Fastest Way to Make Money Online.

Learn How
to do Internet Marketing, Easy Step by Step
Affiliate Marketing
Justin Gibbs
1st May, 2016
Table of Contents
Introduction
Benefits
What is Affiliate Marketing?
How Affiliate Marketing Works?
Beginners Guide to Affiliate Marketing
5 Blogging Tips for Affiliate Marketers
How to Make Money from Website via Affiliate Marketing
How to Start an Affiliate Program? (51 Point Checklist)
18 Affiliate Marketing Tips to Promote Affiliate Products
7 Step Affiliate Marketing Guide for Newbies
Different Way to do Affiliate Marketing
Best Places to Find Various Affiliate Products
Points to Remember to Become a Successful Affiliate
The Benefits of Affiliate Marketing
10 Commandments of Affiliate Marketing
How to Stand Out from All the Other Affiliates with your EMAIL MARKETING
The Power of Affiliate
Amazon Affiliate Quick Guide
Rakuten Affiliate Network
Types of Affiliate Marketing
The Growth of Affiliate Marketing
Prosperent Affiliate Marketing with Example
ThemeForest Affiliate Marketing with Example
Five Steps to Internet Marketing Success
16 Tips for Success in Internet Marketing
Marketing Tips for Affiliate Products/Services
Tools you Need for Affiliate Marketing
Site Audit and Analysis
Keyword Analysis Tools
Keyword Rank Checker
Content Creation
Backlink Research Tools
Link Management Tools
Social Media Management and Analysis
Paid Advertising - Reporting and Analysis
Email Marketing
Affiliate Tools
Web/Lead Analytics - Reporting and Marketing
Survey Tools
Conclusion
Legal Notice
Introduction
Affiliate Marketing is an intensive eBook for Beginners, to become a high-earning affiliate
champion.
An affiliate business is one of the easiest ways to get your feet wet in ecommerce. You send visitors
(i.e., potential customers) to a merchant’s Web site that you are representing. If they buy or complete a
required action (for example, fill in a form), the merchant pays you a commission. Simple, Right?
That, in essence, is the beauty of the affiliate concept. You can be up and building a business in record
time, at minimal risk. Top-notch merchants supply everything (i.e., excellent products, ordering, credit
card processing, and delivery). All you need to do is to put yourself in the path between customers
and quality merchants and earn a commission for your efforts.
Benefits
Exposure is key to any component of a marketing strategy. By having affiliates, you can have your
product or service held out for the online world to see. And by staying present on appropriate sites,
your exposure will increase exponentially by staying in tune with the correct, targeted demographics.
Exposure also allows you to build an image and brand name. Building those allows you to leave a
lasting impression on prospective customers so that they are more likely to come back and make a
purchase. And because it leaves a lasting impression, that means it is likely to be spread to others
through the Internet and even word of mouth.
Is affiliate marketing right for your business? This EBook will solve all your problems. For more
information Contact Justin Gibbs Affiliate Marketing Expert.
What is Affiliate Marketing?
Affiliate marketing has become one of the most popular ways to make money online. It is a type of
performance-based marketing in which a business/merchant rewards one or more affiliates for each
visitor or customer brought by the affiliate's own marketing efforts.
Affiliate Marketing is the promotion of a product or service through a website, where in the end, the
publisher(aka, owner of the website) is paid.
Affiliate marketing is a way to earn money by promoting and selling other people's products. It's the
best way to earn money as there are many people who have made tons of money from it.
● The publisher helps the company promote their product via a link or code specific to the
publisher.
● By clicking the link, the user is brought to another site where the good or service is being
offered.
● Conversion rates of that single link or code are tracked back to the publisher.
● The publisher is paid out a percentage of the sale from the clicked link or used code.

What is an Affiliate?
An affiliate is anyone who sells, promotes or advertises a product that isn't their and gets a
commission for the sale or lead generated.
An affiliate, in simple words, is a salesman who sells different products and thus earns commission
through it.
How Affiliate Marketing Works?
There are 4 Kinds of People Involved
MEET STEVE: "I Run a Shoe E-Store" ADVERTISER(MERCHANT)
Generally seek to maximize sales and leads by allowing publishers to promote their products and
services via affiliate campaigns.
MEET LAURA: "I Have a Blog About Shoes" PUBLISHER(AFFILIATES)
Generally seek to monetize their website traffic by promoting merchants affiliate campaigns.
MEET ANDY: "I Want to Buy Some Shoes" USER(CONSUMER)
A potential customer that is browsing the publisher's website.
MEET JACK: "We Can Help" AFFILIATE NETWORK
Provide a platform and service for Advertisers and Publisher to connect.
The Beneficial Relationship Between the Four Entities Involved
1. LAURA joins STEVE's affiliate program
2. LAURA place banners on her shoe blog advertising STEVE's shoe store
3. ANDY is browsing the web trying to find a cool pair of new shoes and comes across
LAURA's blog
4. ANDY sees the banner and clicks on it and is directed through to STEVE's shoe store
via an affiliate link
5. The affiliate link drops a cookie on ANDY’s browser
6. ANDY buys a pair of shoes from STEVE's online shoe store
7. Upon purchase a tracking pixel on STEVE's side is matched up to the affiliate cookie on
ANDY's browser
8. The tracking pixel and cookies shows that LAURA send ANDY to STEVE's site and
logs a sales commission on the affiliate network
9. The Affiliate Network provides reports to both LAURA and STEVE showing all the
clicks and sales that have produced through the affiliate links
10. At the end of each month the affiliate network collects the commissions from STEVE and
makes payment to LAURA
Beginners Guide to Affiliate Marketing
How do i Increase my Website's Income?
Publisher or Webmaster
Most websites can make additional revenue by becoming an affiliate of another company.
But how does it work?
1. Publisher or webmaster chooses affiliate program and signs up
2. Publisher or webmaster integrates affiliate link onto their website
3. Publisher or webmaster promotes the merchant with unique content, reviews, and more
4. Visitors to the publisher's site visit the merchant using the affiliate link
5. Visitors that become customers earn publisher commission
Publisher is paid for any sales or referrals he makes
5 Blogging Tips for Affiliate Marketers
Build a Link With the Audience: The key factors like regularity, top quality content and user
engagement are stipulation for making healthy relation and interaction with your viewers.
Focus On Your Niche: If you are trying to promote a jewellery, brand and half of the audience is not
interested about it but in gadgets, you have already lost your conversion ratio by 50 percent.
Therefore, niche blogging is better than general blogging!
Learn From Others: Affiliate marketing is just like an art. You have to be expert in the art of
effective to be able to promote and make the sale. This art might not be natural aspect of your
character, but can be learnt through others.
Choose the Right Product: Finding the right product in the right niche is very important for affiliate
marketing. You have to select smartly to obtain highest possible advantages from affiliate marketing.
