Friday, May 30, 2014

Important Advice for New Marketers.

As someone brand new to Affiliate Marketing what’s the most important thing to know/ advice to give?

Well that’s a broad question, but here’s a few Tips for Newcomers:
Podcasting is a crazy powerful medium to reach your audience and provide support. As are Videos. If your comfortable with talking to people, there are plenty of free software to help you start producing content.
Affiliate link to Products on Amazon.com and you make 5-8% COMMISSION on that product and on anything they buy off Amazon if they go through your affiliate link.

Treat the products that you’re going to promote as if they are your own products.
This shows confidence in your products, and Builds trust with your audience! I would never promote something I didn’t personally use, nor would I offer training that I never personally went through.

The best way to become an entrepreneur is not to build your sites around the business,
First target the audience, with a pain or goals or some lacking quotient, discover ways to help them. Develop the tool or product to help fulfill this need. If it exists, get yourself a license to sell that product.
This way you recommend products, that you know will help them. (*you know there is a market for.)

Use the product & Show them how you use it.
Create your own Videos!
A hugely popular idea for videos is do an “Unboxing” of the product.( showing step by step tutorial of what to expect. While joining your system)
Provide support. Simply by asking “if you have questions, let me know” you develop trust, and honestly the better your Team does, the better we all do!
Do what you can to deliver more value than what is offered.
For instance Develop a quick start guide pdf file, that they only get if they join under YOUR link.

Tour your site from visitors point of view. Is it attractive, does it keep you engaged? Is it user friendly? Does it come across as friendly and professional?


Bloggers to follow:
Gary Vaynerchuk, content management. Social media http://garyvaynerchuk.com/blog/

Derek Halpern, sales, sells hard. Psych. http://www.copyblogger.com/author/derek-halpern/

Ramit Sethi contact lists. http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/

(*note Pat Flynn also has an incredible Podcast, https://soundcloud.com/askpat )



Tips To get you going!

Get started NOW! The longer you wait, the longer it will take to get your name out.
Even if you don’t have the Business end yet, Create all your social media pages, Follow and find friends on FB / G+ / Twitter / ect.

Keep eyes open for opportunities. Just because your in a business, doesn’t mean that no-one has products that would benefit your business. Just weigh the value they add to the cost they bring.

Try something new, get uncomfortable. If your tomorrow is just like yesterday, your future will be the same as today. The only way to get Change is to TRY NEW THINGS, and Get OUT of your Comfort Zone!

Start your email list as soon as possible. (email list is a relationship tool to distribute free stuff, promotional materials etc. NOT for spamming your link to.)

Collect customers email addresses. Collect addresses of anyone that you contact, by giving out your email to everyone! Keep the addresses of your customers, in case you develop a product that adds value to products they already purchased.

Don’t use a trademark in a domain name. (sounds simple, but even things like LEED or BLIZZARD or WINDOWS can end up costing you a lot of money and reputation when you have to switch your domain names.)

Make more connections. Make people reach out to you.

I Hope this Helps out!
Let me know if you would like me to answer any specific questions you may have!

-Andrew Halliday

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