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Don’t Be Afraid to Give Stuff Away!

A lot of people who have their own products they sell in a niche, also sell affiliate products in that niche as well.

They may go to Clickbank or PayDotCom and find products in the same niche as theirs and promote them to earn commissions.

One of the keys to affiliate marketing is to reward people who buy through your affiliate link by giving them some kind of bonus.

You can tell them that if they order through your link to email their receipt number to you and within 24 hours you will send them a link to their bonus.

You should fully explain what your bonus is on the pre-sell or review page you set up for the affiliate product.

A lot of affiliates buy PLR (private label rights) products to use as bonuses, and that can work. However, a lot of the PLR stuff out there is junk and if you pass it off on your buyers and they are unhappy, they will be less willing to buy from you again in the future.

If you have a great product of your own in the same niche as the affiliate product you are promoting, don’t be afraid to use it as a bonus!

One advantage is that no one else can use it as a bonus so that makes it unique. If they want it they have to buy through your link!

List Building

Another List Building Technique

List building has to be one of the cornerstones of successful Internet marketing. A lot of times it can also be one of the most challenging aspects of the business for beginners.

Here is a trick that can help you build your list. Let’s begin with your niche. A lot of you are interested in the Internet marketing niche but this can work in any specific niche.

Suppose you are fairly new to the business. Maybe you have a product of your own and you are also doing some affiliate marketing.

Do some research and make yourself an expert in one aspect of selling online. Write a simple 10-20 page report dealing with that aspect.

You could also buy some PLR materials and rework them a bit to use.

Have a nice cover graphic designed for your report. You can easily get one for $5 at Fiverr.com. On the very last page have a brief 2-3 line bio blurb and a link to your sales page or blog. Make sure to have an opt-in form on that blog or page.

Now, watch Clickbank for new products coming out in the IM niche. Don’t worry right away about the big product launches where the product starts out with a high gravity on page one.

Look for the smaller products that were probably created by someone like yourself that have only been out for less than a month. Theirs will probably be found at the tail end of the listings.

You can do a search and set the parameters in the niche for “low gravity” which is what you want.

Visit every one of the sales pages. Many of the product vendors newer to the business may not have bonuses they give away with their product.

Approach them about giving your report away either as an opt-in bonus (better) or as a bonus to those who buy. Some will accept your offer–some will not.

Doing this will get your report out in the marketplace and into the hands of those highly targeted to your offer. Some will come to your blog or sales page and opt in to your list.

As you get experience in this, start approaching larger and larger product vendors–they get some serious traffic and you will get more and more opt-ins if they take you up on your offer.

Joint Ventures, Miscellaneous

Getting Sales of your New Ebook off to a Flying Start

Almost every newbie affiliate marketer dreams of one day creating their own ebook and making a killing online with it. You may not believe me, but the easiest part of the entire project is actually the creation of the ebook. Sure, you may spend months in developing it, but once you’re done the really hard part comes in.

What most beginners fail to invest time in is promoting it. Of course you may do some article marketing, social bookmarking, video marketing and so on–but that’s not the big part.

The single biggest factor in getting your ebook flying off the ‘shelves’ in the first few weeks after it is released is the product launch. The biggest sellers online depend on finding super-affiliates (the individuals in their niche with huge mailings lists) to promote their product during its launch by sending out promotional emails with affiliate links to their lists.

There are a number of ways to find these super-affiliates, and to convince them to mail for you, but your primary consideration in launching your product MUST be in finding a fair number of these gurus to promote for you.

You want to find affiliates with big lists to in your niche to promote for you during your launch. eZineArtilcle authors with many articles in your niche are good candidates. Affiliates with listings showing in Google for your main keywords are as well. AdWords advertisers for your keywords will have lists as too.

Even just of few of these big guys doing a substantial mailing can create a huge amount of traffic to your sales page. Keep that in mind and begin bringing some key players on board several month prior to your launch date.

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