How To Effectively Promote All Your Affiliate Programs
© Copyright Terry Telford

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Signing up for affiliate programs is easy, but turning them
into a paycheck is another story. According to a recent
survey, the average affiliate signs up for 48 programs a
year, but makes less than $100 a month. Those are not
inspiring statistics.

The difficulty for most affiliates is three-fold:

1.
They don't know how to promote

2.
They don't know how to promote multiple affiliate
programs

3.
They don't know how to drive traffic to their websites

The top affiliates have mastered these three points
already. They're clearing thousands, sometimes tens of
thousands of dollars a month. If you're looking for a
simple way to join the ranks of the super affiliates, these
three steps will point you in the right direction.

1.
Promoting An Affiliate Program
When you sign up for an affiliate program and you get the
standard affiliate link with the megalithic long string of
digits, don't promote it. It looks very unprofessional,
people are conditioned to ignore affiliate links, your
affiliate commissions are being hijacked, and you're
losing sales. You need to combat these problems in 1 of 2
ways.

At the very least, you cloak or redirect your affiliate
link using a page on your website. But better yet, set up a
page on your website that offers useful information on the
topic you're promoting. Write a simple product review or a
review of the industry with links to the affiliate program
you're promoting. And don't forget to always offer your
visitors a way to join your list.

2.
Promoting Multiple Affiliate Programs

Two of the simplest ways to promote multiple affiliate
programs are using an affiliate information portal like
Affiliate Showcase, or professional blogging software like
WordPress Pro. Links to both these resources can be found
in the resource box at the bottom of this article.

Affiliate Showcase is a portal website that allows you to
professionally present all your affiliate programs from one
clean layout. It comes in a FRE'E and pro version and
dramatically increases your affiliate commission rates.

WordPress Pro is a plug-in for the FRE'E WordPress blogging
software. It allows casual users to turn themselves into
powerhouse marketing machines in a matter of minutes. The
software gives you the power to tag key word phrases with
your affiliate links. When you post an article on your
WordPress Pro enhanced website, your keywords are
automatically hyperlinked to your affiliate website. Every
single article or post on your website becomes a super
sonic selling machine for all your affiliate programs – you
set it and forget it. This software is magic. When you visit
Catalin's site, click the play button on the audio player.
Catalin has the coolest accent.

3.
Driving Traffic To Your Website

This is one of the most important functions of marketing.
You can have the best website in the world, but if you
don't have traffic coming in through the doors, what's
the point of having a website? My favourite, unorthodox way
of generating traffic costs $10, but it's worth thousands
of dollars.

Mark Flavin has designed a system that generates traffic
for your website, but more importantly, it generates sales.
It's a plug and play, automated, set-it-and-forget it
system that takes you a few minutes to set up, but costs
next to nothing.

When I first read Mark's work, I have to admit, I thought
he was a bit off his rocker. He talks about marketing
techniques that we all know don't work or are way to
commonplace. Things like classified ads, banners, pop-ups,
AdSense and reprint rights, at first glance don’t strike me
as extreme traffic generators or profit makers. But with
Mark's twist, I was actually able to make these things
work!

It reminds me of another Mark's comments once upon the
day. Mark Joyner once said that he could take tons of
"cheeseburger traffic" and feed it to a good converting
site to pull a very healthy profit. Don't knock it till
you try it.

If you're still a struggling affiliate, take the time to
update your toolbox with a few of the simple, but powerful
tools you now have access to. What you do today affects
your incom'e tomorrow. Make it your mission to do
something.

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Terry Telford is an international business consultant. The
resources he's provided you with can be downloaded from
http://www.TheBusinessProfessional.com/affiliategoodies.htm
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