. Associate Programs
Also known as affiliate, reseller or referral programs.
These are ideal for website owners, since you will have a
flow of targeted visitors already (hopefully). Choose a
product that is suitable for your visitors, so don't sell
beach towels on a site for Eskimos! Then just place an ad
or text link to your associate website.
You earn a straight commission on sales and the current
trend is to make them 'two tier' whereby you earn by signing
up new associates (almost mlm). This path is best for
generating an instant income from existing traffic, but
there is no residual income (you stop, the money stops).
Our
SECRET Weapon... a Very Unique and Creative way of using
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There is a real advantage
to Associate Programs that no one else has tapped into but us
(that I am aware of)... and in this article I will give you
all of the details on how you can start using it yourself.
An
Associate Program is really the ultimate ad-tracking software!
What
I mean by this is that when you place your banner ads, your
text links, buttons, or any type of advertising you pay for,
you can assign an associate number to that advertising and
track its results to see if it is making you money (or losing
you money).
Then
you can track exactly how many visitors come in and how many
sales were generated by each individual ad. You can tell
exactly what ads are making you money and which ads are losing
your money. It is the ultimate ad-tracking software!
In
fact, depending on how you use it... it is like ad-tracking
software with a built-in bonus Associate Program! We have
been using this technique for years and it has made us a
fortune!
Just
think, within days of you placing an ad, you will know if it
will make you a profit - right to the last penny. If the ad is
not making you enough money, you can abandon it immediately
and not waste another penny wondering if it was actually
making you money.
You've
probably seen many of our ads or banners, which are placed by
our associates. However we also purchase banners and
advertising in order to track them and see how they are doing.
We use our associate software to test banners, buttons, text
links, ezines ads, opt-in email ads, and so on… to make sure
they are actually making a profit. If they aren't making a
profit, we will dump the ad... if they are making a profit we
will keep buying that banner or button space, or even keep
buying that sponsorship space on a newsletter or email
discussion.
Isn't
that an incredible powerful tool? Knowing EXACTLY which ads
are making you a profit and EXACTLY which ones are not!
We
test a variety of promotional methods, and each time we assign
an associate number to ourselves. Then using the same methods
we use to track an associate (in essence, the paid ad or paid
banner basically becomes an associate), we can track exactly
how many visitors came in, and how many sales were generated
from that ad, so we can see if the ad made money.
Your
Associate Program software is the ultimate tracking software!
No one else is doing this... and I have no idea why? I told
one of my marketing friends about it at a seminar last
September ("Hi Jonathan", if you are reading :-) and
he said, 'It's the greatest idea! It's so simple,
that I can't believe I didn't think of it and that other
people aren't using this idea! The ad tracking capability of
this is worth the price alone… it is like getting the
ultimate ad tracker with a built in associate program.'
You
can place hundreds of ads anywhere on the net, and at the end
of the month, you know exactly which ads made you money, and
which ones lost you money.
Of course, you keep the ones that made money, and you dump the
ones that lost you money. It is the ultimate way to test...
and you get your results instantaneously because the software
tracks the results in real time! There is no staff to figure
it out at the end of the month and no stacks of paper work to
do. You just check the stats by going to a webpage on your
website and you know exactly how many visitors were converted
into sales.
You
can check three things with this method:
1.
Is my banner or ad slogan effective?
2.
Does the ad space make a profit?
3.
See if you got all your ad impressions (or if the
advertiser ripped you off).
Ok,
let's go over #1 first. If the advertiser tells you how many
impressions the banner had, you can see how many clicked
through your banner, and how many people have converted into
sales. So you know how effective or ineffective that banner
is. Find the banner which pulls the best for you.
#2…
you can test new banners and ads to see if they pull better
than old ones. For example, you may find that the banner or ad
which usually pulls a 5% click-through does much better than a
new ad you placed which only pulls a 3% click-through (because
your associate program tracks all this). You may also find
that you are only converting one visitor out of every 300
visitors into a sale, and you normally convert one out of
every 100 (because the associate program software tracks all
this). This system allows you to determine which ad space
pulls better or worse than other ad space. This information is
invaluable!
