Good morning from the Mid West!

I’m sharing with you today the results of a personal survey I conducted recently. I sent emails to 25 Affiliate Marketers who have become ‘successful’ . I asked one simple question. “What is the most important tool necessary for success as an affiliate Marketer.”

Here are the top 3.

Tool #1: Your Own Website

Build a good, credible and professional looking website. Your website is the jump off point of all your marketing efforts. Build a user-friendly website, which will appeal to your prospects and encourage them to click on the links to the products and service you are promoting and make a purchase. Concentrate your efforts on building a website that will cater to what your prospects need.

Make your website full of original, relevant and useful content. Content is still king and will not only build your credibility, but will also help you achieve a higher search engine ranking. . Establish yourself as a credible expert in the field by posting relevant and useful articles. Forging a good reputation is the first step in building up a loyal, responsive consumer base.

Tool #2: Incentives

In order to receive, you must give. In other words, over-deliver, frequently, and you’ll get what you want. Building an opt-in email list is one of the best ways to gather prospects. Offer a free membership or an ezine . Better yet, offer good, quality gifts to your prospects to encourage them to subscribe to your newsletters. You can present free software, access to exclusive services and other freebies that will be helpful to your prospects. You must acquire a
business mentality here. If you have a product that perhaps you could sell
for $7 or $17 or even $27, you could leverage that into thousands of eager,
responsive subscribers who will await every future offer from you, by simply
‘giving’ that product to them in exchange for their name and email address!

Tool #3: Traffic to Your Site

Driving targeted traffic to your website is a must. The best website ever created is worthless if nobody ever sees it! Getting folks to your site should be your first and continuing priority. Launch an aggressive reciprocal link campaign. Contact webmasters of similar websites with your best offer in exchange for a backlink to their site. Create a signature file and visit forums that are filled with folks and respond to their questions. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SELL DIRECTLY IN THE FORUMS. You’ll lose any cred you have ever created. Trust me here.

One of the best ways to create a never-ending flow of good back-links – at no cost at all – is by submitting articles, with your website’s link at the resource box, to e-zines and free article submission sites. The more sites you submit your articles to, the better your link popularity is. Make your articles original, relevant and useful so that more websites will pick it up and post it.

In Conclusion

Now, get to work. Nothing worthwhile is ever easy. You’ll continue to learn.
Always try. Never give up. If your dream is a worthy dream, persistence in the chase will be the single most important factor in catching the dream. Give to all those you meet. You will reap rewards from giving.

Make It A Great Day!
Bob
P.S. Have you got any to add to this?

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