2 Step Concept to Affiliate Marketing

This concept of Affiliate Marketing captures those wishing to earn money or subsidize a blog online. Here are 2 easy ideas, to make it work.

How to be most effective is in how you structure your pages.

1. Traffic from your Pages to the Merchant's site

Or

2. Traffic from your Blog to a Squeeze Page then onto the Merchant's Site

Write a review on the product, link it to a subscriber capture page and encourage people to join your newsletter.

The idea is to allow visitors to sign up or opt-in to you, so don't be too hasty to just push the sale. Before we can sell our own product we need subscribers on a list that we 'own'.

Estimate with the squeeze page about half your visitors will not sign up, which means your product will only reach about half the number originally anticipated using the second option above. The good news is these subscribers will be exposed to future sales and products that you can offer with the opt-in emails now on your list.

When I really started 'listening' to the successful marketers with the intention to build an online business, developing your own product is essential. Sell your knowledge! Time spent today preparing your product, should make you money today, and in the months to follow. Present oneself at the very highest standard and more!

To sum it up, the reason to build and use a list is to establish a firm base of regular customers to whom you can market your products and offers to with great ease. So take some time out to consider the 2 steps mentioned before going too far down the blogging road.

Joan Stewart an entrepreneur living on the South Coast of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Thirty years of corporate Administration and Finance, currently assisting online business' with solutions in Marketing and Social Media. Visit http://blogbizbuzz.com to learn more.