Try It Out: Always test product or services before being promoted, because how will you convince
others, if you are not satisfied.
How to Make Money from Website via Affiliate
Marketing
Beyond the basics of building a website, building an audience, and promoting a single affiliate
program, take a closer look at how you can not only earn your first dollar with affiliate marketing, but
how you could build your own Internet empire.
Build Brandable Websites
It's not all about the keywords. If you can include them, great.
Brandable Domains
1. Generate marketing buzz
2. Help with word-to-mouth marketing
3. Are the third most trusted advertising source
Are built around words with mass appeal.
Use tools to help you generate ideas
1. Domain Bot
2. Domain Hacks
Create Unique Content
Unique Content
● Helps search engines see your "QUALITY" when they make algorithm changes
● Gives you a chance to clearly identify and develop your brand
● Gives readers a reason to come back for more
Ask Yourself
Could this content have been created by anyone else? => If the answer is yes, the content is not
"UNIQUE".
Ways your Content can be UNIQUE:
Expertise: Yours is already unique. Leverage it.
Relationships: Leverage relationships with others in your niche to create powerful content to benefit
both of you.
Exclusive Offers: Do something that makes your company stand out. You're not selling "a" product,
you're selling "your" product.
● Look at what other affiliates are doing, and come up with a way to make your offer better.
● If it's allowed by the terms of your affiliate program:
 ○ Include an extra bonus
○ Offer a discount
User Generated Content Creates Dialogue
Create an avenue for your users to talk back to you.
● Allow readers to leave comments on your blog posts
● Make it easy for readers to leave product reviews/testimonials
○ Ask permission to share them in your marketing efforts
● Actively ask for content
○ Blog post comments
○ Social media shares
○ Ask questions to spark Debate
Chipotle Mexican Grill's "Wrap What You Love" Contest
● Contestants were asked to wrap their favorite things in gold or silver foil to mimic the
company's business burritos and photograph the result
● Contestants uploaded the photos to the company website or Facebook page
● Winner received $10,000 for his photo of his four-day-old baby wrapped in gold foil
Honda's "Super Civic Quest" Contest
● Contestants received Facebook credits and Amazon MP3 downloads for solving clues to
find a missing Mexican wrestler in a red Civic Coupe
● Contestants got to see five new Civic models and the chance to win two new Civics, one
for themselves, and one for a friend.
Kraft Foods "Real Women of Philadelphia" Contest
● Asked women all over the country to create cooking videos and submit them to.
● The winner received a $25,000 talent contract, the chance to star in their own series of
cooking videos, and contribution to cookbook featuring community favorite cream cheese
recipes.
Make Yourself Stand Out from the Crowd

Create a point of difference (POD) so you don't blend in with all the other affiliates promoting the
same products and services you are.
Figure out how your product is different in terms of
● Price
● Benefits
● Convenience
● Features
● Availability
● Customer Service
Craft your story
● Why are you in business?
● How do you do business?
● Where do you do business?
Market your POD everywhere!
● Business Cards
● Your Website
● Company Name and Tagline
● Logo
● Email Signature
● Social Media Profiles
Use Multiple Methods to Diversify Your Monetization
Multiple affiliate programs
Create a broad source of information on a topic and use it to leverage multiple PM programs.
For Example:
NotWithoutSalt.com is a comprehensive source of information on cooking and recipes, and uses
affiliate programs for:
● Cooking Utensils
● Ingredients

Sell advertising
Create a page dedicated to advertising space options.
Note your traffic volume and other reasons why people should advertise with you.
Give regular discounts to entice advertisers.
Keep it easy to maintain on your end with a WordPress plugin such as OIO Publisher or WP 125.
Pitch advertisers directly
Note your traffic volume and other reasons why people should advertise with you.
Give regular discounts to entice advertisers.
● Find advertisers by using Adsense on your website for a few days.
● Watch the ads that are displayed and where they come from
● Contact those companies directly with an attractive offer
Reach out to merchants to become affiliates for them
Know of a product or service you'd love to promote, but don't see an affiliate program for them?
 ● Talk to the merchant directly.
● Offer information about your background and why you would make the perfect affiliate.
● Negotiate a deal.
Develop Methods to Contact Users without them Having to Visit Your Website
Email is personal and direct
It's a powerful marketing tool because:
● It's permission-based.
● No social media algorithms to trick.
● No sponsored tweets to "beat".
● No Pinterest worthy graphics are necessary.
Connect and build relationships with your customers.
You're not competing for attention in a busy social media atmosphere.
You've got their personal, private attention their email box.
Produce Blog Content and Get RSS Subscribers
Quality blog content keeps your website fresh and up to date.
Blogs can produce user generated content.
Promote your RSS feed: It's another way to get into people's email boxes.
● Promote your feed:
○ Off your blog
○ Email signatures
● Social media
● At key entry points on your blog.
● Offer a bonus to subscribers, such a as a free ebook.
Create a Facebook fan page.
Build your Audience
● Invite your friends.
● Share your page.
● Invite business contacts.
Create Content
● Think about what your customers want.
○ Photos
○ Links
Be Authentic
● Share what you're excited about. Your customers will be excited, too.
Be Responsive
● When someone comments on a post, respond to them.
○ If they're asking a question and you need more time, let them know they're on your
radar.
Be Consistent
● Post regularly.
○ The more you post, the more you have to engage fans with.
● Create a schedule to maximize your time.
Replicate Success
● Use the Page Insights tool to see what your audience is responding to.
● When you find something they respond to, do it again.
Create a Twitter Account
Build your Audience
● Listen to what others are saying
● Share your account with current customers, friends, and business contacts
Attract Followers
● Give incentive to follow you on Twitter
○ Example: Get a 10% off coupon for your next order just for following us on
Twitter!
Integrate Twitter with your other efforts
● Add a link to your Twitter profile on your website. Let your followers on other platforms
know about your Twitter account
Be Authentic
● Follow the same principle as with Facebook here
Be Responsive
● Look for people talking about your business
○ Talk to them
● If someone tweets you, respond as soon as possible
Be Consistent
● Tweet on a regular basis
○ The more you post, the more you'll have to engage followers with
○ Use a schedule to help maximize your time
Develop Relationships with Others in Your Niche
● Research. Who are the most powerful people in your niche?
● Follow the powerful people you want to develop relationships with.
● Interact with them on their websites and various social media channels
 ○ Link to their content
○ Share their social media posts with your audience
○ Retweet their tweets
● Monitor and track your relationships
○ What good, if any, is coming of them?
