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Don’t Sell Directly to Customers
The biggest mistakes affiliates make are they always try to sell directly to Customers. Here is the topic I want to share to you today so you wont make the same mistake:
Many Affiliates Marketer will often send traffic that they generated to affiliate links. When they do this, they are unknowingly making a bet that visitor will buy on first impression. Unfortunately, this is generally not the case. Visitors often need to be warmed up to a product through the course of multiple visits and additional information before they are willing to purchase from a person or a business.
That is why building a list is a necessary thing to do. By building a list, affiliates can fix this problem.
Additionally, they can retain traffic, warm it up, give some free products and then direct it to different purchases in the future.
This means that it isn’t a one-shot deal: it is a long term relationship. They can attempt to sell the same person multiple products over the course of time.
Steps to Build a list :
1. Autoresponder Service
In order to do this successfully, the affiliate in question must purchase the necessary tools.
For autoresponder service, I personally suggest using http://www.getresponse.com/
Getresponse is relatively cheap ($20/mo.) and comes with a formidable range of services, including spam checkers and macros. Best of all, it is whitelisted by many email clients and boasts a delivery rate of 99%. This service will not only manage your list, but it will also help you build it. It includes free tools that allow you to create web forms, pop-ups, and hover-ins all of which can be used to increase your opt-in rate.
2. Website
In addition to purchasing the autoresponder service, you will need to setup your own site if you do not already own one. You can have it for free from http://www.blogger.com/ or http://www.blogspot.com/ etc. If you already own a related site, you can simply add your opt in form to a page on your existing site. If not, I suggest purchasing cheap domain and hosting and using this to host your list forms. http://www.hostgator.com/ currently offers some of the cheapest hosting available on the market.
Once you have your site and your autoresponder setup, there are only two steps left:
3. Building a Free Course
Building a Free Course of some sort that is related to the affiliate products you will sell;
This part is relatively easy. Start by determining your topic and then outline it over the course of five to seven days. Remember that everything should be written as if you are talking to a person, rather than as if you were writing a formal article.
If you don’t feel comfortable writing these articles yourself, you can always hire a ghostwriter at http://www.elance.com/ for $5-15 per issue, depending on the size.
4. Creating an opt-in form that converts.
Once you have created your autoresponder series (you must do this before of course), you will want to feed it into your autoresponder, setup advertisements in the text for the affiliate product you are planning to sell, and then create an opt-in form for your list.
Once you have setup your opt-in form, the only remaining step is to drive various traffic sources to your opt-in list, collect their email addresses – and then wait for the commissions to roll in.
Do the 4 steps with patient. Don’t be in a hurry. Keep Persistent. Spend the minimum 2 – 3 hours per day to start the steps above.
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To Your Success …
