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•Affiliate Commissions The 15 Minimum Sale
Affiliate Commissions: The $15 Minimum Sale by David McKenzieHow can you boost your affiliate commissions?Scenario: You participate in one or many affiliate programs. Youget plenty of hits. Your sales ratio is about 2% (which is good)and yet you’re only making $42.80 per month. It’s okay, butnothing to shout about.Consider this: If you put just as much time and effort intomarketing each affiliate program, then receiving affiliatecommissions of $15 per order is much better than...
•Use an Affiliate Network to Boost Your Commissions
by David McKenzieMost affiliates concentrate exclusively on direct sales. For affiliates this means joining an affiliate program and marketing the product or service through their web site or via email. The affiliate earns a commission for every sale made. Very few affiliates appear to focus on the 2nd tier. Most good affiliate programs are 2 tier which means that as well as direct sales you can also build what I call an affiliate network'. An affiliate network is the ability to get...
•Resistance means Success for Affiliates
by David McKenzieI often receive emails in my inbox asking me to join new affiliate programs. In fact, I probably receive about 20 such emails every week. What should you do when you receive offers to join a new affiliate program?Usually the email goes something like “Please join our new incredible affiliate program that pays 50% direct commissions and 20% commissions for the 2nd tier … “Your mind immediately focuses on the 20% direct commission and 10% indirect commissions that you receive...
•Be an Affiliate Site AND a Sales Site
by David McKenzieAre you just a sales site reselling affiliate products and services?You have probably seen sites that are selling a product or service and noticed that they also offer an affiliate program you can join. There is often a little link at the top left or at the bottom of the site that says “Affiliate Program”.Not only can you buy the product or service but you can sell it as well and earn a commission. Well, how about using the same concept for your affiliate programs. How about...
•7 Tips to Choosing a Successful Affiliate Program
by David McKenzieWhen selecting an affiliate program to join you need to know how to choose a successful affiliate program. Look in the wrong place and you might find a dud but look in the right place and you might be on to a winner. Here are 7 tips to help you choose a successful affiliate program to join:1. Look at associateprograms.com This is the affiliate central' of affiliate programs. You can virtually guarantee to find a successful program here and you can choose from tons of subject...
•Are You Happy Being an Affiliate
Are You Happy Being an Affiliate? by David McKenzieThe success of affiliates has a lot to do with their happiness. Ask any affiliate that has made decent money with affiliate programs whether they enjoy what they are doing and they will all answer YES'. You need to enjoy what you are doing to do well at it. Sounds simple right?However many online entrepreneurs could think of nothing worse than re-selling someone else's product. That would be like working for a competitor! They want to...
•Secrets to a higher Conversion Ratio
by David McKenzieAs an affiliate promoting affiliate programs you need to know the conversion ratio of each program you belong to.It is something you have control over.But what exactly is a conversion ratio?For affiliate programs, the conversion ratio (or CR) is the number of visitors that click through your affiliate link compared to the number of sales you make. For instance if you had 100 visitors to one of your affiliate programs you were promoting and got 1 sale then your CR would be...
•7 Secrets to Affiliate Success
by David McKenzieBeing successful with affiliate programs requires the use of certain techniques. Yet it is surprising how few affiliates are using many of these methods. Here are 7 secrets to boosting your affiliate commissions each month:1. Use a variety of text links and personal recommendations. A personal recommendation of an affiliate product can increase your conversion ratios dramatically. 2. Use ezine ads to market your affiliate products. A well placed ezine ad in a popular ezine...
•Affiliate Marketing Techniques Scatter Gun or Shot Gun Approach
by David McKenzieAffiliate marketing question - Should you join every affiliateprogram you can find or just a few?There are many thousands of affiliate programs on the net thatyou can join. Every man and his dog is running one. But how doyou decide which ones to join?There are two trains of thought in this area. First you can takethe scatter gun approach, which is quite popular on the net, andjoin as many programs as possible. This ensures that at leastSOME of them will pay off. Well, that’s...
•7 Reasons Why You Should Start with Affiliate Programs
by David McKenzieThere are thousands of business opportunities online. Most of them require some capital to start with. Not affiliate programs!Here are 7 reasons why you should consider joining an affiliate program as your home based business. 1. Joining an affiliate program requires no outlay of capital. That’s right, none! You can join an affiliate program for free and start promoting the product immediately. 2. The internet marketing tools are already provided for you. A ‘top’ affiliate...
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