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24 February 2010

Promoting Your Affiliate Products

Once you have your affiliate link, you're ready to go!

All you need to do as we have discussed earlier, to pre-sell your affiliate's products by marketing the same through your affiliate link. An affiliate link leads the potential buyer to affiliate merchant's payment processing page. Once you've managed to do it, your job is done and the affiliate merchant ships will take care of the rest. This system makes affiliate marketing a very convenient home-based business for everyone!

Pre-sales should be done through effective marketing strategies to make this project really profitable for you. These marketing strategies should be able to ensure a high conversion rate, or to convert people who would be exposed to your affiliate link to successful sales.

Here are some of the more popular types of marketing campaigns are used as promotional tools for this home based business:

Promoting your affiliate links through viral marketing. Viral marketing is a very powerful strategy that will quickly expose your business message or your affiliate links in this case, only a short period. Viral marketing tools usually involve ebooks, special reports and other information. We will discuss this effective promotional tactics for your home based business in the next lesson.

Marketing your affiliate links through forums. As we have discussed in previous articles, promotion in online communities is a cheap and effective way to spread the word about your products or website, including your affiliate links. You can try to be active in these forums, friends with other members if you are, and before you know it, you will have more traffic to your site and more referrals, which can rake in some good commissions for your home-based business.

Article marketing. As we have discussed in a previous article, to write articles and send them in different venues, with your resource box firmly attached at the end of each piece is a great way to promotion. People will scour the internet for information, and if you write something about what they're looking for, you will win their favor, and expose your affiliate links to them aswel. This could only redound to the benefit of your home based business.

Search Engine Optimization. As we mentioned earlier in these lessons, to have your own website would help a lot in marketing your affiliate links. If your site requires your affiliate links, you can always optimize the same for search engines and drive a humongous amount of traffic to your pages. All visitors you will always carry with him the chance to click your affiliate links.

Create your own mailing list. With a mailing list in place for your home business, you do not lose your visitors. You can always "catch" them, warm them up with an offer later or provide them with new packages that they might be interested in the future. Most successful affiliates make a killing with their mailing lists alone! We will discuss this in detail in the next few lessons.

These are just some of the ways you can promote your affiliate links. If done well, they could assure you a very successful business that will be easy to maintain as well.

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