offer at the very top side of your webpage so they cannot miss it. Create auto-responder messages with the information that will be emailed to those that accept your free offer. Be aware that according to research, a sale is usually made on the seventh contact with a prospect, so don't do any apparent selling in those first six email messages; have the sales message be subtle and placed at the bottom till the seventh email.







Have at least seven messages lined up in your auto-responder and on the seventh email, then you can be blatant and ask for an order. For those first six emails, and even in the seventh, provide good, quality content, or nobody will purchase when you do finally ask for the order. And usually space your emails every three or four days apart, but some may contend to send one everyday. Test and see what works best for your product.







Your initial six emails are designed primarily, to provide quality content specifically about the market you're in and then subtly remind them (once only in each email) of the benefits of your product. Be precise about the benefits your product provides. Again, be delicate and not make it appear like you're trying to sell them. Just a casual mention near the bottom of the content filled email. If your product has six benefits, you can delicately mention one benefit in each email.







In the last email, in the story you're writing about, be more plain spoken about selling what it is you're selling. Focus on the important benefits your product provides them that can make their life easier and more enjoyable. Include powerful sub-header lines in the email.







Convince the reader who signed up for your free content that they will lose out on something huge if they don't accept your offer and buy your product. Said differently, in this email - the seventh - you actually ask for the order. That is, the hard sell is in the seventh email. After the seventh you start the cycle all over again.







A good rule to follow for any email you send out is to try and avoid using the term 'free' (or camouflage it like fr-ee or something), strictly because of email spam filters that throw these types of emails into a spam folder before anyone ever gets a chance to read them.







3. You want targeted traffic to your website. That is, you only want visitors who are interested in what you have. People who aren't interested will never come back, buy, nor accept your free information. There are several methods however, to find targeted traffic. If you're using pay-per-click advertising, you want to make sure you use keywords that people use when they are interested in your product. Use long tail keywords, not broad market keywords.







If you want to write articles (greatly recommended), and submit them to article directories to get your traffic (or use search engine optimization - which includes using content too), make the articles related to your product or niche. That is, don't write about baseball if your niche is lawn care.







Try to write a minimum of two articles a week, between 300-600 words in length each. Research your niche to help you write them if you're not already an expert. By continuously writing and submitting articles to directories you can generate dozens if not 100s of targeted visitors to your website everyday to learn more about what you're doing.







You will require that because case studies show that only one out of every 100 people are inclined to buy your offer. If you can get a 1,000 targeted visitors to your website a day, you can make 10 sales a day based on these statistics.







The tactics given above are not really very difficult to do, when you get right down to it. It just requires time and a plan of action that you work.







Use these tips as well as constantly learn affiliate marketing and you will end up having a good source of income and surviving this business where not all affiliate marketers do.