It's time for Part IV of the ""101 Internet
Marketing Techniques to Crush the Competition!"
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Last time we left you with the thought that you should try to avoid picking too big of challenges...
especially at first. Today we are going to start you out on the same theme.
61. Even an affiliate should own their own domain.
Even if you are an affiliate and have a web site from your program, you still should get your own server and domain
name. The best affiliates almost always do this. They want people to see them as
a business, not just an affiliate.
62. Banners are the least effective means of selling your affiliate program's
products.
Banners have horrible click through ratios in general and cannot compete with personal endorsements of your company's
products and services. Use text links to your affiliate program instead of banners whenever possible.
63. Write up a personal testimonial for your affiliate program.
The most effective affiliates in any program write up an article or testimonial about the product first.
Then, they go to marketing. Don't just give a link. Give credibility to the program you are representing.
64. Offer a free bonus for buying from your affiliate link.
Even an affiliate member can have a Unique Web Position. You can be the only one who offers a certain special free
bonus to people who buy from you...not any of the other affiliates. Buying from you can be worth more than buying
from the owner himself.
65. Distributors and network marketers should use the above technique as
well.
Be the only one who offers this extra special bonus. Set yourself apart from the rest of the distributors
by doing this. Then, you are going to find that selling just became 500% easier than you ever imagined before.
66. Start Your Own Opt-In Email List.
One of the goals of your business should be to build your own opt-in email list. If you can get 10,000
people who receive contact on a regular basis from you, then you never have to want for money again.
67. Do endorsements to your list.
Once you are running a list, start doing endorsements of other products and services. The best affiliate members
are those who are giving personal testimonials and endorsements to their Opt-In list members.
68. Personalize your email communications whenever possible.
There are tens of thousands of ezines being published now and millions of emails being sent out daily, so you have
to find ways for your prospects to distinguish your emails from the hoard of other marketing communications they
will be receiving.
69. Use an automated follow-up autoresponder.
These autoresponders will do up to 10 personalized follow-ups to your prospects and customers. Begin to use them
for your marketing documents, free reports, sales letters, etc. Try to find a proven follow-up system that you
can emulate in your communications.
70. Provide good quality information in your emails.
Don't just create glorified sales letter and send it out claiming it is a free report. Learn how to combine great
information in with your sales materials. Internet marketing needs to be integrated with both free info and marketing
materials.
71. Publish your ezine on a schedule that works for you.
Don't publish weekly or daily just because someone else does. You need to find a system that works for you. If
you can only put together a good quality publication once a month, then do that. Don't just sling together articles
from anywhere you find them just to fill up space.
72. Don't be afraid to make sales to your list.
You have to provide information to give yourself credibility first, but your newsletter or email publications will
not make any money if you don't eventually move to the sale.
73. Use your web site and Opt-In list together.
Learn how to integrate your web site in together with your email publications. The most successful web site owners
know that you have to combine these two techniques for maximum effectiveness in your advertising.
74. Submit your ezine to every directory available.
There are dozens of directories which list ezines. Although you won't receive thousands of subscribers through
most of them, they do produce a small and steady flow of new subscribers and leads for your business.
75. Trade Classified and Sponsor Ads with Other publishers.
One of the best ways to build your list is to team up with other publishers. Everyone profits by all working together.
Look for other Opt-In lists which have a similar number of subscribers as your publication. Then, trade ads for
each other's newsletter.
76. Use Joint Ventures to build your list.
I tripled the number of new subscribers I was receiving from my web site daily. What I did was trade ads on my
thank you page for subscribers with three other ezine publishers. So, when one person subscribes to any of our
ezines, they get the opportunity to sign up for the others.
77. Make your ezine interactive.
Take polls and ask questions of your subscribers. One of my subscribers favorite section is our search engine section
where the subscribers send in the questions which are answered every week.
78. Always build a personalized database of your customers.
Don't just use email for your prospects. Keep track of your customers and contact them by email as well. Come back
to your current customers and offer them additional products about every one to six months depending on your specific
business.
79. Use free advertising to test out your system.
I always like to start with free ads to test out my new marketing systems...especially the offer itself. The Internet
is one of the only mediums where you can take advantage of free advertising to test out all of your offers first.
80. Prepare a signature file with your UWP.
You should prepare a signature file in whatever software you are using for your email. Look in the instruction
manual or help file for specifics on this. The one key I want to present to you is that your SIG file should be
4 - 6 lines and contain your UWP.
Are you a profitable affiliate? If not, then you probably need to start putting some of the above suggestions in
place in your business.
The biggest problem with affiliate programs is the fact that it is hard for you to develop a Unique Selling Position
over the thousands of other affiliates in the same problem.
The key to this is two-fold:
1. Offer extra bonuses when you make your endorsement of the affilaite
program.
2. Develop your own Opt-In email list so that you can build a relationship
with thousands of customers.
Do the two above things and you will notice that your affialite commissions in ANY program will start
soaring!
Mick Moore,
The Internet Entrepreneur
http://www.QuickStartExpert.com
P.S. The next 20 techniques cover specific advertising avenues you should start using in your Internet business.
You should start with Free advertising and then move on to paid advertising after your site is proven effective.
Now, find out exactly how to do this and where to advertise for maximum effectiveness.
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