Affiliate Marketing Secrets
Learn Top Affiliate Secrets
One of the easiest and fastest way to make money online is through affiliate marketing. This is when you refer traffic to someone else’s product sales page, and they do everything else! (make the product, design the sale page, handle the billing and support, etc.), and you earn at least a 50% commission.
Here’s Just a Few Benefits
- You can get started almost immediately because you don’t have to make a product, craft a sales letter, develop the website, create marketing materials, or do support, billing and maintenance.
- You have almost no investment of time because you don’t have to do the customer support or deal with billing or technical issues.
- Your efforts are risk-free, because the product owner has already done all the research , development and testing. So you know that your traffic will result in sales.
There’s no denying that these benefits make affiliate marketing the best thing going!
There is One Major Drawback…
After all your hard work of generating traffic to the sales page, you will never see any of those visitors again. Less than 10% of the visitors you send will actually buy the product. The 10% or less that make a purchase now belong to the product owner. She can sell them additional products, but you can never sell to them again.
Is There a Way Around This?
It’s simple: You must get your visitors’ email addresses before you send them to the product owner’s website. By getting their contact info, you can follow up increase your odds of making the sale by sending them back to the product owner’s website multiple times. As well, if you want to do it like a pro, you’ll give them some great content before sending them to the sales page.
Here are the benefits of doing affiliate marketing like this:
- You’ll be building your own list of potential customers that you can market to again and again.
- You’re generating good will by giving them high-quality content. This way, they are much more likely to make a purchase when you send them to the sales page.
If you want to create an affiliate marketing system like this, you’ll need the following:
- A lead capture page, preferably with video
- One or more content-rich “warm up” pages
- A multi-part email series with at least 5 emails in it
Instead of sending visitors directly to the product sales page, you’ll send them to your lead capture page first. Your squeeze page adds your visitors to your autoresponder. This is how you start building your list, and at the same time begin sending them useful information. Then it redirects them to your content pages after they subscribe to your email series.
The content pages provide valuable information for your visitors, and make them more receptive to the sales message that you’ll link to from inside the content. Even if they don’t buy on the first visit, your email series sends them back to the product sales page again and again to increase your sales.
All of this together increases your chances of making the sale by up to 500% , so it’s well worth the effort of setting it up. And once it’s set up, it runs automatically – you just send visitors to the squeeze page, instead of the product website.
Setting it all up yourself requires some skill, and if you’re not up to it, you can use a service like Affiliate Silver Bullet. These kinds of services will build the whole system for you and then just give you a video squeeze page (with video), pre-written emails, content pages, etc. On the plus side, you’ll save a ton of time and money vs. trying to build this yourself. Plus you can get started instantly. The drawback is that you won’t be the only one using these affiliate tools, but the internet is huge, so this shouldn’t really affect you.
The other route you can take is to hire people on Elance to create and implement the various aspects for you. Either way, it’s an important step that you need to take if you’re going to be serious about your affiliate marketing.


