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Here are some tips to consider when you want to promote an affiliate program and especially when you are using article / bum marketing :)
Emotion, not logic

Target people’s passions, not their needs. Although logic may be a very important part of the sale, emotion will outsell it ten-to-one. Most people buy products that they don’t necessarily need, just because the seller engages their emotion. That being said, don’t try to promote everyday items that people need, but try selling what they might want, but don’t have. For instance, someone won’t get excited about buying Microsoft Windows, but they will get excited about buying a hot, new PlaySation or Xbox game.

High Ticket Sales vs. Low Ticke tSales

I’ve often heard that selling a high ticket item is just as easy as selling a low ticket, and in most cases it’s true. Instead of promoting $9 products, why not promote $99, or even $999 products. You might find that your sales will drop slightly, but your commission is 5 or 10 times greater. In fact, sometimes, higher priced products outsell lower priced ones, and you will come much, much further ahead.

Recurring Commissions

This category includes membership sites, web hosting, shopping carts, autoresponder software, and any subscription product that has some kind of recurring fee.

This works on the same principle as selling higher priced items. Usually, when buying a product with recurring fees, people only think about how much the first payment is. If it’s good, they won’t mind paying for it for a long time, and you get a commission each time they do.


High Ticket Sales + Recurring Commissions = The Ultimate Combination

Let me start with an example: One year ago, I wrote a series of articles. Half of them promoted a $7, and the other half promoted a similar $80/month product. As I suspected, the $80 a month product outsold the $7 product by 3 times. At 11 times the price and commission, and with a 300% higher conversion rate, the more expensive product brought me more then 33 times the commission for the exact same amount of work.

But that’s not even the best part. Since every member that signed up remained a member for an average of 4 months, and this was a recurring monthly product, I increased the commission I earned by well over a hundred times for (still) the same amount of work.

So start working on it! :) Will bring you more tips soon. check back here again in the next few days.

Tips: affiliate, commission, recurring, membership, product, sale

Filed under: Internet Marketing

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