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27 Tips to increase your affiliate commissions

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Affiliate expert, Jimmy Brown has released a low-cost ebook detailing 27 ways that you can increase your affiliate commissions.

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Even though I’ve been earning my income from affiliate marketing for many years, I’m impressed with many of the ideas and tips in it and had a few of those “A-ah, why didn’t I think of that” moments.

27 Ways is simple, straightforward and to-the-point, but it’s packed with tips that will help you earn more. Here are a few of the big ones that you should be taking action on so that you can add to your commissions:

Pages 6 and 7: “A ridiculously easy way to make backend sales”

(Note: this is one tip I already follow as often as I can. Do it too and it will make life a lot easier for you because money will just flow in)

Pages 8 and 9: The info on these 2 pages is (in my opinion) the most valuable in the report. I do it sometimes but not as often as I should. And it’s silly of me because I KNOW it works, and it works amazingly well. In fact I was one of the first affiliates to ever do this, maybe 8 or 9 years back. It worked like crazy then and it works like crazy now. If you only take this one piece of advice, and put it into action, then you’ll see your affiliate commissions go through the roof.

Page 10: Very important. If you don’t do this it’s a constant battle.

Page 17: I’ve never really done this, but I know I should because I’ve seen it work many times. It takes work, but who said making lots of affiliate sales was going to be easy? Not me.

Pages 19 and 20: Again this is something I’ve never done, but should be doing. Are you doing it?

Pages 24 and 25: I’ve done this sometimes and it always works well. Note to myself: must do this more often. People really value it – it helps them feel a personal connection and it really boosts affiliate commissions.

And that’s only taking a look at the ideas in the first half of the report :)

In a nutshell, it’s an idea packed report which is certain to boost your affiliate commissions, even if you only implement one or two of the ideas inside it. And seeing it also shows you how to put those ideas into action you’ll have no excuses :)

So assuming you to make more affiliate sales (and who doesn’t?) the answer is simple. Read this short ebook and take action on what you learn. It’s nothing complicated. No rocket science involved.

The importance of residual income

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It’s only when you can’t work for a while that the importance of having a number of recurring revenue streams really hit home.

Even though I’ve done hardly been able to do anything since April my earnings have hardly faltered. This is because:

a) many of the affiliate programs I concentrate on promoting are those which offer recurring income. Membership sites are probably the first thing that popped into your head, but there are many other affiliate programs which offer recurring payouts.

Getting people to sign up for web hosting, where they might stay for many years and you get a monthly or annual cut, is an obvious one. Paid newsletter subscriptions is another. Less obvious are products like food supplements, eczema treatments, genital wart or hemorrhoid creams where people keep buying the product month after month.

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An offline idea that might work is to cut a deal with a local gymnasium or health club that doesn’t have a site and ‘sell’ monthly or annual memberships on their behalf by creating a locally oriented fitness site that heavily promotes their services. Or by developing a web presence promoting the gym where people are made an introductory offer via a discount
coupon which is tagged to you. If the gym later reneges on the deal you simply cut a similar deal with one of their competitors and switch your traffic over to your new partner.

In fact, if you put some thought into this you can probably do a similar thing for lots of different businesses.

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To get back to what I was saying about recurring, or residual, earnings, when I quit my job years ago, to work online full-time, I took out medical insurance which would pay me around $1k a week if I got sick. But I’ve never been able to make a claim on it because of all the residual earnings pouring in from my web sites.

A couple of days ago I took some time out to look back through years of banking and accounting records. And I can plainly see shifts in where the earnings come from. In the first few years they came from a mix of mini sites and this ezine. Apart from recommending useful books and software here, I also sold advertising, running as many as a dozen ads in each issue.

Later I expanded a few of my most successful mini sites, and later still got into the Adsense site building craze and devoted most of my time to churning out sites. This worked spectacularly for a couple of years before Google turned the screws.

And now, over the past few years, the bulk of my earnings come from a select number of high quality sites that mainly use a blend of rewritten private label articles (PLR) and rewritten press releases.

Affiliate Training Videos

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I was lucky enough to get pre-launch access to an affiliate training site called Affilorama , and I think it’s brilliant. Especially if you’re not doing very well at promoting affiliate programs.

If I used such over the top expressions, I’d say “it’s blown me away” This is affiliate training at its best, brought to us by an almost unknown super affiliate called Mark Ling. New Zealand based Mark, who says he makes well over a million dollars a year, earns his income 2 ways – from creating and marketing his own online products, and from a mixture of sales letter based mini sites and larger article sites.

In case you think the bulk of his income from his product sales, he says ” My companies earn tens of thousands of dollars every single week from marketing other people’s products online and earning commissions.”

Now if you’re like me, you’re always a bit cynical when one of these million plus super affiliates suddenly appears on the internet marketing scene ready to unload their secrets (though I don’t know why I am suspicious of anyone saying they make so much when I know that Commission Junction pay several affiliates over 750,000k a month, and Jim Lillig, an affiliate manager friend of mine, says that he often wrote affiliates 250,000k monthly checks when he was in the MP3 download business) so I asked Mark to show me some of his sites and he sent me quite a list.

Unfortunately I can’t share the urls with you, but some of them are mentioned inside the Affilorama member site. After studying his sites, the kind of long term value sites he shows you how to build in the training, I’ve got no reason to doubt his 1,000,000k plus statement. Anyhow, the quality of Marks affiliate sites is quite impressive, but nothing you couldn’t do if you put some work in.

However, I’m even more impressed with the video based training inside the Affilorama member site – each long video (and there’s 28 of them covering every step of affiliate marketing, plus another 6 starter videos) can be watched online, or downloaded in a choice of fullscreen or smaller sizes.

There’s also a ready to download PDF accompanying each video which is a sort of transcript/sum up of the video content called Printable Lesson Notes. It’s all very professionally done and the content is excellent.

If you already do well promoting affiliate programs not every video will be of interest to you, except as a refresher, but it’s all good solid stuff. There are quite a few on using Google Adwords and Yahoo/Overture ads to build your affiliate business, and an interesting one on leveraging Google Video and image search. Plus lots more, of course.

Well done Mark. And thanks for sharing your knowledge.

You can find out more about this downloadable affiliate training course here

Update 2009: Affilorama is now FREE :) but that’s because Mark has brought out a brand new ( and even better) membership based affiliate training package called AffiloBlueprint.

Quite possibly, when you visit the site, you’ll find it’s closed to new members. You won’t get spammed, or pitched to, if you leave your name and email address to be notified when it reopens so if it’s closed you should fill in the waiting list form so you can at least have a chance getting inside soon :)