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How To Improve Your Chances to Succeed With Your Affiliate Program

Because of the Need or Desire for "Extra Cash", Affiliate Programs have grown at an amazing rate. The Truth is, a small percentage of the people that join these programs make anything, much less the Fortune for doing so little.

Which Program: Make sure the affiliate program you choose is something that you believe is truly usable and a great service or product for people. Your enthusiasm about the product will come through in the people you talk to and even in Your Website. Having a Strong interest in your product or service will show your belief in the product, and also give the customer a sense that you are somewhat of an Authority. 

YOUR Website or Blog: Chances are your Affiliate Program offers a Pre-Made storefront for their products. This is great, However,you must advertise your program, otherwise your Affiliate page will sit in the bottom of the barrel ( Like the majority do ) and yield you nothing! Here’s where “The Work” comes in. You must advertise your Affiliate Program. It does not matter how many of those ads you have read about making “Boatloads” of money for doing nothing but joining, your program does not run on Autopilot. Creating Your own Website or Blog is a great way to advertise your affiliate program. This method is used by the majority of the successful Marketeers. A “squeeze page” is used to Re-Direct your interested viewer to your Affiliate Page.

Learn From Others: Once you have decided on an affiliate program that you would like to work with, it is important that you take the time to learn about your program as well as affiliate marketing in general. Most affiliate programs offer a forum or other way for people to exchange marketing ideas and information to help make that affiliate program the best it can be.Use their Forums and Support. Read all the posts in the forum or blog regarding the affiliate program. Post your questions and don’t feel like you can’t ask something. Most likely many other people have the same question as you and will appreciate you asking it. Also remember, other members who are successful, will be more than happy to tell there "NEWBIE", a few pointers! 

Not Enough Info: The lack of information will stop customers from continuing on to the sales page. If you cannot provide enough basic information about the product, then why would anyone bother to click on another link that you give me? Too little information makes you look like an amateur who does not really know about the product they are selling. You are not an amateur since you have done research about your product and understand fully what you are offering, so show your prospective clients that they can trust your research and buy the products you recommend. A good affiliate marketing sales page will be informative and positive. It will offer potential customers the chance to become interested about a program or product enough that they decide to click on the link and go to main sales page. 

Get Their Contact Info: Anyone coming to your Site, should be considered a customer--whether they Buy or not. How many products are bought every day on the second or third look? The object of all the time and work you have put into your Website, is to acquire customers, so it vital you take every step possible to target them. How? get there contact Information... This allows you to "Keep In Touch" once they have left your Site. The best way to do this is to give them a free gift, via a squeeze page, and then after they sign up to get the gift send them directly to the sales page using your affiliate link. With the numerous Free Ebooks available on the Internet,I find this to be a Great Giveaway. Many of these Ebooks give you the right to Give-Away or Re-sale the Ebook. Why?, because their ad is in the Ebook. You can easily do this from a autoresponder. There are a couple Free Autoresponders available a simple Google search will you examples. The key to making this work is the free gift must be of high quality, and it must be related to the product you are promoting.

Time: There is no Affiliate Program that will produce the results you want, without investing your time into it. So many factors are involved in making you program a success, that you could write several Novels on the subject. Start with the basics, use them to your advantage. So many people Fail and become Frustrated because they have "Taken on to Much". I know people who have joined three or four programs at the same time, just to Fail at them all. Reason...They failed to implement a Strategy, failed to do the research, and failed to put the time into producing one productive site, rather than dividing the time among 4 Futile attempts. The quality of your site will reflect the quality of time and research you put into it.