Associate Program (APs)) are the hottest moneymaking 
opportunity available today. Easy to join, you can be up 
and running within an hour. 

Despite the ease of joining, however, most AP members never 
make any profit. In one program from which I earn (on 
average) $3,000.00 monthly. I have also recruited 75 
associates to join this program. What I recently discovered 
is that 68 of them HAVE NEVER made a sale. 

This article is written to help those who have never earned 
profit. I will introduce five of the essential marketing 
strategies you must adopt NOW to earn big profits from 
Associate Programs. 

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Pre-sell Your Product 
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Most APs provided its Associates with a free website 
complete with all the essential elements of a effective 
online sales presentation (sales letter, testimonials, free 
bonuses, order processing, guarantees, etc.) If this 
material is well crafted, it will result in the conversion 
of a large percentage of your site visitors into product 
buyers (called the CR or conversion rate). 

You can increase your CR if you learn how to *pre-sell the 
product* before people visit the main site. As an owner and 
advocate of product X, you are in a position to provide a 
personal endorsement - the single most effective strategy 
for successful AP marketing. 

There are several ways to share this endorsement. You ought 
to begin by creating several "pre-sell pages" on your own 
domain that contain your endorsement. You should also be 
prepared to share your endorsements with your opt-in email 
list. Both of these topics will be addressed in a moment. 

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Procure Targeted Traffic 
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Once you've got your "pre-sell page" you need to get traffic 
to your site. Without traffic there will be no sales. The 
trick is to attract the right kind of traffic - people who 
visit your site interested in what you are selling. 

Suppose I market a company the best tasting doggie bone ever 
developed. What would be better: attracting 1 million cat 
lovers to my site or 5,000 dog lovers. In this case bigger 
is not better! 

This is why you must create your own "pre-sell pages." It 
allows you to build pages that are indexed by the search 
engines using different search criteria that will allow you 
to target a particular niche market. 

Suppose you are selling a product that helps people write a 
more persuasive sales letter. What niche market can you 
address that needs such knowledge? Right now I am preparing 
a marketing plan geared toward the clergy - many of whom are 
called upon to writes letter to raise funds for various 
ministry endeavors. Most have no clue how to write those 
letter- but I have a product that can help! 

Do you see the potential here? 

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Prove Your Worth 
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The Internet is fill with many scams and shams. People need 
proof that they are not being "taken for a ride." 

My best selling AP recently introduced a free e-book that 
they could easily sell for $50-$100. It is being given 
away, however, to prove the worth of the main program. 

Do same thing for you program? Write an informative article 
about the subject addressed by your program. Include a link 
to your "pre-sell page" in your resource box. Submit it to 
Ezine editors for possible publication. This strategy works! 

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Position Yourself Above Your Competitors 
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Why should a person buy from you rather than one of your 
competitors?  You need to provide them a compelling answer 
to this question. You must create an offer (within the 
guidelines of your AP rules) that will convince somebody buy 
from you. 

Do some inventory. Explore what you can offer that you 
fellow associates can't provide.  Perhaps you can give them 
a product you've created and sell as a free bonus when they 
buy from you. It might even be possible for you to use a 
portion of your profits to "gift" them into another program 
or business you represent. Maybe you can offer a 30-minute 
consultation in a field of expertise. 

Suppose you market a product that pays you a $100.00 
commission each sale. Also suppose you get five sales per 
month - or $500.00. Next imagine that your bonus will cost 
you $20.00 per sale--but net you five additional sales! 
Which would you prefer: 5 x $100 or 10 x $80? Now if you 
selected the first option, please unplug your modem and turn 
off your computer. :) 

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Publish Follow Up Marketing Materials 
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Recently I got this note from one of my Ezine subscribers: 

"For a couple months I've been reading about your 
endorsement of *product X.* Several times I visited your 
site - but never paid for the program. In your last 
message, however, something clicked and I went right over to 
place my order. Now I am writing just to say thanks for 
pointing me in the right direction!" 

This note reveals several important marketing lessons you'll 
need to learn to succeed in online marketing! 

1) You need to have several ads and endorsement ready for 
each product you represent. Marketing is an ongoing 
process, not a one shot deal! 

2) You need to have a automatic delivery system ready to 
share your ongoing marketing materials with prospective 
buyers. There are many follow-up Autoresponders on the 
Net. Get one! 

3) You need to effectively manage an opt-in list of people 
who are willing to receive your marketing information. You 
will find a valuable free tutorial aimed at helping you 
start your own Ezine at http://ezinesuccess.com

Despite all the ads I purchase, pages I submit, and links I 
exchange, my number one source of profit comes from being 
the editor of an Ezine. 
 
 

Dr. Bill Nieporte is editor of "The Success In Life Newsletter." 
Subscribe by visiting http://ezinesuccess.com

Read the bizarre experiment about the "Internet Marketing Guru 
who Couldn't give Away $100 Bills!" The full story is at 
http://www.roibot.com/w.cgi?R250_free1