Checklist for finding profitable affiliate programsWritten by Bukit Sorrento
High quality product or service -- remember, it’s your reputation that is on line (and online!). Don’t recommend products that UNDERdeliver.+ Merchant has a good site that sells effectively. + Ability for affiliate to link straight to individual products, rather than just to home page. (If visitor has to find product that you recommend, your Conversion Rate plummets.) + Type of payment model... Pay-per-sale and pay-per-lead are good. This is true “performance marketing.” If your referred visitor delivers desired response, you get paid. + Affiliate Support... • Accurate, reliable real-time online accounting, preferably with some kind of ability to “audit” by spot-checking • Detailed traffic and linking stats • Notification by e-mail when a sale is made • Useful marketing assistance, provides traffic-building and sales-getting tools • High-quality newsletter that educates, trains, and accounts for amounts earned • Professional marketing materials available • Affiliates receive discount on products Great affiliate support is important for a “between lines” reason, too. It indicates a high degree of commitment to program and its affiliates.
| | 3 Powerful WordsWritten by Michael Nicholas
I should have listened to an internet veteran back in 2000. Learn from my mistake... Allan Gardyne, of AssociatePrograms.com told me 3 powerful words that I overlooked as just too broad and simplistic... And it's important that you hear this too so you won't waste time or make same mistake I did... His very words to me in a personal email were... "Just Get Started" I remember he went on to say that was most important thing... Now I bet that went right through you transparent with about zero impact - just like it hit me too, right?... But don't let those 3 powerful words disguised as too simplistic fool you... It took me almost 4 years later to catch-on and wise up. You see, I sat on sidelines of online marketing far too long... To me all this marketing stuff seemed like a giant catch 22... I thought I needed to know a lot more than I knew at time before I could actually get started... I felt I didn't have enough knowledge, so how could I get it all going??? Freeze - Stop - Do Not Pass Go - & Do Not Collect any Commissions! As it turns out, I was wrong in hindsight... Because marketing is momentum. It's something you build-on as you go... snowball effect. Let me stress that again... "marketing is momentum". Remember that... And while you DO need to keep expanding your knowledge in different areas - you can start implementing things you learn as you go. And you will be surprised because along way you can start earning commissions while building your marketing momentum. This is something I was late to realize... Again- learn from my mistake... Just as an intern becomes a doctor or as we date before marriage, it should be same in marketing... We must practice doing what we want to become... It's an evolution of a process in making... Ah... magic bullet? Not really... but closest you will find to it... So don't just sit on sidelines... Get out there and do 'Nike'... Let me explain more... The typical 'pondering ditch' many seem to fall into... (or
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