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So after completing steps 1 through 6, you should be here:

1. You understand the terms of affiliate marketing
2. You have a basic understanding of what affiliate marketing is, and its process which comes out to something like this: You get commissions from other people's products by advertising those products with special links.
3. You've decided what kind of products you want to use: digital (easier to sell) or physical (can make you tons of money quickly) or services (always in demand)
4. You found companies selling products in your niche or campanies that deal with your niche
5. You found the best or most interesting niches that you want to get into
6. You found products that you can put together or you decided to make your own
7. And now it's time to start advertising and getting traffic to those links!

This part, part 7, is really going to be about the process of advertising and the many routes you can take. The final 3 chapters will actually be about the most effective and popular means of getting traffic and sales.

Chapter 8 will mostly talk about blogging, Chapter 9 will talk about paid traffic, and finally Chapter 10 will cover the rest. Anyways, let me continue on with this part...

So now that you have your products, whether yours or affiliate products, you need to get traffic, signups and sales (hey, isn't that an Ewen Chia product?...). But seriously, that is the point of affiliate marketing.

Many people think that this is a really complicated process that takes tons and tons of time and effort or that it is overly complex. It really isn't. You just find a product (or products) for a niche. Then as you try to make sales, you will also build up an (e)mailing list. This way you will have repeat visitors, as well new customers.

So how to advertise and get all this stuff...

Well, advertising just means putting an ad in front of a group of people. That's it. But there's something that most gurus don't tell you, so that you want to waste your money over and over again...

And that is this: You have to stand out and be clever.

Marketing is all about standing out so that people see you in front of thousands of other affiliates. Affiliate marketing is getting tougher by the day because lists grow, products come out everyday, and the best stay on the top. Its tough work, but if your clever, you'll stand out.

Alright let's get into the processes!

Before I continue though let me clarify something:

Traffic is just people visiting a certain site that you lead it to. Signups is getting people on your mailing list with free items. Sales is the ultimate conversion, being the best of them all.

So in essence; traffic, which everyone seems to have trouble with, really is easy to get. Signups, are harder to get. Even if someone goes to your site, it doesn't mean they're going to sign up to your list for any reason. Sales of course, are the hardest to get. You may get twice as many (or more) signups than you will in sales. Why you ask? Because the product really has to be what they want, or it has to be a really good offer; that's why. People only buy what they think they need.

Let's get started...

Getting Traffic:

There is a simple formula that noone seems to know, that is the basis of traffic...

Traffic does not come on its own. Just you create a website or page, traffic doesn't just rollin on in; you have to get it yourself...

So what is this formula? Well, really easily put here it is:

More Sources for traffic, More Traffic total.

Did you catch that? Allow me to explain:

Say you have a new site, either about a new product you created or a product that you are an affiliate for. Now that you have your site, you'll need traffic to that site to get your signups and sales.

There are three major categories of traffic: Paid, Organic and exchange. That's not all, just the major ones. I digress...

It doesn't matter what methods you use for traffic, the more you use the better off you are. Just remember that.

That' enough rumbling on, let's move on.

Signups and optins

Building a list in marketing is one of THE MOST IMPORTANT things in marketing. Notice I said list, but I didn't necessarily say large list.

Yes having a big list is a good thing, but its more important to have a SEED list: a list that is actually interested in your products and services, rather than a large list of people who are just looking for free stuff.

How to get them

Well, there are 3 major ways to get signups and optins:

Squeeze pages, newsletter or product optins, and popups.

While these techniques are often intertwined, here are what they are in a nutshell:

Squeeze page: A page used only to gather signups for an email list.

Opt ins: These are usually dispersed around a page so that the reader has the option of signing up for something like a newsletter of free product/report.

Popups: I know we all hate them, but when you go to a salepage, it is a great way to increase signups.

Combining all these is really the best way to go, like I said earlier. More traffic = More Signups.

Sales

It doesn't get any better than the actual sale or affiliate sale of an item. To me their both great. Why? Because here the advantages of both:

With sales of your own products, you build up your "name" and your business.

With affiliate sales, you generally make a lot more money, but you don't build your own business.

So its good to continually make products, but affiliate for others in the mean time.

Hopefully you liked this post.

Affiliate Crash Course: Part 8 will be out soon.

Just click previous entry to go back to part 6.

That's it.

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For those of you who have been keeping up, Affiliate Revolution, which premieres May 5th, is almost here.

But while Affiliate Revolution isn't quite here, you can check out the preview page of Affiliate Revolution right now.

I cant give away any of the details about AR in and of itself, but just know this: it is going to change the way you look at internet marketing!

While the site and book is called "affiliate revolution" it actually encompasses a lot more than just Affiliate Marketing. I simply used Affiliate revoltuion because is catchy.

So make sure to visit Affiliate Revolution to check out the preview page..

Also, if you haven't read my Wordpress post about my revolution growing you can read about my Affiliate Revolution Marketing too.

Later - CS

This really is a no brainer. I mentioned a couple posts ago about the different companies you can use as affiliate programs. And last post I talked about finding your niche. This post, I want to breifly explain how to bring it all together.

First off, take your list that you made in part 5, and find maybe the top 3 in each category, or even take your top ten items total, and this will be where you start.

Step 1) Using Search Engines To find Products

Start by going to Google (or the search engine of your choice) and typing in "your niche" and then products or "affiliates."

Check the products that you find using this search, and write down any possible ones. I usually go with only the ones on the first page, but you can check the secone results page too.

If you don't really find anything, then just search the niche itself, and check the pages for any links that say "affiliates."

Whether or not you got any this way, it's time to move onto step 2.

Step 2) Check Affiliate Programs Themselves

Go to the programs I told you about earlier and see if they already have products to promote. Try Paydotcom, Clickbank, Comission Junction and any others. I generally use these 3 for my products, just depends.

Step 3) Creating Your Own Products

You'll probably only find a few products per niche. Heck, you might not even find any. This is ok, because lastly, to keep this niche profitable, you're going to make your own products. Whether or not you found some products, you'll want to make your own eventually and here's why:

1. People lose interest in you if you only promote other people's products. They may feel cheated.
2. To get more from this niche over and over, you'll need to give them new things to keep them happy. This is a good thing. Give them what they want.
3. Hand out free reports and videos as a token of good faith. It helps.

Once you have a hnadful of products, it's time to advertise!

Move on to Affiliate Crash Course Part: 7 - Begin Advertising

Click Here to go back to part 5.