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Five Simple Steps On How Affiliate Marketing Works!

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How Affiliate Marketing Works: 5 Easy Step!

Affiliate marketing is one of the most popular ways to make money online!

What is affiliate marketing and how does it work?

It’s when you earn a commission for selling or introducing a company’s product or service.

As an affiliate, you can promote their product on your social media, blogs or other online media.

The company you promote will give you a link that will track your results and reward you with commissions.

The concept is very simple, manageable and easy to learn for the average person.

However; although one of the easiest ways to make money online, it takes more than just clicking a few buttons before affiliate marketing makes you money.

You might ask; what are the step-by-step affiliate marketing basics.

FIRST of all, you want to find a product or service that you really really really like. Don’t try something just to make money.

If you don’t like it, you won’t stick with it during the hard times.

So spend some time researching. Don’t move forward until you’re sure you have a winner, something you would like to promote.

You’re looking for something that is a PROVEN WINNER and something that you FEEL GOOD ABOUT REPRESENTING. Make it something that has to be purchased on a MONTHLY basis.

In the beginning, stick with niches that have proven successful.

What are the The top three affiliate marketing niches; they are:

1. Wealth
2. Health
3. Relationships

If you pick one of those main 3 niches, you can’t go wrong. Yes; there is a lot of competition. However, there are millions and millions of people needing help in those areas.

There is an ocean of customers, opportunities, products, niches, micro niches where you can dig in and get a large piece of the pie… and even dominate in a particular micro niche!

It is vitally important for you to choose something that has to be purchased monthly.

Why?

After the initial sale; you will get monthly residual income without effort. Nice!

SECOND; I recommend you research a couple of mentors that have success in the niche you have chosen.

I also recommend that you pick one product or one service instead of trying to do multiple products. Trying to promote multiple products will not necessarily make you more money.

Yes; you can promote multiple products at once. But if you are a Newbie, I suggest you start with one.

THIRD; learn the basic mechanics of affiliate marketing which is centered around sending out emails of your offer. Don’t worry if you are not a good writer. There’s ways to get around it.

And there really are only five basic steps which include; learning a strategy, effective email SUBJECT LINES, writing a simple AD (in many cases it just needs to be a couple of paragraphs), TRAFFIC, and FOLLOW-UP.

FOURTH; then choose your primary way you’re going to get traffic. Eventually you should think about secondary traffic forms. Diversify.

Remember, it’s better to be a master of one thing than to be a rookie at many things.

THE FIFTH; learn and do the basics of follow-up. In other words, after the sale you have the opportunity to follow-up your customers who usually will buy from you again.

This is something most new marketers are afraid to do; follow-up!

Why?

Followup is basically customer service. Like any other business, after the sale you have to satisfy customers for one reason or another.

Once you’ve gotten this under your belt and you are rolling forward, part of your follow up will be showing others exactly what you do. They will become part of your team because there success is your success also.

A BONUS TIP for you: when you’re looking for a mentor to follow; look for someone that models a marketing STRATEGY TO DUPLICATE that doesn’t require total dependency on their custom software from A through Z.

Why?

Because; many Gurus do this because it requires YOU to depend on THEM for your biz to function successfully.

The problem is, when they decide to move on and shut down there custom software it may mean you will lose months or years of hard earned work!

THE BOTTOM LINE; learn the BASICS and a MARKETING STRATEGY that does not solely depend on one specific Guru software.

If you are interested in an affiliate/email marketing program that scores an A+ with all of these tips, you can visit my #1 Business Opportunity For 2023 below.

I hope these pointers have answered the basic “how to’s” of how affiliate marketing works. If you have any questions feel free to ask any time at my ”contact page”.

Writing Killer Money-Making Subject Lines That Sell!

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Your Subject Line is the Money-Maker!

Writing Killer Money-Making

Subject Lines That Sell!

How much does the subject line make the sale?

How important is your subject line?

You’ve probably spent hours trying to write a good email message; while at the same time, spend very little time on your subject line.

You should spend more time on your subject line and less time on your message.

Read what Jim Edwards says:

“Don’t waste your time creating ads that sell… create ads that get the user to click, call or come into your store.

… Focus your attention on the quality of your hook / headline because that’s where 80% of your ad’s success comes from.”

However, don’t feel bad; most marketers make this mistake.

Another secret about email subject lines is that the “friendly subject lines” are the most powerful.

They get the best results!

It took me awhile to get that into my head.

I have an undergraduate degree in newspaper journalism and wrote for my college and small town newspapers.

Newspaper headlines are different than email subject lines. Newspaper headlines are less personal.

