| Affiliate marketing is undoubtedly a great way to | | | | you will know the importance of building your targeted |
| make a living online. The attraction for me was the | | | | email list. A powerful way to capitalise on each email |
| fact that I could sell other people's business products | | | | address is to have it automatically linked to your |
| and services without the usual nightmare of customer | | | | autoresponder which will send a series of followup |
| service and product delivery. The added bonus of | | | | emails automatically to help close the sale or bring your |
| being able to virtually automate my entire affiliate | | | | prospects back to your site. |
| business, makes this line of "work", if you could call it | | | | If you are offering a free email course from your site |
| that, a dream come true. | | | | then your visitors will be expecting your email but even |
| I have been a successful affiliate marketer for a few | | | | if you offer a free download in return for their email |
| years. If you are entering the business or are already | | | | address you should still followup. Don't forget to remind |
| making strides to find your own success you will find | | | | your readers who you are and why you are following |
| these three tips will dramatically increase your affiliate | | | | up. Maybe you could ask in the first email how they |
| commissions: | | | | liked your ebook. Anything along these lines should |
| 1. Write free reports and ebooks to offer your website | | | | suffice. |
| visitors - Online browsers love freebies and are more | | | | 3. Moving from the strategy of list-building, another |
| likely to remember you and return to your site if you | | | | powerful way to increase your affiliate commissions is |
| give them something useful for free. I tend to create | | | | to contact the product owner and ask them to |
| pdf reports with my links generously displayed | | | | increase the % of your commission - If you are |
| throughout the report. You could even compile a few | | | | already a successful affiliate marketer and/or have |
| of your articles in one pdf file. | | | | made some sales for the product or service then the |
| These files are easily and quickly downloaded for | | | | owner of the product or service should be quite |
| viewing on your prospects P.C. So, encourage them to | | | | receptive to your approach. After all, he does not |
| save your download on their desktop. No telling how | | | | want to lose you completely and may not mind |
| much later your visitor may decide to have a browse | | | | increasing your % by even a little more than others are |
| through your report which will likely lead to another visit | | | | receiving. |
| to your site. | | | | Any increase at all can significantly increase your |
| 2. Collect the email addresses of your website visitors | | | | income if you are making a lot of sales. Obviously! |
| before they can download your free reports - There is | | | | Implimenting the above strategies may be a no-brainer |
| no such thing as a free lunch so the deal is; a useful | | | | to some of you but even the most basic of strategies |
| report on the topic of your market at no cost in return | | | | can be all new to those just getting started in the |
| for your prospects' email address. I don't think that is a | | | | business. Regardless of whether you are just starting |
| bad deal. Do you? | | | | or not, the above strategies can make a big difference |
| If you've been online for any length of time at all then | | | | to your bottom line in a short spcae of time. |