Simple Affiliate System Personal Use Ebook

Sample Content Preview

Introduction

In today’s lesson we’re going to cover a LOT of ground. Fortunately, at the end of the day, your action steps will take relatively little time. You’ll probably spend more time this week “working” by reading this lesson.

But, it’s all important foundational stuff, so I need to cover it all. By the end of today’s lesson you’ll have a picture perfect look at how to build your affiliate business. You’ll also have made some key decisions in choosing WHAT you’ll be promoting. Sounds great!

Ready? Let’s dive in together…

4 Stages Of The Affiliate Business Model

There are four basic stages of the affiliate business model that I’d like to explain to you. Let me give them to you in abbreviated form first and then we’ll dig in deeper…

1) STRATEGY . The initial stage of the affiliate business model is developing a basic plan of attack. This will be your overall strategy for producing sales through your affiliate link. We’ll cover this in today’s lesson.

2) SELECTION . After getting a good understanding of how to make money as an affiliate, it’s time to make some crucial decisions. You’ll need to select a market, a product to promote as an affiliate and a domain name in order to begin building your affiliate commissions. We’ll cover this in today’s lesson.

3) SETUP . Once your foundational decisions are in place, it’s time to begin setting up two important things that will enable you to build significant income as an affiliate: a blog (free) and a list (free to low-cost). We’ll cover this in other lessons in the course.

4) SELLING . You’ll spend the majority of your time in this final stage. This is the place where you promote your affiliate link over and over again. There are a wide variety of ways to do this and we’ll be covering ALL of the proven effective ones. We’ll cover this in other lessons in the course.

Now, all of this sounds really exciting, I know. So, let’s go ahead and begin looking at each of these stages in greater detail. We’ll also make some foundational decisions to build your affiliate business upon.

Let’s talk about these stages of the affiliate business model...

1) STRATEGY. The first thing we need to do is create a basic plan for you to put into action over the coming weeks and months. I’m going to give this to you in a nutshell and then explain why it’s important that you approach the affiliate business in this manner.

Create a blog and a list that are designed to get sales for your affiliate link and then direct as many people to your blog and list as possible. I know, I know. At first glance you may be thinking, “I thought I was going to promote my affiliate link!” Trust me, you will. But in doing it this way you’ll dramatically increase your affiliate commission checks.

Let me explain some keys to success with affiliate marketing and then we’ll get back to this strategy. Hold on tight, you’re about to get a serious education in affiliate marketing.

Here's how a lot of people promote their favorite offer…

-> They simply advertise their affiliate link and send visitors directly to the website where the product salesletter awaits.

Two quick questions for you regarding this practice:

1 1) Who gets the ultimate benefit?

2 2) What happens to those who don't buy?

Think about this for a moment. When you send a visitor to the salespage, who gets the ultimate benefit of your effort?

I'll give you a hint: it's NOT YOU.

The owner of the product does. Why? Because if they are any kind of marketer at all, they'll have a LIST of some kind for visitors to join. And then they get to promote to that subscriber over and over again. And not just their products, but they can promote other people's products as well.

SIDEBAR: To be sure, they'll likely spend the first few followup offers to promote their own offer and you WILL likely earn a commission on referrals, everybody knows the real value is in the long-term offers being sent. Any of these future offers that they send promoting other stuff leaves you out of the loop.

And while you got them that subscriber through your effort, you ain't getting paid a penny for all of those future sales.

Moving on to that second question. The average salesletter gets around 2% conversion. That means 98 out of ever 100 people you send to the site will NOT buy. What happens to those folks? They either walk away empty-handed never to be seen again, or they join the list and get a variety of offers presented to them. Either way, it's not going to help you in the long run.

That's a LOT of wasted effort, isn't it? You're looking at a relatively small payday for your investment of time and money in getting visitors to click thru your affiliate link.

• File Size:2,807 KB
• License: Personal Use
• Category:Ebooks
• Tags:2011 Ebooks Personal Use