Everything you think you know about building an affiliate business is wrong. The simple truth is that the old rules no longer apply. And if you don’t change your tactics, you cannot survive.

The promise

You’ve probably heard how easy it is to start an affiliate business. And it is – sort of. It’s far easier that developing, selling and supporting your own product. But that doesn’t mean it’s easy.

The cold hard truth

The worst part is that the information you’ve received is all wrong. You’ve been told to find quality products. Next do some keyword research. Then to use these keywords to buy ads promoting the product. And just enjoy the commissions. But this just won’t work!

Don’t bother with keywords

This method worked a couple years ago. But keywords are too expensive now. It’s time for a paradigm shift.

A brand new formula

There’s still hope. Here’s a new method that works!

• Get into CPA marketing
• Utilize demographics data
• Use image ads

Get into CPA marketing

CPA stands for Cost Per Action. It’s so much easier than promoting products. Because you don’t have to get people to spend money. You get paid when they take an “action”. Such as filling in a form. Which is much easier than getting them to buy something.

Instead of researching keywords, research demographics

Keywords are no longer relevant (you’ll see in a minute). But demographics are highly important. First, select the CPA offer you want to promote. Next, you go to Quantcast.com. And research what kinds of people will be interested.

Market on display networks

Now you have your offer and your demographics. You can advertise directly to them on display networks. And let images do the work. And there was no keyword research required. Plus you’re going to save a ton of money. Image ad clicks are much cheaper.

Summing it up

This is powerful method to make money online. Because it’s free to get started in CPA. It’s much cheaper to do image ads than keyword ads. You can use demographics to target your ideal prospect. And your commission is much easier to earn.

Consider this: What is the number one reason people get online everyday? Simple. To get information. Google alone serves up 400 million searches per day! Why should you care? Well, this is an opportunity for your to provide what people want – information. And when done correctly, you can get paid for it, too!

Info marketing explained

This is by far the simplest business you can start. You create a product that provides information. And people pay you for the information inside it.. Sounds simple enough, right?

How do you make it work?

We’ve established that it’s a simple concept. But to make it a successful business you’ve got to provide information people want. So step one is to discover what kind of info people want. How can you find out what people want?

One very simple method is to do a little research. Just go to Yahoo! answers or ask.com and you’ll get a good idea of the kinds of things people need help with. You’re looking for popular questions or common themes. That people are having trouble solving. And solve the problem for them by writing an info product on it.

An encouraging word

If you’re worried about how to write and ebook. Consider this: An ebook is nothing more than a collection of articles. So instead of sitting down to write the whole thing. Focus on one article at a time. And when you have a collection, refine and expand on them and combine them into a single ebook.

OK, what’s so hot about digital products? Interestingly enough, we’re back to the name of this article Here are the seven reasons

1. Simplicity

As soon as you have the pieces in place, it’s virtually maintenance free. There is almost no support. So you can just set it up and let it run. It’s like having an automated cash machine.

You don’t have any inventory. There’s nothing to ship. Your business is 100% digital.

2. Repackaging

When you have a created a few information products. You can just combine them into a more expensive product. It’s nothing to combine the content from several ebooks. Then you can sell it for a lot more. Your customers will gladly pay more for a single bigger ebook. Instead of several small ebooks.

3. Private label right

You can grant other people resell rights to your own products. This is a very popular topic right now, because people just don’t want to invest the time and money into making their own. And the best part is you’re selling the same product . . . but for 3 times the price for the rights!

4. Leverage

Leverage means doing something once and reaping multiple rewards. Use part of it to make an autoresponder series. And build an email list that you can sell other products to.

5. More leverage

Don’t stop there . . . break it into several smaller reports. Then you can use the reports as the front-end of your product funnel. They can be free or low prices. And you’re creating targeted leads for your main product all along. You can even make these viral by allowing your affiliates to give them away. Affiliate, you say? Yes!

