Free Affiliate marketing secrets to grow a huge income
Part I
by Christopher Kyalo
Published on this site: August 16th, 2005 - See
more articles from this month
There are many sites on the web that have grown really big
without spending a single dime on advertising. And while I
have nothing against pay-per-click advertising (it is actually
very effective) my advice is that there is plenty you can
do for free before you start spending money.
Besides it is much harder promoting a site you have just
started than it is to ride on the success of other better
known sites by getting involved in an affiliate program.
The secret of successful affiliate marketing starts with
your choice of an affiliate program. Choose something that
is close to your heart. If your main hobby is gardening, then
specifically look for a site related to gardening. There are
several key advantages in this, the first being that you have
the advantage of knowing exactly where to find your clients.
There was a time I was introduced to a content-writer's website
and within a week I had signed up over 60 new affiliates under
me. It was all because I knew exactly where freelance writers
hang out on the web and what they are looking for. Some little
creativity did the rest. Remember that whenever you want to
get other people to do something you need to think like them
and know how to give them what they want or are looking for,
even as you get what you want. A few articles here and there
and a single classified ad brought me instant traffic and
instant affiliates signing up under me. Actually this is one
of the huge advantages of most good affiliate programs - the
fact that you earn a commission from other people's efforts
even as you continue with your own efforts. That is how to
take full advantage of the networking power of the net.
The way to approach your affiliate marketing strategy is
to divide your marketing tools and methods into three.
- Short term methods
- Medium term methods
- Long term methods
Before I deal with each of the three separately let me just
emphasize why all three are important. You need short term
marketing methods to bring in the initial service and to give
you an idea of what the response rate is going to be. For
example I joined an affiliate program selling a very effective
book that can help anybody make a huge success of selling at Ebay. My short term
strategy for selling this book was to use articles submitted
daily to different article and ezine directories. I got my
first sale when less than 50 visitors had visited the site.
But my excitement dampened when I received more that 120 visitors
without making a second sale. In the end I discovered that
I required about 180 hits to make a sale.
Although I was disappointed, this information was invaluable
to me, because all I needed to do now was find a way of getting
180 hits per day to make at least one sale every day. That
is what short term methods are supposed to do for you. The
methods you come up with to reach your targets are the medium
term methods. Continuous submission of articles loaded with
your links and the setting up of a blog or two specifically
to market your affiliate program are my favorite and most
effective medium term methods.
Your long term method or marketing tools, should explode
the traffic to your affiliate program. But this is unlikely
to happen overnight. To read about my favorite long term tool
capable of giving your affiliate program site or blog promoting
your affiliate site 1,000,000 visitors a day read my excellent
article available at this link:
http://big-online-story.blogspot.com/2005/05/web-traffic-secret-
guaranteed-to-give.html
In the Part II of this article I discuss the 3 free marketing
strategies you can use to earn a huge affiliate income. Meanwhile
you can register at the site recommended in my article at
the above link and get your long term marketing moving.
Christopher Kyalo has made money online using free
articles as his only marketing method. Visit his blog for
more details at;
http://big-online-story.blogspot.com He can be reached
at [email protected]
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