Affiliate Marketing

3 Ways to Stop Wasting Time

With Affiliate Marketing Sales

Selling products for an affiliate merchant is one

of the most common ways to make money with

affiliate marketing. Sadly many people never selling

anything. They ultimately end up wasting their

time which is a shame both for them and the

merchant as well.

Let's talk about three things you can do to make

some sales and help avoid wasting your time doing

affiliate marketing.

1. Use your products. It is amazing how many

affiliate marketers have not used the products they

are trying to sell.

One of the best things you can do is purchase your

own products if you are new to this kind of way to

make money. Once you have learned about it you

will find that selling the product is easier.

When using the product jot down what you like

about it and what you do not like. You will use this

in the next step.

2. Review what you have learned. Sending your

potential consumer directly to the affiliate sales

page is a bad idea.

A better approach is writing review pages where

you talk about the disadvantages and advantages

of the product you will be promoting. This is where

personally using the product is good.

Being honest in a review is actually a great sales tool.

Nobody believes that everything is 100% perfect so

it's okay to write things that you don't like about a

product as well.

As an affiliate marketer you are given free websites to

promote. You will want to start your own website

and then link it to the sales pages on your review

pages.

These used to be call pre sell pages. Today you really

do not want to pre-sell your prospects as much as

you want to just offer facts and opinions about the

product you are reviewing.

Writing a good review page will help in pre selling.

You can then link to your affiliate sales page with

a text link or banner ad.

3. Create a follow up system. This is an important

part of succeeding.

All you really need is an auto responder and a series

of messages to follow up with your prospects. Many

affiliate programs have a splash page or landing page

for you to promote.

Putting your landing page sign up form on your review

pages is a good thing to do. This is a way to get your

prospects name and email address before sending

them to your affiliate sales page.

You will find you waste less time on affiliate marketing

sales if you use the products, review them, and create

a future follow up system!