Winning Affiliate Marketing Strategies

Affiliate marketing is by far the fastest way to get started earning a living online. This is when you refer traffic to someone else’s product sales page, they do all the hard work of making the sale and supporting the customer, and you get a percentage of the sale price as your commission, which for digital products can be 50% of more.

These are a some of the benefits

  1. You’re able to start instantly without having to make a product, write a sales letter, develop a website, create marketing materials, get a merchant account, or provide support
  2. There’s no time required on your part because the product owner does all the hard work of support, maintenance and billing.
  3. Your efforts are risk-free. You know that the visitors you send will result in commissions for you because the product owner has already made sure the product sells.

    4. 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. Most of them will not buy on their first visit, which means you’re losing over 90% of the traffic right off the top. That’s fine for the product owner because she can sell to them again and again, but you can’t.

    Is there are way around this?

    What you need to do is capture the contact info of your visitors before sending them to the product 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. And if you’re a super star affiliate, you’ll provide high-quality content before sending them to the product website.

    Here’s what these affiliate marketing strategies will do for you:

    1. Owning a list of potential buyers gives you the ability to market additional products at the push of a button.
    2. 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.

      3. In order to set a system like this up, you will need the following affiliate marketing tools:

      1. A squeeze page, and even better a Video squeeze page.
      2. One or more content-rich “warm up” pages
      3. An email series with at least 5 high-quality content emails

        4. You’ll use the squeeze page as the place to send your visitors instead of using the product website. This page is where you collect your visitors’ contact info and add them to your autoresponder, which in turn starts sending them the multi-part email series. 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. While they’re reading the content you’ve provided, your email system is already following up with them to send them back to the product website again and again.

        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.

        If you don’t have the time or expertise to set it all up yourself, you can use something like Affiliate Silver Bullet. Services like this design the enter system (the video, the video squeeze page, the email series, the 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 downside is that other people will be using the same affiliate tools as you. But the internet is pretty big, so this isn’t much of a concern.

        Another way to accomplish this is to hire “outsourcers” through a website like Elance to build and put your system together for you. The important thing is that you start using affiliate tools like the ones described here right now! Otherwise, you’re wasting your time and money.