6. An army of affiliates

This is a real power strategy. When you own your own products. You’re able to let other people market it for you. How would you like to have an army of affiliates selling your products? Well, you *need* your own product to get affiliates.

7. JVs

OK, this is by far the biggest reason why. The number one way to launch your success is through joint ventures. That makes this is the biggest reason for creating your own info products. Because if you don’t have you own product, you’ve got nothing to JV.

In closing

If you don’t want to sell digital products by now, then you’ve probably been sleeping. You’ll be the master of your destiny. Because you’re 100% in control. So, decide to just start:

• Go to answers.yahoo.com
• Find out what people need to know
• Write about the answers

Information product development really is that simple. Before you know it, you’ll have your own info product.

It would be hard to argue against the fact that adding audio to a website increases your overall results. If you’re not using audio on your sites, you’re making a mistake. It will boost your opt-in rate. It boosts sales, too.

What makes it so effective?

It’s simple. Audio breaks the silence of the web. Audio adds a human quality to your site. It also makes your site feel more real. Audio literally breathes life into your website. And this aliveness creates more interaction with your visitors.

Some more benefits

There are actually two profit boosts from using audio. You will close more sales. And second you’ll save money on the sales letter. Instead of having to pay a professional to write you a great sales letter. You can just add your own audio. Your visitors will respond better to a heart-felt message from you than some fancy copywriting.

You’ll also get better conversions on your list opt-ins. People need to be told exactly what to do. Just add a short audio message saying: Fill in your name and email and click submit. Just this one simple thing will boost opt-ins up to 315%!

Some ways to use audio

A welcome message on your homepage. A warm welcome can be the deciding factor. Grabbing their attention like this helps you keep them on your site.

A guided tour. It’s the same as when you use audio to increase your subscribers. You just explain what to do first, then next, etc. Use this to lead them through the ordering process, as well.

Testimonials for your product or service. A written testimonial is good. But what’s even better are audio testimonials. You can just make up written one and people know that. Audio adds a level of higher believability. And that increases your results.

Power tip

Did you ever think of making a product just by recording some audio? Audio is faster to produce than anything else. And it still has a high perceived value. The great thing about audio products is people can take them with them on the go. Plus you can get them transcribed cheap. This is the easiest way to “write” an eBook!

Is it hard to add audio?

It’s not hard at all. There are quite a few audio streaming software programs out there. The software does all the work. The software creates the audio button code for you. Simply copy the code and paste it in your site. So don’t let this stop you.

Summing it up

Let’s take another look at the benefits. Putting streaming audio on your site will boost all your results. No doubt your sales will go up. You will also increase your subscriber opt-ins. And you can quickly produce products and website sales copy. You’ll be one of the few you use these strategies. But you’ll save a lot of time and money. Get started right now and realize instant results.

Affiliate marketing can be very difficult to break into. The reason is because there is a lot of competition. In order to survive you have to beat your competition. It’s also hard to figure out what to do because there’s a lot of information out there. Here’s one trick that almost no one else is using.

Affiliate videos

You can’t deny that video is powerful. Video online is everywhere because people love it. About the only thing that keeps people’s attention anymore is video. So using it in your affiliate promotions is a no-brainer!

Examples of how to use video for affiliate marketing:

• Testimonials
• Record a walk-through
• Record the order process
• Do a preview video

Do a testimonial video

This is probably the easiest of all. Just click record on your web cam and start talking. Don’t worry about quality. Just seeing another real person endorsing a product helps your viewers decide to buy. In truth, mistakes and mess-ups just make it more believable. So serious, just turn on the camera and talk. And if you don’t want to show your face, use one of the next ideas.

Do a video walk-through

This technique works slightly more subconsciously. Basically you’re doing a tutorial on how to use the product. And while they watch you use it, they think, “I should buy that.” If it’s useful, then what you’re teaching just makes people want it. So, obviously, pick a good product to demo.

