How to Set Yourself Apart From Other Affiliates

How to Set Yourself Apart From Other Affiliates

Considered today as one of the best and easiest way to earn some money.

Affiliate marketing is now attracting many people to represent themselves in this type of business. But as competition is getting a bit bigger, you may need some ways to distinguish yourself from the rest of the affiliate marketers.  The major reason is that many of your competitors including you are promoting the exact same program, in the exact same zone or on the exact same websites perhaps.

Now here are some tips that you may consider in order for you to stay in this business and have the chance to outwit and outplay other competitors of yours.

Your Own Website

The first thing is for you to have your own website. It is very essential.  If your really considering affiliate marketing as a professional career, a personal website is a must.  Look at any professional and you will see a website with great information, graphics and a call to action.  Without a website, graphics, good relevant information and a call to action, you might as well “hang it up” and spend your time on YouTube.

That’s a brutal statement, but well meaning.  You need to be serious about your business and the first place is a good website.

Solve A Problem

Secondly, potential customers primarily go to websites in order for them to search for ideas, help, information, to solve a problem and sometimes purchase items they were looking for.

If you have a product or services your visitors will find it easier to find that product by pointing them to the affiliate page than to remember the URL.   Keep in mind your call to action as a means to get them to the URL.

Another thing to remember is to have your own ad. A lot of times affiliates marketers have published the same ad two or three times done by the affiliate advertisers. In this case, you may want to email the owner of your affiliate program asking that you make your own ads.  This way, your visitors will see you different than you competition.  Seeing the same ads over and over again, may just make your potential customers to just skip it all together. Besides, your primarily purpose is to attract or encourage people to click and read your ads and be curios enough to click through to your affiliate company.

Your Own Product

Step three, have some products of your own which are only available through your website. Once you have your website going, it is important to have some products or services that your customers can’t find with other affiliate’s site. You want your customers to keep coming to your site and the best way to do that is to have something on your site that they can’t find on others. Being an affiliate marketer we must then choose a certain market segment where you can have a potential leadership or at least a strong challenger role.

Build A Strong Relationship

The fourth step is to build a strong relationship with people who already buy your product. Now, in order for you as the marketer to fully answer the questions of your potential customers, it is best to buy the product by yourself. With this, you can better sell the product that you are offering to market.

You will be able to share to your potential customers what a great experience you had with the product, and this can make them interested enough to buy the product. You may also be able to provide a support if necessary or you may provide a confident tutorial or steps on how to use the product that you are trying to market based on your personal experience. Entailing this idea is to be totally honest about the product that you are trying to market.

If you find out that the program or product you were promoting is not worthy or does not meet your requirements, stop promoting it and inform your readers about it. This will help you build credibility with your lists.

We all make mistakes and admitting your mistake will boost your reader’s confidence in you. Lastly, don’t try to market everything you see. With services such as click bank, it is easy to become overwhelmed and try to market everything in the click bank marketplace. That is not a good idea. It’s better to focus on one market and market products that they would want. This is called niche marketing.

Try also to promote a certain product, which conforms to the specifications measured through indications of customer-satisfaction, rather than indicators of self-gratification. It is the customer who decides what to buy and not the company or the affiliate marketer. The company simply produces products catering to the needs and wants of their chosen market segment.

Today, different types of business are emerging from all over the world in a multinational level to reign supreme on their specific market segment that they are trying to dominate, and affiliate marketing is one of them. Affiliate marketing is definitely here to stay and it can become a great way to earn extra or even part time income. However, it won’t happen overnight. Like everything else in life, you’re going to have to put a lot of hard work into it.

Good luck to you in your new venture.

Struggling With His Affiliate Business

A good friend was struggling with his affiliate business.  Over a three year period he tried different marketing strategies.   He even sought out different affiliate companies products to promote.  Everything he did was not getting him to where he wanted to be.  Frustrated and ready to quit affiliate marketing, he gave it one last attempt.  That last attempt resulted in a “ZERO.”  He QUIT!!

For the next year, he looked all over the Internet to find something he could do to make money.  During that year, he had four different business, resulting in little or no results.

Still hoping to have an affiliate business he contacted me.  I could tell he was struggling.  He lost sight of his goals.  I made a recommendation for him.  By now he was willing to try anything even if it was wrong.

Remember, he was three years trying different marketing strategies.  It was another year struggling on the Internet to find something he could get excited about.  He was working part-time at Home Depot just to have some money to live on.

Desperate, he took my recommendation.  It’s now been two years and my friend has quit Home Depot, he has a successful business that is making him some money.  He is a different person, happy full of energy and has a bright future.

Is he on top of his game?  NO…but he is now living a different life.  Not only does he have an affiliate business, but he has created his own products that is beginning to be in demand.

So what was my recommendation that got him started?

A company called Wealthy Affiliate.

Wealthy Affiliate is a platform dedicated to affiliate marketers and helping Internet entrepreneurs create successful businesses online through training, having access to the tools and services and they need, as well as timely support from industry experts.

Here are 4 good reasons to look at Wealthy Affiliate:

1. Wealthy Affiliate PROVIDES training on how to find a niche, and they offer personal support helping you select your niche and give you tools and techniques to come up with your own niche ideas.
2. Wealthy Affiliate PROVIDES FREE Starter members 2 websites. As a Premium member, you can host up to 25 of your own domains, and 25 free websites on their domain.
3. Wealthy Affiliate TEACHES traffic. They know the best strategies and techniques to get your website ranked and do it in abundance!
4. Wealthy Affiliate has two programs to choose from….A Starter Package and a Premium Package.  

You have no reason not to join and try Wealthy Affiliate. Why you ask?

It’s completely free.

Wealthy Affiliate offers a completely free, no obligation Starter membership. There aren’t many products or services online that have enough confidence in their service that and they allow you to try it for free before you spend a dime. That is why Wealthy Affiliate is different and always keeping a step ahead of the competition.

If you don’t like what you see, leave. Never come back and you have lost nothing.  However if your like most affiliate marketers you will find that this is the “Crown Jewel” of training and support.

If you like what you see and like the services, then stick around. You can spend as much time as a Starter member as you like and if you ever feel you want more and that Wealthy Affiliate Premium is worth your $1 per day, then go premium.  Wealthy Affiliate will not pressure you to make that decision, it is your decision.

I am a fan of companies that back their product and Wealthy Affiliate with the FREE Starter membership offers FAR more than any other PAID program in the industry.

If you think Wealthy Affiliate would be a good fit for you based on what I said, try it out.

What do you have to lose? $0.

I made this recommendation to my long time friend and today he will tell you that it was the best recommendation and decision he has received in years.

Take my recommendation and try Wealthy Affiliate for yourself.  As I said, What Have You Got To Lose?   NOTHING!

Click on the BANNER and get your free starter membership.

Here’s to your success,