Category Archives: Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate Marketing Tips, part 10

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Finding Your Customers Offline

While it’s true that more and more online marketers are starting to market offline, there probably isn’t a competing affiliate in your neighborhood. And that means there’s a virtually untouched market that you can start tapping into for fun and profits…

Tip #80: Give free talks at local organizations. Many of the local clubs in your area would be thrilled to have a free guest speaker at their next “luncheon meeting.” And all you have to do to secure these speaking engagements is call the person who’s in charge of the events (such as the club president).

Examples:

  • If you sell business products, then you could speak at a Chamber of Commerce meeting.
  • If you sell gardening products, then offer to speak at a gardening club meeting.
  • If you sell information related to classic cars, then you can offer to speak at classic car event.

Point is, there are probably dozens of niche clubs having a meeting every month in your hometown. See if there isn’t one that relates to your niche, and get on the phone to land yourself a speaking engagement.

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Affiliate Marketing Tips, part 9

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Creating Communities to Build Relationships

You already know that building relationships with your prospects is one way to increase your sales. And one way to build a relationship is to build an online community.

Here are more community-building tips…

Tip #73: Establish yourself as an expert. Building a community not only helps build relationships, it also helps establish you as an expert. The end result is the same: More sales.

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Affiliate Marketing Planner

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Here is What You Get with this week’s bonus report: The “Affiliate Marketing Planner”:

The Step-by-Step Planner Covers:

  • Step 1: Set Up the Infrastructure
    • Exercise: Plan for the Future
  • Step 2: Start with the Products You Use and Love
    • Exercise: Find and Sign Up for Affiliate Programs
  • Step 3: Research Complementary Products
    • Exercise: Brainstorm Complementary Products and Apply to Their Affiliate Programs
  • Step 4: Consider the Competition
    • Exercise: Scope Out Your Competition’s Affiliate Offers
  • Step 5: Other Tools and Resources
    • Exercise: Brainstorm Physical Products
    • Exercise: Register for the Appropriate Affiliate Programs
  • Step 6: Incorporating Affiliate Marketing in Your Social Media Outreach
    • Exercise: Add Affiliate Promotions to Your Social Media Calendar
  • Step 7: Blogging and Affiliate Marketing: The Perfect Match
    • Exercise: Create a List of Products to Review
    • Exercise:Create a List of Products for Your Resources Page
  • Step 8: Your Products and Coaching Programs
    • Exercise: Map Your Products and Relevant Promotions
  • Step 9: Review Your Autoresponder Series for Opportunities
    • Exercise: Map Your Autoresponders and Relevant Promotions
  • Step 10: Create Canned Responses in Your Email or Help Desk (For Those Looking for Products You Don’t Sell)
    • Exercise: List Your Most Frequent Questions and Relevant Affiliate Promotions
  • Step 11: Track, Test & Tweak
    • Exercise: Create Your Tracking Sheet

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Affiliate Marketing Tips, part 8

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Using Content for Maximum Impact

One way to reach deeply into your market and beat your competition is by using content marketing. In this section you’ll use the tips and tricks to wring the most money out of every piece of content you distribute…

Tip #65: Do your keyword research. If you want to use your content to pull traffic in from the search engines, then you’ll need to do your keyword research. That way, you can find out exactly what words your market is already using to search for you… and then you can create content (i.e., articles) that includes those words about two to three times for every 100 words.

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Affiliate Marketing Tips, part 7

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Testing and Tracking Your Campaigns

If you’re not testing and tracking your campaigns, then you’re just wasting your time and money. That’s because you could be investing all your resources in ads and campaigns that don’t work.

Here’s how to avoid that common mistake so you can start pulling in bigger paychecks…

Tip #57: Use PPC (pay per click) marketing to test new products and offers. You’re thinking about promoting a new product. Or maybe you have some sales materials you’d like to test. One of the quickest and easiest ways to do this is by using PPC marketing, such as Google AdWords.

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