--------------------------------- Tell Reader to Make a Purchase ---------------------------------

You've come so far - you've laid out exactly what product is and how it will help your unique audience. Now, seal deal - tell your readers to purchase product! Include your affiliate link in this section.

This step may sound strange, but it's necessary. Often, people hear about a product and are genuinely interested, but fail to actually make a purchase. A clear call to a simple action cuts down on buyer ambivalence. Don't be pushy - just change your verb tenses to imperative. Instead of:

"If you think that you fit this profile, you might want to think about buying this product."

Say:

"Click here to order an account today."

--------------------------------- Drive Sales - Use Long Copy ---------------------------------

If you don't feel ready to write long copy yourself, ask your affiliate program manager for help! Many companies release well-written articles by respected authors that you can reprint free of charge.

The novelty of Web is wearing off. People online now are busy. Surfers won't make a purchase unless you make a great case for what they'll get out of it. And you're not going to do that with just a banner ad.

STEP TWO--BUILD YOUR SALES PAGE

First you need web space! If you have a domain--that's great. For our purposes, however, even one of those free sites will do. [Remember--I am just showing you how to get started! When you've finished this little project you'll be able to repeat it over and over again in a much more sophisticated manner.]

1) Establish a FREE account right now with a free web host. This should take you a little less that 30 minutes!

2) Write a sales letter to sell your product. If you need help here I suggest you click over Yanik Silver's *Instant Sales Letters* site. Yanik provides a terrific arsenal of powerful, moneymaking fill-in-the-blank sales letter templates guaranteed to sell your product or service. Learn more at-->http://www.roibot.com/w.cgi?R250_sales

[Hint: Most of better reprint rights distributors will provide you with proven sales letters].

3) Use a site creation tool to build a simple sales page to promote you product. Avoid flashy graphics pictures. What you need in sales letter/information about product you are selling, and a link(s) to your payment-processing page.

Here's my example: http://ezinesuccess.com/advertise/silads.htm

STEP THREE--ARRANGE FOR ONLINE PAYMENT

You want to get paid for your product--right? That means you need to provide people with ability to pay for product or service you provide.

You do want to pay huge fees for processing, order tracking, or special equipment--right? You'll have NO FEES for tracking and processing affiliate sales. You'll have NO MONTHLY FEES for using this service-->no sales, no fees! You'll pay less than $40.00 to set-up your affiliate account and a minimal % for every sale you or your affiliates make--that it!

The company is called ClickBank. They will allow you to start accepting credit cards online! They also have incredibly easy instructions for using their service to start your own affiliate program. Getting set up with ClickBank took less than an hour. Learn more at http://hop.clickbank.net/?nieporte

Your affiliate partner can open a FREE account at above link and then start selling your product or service--being compensated at whatever percentage you determine. ClickBank not only processes credit card, they also track affiliate sales and pay your partners. Here's how it works!

Your affiliates join FOR FREE--and are provide/select an affiliate ID-->expressed below as XXXX.

You provide them site URL and they simply insert their ID where XXXX is listed below. Then they promote that link in whatever legal fashion they desire-->and get paid whatever % you determine up to 50%.

http://www.ezinesuccess.com/ads/silads.htm?hop=XXXX/nieporte

That's it!

You have now entered world of being an affiliate program owner. Congrats!