Ordering

This technique is super powerful. Record yourself placing an order. Watching you make a live purchase will inspire your viewer like nothing else. First, it’s social proof. Once they see you doing it, they feel more secure. It also build your viewers trust. They are much more likely to take your advice to buy when you’ve taken it yourself. And finally, it creates envy. They see you getting the satisfaction of making the purchase and that makes them want it. You can add additional juice to this one with: You’re gonna have to place your own order if you want to see the members area.

Sneak peak

Here’s an easy way to show the value of the product. You do a tour of the members area. They get to see everything they’ll receive when they order. It also reduces the reservations of skeptics. Once they’ve seen the back-end, they know it’s real.

Anyone can do it!

There’s no technical knowledge required. There are simple software programs that make it easy to create videos. All the work is done by the program. So please don’t let technical worries slow you down. Remain focused on the benefits:

• Increase sales You’ll earn more affiliate commissions when you add video. People love video, so please use them.
• Reduce refunds Less of your commissions will be clawed back, too. Thanks to you people know what’s inside before buying. So they’ll be less likely to refund.
• Rise above the competition! This is a really easy thing to do. And almost no one is doing it. That puts you ahead of the pack.

So get serious about your affiliate business and add video in now. Not using video is detrimental to you business. So do it!

You need a list. That’s a given. It’s the one thing above all else that matters most. Because you can market to your list whenever you want. Just push a button and print money – literally.

So, how do you build a list?

Here’s what you need to build your list:

• Your Opt-in Page
• The Incentive
• The Opt-in Success Page

The Squeeze Page – The landing page is the page that has your opt-in form on it. This page is the one that asks them for their email. That’s why it needs to look like a professionally designed page. And have an easy to understand opt-in form. And your call to action must be clear!

Failure to include a great “call to action” will result in failure. This “close” tells your visitors what you want them to do. And if you don’t include it, they won’t opt in. It’s strange, but if you don’t tell people what to do, they won’t do it.

You can take your opt-in page to the next level if you add a compelling video to the page. This will grab your visitors attention and keep it. Plus it give you a chance to tell them to opt in multiple times. And after the video, you can make it just say “fill in the form now”.

It’s OK, if you’ve never made a video before. It’s very easy to hire people for a couple hundred bucks to make one for you. There are also list building systems that have everything pre-built for you.

The Bribe – The next thing you need is an incentive to subscribe to your list. You have to give people a compelling reason to give your their email. Most people are very protective of their email address. This means your bribe needs to be very attractive.

You have to provide value in your bribe for it to be good. That means you make it something people would actually want to receive. And can benefit from. A few ideas:

• An eBook
• Some useful software
• Videos
• An email training series

It all boils down to content. It’s got to be something helpful for your new subscribers. It goes without saying it must be free. Bottom line is it’s got to be worth more to them than their email address.

Now, if you don’t know how to create the bribe don’t worry. Here again, you can hire freelancers to create this for you. Simply tell them what the topic is and they can write the content. A 5-part email series is a good freebie. Each email will cost between $20 and $25. So, you’ll get the whole series written for under $150.

You can also get email list building tools that include the premium. Two critical aspects of using a follow up series. The first thing is that it delivers value to your subscribers. And it’s nice if it earns you some money, too. The easiest way to do this is to market affiliate products in the emails. Affiliate products are easy because you don’t have to do anything at all. And make money right away from your list.

Your Confirmation Page – The last bit is the thank you page. This is the page your subscriber sees after they opt in. It’s a great idea to give them some valuable information right on the thank you page. This helps them feel they’ve made the right decision giving you their email. It also sets the foundation for your relationship with them. So when they get your email, they’re happy to hear from you.

This is another case where you can get a complete marketing package. Or you can go the DIY route. And do your own writing for this content. Or pay a freelancer to write the content for you.

