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Published: Tue, 11/25/08
How To Build Continuous Affiliate Income With Squeeze Pages - Part 1
By Iszuddin Ismail
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Let's cover the basics really quickly. Affiliate income, that is income generated by promoting affiliate programs. Affiliate programs are online referral programs where you earn commissions when your referring traffic to merchants websites. Of course you only earn commission when your referrals make purchases.
In this article, we will talk mostly on affiliate
programs around digital products such as ebooks, software and those
from ClickBank. Why? Because of the huge commission. Now, squeeze
pages. A squeeze page, also known as a lead capture page is a single
web
page with the main objective to capture visitors' contact details,
such as name and
email address. You do this so that you can build your
own mailing list for future
promotions
.
Generally, a squeeze page contains an offer and a subscription form.
The offer can
be something like a free ebook, or discount vouchers, or
anything else. Obviously,
website visitors can only get your offer when
they enter their details in the subscription form
.
What do you do with the contact details?
When you have collected the contact details, you store them in an
autoresponder. Of
course everything is automated by using the
autoresponder software.
There are a number of autoresponder software out there. Some very
well-known are
GetResponse and Aweber. Any of these two should be able
to handle your squeeze
page and your mailing list
.
Before you start promoting your squeeze page, you need to write a
series of
autoresponder messages. These are email messages that will be
automatically
delivered to every new subscriber, and you load them up
in your autoresponder. You
can schedule these messages a few days apart
from one another, depending how you
feel fit.
However, your first autoresponder message has to be about the offer
on your squeeze page and where they can get it. If it's an ebook for
them to download, tell
them where the download page is. You need to
deliver what you promise them.
And then, you next autoresponder message should be about you. Tell
them who you
are, how you got started and how you can help them. This
is the part where you start
to bond with your subscribers or your
readers. When you do this, you will start to
gain their trust, and
later it'll be easier to sell to them.
After the autoresponder message, you can just broadcast a mailing
anytime you feel
like it. With my mailing list, I try to write to them
every week. I don't want them to
forget who I am because it's easy to
do that when they've never met you in person.
Sometimes even if I don't have anything to write, I still try to
write something. I tell
them how my week was, the great day I had, the
bad day I had... almost anything.
This will make you appear more
personal, like a real person and not like phony who
is trying to fake
it. And that will increase the level of trust they have in you.
And every now and then, you can send them offers, sending them to
merchants'
websites using my affiliate link. And if they buy what I
recommend, I get
commissions.
Now, here's the "secret" to continuous affiliate income, and putting your business on
autopilot.
When you send that broadcast with the promotions, sometimes you will
find a
product that will really bring in home money. A home run. Here's
what you do with
that email message. You copy that email message and
schedule them in your
autoresponder. Here's why. When you do a
broadcast, all of your current
subscribers will get the email. But when
you put in your autoresponder sequence, all
your NEW subscribers will
get it too.
What you need to do next to continuously promote your squeeze page.
With
continuous traffic, you will get continuous income. And you also
need to optimize
your squeeze page for better performance, maximizing
your online income. But that is
something for another article.
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