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Affiliate Marketing Means Using Email-Marketing
by David McKenzie
As an affiliate in an affiliate program you need to be good at
affiliate marketing. One of the most important aspects of
affiliate marketing is email-marketing.
Get it right and you will be a successful affiliate. Get it
wrong and you will be just another affiliate statistic. (It is
estimated that between 80% and 90% of affiliates make little
or no money from affiliate programs)
What email-marketing methods work best to be a successful
affiliate?
Here are 3 methods that consistently produce the best results
for affiliates:
1. Developing a Newsletter
You MUST have a personal newsletter that goes out on a regular
basis. Just because you're an affiliate doesn't mean you
should not have a newsletter.
A newsletter with valuable information lets you build an email
list. Then you can market your affiliate programs through
articles and ezine ads in your own newsletter. I personally
have experienced some excellent results by promoting affiliate
programs I belong to in ezine ads.
I know I personally have clicked on thousands of ezine ads in
newsletters!
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A great way to build an email list is to run a free email
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You package some of your content into an email course running
over perhaps a few weeks and offer it for free to subscribers.
What you can do is have links at the bottom of each
email promoting a different affiliate program.
For example, if you offered a 5-part email course you could
promote 5 different affiliate programs in each email.
In each email would be a link to a different affiliate program.
Each link would have your unique affiliate code.
3. Offer an Ebook Download
Another great way to build an email-marketing list as an
affiliate is to offer a free ebook download. You can offer the
download via autoresponder so that an email goes out to each
subscriber giving them the download page.
In that email you could promote a few of your affiliate
programs.
You can also promote affiliate programs by having links
throughout the ebook. However be careful not to just provide
an ebook full of links - you want to provide quality
information first and the affiliate program links second.
Email-marketing is an essential tool for the successful
affiliate. Use it properly and you will see some fantastic
results!
About the Author
David McKenzie is offering a Free Email Course
"5 Tips to Being Successful with Affiliate Programs"
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