The beginning internet marketer faces fierce competition especially in the category of affiliate marketing. The reason for this is that the one essential element for a successful affiliate marketing campaign is a LIST. Without a list, you cannot do email marketing which is a powerful tool used by all the successful internet gurus who have massive lists.This of course puts the beginner affiliate at a disadvantage and the only way he can start an advertising campaign is with paid advertising which can be quite expensive. Driving traffic to the affiliate s website or blog is easier said then done. There are in fact many online courses (not free) which market to this need. Ranking high on any search engine can take years of hard work writing articles, listing on directories, doing social marketing and on and on.
The most important thing for a beginning affiliate marketer is to choose a hot product that is selling like mad. One way to do this is to join Clickbank (free) and go to their marketplace once you have chosen a category. There you will find a huge number of online downloadable info products and their rating using a system called gravity which is a number (the higher the better) determined by the volume of sales generated by the vendor website as well as the number of conversions resulting in a sale. Try to pick a hot selling product with a high gravity (above 80) that has an affiliate system which pays a decent commission on sales made by referral through your promotional site.
Finding the right product to promote will still need a large volume of traffic driven to your site especially if you do not have a mailing list. So be sure to start building your list by offering a free item (usually a downloadable e book) as an incentive for the visitor to opt in by submitting his name and email address in an opt in box on your landing page. You must have a free offer to get people to opt in and you can only build your list using the opt in approach. While this can be done without any cost you will need to subscribe to an autoresponder service which usually runs twenty dollars a month. As your list grows, the use of an autoresponder is essential; large promotional e mailings can be generated to the entire list by the click of a key or press of a button.
Patience must be practiced when building a list and driving traffic to your protomotional website. SEO (search engine optimization) will help to gain a higher ranking and of course there a courses (not free) online to learn SEO techniques. Joining a social network or forum online is also a good idea when trying to drive traffic to your site. This can be very time consuming especially when writing articles such as this one and submitting them to article directories. Be careful not to mention by name any commercial product in the article as this will get you rejected.
It is only about 5 of internet marketers starting off that do succeed in creating a recurring viable income allowing them to live the coveted internet lifesyle . If you find that your progress is slow or non existent personal one on one coaching may give you a boost but there are no guarantees in this endeavor. You will only know if a coaching program is making a difference by trying it out and some of these programs are very expensive, in the ten thousand dollar level and up.
So if you do try a coaching program make sure that you have the freedom to pursue assignments without a time constraint such as a full time job.
Author Resource:
I have launched a blogsite reviewing some of the best online teaching programs and marketing systems on the internet. It is called Profitable Ventures and can be found at http://profitableventures.blogspot.com . Please feel free to visit my blog and read the weekly posts. I post once a week on one money-making website with a direct link to the vendor's website in each post. You are invited to my blogsite at any time.
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