Are you just not cutting it in affiliate marketing? It is amazing how you see all the top affiliate marketers and internet marketing gurus showing you there checks as proof that affiliate marketing works, yet you can barely make a sale.

Here’s what they are doing and what you’re not.

The successful affiliate marketer carefully creates a blueprint for his/her affiliate marketing success. In order to see results (i.e a commission check), you’ve have got to follow a plan. Here is my simple strategy that you can use to take your affiliate marketing business to the next level:

1. Select a affiliate marketplace that has a ton of product. The reason why this is important is because you need to be able to have a array of products that relates to your niche. I recommend ClickBank because of it’s tenure and dependability of paying you your commissions on time. It is very important to have a reliable company, so that you don’t end up putting in a lot of hard work and effort, make sales and then not get paid. ClickBank’s reputation for paying as scheduled ( every 2 weeks) is paramount.

2. After you have found your marketplace, it is now time to choose a niche. Many marketers fail in this arena because they are simply trying to promote a different array of products to everyone. It just doesn’t work. I suggest that you go after an audience that is targeted to the audience you are trying to reach. After you have decided what that will be, then you will need to choose at least 4 products that compliment each other. for example, if you are targeting a golf audience, then a good thing to do would be to choose a product on how to perfect your golf swing, the best places to play golf, how to pay cheap green fees, and how to improve your score in 45 days or less. these are just examples, but I hope you get the picture.

3. Next you want to set up a website or blog (preferably a blog). You can get a free blog at WordPress or blogger. After you have set up your blog site, you need to make it relevant to what you are promoting. An example would be a golf blog with a golf them. Make sure that the title of your blog is relevant to your products. Choose strong keywords. A good way to find good keywords for your title, is to look at the descriptions of your selected products and also pay close attention to the words in the title. I sometimes use one of the titles of my selected products as a title for my blog site. for some reason, search engines love this!

4. Okay, next you need to write at least 3 articles on each one of your products, so for example, if you selected 4 products, then you would write 12 articles. These articles need to be keyword strong, but don’t overdo it. If for some reason, you don’t consider yourself an effective writer, then you can hire ghostwriters to write for you for a nominal fee. After you have your articles, it would be a good idea to place one a day on your blog and include the product affiliate links in the articles. After you have done that, you should also submit your articles to article directories. In most cases, you cannot include affiliate links in the articles themselves, however, you can place a link back to your blog in a resource box. A resource box is a small bio that you place at the end of your articles. It is important that you make your articles interesting enough that people will want to read down to your bio. That way, you have a better chance of them wanting to visit your site. Once they reach your site, it is a good chance that they might be interested in buying your affiliate products.

5. Submit your blog to every social bookmarking site that you can find. this really drives traffic and moves you up in the search engine ranks, as well. there are many sources. My favorites are stumbleupon, de.li.cio.us and feedshark. There are a ton of others that you can use. Just go to your favorite search engine and you will find them.

6. Put a sign up box on your site and give your readers a reason to sign up to your mail list. One good reason would be to give away a product that is related to what you are promoting. Sometimes, I bundle all of articles together in one report, convert it to .pdf, give it a title and give it away to my subscribers. I also give them rights to distribute that report to anyone or everyone. Why? because my links are embedded in the report and it gives me more opportunity to make more sales. Once you have captured their email address, keep in touch with them and share resources, tips and tools that they can use, which are related to your niche. This will not only brand you as an expert, it will also allow you to build trust and credibility with your subscribers. Don’t bombard them with sales offers. Once they trust you, they will come to you.

7. Another affiliate marketing success tip is to contact the authors of your niche products and set up interviews with them. You can promote this to your list as a live seminar, in which during the seminar, they will be given the opportunity to buy the author’s product, with your link of course, or as a bonus recording for joining your list.

These 7 things and more, if done as outlined, will make you a super affiliate marketer in no time.

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