Friday, May 29, 2009

Affiliate Marketing - 5 Steps to Ensure Your Success With No Money Down

People all over the world are fed up with being at the mercy of fickle employers and an out-of-control global economy and are turning to Online Businesses to take control of their futures.

By selling other people's products as an Affiliate, you won't need a website or any inventory. However, there is a bewildering number of products, markets and media to deal with, so let's break it into 5 manageable, No Money Down steps.

Step 1: Stay mainstream and don't try to reinvent the wheel.

You will find every product you can think of at Clickbank, which also provides a tried and tested system that ensures you get paid straight away for every sale you make.

Step 2. Product Selection.

Passion pushes profit, so choose a product you would buy yourself.

Whether it's green energy, body building or tropical fish, what you enjoy never seems like work. Keep in mind that you will be directing traffic to your chosen supplier's site and it is they who will be closing the sales, so make sure that their pitch page is up to the job.

Step 3. Market Analysis.

Find your customers and get to know them.

This means get to understand where they go and what they do when they are both online and offline. What online forums and groups do they belong to? Join them. What do they discuss? What problems, needs and wants do they have? What products are they already buying?

Step 4. Competitor Analysis - you know where the customers are, so next you need to outmanoeuvre the competition.

It's easier than it sounds. Using powerful free tools, such as Google Alerts which will tell you immediately anything about the company or product enters the public domain, and Alexa, which analyses site traffic and demographics, you can reverse-engineer everything they have done and do it better. After all, once someone has beaten a new path it's easy to follow it and take a few shortcuts.

Step 5. Using the knowledge gained in Step 4 put your products in front of your target market.

Go to their forums, go to the blogs they read and publish articles with key words that push them up the Search Engine Rankings and place your links.

Move progressively through these 5 Free Steps and prove to yourself that you can make it as an Affiliate Marketer and take control of your future.

With the skills you acquire along the way you could well end up creating your own products and websites and recruiting your own Affiliates.

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Barry G Russell - EzineArticles Expert Author

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