Marketing Your Sites Without Doing A Thing

In the next few posts I am going to be teaching you how to set up your own hugely profitable affiliate program.

If you haven’t got your own set up already this is going to blow your mind. And if you have I can guarantee that this will be a real eye opener. The majority of affiliate program owners have it set up in a way that is completely wrong.

Affiliate Program Options I Recommend

www.paydotcom.com. This, for me, is a great and simple option. You get paid straight into your paypal account and can then use the paypal “mass pay” options to pay your affiliates simply. Nine out of  ten.

www.clickbank.com. The advantage of click bank is they are a wellrespected company and will pay your affiliates for you. This makes things hands off and also gets past any issues of trust where marketers don’t know if you’ll definitely pay them or not.

www.1shoppingcart.com This is the ultimate all in one solution.

Whilst more expensive than click bank it includes auto responders and much more to make your business as professional as possible.

Each of the above have different benefits. Take a look at each one and see which suits you and your business needs the best.

Encourage People To Sign Up

Here’s where most people go wrong. They set up an affiliate program and have a links that says “click here to sign up” and then that’s it.

You need to sell your affiliate program.

Have a mini sales letter that explains the benefit of people signing up. Tell them their commissions and how they can earn a living without ever having to create a product or have a web site just by promoting your products.

Provide Affiliates With Marketing Materials

Here’s another big one. Site owners get people to sign up their affiliate program and then just leave them to it. It’s like they’re saying “thanks for signing up, now go and make me some cash”.

That’s ridiculous. You need to do all the hard work for your affiliates if you want to start earning the big bucks.

Provide your affiliate with email promotions, articles, press releases, pay per click ads, banner adverts and whatever else you can create that will enable people to promote your site to the masses with as little work as possible.

Here’s the thing. You could write an article and submit it to article directories all over the internet and do very well for yourself. However if you just had one hundred affiliates blasting that article all over the net you’ve just multiplied your marketing power by one hundred. This is the key to making massive amounts online.

If you can’t write articles etc yourself hire someone to do so from www.elance.com but do provide your affiliates with marketing materials or your just setting yourself up for having a very mediocre internet business

Have An Affiliate Only Newsletter

Here’s a real cracker. Have an email list of only your affiliates. Each week send out a mini blueprint on how they can market your products and earn a commission. Inform them of new products you’ve just launched or new marketing materials you’ve just added to your affiliates area.

Another great method you can use with this is have a weekly competiton. Each week the affiliate who earns the most gets an extra one hundred dollars or whatever you can afford. Mention the winner in each week’s newsletter and say things like “who thinks they can overtake Joe Bloggs as being my top affiliate? Come on guys I know I’ve got some great marketers signed up as my affiliates prove it and I’ll mention you in next weeks newsletter”

This is great. Psychologically you are motivating your affiliates to promote your products like crazy to get recognition as being your “top gun. Often ego trips are just as motivating as money.