Thursday, January 1, 2009

Top 3 Ways To Boost Your Affiliate Commissions Overnight

The ideal world of affilate marketing does not require having your own website, dealing with customers, refunds, product development and maintenance. This is one of the easiest ways of launching into an online business and earning more profits.

Assuming you are already into an affiliate program, what would be the next thing you would want to do?

Double, or even triple, your commissions, right?

How do you do that?

Here are some powerful tips on how to boost your affilliate program commissions overnight.

1. Know the best program and products to promote. Obviously, you would want to promote a program that will enable you to achieve the greatest profits in the shortest possible time.

There are several things to consider in choosing such a program. Choose the ones that provide a generous commission structure. Have products that fit in with your target audience. And one that has a strong track record of paying their affiliate's quickly and easily. If you cannot seem to increase your investments, dump that program and keep looking for better ones.

There are millions of affiliate programs online which gives you a reason to be picky. You may want to select the best to avoid losing your advertising dollars.

Write short ebooks or free reports to send out from your site. There is a great possibility that you are competing with other affiliates that are promoting the same program. If you start writing short reports related to the product you are promoting, you will be able to distinguish yourself from the other affiliates.

In the reports, provide some valuable information for free. If you can , provide some recommendations about the products. With ebooks, you get credibility.

Customers will see that in you and they will be tempted to try out what you are offering.

2. Collect and save the email addresses of those who download your free ebooks. It is a known fact that people do not make a purchase on the first solicitation. You may want to send out your message more than six times in order to make a sale.

This is the simple reason why you should collect the contact information of those who downloaded your reports and ebooks. You can make follow-ups to these contacts and remind them to make a purchase from you.

Get the contact information of a prospect before sending them to the vendor’s website. Keep in mind that you are providing free advertisement for the product owners. You get paid only when you make a sale. If you send prospects directly to the vendors, chances are they would be lost to you forever.

But when you get their names, you can always send other marketing messages to them to be able to earn an ongoing commission instead of a one-time sale only.

Publish an online newsletter or Ezine. It is always best to recommend a product to someone you know than to sell to a stranger. This is the purpose behind publishing your own newsletter. This also allows you to have a relationship based on trust with your subscribers.

This strategy is a delicate balance between providing useful information with a sales pitch. If you continue to write informative editorials you will be able to build a sense of reciprocity in your readers that may lead them to support you by buying your products.

3. Ask for higher than normal commission from merchants. If you are already doing well with a particular promotion, you should try and talk to the merchant and negotiate a percentage commission for your sales.

If the merchant is clever, he/she will likely grant your request rather than lose a valuable asset in you. Keep in mind that you are a zero-risk investment to your merchant; so do not be shy about requesting for an addition in your commissions. Just try to be reasonable about it.

Write strong Pay Per Click ads. PPC is the most effective means of advertising online. As an affiliate, you can make a small income just by managing Pay Per Click campaigns such as Overture and Google AdWords. Then you should try and monitor them to see which ads are more effective and which ones to dispose of.

Try out these strategies and see the difference it can make to your commission checks in the shortest of time.

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