Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Achieving Success Through Affiliate Marketing

By Terrance V. Cruz


Have you been working 50 to 60 hours a week still don't have any money at the end of the week? Maybe you just do not have time for your family because the job requires your time nearly all the time even when you are home. Maybe you just want to make some extra cash for yourself and your family, after the bills are paid. Whatever your reasoning may be, if you want to make money online, affiliate marketing can just what you are looking for.
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You could wake up and decide that your water glass on the nightstand is half empty and you may end up having a not so good day. You could take a more positive outlook about that same glass of water and say to yourself that the glass is half full. Words may be just words to you but they really do mean a lot and have a lot to do with how you think.So, let's get some education going and finish filling up that water glass. Here are some of my best tips for anyone who is interested and wants to be part of an Affiliate Marketing program.Find something, product/company, that you feel very positive about,Request an affiliate link from the company's marketing program,Secure a domain name as well as a host ,Create a website or a blog (WordPress works great),Create a YouTube account,Learn to do your own keyword research,Upload and share videos via YouTube and/or Traffic Geyser Submit blog posts to various article sites using Traffic Geyser

The reason for this is because the markup on these types of products is nearly 100%. It costs the owner of the product almost nothing to sell and eBook or a downloadable software program. You can earn commissions as high as 75%. Generally the rates are 50%-75%. Which happens to be a great commission rate?

One of the most popular online and home-based careers at present is affiliate marketing. It is a commission-based job or business that aims to expand the marketability of a specific brand and product through a wide referral system. If you are an affiliate, you earn through making successful referrals. When the people to which you market a certain product purchase or avail of the item, you are given a commission from the amount of the sale. Affiliate marketing is used mostly by travel and resort companies, which are particularly interested in marketing their establishments.

Affiliate marketing aims to encourage people to purchase a specific brand's product or avail of a particular service. Eventually, the goal becomes focused on turning these people into actual clients and ensuring that they would be long-term customers. The affiliates can use various available tactics online in sharing information about the product. They can do blogging, social networking, email marketing, and search engine marketing.

There are also affiliates who make use of traditional promotional tactics like coupon systems, rebates, and discounts. Other affiliates make use of product reviews, which are considerably questionable in terms of business strategies. Companies are not partial to the strategies used as long as they would not compromise branding and reputation management. Due to issues of email spamming and social network harassing, affiliates should take extra care to avoid appearing as too eager and too persuasive. As long as the affiliates make successful referrals, the strategies and tactics used may be refined all along.

The focus given on social media right now is so big that almost anything can go viral in an instant. One post about a very interesting topic can launch a massive online movement. Soon enough, that particular post would be re-posted on a thousand other accounts in the social media world. It can also be posted in video-hosting sites, where people mostly spend long number of hours just browsing through the uploaded videos. This is why viral marketing has become a reliable and very successful business model. It reaches a wide market and increases the sales potential of the product or service that you are marketing. The more people you tap, the greater the chance that the product that you be marketing would be purchased.

Travel agencies and resort franchises are among the companies that make use of the benefits of affiliate marketing. They offer subscription to the resort or agency and the affiliates would be marketing them to encourage people to attend to it. For example, an affiliate marketer can inform us if they have received an email or confirmation from the client for the booked subscriber's book.People also prefer to do affiliate marketing because of the financial returns. Since the job is paid on a commission basis, affiliates have more chances of receiving bigger salaries depending on the number of clients they are able to gather. At last statistics, affiliates can earn at least $150 to at most $12,000. But there are also a lot of other benefits aside from the entire salary. Some companies offer monetary benefits to the affiliates. They also give out bonuses for working affiliates for every time that a big sale is made from the successful referral.




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