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Traffic who doesn’t want more of it? It’s key to success in any online business. Without traffic, your business doesn’t exist. So how do you get more traffic? Here are a five simple but highly effective tips.

1. Write articles. By just writing one article a day and distributing it to a few article directories, you’ll start building a good amount of incoming links to your website.  People will read your articles and visit your site and the search engines will love the increase in incoming quality links.

2.  Advertise. Advertising on high ranking related websites is a great way to get exposure for your website as well as incoming links. Check to make sure that the website you’re advertising on does indeed get a large amount of traffic.

3.  Participate on forums. Forums are still a great way to gain incoming links and website visitors. More importantly, if you set yourself up as a trusted expert on the forums people will want to learn more about you and what you have to say.

4.  Use social networking. By building a large responsive following on Twitter and Facebook you can easily advertise your website for all to see. If people find your posts interesting they will want to know more about you and your business.

5.  Distribute a viral report. This is a fantastic way to gain publicity and visitors to your website. Write a free viral report on your topic and give it away for free.  Invite others to give it away too and you’ll soon have a viral tool making the rounds and bringing more visitors back to your website.

Driving traffic is key to your success and these easy tips are a great starting point. To learn more about affiliate marketing like a pro check out Super Affiliate Handbook.  I highly recommend this e-book for anyone serious about earning money through affiliate marketing.

To Your Abundance and Prosperity,

Jill Lillvis

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Affiliate marketing can be a great way to make money.  Finding a niche market with products and services you trust and believe in is the first step to success.  There are tremendous affiliate programs which offer you an abundance of tools and materials to promote and market their products. However, what you do with those tools and materials is entirely up to you.  You can be just another affiliate or a super affiliate.

What Is A Super Affiliate?

Technically speaking a super affiliate is someone who generates a significant amount of profits for the products or services they represent.  A super affiliate can make a healthy living from their affiliate business alone while a standard every day affiliate may need to supplement their affiliate income with, gasp…a 9-5 job!

Benefits To Being A Super Affiliate

The most significant benefit to being a super affiliate is the income.  Many super affiliates make six figures simply promoting the products and services of others.

Additionally, if you’re one of the main contributors to a company’s affiliate program they’re going to pay attention to you and your needs. You may receive a higher percentage of sales you may receive first shot with new marketing materials and programs and you’ll get the support you need when you need it.

Here Are A Few Steps To Become A Super Affiliate:

Step One – Commit to publishing content every single day.  Content has proven time and again to be the best sales tool available to affiliate marketers.  Nothing, not even strategically placed ad copy works as well as providing quality content that pre-sells any product that you’re promoting on your website.

Possible content includes:

* Autoresponders.
* E-newsletters.
* Blogs posts
* Social networking via forums, social networking sites, and chat rooms
* Articles
* Press releases

Step Two – Track and test.  Make sure you know where your prospects are coming from, what motivates them to click through and what information they read and respond to – then give them what they need.  Tracking and testing is the only way to hone your affiliate program into a smooth running, money making machine.

Step Three – Use the provided marketing materials and be willing to take it a step further.  Many affiliate programs do a great job of providing their affiliate with ready to marketing materials including:

1. Banner ads
2. Buttons
3. Email copy
4. Articles
5. Free promotional reports

Use the materials your affiliate manager has provided.  It’s been tested and developed for results.  That being said, be sure to create your own content too.  Even as an affiliate you are your own company and your website needs to reflect your personality and brand.  Building a community around your website and providing valuable content is a sure way to create a following that trusts you and your credibility – which will result in click throughs and affiliate sales.

Step Four – Pre-sell.  The good news is that your job as an affiliate is to pre-sell products and services.   Pre-selling means your content, whether it is a review, article, tutorial, course, or blog post, speaks honestly about the products and services you promote.  Pre-selling is about providing value to your website visitors and prospects, making them comfortable with you and your authority to generate interest and a click through to the company website, where the selling happens.

Step Five – Follow up.  Just like your affiliate manager follows up with you to see how you’re doing and what you need, follow up with your prospects.  A great way to do this unobtrusively is to create a lead list by providing a newsletter visitors can subscribe, a free report, or any number of products in exchange for an email address and the permission to contact them with valuable information and special promotions.

Being a Super Affiliate is the only way to go if you want to build a successful affiliate marketing business.  Find products and services you trust and believe in and then create a strategy to share information to your target audience.  Test and track your efforts, focus on providing value to your prospects and leave the selling to the companies you represent.  Helping others live better lives, without having to provide the products or services personally, is a great way to make a living.

There are affiliate programs listed on this blog that are instant pay directly to you, easy to do from the novice to internet pro, and are affordable to everyone.  I invite you to check them out for yourself and please join to get started with your own home-based business.

To Your Abundance and Prosperity,

Jill Lillvis

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There are so many different types of affiliate programs out there to choose from.  It’s often difficult to know which are the best programs to promote.  Here are a few tips to help you find the best affiliate programs:

Life-time cookies – A really good affiliate program will offer life-time cookies.  Unfortunately, some shopping cart systems don’t allow the vendors this feature, which isn’t so great for you – the affiliate.  A life-time cookie means that you will get paid for referring a customer who makes a purchase through your affiliate link even if they buy at any point in the future.