○ Think about what you have to offer each other, and how you can create something
of mutual benefit
How to Start an Affiliate Program? (51 Point
Checklist)
1. Who are your customers?
2. Who are your competitors?
3. Research affiliate programs run by your competitors
1. Public or private program?
2. Which software/network used?
3. How do affiliates join?
4. Commission type and amount?
5. How much revenue do affiliate drive?
4. Setup your goals?
1. Who are your affiliates?
2. How many affiliates do you want?
3. How much revenue are you expecting per affiliate?
4. Target a percentage of revenue through affiliate
5. Do your calculations (use Excel)
1. Total affiliates expected
2. Commissions paid out
3. Total affiliate revenue
4. Total profit
5. Expenses
6. Net Profit
6. Setup a budget
1. Amount spend for attracting new affiliates
2. Amount/Percentage spend for affiliate payouts
3. Amount spend for prizes, bonuses, incentives
7. Choose your affiliate management platform
1. Affiliate network
2. In house affiliate management
3. Outsourced program management
8. Choose your commission model
1. PPC (Pay Per Click)
2. PPS (Pay Per Sale)
3. PPL (Pay Per Lead)
9. Fix the payment terms
1. Minimum amount for payout
2. Payment cycle NET15, NET30, NET60
3. Payment methods
10. Finalize the commission amount
1. Fixed amount
2. Percentage of sale
11. Create a search marketing policy
12. Create a trademark usage policy for affiliates
13. Create an “Affiliate Program” page on your website
14. Create a policy for fraud orders
15. Create a policy for refunded orders
16. Create an “Affiliate Agreement” merging all these policies
17. Create promo banners and logos that affiliates can use
18. Create reprint articles, brandable reports and emails promos
19. Invite your own customers to join your affiliate program
20. Introduce the affiliate program in your company’s newsletter
21. Announce the affiliate program on your blog
22. Promote it to your Fans and Followers (Facebook and Twitter)
23. Reach out to affiliates directly via affiliate forums
24. Submit your affiliate program to different affiliate directories
25. Seek joint venture partners and contact them individually
26. Use affiliate recruitment agencies
27. Approve affiliate applications manually to filter the genuine ones
28. Send a welcome email to all your affiliates
29. Provide them direct contact details of their affiliate manager
30. Send weekly/monthly newsletter to your affiliate base announcing new promotions and
suggesting ways to promote your product
31. Run incentive based contests for affiliates
32. Provide them tools and tips to increase conversion rate
33. Communicate with affiliates personally
34. Provide promotional material
1. Articles
2. Banners and Logos
3. Emails
35. Special treatment for high performing affiliates
1. Special coupons
2. Promotional emails
3. Brochures
36. Keep a close watch on daily clicks, conversions and EPC
37. Match conversions in your affiliate program with your CRM
38. Reject conversions that are marked as fraud in your CRM
39. Keep a close watch on traffic: countries, referring URL’s promotional methods
40. Check exact payments (Keep in mind refunds, fraud transactions)
41. Pay affiliates on time based on payment cycle
42. Incentives, bonuses can be paid out based on payment cycle
43. Track all sales by affiliates
44. Track conversion rates of all affiliates
45. Learn from their sales process and improve and marketing channels
46. Prepare a list of blacklisted affiliates
47. Evaluate current affiliate promo materials
48. Replace expired materials if required
49. On-going market analysis of competitors
50. Drive new affiliates consistently
51. Keep your affiliates happy
1. Prizes
2. Contests
3. Increased Payouts
18 Affiliate Marketing Tips to Promote Affiliate
Products
1. Seasonal Content and Promotions: Keep up with holidays and what's happening year-
round. Offer timely content and promotions on a regular basis
2. Coupons: Coupon codes are a great way to draw in new customers. Get promo codes
from the product owner
3. Free Samples and Trials: Let potential buyers experience and taste the product before
buying. Free samples and trials tend to always be winners
4. Live Teleseminars/Webinars: Schedule content-rich events that promote your affiliate
products
5. Audio Recordings: Whether it's an interview or just content-rich recordings, create
audios and give them away free
6. Videos: Create a variety of types of videos from interviews, to instructional, screen
capture videos and product walkthroughs.
7. Interviews: Interview the product owner/creator. Get the owner of the product to
provide useful content and answers to the common questions about the product
8. Product Reviews: Create product reviews with product specifications, quotes from
customers and more
9. Special Reports: Take content a bit further and create short special reports that you give
away free. Brand your document with your affiliate link
10. Blog Posts: Along the same lines as an article, a blog post can be a bit more personal
and friendly in nature
11. Articles: Targeted articles that include your product as part of the solutions to a problem
can be very effective for sales
12. Twitter Tweets: Everyone's tweeting these days. Give a little blurb promotion(up to 140
characters, with spaces). Remember, to leave room for you affiliate link too.
1. Hint: Use the headline from the sales letter
13. Long Text/Email Solo Ads: Direct response emails create some of the best sales and
opt in conversion rates. So send emails to your list and consider doing solo emails via
Safe-Swaps.com
14. Pay-Per-Click Ads: Leverage Google AdWords, Facebook Ads and Facebook Mobile
Ads as well as other Mobile Ad Networks like AdMob
15. Short Text Ads: Provide short text blurbs in email and blog content
16. Banners and Graphics: Use a variety of sizes for your best converting affiliate offers.
Also, help your readers by updating the graphics seasonally or for specific promotions
automatically
17. Landing Pages for Different Audiences: Target your affiliate landing pages as much as
 possible
18. Inline Text Links to Products and Specific Pages: Make it easier for your readers of
html emails and blogs click directly to your affiliate offers
7 Step Affiliate Marketing Guide for Newbies
1. WEBSITE: A website is a great place to start affiliate marketing. The quickest and
easiest way to set up a website is WordPress. A self hosted WordPress installation is the
perfect start for an affiliate marketer.
2. CHOOSING A TOPIC (NICHE): Choosing a topic for your website is Azan important
step. When starting out, it is suggested you choose ONE topic that you are interested or
passionate about. This way it will be easier to add content to your website.
3. CONTENT: You will want to add content to your website on a regular basis. Using a
web platform like WordPress makes that easier. The content should be high quality and
original. Ensure that Your content is interesting or helpful. High quality, consistently
added content is the key to a successful website.
4. FIND OFFERS: Find offers that match your content. There are many different offers
online so you can monetize just about any passion. Most major online retailers have
affiliate programs. Some of the most popular are:
1. Amazon - https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/
2. Ebay - http://www.ebaypartnernetwork.com
3. ClickBank - http://www.clickbank.com
4. Commission Junction - http://www.cj.com/
5. Shore A Sale - http://www.shareasale.com/
6. Linkshare - http://www.linkshare.com/
7. Google- http://www.google.com/ads/affiliatenetwork/
5. ADD YOUR ADS/LINKS: These sites will give you affiliate links or html ad code to
put on your site. Add the links/ads to your website. If you used WordPress you can add
the ads to your sidebar and/or individual posts.
