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5 Affiliate Mistakes to Avoid that
will
Increase Your Sales
Affiliate Marketing is one of the best ways to make money from home and
affiliate programs provide anyone with internet access a chance to make
a living on the internet. Affiliate programs are usually free or very
cheap to join, easy to get started and typically pay commissions on a
regular basis, so more and more people are turning to them as a means
to start a home based business. However, there are a few mistakes
affiliate marketers tend to make that hurts their business tremendously.
Avoiding some of these common mistakes made by affiliate marketers
should quickly and easily improve your chances of making sales and
increase your affiliate commissions. Here are five of the top mistakes
made by affiliate marketers:
1) Not researching the affiliate program before your start promoting
it
It really is amazing just how many affiliates grab the first affiliate
program that comes there way or signup simply because it has a high
commission rate or promote it just because every other marketer is
promoting it. If the program does not compliment the overall theme of
your site, you will find it difficult to convince your visitors and
subscribers to purchase the product. Why would they want it if it does
not have anything to do with the area you are targeting?
2) Not using your signature file correctly
Many affiliates add a signature file to all of their out-going email
messages and forum posts but they do not do it correctly. Twenty lines
of text full of affiliate links to a bunch of different products is not
considered a good signature file! In fact, it can very easily be
considered spam. Try keeping your signature file under five lines with
an attention grabbing or intriguing first line and overdo it on the
links.
3) Not writing your own ad copy
There's nothing worse than seeing the exact same advertisement all over
the internet or in email messages from ten different marketers. How
much perceived value will your message have when it arrives and the
reader is seeing it for the tenth time? Take the time to tweak the ad
to suit your target audience and subscribers before sending it out.
Personalize it to make the ad your own so it doesn't even seem like an
advertisement anymore.
4) Not paying for your own domain name and hosting account
Even novice internet users can tell a free hosted site when they see
one. It's very unprofessional and suggests to your visitors that you
haven't made any money online and probably don't know what you're
doing. If you haven't even taken the small step towards setting up your
business properly then how can your visitors trust you? Less than $10 a
year for a domain name at GoDaddy.com and maybe $5 per month for a
small hosting account won't break your bank account. In fact, it will
probably help to add to your account in the long run.
5) Not capturing your leads before you send them on to the affiliate
product site
If you spend your time and money marketing to get someone to click on
one of your affiliate links then they leave the product site without
purchasing, what have you gained? Nothing! You have just lost the time
and money it took to get that one click-through in the first place. Set
up a squeeze page so you can capture your lead's email address before
you send them on to the product site. That way if they don't buy you
can follow up with them later and try again (and again and again and
again). This can be priceless!
Now that you know these five affiliate mistakes to avoid you should be
able to make more sales and increase your affiliate commissions by a
significant amount. So get out there and become the super affiliate
marketer you always knew you could be!
About the author:
Trent Brownrigg is a successful affiliate marketer and home business
consultant. Achieve your work at home dreams
at http://www.work-at-home-jobs-iowa.com and he will personally
help you succeed.
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