Summing it up

It makes no difference whether you build your opt-in, bribe and thank you page. Or if you hire people to do this for you. Or if sign up for a “complete package” solution. The important thing is that you build your own list starting now. Once you’ve got it built. You’re free to make money at the push of a button.

Why you must presell

The number one strategy to increase your affiliate sales is preselling.

Before we start, let’s talk about what preselling actually is. There are two components to it – art & science. It’s a process of taking your reader and getting them ready to buy. Then when they’re ready, refer them to the product website so they can buy it. If you do it well, it’s completely invisible.

Basically, you give them some content. And give them a link to the product you’re preselling. We’ll get into how to do it correctly in a minute. Before we get into that, you should understand what’s in it for you. Some major benefits of this process:

• It helps your reader trust you – Once you have your readers’ trust, they will click your links more readily. And the more clicks you get the more sales you’ll make.
• It takes your reader out of defense mode – When you’re preselling vs. pitching, you’re reader doesn’t feel the need to be guarded. Unguarded reading means they’re not filtering what you say. And your intention is conveyed more easily.
• It creates buying readiness – Now they’re open to hearing what you’re telling them. And in turn, they’re open to other messages, as well. This includes the sales website you send them to! Sending them to the sales page in this state makes them more receptive to the actual pitch.
• It increases your sales – Now your reader arrives at the sales page in a buying mood. Open to the sales message and feeling safe. The only thing that can result is increased sales!
• It boosts customer loyalty – Your referral now feels like they decided to buy. Versus being pitched or convinced. And this leads to greater satisfaction with the product.
• Preselling increases your bottom line – A satisfied customer doesn’t ask for a refund. Which means you keep more of your affiliate commissions.

The need to presell is clear. You earn more commissions. And increase your customer satisfaction. Everybody wins!

OK, so how do you do it?

OK, now you understand why it’s so important. So, hopefully you’ve decided to start preselling. So, let’s talk about how to make it work. Remember, there are two components – art and science.

Becoming an artist

First, you have to gain the trust of your reader, so they let their guard down. And the only method of doing this is to give exceptional value to your readers. The art of this is to provide enough information to be of value, but not enough to satiate the hunger. So you send them to the product website with a hunger for more of what the product provides. Plus they’re not guarded, so they’re more open and likely to purchase the product.

Scientific preselling

You also have to include some very specific things.

First of all, it’s important HOW you present your information. You have to have your end in mind. Your end goal is to make a sale of the product you’re preselling. There are two ways to accomplish this with great content. First, you can provide useful but incomplete information. The second way is to provide all the information and let your reader discover how hard it is to actually implement it. In either case, the product you’re referring them to solves the problem for them.

You also have to link to the product you’re promoting discretely. Instead you link directly to the product sales page. That’s because nobody likes to click on affiliate links. But, without your affiliate link, how do you get credit? There’s a trick to make this work… You “pre-cookie” your reader before sending them to the sales page.

You also want to link to the sales page from inside your article’s content. Hyperlinked words are clicked more than anything else. And if the words you hyperlink relate, your reader will naturally click them for more information.

Using this system, you’re virtually guaranteed to increase your affiliate business success.

Now for the bad news…

Doing all of this right is really hard! Let’s talk about everything required to put this plan into action: Awesome content. The entire process depends on your being able to provide useful information to your readers. This means you have to be able to write well, and have enough knowledge to be useful. Strategic writing. First, you have to give good information. You also have to present the info in a way that provides real value. And still leave them wanting more. The other approach is to reveal a self-evident problem through the information.

Product selection. After that you have to figure out which products you want to promote. Even if you can pull off writing and great article. Your efforts are completely wasted if you don’t pick a winning product.

Technical skills. One of the keys to this system is using “covert cookies” for the tracking. This is pretty easy – you just make a 1 pixel X 1 pixel image with no border and make the “source” of the image your affiliate link. (But if you mess it up, your referrals won’t be tracked.)

