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5 Steps to Becoming a Cash Magnet, Work-at-home, Affiliate Marketer
Without Spending Boat Loads of Cash!
by Ken Shorey
Published on this site: September 9th, 2006 - See
more articles from this month
Affiliate marketing continues to be an excellent way to earn a substantial
income. You've heard the usual rundown of attributes that make affiliate
marketing advantageous. They include, not having to own or create your
own product, not having to speak to any customers, and not having to develop
and maintain your own website. Although all these things are true, what
most people fail to place an emphasis on is in order to be a successful
affiliate marketer, you have to learn how to sell!
Work at home, affiliate marketing success is absolutely hinged upon this
simple premise; Advertise Low/Sell High. You must keep your advertising
costs low and your profit margins high. In this short article, I am going
to provide you with 5 steps that will help you blast your affiliate commissions
through the roof while keeping your advertising costs low.
- Make Use of Blogs and RSS Feeds:
Blogging can be a very lucrative and free way to advertise affiliate
programs. Simply place a banner or link to the product you are advertising
along with a short review of the product, plus other relevant, and interesting
posts and information. Now that you've created your blog, you need to
bring traffic to it. This is how you do it. First optimize your blog
just like you would any other website. If you need help on search engine
optimization, just do a search on the Internet, you'll find plenty of
free resources. Next submit your site to the top blog directories, acquire
back links, and remember to post relevant and meaningful information
often.
Concerning RSS.
If you use Blogger, they will provide a RSS link for you for free. Simply
submit it the top RSS directories as well and place a chicklet on your
blog, so that interested readers can subscribe if they want to.
- Write free Articles:
Free articles are another excellent way to earn affiliate commissions
without spending any money. Simply find a product you would like to
sell and write a short, informative article on the topic. Be careful
not to make it a sales pitch, but something that will benefit the reader.
Be sure to create a small ad that speaks about the product you are promoting
and place this in your resource box. This is where you plug your product.
Note: Some article directories do not allow affiliate links, so you
may want to create a blog to promote your product, create an actual
website or buy a domain and simply forward it to whatever product you
are selling.
- Ask for More Information:
This is a very powerful and simple technique that can be used to jumpstart
your affiliate earnings without monetary investment. Here's how it works.
Go and visit some of the top classified sites on the Internet. Simply
do a search on Google, Yahoo or MSN, if you aren't familiar with any.
Visit the work-at-home, and business opportunities section. Write down
their email addresses and simply request more information. But before
you do, write your email signature as a small ad. Never attempt to sell
them anything in the body of your email, this might be considered spam.
Just simply ask for more information and create an enticing tag line
as your email signature. You may want to create a separate email account
for this.
- Purchase offline Classified Ads:
You can purchase space in Thrifty Nickel ads rather cheaply. Try to
find a niche that isn't over run like the work-at-home or business opportunities
sections generally are. You can purchase your ad online, but I've found
that if I can save nearly 50% if I purchase the ad space in person,
or if I mail in my payment. Call them first and ask them how much the
ad will cost if you mail in your payment.
- Go Viral:
Create a small, free ebook, roughly 5-10 pages on a topic relevant to
what you are selling. Place your affiliate link somewhere in the book.
Then submit your ebook to popular free ebook directories. You can find
a ton of them by doing a search on the Internet for "free ebook
directories.
There you have it, 5 simple steps to help you skyrocket your affiliate
commissions and work-at-home with little or no budget. What are you waiting
for? It's time to get started. Get to work already!
Ken Shorey - is owner/webmaster of http://ez-work-at-home.net
a work at home directory for legitimate online business programs and resources,
all rights
reserved.
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