Jodi Reichenberger
"When you're ready to stop fooling around, here's how to get the cash flowing...for good."
Affiliate programs are the number one most popular way to market on the Internet. There are thousands of
affiliate and reseller programs covering everything from books to baseball bats.
I make a better skateboard, you put my banner on your site, and if someone buys a skateboard after coming
through your link, I pay you 25 percent of the selling price. Killer idea, right?
That one sale won't be enough money to pay the mortgage or even enough to take your kid to the
movies. And to make matters worse, how many of your site's visitors are going to buy my skateboard?
Once you get past the first bit of your excitement over affiliate programs, the sparkle starts to fade.
You quickly see if you make any money at all, it's going to be mere pocket change.
This is one of the reasons affiliate programs have started getting a bad name. Small site owners
feel they can't make serious money with them and affiliate program owners can't get members
motivated to push the program.
STOP FOOLING AROUND
I don't' mean to insult anyone. But let me force you and myself to face a cold fact. Putting an affiliate
banner at the bottom of your web page--crammed in there with four or five other affiliate banners--isn't
going to sell anything.
Lots of sites approach the affiliate problem by making themselves a one-stop-shop for loads of links to
other sites. This doesn't work very well either. People come to the Web to find sites that
SPECIALIZE in something particular. They rarely buy from a site trying to be a jack of all trades.
THE SOLUTION
Get yourself a web site that specializes in one particular subject. The narrower the better. If I'm
hunting all over the Net for a site that tells me how to get ollie and has links to all the local skate
parks, I jump for joy when I find your site with all that information.
You could have a photo of you holding your kewl new element or shorty completie board and leaning against
your half pipe. You could have articles by you and other experts that tell step-by-step how to land the same
way Brandon Turner does EVERY SINGLE TIME.....
And incidentally, you could feature the related products sold by Oshman's(affiliate program)
and more in-depth personal lessons from Oshman's(affiliate program).
What did you just do here? Realizing you don't have a weird uncle living in the basement who invents
the hot new product everyone wants, and knowing you don't currently provide a service lots of
businesses need, you built a fine site around one or two products someone else makes.
GET YOUR IN-DEPTH, SPECIALIZED, VISITOR-EXCITING SITE
1. Start by thinking about what REALLY punches your
buttons. You can't build an in-depth site unless
you LOVE the subject you're focusing on. Don't
think about this for months, days, or even for a
couple of hours. Whatever hits you dead on as you
read this is probably the one thing you can make fly.
2. Search for an affiliate program or two that sells
a core product or service related to your
interest. Most of the time you can simply use
search engines to find sites that also focus on
your topic. Nine times out of ten several of them
will offer affiliate programs.
3. Get your own domain name. Have your main topic as part of
the name. I love to go to BitShack.com at this
stage. You get a domain and hosting for a year
for about $50. You may be able to find somebody
else who does it cheaper.
4. A site that looks like your very first won't cut
it. You need to have the appearance of an old
hand. Do this by getting a professionally
designed logo. If you have a sharp looking logo
at the top of the page, the rest of it can be plain text.
I found the guys at GotLogos.com via an affiliate
link. They designed a half dozen logos for us,
all for just $25 each. You can't get the
"pro" look any cheaper.
5. Get a professional writer to create the first 300
words of your web site. Start at
InternetWriters.com where they'll craft text that
gets your visitors' juices flowing. They write
cheap. Once people get excited on your first 300
words, it isn't' hard to keep them on your site
until they have read everything else you have to offer.
6. Promote, promote, promote. Put your good advice
(which you can borrow from books at the
library--it's called research) on discussion
forums. Place ads in email newsletters. Send your
own press release to the media every month. Call
your local talk radio station and see if they
have 5 minutes to speak with you on-air. Provide
advice their listeners can use.
Finally, I want you to chuckle, sneer, and laugh MOST
assuredly when the media starts up about how the Internet is
having a hard time. Good! That's great news for
you. With so many big corporate sites running out
of money and so many little sites getting spooked
out of existence, there has never been a better
time for YOU to make YOUR mark online.
DREAM IT....... BELIEVE IT....... DO IT!
Jodi Reichenberger of JDA Publishing and owner/creator of the
Web Builder Letters,
is a 6 year veteran of website design and internet marketing. She is an active website designer and writer.
Visit http://www.JDAPublishing.com
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