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Do you want to make money through the Internet but you don’t have enough experience or capital to start your own online business? Marketing options exist for you online, so you don’t have to be worried. Affiliate marketing, is shall I say, the best.

Affiliate marketing provides first time online marketers like you the chance to market something online even without having your own product to sell. To start picking the products you want to promote which is usually owned by on an online merchant or retailer, all you have to do is sign up with an affiliate marketing program. As an affiliate, you are paid by the merchant for your services on a commission basis, that is whenever you have directed a visitor to the merchant’s site and the visitor actually buys something.

Signing up is also free for most affiliate programs and becoming an affiliate in an affiliate marketing program is often quick and easy. But despite these and all the benefits being promised by affiliate programs, many people are still hesitant to get into affiliate marketing. The lack of a website to start marketing his affiliate products with is one of the reasons why a lot of people remain hesitant. This now leads us to the question of whether a website is required or necessary in affiliate marketing or not.

Many people say that one can do affiliate marketing even without a website to start with. Even without a website, one can actually start promoting and marketing his affiliate products; and there exists a lot of ways on how this can be done. In fact, many affiliate marketing strategies that leads to success can exist without actually needing a website. For example, email marketing, offline promotions, writing e-books, writing ezines, and engaging in online discussion like forums, chats, message board, and others, are among these strategies.

Email Marketing

The most popular affiliate marketing strategy if you don’t maintain a website is Email marketing or maintain email lists. In this affiliate marketing strategy, what you basically do is maintain a list of the email addresses of your prospective customers and provide them with articles that are relevant with the affiliate products and programs you are promoting. Since many people find promoting emails annoying, there is no need to send them all the time. Rather, it would be better if you provide them with something informative and just add small text ads that link to your merchant’s site.

Offline Promotion

There are many ways on how you can promote your affiliate products offline. Among the common medium used for such promotions are classified ads, brochures and flyers. Often getting a wider audience from periodicals, classified ads would generally work better compared to other classified ads.

Writing Free e-books

The best way for you to promote your affiliate products in the absence of an actual website, is an e-book, if you have a knack for writing. Just like in emails and newsletters, your readers would better appreciate your e-book if it is not too promotional but rather informative. However, relative to the actual affiliate products you are promoting, make the contents of your e-books relative. Linking to the merchant’s site, you can, just like email, place a text or banner ad.

Writing Free Ezines

Ezines inform individuals about a particular topic as publications. If you don’t have a website and yet want to be an affiliate, you can well use ezines to promote your affiliate products or to insert links to your merchant’s site. If you have a website, your ezine article may actually work well as content for your site. But since you have no website, you can just submit your free ezine articles to various websites that hosts ezines, like goarticles.com, ezinearticles.com and others.

Online discussions (Forums, Chats, Message Boards, etc.)

As great venues for marketing your affiliate products, you just can’t ignore online discussions with or without a website. In chats, forums, message boards and discussion boards with topics related to your products, you can easily find people who may be interested with the products you are promoting.

It may appear that one really doesn’t need to have a website to start marketing his affiliate products and promoting his affiliate programs, with all these strategies. Getting successful in affiliate marketing without a website is an entirely different from starting an affiliate program, which is by itself fairly easy. The possible, it is a rare instance that “newbies” like you can reach the same levels of success in affiliate marketing without a website.

It is not usually a pre-requisite, unless the program owner would require having a website. But while this is so, I would still recommend that you have for yourself a website, if not now, then maybe at a later time. Having a website creates a lot of advantages in affiliate marketing. For one, it provides you a place where you can creatively promote not only one of your affiliate products but all of your affiliate products. You can also advertise your affiliate products to a wider market, with a website.

In affiliate marketing, once again, having your own website is not a requirement. But with the advantages that a website can provide, I’d rather have one for myself and make affiliate marketing a lot easier for me.

I personally choose to have a website or a base where I can control the traffic and decide where to send them to or how to pre-sell them before sending them off to another site. After all, I work hard to gather this traffic so I should have more control and at least build a mailing with them! Head on over to Killer Preseller as they provide a great free resources for affiliates like us!

Just lately I joined a free membership website called Killer Preseller. This rare site gives you free pre-sell page templates that you should use to advertise particular ClickBank products.

Why Use Landing Pages?

One of the biggest mistakes newbie affiliates make is linking directly to an affiliate product owner’s website without creating their own pre-sell page. By creating a presell page you enable your web page to rank in the major search engines for beneficial keywords that would, in any other case, not be possible by direct linking.

Not only that, but related to promoting via PPC, Google will see that your website is highly related and can reward you with lower price-per-clicks and a top quality rating allowing you to get the most out of your clicks!

With these reasons alone it makes good sense to have a pre-sell page to your affiliate campaign. Not only are you keeping the major search engines pleased, you are ‘pre-selling’ your visitors.

