Tuesday, December 9, 2008

3 survival skills to succeed online

Every affiliate marketer is always looking for the successful marketthat gives the biggest paycheck. Sometimes they think it is a magicformula that is readily available for them. Actually, it is morecomplicated than that. It is just good marketing practices that havebeen proven over years of hard work and dedication.There are tactics that have worked before with online marketing and iscontinuing to work in the online affiliate marketing world of today.With these top three marketing tips, you will be able to able toincrease your sales and survive in the affiliate marketing online.What are these three tactics?1. Using unique web pages to promote each separate product you aremarketing. Do not lump all of it together just to save some money onweb hosting. It is best to have a site focusing on each and everyproduct and nothing more.Always include product reviews on the website so visitors will have aninitial understanding on what the product can do to those who buysthem. Also include testimonials from users who have already tried theproduct.Be sure that these customers are more than willing to allow you to usetheir names and photos on the site of the specific product you aremarketing.You can also write articles highlighting the uses of the product andinclude them on the website as an additional page. Make the pagesattractive compelling and include calls to act on the information. Eachheadline should attract the readers to try and read more, even contactyou. Highlight your special points. This will help your readers to learnwhat the page is about and will want to find out more.2. Offer free reports to your readers. If possible position them at thevery top side of your page so it they simply cannot be missed. Try tocreate autoresponder messages that will be mailed to those who inputtheir personal information into your sign up box. According toresearch, a sale is closed usually on the seventh contact with aprospect.Only two things can possibly happen with the web page alone: closedsale or the prospect leaving the page and never return again. Byplacing useful information into their inboxes at certain specified period,you will remind them of the product they thought they want later andwill find out that the sale is closed. Be sure that the content is directedtoward specific reasons to buy the product. Do not make it sound likea sales pitch.Focus on important points like how your product can make life andthings easier and more enjoyable. Include compelling subject lines inthe email. As much as possible, avoid using the word “free” becausethere are still older spam filters that dumps those kind of contents intothe junk before even anyone reading them first. Convince those whosigned up for your free reports that they will be missing something bigif they do not avail of your products and services.3. Get the kind of traffic that is targeted to your product. Just think, ifthe person who visited your website has no interest whatsoever inwhat you are offering, they will be among those who move on andnever come back. Write articles for publication in e-zines and ereports.This way you can locate publications that is focusing on yourtarget customers and what you have put up might just grab theirinterest.Try to write a minimum of 2 articles per week, with at least 300-600words in length.By continuously writing and maintaining these articles you cangenerate as manyas many targeted readers to your site in a day.Always remember that only 1 out of 100 people are likely to buy yourproduct or get your services. If you can generate as much as 1,000targeted hits for your website in a day, that means you can made 10sales based on the average statistic.The tactics given above does not really sound very difficult to do, ifyou think about it. It just requires a little time and an action plan onyour part.Try to use these tips for several affiliate paychecks you will be receiving…
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Oke Timothy
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