Training and Customer Service – A good program will provide training tools and resources for their affiliates.  Ideally, they should have a member’s area where you can log in and grab promotional materials, your links and check your stats and commissions.

Good communication is also important.  If you email an affiliate program with a question and don’t hear back from them or hear back from them 2 weeks later, what will it be like if you ever have an issue with payments or other important question?  A good affiliate program will respond to your questions in a timely manner.  By the same token, a good affiliate will make sure they read all the provided materials provided on the website before contacting the program.

Sales Pages that Convert – Before promoting a specific product, have a look at their sales page.  Does it look like it will convert into sales?  If a sales page is sloppy, has grammar and spelling mistakes, or just looks unprofessional, you may not make too many sales – no matter how good the product is.

Now that you know some of the things you should look for in a good program, here are a few things you should be careful of!

Advertisements and Google Adsense – If you’re promoting an ebook and sending customers to a sales page, be weary of sales pages with Google ads or other types of advertisement on the sales page.  If you’re working hard to send traffic to that page, it’s not fair that your traffic will be used to make someone else money through ads (without you getting paid anything in return).

If you see a sales page with other ads on the page, I say stay away.  You work hard as an affiliate and you don’t want to waste your efforts on generating traffic to your affiliate program only to lose sales to the other ads on the affiliate webpage.

High Sales Minimum – Watch out for programs who ask you to sell a certain amount before being paid.  For example if the commissions on a $20 eBook are 10% (that’s $2 per sale) and they ask you to accumulate a minimum of $200 dollars in commissions before they send you payment, that’s a whole lot of books you need to sell before getting paid – 100 books to be exact.

Get some instant pay and direct pay affiliate programs to promote.  You get paid instantly and directly into your account and don’t have to meet any minimum requirements before you can be paid.  These type of affiliate programs should be simple to promote and offer a great product or service at a reasonable price.  There are several of these types of affiliate programs listed here that I have received many payments from.  These programs are affordable for everyone, pay you instantly and are easy to promote with all the resources and tools you need to be successful with them.

To Your Abundance and Prosperity,

Jill Lillvis

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Ever since the Internet first made an appearance, people have been looking for ways to earn money online. And why not? Earning online is a viable way to bring in extra money and in many cases can earn a decent full time living for those who know how to generate the right kind of business. The opportunities that await you in cyberspace are many and they can be profitable for those who take the time to learn all of the ins and outs of running a home business from their computer.

One method for earning income online is to become involved with affiliate marketing. This type of online marketing is comparable to revenue sharing whereby entrepreneurs work together to sell products and services and to lend each other a helping hand.  In the end everyone is happy. Businesses sell their products and make money while affiliates do the proper promotional work and make money.

A company online is essentially paying a commission to have customers referred to their business while the affiliate is in a public relations role. To become a part of an affiliate program is very easy. The key is to find the one that is most appropriate for you.

The beauty of affiliate marketing is that companies need your services to sell theirs. Even if you are not a born salesperson you can find ways to hone your skills.  Becoming an affiliate for the first time is not expensive to do so it is a win-win situation for you and the risk is very minimal. This is in sharp contrast to a business started offline that can leave you penniless if it does not prove to be successful.

Affiliate marketing can make you prosperous and it can also be an enjoyable way to
network and meet new people. You do not have to quit your present job or put
your home business on hold while you work as an affiliate.

Should you give affiliate marketing a try? I did and I am reaping all of the benefits! Say
yes today to a fantastic opportunity online!

To Your Abundance and Prosperity,

Jill Lillvis

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Affiliate marketing basically means selling other people’s products for a commission online. Affiliate marketing is similar to offline sales where sales people earn a commission for selling a product; the difference is that all selling is conducted online.

As an affiliate marketer you will research and find products to promote on your website. Each time you make a sale through your affiliate link you will earn a portion of that sale. The commissions can vary from as low as 7% to a generous 50%.

The sales are tracked through your unique affiliate ID which is assigned to you at the time you sign up for a specific affiliate program. Your unique affiliate ID is tracked and each time a sale is made through your link it is recorded. A good affiliate program will give you plenty of tools for promoting their products as well as a comprehensive member’s area where you can track your affiliate sales and commissions.

Affiliate marketing is a good way to get started online. You can be set up and ready to go within a few days and there is no need to spend any time creating your own products or purchasing inventory. You are simply promoting other people’s products, which means the vendor is actually responsible for order fulfilment, customer service and anything else related to the sale – you simply refer the sale to them and get paid for doing so.

For example if you have a love of cooking, you can create a website around cooking related topics and include tips, recipes, and reviews of all your favorite cooking gadgets. You can then find affiliate programs online and promote some of those products on your website. You can find programs by doing a search under your chosen topic such as “cooking” and adding the words “affiliate program” to that term. You can also find affiliate programs at places like CJ.com.

Although affiliate marketing is an easy way to get started online, there is a little more to it than just throwing up a few links and banners and waiting for the affiliate check to arrive. A good affiliate marketer knows it takes time and effort to make sales.

A good way to do this is by providing quality information on your website and only linking to affiliate products where appropriate. Another good tip is to review the products you promote so that you can accurately describe all the features – good and bad. Your customers will appreciate honest feedback and will be more likely to buy from you if you give them good quality information and honest reviews.

To Your Abundance and Prosperity,

Jill Lillvis

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