Assuming you do a very good review of the product, covering the good factors, bad factors, and giving an unbiased opinion you will achieve the visitor’s trust as they know precisely what to anticipate and will probably be more inclined to buy.

What Makes A Superb Landing Web Page?

A superb pre-sell web page must flow nicely and not scream ‘buy me’ like a sales web page does. However at the same time it should pre-sell the customer for the offer ahead, and get them off your pre-sell page. The Elite templates in Killer Preseller have a really good feel to them with a clear design and large web page breaks throughout to keep the reader’s attention. Outbound links are added from time to time to ensure that your visitor ultimately clicks by way of your link. Even the free templates are nicely designed, concise and straight to the point.

After that you will have excellent copy. If you do not know your area of interest or the product for that matter it’ll show and should deter your visitor. Once more the templates in Killer Preseller are of top quality with every detail in regards to the product covered, from the contents, who it’s right for, whether or not it is worth your time, and a over-all scoring system.

Do I Need To Know What I Am Promoting?

Super affiliates are always picky about what product they promote and can go a long way into researching it if it’s worth their time. It is smart to know what you’re promoting and if you want to go the extra mile, you should buy the product beforehand and go through it it yourself. Thankfully, once you join Killer Preseller they’ll have already bought the product and absolutely reviewed it. In case you select to go Elite you also get the advantage of video presentations which are an enormous benefit particularly in the event you’ve never touched video before or too camera shy to create your own.

How Much Can I Make As An Affiliate?

How much you make is fully dependent in your drive and talent. If you want to promote a ‘drop extra pounds’ product for instance, and simply add your landing web page and do nothing, you’re not going to see a lot in the way of results. You would be lucky to even get a sale.

However, when you follow their directions and promote your landing web page through article submissions, software submissions, press-releases social networking, social bookmarking, forums and more then it becomes worth your time.

So Is There Value Joining?

Absolutely, yes! Not only are they handing out free landing pages for you each month, however you are getting the research done so you recognize which area of interest is worthwhile and which product inside that area of interest is an efficient earner. You even have the possibility to upgrade to Elite and that offers you increased high quality templates with 2 video presentations, more content material, an optin box and a professional website template which is certainly value it in my opinion because you can make your money back with 1 commission sale and build your own list of buyers!

Where Do I Go?

Make sure you grab your free affiliate website templates! You might want to be fast however, I can’t imagine them leaving the doors for any more than a few days in an effort to limit the amount affiliate marketers using the same pages!

View a sample of the free presell landing page here:

I’m not going to lie to you. Affiliate marketing is hard if you don’t know what you’re doing. Sure it’s easy to sign up with all the affiliate merchants, collect your affiliate link and banners for as many products as possible with the intention of promoting all the products but it’s just not going to happen unless you have a proven strategy.

Here are 3 tips to help you create powerful landing pages that will not only add more buyers to your subscriber list but also rank you high in the search engine results page.

Tip 1 – Include a sign-up form to build a buyer’s list.

This is important! You want to collect the names and Emails of every single person that lands on your page. If they’ve happily given you their information you are allowed to follow up with them and finalize any missed sales. Not only that but you’ll be able to build a database of trusted buyers who will respond highly to you in the future if you’ve got another interesting product to promote either as an affiliate or a product of your own!

Tip 2 – Include a bonus package for buying through you!

People actually ‘Google’ product names for reviews and bonuses. They want to see what exactly a product is about without all the hype and want to see what bonuses are available for that product. When they’ve made a decision to buy they want to see who’s offering the best bonus package. Make a mental note of this because this is your chance to shine and out-do your competition!

Tip 3 – Optimize your landing page for specific keywords!

Don’t waste your time trying to target the highly competitive keywords that all the mainstream websites are after. You’re much better off picking a handful of high-targeted keywords based around the product’s name, a review of the product’s name, problems with the product’s name, the product’s name with ‘bonus’, and so on. Add these keywords and phrases to your title tags, meta description tags, h1 tags, h2 tags and on the first and last paragraph of your page. Not only will you find it easier to rank highly in the search engine results page but you’ll be attracting the ‘buying’ traffic that you’re after.

Creating quality templates can be a time-consuming process but fortunately, you can pick up a new free template every month from Killer Preseller. The free templates come with minimal presentation but with enough pre-sell copy for you to make affiliate commission. They do give you the chance to upgrade your templates so it’s worth checking out!

Make sure you grab your free affiliate website templates! You might want to be fast however, I can’t imagine them leaving the doors for any more than a few days in an effort to limit the amount affiliate marketers using the same pages!

View a sample of the free presell landing page here:

View a sample of the paid presell landing page here:

Well, we have come to the final lesson in the Guide to Learning How to Pre Sell series. I sure hope you have enjoyed your lessons and learned a lot about how preselling can help you increase profits for your business.

In this final lesson we are going to talk about how you can leverage video as a valuable preselling tool.

