Create Your Own Affiliate Web Page
This article will cover the topic of becoming a successful Affiliate with a 1 page site in 4 easy steps. For free!
To earn a full time living with affiliate programs has never been easier or less expensive, yet still 90% of all affiliates fail to even earn a a single commission check, and only about 1% of all affiliates earn enough to consider it a full time income. These people fail for many reasons, but the biggest killers are misinformation & misunderstanding. I hope this article will help in that regard.
Of course it is true that having your own product can be one of the best ways to a profitable business online. Earning a full time living with your own products is easier and probably more rewarding than selling someone else's product. However this can be considerably more work. Managing inventory, quality control, capital required for inventory, etc.
Therefore for the purpose of this article I will concentrate on an affiliate site and will try to put together a similar article for selling your own products.
So let's get started...
Here are the steps to follow to create the a mini 1 page Affiliate Site
1. Create A One Page Web Site With a Subscription Form
Creating a web site has never been cheaper then now. You can purchase domain names for about $6.99( at the tim e of writing) at 1an1.com and and they offer web hosting as well, for as little as $4.99/month (which includes the domain registration) with many useful feature for the purpose of your affiliate site as well as eventual growth.
Your web page only needs to be a very simple site, with a very powerful headline. If you have trouble designing web sites, you can get a lot of really good free templates from http://www.dreamtemplate.com/. However if you are looking to be more original and don't want to have the link on your page you can sign up for a really inexpensive $60 or so.
You can even use an auto responder from Getresponse.com for giving your visitors your free lead generating report as well as starting to collect a list of potential customer/partners
2. Creating Your Free Lead Generating Report
This report is vital to your Affiliate success. It will be what makes the prospect buy or not buy from you. While the goal of this report is to sell them your Affiliate Program, you cannot send them one long sales letter. Well not right away. The report must be educational and interesting.
Usually this report should have about 5-6 parts. The first 3 or 4 parts are the educational section, the 5th part could be an optional special offer, and the 6th part could be a pure sales letter.
Of course, you would like to find an Affiliate Program that creates reports or even articles you could use (to further reduce the work on your part). :)
Another good idea is when they give you their email send them a Free Ebook that you've created promoting one of you Affiliate Programs. You wouldn't,t believe how effective this is.
3. Advertise Your Site
Advertising your report will take a bit of testing, but using pay per click search engines, writing articles like this one and buying ezine advertising is a great start.
Advertising on PPCSE's is a great way to test how effective your site is, and how much it cost's to get a subscriber. However I don't recommend spending more than 10 - 20 cent's per click while your still testing your mini site. I highly recommend you start with goto.com or you can try findwhat.com as they will deliver results quickly. Also, you can try traffic exchange programs like TraffcSwarmp.com
Another option is to pay for every visitor, of course when buying advertising, you should stick with Solo Ad's and Sponsorship Ad's, as they bring the best result for your money. I don't however recommend spending a fortune on advertising when your first starting out as you want to make sure that you site is fine tuned for the best results, and is making you money. Need more visitors?Need Traffic? Check out our Traffic Tips Page.
4. Using Your Auto Responder to Maximize Your Profits
Now taht you have a huge subscription base, what next? there are many options you can join another affiliate program, create a report, and send it to your current base of subscribers, while still promoting your first web site try to interest them in a new product. With millions of internet users out there, you will definitely be able to find someone for whatever you are promoting.
Of course, before I finish this article, I can't stress how important it is that you TRACK all of your advertising, so you know what works and what doesn't.
Most importantly, enjoy life and enjoy your work. It is important to like what you are doing and your passion will show in your work.
Best of luck!
