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Chapter 5: The Best Affiliate Marketing Tips
With all of the information we have available online today for affiliate marketing, the results can be overwhelming. This can cause great confusion to a newbie, who's trying their butts off to make it. What we are about to tell you will be the most valuable information you can find. Without this tip we are going to give you, you can do all the tactics above and below, or any out there for that matter, and you still will not make it and be successful without putting this to action and living by it.
We have read many, many articles in our days. We've heard of every traffic tactic under the sun. There is one that they have left out. Remember when we told you that you were the modern day traveling salesman, knocking on every computer's door in the world... you are!
Many years I, Brian, was a door to door salesman. If customers were unhappy, they come to me, not the company. They looked to me to make it right. They trusted me, and with that trust, came a great responsibility on myself if I wanted to be successful. We strongly suggest helping the customer as much as possible. Be sure that your merchant has an upright and progressive support team, to help the customer's needs.
You can believe all the hype you want, but if they are not getting help from the product people and they bought through you, and you're not helping, they are going to be pissed, and they are never going to buy from you again! So, take our two pennies for what they are. At the end of the day you can try every tactic known to man, every strategy there is, you will not make it if no one trusts you. So, take a portion of your time for your business, to take care of the people who put bread on your plate, or you will not last long.
With that being said, you must build a good relationship from day one, when the door opens. These people don't just come and go. Many will buy from you over and over again. You need to promote yourself on your own website. We recommend that you place your photo, your name, and some type of contact information on your site, so people know you are the referral. If people contact you they already feel familiar with your face and if by phone, now your voice. This is a massive relationship builder, especially when they are happy in the end. We are not saying everything has to be phone, but you get our point. This guarantees more sales in the long run for your business.
Now, that we have given you that valuable information, never forget it, and live by it. We want to see you succeed. We certainty didn't write this book to have you fail. We would like to know we made a difference for someone. Now that we have ranted on that, let's move on.
Here are some other things we suggest you take in consideration and put into affirmative action.
# 1. Set a business plan.
Make goals each month for yourself and think about what you want, how many sites you want to have to deal with, set a number of sales, and put forth a battle plan to your attack. Ask yourself, "what am I doing, where am I going, and how am I going to get there?"
# 2. Add priceless things and content to your website.
People use the internet to gather information like they never could in the past. The world is full of inquisitive people ready to do a bumper-to- bumper inspection before they are going to buy. Many businesses are so successful because they provide new and appreciated information to their visitors. You know it at this point in the book as well as us that happy visitors become grateful customers.
# 3. Become a keyword research wizard.
We suggest you try to educate yourself more on keyword research. When you think you know it all, research some more. Choosing the right keywords and knowing the long tail keywords will drastically improve the performance of your affiliate website. There will be no, "well, I hope this works", or "I think this is in demand," the guessing games are over. Once you discover what it in demand then you can provide the proper content to the audience.
# 4. Know your SEO, or at least the basics.
Search engine traffic depends on the success of any online business today. Google and other search engines are the main sources to get traffic. By enhancing your website for search engines you will get a butt load of traffic in return. So it is vital that you learn about SEO if you want to survive in the jungle of online marketing.
# 5. Don't be lazy, use article marketing.
Article marketing is a great way to get high quality traffic for free. We spit out articles all the time. We will write articles on our niche, chunk them out to 3-5 article directories and set back and watch out stats grow on visitors. It works! It's not an overnight thing but a long term gradual thing. We don't know about you, but we would rather last long and steady than peak and crash. Article marketing is also like your wing-man for your SEO operation. So by using article marketing you are killing two birds with one stone, and doubling your chances on your target.
# 6. Lights, camera, action!
Video marketing is booming in the industry today! By creating videos about yourself, your affiliate business, products and/or services, you will already be a step ahead of your competitors. This is a very plain, but affective strategy. Many people enjoy watching videos from the insight they get. With the simple use of any camera, web cam, or built in computer camera, and a simple editing program, you could begin to produce your own videos drastically scratching the back of your business. This plan doesn't take long to put into effect, and if you're camera-shy, just practice a bit first. Nothing is concrete until you FTP it. So, have some fun with it, and just practice.