Differentiation - Key To Affiliate Marketing Success

Super Mod · 01-06-07, 04:00 PM

Affiliate marketing is a quick and easy way to get started selling online.

While the vendor does all the work related to creating a product, sales and fulfillment process and even handles customer support, you as an affiliate refer a sale - and get paid. Quick. Clean. Simple.

The problem is that dozens, hundreds or even thousands of others are trying to do the same thing! You need to do it better. More innovatively. Be different.

You need to adopt a strategy, make your approach unique, have a specific focus to your affiliate marketing. And when you do, you will stand out from the crowd - and succeed wildly.

Here are 3 different approaches you can take to differentiating your affiliate marketing.

Set Up Affiiate Selling Processes

Most affiliates will read this and think it means sprinkling affiliate links everywhere. You need to do that - but with a difference. When you get visitors to click on an affiliate link, they go to your merchant's site - but you lose contact. You can't follow up, promote other material, or just keep in touch.

On the other hand, if you get them to join your mailing list, register to your online forum, subscribe to your RSS feed, sign up to your membership site or check out your blog BEFORE they click on your affiliate link, you have a chance to establish an ongoing relationship with your target prospect.

It's like setting 'traps' for your ideal prospect. When they fall into it, you've got them... and in the most ethical, helpful, honest way, you can now share with them the benefit of your expertise and experience as an affiliate of the best products to meet their needs.

Give Away Valuable Content

When you're trapped, your first impulse is to get away... unless things are pleasant and interesting inside the trap!

Your job as a unique affiliate marketer is to delight your prospects once you've got their attention and interest - so they do not want to go away.

The best way to do this is by giving them something they want, need or like. On the Internet, the easiest way to do this is with content. Rich, valuable, helpful content. The kind that takes time and effort and expertise to create - and therefore is different from the spammy junk that clutters up the Web.

Content may be in the form of articles on a webpage, or a short special report, or a bigger ebook. Affiliate links embedded within the content rakes in affiliate profits when readers click on them to buy.

There are ways to get such content without creating it yourself, by either outsourcing it to writers or joining exclusive affiliate support membership sites offering such material.

Sell Useful Content - That Sells More Products

The best (and easiest) form of selling is to people who have already bought other products in the same interest area - either from you, or others.

And if you sell info-products, having your affiliate links for related products and services embedded within them is a good way to ensure ongoing future affiliate revenues - without doing any work at all.

If you take this approach, make sure the product you sell is of real value, not just fluff. And do not litter the content with too many affiliate links, keep it limited to relevant, related, useful products.

By employing these 3 strategies, you can differentiate yourself from the affiliate crowd - and succeed beyond your wildest dreams!

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About the Author:

Dr. Mani Sivasubramanian is a SUPER-affiliate and highly recommends the Affiliate Landmine membership where you get set-and-forget affiliate 'traps' including give-away reports and products for sale with embedded affiliate links. Take a risk-free trial at Affiliate Land Mine - Watch Your Profits Explode

marketraisecorp · 11-16-07, 01:01 AM

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