How To Make Money

With affiliate programs, it really pays to work well with others.  

Also known as referral programs, affiliate programs are normal ly commission based sales.  

You'll recommend a site to your visitors and then pick up a percentage of any sale that those visitors make.  

You'll benefit from the commission and the merchant benefits from the sales.

If you already have a website set up, you can run an affiliate program from it, or you can simply build a site to promote a particular product or service.  

As long as it brings in more cash than it takes to build or run it, you'll be fine.

With any marketing program, you'll need to be careful when you select an affiliate program.  

The benefit of an affiliate program will give you another way to make money from your users.  Instead of selling them a product, you simply send them to a partner then take a cut of the profits.

Even though it may seem tempting to go for programs with the highest commissions, those programs won't pay you anything if your visitors don't buy them.

Below, you'll find some tips to help you select an affiliate program that's right for you:

1.  Do not accept any less than 25% with commission.  You can find many programs with great payment structures and high percentages of pay in just about any field.

2.  Look for statistic pages that list the number of click throughs, sales, and earnings so you'll be able to see how you are doing.  

3.  Always look for programs that offer a wide variety of tools to put on your web site, including banners, text links, and of course graphics.

4.  Find out hwo often you'll be paid and be sure that the payment schedule meets with your own expectations.  Some programs will pay monthly,while others will pay quarterly.

5.  Be sure that top level support is included.  If they can't answer your questions in a quick and timely manner, you don't want to work with them.

Once you learn what you are doing with affiliate programs, you can make a lot of money.  

If you are just starting out, you should always use common sense and not rush into anything.  

As you become more familiar with how things work, you'll be well on your way to making a lot of money - and enjoying making it.  

If you have to work hard, you'll be glad you did.

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Jose Amoros

Keeping Affiliates Motivated

Running affiliates programs is easier than ever with the software and help available now.  However, keeping your affiliates motivated and selling isn't quite as easy to do.  

If the success of your business rests upon how your affiliates perform, you make want to provide them with the right tools to get the job done successfully.

If you are already running an affiliate program for your products, you should know that a large number of people who sign up for your program never to be heard from again.  You can however, reduce the number of non productive affiliates by remaining in touch with them constantly.

Remind them of their usernames and passwords, and tell them where to log in to check their stats or get creative.  Always keep them informed of new product lines or changes in policy or procedures.

The key to motivation is making sure that you stay in touch.  Always pay attention to who your top sellers are, and make sure that you contact them on a regular basis.  

Pay attention to who your worst producers are, and make sure you stay in touch with them constantly as well.

The main reason most affiliates don't perform that well is because they don't possess any leadership or guidance.  This can easily be changed by writing a marketing course, which you can even offer for sale to non affiliates, although you should make it available to your affiliates at no charge.

Keep your creatives and sales copy up to date.  You should also provide new material for your affiliates to use on a regular basis.  Providing them with nothing but a text link and one banner just doesn't generate much excitement at all.

Provide your affiliates with sales letters, reviews, ads, banners of different shapes and sizes, and anything else that comes to mind.  Be sure that your affiliates know the material is there for them to use.  Always listen to your affiliates, and get the proper feedback on your material.

You should also hold virtual meetings.  Set up chat rooms where your affiliates can attend virtual meetings on a weekly basis.  Be sure to answer any questions, have motivated speakers, and aything else you can think of to make the meetings more motivated.

Given your affiliates the credit they deserve is also very important.  Each month, you should give credit to the best performers in your affiliate newsletter.  Give small bonuses to those that perform well, and you can even set up a payment structure that rewards higher commissions and bigger volumes of sales.

Always make sure you do everything you can to help your affiliates succeed and make money in your program.  

If they are making money - you are succeeding and making money as well.  In reality- their success is your success. 

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Jose Amoros

Keyword Research That Works

On the internet, keywords are terms or words that relate to particular topics. 

Keyword research will involve various aspects, such as finding sales oriented keywords or driving maximum qualified users to increase their online sales.

Keyword research is the first step towards a successful search engine optimization campaign.You have to be very careful when selecting keywords,as it can be very tricky to select targeted keywords for a website.  

The selection of keywords should always be based on various aspects such as product names, services, brands, or general terms.  Often times, people forget about targeting geographical terms when they have global presence.

When doing keyword research, it's highly recommended to do a very thorough market research analysis to find the best keywords used by search engines to find products and services online - and find out  what keywords are targeted by competitors who are doing well in marketing on the internet.

The first step in finding the best keywords is to make a list of the products, topics, and services that you offer.  You can also make good use of your website logs to know which keywords have brought you the traffic in the past.  

Be sure to select keywords that clearly define your business and products to drive traffic from the search engines.  

There are some websites which get high levels of traffic through general keywords although they might not end up being sales.

Today, users of search engines are aware of how they work, for searching products and services on the net.  Users always look for the better products,locations, etc.  

Therefore, you should cover all terms for each - products, locatins, etc.

There are numerous tools available which will help you identify keywords that are suitable for search engines.  The challenge here, is to determine which keyword is the best to generate traffic.

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Jose Amoros

Managing And Recruiting Affiliates

Once affiliates begin to sign up, even if you are automatically approving them, its in your best interest to audit your network on a regular basis. Now, the FTC is making marketers responsible for the actions of their affiliates.  

If your affiliates get out of control, it could cost you a lot of money.You'll have hundreds of affiliates sign up for your program.  Hobbyists, spammers, webmasters and even marketers.  It's very important that you review each one on a regular basis to ensure the way they are promoting you is acceptable to your company and above all - its legal.

Below, you'll find some tips when screening:

1.  All affiliates must have an active web site.  If not, they may be spammers.

2.  The affiliate site content must relate  to your products or services.

3.  The site should have appropriate levels of content.  

4.  Misuse of content.  Be very clear with your affiliates and what content they can use from your website.  

Affiliate fraud

Fraud with affiliates has been increasing over the last several years, which is another great reason to screen your affiliates on a regular basis.  With fraud, there are two main types:

Malware - Some affiliates out there have developed software that is installed on a machine, normally as part of a free download.  When someone clicks on the affiliate link, the true affiliate ID is replaced with the fraud.  

Fake purchase - If you have a product of high value that returns large commissions for affiliates, you may notice some bad parties signing up, then using stolen or fake credit card information to purchase products via their links.  

Communicating with affiliates

Good affiliates are normally busy, as they can easily forget about your services and products.As time goes by, your offers can wind up less in less visited areas or accidentally deleted.

It's extremely important to stay in contact with your affiliates, even more so with the high performers.

Do not wait for them to contact you, as if you  do, it normally means they are reporting a problem.By taking the time to contact them, you are showing that you are interested in the partnership.

You don't need a new product as an excuse to contact your power affiliates.  Even if it's just a quick note to ask if they need anything.  You can also use the opportunity for feedback on your program as well.

Managing a successful affiliate program is not an easy task you can fully automate, as you'll have to get involved.  Happy affiliates are more productive, and the more money they make - the more money your company makes as well. http://bit.ly/35GQhop

Jose Amoros