When writing your subject lines; write them like you’re sending it to a friend in an email.

That means, anyone should be able to write a good email subject line!

WHAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT GOAL OF YOUR SUBJECT LINE?

Its job is to get people to open your email.

If you fail to do that, the rest of your email is not even important anymore. It won’t be read anyway.

Think about it yourself.

How many emails have you opened because the subject line drew your curiosity, even when the message itself stunk? And you still clicked a link at the bottom of the message!

So, you will get better results in your email marketing with a good subject line and a bad e-mail than you will with a bad subject line and a good email message.

That’s because if you’re subject line sucks, your email is dead. It doesn’t matter. It’s not read anyway!

If this is all new to you; you might not think you can create your own compelling subject lines.

But if you’re serious about your online business, it’s time you break that barrier! As I said earlier, if you can send your friend an email, you can write a good subject line.

Plus; there are plenty of online helps.

One that I could recommend is “Inbox Economics” which includes a complete guide to writing killer subject lines.

Learn to use fill-in-the-blank templates to create dozens of subject lines to get the best open rates and CTRs.

You can also pick up some pointers from Awolacademy. Here they discuss the top five subject lines:

Number 1: “How to” Subject Lines

Number 2: Question subject lines…
Why do you never win?
Anything that’s asking a question immediately makes people open and read. We naturally want an answer to the questions. It makes us part of the conversation.

Number 3: urgency subject lines
People are more motivated by what they can lose rather than what they can gain.

Number 4: mystery subject lines
Example: This Unlikely Will Save My Career
Example: Very Bad Morning I Never Want Again

Number 5: Top X List subject lines
Example: Top Five Ways To Get More Leads
People love lists.

Below are extra tips to remember when creating your subject lines and emails:

1) The ultimate goal of your subject line and email is to get the click, NOT sell the offer. Get them to your sales page.
2) Need examples of headlines that work? Look at your own inbox and see which ones you open and which ones you don’t.
3) Write as if you’re emailing a friend. On that journey let people know who you are. It gives them a reason to read and many WILL because they have something in common with you.

The bottom line is: If you learn to write subject lines like you are talking to a close friend, you will have greater results than if you write excellent e-mail messages.

If you can write an email subject line to a friend, you can easily write a good one for your online business email.

How Should Affiliate Marketing be Done? 7 Questions to Ask Yourself!

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How Should Affiliate Marketing be Done?

7 Questions to Ask Yourself!


Here is a good way to evaluate your AFFILIATE MARKETING BUSINESS!

Although it’s one of the easiest ways to do an online biz, it’s also easy to shed a lot of tears, drop a lot of money and waste a lot of time!

It’s very vital that you start right!

Having been an officer in the army; when starting a new mission, our unit would sit down and have a planning session.

Each soldier would be assigned their mission responsibility.

A business is no different.

You start by analyzing your situation.

You could be armed to the T with every software, and tool available and your business be a total failure!

Why?

If you don’t know the EXACT mission, you’re doomed to fail.

Save yourself a lot of money, time and frustration by not skipping this exercise.

The online BUSINESS ARENA CAN BE VERY HYPNOTIC and ADDICTIVE.

Once you start, it’s hard to stop!

It has the same addictive power of gambling. It’s hard to stop even with negative results.

So, here are questions to answer before you ever start. Even if you have already started, it’s never too late.

This will be like your mission statement.

Always keep it in front of you.

Post it on a bulletin board where it can jog your memory.

Always post your mission statement on a bulletin board where it can jog your memory daily!

It will prevent you from drifting from your initial goal.

It means avoiding needless work.

Work that you don’t like to do, need to do, and likely won’t maintain anyway.

The following will help you determine if your biz will be successful or not!

AS YOU WRITE THINGS DOWN; it will reveal what your heart is willing to pursue.

Answer the questions as thoroughly as possible. The more thorough, the more revealing it will be.

1) how much of a budget do you have to start?

2) How much do you want to make(give details)?

3) How fast do you want to make it?

4) Evaluate your biz; does it match your goals?

5) how much time daily do you have for your biz?

6) Why are you doing this biz in the first place?

7) Can or should you do this alone or should you have a mentor or partner?

Answering these questions will get you started in the right direction and increase your chances for success considerably!

This will be your mission statement.  Post it where you can see it daily.

AFFILIATE/EMAIL MARKETING IS A GOOD WAY TO START for beginning online marketers. You don’t need your own product, it is an easy process to learn. It is the fundamentals of the business and it is flexible for your schedule.

If reading this blog was a help to you, please write a few words or a comment below. I would be thankful!

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