Affiliate Marketing Basics: Lets Talk About Traffic

When youre just getting starting in Affiliate Marketing, one of the most important things you need to learn about is traffic  specifically what it is and how to get it.

Why?

Because although its become somewhat of a cliche these days, the truth is, the money is in the list  but that means YOUR list, not the list of the people whose products youre selling  at least not if you want to be successful.

Heres why. As an affiliate, your job is to find people who want to buy the products youre promoting, right? So to do that, you need to write an ad (or hire a copywriter to write it for you), and send people to a Website where they can buy the product.

BUT  theres a serious problem with using this method. Do you see what it is?

Anywhere from 60 to 95% of the people you send to the sales page probably arent going to buy the first time.

1. Most people want to be certain that theyre making the right decision, so they usually need to see or hear from you between 5 to 12 times before making a buying decision.

2. If youre paying for the ad and sending people to the sellers Website, the ones who dont buy disappear forever. (And neither you nor the seller will benefit.)

3. Of those who do buy, if youre only sending them to the sales page, YOU still lose them forever because you have no way of knowing who they are.

Heres the solution:

1. Write your ad and send prospects to a well-written squeeze page  YOUR squeeze page. (A squeeze page is a single page Website that has one purpose  to convince prospects to give you their contact information. Squeeze pages should be simple  no flash, no links, and if you use a graphic or photo, keep it simple and make sure it relates to the purpose of the page. How do you convince prospects to give you their contact information? By giving them information that is what theyre expecting to find and thats useful to them.)

2. Offer them an incentive to give you their contact information. (This could be a free report, a free newsletter, an audio or video product  just make sure its related to the niche or affiliate product.)

3. After theyve opted in to your autoresponder, send them to your affiliate sales page.

4. Follow up with them on a regular basis  mixing good information, free bonuses from time to time and additional affiliate products.

Lather, rinse, repeat. (Once youre making money from your first affiliate product, move on to the next and then the next and the next.)

The best thing about this is that you can set most of it up on your autoresponder, so you turn it into a system and it runs almost on autopilot. (There is NO SUCH THING as a business that runs 100% on autopilot  and dont believe anyone who tells you differently.) Any business  real business  takes work and effort. But by setting this system up this way, your autoresponder does the majority of the work, and you will only need to do simple updates and make sure you keep fresh information flowing.

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