22 Oct 08 Key Success to Affiliate Business

Well, you have great content on your website/blog, you have regular visitors, that’s when you may think of having some affiliations on your website, so that you can generate some money.

What is affiliation?

My own words? It is make-believe pre-sales. You can get this done by two easy ways. One, Find a reliable and trustworthy affiliates or Another, write a review or article about particular affiliates you are referring. Most affiliate programs are FREE. And I suggest you utilize them.

Why make-believe pre-sales?

It’s best if you are brutally telling the truth about the products or services you are reviewing (It is best if you have used or currently using the parcitular product or service you are offering). Both critical or analytical reviews bring positive consequences. Nowadays, the potential buyers are not stupid, They know exactly what they want and they will do better research than 10 years ago. And as an affiliate, you don’t have to explain in details about what, when your reader/visitor smells you are trying to sell rather than guiding them to explore the options to buy, they will never check out your products and services, probably, they will not even come back. If so, there’s nothing to be sad. Bottom line, never sell. Just pre-sell, give relevant info, be helpful and guide what the readers are looking for.

The basic technique is

Your Traffic -> Your Visitors -> Your Content -> Your potential buyer

In each step, you would lose 50-90%, but if you can create sales of 2-4% into final stage, that means you are doing great. So, It is always important to learn, How to decide whether I would make money online rather than normal daily crap, Make Money Online, join me, and you ask others to join you thing. Never make money with techniques that you require to invest or resell. 80% of the time, you are just becoming a seller, rather than affiliates. And you lost money more than you make.

Why pre-sell is good?

You create trust between your readers and yourself. You become a bridge to your merchants (affiliates). Your readers will come back for more because they know you are not trying to sell, however, always provide the relaible links according to your recommendations. You don’t need to pitch to your readers, you give your opinions. Your readers will decide what is best for them. So, let’s say, convertion rate from readers to buyer is highly dependent on what you offer.

So,

Sales Pitch = Turn off potential buyers = low conversion rate

Recommendations = Turn on potential buyers = high conversion rate

(well, these two equations were compiled from the idea of Ken Evoy’s article, you can download and read totally FREE at (Affiliate Masters Course))

Well, that’s all for today. So, when you decide to work on affiliate business online, you need to make up your mind how you will implement successfully. Because making money online is not complicated, but need to becareful, with that being said, it can’t be achieved overnight as well. You need to input constantly and continuously in order to make it work.

P.S. I am not a super writer or a thinker. Sometimes, I miss some points because I have never though about it. So, Any comments and suggestions are always welcome. It is always nice to see comments that contribute these posts.