6 Ways To Improve Your Affiliate Marketing Commissions

Affiliate marketing does not require you to have your own website. This is
one of the easiest ways of starting an internet business and earning
additional revenue.

Here are 6 ways you can use to improve your affiliate marketing commissions
very rapidly.

1. Investigate and learn the first-rate programs and products to promote.

Clearly, you would want to develop a program that will qualify you to
realize the greatest profits in the shortest amount of time. There are a few
factors you should weigh when selecting a program. Select the ones that have
an ample commission structure and products that fit in with your target
market. You will want to pick a merchant with a solid track record of paying
their affiliate's smoothly and on time.

There are several thousands of affiliate programs online giving you the
option to be finicky. You need to distinguish the best to avoid the loss of
your advertising dollars. If you cannot seem to advance your interest's,
drop that program and keep looking for better ones.

2. Author free reports or short ebooks to give away from your site.

Understand that you are competing with other affiliates promoting the very
same program. If you write a brief report related to the product you are
promoting, you will be able to stand out from the other affiliates and
garner trust with your prospects. In the reports, supply some beneficial
information for free. If feasible, add some recommendations about the
products. With ebooks, you gain credibility. Prospects will see that in you
and they will be enticed to try out what you are offering.

3. Gather and save the email addresses of those who download your free
ebooks.

It is a known fact that people do not make a purchase on the first exposure.
You may need to send out your message an additional six to seven times to
make a sale. This is the exact reason why you should gather the contact
information of those who downloaded your reports and ebooks . You can make
follow-ups on these contacts to prompt them to make a purchase from you. Get
the contact information of prospects before sending them to the supplier's
website. If you send prospects straight to the suppliers, chances are they
will disappear from your income stream forever. When you get their names,
you can always send other marketing messages to them to attain a continuing
commission versus a one time only sale.

4. Publish an online newsletter or ezine.

It is frequently best to recommend a product to a person you know rather
than selling to a stranger. This is the motive behind publishing your own
newsletter. An ezine allows you to evolve a relationship based on trust and
familiarity with your subscribers. This strategy is a fragile balance
between providing helpful information with a sales pitch. If you continue to
write informative editorials you will be able to construct a sense of
reciprocity in your readers that may lead them to support you by buying your
products.

5. Ask for a higher than usual commission from merchants.

If you are already prospering with a certain promotion, you should attempt
to approach the merchant and discuss a percentage commission for your sales.
If the merchant is shrewd, he or she will likely grant your request rather
than lose a profitable asset in you. Keep in mind that you are a no-risk
investment to your merchant, so do not hold yourself back when requesting a
bump in your commissions. Just be sensible and professional in the way you
go about it.

6. Compose compelling pay Per Click ads.

PPC advertising is an extremely effective and profitable means of promotion
online. As an affiliate, you can make a decent income just by managing PPC
campaigns. There are several places for PPC advertising, Google AdWords and
Yahoo! Search Marketing being the foremost. You would then want to monitor
them to see which ads are effectual and which ones you should dump.

Try out these strategies and see how quickly they can improve your
commission checks and overflow your bank account. Remember if something
isn't giving you the results you desire then dump that strategy or program
and find something that does.

Copyright 2006 C Dawn Drury

About The Author: The author, Dawn Drury, has been in sales and marketing on
and offline for years and enjoys helping other people to attain their own
financial goals. For more information please visit
http://www.attainmoneyonline.com