How to Promote Any Affiliate Program In 5 Easy Steps
By Jimmy D. Brown of "Affiliatenaire"
Using ezine articles is a great way to promote your favor
affiliate program. What I'd like to do in this article is
provide you with a simple system for effectively writing
an ezine article that strategically promotes your offer.
There are five steps…
1. CHOOSE THE OFFER YOU WISH TO PROMOTE
This one is kind of a no-brainer. It all begins with deciding
what you want to promote. What offer would you like to
send traffic to.
HINT: You can promote your affiliate link directly, but
what works better is to promote a list at YOUR site which
you then use to promote your affiliate link over and over
again after the visitor becomes a subscribers.
2. DETERMINE YOUR "USEFUL, BUT INCOMPLETE" APPROACH.
I love to use what I have coined as the "useful, but
incomplete" approach when using freebies of any kind.
(Ezine articles, free eBooks, reports, eCourses, etc.)
What I mean by that is simply this: You provide your reader
with "useful" information (something they find of value and
are able to actually apply) but make certain that it is
"incomplete" in that they can better use the information
by making a purchase.
That's "useful, but incomplete." And it works like a charm.
The idea is to use your content to build up to your desired
response. You provide the reader with content, and then
you make an offer that allows them to fully utilize the
content, gain extra insight from the content or maximize
the content in some additional way.
Let me give you an example -
If I wanted to promote an autoresponder service in an
ezine article, how could I do it? I'd write an article
that explains how to benefit from using autoresponders.
My article would exlain different uses of autoresponders
and how the reader could profit from implementing the
ideas.
** I.E. 7 Ways To Create Revenue Streams With Autoresponders
Naturally, they will need an autoresponder service in order to
use the information, right? And I just happen to know of a
great service they can use. More on that later.
OK, so that's an example of how to promote a SERVICE offer
with your ezine article. What about a software product or an
eBook?
Want some examples?
Good, because I've got two…
TO PROMOTE A SOFTWARE PRODUCT. Let's suppose you want to promote
a software program that creates "ecovers". How can you do it?
– Write an article outlining how important presentation of your
offer is, and how creating a cover graphic can increase response
rates by up to 1300%
– Write a step-by-step tutorial article for "do-it-yourselfers",
explaining how to design your own graphics from scratch. Then
promote the software as a super-simplified way of doing it.
TO PROMOTE AN EBOOK. Let's suppose you want to promote an ebook
that teaches advanced list-building strategies. How can you do it?
– Write an article that covers the "basics" of building lists,
and then promote the eBook as the "advanced" tactics.
– Write an article on how to profit from a list, and then promote
the eBook as the "how to build the list."
See how easy this is?
That's how it works. Determine what your "useful, but incomplete"
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