6. YOUR TRAFFIC ACTS: When someone on your website clicks an ad or link and then
buys - you earn a commission! Some affiliate offers don't even require a purchase, just an
action to be taken like your referral signing up for a free trial.
7. YOU GET PAID!: You will get paid by whatever affiliate companies you use to
monetize your website. Make sure you check the terms of each network. There are
different payout thresholds, methods and requirements on each site. Each site will also
have it's own report system so you can check out how many people are clicking your
link/ads, how much you have earned and how many people have seen your ads/links.
REPEAT WHAT WORKS: When you have a successful affiliate website you knows what goes into
making one. Now you can create other affiliate sites based on different niches. Just took what worked
from your first site and apply it to your second. This will help you grow your revenues exponentially!
Affiliate Marketing 6 Key Step Success Cycle
1. Pick a Niche: Choose a market instead of a product. The reason for this is so that you
can put more products in your pipeline. Choose a market which you are interested in and
obtain detailed information about it.
2. Find Affiliate Offers: Once you've chosen your market, it's time to select the products
you would like to promote through affiliate networks such as ShareaSale,
CommissionJunction, Clickbank, etc. Find out about the offers such as commissions,
conversion rates and promotional materials provided by the merchant.
3. Build an E-Mail Autoresponder: Create an e-mail autoresponder series which includes
information about your product. You can build a series of some basic information or
provide tips about the niche you are in. Be creative and always remember to focus on
adding value to your subscribers. Remember to add your affiliate link in your e-mails
when you send them to your merchant's offer page
4. Build a Lead Capture Page: If you are building a business, having a website is
necessary. This website will be needed to show your affiliate products and grab the
visitor's email. Create a page in your website where you will capture information about
your prospect so you can send them to your email autoresponder series.
5. Generate Traffic: Once your website is up, generate traffic using techniques such as
SEO, Pay-Per-Click, Social Media, Video Marketing, etc. Try different techniques and
see what gets you the best results. Continue with the technique that shows best results
from the basics of your experience.
6. Get Paid and Repeat: Once you have started to make a good and reliable income with a
single product, you should add more products to your autoresponder pipeline. Rinse and
repeat the process to scale up your affiliate campaigns and income.
Different Way to do Affiliate Marketing
1. Writing Blog Posts: If you have a blog then you can use your blog to promote the
affiliate products. Write a genuine review of the product and compel your readers to buy
it. Having a blog is the best thing, you easily promote products and enjoy the huge
affiliate commissions.
2. E-Mail Marketing: It is the best way known to get more and more sales. If you have a
large or a decent number of subscribers then you can generate tons of money out of it. Just
build your email subscribers list and create campaigns to promote different products.
3. Web 2.0 Properties: To reach a wider audience, you need to use Web 2.0 properties to
promote the products. Use Web 2.0 sites like HubPages and StumbleUpon to gain more
exposure and thus an increased sales.
4. Article Directories: You can even use Article Directories to maximise your affiliate
earnings. There are Dozens of article Directories like Ezinearticles, GoArticles etc., you
can use to promote your products. But such Directories with caution, as some directories
don't allow to add affiliate links in articles.
5. Other Ways: Don't just limit yourself to the above ways of promoting affiliate proDucts.
Use your own imagination and find out new way to promote products and earn large sum
of affiliate commission.
Best Places to Find Various Affiliate Products
ClickBank: The best and the most popular place to find a wide range of products. ClickBank is very
user-friendly and you will easily be able to find the best products.
Commission Junction: Commission Junction is the biggest and the best marketplace for affiliates.
You will find different products with the help of the wee-organised directory.
ShareaSale: ShareaSale runs a network of great number of affiliates with hundreds of merchant
programs to promote. You can easily find products and increase your affiliate income.
LinkShare: LinkShare is the best place to find a large range of e-commerce companies willing to
advertise. Also find some of the best affiliate programs with high commissions.
Points to Remember to Become a Successful
Affiliate
1. Select the merchants very carefully and research about their background before going
ahead.
2. Choose the products that comes under your niche, if you own a blog or a website.
3. If you have a blog, then add banners containing affiliate links in it.
4. Before writing a review of any product with an intention to promote it, its the best if you
use the product before and write a genuine review of the product. You can even offer an
e-book on some useful points of the product or any other such stuff. Like this, you can
expect a high sales.
5. Try to build it subscribers list and carry out email campaigns to promote the products.
This is one of the best and most used methods.
6. Lastly, it's you who is an affiliate, think of some extra-ordinary ways to promote products
and increase sales and thus your affiliate commission.
The Benefits of Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate Marketing - Paying a commission for a set of affiliates to independently advertise your brand
- is sometimes overlooked in the slew of online marketing opportunities. But for those in the know,
affiliate marketing with its unique set of advantages, is an essential part of an effective online
marketing strategy
1. Cost
2. Risk
3. Time and Energy
4. Diversity
5. Popularity
Cost
● Pay-for-Performance: With affiliate marketing you only pay if a certain predetermined
action is met. This could be a click-through revenue or market information. No payment
without results
● Fixed Costs: You also specify what action will pay what amount. You always know what
the rates will be.
● By Comparison Search Engine Optimization(SEO) Development: Just to increase your
site's pagerank can cost $76-$200 hourly per project, those costs can reach anywhere
between $1,000 and $7,500
Risk
● Low Risk: Affiliate marketing is considered very low risk, because you don't have to pay
if it doesn't work. You don't have to invest capital in a strategy that might not pan out.
● Market Comparison: Low-risk means that affiliate marketing is ideal for exploring new
markets. While a whole new international marketing plan might be cost-prohibitive. Affiliate
marketing provides low overhead while giving you access to local marketing experts
Time and Energy
● By Comparison: Social media marketing takes a good deal of time and energy creating
new content, replying to comments and relaying content to different sites.
○ Customizable programs marketing doesn't have to be time consuming.
● Many Merchants Use
○ Affiliate Network: Select a network that will take care of everything for you,
including giving creative help.
○ Third Party Hosting: Leave the infrastructure up to the third party but still set up
your own terms and payment.
Diversity
● Many Birds, One Stone: Affiliate advertising is a great way to utilize other forms of
 online marketing for a lower cost. Affiliates will use their own skills to get your brand
noticed
○ 80% SEO
○ 60% Social Networking
○ 60% Blogging
○ 40% Email Marketing
● And More: Developing an individual program for all of these aspects would take far
more time and more importantly far more money
Popularity
● SEO lead the way in popularity and far other strategies in the amount spent on it.
● Social network marketing gets a lot of hype, and is growing in investment.
● Retailer, financial services firms and online education providers are restricted to the top
three providers.
● However, affiliate marketing is gaining traction as a low-risk, high-return investment.
