Five Tips To Make Your Joint Venture Commissions Soar Overnight.


by Nick Thorne - Date: 2007-03-26 - Word Count: 1092 Share This!

One of the easiest ways of starting an on-line business and earning money is Affiliate marketing. There isn't even a need to have your own website, if you don't want to. You don't have to deal with customers, their refunds, or embark on product development and maintenance, if you don't want to. All you need is to seek out some quality providers that offer affiliate programmes and to sign up to them. So, let us assume that you have done this and are already in an joint venture programme or two or more, what would be the next thing that you would want to do? Double, or even triple, your commissions, perhaps? Good thinking, but how are you going to do that?

A few hours research of the marketing literature I have in my house and I found the following powerful tips on how to turbo-charge your affiliate program commissions overnight.

1. Find the very best JVs to promote.

You most definitely want to spend your energy promoting a product that will enable you to achieve the bigest profit for yourself in the shortest length of time.

To this end, choose those that offer a generous commission structure and have products that match your own particular target audience. The vendor must also have an enviably solid track record for paying their affiliates on a timely basis and in as easy a manner as possible. If you find you have chosen a poor affiliate programme then simply dump it and go on looking for a superior one.

There are loads of affiliate programmes out there which gives you the ability to be as picky as you chose. You need not waste your advertising spend on the hopeless cases. Find a better one.

2. Authoring free reports or short E-Books to distribute from your website.

There is every likelihood that you be competing with other affiliates that are promoting the same programme as you. By writing unique short reports, related to the product you are promoting, you will soon distinguish yourself from all the other affiliates.

It works best if the report provides the reader with valuable information for free. If possible, you should try to add some recommendations about the products in the report. With E-Books, you build up some credibility. Customers will come to see that in you is a trusted source and they may well be persuaded to try out whatever it is you are offering as an affiliate.

3. Gather email addresses with a squeeze page.

Research shows that people do not often make a purchase on the first visit to a website. So, therefore, a sensible route to take is to send out your message at least six times. You should sign up for an auto-responder to make this easier.

Because it can take six or more messages to make a sale, is the reason why I recommend you should collect the contact information of those who downloaded your reports and E-Books before they go of your site. By doing this you are then in a position to email follow-up messages to your list to remind them of the benefits that they were interested in and to, hopefully, encourage them to make a purchase from you.

I can't emphasise this enough; you must try to get the contact information of a prospect before you send them to the vendor's website. As an affiliate you are providing free advertisement for the product owners and you will only get paid once you make a sale. If you send prospects directly to the vendors, then the chances are that your customer has been lost to you forever as they may not buy on the first visit!

Get their names, however, and then you are able to send them other marketing messages. This enables you to, at least, try to earn a sale on another day. A squeeze page will do this for you. On it is a box for the customer to put their name and email into, once they have done this they get sent to the vendor's website. You may need some sort of incentive to get them to do this. How about a free report?
For an example of a squeeze page such see my website from the resources box below.

In tip 2, above, I touched on the idea of publishing an on-line newsletter or E-zine and sending it to the names you have added to your list. By doing this you can gradually build up a relationship with your customer based on trust. Think of it as pre-selling to them. By giving them useful information, for free, they begin to drop their guard. I am sure that you can understand that it is only natural to be wary of someone that is a stranger. Marketing has always recognised that it is very much easier to recommend a product to someone you know, than to sell to someone you don't.

In publishing your newsletter, be sure to tread a delicate line between providing useful information for free and a sales pitch for products that you want to introduce your list to. By providing good informative editorials, however, you should soon be able to build the trust of your readers; so much so that it may lead eventually to them buying your affiliate products from you.

4. Negotiate higher than normal commission from merchants.

When you find you are successful with a particular promotion, then approach the merchant and see if you can negotiate a higher percentage commission for your sales.

A smart merchant, who values your sales, will probably grant your request rather than lose the valuable asset they have in you. Just keep in mind that you are a zero-risk investment to them. Don't be shy about requesting a reasonable rise in your commission. And I did say reasonable! Don't be stupid and alienate the vendor.

5.Write strong pay Per Click ads.

PPC search engines are the most effective means of advertising on-line. As an affiliate, you can make a small income just by managing PPC campaigns such as Google AdWords™ and Yahoo!™. Once up and running, you should monitor to see which ads are more effective and which ones you need to discard.

Try out these strategies and see the difference it can make to your commission cheques. Affiliate Marketing or Joint Ventures are a great way to make money on the Internet. I have recently found a helpful master class in Joint Venture marketing in the Joint Venture Secrets DVD package from Power-Tech associates and have written a free review of it for my website.

Related Tags: affiliates, affiliate marketing, joint ventures, jvs, on line marketing, power tech associates

Nick Thorne is a member of the Chartered Institute of Markerting. He has authored ebooks on marketing and has published a Free review of the Joint Venture Secrets DVD package availble from:www.reviewjointventuresecrets.com/

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