Wrapping it up:

Now you’re armed with the information needed to effectively presell. And doing this increases your affiliate commissions by over 500%! It’s absolutely critical to do this every time – and to do it correctly. Take action now. Make the extra effort required to propel your affiliate business to the next level.

Everyone knows the number one thing you need to be successful online is traffic to your website. The other 1% is what you do with that traffic, but if you have to traffic – you can figure out the rest. After getting the traffic you just need to convert it into subscribers and customers . . . but that’s the easy part. The most crucial aspect of this process is getting the visitors to your site.

Here are some tips for generating website visitors:

Here are a few of the most popular way to get traffic to your site – for free:

• Web 2.0
• Article Marketing
• Video Marketing

OK, so how do they work?

Web 2.0

The term “Web 2.0″ is associated with websites that facilitate interactive information sharing and collaboration in a social media setting. What this means for you is that you can join into the community and add your own content. And because of the highly interactive and popular nature of these sites, Google and other search engines “index” their content regularly. Which means the content on them gets “indexed” faster and with more weight. And any links in your content that point to your own sites count as a strong “vote” in favor of your sites – lending you credibility in the search engines. The direct traffic from the Web 2.0 sites themselves is only part of the benefit. How to generate web 2.0 traffic is something we’ve only scratched the surface on. I don’t want to be exhaustive – I want to give you an overview of all the methods…

Article Marketing

The natural next topic is article marketing. Article directories fall under the category of web 2.0 sites. Just like web 2.0 sites, article websites allow you to upload your own content – as articles. Just as with the other web 2.0 sites, having your content included gives you immediate traffic and search engine ranking. And the hidden benefit here is that your reach grows as other people take your articles and put them on their blogs and sites. And along with your article, they have to include your author information and a link back to you – so you get more free traffic and SEO benefits. If you want to generate traffic from articles follow these steps:

• First, spend the time to determine your keywords
• Tailor the content of your article for the keywords
• Be sure to link to your site on the keywords you’ve chosen. Do this inside the article itself and in your author’s bio.

Video

And finally, we need to talk about getting traffic from videos. Here to we’re really looking at a web 2.0 sub-category. And it carries all the same benefits of article marketing. And in addition to this, because Google and the others love video so much, you can get listed for highly competitive keywords much more easily.

Here are just a few video marketing tips:

• Get a YouTube account
• Turn off all the modules in your account profile
• Put relevant “tags” in your profile
• Include a link to your main site in your profile
• Upload at least 1 video
• In the title, the description and the tags for each video, include your main keywords

In closing…

This is a great overview to get your started generating massive traffic to your site.

In order to make sure your membership business is profitable, you have to select the right market. Here’s how.

Number 1 – Discover Niches with Fanatics

If you want your membership business to be profitable, you have to find a marketing with fanatics in it. Simply put, a fanatic is someone who’s willing to spend time and more importantly money on a topic they are interested in. Now that we know what we’re looking for, let’s talk about how to find them…

• Here’s something you may not have considered – magazines! We’re so internet-based these days, it’s easy to forget about them. Because it’s becoming harder and harder to keep print periodicals profitable these days, if you see a magazine on the shelves, you know it’s making money. And that means there are lots of people interested in it. If they can make money in a print version, you can probably make money with a membership website.
• Watch and listen for fanatics in your daily life. Pay attention to conversations, social events, TV, restaurants, public places to see what people are talking about. People generally talk about things they are interested in. And this means there may be a market for information about it.
• Don’t forget about clubs and organizations. If there are enough people to to build a club, there are certainly enough people to start a membership site on the same topic. By the same token, if enough people are interested to hold a convention on a certain topic, you can definitely find enough people to build a membership business around that same topic.
• Think about the things that you are interested in. There’s a good chance that others are interested in these things, as well. Making money is fun and it’s even more fun if you can do it in a niche you’re excited about.
• Another fantastic way to discover what people are interest in is Google Trends. This service shows you the current most popular search terms. These topics are the hottest topics because lots and lots of people want information about them. These are the niches you want to be in – lots of people actively searching means lots of opportunity.

