Category: Affiliate Marketing

The anatomy of a sale has not changed over the hundreds of years that we as humans have been selling to one another. First there is the offer, and then there is the counter offer, the exchange of money and the delivery of the product or service, affectionately known as “the close.”

If only it was that simple, right? The problem is that normally a person will never take the first offer and as such most sales people give up and don’t know the anatomy of a sale. When each step in the sales process is handled correctly, the close is the natural conclusion to a successfully followed sales process. If research tells us anything it is that: “You Can Not Take “NO” For an Answer!”

In the anatomy of a sale, most internet marketers or sales people have the following disposition;

* 48% of them will quit after the 1st contact where the buyer says NO.

* 73% will quit after the 2nd contact.

* 85% will quit after the 3rd contact.

* 90% will quit after the 4th contact.

Because of these startling numbers is it no wonder why over 80% of the sales will go to only 10% of the marketers who refuse to take No for an answer. Now obviously in today’s internet marketing world it would be impossible for you to maintain contact with so many people over such a long period of time. That is the reason that we discussed the power of auto responders in our prior newsletter. The auto responder will handle this process for you almost guaranteeing that you will have a sale in the future.

So when you are setting up your email campaign, you want to automatically plan to send out no less than 3 emails where you do nothing but provide the reader with good, valuable, and viable information. By looking at the chart above, you will note that you have already bypassed over 85% of your competition. If you remember correctly we made a recommendation that you do not make a product recommendation except for every 3 to 6 months, now you know why; it puts you ahead of the power curve.

Remember ultimately that your objective is to get people to click through your affiliate link to get them to buy a product or service. How you go about doing that is totally up to you. I would recommend that you do some further research into the art of the sale and how to do the soft sell. The most powerful tool in your tool box is the auto responder. Make sure that you use it.

An interesting corollary statistic that coincides with the above chart is that:

* Only 2% to 3% of the people will buy at the first to second sales contact.

* Only 3% to 5% of the people will buy at the third to fourth sales contact.

* Only 6% to 8% of the people will buy at the fifth to sixth sales contact.

* Only 8% to 10% of the people will buy at the seventh sales contact.

* Over 80% of the people buy when at or over the 8th sales contact.

So again, maintaining a good relationship with your readers is critical. Also critical is that when you do make a product offer you should plan on making that offer no less that eight times. How you do that is totally up to you. I would recommend that you push the soft sale with your post script for the first four to six contacts. Then really make an offer/product recommendation for the seventh, eighth, and ninth contacts and then a final email for that particular campaign thanking all recipient’s that decided to buy with some testimonials thrown into the mix on how much success they are having and a sorry you missed the opportunity to those that decided not to buy. That way the next time you make a product offer those that waited the last time might be more prone to act the second time around.

To your success in all you do

E. Alan Cowgill

PS. Go online and research some of those mini-sites that we talked about that are referred to as “long sales copy” so that you can get some ideas about the proper flow of a sales offer and get some ideas you can implement into your sales process.

Affiliate marketing is a method of making money online that continues to offer opportunities. An affiliate program is an arrangement where affiliates are used to bring traffic to a website. When someone clicks on an advertisement or link on the affiliate’s website and makes a purchase from the advertiser, the affiliate is compensated with a commission.

Affiliate marketing is a form of online marketing that is sometimes overlooked, but has the potential for enormous success. Affiliate marketing can be very successful, as in the case of Amazon.com. Although they did not invent the concept, Amazon has used this method to provide excellent results for the company and their affiliates. The Amazon program has been used as a model for many affiliate programs.

The affiliate marketing model of online marketing is used by a wide range of businesses, from large ecommerce sites interested in brining more traffic to their websites to smaller businesses and bloggers using affiliate marketing to monetize their blogs. When the ads are relevant to the affiliate’s website, they are able to achieve the best results.

Affiliate Marketing provides benefits to both the publisher and the advertiser. For the advertiser, this method is a cost effective advertising solution. The advertiser only pays the affiliate when a visitor to the site makes a purchase, so you aren’t paying for ads that may not bring results. This method is great for controlling advertising costs and only paying for results and advertisers often experience an increase in overall sales for relatively little investment.

The arrangement also benefits the publisher, or the affiliate. The affiliate is able to generate an additional revenue stream simply by directing traffic to the advertiser’s website. The affiliate has the potential to generate significant income when they advertise for products or services that are related to their niche because the affiliate is then able to provide targeted traffic to the advertiser, which results in more sales, and more commissions for the affiliate.

Affiliate marketing is relatively easy to maintain and manage with the right online tools. The publisher, or affiliate, places a banner ad on their website that links to the advertiser’s website. When someone clicks on a banner on an affiliate’s website and then makes a purchase from the advertiser, the affiliate gets a commission for that sale.

Depending on the program, affiliate marketing provides a fixed amount of money for each action or purchase or a commission that is based on the percentage of the sale. In either case, the commission is only paid after the visitor clicks through to the website and makes a purchase.

Media Trust offers an effective affiliate marketing program that connects advertisers with publishers. Our service is popular with advertisers and publishers. Advertisers are able to control costs and the pay for performance model means there is no expense unless there are measurable results. Visit our website to learn more about Media Trust’s services.

