Saturday, January 3, 2009

How to Explode Affiliate Marketing

By Dirk Andersen

There is so much competition in affiliate marketing that it is very unlikely you will make any money. The competition is so stiff that you really have to know what you are doing to get anywhere. You may already be an affiliate marketer, but are you really making the most that you can?

I would like to provide some tips to bring their income to the next level by offering some incentives:

You need to be a unique marketer. You need to be at the center of your campaigns building yourself up as an expert. You need unique advertising to really spin yourself away from the competition.

Make it worth the money. You need to do whatever you can to bring a customer to buy a product. Create things that are hard to refuse. Rebates, packages, bonuses. You have to get your prospect excited about buying through your affiliate link.

I can't tell you enough to stay in your niche. Do not offer bonuses that are unrelated to your product. That doesn't help. If you are offering a bonus, keep it within your target market, keep your prospect excited.

You have to be inventive. Normally you can just mimic what other people do successfully. This business is cut throat, however, and you have to be unique. You have to find ways to market the product differently and more efficiently than your competition to make that extra buck.

You can offer incentives and put a timeframe on them, or a limit of some sort. Make people feel like they have to do this now or they are going to lose out. Offer a bonus for the next twenty four hours or next few days, or for the first 100 buyers. Remove the offer when the limit is reached or you lose credibility.

Everybody that has ever made a fortune did it in some unique way. Affiliate marketing is no different. If you are not unique you are losing out to the competition. Generate a loyal following of customers, you then can always increase your affiliate marketing and make more cash. - 15485

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