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9 Ways to Catapult Your Affiliate
Marketing Career
by: Jason Gazaway
Affiliate marketing involves the promotion of a website
by a person known as the affiliate. He is the one who
acts as the middleman between the merchant and the customer.
The nature of an affiliate’s job is to advertise
and promote a merchant’s website through his own.
As this particular website is visited by surfers and browsers,
they get to see the links that are listed or displayed
there. Customers who click on these links end up doing
transactions with the merchant. The merchant then pays
the affiliate a commission for leading the customer to
his very own site and, ultimately, his merchandise.
The whole process involved in affiliate marketing may
look really elementary, but like any other true-blue business
venture, it abides by certain rules. One who wishes to
get involved in the business should harbor an interest
to learn all the tricks of the trade. However, the success
affiliate marketers are bound to have in this type of
business is ultimately up to them to work on.
What does it take for an affiliate marketer to succeed
in a business such as this? Catapulting one’s career
in affiliate marketing is not an easy task considering
all the competition involved in the business. In an industry
where many are called but few are chosen, it pays to use
strategies that work to project one’s business forward.
This task, in addition to a lot of diligence and perseverance,
is the key to an affiliate marketing career that will
surely run a mile.
The first way involved in catapulting an affiliate marketing
career forward is for an affiliate to join affiliate programs
that prove interesting to him. This is an important factor
in being able to stick to a business long enough to be
able to make a living out of it.
The second is by making sure that one is hands on in creating
a unique and interesting website where one’s business
would take place. Using one’s own domain name is
also a good idea as the site would be provided every bit
of originality. Having a unique site will prove beneficial
to the affiliate marketer as it will attract enough attention
and, consequently, enough patrons to promote one’s
products to.
The third is by starting a linking campaign that would
encourage other website owners to supply links to an affiliate
marketer’s website provided that the owner return
the favor. This way, one is able to furnish more links
into his website – links that will ultimately provide
him more chances of generating traffic, and consequently,
sales.
The fourth is by starting a newsletter and submitting
it to as many websites as possible. This would encourage
recipients to go to the website the affiliate marketer
owns because writing one’s own article for the newsletter
is one way of inviting people to come and visit the website.
This is an ultimately rewarding task that would prove
to be advantageous to the affiliate marketer concerned.
The fifth is by maintaining an e-mail list of people who
have requested information about one’s products.
The e-mail list can be acquired by an affiliate marketer
through buying e-mail addresses from companies that sell
quality leads for such people to use.
The sixth is by employing an auto responder program that
would help an affiliate marketer save a huge chunk of
time in buying leads for his site. The use of this program
means automatically saving leads in newsletters whenever
they are bought.
The seventh is by making sure that one writes his own
articles for a personal touch. There is no better way
to convince people to view a site than by convincing them
personally, and an article that comes from an affiliate
marketer’s heart is the best way to do it.
The eighth is by adding these articles to an affiliate
marketer’s own webpage. This task will help him in
his page ranks, and relevant content is always appreciated
by those who like to see information on a particular website
rather than banners which tell them nothing at all.
The last is by joining an online forum so that the affiliate
marketer is always knowledgeable about current products
and marketing trends. Talking to people about the business
is a great way to build relationships, and the exchange
of ideas involved in such forums is a great way to keep
one well-informed about the industry in particular.
There is no real secret to success in a business such
as affiliate marketing. All affiliate marketers have to
remember is that by taking time to know and understand
everything about the business at hand, one is bound to
develop strategies of his own that will serve him well
in years to come.
About the Author
This article was authored by Jason Gazaway. This 22 year
old, 'regular' college kid was able to quit his 7-4 "job"
because of his affiliate program business. He now wants
to help others and show you how he did it!
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