Affiliate Programs: 7 Ways To Put Your Affiliate Income On Steroids

7 Ways To Put Your Affiliate Income On Steroids

Written by Cornell Griffiths

As an affiliate, have you ever out of frustration wondered why your sales don't reflect repparttar

effort you're putting out?

Chances are one of THE biggest mistakes you're making is that you're using repparttar 102212 same standard banners, classifieds and articles that everyone else uses to promote their products and services.

Separate yourself from repparttar 102213 millions of others by simple being unique. arketers call it "Unique Selling Proposition" or USP.

But then...

How can you be unique?

1. Write Your Own Ads

Put your flair and personality into your ads. Make it fun. Ever seen repparttar 102214 Geico ads? Use humor. People will always remember a funny ad more than than repparttar 102215 drab, standard ones. Practice writing catchy headlines and load your ads with benefits and not features of repparttar 102216 product.

2. Create Your Own Website

Most affiliate programs give you repparttar 102217 same standard website as everyone else. Boring. Create your own. Use your website to address a problem repparttar 102218 reader may have. Fill repparttar 102219 content with keywords so repparttar 102220 search engines will list them high and use your link to your product as repparttar 102221 answer to their problem.

3. Always capture email addresses

On your site, you should always have a form or link to allow eaders/prospects to get more ideas or advice from you in repparttar 102222 form of a newsletter or timed mailings. Follow up with autoresponder messages as, on average, it takes 7 contacts with repparttar 102223 propsect before they actually purchase.

4. Offer bonuses

If you can offer meaningful bonuses, it makes a world of difference. Say you're promoting a Web marketer's copywriting ebook. Offer to send 10,000 guaranteed hits to their site once their webpage is up. Ensure that repparttar 102224 cost of repparttar 102225 bonus is less than repparttar 102226 revenue from repparttar 102227 product though.

Affiliate Goals - Successful Goal Setting for Affiliates

Written by Ratliff, J

When I first started out with Affiliate Marketing a few years ago, my primary goal was a very simple one. I just wanted enough money to pay for my hosting, which at repparttar

time was an ungodly $40 per month for a small website. Of course, these days you can host a hundred websites for $40 and have tons of features, but back then this was normal.

As repparttar 102211 years went by, my affiliate sales grew slowly to around $500 a month. It was then I realized that maybe I could turn this part time income into a full time salary. I had not really devoted a lot of time to researching affiliate programs. I would simply find one that would pay off, and use it. The day I realized I could earn more than repparttar 102212 $500 per month, I set down some goals to get me started. I have fine tuned these goals over repparttar 102213 past 24 months, thankfully I had to because to be honest, I was obliterating my financial expectations.

So, my goals in repparttar 102214 beginning were pretty simple:

1. Find an affiliate program that pays $50 per month to cover my website hosting fees. 2. Make sure it is related to repparttar 102215 content of my website.

Not much there huh?

A year ago, these were my goals:

1. Earn $500 per month through repparttar 102216 Major Affiliate Networks 2. Look into smaller affiliate networks, including independant merchant. 3. Create websites devoted to repparttar 102217 product or service I am marketing. 4. Change hosting providers to allow for up to 100 domain names / websites. 5. Continue to learn more about new affiliate oppurtunities.

As you can see, my goals grew substantially. I am proud to say I met all those goals within a few months, instead of repparttar 102218 year I had planned.

My goals from 2004:

1. Earn $3000 per month average through June 2005. 2. Earn $5,000 per month average from June 2005 until December 2005. 3. Continue to create websites that reflect a postive buying experience. 4. Write more articles and website content promoting repparttar 102219 products I am marketing. 5. Create an ebook that will help others learn repparttar 102220 affiliate business. 6. Teach family and friends what an affiliate actually does! 7. Create a website devoted solely to affiliate programs and list repparttar 102221 many programs available. 8. Become a merchant in repparttar 102222 sense of marketing my ebook using an affiliate program. 9. Write a true business plan for my affiliate business. 10. Learn repparttar 102223 tax laws so I can properly prepare my taxes.

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