Affiliate Marketing
If you begin niche marketing you’re going to need to understand affiliate marketing and how they fit together. Once you begin generating traffic from your niche marketing efforts you’ll need a way to make money from your traffic. You can make money using advertisements that pay per click or performance based (pay per sale) affiliate system.
What is Affiliate Marketing?
To explain affiliate marketing the best I can I should start by telling you what an affiliate in relation to a product or service. An advertiser is a company who is selling a product or service and collecting payment from the customer. If an advertiser has an affiliate program, they are able to allow affiliates to market (sell) their product or service for a commission of the sale.
How to start in Affiliate Marketing?
Once you’ve begun to generate traffic using niche marketing you’re ready to sign up as an affiliate to promote products offered by an advertiser with an established affiliate program. You have a choice to become directly affiliated with the advertiser or to use an affiliate network such as clickbank. An affiliate network is a middle man between the advertiser and the publisher, as an affiiliate you publish the advertisers content. As an affiliate you get paid per sale or lead conversion.
How to get paid in for Affiliate Marketing earnings?
All you need to provide is your social security number or federal tax ID along with your name, addresss, phone number, website, experience and method of generating traffic. Be honest when registering for an affiliate program, if you’re new but are already generating traffic they will understand if you explain it to them. As an affiliate you can expect to be paid at least 40% commission on a product or lead conversion. If you generate over $1,000 worth of volume, you should be paid every week and if you generate you can expect to be paid net 15 or net 30. Most affiliate payments are sent via check, bank wire or ach deposit.
In order to start affiliate marketing you need to make sure you have traffic, before you worry about what products you’re going to push make sure you have an audience. The key ingredient to converting leads or sales via affiliate marketing is creating an audience that will respond to what you’re trying to sell.
Rank your site in the Search Engines using Free Blogs
If you are inexperienced in SEO than you may not understand how to rank your site in the search engines using free blogs and other web 2.0 properties. This method works very well because you are able to generate your own related content and place a hyperlink to your site using the url in the anchor text for the keyword you’re trying to rank for in the search engines.
1. Anchor Text
anchor text -> niche marketing
url -> http://nichetitans.com
This would be an example of anchor text used in a link to help rank this site http://nichetitans.com for ‘niche marketing’ in the search engines.
2. Related Content
It is best to create related content to the keyword you are trying to rank for in the search engines. For example, if you’re trying to rank for the keyword ‘marketing examples’ then you want to create a blog post or article that focuses on examples of marketing or a related topic that mentions the keyword you want to rank your site for in the search engines.
3. Free Blogs
Essentially any respected web 2.0 property such as blogger.com, wordpress.com, squidoo.com and other free blogs can be used to rank your site in the search engines. These sites allow you to register and create your own content and host it on their site.
Example:
http://nichemarketinghelp.wordpress.com/
For help understanding niche marketing and to get started right now it’s time you visited some helpful websites to shorten your learning curve. Once you’ve picked a niche it’s time to develop a marketing strategy that will help you tremendously to become successful in the niche you’re trying to target.
For example, if you’re trying to learn niche marketing you should visit http://nichetitans.com/ and read some of the excellent posts on the topic. This will help point you in the right directly to finding a niche market while developing strong habits in niche marketing and SEO.
Example of How to get Viral Opt Ins
This is a basic example of how to get viral opt ins to your newsletter or mailing list. This can method can also be applied to generating traffic to your target landing page or sales page. If you collect their email data you are able to market them many times over and convert convert convert. The power of viral marketing is quite amazing.
Alright, here is the basic setup.
A simple example of how to get viral opt ins
1. Get an image or video that you think people will want to see
-> based on your content niche if possible, that way you generate targeted leads
2. Host the image on url or domain of your choosing
-> example: http://yournotgonnabelievethis.com (not a good example of a viral lay, very similar, but the domain name gets the point across well)
3. Install a script that locks the content, the user is required to take an action before they view the content
-> example: post http://yournotgonnabelievethis.com/video=3419 on their facebook wall and refer 5 people
(video=3419 -> their unlock link, once 5 people visit that URL the content is unlocked)
4. Unique IP tracking and unique referral URL generated on each visitor
-> example: visitor1 = 24.19.38.11 – Unlock URL = http://yournotgonnabelievethis.com/video=1
-> example: visitor2= 65.11.99.160 – Unlock URL = http://yournotgonnabelievethis.com/video=2
5. Make it appeal to their emotion!
-> example: title =”President Obama stealing from a department store???”
If they desire to view the content they will do as you wish!
Image or Video example that generates viral traffic and opt ins
As you now people have been doing this with Facebook applications, fan pages, you name it.
Try this method on:
-Facebook
-Myspace
-Twitter
-Forums
-Instant Messenger
Generating Income from Viral Traffic and Opt Ins
The power of compound traffic from viral marketing is insane. Lets do the math here:
round1 -> 50 click and participate to start
round2 -> 50 x 5 = 250
round3 -> 250 x 5 = 1250
round4 -> 1250 x 5 = 6250
round5 -> 6250 x 5 = 31250
round6 -> 31250 x 5 = 156250
round7 -> 156250 x 5 = 781250
round8-> 781250 x 5 = 3,906,250
This is how multi-level marketing is so successful (MLM) like Amway, Quixtar, etc.
It only takes 50 people to start and if you have something that people will get EMOTIONAL about… you can hit a home run when it goes viral.
Imagine if you make $25 for every 1,000 visitors. You’ve just generated 3,906 sales or $97,656.25 after marketing only 50 people.
A perfect example of this is a friend of mine who created the ‘Repost this bulletin to see who is viewing your profile!!” on MySpace… over $170,000 NET in a week.
This video about words of encouragement is an example of a video that strikes your emotions and will go viral. This is a part of niche marketing that should be fun and you can enjoy. I hope this is a sufficient example of how to get viral opt ins and make huge sums of money with viral marketing.
