About a day or so ago, I received an email from a lady that wanted to know more about how she could increase her affiliate marketing income by promoting the products in a newsletter. Now keep in mind this lady had no experience in affiliate marketing nor internet marketing….a complete newbie.
So from this, I saw the perfect opportunity to teach you all how to go about creating a GOOD newsletter, promote your affiliate products, and increasing your income.
Select Your Niche First!
In my experience, it has always been essential to select a niche before you attempt to make any type of money online. That goes for affiliate marketing, article marketing, blogging, etc. In narrowing down a good niche, you have to make sure that it is something that you are genuinely interested in and it has potential in earning profits. Once you have selected your niche, then you will know what type of affiliate products you are going to be looking for.
Selecting the Right Affiliate Products to Promote
You can’t just pick any product and start promoting it. You have to do a little research of your own to find out if the product is going to be worth your time and effort. Yeah, I know the thought of research probably erks you to the core, but I promise it will save you a lot of time and frustration in the end. You need to know things like:
- Who is the product made by? You will want to check out the reputation of the products creator, because you wouldn’t want to promote a product that has turned out to be a scam. See if the creator has other products and see how successful they are.
- When was the product created? This is important because you don’t want to promote products that run the risk of having out of date information in them.
- Are there any reviews of the product online? Most products that can be bought have some type of review online. Whether it is on a review site or someone’s blog. It is important to know what people think about the product first because Internet reputation carries a lot of weight and if bad things are being said about the product; your conversions will be disappointing.
- What is the product’s conversion rate like? When you promote products from websites such as Commission Junction or ClickBank, you know up front how well a product converts. A product that converts more easily means less work on your part, which is always a good thing.
- Can your target marketing afford the product? It is important that you don’t select products that are too far out of your target market’s reach. For example , if your target market is college students then you definitely don’t want to promote a product to them that is $79 or more because they more than likely can’t afford it. So stay in a price range that your target market can afford.
Putting Together a Simple Newsletter
The great thing about creating a newsletter is that you can almost automate the whole process, which frees up your time to do other things. So basically, you want your affiliate products and your newsletter to fit together niche wise. For example, if you want to creating a newsletter that produces blogging tips, then you might want to promote products that can show your target market how to build a better blog, increase subscribers, how to keep their blog interesting, etc. Ok, you get the picture. Make the two go together seamlessly.
Now what you can do is sit down and write up a couple about 4 newsletter articles , load them into a good autoresponder such as Aweber, and then you are good to go for an entire month (if you have them go out weekly.) If you just can’t seem to come up with thoughts for a newsletter then you can grab some free PLR content from PLRWholesaler, but make sure you rewrite everything in your own words. We wouldn’t want you to be penalized for plagiarism now would we?
But Private Label Rights (PLR) content is totally safe to use if you have to. Just make sure that your newsletter is informative, the content is relevant to the interests of your target market, and it is information that they can actually use, and you will be good to go.
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I’ve been searching the internet trying to find out if it’s even possible to write a blog, or create a message board, and get paid for it. I’ve found a bit of info already, but not what I’m looking for. See… my story is about parenting. I don’t exactly have a ‘niche’ per say. I merely have a few things to say about parents that “choose” not to be the best. i’m very interested in other people’s opinions and since I’ve been laid off since May, it would be even more awesome if I could make money doing it!
That’s an interesting idea you have there! Well what you can do is pick out some topics that you want write about and do a little keyword research for those topics. Make sure that when you start your blog you use those keywords in your titles and throughout your blog posts, because this is going to be the key to your traffic and search engine rankings. Make sure that you include AdSense Ads on your blog so that you can make some money there, and also find some affiliate products that relate to parenting so that you will have 2 income streams there. Hope this helps!!
My name is Piter Jankovich. oOnly want to tell, that your blog is really cool
And want to ask you: is this blog your hobby?
P.S. Sorry for my bad english
Thank you for the compliment. Yes this is a hobby for me and I enjoy teach others about the various things I have learned while working online.