The $60,000 question:
What makes some affiliates earn thousands when other
people struggle to earn hundreds?
There is absolutely nothing wrong with making $100 to
$300 a month extra on the side. But wouldn't it be
better to make 10 to 20 times that amount? Before we
start, let me tell you the way it is:
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Everybody can't make
$5,000 to $10,000 a month doing affiliate marketing.
There is too much competition.
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There is no easy
money that will fall into your lap without you doing
anything. (And in case there was any easy money I
would keep that
information to myself and not write it in an article
read by thousands of people.)
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You will find the
best working affiliate opportunities only by finding
them yourself, either through testing and research
or networking and business development.
With all this said, let
me give you the three high-level keys to making money
with affiliate programs on the Internet.
1. Google and Overture rock!
The days of free traffic are not completely over, but
certainly fading away at a rapid pace.
Sure, you can work hard to create pages that score high
in the search engines and build sweat equity into a
site.
But by paying for clicks and focusing on Google and
Overture you will have the top three positions on all
search engines that really count on the
Internet.
If you want to generate traffic from Yahoo, you need to
be on top of Google, it's as simple as that.
Overture and especially Google are the best key drivers
of qualified traffic on the Internet.
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Pay-per-click search
engines let you quickly test different affiliate
offers and new landing pages on your site.
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When it works, you
can scale
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Stay away from top
competitive keywords for $1 to $2 per click. Niche
marketing on Overture and Google works.
2. Do you have your own email list yet?
Sending offers to your own email list is the true way to
build freedom and residual income.
Instead of just sending traffic away and hoping for the
best, you should have your own email list to which you
can send multiple offers.
3. Consider starting your own affiliate program
and/or your own unique offer.
If you know that each filled out form on your web site
generates $0.50 in revenue, would you be willing to pay
someone else $0.25 to generate that
lead?
Probably the most overlooked way of generating traffic
is to have other people generate it for you.
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The only thing you
need is a destination site that is profitable. It
can even be with other affiliate programs as the
back-end.
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Identify companies
that pay well for co-registration leads and bundle
3-4 offers together with your own subscription form
(for your own email list, remember?).
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Find a successful
company and recruit new affiliates for them and make
a commission on their sales. Brokering deals (unique
deals) can make you quite an income.
The bottom line:
What do all these three techniques have in common?
It involves paying for traffic in one shape or another.
To accelerate your income, you need to invest smartly in
advertising.
Spend limited amounts of money
to test offers.
When you find
something that works - scale it. And repeat.
To your success!
