Affiliate Marketing Secrets

Your success in affiliate marketing will center in two major areas; first, the amount of effort and time invested in learning and properly marketing your products, and, second, the relationships that you will be able to build not only with the customers, but also with the merchants and sub-affiliates which you recruit. Don’t look at people mostly as “dollar signs”; you must take sincere interest in them as people if you are to expect their loyalty and cooperation in helping you build your business.

Here are some important points to consider as you develop these relationships;

1) Try making favorable first impressions. Your website should be attractive, well organized and carefully thought out. Navigation should be easy, with attractive and original content. Leave options for comments and e-mail opt-ins. Answer questions thoroughly and in a timely manner .Media such as audio and video are a plus.

2) Personalize your email communications. Write your correspondence as if you were talking to a friend. Do not push products in your e-mails. These should be used to draw the interest of your customer, and establish your knowledge and authority in related subjects. Let the product more or less sell itself.

3) Try to elicit feedback from your customers in a personal way. For example, you can use a survey form to elicit responses from your customers. People are usually quite willing to answer surveys. These responses will guide your efforts as to how to present your product to entice the customer in a more effective manner.

4) After the sale, be sure to send a “Thank You” note or else refer the customer to a “Thank You” page. Be sure to leave contact info in case there are any issues with the product. If possible, a “Thank You” phone call would be ideal.

5) Establish an honest presence. Do not try to “short-change”. If a customer wants a refund, give it promptly without creating a conflict or argument. A well handled customer complaint can sometimes result in the customer buying one of your other products or referring other customers to your business. Give the customer more than what he or she expects, and your business will grow steadily.

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I am a new affiliate in “online affiliate group” and its located Phoenix, Arizona and it been like 6 months and I got 12 prospects from almost 100 visitors and I don’t know how many of them got turned to customers, so the question is that, how much will I earn per successful customer, I thinks I get $500 each.
Have you ever joined any Fortune 500 companies.

We are looking for a piece of software that will make sure each affiliate is credited with each referral that they make. In other words, we have the main site built. So now how do we track which affiliate sent prospects to the site? Anyone know of such a software?

I just wanted to know how often this occurred before they started the Dominican Prospect League. I know that the A’s got Michael Ynoa back in 2008 but he went to an academy that wasnt affiliated with an MLB team.
I was wondering how rare it is that a prospect from the DR sign with a different team once he becomes eligible at 16.
And just as a side question if anyone knows a roundabout percentage of how many of these kids actually stay in school while they attend an academy that’d be great.
I know the Mets, Pirates, and Indians make sure of this but not so sure about others. Any knowledge would be appreciated

Am seeking a reasonably priced list of English-speaking prospects in the US, Canada, the UK, Netherlands, Australia, US territories, Germany, Puerto Rico and Mexico. All centered around the Health and Wellness industry(US).

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