Next – Figure out if there’s money in it

OK, so you’ve got a great idea for your niche membership business with lots of fanatics. But will they actually spend money? The quickest way to find out is to determine if others are profiting in your potential niche.

Here’s a punch list for figuring out if anyone’s making money in your niche:

• Are there blogs or forums in this niche? Take the name of your niche and search for “niche name blog” & “niche name forum” in Google to see if there is an active group of people talking about and interested in the niche. This means there is a large group of people already assembled for you to market to.
• See if other people are creating and selling product in this niche by searching in Google Shopping, ebay and Amazon. It’s a good sign if there are because it tells you people are making money here.
• Monitor Google Adwords to determine if people are running the same ads for weeks in a row. If they are, this means they’re making money on these ads – otherwise, they’d stop running them. Which means there is money to be made in your niche.

Finally – Figure out your barrier to entry

After figuring out a good niche and determining that other people are making money in it, the last thing to do is decide if you will be able to enter the market. Here are some things to look at to figure this out:

• Figure out what kinds of products people are interested in. If it’s mostly physical products, coaching and live seminars, then it will be harder to break into this niche. The easiest membership website to create and maintain are information membership sites.
• The next thing to look at is the competition. You don’t want to try to break into a saturated marketing, so figure out how many people are already selling in this niche.
• Compare the size of the market versus the number of competitors. Some competition is a good sign – just make sure the market is big enough for you to join in.
• How ready is the market for marketing messages, and how willing are the fanatics to buy. Some niches are made up of people who require lots information and have a very long lead time, and some markets are filled with people who will spend lots of money right now.

Summing it all up

So far, we’ve talked about exactly what it takes to pick a great niche: One with a hungry crowd of fanatics, who are ready to spend money on information about their topic. And you’ve determined your barrier to entry is small enough to give it a go. Now that you’ve prepared properly, you’re success is 99% guaranteed. How to actually run your membership website is the only thing left to talk about…

The best way to ensure your success is to build automated traffic sources to send you visitors day and night.

But, first…

The first thing you need to do before you start going after any traffic is keyword research. The reason this is so important is that you are going to be building content and traffic sources for specific keywords. This means it’s critical to select your keywords properly.

While doing your keyword research, keep the following in mind:

• How competitive are the keywords you’re going after? You’ll have to analyze the competition and see what’s out there for this.
• Will the keywords you’re targeting bring buyers? Some keywords will bring lots of traffic, but none of them will buy. You want to generate visitors ready to buy.
• Will these keywords bring affiliates? Generating your own customers is great – having other people do it for you is even better. So make sure you are also targeting keywords to attract affiliates.

Of course, this all takes time if you plan to do it yourself. Experts are expensive and don’t guarantee results. Which is why practically none of your competitors will do this! If you’re smart you will use website traffic software to help you with this process. This way you get this critical step done fast and done well.

Once you know your keywords…

Only after doing your keyword research correctly can you start targeting these keywords to get you traffic.

Powerful Traffic Tactics:

• Something you may not have ever considered is Surveys
• “Answer” Sites
• Video Websites

Surveys

The truth is that people really enjoy taking surveys and finding out what other people think. You can use this fact to provide “sticky” content for other website owners. It’s a win-win. They get a great perk on their site and you get a link back to yours. This allows you to get free website traffic from other people’s sites! Most people think surveys are just for collecting data, but in this case you don’t even care about the answers. So, get creative and make up a survey that’s wacky to get other people interested in putting it on their sites.

