DIGITAL STARTUP SOCIETY BLOG — Finetuning Your Marketing

When you are trying to find affiliate products, besides ensuring that the products themselves are topnotch, that the creator offers excellent customer care, and that you would use the product yourself, there are other things to consider, such as how much it pays and how it pays.   Does the program pay immediately? Does the program hang on to the funds for a certain period? Will they pay you via PayPal or some other method? How do they report to taxing authorities? If you get people to sign up for a membership, will you get paid for renewals?    Before...

Once you find affiliate products to start promoting throughout your marketing funnel, you’ll want to start adding them to your autoresponders. After all, the more you can automate promotions, the better. Your email marketing system, such as Aweber.com or another autoresponder service, is critical for your success when it comes to affiliate marketing or any type of marketing online. As an online business owner, affiliate marketing should be among one of your revenue streams.    To be successful incorporating affiliate offers in your follow up autoresponder messages, you’ll want to ensure that all offers fit your niche, are priced right...

If you’re not promoting other people’s products yet as an affiliate, then you’re missing out on what could become your primary income source. The truth is, as an affiliate marketer, you can give yourself a raise any day you want to just by finding, sharing, and encouraging your audience to buy products that you screen for them that solve their problems.    How Affiliate Marketing Works   When you become an affiliate, you sign up with the creator of the product. They give you a unique link to use to promote their product. That link takes your audience to their...

If you look at the marketing funnel, your work does not end after the purchase. In fact, your work is just now beginning at the point of purchase. Now is the time you can delight and thrill your customer. Not only can you make them feel satisfied, but you can also reduce buyer’s remorse and even turn them into brand advocates with just a few extra steps.   The truth is, anytime you sell something, you’re sometimes going to have returns that require refunds. The good news is that you can use these simple ways to reduce refunds and returns....

 The one thing you really need to know is that a sales page up and running is better than never having one up and running. Don’t allow the idea of testing and tracking every part of your sales page to deter you from getting sales pages up for each of your offers. Get them up, and then start working on improving them through testing and tracking.    Headlines – For every sales page you create, try writing down at least 20 to 50 headlines so that you can perfect them. Out of the brainstorming session, choose three to five to...