5 keys to you becoming a successful affiliate:1) HAS THE OWNER OF THE PROGRAM DONE HIS OR HER RESEARCH?
Before you become an affiliate for someone, you want to know one major thing. You want to be very sure they've taken
time to test their whole sales process!
Have they invested some of their own time and money into fine-tuning and improving their sales letter until it really converts visitors into buyers? Is their ordering process simple for your prospects to navigate?
The last thing you want to do is spend a lot of your time and money to generate traffic to a sales letter that can't sell its way out of a paper bag, right?
One way to figure this out is to use a little common sense. How does
sales letter affect you? Is it professional? Does it suck you in? Do you find you can't stop reading it because you just need to know how this product can help solve
problem it's saying it can?
Does it make you want to buy? The last thing you want to do to
lifeblood of your business (your prospects) is sell them "junky" stuff.
2) $25 MINIMUM
You should pick a product that pays you at least $25 for each sale. Unless you become an affiliate for more than one product (we'll touch on this point a little later), stick to
$25 as a minimum price point so you can take your advertising costs out and still make a profit.
3) FREE TO JOIN
It must be free to join an affiliate program. If they are charging you to join, or require you to buy their product first, it's not an affiliate marketing program.
4) WHERE TO FIND GOOD AFFILIATE PROGRAMS
A great place to start is Clickbank. They have one of
largest affiliate marketing programs you can find. Just go to http://www.clickbank.com and get a clickbank ID.
At Clickbank's home page, go to "Earn Commissions" and search for products that fit you and your site. They are even ranked in order of popularity. That's another sign of whether it's a program worth your time.
Another place you can go is http://www.lifetimecommissions.com .
Amazon has a good affiliate marketing program. Go to http://www.amazon.com and click on "Join Associates" near
bottom of
page. You won't get as much of a commission for each sale as you will from Clickbank or Lifetime Commissions but it does accumulate over time.