Take Dead Aim with Affiliate Programs

•Are You Spending 75 of Your Time Marketing Your Affiliate Programs
Are You Spending 75% of Your Time 'Marketing Your Affiliate Programs'?   by David McKenzieHow important do you think it is to market your affiliate programs? Most would probably say it’s quite important. I would say it is the difference between success and failure for the affiliate. The more time you spend marketing your affiliate programs the more successful you will be. The ‘Super Affiliates’ spend 75% of their time marketing their affiliate programs. This means they only spend 25% of their...

•7 Tips to Choosing a Successful Affiliate Program
by David McKenzieWhen selecting an affiliate program to join you need to know how to choose a successful affiliate program. Look in the wrong place and you might find a dud but look in the right place and you might be on to a winner. Here are 7 tips to help you choose a successful affiliate program to join:1. Look at associateprograms.com This is the affiliate central' of affiliate programs. You can virtually guarantee to find a successful program here and you can choose from tons of subject...

•Resistance means Success for Affiliates
by David McKenzieI often receive emails in my inbox asking me to join new affiliate programs. In fact, I probably receive about 20 such emails every week. What should you do when you receive offers to join a new affiliate program?Usually the email goes something like “Please join our new incredible affiliate program that pays 50% direct commissions and 20% commissions for the 2nd tier … “Your mind immediately focuses on the 20% direct commission and 10% indirect commissions that you receive...

•7 Reasons Why You Should Start with Affiliate Programs
by David McKenzieThere are thousands of business opportunities online. Most of them require some capital to start with. Not affiliate programs!Here are 7 reasons why you should consider joining an affiliate program as your home based business. 1. Joining an affiliate program requires no outlay of capital. That’s right, none! You can join an affiliate program for free and start promoting the product immediately. 2. The internet marketing tools are already provided for you. A ‘top’ affiliate...

•Use an Affiliate Network to Boost Your Commissions
by David McKenzieMost affiliates concentrate exclusively on direct sales. For affiliates this means joining an affiliate program and marketing the product or service through their web site or via email. The affiliate earns a commission for every sale made. Very few affiliates appear to focus on the 2nd tier. Most good affiliate programs are 2 tier which means that as well as direct sales you can also build what I call an affiliate network'. An affiliate network is the ability to get...

•Affiliate Marketing Means Using Email Marketing
by David McKenzieAs an affiliate in an affiliate program you need to be good at affiliate marketing. One of the most important aspects of affiliate marketing is email marketing.Get it right and you will be a successful affiliate. Get it wrong and you will be just another affiliate statistic. (It is estimated that between 80% and 90% of affiliates make little or no money from affiliate programs)What email marketing methods work best to be a successful affiliate? Here are 3 methods that...

•Are You Happy Being an Affiliate
Are You Happy Being an Affiliate?   by David McKenzieThe success of affiliates has a lot to do with their happiness. Ask any affiliate that has made decent money with affiliate programs whether they enjoy what they are doing and they will all answer YES'. You need to enjoy what you are doing to do well at it. Sounds simple right?However many online entrepreneurs could think of nothing worse than re-selling someone else's product. That would be like working for a competitor! They want to...

•Are You a High Traffic Site
Are You a High Traffic Site?   by David McKenzieIf you are an affiliate or are thinking of becoming an affiliate in an affiliate program you probably have seen some statistics like these in the affiliate sign-up information:Low traffic sites can earn $500 - $1,000 per month, medium traffic sites can earn $1,000 to $2,000 per month and high traffic sites can earn $3,000 + per month.Wow!! Sounds pretty good. >From one affiliate program it seems you could be making over $3,000 a month just...

•Secrets to a higher Conversion Ratio
by David McKenzieAs an affiliate promoting affiliate programs you need to know the conversion ratio of each program you belong to.It is something you have control over.But what exactly is a conversion ratio?For affiliate programs, the conversion ratio (or CR) is the number of visitors that click through your affiliate link compared to the number of sales you make. For instance if you had 100 visitors to one of your affiliate programs you were promoting and got 1 sale then your CR would be...

•Affiliate Marketing Techniques Scatter Gun or Shot Gun Approach
by David McKenzieAffiliate marketing question - Should you join every affiliateprogram you can find or just a few?There are many thousands of affiliate programs on the net thatyou can join. Every man and his dog is running one. But how doyou decide which ones to join?There are two trains of thought in this area. First you can takethe scatter gun approach, which is quite popular on the net, andjoin as many programs as possible. This ensures that at leastSOME of them will pay off. Well, that’s...