Not a Regular Job
● As an affiliate-marketing publisher, you can create a steady flow of income, even when
you're not at your computer.
Popular
● 42.9% of affiliate-marketing publisher say they operate 2 to 5 websites to promote
affiliate programs and the number of the publishers is growing.
Easy-Tracking
● Affiliate programs provide campaign statistics that measure their effectiveness.
No Need to Sell Anything
● Just create good content and recommend products based on your experience
10 Commandments of Affiliate Marketing
1. Know Your Audience: Catering to your audience is crucial. Determine why visitors are
coming to your site and tailor it to fit their needs.
2. Be Trustworthy: Customers can detect a site that sells a useless product. Run affiliate
sites with the aim of earning repeat business through usefulness.
3. Be Helpful: Create a useful resource. Promote products you believe in and include good
descriptions, or reviews, of the products to give customers a reason to use your site
4. Be Transparent: Customers can detect a cover-up. Disclose all your affiliations so
customers don't bypass your site out of spite.
5. Design Carefully: Finding the right site design is important. Try different products, ads,
graphics, and text to find the most effective formula.
6. Try Different Programs: Each affiliate program is different. Sift through the wide
variety of programs and the features they offer to find which is most effective for your
site.
7. Make Content Timeless: Customers disregard dated information. Include links to your
updated information on any outdated pages.
8. Be Patient: Lifetime payout programs can take some time to grow. Continue to maintain
old referral links while creating new ones.
9. Stay Relevant: Programs are constantly updating their offerings. Don't be left in the dust
by using dated ads while your competitors feature superior content
10. Content Matters: Customers come to your site for its content. Don't solicit your site to
the whims of a questionable easy money affiliate program.
10 Keys to Becoming an Affiliate Marketing
SUPERHERO
1. Research Product Demand: Find out whether the product you want to promote is in high
demand. If it is, your chances of generating sales are greater.
2. Choose the Right Merchant: Protect your online reputation by choosing affiliate-
marketing advertisers with a good reputation. Companies with good customer service
usually have satisfied customers. So check before recommending the merchant to your
readers.
3. Choose Only Good Products: Based on your experience, choose good products that are
relevant to topics you write about.
4. Put your Audience First: Protect your audience. Give them only relevant content. It is
better to recommend the product than to tell your readers to buy the product.
5. Create Good Content: Solid copywriting and content marketing are essential to your
success in affiliate marketing. Learn more about creating a good content with
GetResponse training materials.
6. Engage your Readers: There's nothing worse than a boring website. Keep your reader's
attention with clear calls to action, relevant content, and attractive graphics.
7. Build Solid Relationships: Make a good first impression. Don't take your subscribers for
granted. Show them how much you appreciate them.
8. Use Several Traffic Sources: Most affiliate marketing publishers promote products only
on their websites. You may get better results with more sources. Run tests with pay-per-
click, display advertising, guest blogging, social media and word-of-mouth advertising.
9. Test, Measure and Track: Most affiliate programs enable you to measure the results 1
of your campaigns. GetResponse gives you real-time tracking and statistics.
10. Stay Current with New Trends: Affiliate marketers test new methods to get more leads.
Use GetResponse top-notch marketing materials to stay on top of the latest trends.
How to Stand Out from All the Other Affiliates
with your EMAIL MARKETING
Affiliate marketing offers many attractive benefits because you can promote another company's
product and receive a commission for sales without having to debelop the product, provide customers
support, or hire employees to do those things for you.
However, because affiliate marketing offers these benefits you may find that it is hard to stand out
among all the competition
Here are 7 Ways to use EMAIL MARKETING to Crush your Competition and bring in consistent
revenue from affiliate marketing.
1. Write your Own EMAILS:
1. Most affiliate programs provide ad copy and email swipe files for use in
promoting their products.
2. While you can certainly get some copy points from these materials, you don't
want to fall in the trap that many affiliates do by mailing affiliate swipe to
their lists.
3. There are many reasons why mailing out affiliate 'copy and paste swipe
emails can hurt your conversions. The biggest reason is that your readers
expect emails from you and when you mail someone else's copy and sign your
name at the bottom, you're potentially saying the same thing as all the other
affiliates. That's no way to stand out. Besides, your subscribers may well
notice that the wording of the affiliate swipe is different from what you
normally say and that can harm your conversions by annoying your
subscribers. By mailing your own email copy, even if it was written by your
staff copywriter, at least your email still has a shot at standing out from all the
other competitors.
2. Add Value:
1. At the most basic level, an affiliate promotions says "I recommend this
product, you should buy it" to your subscriber. In some cases, that may be
sufficient.
2. But if all your competitors do that, you have an opportunity to stand out from
the crowd by offering genuine value.
3. For example, if you are in the fitness niche, you could use the affiliate
product you are promoting and share the details of your experience. Many
affiliates won't take the time to do this, so if you do your promotions will
stand out. Another benefit of using the product and reviewing it is that is the
most valuable form of affiliate marketing. The reason the vendor is paying
you a commission is for your referral, but the power of your referral will
 increase if your word means a lot to your subscriber. And the best way to
have your recommendation carry weight is to provide your own user
experience with a product as the basis of your recommendation.
4. In other words, never promote something you don't endorse. If you never use
the product, you don't really know if you can endorse it, can you?
5. Authenticity is at a premium and your subscribers will likely reward an
honest review better than plain old affiliate swipe copy. And the trust that
follows from that authenticity can lead to higher conversions.
3. ZIG When They ZAG:
1. As such, you want to point out benefits that the others do not (or overlook).
For example, if you are an affiliate for the iPhone 6 and your competition is
talking about its sleek looks, you could take a different approach.
2. You could talk about how you used the built in camera and video recorder to
tape a Vegas wedding on last minute notice.
3. You could show clips of video and tell the story of how glad you were that
you had bought the iPhone 6 because our friend dragged you to Vegas and all
you had time to grab was your phone.
4. Even though you're competing affiliates have the same phone to promote, your
story could help you stand out and make the purchase more compelling to
your subscribers.
4. Add a Bonus:
1. Many successful affiliates use added bonuses to entice subscribers to buy
through their affiliate link. To continue the iPhone 6 example, you might have
an ebook or video of how you shot the wedding with your iPhone.
2. Or maybe you have 10 tips and tricks for how to get the best apps or add ons
for iPhones.
3. As long as your bonus adds value, it can be used to increase sales. Two
things to remember when it comes to bonuses.
4. They must have a high perceived value to your lab target marketing AND you
should consider restricting the number of bonuses by time or quantity.
5. By having scarcity, you can motivate your buyers to choose your link and to
do it quickly instead of procrastinating.
5. MAIL More Often:
1. The lazy affiliate will just blast out one email and move on to the next offer.
If you mail more frequently you have the potential to capture more sales,
especially if the vendor is launching the product and a lot of affiliates are
mailing at the same time.
