ALL Affiliate Marketers Begin With the Same Small Baby Step
When you haven’t yet developed your own internet marketing information, software or audio-video training products, affiliate marketing is the least complicated and easiest way to start earning an income online from your work-from-home office. Don’t be fooled by guru offers that tell you a website or web page is not necessary. To be viewed as a professional affiliate marketer, one or both is absolutely essential.
The learning curve for building a web site or web page with HTML is so intimating for many affiliate newbie would-be’s, they won’t even take the First Baby Step. Here is your solution. I’ve been using Kompozer for more than 2 years, an Open Source, free to download WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Editor, considered superior to many Editors costing $97.00 or more. Ready to get started building your first web page? Download Kompozer at http://kompozer.net/download.php.
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Your Primary Goal and Objective
Your mission, Mr. Newbie Affiliate Marketer, if you decide to accept it, is hardly Mission Impossible! You will learn how to efficiently and effectively drive huge amounts of traffic to your main web site, including landing, squeeze and affiliate funnel pages, and bring back to Database Central the names and email addresses of thousands of potential customers.
Question: Why would you drive traffic to an affiliate link that passes through to the seller’s product sales page? Answer: Don’t you think that’s a little like “putting the cart before the horse?”
It only stands to reason, then, that your First Goal and Major Objective is in the building of a huge potential customer base. Don’t try to reinvent the wheel. Do what has been time-tested and time-proven to earn a full-time income as a professional affiliate marketer.
Affiliate Traffic Tip No. 1 for Newbie Affiliate Marketers
Why would you take the time required to write your own original Ezine or Newsletter? What is an Ezine or Newsletter in their simplest form? Both are essential content emails which you program an autoresponder to deliver to your potential customer database of opt-in subscribers.
Of the many multiple purposes for developing an ezine or newsletter:
1. Communicating with your potential customers is a vital ingredient for earning a substantial affiliate income. You establish a empathic bond with your potential customer by delivering free quality content to him via email.
2. Newsletters keep your subscriber base updated with the latest trends, developments and products available on the Internet.
3. The time you are willing to invest into the development of your original ezine, newsletter or mini-training course is pure gold. It is an investment, like gold, that accrues the interest to return dollars for products delivered into the tens of thousands of earned income per month over time.
4. I hope I have shattered your illusion that Internet Marketing is something for nothing. These steps, simple as they can be, still require an investment of time and thought-energy to accomplish in the virtual reality of the Internet. The end result, however, can bring success to you as an affiliate marketer, leading to a lifetime online business, which requires only a few hours a day to maintain, which can be accomplished from anywhere in the world on your laptop.
5. The true secret ingredient is the rapport and and trust developed via the quality content you deliver to your potential customer database of opt-in subscribers. The goose that lays the golden eggs may still be laying golden eggs well into your retirement years.
We can sum it up, put it all together in this thought. Don’t try to short-circuit the tested and tried methods of becoming a successful affiliate marketer. In the beginning, if you allow yourself to take the baby steps and invest in your online education, you will begin to achieve success unparalleled by attempting to open a small off line business in an office or storefront. When you achieve affiliate income success, you may be sitting a table with some latitude attitude, while doing the one to three hours maintenance your affiliate marketing business requires, on your laptop, with the rest of the day to go and do whatever pleases you, without thought of cost or limitations of time.
To your online affiliate success,
Timothy R Walls
Editor, Marketing Secrets EZine