by: Kenji Tay

Affiliate Marketing is and has always been the easiest and fastest way to help one start up in Internet Marketing. Not only is it powerful when it comes to profit generation, it acts and helps as a training ground before one is able to run an online marketing campaign successfully when they finally kick start their own product creation business in the internet world.

The advantages of being in an affiliating marketing business is that you can do away with the hassle of producing a website, creating an all powerful product, hire a good sales copywriter etc. In one way or the other, you can say that the cost of the business itself is very much being “cut”, which in perfect sense, is good for someone who wants a low start up cost and yet successful online business. This is especially so for newbies trying out or starting in an online business.

While there is so much promise and good things to say about affiliating marketing, it has always been a concern to affiliates on how to run a successful affiliate marketing business. To put it in a more blunt way, how can one generate more and more profits from affiliating marketing.

Let me share with you 5 powerful strategies which can you can use to increase your profit and be successful no matter what affiliate products or program you are promoting:

#1 PPC Marketing: You can almost start promoting any affiliate products in less than 10 minutes with PPC (pay per click) advertising. That is to say, advertising in major search engine such as Google and Yahoo. Google comes with Google AdWords while Yahoo! comes with their own Yahoo Search Marketing.

In the past, people used to advertise through PPC by directly sending the customers straight to the merchants site. Since 2005, there had been some changes to Google’s policies in directly linking to a merchants site in regards to PPC advertising.

However, you can still advertise through PPC by using your own landing page which is customized to your affiliate products. This can come in 2 fold because first, you are driving targeted traffic using PPC advertising and second, this is where you can put in your own opt in list to build your list of future potential customers.

#2 Your Own List: You need to have your own opt in list. It has always been a misconception that you need to have your own product to have a list. However, if you have given so much time and effort to promote a particular product, after a sale is made, you would have probably lost the customer forever. When you need to promote your next product, do you want to go through building your traffic again?

I doubt you would want to do that. Moreover, the customers whom, because of you, have went into the sales page is in fact a targeted customer for that particular niche you are promoting regardless if a sale has been or not been made. Therefore, it makes it easier should you wish to promote the product of the same niche in the future.

By doing so, you are in fact, leveraging on any part of your past effort in promoting that particular product. It also helps when you finally have your own product in the future.

When you have a list, one of the ways in which you can entice your subscribers to buy from your affiliate link is to provide them with some time-sensitive bonuses. For example; A good bonus to go along with a weight loss program could be a work out regime program or even a food intake diet formula etc.

It has and will always continue to work.

#3 Web Pages: This is a no brainer and a straight forward way of advertising your affiliate products. You can place banners or recommend products in relevant pages of your existing web pages or even your blog.

Note that this works best on relevant pages of your blog or website. let’s say that you writing a blog on a special dog show event. You can ultimately place a banner of the dog training niche at the end or by the side or your blog. this would generate in turn help generate interest from readers who has been following your website on “caring for your puppy” and could again, result in an affiliate sale.

The other way is to link or custom your error page as a marketing tool. An error page occurs when a wrong URL is entered. This usually display a “Page Not found” status and instead of wasting this space, you can instead redirect it back to your affiliate link.

#4 Articles: This is one medium you got to invest in because it is one of the most powerful methods around today in this information age.

Over the years, this has proven to be one of the key strategy and methods online marketers use to either promote their products, or to get traffic.

Through articles, Not only are you able to build up your credibility, you are also building your endless stream of potential customers in the long run. The article you wrote today will still be around in 3 years, 5 years or even 10. The same old article still points back to your affiliate link which ultimately helps generate a new sale or build your list for you without any extra effort or cost from your side.

However, you have to take note that that when you are writing a review of a product, it should not sound like an outright sales pitch. People do not like to be sold!

So, how should your article be written then?

The secret to running a successful article marketing campaign is to provide real, useful content that people can use. Your main reason for writing an article is to benefit the readers so that in the long run, you build up trust and credibility, which is the part of the reason why customers will buy your recommended products.

#5 Capturing Exit Traffic: One of the ways to make an affiliate sale is by using a “pop up window” to promote your products.

While there are popup blockers, not everyone is using it and you’ll be surprised at just how many percent of people using the internet actually uses them.

I know that pop up window can be annoying at times but if what you are offering is of true value, i believe you will want your customers to benefit from it. If they are going to leave the site anyway, why not give them another chance to re-consider the offer.

You can do so by introducing an intriguing pop-up, targeted at your visitors. If they have been half-sold by your merchants sales copy, that pop-up window could ultimately be the reason or trigger that gives you your affiliate commission.

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Kenji Tay is a business owner and has been helping people to grow their wealth in several different mediums. He is an expert in Internet Marketing and also has extensive knowledge in Real Estates Investments and Network Marketing. He is also the Author of The Book “The Leader’s Core