18 Ways To Increase Your Affilliate Commissions
1, Collect your visitor email addresses by providing free reports: Offer a free report to your visitor. This report should provide helpful and valuable information. This will enable you to collect your visitors email address and follow up with them. Research has shown that over 60% of the sales of any product are made after the fifth exposure to the sales message. In other words, most people do not make a purchase on the first solicitation. You may need to send your affilliate marketing message over six times before a sale is made. This is the reason why you should collect the contact information of those who download your report. You can then follow up on these contacts to gently remind them to make the purchase.
2, Know what programs and products to promote: you will want to promote those affilliate programs that will bring you the greatest profits in the shortest time, Choose affilliate programs that have a generous commission structure, products that fit in with your target audience and a solid track record of paying their affilliates on time. If you cannot recoup your investment, then prune such programs and keep looking for better ones. There are tens of thousands of affilliate programs online so you can afford to be picky.
3, Spend a lot of time trying to get a high ranking in search engines for your web sites: Learn as much as you can about search engines and make it a weekly task to try to get good rankings. and your website will get more traffic from google search engine.
4, Write your own endorsement or review the product you're promoting: A heartfelt honest testimonial is hands down the best way to get a prospect to buy. Your prospect wants to know how this product has ben helping you. This will help them to make the decision to buy.
5, Start your own affilliate program directory:Join a large number of affilliate programs and list them all in a directory format on your web site. Then just advertise your free affilliate program directory.
6, Track your ad and advertising: You have to track your ad copy and advertising campaigns. This will enable you to know the conversion rate and then your ROI.
7, Use text links rather than banners for your affilliate programs: Text links get a much higher click through ratio. People have trained themselves to ignore banners.
8, Advertise the product you're reselling in your signature file: Use an attention getting headline and a good reason for them to visit your affilliate site. Make sure your sig file doesn't go over 5 lines.
9, Use a personal endorsement ad: Only use one if you've actually bought the product or service for the affilliate program. Tell people what kind of benefits and results you've received using the product.
10, Publishing your own ezine and building up your subscriber base: Most of the successful Marketing Gurus have a large subscriber base. The reason is simple, "The Gold Is In The List". Successful Marketers like Terry Dean, Jim Daniels etc have been successful in using this technique.
11, Use your web site 404 (Error) page: Even though we try to build a perfect web site, sometimes something may be missing without our being aware of it. That's why the software may still have bugs even after being tested a few times. Check with your web hosting company to see if you can customise the error page.
12, Write you own articles and post them on a separate page on your site: Then submit them to the following article resource sites.
13, Join a web ring: It should attract the same type of people that would be interested in buying the product you're reselling. You could also trade links on your own with other related web sites.
14, Participate on web discussion boards: Post your comments, answer other people's questions, and ask your own questions. Include your affilliate text link under each message you post.
15, Fully utilize your thank you page : After the visitor opts in to your mailing list, redirect them to a thank you page where you can recommend your affilliate product. Yanik Silver is using this technique; After the visitor submits their email for the report, they will be redirected to the thank you page. In the thank you page, Yanik will recommend a few products to his prospect. However, Marlon and some other Marketers prefer to sell 1 product at one time, which they believe it is more effective and less confusing. You can test these 2 methods by using a simple java script so that the thank you page will be rotated. One is with a single product recommendation and the other page will be for multiple product recommendations. Test it out to see which one gives you a higher conversion rate.
16, Give bonuses when someone buys from you : Everyone on the web is selling almost the same products as you. By offering additional bonuses like software, ebooks or information, your prospect may feel that the added value to your product tips the scale in your favor over the same product being offered by the others.
17, Spend 75% of your time marketing your web site and affilliate programs and 25% of your time working on them: Most people spend about 10% to 20% marketing their web site and affilliate programs. Then again, most people online do not make any money!
18, Participate in chat rooms related to the product you're reselling: Start a conversation with a person without trying to sell to them. Later on, while you are chatting, mention the product you're reselling.