“Answer” Sites

Sites like Yahoo! Answers allow users to ask and answer each others’ questions. But, like the surveys, that’s not why you’re going to pay attention to these sites. What you want to do is use these sites to generate traffic and leads for your business. Now, you can do this all by hand – visit a classified ads or answers site and one by one copy and paste contact info. But a much smarter method is to use website traffic software to do it for you. These tools put the whole thing on auto-pilot and just deliver the leads to you each day.

Video Sharing Sites

No doubt you’re aware of YouTube and other video websites. YouTube is one of the most highly traffic and search websites on the entire internet! So don’t miss out of this incredible source of free website traffic.

You don’t have to be able to make awesome videos for this to work. You can even take a webpage or article that you’ve written. And use free screen capture software to record yourself reading it. You can even get software that will automatically do this for you.

The Bottom Line…

Figuring out how to get some visitors to your site is not hard at all. Use your noodle and come up with things other people aren’t doing. You can even use software to automate most of what we’ve talked about.

Don’t waste any more time:

• Step 1 is researching your keywords
• Next, set up a survey or two with viral appeal
• Take advantage of the “help” sites
• Capitalize on video!

Learn Top Affiliate Secrets

Affiliate marketing is by far the fastest way to get started making money online. What “affiliate marketing” means is that you just send traffic to someone else’s website, they do all the hard work of developing the product, making the sale, delivering the product and supporting the customer, and you get paid 50% or more

The benefits of this are

1. You can get started right away because you don’t have to make a product, write the sales page, design the website, create marketing materials, or get a merchant account and CRM.
2. It runs on auto-pilotfor you because you don’t have to do the customer support or deal with billing or technical issues.
3. Your efforts are risk-free, because the product owner has already made sure the product sells. So you know that your traffic will result in sales.

There’s no denying that these benefits make affiliate marketing the best thing going!

There is one major drawback…

After all your hard work of generating traffic to the sales page, you will never see any of those visitors again. Unfortunately, the majority of those visitors (at least 90%) will not buy on their first visit. And of the 10% or less that do buy, the product owner will be able to sell to them again, but you will not.

How can you avoid this pitfall?

What you need to do is capture the contact info of your visitors before sending them to the product website. If you do that, you can contact them again and send them back the product website multiple times. This will increase the number of sales you make. And if you’re a super star affiliate, you’ll provide high-quality content before sending them to the product website.

Here’s what these affiliate marketing strategies will do for you:

1. Owning a list of potential buyers gives you the ability to market additional products at the push of a button.
2. You’ll be warming them up by providing valuable information and then casually linking to the product sales page in the context of this information.

In order to set a system like this up, you will need the following affiliate marketing tools:

1. A Video Squeeze Page (with video)
2. Several high-quality content pages
3. At least a 5-Part Email Followup Series

Instead of sending visitors directly to the product sales page, you’ll send them to your lead capture page first. Your squeeze page adds your visitors to you autoresponder. This is how you start building your list, and at the same time begin sending them useful information. After subscribing them to your email list, it redirects them to your content mini-site.

These high-quality content pages provide value and build good will. This way your visitor is more likely to buy when they get to the product owner’s website. While they’re reading the content you’ve provided, your email system is already following up with them to send them back to the product website again and again.

Putting all of these pieces together will increase your sales by 500% or more, so it’s obviously worth the time and energy to do it. And after you get it all set up, it runs on total auto-pilot. You just refer people to your lead capture page, instead of the product sales page.

One option, if you’re not up to the challenge of setting this all up yourself, is to let someone like Affiliate Silver Bullet do it for you. These kinds of services will build the whole system for you and then just give you a video squeeze page (with video), pre-written emails, content pages, etc. The benefit is that it’s much less expensive then you could do it yourself, and it’s instantly set up. The drawback is that you won’t be the only one using these affiliate tools. But the internet is huge, so this shouldn’t really affect you.

The other route you can take is to hire people on Elance to create and implement the various aspects for you. Either way, it’s an important step that you need to take if you’re going to be serious about your affiliate marketing.