Did you know that advertising experts estimate that about three in every four young adults and six out of 10 adults in the United States are regularly watching and downloading online videos?

The fact is that online videos are one of the best and fastest ways to reach mainstream audiences on a global scale. That is why so many marketers and advertisers are migrating to the Internet to launch their preselling and advertising campaigns.

Online video advertising is considered to be the best way to leverage preselling and advertising campaigns by companies big and small all over the world.

It is quite obvious that these days, more television advertisements are migrating to broadband and online interactive broadcast. This makes the Internet more powerful as an advertising medium. Why would people not patronize the online media when everything they need and want to hear, see and read could be accessed anytime, anywhere in just several clicks of the mouse? Ad agencies and marketers are now focused on leveraging interactive broadcast and fast Internet in the complicated media environment.

Television is providing reach and emotion, while online videos fulfill reach, emotion and another effectiveness factor: metrics. Modern forms of Internet-based video advertising, like viral video distribution, long-form video, streaming, embedded and desktop push, are somehow replacing 30-second TV spots. Online video advertisers note that audience’s ‘time-spent’ on watching video ads is the new advertising measurement.

A 2006 study conducted by online ad server DoubleClick found that advertising online using videos is becoming a popular medium of choice in driving consumers’ awareness and eventually, actual sales. The number of companies and businesses taking advantages of online video advertising has grown strongly through the years.

What proofs should be looked at to further justify the effectiveness of online video advertising? First, several online behavior studies conclude that Internet readers and surfers are more likely to click ‘Play’ buttons than image ads. The probability that Website visitors would click play and replay buttons is twice as high compared to the probability that the same Internet users would click standard GIF and JPG ad formats.

Without much ado, anyone could easily conclude that video ad click rates are much greater than standard image format ads. This is because video advertisements could convey or communicate a story through motion and sounds. This way, Internet video ads are suitable as a format for brand awareness. Needless to say, click-through rates of online video ads are much higher than those of plain GIF and JPG image ads.

The advertising industry has already realized that online video advertising could more effectively leverage preselling and advertising campaigns. From being a relatively small segment of the total ad market in 2005, online video ads have grown tremendously to become one of the top and most important ad segments. Many advertisers, marketers and companies recognize the need to launch their ad campaigns through online video ads.

To be more effective in preselling products and services online, you should understand how you could better catch attention and trust of online audience and prospective buyers. Many Websites are now into preselling. Thus, to outpace and overcome them, you need to make your own online site more effective in catching online visitors’ attention. The use of online videos for marketing could be in your advantage.

As we close this finale lesson I would like to thank you again for joining me and I sincerely hope that you have learned a lot about how to use basic preselling techniques to increase your profits!

Use These Free PreSell Landing Pages

I hope you are learning a lot from the Guide to Learning How to Pre Sell series. We’re winding down to the end of this short course, but we still have a couple of effective techniques to go over that will help you on your journey to becoming a preselling pro.

Today we are going to talk about effective preselling through article marketing.

Article marketing is a strategic sales and business tool because it is generally designed to presell products and services to the market. For many years now, marketing experts have been using articles to promote and advertise products and services. Many businesses, both big and small, will be glad to tell you that good article marketing can really help boost sales and revenue. That is why almost all companies are in some way are launching article marketing campaigns.

If you are want to make article marketing part of your marketing plan, it is important to write good articles that attract prospective clients and direct them to your sales copy.

Article writing is different in other forms of writing in the sense that article marketing content has definite and immediate purposes that can easily and immediately be gauged by looking at sales and revenues.

Through the years, many companies and marketing firms can attest that this marketing strategy really works. Article marketing is very effective in bringing in higher returns and profits. That is the reason why after all the popularity of article marketing has yet to diminish.

Article marketing is actually preselling, wherein consumers’ mindsets are conditioned to consider buying products and services.

In essence, an article marketing copy is made up of the usual elements and components of an ordinary article. It has a heading or a title, which is designed and written to appropriately convey the basic idea of the content. The title is also made very catchy and interesting enough to catch the attention of the readers.

Of course, the body of the article marketing copy is where the content is detailed and discussed in full extent. Within the content or text should be found the product details as well as the information about the company or business that is making and distributing the product. There should also be videos and helpful reviews.

Through the years, article marketing has also been termed as a conventional press release. The press release or communication division of such firms would get in touch with newspapers and magazines, where the articles would be posted and published. In other words, they are providing free content for newspapers.

Also, article marketing these days is integrated with the concept of search engine optimization. Through that, article marketing copies are easier to retrieve and read online. Popular sites containing such outputs are usually the easiest to get access to. The more accessible the site or content becomes, the more effective any article marketing output becomes. In the end, the advertiser or marketer would stand to gain from such efforts.

Article marketing has truly become a “must do” promotion methods for any form of business and is the main element of preselling.

Don’t forget to grab your free presell templates!