Despite ease of joining, however, most AP members never make any profit. In one program from which I earn (on average) $3,000.00 monthly. I have also recruited 75 associates to join this program. What I recently discovered is that 68 of them HAVE NEVER made a sale.

This article is written to help those who have never earned profit. I will introduce five of essential marketing strategies you must adopt NOW to earn big profits from Associate Programs.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Pre-sell Your Product ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Most APs provided its Associates with a free website complete with all essential elements of a effective online sales presentation (sales letter, testimonials, free bonuses, order processing, guarantees, etc.) If this material is well crafted, it will result in conversion of a large percentage of your site visitors into product buyers (called CR or conversion rate).

You can increase your CR if you learn how to *pre-sell product* before people visit main site. As an owner and advocate of product X, you are in a position to provide a personal endorsement - single most effective strategy for successful AP marketing.

There are several ways to share this endorsement. You ought to begin by creating several "pre-sell pages" on your own domain that contain your endorsement. You should also be prepared to share your endorsements with your opt-in email list. Both of these topics will be addressed in a moment.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Procure Targeted Traffic ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Once you've got your "pre-sell page" you need to get traffic to your site. Without traffic there will be no sales. The trick is to attract right kind of traffic - people who visit your site interested in what you are selling.

Suppose I market a company best tasting doggie bone ever developed. What would be better: attracting 1 million cat lovers to my site or 5,000 dog lovers. In this case bigger is not better!

This is why you must create your own "pre-sell pages." It allows you to build pages that are indexed by search engines using different search criteria that will allow you to target a particular niche market.

Suppose you are selling a product that helps people write a more persuasive sales letter. What niche market can you address that needs such knowledge? Right now I am preparing a marketing plan geared toward clergy - many of whom are called upon to writes letter to raise funds for various ministry endeavors. Most have no clue how to write those letter- but I have a product that can help!

Do you see potential here?

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Prove Your Worth ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

What is in a name? Certainly a rose is still as beautiful no matter what name it might have. Even if it would not have same ring to it.

An online name is very much same.

Or so it seemed when investors plunked down almost $8 MILLION to purchase Business.com domain. They logically thought name itself would provide them with instant 'Branding'.

But that recognition failed to materialize to degree expected and that domain is now only a memory, a footnote in dot.com history, not because it no longer exists, it is still active, but rather because it has yet to live up to promise investors had envisioned.

That same story holds true for many of best known e-commerce brand names, like Pets.com, eToys and Furniture.com.

The Internet has suddenly discovered that it takes more than just a catchy name to make for a successful web site.

The name is important.

But it is not only thing that matters.

Branding alone does not equal traffic.