Affiliate Marketing Tips for Newbies

1 - Find a Hot Niche Market First. Put yourself in your customers shoes, what are they looking for..? Do some simple research.

2 - Create a product that delivers what they want. Answers needs that research revealed. Make your product unique. Place branded links inside PDF's. Over deliver and suprise your customers.

3 - Create a powerful and compelling sales message. It's the most important part of your website. Talk in benefits to your customer. What's in it for them..? If you're not good at copywriting then ever pay someone, or get some software to help you out. But don't just leave it with weak copy.

4 - Design a simple webpage that coverts prospects into buyers. Keep it simple, focus on the product. Keep photos small. Give visitors option to "Opt In" to your database.

5 - Bring traffic to your site using: PPC (immediate results), Organic traffic (long term results). Use Articles to drive traffic. Send out press releases. Add website to your signature, then go post in forums (courteously).

6 - Use Email to turn even more prospects into Customers. 82% of people have bought in response to an email campaign. 1/3rd of people will buy from you *IF* you ask them!

7 - Have affiliates sell your products for you.