Internet Business Tips To Help You Succeed Online
Is starting an Internet business an idea that appeals to you?
If you want to earn a lot of money online, you need to use leverage. You do not want to sell your product alone. So, how do you go about doing this?
1. Recruit masses of affiliates to sell your product 24/7
The first question you need to ask yourself if you really want to make it big is - how do I get affiliates to promote my products? There are a couple of ways to do this.
The first method is to create a product that is so powerful that every top affiliate sees the opportunity and wants to promote your product to their list. For this, you will need to carry out pretty extensive market research.
The second approach, which is the most common, is to send the top affiliates in your niche a free review copy of your product. Then, ask them to promote it if they like it. Make sure that you follow up because super affiliates receive dozens of joint venture offers per day.
2. Create a powerful sales funnel
The term ’sales funnel’ refers to the period of time between you getting someone’s name and email address and them buying your highest priced product.
An example of a sales funnel is as follows…
A visitor to your landing page signs up for a free report or product, and are then redirected to a page that offers a discounted product for $37. After that, he receives an email series promoting a $97 product. Next, he is added into another autoresponder series that promote a $297 product, and this can go on until he buys a really highly priced product, say at $5000.
You should have a few sales funnels in place for each of your products - some with a harder sell and some with a more gentle approach. Then, regardless of the type of buyer that your visitor is, you should eventually makes sales one way or another.
Affiliates will send more traffic your way when they realize how powerful your marketing funnel is and how much money they make with your products compared to the competition.
As a final point about the affiliate recruitment and sales funnel process in general - keep it simple. The more complex you make it, the less chance there is of you actually following through with it all of the way. Also, if it is too complex, you confuse both affiliates and prospects - which is something that you want to avoid at all costs.
This is a a proven formula that I use to market my products. Whatever niche or niches that you happen to be in, this approach works equally as well.
Franck Silvestre is a professional Internet marketer. Let him show you how you too, can make a living online and : Start An Online Business.
Originally posted 2009-11-05 09:57:40.