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Being a newbie to affiliate marketing your probably asking yourself how to promote ClickBank products without a website. Well let me tell you that it’s not as difficult as numerous make it out to be! I realize that many will tell you that you need a website, well let me tell you that you don’t need one unless you would like to have one.

Why don’t we go through how to promote ClickBank products without a website…

#1: Writing Articles – Content creation is great and incredibly powerful, when creating any articles or blog posts you basically need to write as natural as possible, be yourself. Be able to write as if you were talking to a friend.

Quick Word of advice: You will not need to come as if you are trying to sell to these individuals. That’s exactly what the sales page is made for. People do not like to feel as if they are being sold to.

#2: Web 2 .0. Sites such as Squidoo, Wetpaint, Blogger are excellent to use when attempting to promote ClickBank products without a website. Many of these web 2.0 sites will let you connect directly to the actual offer you are advertising, which can be very useful.

#3: Yahoo Answers – Yahoo Answers is a very powerful technique because you have many individuals who are posting these questions and are trying to find a solution to their problems, so that is where you come in and provide a small response to their issue.

Reminder: When doing everything mentioned above you will want to make sure that your affiliate links are inserted as well as working correctly.

Now do you think that you are required to have a website in order to promote ClickBank products? I believe we both know the answer to that now!

I encourage that you use these tips on how to promote ClickBank products without a website and if you’re interested in more information on how to use ClickBank, why not read these guidelines that may help you on how to use ClickBank to make money.

Amidst the ailing struggle of attaining success in affiliate marketing, you might as well quit and just leave, with the thought that it will only remain a dream. In fact, you may be one of those individuals who gave it try but eventually give up because they completely failed. I think its really time to ponder, if this is the right moment to surrender your dreams to succeed in this endeavor. But have you decided to just throw what you have started? Maybe, you have forgotten the important links that may lead you to a more fulfilling affiliate marketing career.

Primarily, success in affiliate marketing involves an integral action to establish a good and thriving niche, where you desire to work and connect with. A little research might help you decide on an effective niche, which could provide an exceptional venue in generating a substantial amount of income. Moreover, effort, time and money will not be wasted if you have a great interest on the niche you are working with. In such case, any task can be handled and managed easily. On top of that, market size, niche saturation and niche competitive advantage are some of the aspects you need to consider in finding a good niche. Appropriate Internet marketing tools could perhaps help you in this kind of undertaking.

Another excellent source of obtaining success in affiliate marketing is having a desirable website. Indeed, you need to make it more creative and unique to leave a distinguishable impression on numerous web visitors. Perhaps, this could be the best way which keep them on coming back to sign up with various affiliate programs that you are actually promoting. Indeed, this is a subtle way of advertising your affiliate programs that would make you earn money with little effort at all.

Nowadays, updated and high quality content has become a valuable part of affiliate marketing. Web visitors would definitely be convinced and encouraged to visit your site from time to time, which could be an effective manner of promoting affiliate programs on your website. Generating a lot of good traffic is among the critical factors to be considered in this venture, for it is an effective way of enjoying tons of money instantly. In addition, article marketing strategies could be one of the exceptional ways of producing online sales.

Likewise, it is important to remember that Search Engine Optimization or popularly known as SEO are integral in determining the status of your website in the search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN and alike. A top ranking website would mean success and a better online career ahead.

I was very surprised when the Master Blog Profits subscribers voted Bloggers Paycheck their number one choice as best overall blogging guide for making money. Bloggers Paycheck is by no means the most well known guide out on the market today so what makes John Yeo’s guide the best?

The answer quite simply is that this is perhaps the most down to earth yet detailed guide on how to turn your blogsite into one that generates multiple streams of income. John Yeo’s story is one that we can all relate to. John is a newly-web social worker from Singapore, who helps kids find hope and happiness in their lives. He also blogged part time. What happened is that John learnt specific steps that anyone can take to turn their passion into money.

One of the reasons we love Bloggers Paycheck so much is that fundamentally John holds the same philisophy that we do, find out your passions, blog and write about those and success will follow. You just need to learn some basic and key concepts around driving traffic to your blog and the correct way to monetize.

John’s own blog was specifically about his planning for his wedding day. You can visit John’s blog that started it all at: www.romance-fire.com. As you can see he has a lot of information, has a specific niche, advertising income and updates regularly, he truly has a passion and he has been well rewarded.

The Bloggers Paycheck consists of five (5) comprehensive volumes that will teach you set-by-step the methods that John has followed to make $1,000’s. The great aspect of having these five volumes is that if you are already confident in one area you can just simpy jump into the aspect that is going to give you the best return.

The Five Volumes are:

Volume 1 – Foundation and Setting Up Volume 2- Traffic Mastery Volume 3 – Maketing Online Volume 4 – Profit and Monetixation Models Volume 5 – 6 Figures Earner’s Mindset

At the moment John is even offering for a limited time a free offer for instant access to The Secretbloggers Cheatsheet that shows you how to start making money online from scratch.

Bloggers paycheck is very much a ‘take action’ kind of ebook, through the examples and many pictures John Yeo takes you on a journey to ensure that you have all the information to get start quickly making money.

The key again for us is that John takes the time to go through the importance of picking the right niche for you as a person and is not just about making money. In fact even if you have zero plans on making money and just want to look at ways you can improve you blog then you will get a lot from Bloggers Paycheck.

Thank you to John Yeo for a great guide.