Affiliate Program SOP

How To Use IMeye For Affiliate Marketing.

Using IMeye for general affiliate marketing, let’s say you want to run c p a offers or something like that, how does IMeye help you with that. The first thing you need to do is get a little bit more generic and just look for opportunities and let the keywords find you. You can look for an Adwords opportunity to run a cpa offer or any affiliate offer, wiyh IMeye you will know it when you see it because you will be given opportunities, all you need to do is find a great CPA or affiliate offer to monetize it.

The first thing you need to do when you are using IMeye for affiliate marketing is to find the opportunities, you do this by starting with the monthly searches because you need keyword phrases with a lot of search volume for affiliate offers than you do for SEO opportunities because the average click through rate for a ppc campaign is about 2%, you will need to find keyword phrases that will generate at least a 100 clicks per day to make it worth doing, that means you need about 150 thousand searches per month as 2% of that amounts to about 100 clicks a day.

You tell IMeye that you don’t want any keywords with less than 150 thousand searches a month. Don’t worry about the amount of competing pages because you are not trying to compete from a SEO prospective. When it comes to the cost per click you don’t want to pay more that 20 cents a click, hopefully you will pay a lot less. Set the keyword phrase length to a minimum of three keywords as this will be a highly targeted keyword phrase. Set the keyword position to between 1 and 3.

Once you have entered this information in to IMeye it will return pages and pages of keyword phrases with enough search volume, that means at least 150 thousand a month and in most cases you will see much more search volume than that, those keyword phrases will be at least 3 keywords in length, that means they are pretty long tail keywords and that someone is actually looking to buy something rather than just surfing the web.

All this is great for letting the opportunity find you because you can make something of it by running a profitable CPA campaign or any affiliate campaign.

IMeye can also help you if you already have a offer that you want to run with, you just need to filter the search in a different way. The first thing you would do is get rid of the minimum 3 keyword phrase and add in the affiliate categories and tell imeye to only give you keywords where other people have run campaigns.

Now imeye will show you a box with alphabetically listed niche categories that you can choose from, you just need to pick a particular niche that you are interested in and imeye will return tons of keywords for that niche, this is great if you already know what kind of opportunities you are looking for.

Hopefully this gives you some kind of idea of the power of IMeye and using it for affiliate marketing is just one of the many ways to use it.

To being a successful affiliate you need to know about the tools that will make you successful. Domain name forwarding is a good tool that should be used by all affiliates. New affiliates dont take advantage of it, because they want to build an online business for free, and thats why most of new affiliates fail.

Domain name forwarding is a service that provides you an option to hide your ugly affiliate link without any technical knowledge. Yes, there are some other methods to hide affiliate link for free like TinyURL.com, but there are a number of benefits of domain name forwarding and masking. Here are they:

You can hide your affiliate link as well as you can completely hide the URL of merchant site. For this, you just need to mask your domain name over the merchant sites URL while forwarding your domain.
Affiliate marketing is a trail-and-error process, if you find that your merchant site is not converting any sale, then you can change your affiliate program/product without changing your domain name.
If you choose short and descriptive domain name, then it will be memorable for your possible customers and it will increase your sale.
These days people are more aware about affiliate link and they are more likely to buy a product if they dont see any affiliate like.

So the question is how you will choose domain name hosting, forwarding and masking services.

There are so many web hosting companies those provide all these type of service. You just need to choose any of them and buy a domain name. Lots of companies will offer you to buy a domain name for fewer than ten dollars for a whole year. You can buy .net, .info, .com or many others that fit on your affiliate product.

Once you buy your domain name, login in your account and choose the manage domains tab. Thereafter, you should click on forwarding tab. You will get instructions to paste your affiliate link. You should choose the affiliate link where you want to forward your domain. Finally, click on update or save change tab and your work have been done.

Now if you want to hide the URL of merchant site, then you can hide it by URL masking. Just click masking on or masking enable tab while forwarding a domain. This service is very beneficial while promoting an internet marketing product.

Successful affiliates dont hesitate to invest a little money on new affiliate marketing tools. Domain name forwarding will give you many benefits while promoting an affiliate product. The biggest benefit of it is you can change you affiliate products without any hassle if you find that your affiliate product is not converting sales.

Mentors, when it comes to affiliate marketing and a variety of other endeavors, can really make the difference between total frustration and lucrative profits. The biggest reason for why people enter into the affiliate marketing world in the first place is to build a significant amount of residual income.

The biggest problem that arises for most new affiliate marketers is that they realize that programs need to be promoted in order for them to make money. In order for affiliate marketing programs to be successful, it is vital for traffic streams to be not only created, but also consistently grown. Auto responders also need to be in place to ensure success. Leads need to be generated, and ads absolutely must be tracked. All of this must be converted into sales. Can you imagine all of that work? Perhaps having an affiliate marketing mentor can make everything simpler for you.

This is exactly why it is important for you to have an affiliate marketing mentor. An affiliate marketing mentor can explain all of these different concepts to you, and all of the respective importance as well. This is absolutely crucial when it comes to shortening the learning curve that you have to deal with. If you want to eliminate a lot of the trial and error from your affiliate marketing endeavors, one of the most efficient choices that you can make is to begin working with an affiliate marketing mentor.

Most of the internet marketing gurus out there had to go through all of the trial and error involved with starting a new business. They had no mentors to turn to, so they had to make the mistakes that you can now avoid. Rather than making these same mistakes that the mentors out there have already made, you can take advantage of the knowledge and experience that they have gained over several years and a great deal of money worth of trial and error. There are plenty of affiliate marketing success stories out there who are more than willing to share the results of their trial and error with you. They know the difference between the marketing “secrets” that aren’t real, and the “strategies” that are.

