Affiliate Marketing Madness
So, you want to make money on the internet, huh? Well guess what? so do 176,853,287 other people! But fear not, we’re not going to worry about that because we’re gonna arm you with the tricks of the trade that’ll have you winning in this extremely competitive arena.
Listen-
When you’re just a guppy in this sea of man-eaters who are trying to sell the very same product to the very same people you’d better have a “hook” that’ll grab your potential customer by the eyeballs, and get them drooling for your product more than Anyone Else’s!
Every niche market on the Internet is highly competitive. If you find that the competition is acting like they’re in a knock-down, drag out brawl, that means that “the fish are bitin!” If you find that you and a couple of other marketers are the only one’s in the particular niche (area of interest) it isn’t competitive.
Therefore it can’t possibly have much of a customer base to sell to. In other words, if you were to try to sell in this kind of market, you may as well roll up your hundred dollar bills and smoke ‘em! Hell, you might as well hire the three stooges to do the marketing for you, while you file bankruptcy!
Maybe you do have a long and impressive list of paid customers. That’s great! It means you have already won several of the affiliate marketing contests and come out on top. The problem is there are always those up and coming marketers who want your customers on their lists.
Your list and your competitor’s lists may well contain many of the same names and email addresses. Just having a list will not be enough to assure you of a victory when selling an affiliate product. You have to design some offensive plays that will assure that your customers buy from you and not from your competitors.
So, you ask, what is it that I can do that will assure that my customers will buy from me? The answer is just one word… unique!
Baloney! that is exactly what every other marketer that ends up wasting their money and time is thinking…unique.
Listen-what makes the average person want to buy something is this: EMOTION!! Never forget that. Your ad copy has to hit every emotional trigger in order to be able to gently guide them to the final act…Make The Purchase!
Now, You also have to be unique…unique in your approach. You have to offer something that sets you completely apart from your competitors. You have to make your offer for a product or service for which you are an affiliate, heavily laced with emotional appeal, and that in turn makes your offer more attractive than others.
You’ve also got to be an honest person. Your honesty has got to show through your marketing. One way is to have established yourself as an expert in the field for which the product or service is being sold. You have to have become not only visible but credible, as well. This visibility and credibility is not easily achieved. It takes a lot of hard work, time and effort.
Visibility and credibility are established by taking such measures as writing and marketing articles and E-Books, posting to blogs and forums, appearing as an expert on teleseminars and webinars, etc. The fact is that when people know you and trust you, they buy from you. They will buy from you even if your competitors are offering a better deal or more incentives…unless they see one of my ads, then you’re done! 
People do not like to buy from strangers. The Internet is a big impersonal and even frightening place to many consumers. They want to feel like they know and trust the people that they buy products and services from. The time, effort and energy that you put into becoming visible and credible is the best time, effort and energy investment that you will ever make.
Big Tip-Reputation is everything in the world of Internet marketing.
Here’s a little secret that I use on every product offering that keeps my friends coming back for more, Over deliver! Don’t tell them, just let them find out themselves after the purchase. Give them a bunch of GOOD extra stuff that they didn’t think they were getting. The key word is Good. make sure that the extra stuff is high quality material that will choke ‘em with tears of thankfulness!
No matter what the niche or what the product is that is being marketed, there are free gifts that you can find that will make the product a better value if it is purchased from you. But don’t get stupid here, if you see someone offering a product that is costing you $79.00 and they’re gonna give you 32 bonuses valued at $7,655.50…what’s the first thing that pops into your head? “C’mon, do you think I’m an idiot, this must be some kind of crap!”
So, don’t get ridiculous with the bonuses, it makes you look like some kinda scammer!
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