2. Mailing more often doesn't mean sending the same message more frequently.
Instead, by mapping out a sequence of promotional emails for an affiliate
offer, you could build an informative narrative and go deeper in your reasons
why someone should buy the product through your affiliate link.
 3. For example, with the iPhone 6 you could do a series on the improvements
over the previous version, how the iPhone 6 is better than the Samsung
Galaxy competitor, and why the iPhone is easier to use, etc. If you focus your
sequence of emails to address common objections to buying iPhones, you can
do quite well with this approach because you are essentially laying a solid
foundation for a buying decision. At the very least, you are going above and
beyond what your competitors are doing with their promotions so once again,
you stand out.
6. Address Flaws:
1. Let's say that you happen to know there are some things about the iPhone 6
that you don't like. Maybe the phone is so slick and sleek that it's slippery and
easy to drop.
2. Or maybe the screen is so big that you find yourself watching too many
YouTube videos on it instead of working. These kinds of minor flaws do
several things when you point them out.
3. First, you build credibility because you are not just a cheerleader for the
product but rather an honest consumer. Second, you allow your subscribers to
imagine what it is like to own the product by sharing a real user experience.
This authenticity can help them make the buying decision if they relate to
what you've shared.
4. Don't worry about spooking them from buying. The reality is they had doubts
of their own, at least now they know you're an honest broker. And, it's not
like you're going to be citing major flaws that would be deal breakers...
otherwise you shouldn't be promoting the product.
7. Add a Guarantee:
1. Or maybe you could guarantee that if they return their purchase and the
vendor doesn't provide a refund as promised, then YOU will give them a
refund.
2. Obviously, such guarantees are situation dependent and require that you have
a high degree of trust in the vendor and their product.
3. In certain circumstances where you really believe in a product and want to go
all out, you could offer some kind of guarantee that goes over and above what
the vendor offers. Maybe you'll give them one of your products if they don't
like the one you are recommending.
In today's hectic world consumers are looking for help in deciding what to buy because they don't
have time to personally evaluate everything and they want opinions they can trust.
Therefore there is a real niche for the affiliate email marketer who offers value over and above what
the competition is doing.
Since the affiliate doesn't have product development, customer support, and many other burdens that a
product vendor does, it pays to put in the extra effort to stand out from all the other affiliates.
After all, you've got to give your subscribers a reason to buy from you and not another affiliate
because the product is the same.
The Power of Affiliate
Engaging with Consumers
1. Catalyst
2. Evaluation
1. Coupon and Deal
2. Search
3. Content and Community
4. Ad Network
5. Loyalty and Rewards
6. Software and Technology
3. Conversion
1. Coupon Deal
2. Loyalty and Rewards
4. Post Conversion
1. Content and Community
5. Loyalty Loop
The Affiliate marketing channel, with its unique, high performance online publishers, has the power to
influence and connect with the new consumer at critical points in their decision journey
Catalyst: A consumer decides they are in need of a product or service with a short list of brands in
mind
Evaluation: The consumer adds or subtracts brands as they evaluate options and interact with online
publishers
Conversion: The moment a consumer selects a particular brand and takes action at the point of
conversion
Post Conversion: The consumer builds expectations based on their brand experience, influencing
their next decision journey
Loyalty Loop: In today's digital world, even the most widely-recognized industry leaders must win
back the well-informed consumer after every single purchase
Amazon Affiliate Quick Guide
WordPress Site Setup
8 steps to help get you started with an Amazon Affiliate Site!
Niche Selection: Find a niche that gets traffic, isn't dominated and that you can curate/create content
Hosting and Domain: Where do you think you'll get most business from given your niche? Is there an
exact match domain?
Amazon Affiliate Sign Up: Create your affiliate(associate) account at http://affiliate-
program.amazon.com
WordPress Theme and PlugIn Selection: Find a suitable theme for affiliate sites and get the
required plugins
Site Structure and Build: Be niche focused when considering your site structure and URL slugs as
well as throughout the build process
Logo/Branding: Put a bit of polish on your affiliate site as it can help with conversions
Social Media Setup: Secure your social media real estate to compliment your affiliate site
Fill your Shelves: Time to find the best products from amazon for your niche and add them to your
site!
Rakuten Affiliate Network
#1 Affiliate Network
Rakuten LinkShare has been voted the #1 Affiliate Network for three consecutive years.
96% of Advertisers would recommend RAKUTEN LINKSHARE
81% of Publishers say RAKUTEN LINKSHARE is the best
84% of Clients see increase in revenue growth YOY
Migrating Clients: Over half experienced growth +34% YOY
On Average 84% of Clients who migrate to RAKUTEN LINKSHARE network see an increase in
revenue growth year over year. Over half of those migrations see revenue growth of over 34% year
over year.
Department Stores: +41% YOY After Migration
On average 2-3x higher than previous network growth rates!
Footwear: UP 34% YOY After Migration
On average 2x higher than previous network growth rates!
Apparel: UP 28% YOY After Migration
On average 2-3x higher than previous network growth rates!
United States Network Sales: Were up over 25% year over year.
In the past year, RAKUTEN LINKSHARE seen an increase in converting publishers in the following
categories
1. Comparison Shopping
2. Couponmall
3. Search
4. Loyalty/Rewards
5. Deal
Quality: RAKUTEN LINKSHARE provide the perfect mix of exclusivity and variety. RAKUTEN
LINKSHARE screening process is thorough to ensure our clients work with most exclusive partners.
Not to mention, RAKUTEN LINKSHARE is the only network with dedicated analysts who work with
you to optimize your program.
Technology: RAKUTEN LINKSHARE has a heavy investment in new technology and eCommerce
expertise. US network mobile orders are up 87% year over year and we are the network leader for
mobile tracking and reporting.
Types of Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate Marketing programs has never been as popular before as it is today. Why? There can be a
number of reasons. The most probable reason, however, could be the fact that the benefits of affiliate
marketing have become clearer to a lot of people now than they were before.
Unattached Affiliate Marketing
These are your basic pay-per-click affiliate marketing campaigns where you have no presence and no
authority in the niche of the product you’re promoting. There’s no connection between you and the end
consumer, and all you’re doing is putting an affiliate link in front of someone via Google Adwords,
Facebook ads, etc. in the hopes that they’ll click on your link, buy the product and you’ll earn a
commission.
Related Affiliate Marketing
Another form of affiliate marketing is what I like to call related affiliate marketing. This is where you
have some sort of presence online, whether it’s through a blog, a podcast, videos, or whatever—and
you have affiliate links to products related to your niche, but they’re for products you don’t actually
use.
