Saturday, January 3, 2009

How to Explode Affiliate Marketing

By Dirk Andersen

There is stiff, very stiff competition in affiliate marketing these days. A lot of people are pushing the same products, and several websites are doing it well. It is incredibly hard to beat the competition. If someone says I am wrong, shoot them, or at least stay away from them. You may be an affiliate marketer right now, but are you maximizing your results?

I have listed just a few ways you can take your income to the next level by offering incentives:

You have to be the only one doing what your doing. This means your ads need to be unique. You need to make yourself the expert by putting yourself and your reputation on the line in your marketing.

You have to make the customer think it is worth the money to buy from you. Create bonuses or incentives that the customer can't refuse. You can offer rebates or something along that line. The bottom line is that you have to make your prospect click through that link and excited to do so.

Stay in your niche and offer bonuses similar to the product that you are offering. When you start offering things that are not related to the product you are promoting, you lose a sale. You have to offer bonus products related to the product in your affiliate link.

You have to be inventive. Normally you can just mimic what other people do successfully. This business is cut throat, however, and you have to be unique. You have to find ways to market the product differently and more efficiently than your competition to make that extra buck.

You can offer incentives and put a timeframe on them, or a limit of some sort. Make people feel like they have to do this now or they are going to lose out. Offer a bonus for the next twenty four hours or next few days, or for the first 100 buyers. Remove the offer when the limit is reached or you lose credibility.

If you know someone that has made a fortune it is because they did something unique. This business is no different. You can always do something unique to make more money than the competition, but if you are affiliate marketing and just copying someone else, you are losing cash. - 16003

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