#3…
if the advertisers track click-throughs (especially if you are
paying per click-through) and they say you got 1000
clickthroughs, but your software shows that you only got 700
clickthroughs, you have an argument with them that their
counts are wrong. This is very powerful and I have personal
experience with a situation like this… and they gave me the
remaining clickthroughs free as I could prove that I didn't
get all my click-throughs.
It
the perfect way to test new banners, new buttons, new text
links and new ads.
We
use this all the time... it allows us to implement an idea and
test it on a moment's notice. Since we spend over $25,000 a
month (yes, I know that is a lot of money and most of you
don't have that to spend every month… but remember we
started out small a few years back… only spending less than
$100 a month. But with this tracking method, we just place new
ads every month and the ones which made money we stayed with,
and the ones that lost money we dumped. After a few years, we
are left with over $25,000 a month in ads that always make us
a profit. Are you starting to see the power of this yet?
We
use this software to track almost every ad we place. On banner
ads, button ads, text-link ads, sponsorship of newsletters and
Ezines, and so on. It's critically important that we track
everything to see which ads are successful and which ones
aren't.
We'd
never be able to track this number of ads without using our
Associate Program software as our ad-tracking software! There
would just be too much paperwork to do (it would be a
full-time job just to track and record this information). But
with an associate program, you can assign as many numbers as
you want to your ads and it takes care of all the tracking for
you. For every promotion you do, for every joint venture
you do, every special deal you do, every ad that you place can
have a different number enabling you to get some very detailed
statistics and information. You will see which ones are
profitable and which ones aren't.
I
know I have said this over and over in this article, but it is
that important! Do not underestimate the power of this… the
power to see which ads are working… which ads are not… and
where you are making your money online.
Ok,
as you can tell, I am getting a little excited here so I'd
better cool down for a moment (I just love talking about
making money and automating things!).
Let's
go even a little further. Say you are doing a promotion in a
newsgroup (I talk about how to do newsgroup promotions and get
tremendous results in my Internet Marketing Course, click
here to check it out)... you assign yourself an associate
number and put that associate URL in the signature portion...
you can check exactly how many visitors you got from that one
promotion, how many sales you got, not just the one time, but
over and over and over again. You can assign a different
associate number, and track every single promotion
separately.
Use
it when you do a free classified ad promotion. In other words
you assign yourself an associate number, use that, and it will
tell you exactly how many visitors and sales you got.
This
way you know exactly how many visitors you get from classified
ads vs. how many visitors you got from the banner ads you
placed. How many visitors you got from an Ezine sponsorship ad
you placed vs. how many visitors you got from trading links
with somebody.
It
will also help you pinpoint problems.
For example, if your stats say that 500 visitors came to the
site, no one bought… either you have a very misleading ad
attracting "unqualified" visitors, or you may have a
webpage or sales material which is not doing a good job at
converting visitors into sales. All of this is invaluable
information!
Let's
even go one step further to show you the uses for this.
You
don't have to rely on what people want you to believe... when
you can get the cold, hard facts! For example if someone
approaches you to trade links... they could claim that,
"I have 20,000 visitors coming to my site a month and you
are probably going to get a 5% click through." in reality
they may only have 2,000 visitors coming through their site!
By assigning an associate number to the link you can find out
exactly how many visitors are actually clicking through the
reciprocal link and coming to your site. And if you find that
they are not sending you enough visitors, you can cancel your
reciprocal link agreement. Do you see the advantages of this? The
benefits are huge.
You
can track it all. The advantages are just incredible! You
just HAVE to start tracking your advertising this way today!
So
that is the "secret weapon" our Associate Program
software gives us. Just the ad tracking capabilities, in my
opinion, are worth the Associate Program software purchase
alone. It really gives you power with your advertising dollar.
For details on some of the most powerful associate program
software on the market click
here. This is a really, really good way of using Associate
Programs in a unique and creative manner.
Let
me reword that. Even if you don't use the software for your
own Associate Program, but use it for ad-tracking... it is
worth every penny! It will allow you to know for sure where
you are making money and where you are losing money. It
will help you streamline your business, making it a lean mean
money machine...by taking out the ads that don't work and
keeping ads that do work, and testing new ones over and over
again.
To
summarize… a very, VERY, very powerful way to make money
online!
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