When you're just beginning to start doing business in Affiliate Marketing, one of the most essential things you need to know is about traffic - particularly what it is and how to acquire it.
Why?
Because even though it's become somewhat of a blueprint these days, that "the money is in the list" - but this means YOUR list, not the list of the people whose products you're selling if you want to be successful in doing business in Affiliate Marketing.
As an affiliate marketer, your job is to come across with people who want to buy the products you're promoting. To do that, you need to write your own ad or hire somebody to write it for you, and send people to a Website where they can buy the product that you are promoting as an affiliate marketer.
BUT - there's a problem by using this method. Do you know what it is?
Somewhere from 60 to 95% of the people you send to the web page possibly aren't going to buy the first time they visit the web site you are sending them to, because:
1. Most people want to be sure that they're correct in making the decision, so they generally want to see or hear more from you, between 5 to 12 times before making a buying decision. Do this to make your business in Affiliate Marketing very profitable.
2. If you're spending for the ad to send people to the Website of the seller, the ones who don't buy vanish forever. And neither both of you, the seller nor yourself will benefit in your affiliate marketing business.
3. For those who buy, if you're only sending them to the web page, YOU still lose them indefinitely because you have no way of getting their names and contact information.
The Big 4 Proven and Tested Solutions for the 3 Problems:
1. Write your own ad and send your prospects to YOUR squeeze page which is a well-written squeeze page -. A squeeze page is a single page Website that has only one purpose which is to convince prospects to give you their contact information. This very necessary in doing business in Affiliate Marketing.
A squeeze page should be simple - no flash, no links, and if you use a graphic or photo, do it but keep it simple and make sure your graphic or photo relates to the purpose of the page.
You can convince prospects to give you their contact information by giving them content-rich information that they're expecting to find and that they believe that's useful to them.
2. Offer them an reason or a gift to give you their contact information. This could be a free newsletter, a free report, an audio or video product or anything as long as it's related to the niche or affiliate product.
3. After they've opted in to your autoresponder, send them to your affiliate sales page.
4. Make a follow up with them on a regular basis - mixing good information, free gifts and free bonuses from time to time and offer an additional affiliate products.
Soak, rinse, dry, iron, wear, repeat. This means that you have to go into the process of creating, editing, proofreading and finalizing, and... REPEATING.
Once you're making money from your first affiliate product, move on to the next level and then the next level and the next level.
The best thing about affiliate marketing is that you can set up most of it on your autoresponder, so you turn it into a "working system" and it works "almost" on autopilot.
There is NO SUCH THING as a business that is running 100% on autopilot - and don't believe anyone who tells you in a different way. Any real business takes time, work and effort, especially when you are doing business in Affiliate Marketing.
But by setting up a working system this way, your autoresponder does the greater part of the work, and you will only need to do effortless updates to make sure you keep fresh and updated information flowing in your Affiliate Marketing business.
Set up a working system that helps you the most doing business in Affiliate Marketing. FOLLOW THIS AND DO IT NOW!
