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by: Ken Hill
Promoting affiliate programs can provide you with a good extra
income or even a full time income online.
To help you maximize your profit promoting affiliate programs, I've
provided the following tips to help you successfully market your
affiliate programs more effectively to your site's visitors.
1. Publish an e-zine.
Running an e-zine will allow you to run prime position ads for your
affiliate programs in every issue you publish, and is the #1 way for
you to follow up with your site's visitors.
You can also easily increase your commissions by sending out special
announcements to your subscriber base whenever one of the affiliate
programs you promote is offering a special bonus or a special
limited time offer.
Once you build up your circulation you can further increase your
profits by charging for ad space in your publication.
2. Use a pop up on your site that promotes your e-zine.
Using a pop up as a well as a subscription e-mail or form on your
site can substantially increase the number of your visitors that
subscribe to your publication.
Your pop up will draw your visitors' attention right to your e-zine,
and if you offer your visitors free bonuses for subscribing to your
e-zine such as free ebooks or free ads you can further increase the
number of visitors who subscribe to your publication.
3. Offer free e-mail workshops (e-mail courses) to your visitors.
Making e-mail workshops will enable you to effectively promote one
or several affiliate programs that offer products that relate to the
subject of your workshop.
Many affiliate programs provide their affiliates with articles to
post on their sites or run in their e-zines which you can use to
successfully form the different parts of your workshop.
If you already write articles, you can easily use your own articles
to form the different parts of your workshop and transform your
articles into yet another powerful marketing tool.
To get the most out of your e-mail workshops, offer your workshops
both on your site and by using a pop up, and use your workshops to
increase subscriptions to your e-zine as well as repeat visitors
your website.
4. Publish your articles on your site.
Posting your articles on your site is a great way to continually add
content to your site and draw more repeat visitors.
To successfully use your articles to promote affiliate programs
offer a free e-mail workshop in your resource box or use your
resource box to promote your e-zine.
This will provide you with an effective way to successfully follow
up with your prospects when your articles get published as well as
when your visitors read your articles.
5. Offer free ebooks on your site.
Many affiliate programs provide their affiliates with ebooks they
can rebrand with their unique affiliate URL and these can be used as
an effective marketing tool.
The best way to promote your affiliate programs with ebooks,
however, is to make your own ebooks.
If you write your own articles, you can create a unique promotional
item by making an ebook compilation of your articles with links to
affiliate programs you promote.
You can also create a best of compilation of your e-zine's top
issues to drive more subscriptions to your publication or if you
make e-mail workshops you can transform these into your ebooks
content.
To further increase your profits, offer your ebooks as a free bonus
or part of a free bonus for subscribing to your e-zine, and/or allow
your visitors to rebrand your ebook with a link to their own
business, affiliate program or opportunity.
About the Author
Article © 2002 by writer, Ken Hill. Discover proven strategies to
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