2013-01-02

What is the biggest affiliate marketer’s dream? It is simple. The biggest dream for affiliate marketers is consistent sales. If you’ve been doing affiliate marketing for a long time, there will be days when you have many sales and days when you have no sales at all. Surely, you want to make sales every day, right? Let me tell you one thing. It is possible for you to make sales every day, like clockwork. There are many people doing that. You just need to make sure that you’re doing your affiliate marketing promotion according to correct affiliate marketing principles. Here are 5 principles to generate affiliate sales like clockwork: Target buying audience Suppose that you really want to lose weight because you want to look better in the next 2 months, at your wedding day. When you’re browsing the internet to find information about how to lose weight, do you think that you’re just trying to read some articles without buying any real solution for your problem? Of course, since you’re pressured by the deadline of your wedding day, you want to actually find a good solution for your weight problem. Now, imagine that you find a website telling you that it is possible for you to lose weight within 2 months. Do you want to follow the recommendation laid down in that website? Most of the time, you will. This illustrates the importance of targeting buying audience in your affiliate promotion. It will ensure consistent sales for your promotion because you’re targeting people who are ready to buy your affiliate product. Focus on promotion based on reviews Why do you need to incorporate product review in your affiliate promotion? That’s because it is the most effective way to tell your audience about the effectiveness of your affiliate product in helping them to solve their problem. If you’re just putting some banners on your landing page and expect people to click that banner and then buy the product, then you will likely see your expectation go wrong. Why? That’s because people don’t simply click a banner and then buy the product offered on the merchant’s sales page. You need to write a review because you want them to know beforehand about the product that can help them to solve their problem. You have to let your audience know why the product is good for them and why they should try it. In this way, you’re opening their minds before they arrive at the merchant’s sales page. It will greatly increase your conversion rate. Pull traffic from strategic places The next principle that you need to pay attention is the way you drive traffic to your landing page. If you want to generate consistent sales from your traffic, you have to go to the place where your audience will likely get together. For example, they might try to form some discussions in the forums, or they may try to find some information on YouTube. You need to know the place where...

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