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What to promote, why to promote
November 20, 2008 |
This is a very important question to ask yourself before entering any marketing campaign or signing any affiliate agreement because what to promote and why to promote is the core of any marketing plan or campaign.
First let us divide it into two sections and then answer them separately. First, what to promote. Virtually you can sign in to any affiliate marketing agreement to promote any product that you like but not choosing carefully what to promote can affect your payment a lot. Let us see how. First of all you have to promote a product or embed a link for a merchant site that is similar to the content of your website for example can you imagine putting a link for a stuffed ted bears store in your political site . This will decrease dramatically the incidence that one of your visitors will click the link to the merchant site so you have to choose carefully the product or the business that you are promoting to suite with the content with your site because in that way you are targeting the right group of people who have the affinity to hear about a product that interests them. After you do this rest assured that you will receive a fat check of commission and in order to make it fatter you just need to figure out how you can increase the number of visitors to your website because this will always increase the incidence of visiting the merchant website.
For the second part of the question which is why to promote the answer is very simple and need no thinking, simply for the money that will keep coming on regular basis once you establish the mechanism in a right way. For this to happen in a smooth way, you have to have a website with a reasonable traffic and you are promoting a decent product that suits the type of visitors of your website. That will make you happy every time you check your bank account and see it always with green numbers and no negative sign in the balance. There are three known ways to get paid in an affiliate marketing program. First to be paid in regard to the number of visitors who entered the merchant site through the link on your web site and this is the simplest form. To go a little bit up for something that pays more, you will be paid when the visitor hits the link and register with the merchant site and the last choice will be the payment when the customer purchases the product. Of course payment is proportional with the action required to be done by the customer. For example, in case of a pay per click the payment is every hundred or thousand clicks but in pay per sale the payment is against every purchase done through the link on your website. Generally, you have to choose the method according to the amount of traffic you normally have and the nature of your website.
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