You have a nice looking website, full of content. You have links to all your favorite affiliate programs. But - no one is clicking. What else can you do to get someone interested enough to click on product's sales page?

Did you know that you can have your own affiliate program even if you don't have your own product? Well, you can! Simply join programs that have a 2-tier affiliate program. . Here's what to do:

When you add link from your website to affiliate program's sales page, also add another link saying "Join this Affiliate Program." The affiliate programs that are 2-tier will provide you with a second link for signing up your own affiliates. Now, when your "affiliate" sells a product, YOU get a portion of commission.

Of course, commission won't be as high, but it's still a commission. And if you have enough affiliates signed up under you, they can be significant.

Sometimes people who sign up using your send tier affiliate program link will end up purchasing product themselves. Now you will get a commission from this sale plus you'll commission from any sale your affiliate should make in future.

Want another idea?

Create a mini-site for just ONE of your affiliate products. Make sure it is one that has an excellent commission structure and a 2-tier program. You won't need to create a lot of different pages with a lot of content because this is a "sales" site - your sales site.

Marketing is something that is essential to all businesses if they are to been successful and yet it is something that many businesses do very badly.You can have a fantastic website with excellant products but if nobody sees it you are not going to sell anything.

The purpose of your website

The purpose of your website is to sell your products or services.Be sure to keep site focus on business and not on yourself.Customers do not care about you or your life but about what you can offer them to improve or enhance their lives.Be sure to offer free items and always have a way of capturing those all important email addresses.Offer a newsletter,a questionaire or even a survey to get customer to part with their addresses and once you have addresses use them.Invest in an autoresponder and learn how to use it.

One of first rules of marketing

Test and measure every aspect of your marketing campaign.Test all your marketing methods and every ad,headline,sales letter,email etc.Are methods successful,did they make a profit,if so how much and at what cost.If returns are good continue to use ad etc.Discard any methods which show poor results.

Advertising

There are two types of advertising.

Brand Name The advertising is gear to build and increase awareness of a companies brand.This method is really only used by big boys of business like Coca Cola as it is costly.