All About Affiliate Marketing
July 9, 2009 by Danny Hansen
Filed under Affiliate Marketing
When you first start out in affiliate marketing, the website traffic and sales just aren’t up to par. If you’re spending your time trying to promote digital products like e Books, you’ll end up with a lower monthly income due to the lower cost in these products.
Go and search in the net and see different prices. Each of them usually ranges from $10 to 100. if you are getting a 20% commission, you will probably make a $20 sale. If you have a plan to have a good weekly income, you must sell at least from 25 to 50. You will not have that if you have a new website and the traffic is low.
On the flip side of things, you could be an experienced affiliate marketer making all kinds of money on low cost products. One of the biggest reasons is because you already have a following or know how to promote properly for maximum profits. The only things you have to do is come up with a hot product and watch the sales start rolling in one by one. It’s a big difference if you’re getting 100 sales a month instead of 5-20.If you can consider yourself a small affiliate marketer, you should pass on the low priced products.
The technique is to find as many hot products with good commission rates as you want. You can do the math for your self after that, but you have $500 and making 10 sales a month; there is an additional $1000 extra on a 20% commission. Just remember that you need more effort to sell a high priced product
There are many ways to do this but to start with, you may want to send free reports, newsletters and other similar methods. When you do this, you should make our text suggestive so that your clients will move to the next step. However, you don’t need to sound like a sales pitch here, or else your clients will go. To do this, you may want to put an auto responder in setting up your free gift. In this way you will develop certain rapport to your clients. Once you have a healthy number of clients, you can start your ad campaign.
Studies have shown that doing these methods increase the number of traffic in a website. Also you want to have discounts to make your costumers feel that you are helping them. This will result to more traffic and money. Most merchants don’t offer a money back guarantee because their product has a low price; you must see the big picture here. That is one reason why you will have low sales.
But along the way you will encounter low priced products that offer special services. These are the type of products you want to rake advantage of. Sell them with other higher priced products.
Conclusion, What it comes down to is when you first start out; selling low priced products isn’t a wise business decision. The idea is to make as much money as you can and having it come from all different directions. So if you find a few hot products that are cheap, add them to your site. When they’re blended in with higher priced products, your potential prospects will have a choice, which is always a good thing. In the end you’ll find yourself with more sales and more money.