Involved Affiliate Marketing
Involved affiliate marketing is where you’ve used a product or service, truly believe in it and
personally recommend it to your audience. Not in a banner ad or somewhere that says “recommended
resources,” but within your content, as part of your life and strategy for whatever it is you’re talking
about. The product almost becomes something people “have to have,” because it’s part of the process.
The Growth of Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing is also known as "Performance-Based Marketing".
It refers to publishing links, banners and information about products/services on a website or blog
and then receiving a sales commission when people click on the banners/links and then make a
purchase on the advertiser's website.
United States affiliate marketing spending will be increased bt 256% in 7 years.
77% of advertisers increased their affiliate marketing spend this year, while 71% expected spend to
grow in the future.
● 50% of advertisers saw a lack of respectable understanding of affiliate marketing at the
level of the CEO.
● 93% of advertisers support affiliate marketing as an effective marketing channel.
● 25% of advertisers spent over one-fifth of their overall marketing spend on affiliate
marketing.
Affiliate marketing is an exploding opportunity for many businesses. This is because it's cost effective
and drives incremental revenue. It's a great way for businesses to diversify their traffic sources.
What Was Affiliate Marketing Like 10 Years Ago?
Amazon.com was one of the first companies to embrace affiliate marekting. Today, Amazon is still a
big player, but many others have joined in, providing a huge variety of affiliate programs. These
include 1000's of ecommerce websites that you can be affiliated with to earn commissions.
As we learn more about the way the Internet and trends work, we come to understand more about the
way people make purchases.
As the industry grows, we are likely to see more networks and agencies bringing more affiliates to the
table. Simply put, affiliate marketing has a ton of upside!
What About Future Affiliate Expansion?
As companies continue to seek exciting opportunities, the affiliate channel will no doubt be embraced
more so over time.
This is because it is one of the most effective ways to gain website traffic and brand advocates.

Affiliates stand to benefit in the corning years. They will see better products, better offers, and better
results.
● It's important to realize that a lot of hard work is required to be a productive affiliate.
● It'll be essential for affiliates and publishers to remain dedicated.
 ● If they want to stay ahead of the curve. Content production and social media are the 2 most
important areas in affiliate marketing looking forward.
It's a very exciting time to be involved in the affiliate marketing industry.
● The affiliate industry is starting to mature as companies seek to regulate and control their
affiliate channel.
● Growth is also being driven by improved affiliate site content and more transparency
within affiliate networks.
The future of affiliate marketing looks extremely bright, as more companies embrace the channel and
more affiliates get into the industry.
Prosperent Affiliate Marketing with Example
Mixpression
Turn ordinary images into beautiful, shoppable content. Upload your image, tag it with products, then
embed it in your page and share it to social media.
ProsperLinks
With one simple script, we automatically convert any retail links on your site into links that earn you
money.
Get Links
Need a quick link to a product or retailer? Our Get Links tool helps you search over 70 million
products, and get links to nearly 50,000 retailers. Earn money for every sale!
Wordpress Plugin
Focus on writing great content! Our plugin helps you insert products into posts, and can even add an
entire store to your blog with just a few clicks.
Developer API
Have an app and need product data? Our product API is fast, and allows for unlimited access to
millions of products from top retailers.
Detailed Reporting
Let our reporting dashboard tell you what works. We tell you where every commission came from and
give you tips to earn even more.
Increased Commissions
Earn higher commissions instead of negotiating commissions on your own by using Prosperent's
established relationships with top merchants.
Instant Access to Merchants
Connect with Prosperent's huge network of leading merchants automatically upon sign-up.
Immediately show products from any of our 39,509 merchants.
ProsperLink
This is the simplest way to make money from Prosperent as it converts your hyperlinks to the
merchant sites into affiliate links. This way you will make a commission out of every successful sale.
Under this, they have Link optimizer which automatically adds affiliate links into the words which
have chances of making money. Specially if you have tons of non-affiliated links to Amazon site, this
feature will automatically convert it into money links. Phrase link is another nifty feature which will
convert word/phrase of your choice into affiliate links and help you to make more money.
ProsperAds
Prosperads are responsive ads (Works on all the devices) and it shows ads based on retargeting. That
means, it shows highly targeted ads based on users earlier browsing experience. Though this is a
display ads, but you will make money for sales and not for clicks. This is one reason, I suggest you to
use ProsperAds on the website where you get highly targeted niche traffic. For example, fashion blog
and so on.
API
This is technically for developers to pull up products from their Database and show it on your
website. If implemented properly, you will end up earning a lot from your E-commerce or a review
site. What really amused me about this performance based ad network is the clean and easy to use
dashboard. Their dashboard is one the best I have seen in recent time, and you will find it easy to
create ads, add your website and make changes. Here is a screenshot for your reference:
How to Implement Ads on your Blog
Implementing Prosperent ads on your blog is quite easy, as you can simply add few lines of Javascript
on your blog and it will start converting your links into affiliate links. Do remember, using Javascript
will not affect your blog SEO, whereas sometime direct affiliate links are harmful.
If you are using WordPress platform, you should rather use their official WordPress plugin which
makes it easier to do monetise your blog. With the plugin you can easily insert products with in your
blog post, which will increase the CTR and conversions.
ThemeForest Affiliate Marketing with Example
Becoming an Affiliate
All members can act as affiliates by following the steps outlined in these terms. Just remember that if
you want to actively participate in the Affiliate Program there are few things you'll need to keep in
mind which are explained below.
Refer new users to any of the Envato Market sites and you'll receive a percentage of their first cash
deposit or purchase!
Referral Code: Every member automatically has a referral code which is generated using your
username. This referral code is available on the referral page.
Simply paste a link or image button on your site using that code. If a new user clicks your referral link
and proceeds to sign up an account and purchase an item or deposit money via any of the Envato
Market sites, you will receive a percentage of that person's first cash deposit or purchase.
Referral program percentage: The earnings you will get for successfully participating in the Affiliate
Program is set out on the payments page.
How the Affiliate Program Works
Create an Envato Account and send traffic to any page on Envato Market while adding your account
username to the end of the URL.
When a new user clicks your referral link, signs up for an account and purchases an item (or deposits
money) via any of the Envato Market sites, you will receive 30% of that person's first cash deposit or
purchase price. If they deposit $20 into their account, you get $6. If they buy a $200 item, you get $60.
Five Steps to Internet Marketing Success
High quality content attract friends, followers and fans who are interested in your products and
services
Your potential customers want to see what you are selling via pictures and samples. They also want
to connect with you personally. Seize the opportunity to build your credibility through Guest Blog
Posts, Press Releases, Infographics, Personal Blog Posts and Ebooks.
