The Internet Marketing Newbie Affiliate Marketing Plan

The Internet Marketing Newbie Affiliate Marketing Plan

This needs to be said first, before anything else: This is not a detailed, step-by-step 'how to' course or ebook. Keep in mind that this is just an article, so what follows below is the basic outline of an affiliate marketing plan that I often use when I find something that I want to promote as an affiliate.

Day 1 Choose a product to sell as an affiliate. I try to promote Clickbank products when possible, as they have a reputable affiliate program. This isn't written in stone however. Sometimes it is better to promote a product or service through other affiliate programs. For instance, one product might have a lot of affiliates competing against you at Clickbank, but the same type of product or service promoted through another affiliate program might not have many affiliates at all promoting it.

Look at the sales page for the product. Does it tempt you to buy the product? If not, it probably won't tempt many other people either. Choose another affiliate product to sell. Repeat this process until you find a product that you would like to buy.

You may also want to look for products that offer an ecourse from their sales webpage. If you can present an offer that also includes an ecourse, this will almost always greatly increase your conversion rate of your sales. You will generally get information on how to modify this ecourse so that you get affiliate commissions if someone clicks a link in the ecourse and then buys the product or service that you are promoting.

If what you are offering doesn't include an ecourse, then you may want to consider writing a 5 day ecourse related to the product or service that you are selling. It doesn't have to be a 5 day ecourse, but this will fill out a work week evenly. This is very important. Those affiliates who don't offer this information, and require that a person subscribes to get this information, are those that are part of the 95% of affiliates who make little to no money in affiliate marketing.

Day 2 If you are writing an ecourse, then write day 2 of a 5 day ecourse related to the product you are selling. Make a webpage where people can subscribe to the ecourse. We will call this the ecourse sign-up page.

It is also often called an opt-in page, a squeeze page, and such. You have probably heard these terms before, and they all refer to a webpage on a website where someone can subscribe receive various emails from the same source.

Day 3 If the product or service that you are promoting came with an ecourse, then finish modifying this ecourse.

If you are writing an ecourse, then write day 3 of a 5 day ecourse related to the product you are selling. Write one or more articles and include the link to the ecourse sign up page in the resource box.

Day 4 If you are writing an ecourse, then write day 4 of a 5 day ecourse related to the product you are selling. Choose one or more freebies that you will give to the people that subscribe to your ecourse.

Now brand any of the brandable freebies, such as brandable ebooks. After you have done this, upload the freebies to your website. You will give people who subscribe to your ecourse access to these freebies. Now make a webpage where subscribers can download all of the freebies you offered. The two most common methods of giving your subscribers access to their freebies is to re-direct them to this webpage or send them a link to this webpage or the URL of this webpage in an email that you will have your autoresponder send to them.

A slight variation of this procedure is to have the very first email that you have sent to them, which should be send right after they have subscribed to your list, contain a link that the subscriber must click on that confirms that they want to be on your list. This is called 'double opt-in'. This is the method that is almost always used anymore, because it is just not safe anymore to not have a subscriber confirm that they want to be on your list. There are just way too many false spam complaints anymore, even by those who have subscribed and agreed to receive email from you.

Day 5 If you are writing an ecourse, then write day 5 of a 5 day ecourse related to the product you are selling. Go back and include links to the product or service that you are promoting in the ecourse, then insert the ecourse into your autoresponder.

Submit the articles that you wrote on day 3 to article directories and other websites that accept articles. At the time of this writing, there is some big theory going around about duplicate content, and that you can get penalized for duplicate content, but that has yet to be proven one way or the other to my satisfaction, and what little testing I have done, seems to indicate that this is indeed just theory and speculation.

However, for those who are not comfortable with this assumption, what you can do is write a different article for related to the same topic for every article directory that you submit an article to. The disadvantages to this far outweigh the possibility of being penalized for duplicate content though, and here is why. It is way too time consuming.

There is this to consider also. You will never have just one copy of any article you write and submit to an article directory, on the internet. Those articles will get picked up and distributed across the internet by those who choose to use your article, which is what you want, but it does mean you will always have duplicate content on the internet.

When you think about it logically, if the duplicate content theory had all that much merit to it, then everybody who ever submitted anything to another website, would be penalized, and clearly, that doesn't seem to be the case.

(optional, but highly recommended) Get links on other websites to your ecourse sign-up webpage. Submit your link to other websites that will accept your link. It's best if that vast majority of these websites are those that compliment, but don't compete against you.

For instance, you sell a cook book, then it would be good to get links on websites that sell spices, websites that sell cooking ingredients, and such, but not on other websites that also sell cook books. At this point, you may do one of two things. You may now choose another product or service to sell and generate another income stream, or you may want to increase the profits of the income stream that you have just created by writing and submitting more articles and by getting more inbound links to your opt-in webpage. And of course, you may also utilize other marketing strategies as well.

This is a marketing plan that is very do-able for internet marketing newbies. If you are such a person, then I hope this affiliate marketing plan helps you kick off a successful affiliate marketing business.

Misato Katsuragi is the author and editor of the 'Myths Of Internet Marketing' newsletter at: http://www.mythsofinternetmarketing.com

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