An affiliate program is not the investment; the work you put into promoting the program will be your investment.

Promoting your affiliate programs will be the only real way to turn them into money makers. To successfully promote a program, usually takes time, money and testing.

You will take weeks and weeks that turn into months and months to really get everything flowing, so expect this and enjoy it. Every second of your time spent promoting, marketing, selling, advertising, running a web site and whatever else you decide to do to promote your programs, this time is precious learning experience. Keep these learnings.

It will take money to promote you affiliate programs, but something is true: Later on, you will be able to use the income that you are earning to pay for the costs of maintenance, marketing and advertising.

Of course it’s a good idea to promote your programs in person, but in this writing I’m going to focus on online promotion. A person can promote an affiliate program or even multiple programs from a web site; all it takes is good information and some visitors.

The key to promoting anything with a web site is traffic. If you don’t have visitors that are already looking for the types of opportunities that you provide then you won’t be making any money from your web site.

Before I go on, I’ve got to tell you that showing your visitor an advertisement in hopes that they click and buy is one of the least effective ways to make sales as an affiliate.

So what do we do?

When a visitor gets to your site, one of two things must happen. Either the visitor signs up for your email list (we’ll talk about this here) or the visitor reads information that pre-sells them on what you are promoting.

When I say ‘pre-sell’, I mean that you will teach the visitor about things that require them or inspire them to click on and follow your desired action.

In this writing, the ‘desired action’ will usually be clicking on an affiliate link, but before the visitor clicks, you should have already informed them about why they need to follow through and buy.

You definitely don’t need to show them a sales letter; most likely, when they click through and visit the site that you promote, they will be presented with a sales letter. Your task is to provide useful content that relates to and builds desire for the programs that you promote.

Side note:
It’s easier to get a web site than you would think; I’ve provided detailed information about getting your own site on this page.

Find programs that convert visitors to buyers, and track your marketing; if one of your marketing methods or advertising ventures doesn’t work out, do something different for a change.

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Before I talk any further about promoting and marketing affiliate programs, I would like you to understand how to test your promotions. It's easy and it gives you a way to be sure that your marketing is effective.

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