Redirect a buyer to a page with relevant products

If you sell a product of your own from a website, once buyer finishes purchasing process, i.e. charging credit card, redirect him immediately to a page with products that compliment product he or she has just purchased. The idea here is to try to sell more products to same buyer while he is still in buying mood. Build mini sites for niche products

One of best approaches in promoting affiliate programs is to build mini websites dedicated to these programs. Here are steps you should take:

* Choose a market segment * Choose niche products for this particular market segment * Build a content rich mini website specifically oriented to this segment * Promote related affiliate programs through this website

Use free materials, programs etc. to attract visitors

People love free stuffs! Especially, if there are values in them! Many affiliate programs supply free materials like articles, e-books, programs, etc. in order to help affiliates market their products. Use these materials sporadically to lure customers. If you don’t get any worthy free materials from program owners, search for free relevant materials on Internet. You will be amazed to see quantity of free e-books, articles and other materials that you will be able to dig out! Create exit Pop-Up pages with specific and targeted offers

If visitor of your site is leaving, why not showing him a page with highly specific targeted product offers? Best idea is to create several pages with highly targeted products for different pages. If visitor browsed through a certain page, that means content of page some how interested him. If he decides to leave site right after viewing this page, it definitely makes sense to show him an exit pop-up page with products consistent to content of page. Build a directory of e-books, articles, and affiliate programs

Information is number one reason why people spend time online. It’s not always easy to create large amount of contents required to satisfy need of visitors. Why not use materials created by others for this purpose? Besides, you can also use those materials to promote affiliate programs of your choice. You can add materials to your directory yourself and you can also ask visitors to submit their materials in relevant categories. Post Pay per click ad on most successful affiliate program

If an affiliate program generates considerable revenue promote this particular program more aggressively by posting pay per click ad for this program.

Overture and Google Adwords are best options available for pay per click advertisement campaign.

Affiliate programs are great way of making money online! However, don’t expect an overnight success! Like any other business, here also you require proper planning and persistence. Most super affiliates confess that, in general, it takes one to two years of hard work to become successful in this field. So do your homework before jumping in!

Efficient customer support

You should feel satisfied with service and support you get from your affiliate program owner. A good program highly values its affiliates and gives priority to its customer support system. As clients that you are sending to merchant are primarily your site’s visitors, you should be extremely picky about quality of customer service program renders. After all, your own site’s reputation is also at stake here!

Promotional materials

If you are planning to promote an affiliate program, you will need more materials then mere banners. Unfortunately, even many high-end affiliate programs do not carry enough promotional materials to satisfy need of affiliates. Promotional material should include: contents to build mini-sites, various ad articles, different kind of text links, product brochures or presentation, etc.

Commission payment policy

The affiliate program should have a sort of minimum payment policy, where you can receive commissions if even you have made just one or two sales. A reasonable amount is US $25. Less than that is not viable due to processing costs. Commission should be paid each month. If you are located outside of US, see if merchant makes payment through Paypal or other similar services or not. For most of countries checks issued in other countries are not a good option.

If an affiliate program meets all these above mentioned criteria, you can consider joining in this program. However, to get best result from your efforts, before signing up, you should also consider following rules:

You have to like product you are promoting Any salesman will confirm you that this is one of fundamental rules of selling. If you are selling a product or service you must have confidence in it. If you like product and will use it yourself gladly, you found a product to promote! Don’t waste your time with a product that is not up to your taste!

Promote a product or service consistent to your website’s subject matter If your site is all about soccer, you will be better off with products and service related to soccer. If this same site promotes,for example: pesticides, no matter how hard you try your success will be very limited! Before joining in any affiliate program first you should identify who your visitors are, what do they like and which products they will probably buy online. Once you know your niche market it’s lot easier to find products or services for it.

Many webmasters think that in order to make money through affiliate programs, all you have to do is to come up with a site and fill up site with affiliate links. Sooner all later people will click on them. Unfortunately this does not work! Making money through affiliate programs is also a business and like any business you have to have a proper business plan. Only a well prepared businessplan followed by its meticulous implementation can bring success to your affiliate endeavor.