Affiliate Marketing Secrets

Winning Affiliate Marketing Strategies

Affiliate marketing is by far the fastest way to get started making money online. What "affiliate marketing" means is that you just send traffic to someone else's website, they do all the hard work of developing the product, making the sale, delivering the product and supporting the customer, and you get paid 50% or more

The benefits of this are

1. You can start almost instantly with no up-front costs and no need to develop a product, set up a website and sales page, develop the website, create marketing materials, or do support, billing and maintenance.
2. You have practically zero time investment because they handle the billing, support, maintenance, etc.
3. There's no risk for you, 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!

The downside is...

Once you send your visitors to the product sales page, they are gone forever. Most of them will not buy on their first visit, which means you're losing over 90% of the traffic right off the top. And of the 10% or less that do buy, the product owner will be able to sell to them again, but you will not.

How can you avoid this pitfall?

It's simple: You must get your visitors' email addresses before you send them to the product owner's website. This way you can follow up with them and keep sending them back to the sales page to increase your chances of making the sale. And if you're really on top of your game, you'll then send to a content mini-site in between.
Here's what these affiliate marketing strategies will do for you:

1. You'll be building your own list of potential customers that you can market to again and again.
2. You'll be warming them up by providing valuable information and then casually linking to the product sales page in the context of this information.

Here's what you'll need to create affiliate tools like this:

1. A squeeze page, and even better a Video squeeze page.
2. At least a few pages of great content
3. An email series with at least 5 high-quality content emails

You'll use the squeeze page as the place to send your visitors instead of using the product website. It captures the name and email of your visitors and puts them into your autoresponder, which then begins sending out the 5-part email series. Then it redirects them to your content pages after they subscribe to your email series.
You content mini-site builds the good will, so that when you send them to the product sales page, they are in a buying mood. And at the same time, the email series begins following up with them to get them back to the sales page, in case they don't buy on the first visit.
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 after you get it all set up, it runs on total auto-pilot. You just refer people to your lead capture page, instead of the product sales page.
One option, if you're not up to the challenge of setting this all up yourself, is to let someone like Affiliate Silver Bullet do it for you. With a service like that, you don't have to do anything. They make the video, build the squeeze page, write the email series, develop the content mini-site, etc. And then just give you a finished package. The major benefit of using a service like this is that you can get started right away, and for a whole lot less than it would cost to do it all yourself. One negative is that there will be other people using this same affiliate marketing system. However, the odds of you and them both finding the same visitor are so small, that it doesn't really matter.
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.