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| How to make money from affiliate programs without spending a single dime on ads Part I of II
There is no doubt that the most successful group amongst online
entrepreneurs are affiliates. Few are willing to go public about
it but it is widely known that that there are a number of
affiliates comfortably raking in hundreds of thousands of
dollars in income every year. Actually there is one very
powerful advantage that online entrepreneurs involved in
affiliate programs have over their counterparts earning from
their own ecommerce web sites. And that is the fact that people
are usually bound to believe a person referring another web site
to them much more easily and quickly than one trying to promote
their own site. This coupled with the fact that the Internet is
an amazingly powerful referral marketing tool has made the rise
of online affiliates phenomenal within such a short time.
But there is one major stumbling block that affiliates face
today. And that is how to advertise their programs or how to
generate enough sales leads. To be successful in any online
venture a person needs numerous leads on an ongoing basis, that
way they will have a chance of turning as many of them as
possible into actual sales.
Many affiliates generate leads by finding ways of harvesting
email addresses of visitors to their web sites to create an
opt-in email list which they then use as leads to refer to their
affiliate sites. This is usually done via special links to the
sites that identify the particular affiliate through which a
visitor arrived at a certain site.
The more prosperous affiliates use pay-per-click ads. The
effectiveness of these ads is being eroded daily by the
increasing number of fraudsters and scum artists who have
invaded pay-per-click ads in droves. This has meant that out of
the total click-throughs a person receives and has to pay for,
an increasingly horrifying percentage are generated by
fraudsters who have no intention of buying anything from the
advertised web site.
That leaves one extremely effective form of online advertising
that is in fact free. This is free articles posted at various
targeted high traffic web sites.
The net is full of experts and many of them have been quoted as
saying that articles alone are not enough to generate the sort
of traffic that brings success. My advice is that people should
not be too quick to comment on and pass sweeping judgment on
subjects that they have only had brief experiences in. As you
read this there are an increasing number of online entrepreneurs
making serious money online using only articles as their
marketing tool. Including the writer of this particular article.
The other thing that has caused many to doubt the effectiveness
of articles is the fact that they are free. Free but effective?
Does it not sound too good to be true?
Actually although using articles as a marketing tool is free,
you will be required to spend time putting in lots of hard work
consistently, to really reap the rewards. So there is a price to
pay after all, although it is not in the form of hard cash.
In fact in many cases, used skillfully, articles can be much
more effective than web sites in generating quality leads.
Heres how.
(.....to be continued - see Part II of this article.)
About the author:
Christopher Kyalo is a writer/marketing expert who makes money
online only by posting free articles. Get his free course at
bizboom@freeautobot.com and visit his blog
http://big-online-story.blogspot.com. He can be reached at
strongwallafrica at yahoo.com.
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