Survival methods of an affiliate marketer

Posted in General on December 31st, 2008 by Ravi

Every affiliate marketer is always looking for the successful market that gives the biggest paycheck. Sometimes they think it is a magic weight loss pills formula that is readily available for them. Actually, it is more complicated than that. It is just good marketing practices that have been proven over years of hard work and dedication.

There are tactics that have worked before with online marketing and is continuing to work in the online affiliate marketing world of today. With these top three marketing tips, you will be able to able to increase your sales and survive in the affiliate marketing online.

What are these three tactics?

1. Using unique web pages to promote each separate product you are marketing. Do not lump all of it together just to save some money on web hosting. It is best to have a site focusing on each and every product and nothing more.

Always include product reviews on the website so visitors will have an initial understanding on what the product can do to those who buys them. Also include testimonials from users who have already tried the product. Be sure that these customers are more than willing to allow you to use their names and photos on the site of the specific product you are marketing.

You can also write articles highlighting the uses of the product and include them on the website as an additional page. Make the pages attractive compelling and include calls to act on the information. Each headline should attract the readers to try and read more, even contact you. Highlight your special points. This will help your readers to learn what the page is about and will want to find out more.

2. Offer free reports to your readers. If possible position them at the very top side of your page so it they simply cannot be missed. Try to create autoresponder messages that will be mailed to those who input their personal information into your sign up box. According to research, a sale is closed usually on the seventh contact with a prospect.

Only two things can possibly happen with the web page alone: closed sale or the prospect leaving the page and never return again. By placing useful information into their inboxes at certain specified period, you will remind them of the product they thought they want later and will find out that the sale is closed. Be sure that the content is directed toward specific reasons to buy the product. Do not make it sound like a sales pitch.

Focus on important points like how your product can make life and things easier and more enjoyable. Include compelling subject lines in the email. As much as possible, avoid using the word ?free? because there are still older spam filters that dumps those kind of contents into the junk before even anyone reading them first. Convince those who signed up for your free reports that they will be missing something big if they do not avail of your products and services.

3. Get the kind of traffic that is targeted to your product. Just think, if the person who visited your website has no interest whatsoever in what you are offering, they will be among those who move on and never come back. Write articles for publication in e-zines and e-reports. This way you can locate publications that is focusing on your target customers and what you have put up might just grab their interest.

Try to write a minimum of 2 articles per week, with at least 300-600 words in length. By continuously writing and maintaining these articles you can generate as many as 100 targeted readers to your site in a day.

Always remember that only 1 out of 100 people are likely to buy your product or get your services. If you can generate as much as 1,000 targeted hits for your website in a day, that means you can made 10 sales based on the average statistic.

The tactics given above does not really sound very difficult to do, if you think about it. It just requires a little time and an action plan on your part.

Try to use these tips for several affiliate marketing programs. You can end maintaining a good source of income and surviving in this business that not all marketers can do.

Besides, think of the huge paychecks you will be receiving?

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The Mistress of Spices

Posted in General on October 3rd, 2008 by Ravi

Today India might have become a technical country wiht a lot of software companies blossoming here and there, and with its loads of call centers and with people having their neutral english accents with which they can talk to people in any english speaking country. But it is not to be forgotten that India is a land of traditions, mysteries and magic. The mistress of spices is one such book, and it has been made into a movie about 2 years ago which I watched last night.

Tilo, one mistress of spice trained by a Mother in India, obviously in Kerala, is sent to a Store in San Fransisco. She has magical powers, can hear to the spices talk and knows what her clients want. She makes people forget the painful pasts, have passionate nights, get relief from tension and finally falls in love with an American though the red chillies warn her that she is in trouble.

The Mother had told her and her fellow mistresses that they should never use the spices for themselves, must never leave the store so that the spices always surround them, and they should not touch another’s skin, and that if they fall for their own desires, the spices will stop talking to them. She picks the spices usually not with her knowledge, but by listening to the spices. The spices tell her whats right for the client in the counter. So when this american touches tilo the spices stop talking to her and she gets into trouble not being able to give her clietns the right kind of spices to save them from trouble. A bus for sale keeps backfiring outside the street once in a while. Do buses backfire in the US? Never seen a bus backfire in India all these years.

Finally she decides the use the spice for once for herself, dresses beautifully, and gets into bed with the american guy. Well, earlier she used to look homely and it made her look really beautiful through out the movie, and her new outlook in the end just made her look like a whore. After the bedding, she comes back to her store and sets herself on fire, and the fire decided that she will not leave the spices and can continue dating that man and continue to be the mistress of spices.

Moral of the story? Bullshit. The author has just wanted to increase the sales of the spices. I have been in India for 27 years now and I have not heard a thing about the magical powers of spices, and having eaten quite a lot of them, I have not really experienced any magical power either.

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