Affiliate marketing successes know that everyone can make money through affiliate marketing, so rather than sell secrets that do not get results, they are willing to share their strategies to anyone who is willing to listen and to learn. If you are interested in getting into affiliate marketing, and you feel a little overwhelmed by all of the information that you need to take in, working with an affiliate marketing mentor can be the answer that you need.

You can’t learn everything you need to know from an eBook, a sales page, or a series of articles. You should work personally with an internet marketing mentor instead in order to get the serious results that you have been hoping to achieve.

The anatomy of a sale has not changed over the hundreds of years that we as humans have been selling to one another. First there is the offer, and then there is the counter offer, the exchange of money and the delivery of the product or service, affectionately known as “the close.”

If only it was that simple, right? The problem is that normally a person will never take the first offer and as such most sales people give up and don’t know the anatomy of a sale. When each step in the sales process is handled correctly, the close is the natural conclusion to a successfully followed sales process. If research tells us anything it is that: “You Can Not Take “NO” For an Answer!”

In the anatomy of a sale, most internet marketers or sales people have the following disposition;

* 48% of them will quit after the 1st contact where the buyer says NO.

* 73% will quit after the 2nd contact.

* 85% will quit after the 3rd contact.

* 90% will quit after the 4th contact.

Because of these startling numbers is it no wonder why over 80% of the sales will go to only 10% of the marketers who refuse to take No for an answer. Now obviously in today’s internet marketing world it would be impossible for you to maintain contact with so many people over such a long period of time. That is the reason that we discussed the power of auto responders in our prior newsletter. The auto responder will handle this process for you almost guaranteeing that you will have a sale in the future.

So when you are setting up your email campaign, you want to automatically plan to send out no less than 3 emails where you do nothing but provide the reader with good, valuable, and viable information. By looking at the chart above, you will note that you have already bypassed over 85% of your competition. If you remember correctly we made a recommendation that you do not make a product recommendation except for every 3 to 6 months, now you know why; it puts you ahead of the power curve.

Remember ultimately that your objective is to get people to click through your affiliate link to get them to buy a product or service. How you go about doing that is totally up to you. I would recommend that you do some further research into the art of the sale and how to do the soft sell. The most powerful tool in your tool box is the auto responder. Make sure that you use it.

An interesting corollary statistic that coincides with the above chart is that:

* Only 2% to 3% of the people will buy at the first to second sales contact.

* Only 3% to 5% of the people will buy at the third to fourth sales contact.

* Only 6% to 8% of the people will buy at the fifth to sixth sales contact.

* Only 8% to 10% of the people will buy at the seventh sales contact.

* Over 80% of the people buy when at or over the 8th sales contact.

So again, maintaining a good relationship with your readers is critical. Also critical is that when you do make a product offer you should plan on making that offer no less that eight times. How you do that is totally up to you. I would recommend that you push the soft sale with your post script for the first four to six contacts. Then really make an offer/product recommendation for the seventh, eighth, and ninth contacts and then a final email for that particular campaign thanking all recipient’s that decided to buy with some testimonials thrown into the mix on how much success they are having and a sorry you missed the opportunity to those that decided not to buy. That way the next time you make a product offer those that waited the last time might be more prone to act the second time around.

To your success in all you do

E. Alan Cowgill

PS. Go online and research some of those mini-sites that we talked about that are referred to as “long sales copy” so that you can get some ideas about the proper flow of a sales offer and get some ideas you can implement into your sales process.

The most successful affiliate marketing entrepreneurs usually know something about the niche that they operate in. If they don’t know something already, then they will do their research to widen their knowledge. Here are some ideas on what you can sell to make your online income. Remember, if you already have some knowledge on a particular area, start out with that and then widen your scope.

Online marketing. Funny enough, this is one of the biggest revenue earning areas for affiliate marketing. Sites like Clickbank offer the opportunity to promote eBooks on a range of marketing topics. Popular topics range from how to successfully create a video for YouTube promotion to mobile marketing secrets to information about search engine manipulation. There are so many people who are interested in making a dollar online that you won’t run out of people to market to.

Health products. This is another hot spot in the world of affiliate marketing. People who are suffering with a complaint don’t always want to wait for a doctor’s appointment to come around, they want to solve their issue as fast as possible so will turn to the internet for answers.

Education. Dog training, early education and languages are included in this arena. Typical commissions range from $3.00 per sale up to $25. By being in the right place as the right time, you can catch the eye of the many who are looking to broaden their horizons and have a thirst for knowledge.

Business and investing. This area includes Forex investment systems and training on how to play the stock market for success. Along with the online marketing niche, investment has one of the biggest commission rates for the affiliate marketing salesperson. You can expect to receive anything between $20 and $70 per sale.

Whichever niche you elect to promote, you should aim to receive quality training in online marketing. Courses worth considering will include step by step training videos, support with product selection and guidance on how to be productive. The best courses will even provide you with websites to get a quick start, you will then be guided on how to optimise them for the search engines.

Affiliate marketing can bring a lot of profit for the committed and the determined. It’s work that can be done from home, but it’s essential to work to a schedule as you are likely to make more money. Even if you decide that it’s not for you, once you know how to do it, it’s something that you can fall back on to bring in a second income or you could even use it as a way to make money by showing other people how to do it.

Copyright (c) 2012 Andrew Holtom