1. Guest Blog Post
1. Original Content
1. Original ideas and experience
2. New Content improves your Google Search Rankings
2. Solve a problem, make it relevant
3. Excellent grammar and spelling
1. Spelling helps to higher ranking
2. Easy to read
4. Interesting headlines
5. Well edited article
1. Clear and consise
6. Use high quality images
7. Know the interests of your readers
1. Share information valuable to your readers
8. Authoritative website
1. Add value to the web
2. Quality traffic, links and relevance
3. Build more trust
9. Avoid distractions
1. Too many promotions, advertisements or calls-to-action in the
article
10. Posting YouTube Videos
1. Support what you're trying to market
2. Build your credibility
2. Press Releases
1. Interesting content and information
1. Give the who, what, when, where, and why upfront
2. Write for members of the media
3. Have something truly newsworthy to say
2. Useful
3. Be creative
4. Use high quality images
 1. Photos, videos, graphics
5. Increase brand reputation
6. Never include a testimonial
7. Share
1. Give full contact information
2. Keep an archive of your company press releases
3. Infographics
1. Credible and verified information
1. Background information
2. Trustworthy
3. Relevant sources
4. Cite your sources
2. Tell a story
3. Unique graphic design
1. Synthetize
2. Conceptualize
4. Branding interaction with clients
1. Synthetize
2. Conceptualize
5. Interesting topic
6. Be creative
7. Distribute, post and share
4. Personal Posts
1. Original content
1. Share your own experiences
2. Personal information and expertise
2. Solve a problem, Make it relevant and useful
3. Excellent grammar and spelling
1. Search engines reward great writing skill
4. Know the interests of your readers
1. Share the content
2. With interaction and sharing
5. E-Books
1. Define audience
1. Write to a specific audience, to a specific topic
2. Original content
1. Relevant topics
3. Interesting content
4. Use high quality images
5. Editorial design
6. Useful step-by-step information
7. Publish your work
1. Distribute your e-book throughout your social network
2. Use email, blogs, your web site and social media channels
3. Give value to gain customers respect and attention
16 Tips for Success in Internet Marketing
A great majority of successful people are business owners rather than employees. Some business
owners are making their money online. How do they do it? Justin Gibbs shared some tips:
1. Think Differently: Most people are prepared by school and by parents to become good
employees. Gain a business owner's viewpoint from books and experts. As well as
reading, you need to implement what you learn.
2. Take Responsibility: You are responsible for what you have now in your life, no one
else. What do you want? What do you have to do to get it? Commit to it and start making
it happen.
3. Benchmark: If others with less resources than you can succeed, why can't you? Be
prepared to commit long term despite the challenges. Be inspired by other people's
successes as examples of possibility.
4. No Compromise: Desperate people care more about themselves than their customers,
and it is easy to detect. When you're not desperate, you can do things because it's the right
thing to do.
5. Kaizen: Continually improve, especially in the way WA'l you think. Seek to VI-I I
become a perpetual g1 I I learner, always moving forward.
6. Do Less: A real business is not about exchanging your time for money. Look for the 4%
of effort that delivers 64% of results. Do what you want to do, things where you have a
higher impact, and delete, automate or delegate the rest.
7. Stick to What Works: Work with the winning strategies and kill the losers. Keep doing
the core things that get you the best results.
8. Give Up: When something is clearly not working, don't be afraid to call your losses. It's
better to realize early when you're wrong and seek a different tactic.
9. Observe: You don't have to guess what sells. Just see what people want and need and
what they are already paying for. The answers are all around you.
10. Clarity: A confused mind makes no choice - Keep things easy for your customers,
whether it's the options you offer, your sales process or how you present your solutions.
11. Own the RaceCourse: Have a website YOU own where you put all your good content.
Make it a self-hosted website, on a fast server, with a domain you control. Do not build
your business on an external platform like Facebook, Linkedin or YouTube.
12. Rich Content: Post content that answers questions and solves problems. Put it in
multiple formats - video, audio, text and images - and do it reasonably often. Let people
know via email and social media when you post new stuff.
13. Results, Not Stuff: Less products, more value. It's not about how much stuff you can
offer your customers, it about getting the best results with the least possible action. This
is especially true for subscription services.
14. Build an E-Mail Database: Your email list is powerful. Set up the right offer, make sure
 it has value and send it out at the right time. You can automate triggers, abandonment
sequences and feedback requests, but keep your newsletters organic.
15. Unsubscribe: From marketing emails. Don't be taken prisoner by your inbox. Be the one
sending emails rather than reading them. Also syndicate to where people are, on
Facebook, YouTube or Twitter.
16. Value Reach: If you want to make a lot of money, create a lot of value and put it in front
of as many people as possible.
Marketing Tips for Affiliate Products/Services
1. Identify your Target and Check out Competitors
1. Which customers are being targeted as part of your marketing activities
2. Identify your Competitors. Review and analyze their marketing activities
3. Create a checklist of their best practices
2. Optimize your Website
1. Use targeted keywords within headlines
2. Keep your content fresh and unique
3. Make it easy for yom visitors to find your contact info
3. Off Page Optimization
1. List your Websites in Popular Directories and post Ads in high traffic Web-
sites
2. Increase your backlinks using the top quality blog websites and forum sites
3. Create high quality videos that will display your products and services.
Market these videos in popular sites like Youtube.com
4. Update Content
1. Create a Blog section in your website to educate your customers
2. Share relevant info about your industry in your blog section
5. Social Media Marketing
1. Build a social network using Social Media sites
2. Build Relationships using Social Media Interaction
3. Provide brief description about your Products and Services through Social
Media Sites
4. Spread relevant content through Social Media Sites even though sometimes
the content is not created by your team
6. EMail Marketing
1. Build your Email subscribe list using Landing pages
2. Interact with Customers using emails as required
3. Communicate relevant information about your Products and Services through
Email Marketing
Tools you Need for Affiliate Marketing
1. Site Audit and Analysis
2. Keyword Analysis Tools
3. Keyword Rank Checker
4. Content Creation
5. Backlink Research Tools
6. Link Management Tools
7. Social Media Management and Analysis
8. Paid Advertising - Reporting and Analysis
9. Email Marketing
10. Affiliate Tools
11. Web/Lead Analytics - Reporting and Marketing
Survey Tools
 12.

Conclusion
Affiliate marketing is a key tool for any web site seeking growth. In this performance based
marketing, merchants reward affiliates commission for successful referrals.
Affiliate marketing can be used to complement other campaigns, whether they be offline or online.
Making sure that there are banners to support these campaigns, the merchant can ensure a wider
audience for their other marketing efforts.
Affiliate marketing allows for targeted traffic from niche web sites. While the merchant can focus on
a broad spectrum of web sites, affiliate marketing allows for the targeting of niche traffic sources.
Much will depend on the size of your online business, and the sales volume it generate(d)/(s) before
the introduction of the affiliate program.
The results of any affiliate marketing campaign are always directly dependent on the amount of time,
money and effort the business invests in the development of their affiliate program.
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