| In the affiliate marketing world and in fact any other | | | | in a certain niche. |
| internet marketing niche, there is a simple formula | | | | T is for Traffic |
| that will start making you money instantly. Now I | | | | You need traffic, what is traffic? No not that stuff |
| dont want you to start worrying about those | | | | you get stuck in every morning when you go to |
| complex formulas you came across at high school in | | | | work, website traffic. Traffic is the visitors who |
| physics, maths and chemistry this one is nice and | | | | come to your site. These are the people who are |
| easy. | | | | interested in your products all you have to do is |
| The formula is drumroll please... | | | | convert them. |
| W + T + C = $ | | | | How do I get traffic? There are thousands of ways |
| Yes thats it, I wish you the best of success... | | | | out there on the internet to get traffic. The most |
| What? You want more? But I have given you the | | | | obvious way is the search engines but this is not |
| formula. | | | | easy so I wouldn't recommend it as a stating point. |
| You may not believe it but many of the affiliate | | | | Writing articles, reports, reviews and case studies are |
| programs and systems out there do just that, they | | | | some of the main ways you can start building traffic. |
| leave the important bits out. I'm not going to do the | | | | A second option is to use forums and chat sites and |
| same so lets expand the formula. | | | | recommend you product to relevant customers. |
| W is for Website. | | | | C is for Content |
| You need a website to start making money from | | | | What is content? Content is everything that you put |
| the internet. I know you may have heard you can | | | | on your webpage. It can be product information, |
| make money from the internet without one, but | | | | benefits and features, case studies, reviews, |
| trust me to start making lots of cash you need one. | | | | testimonials literally anything. |
| The type of website you need will depend largely on | | | | The key thing with content is to make it captivate |
| the type of product you are trying to sell. If you are | | | | the visitor, they have to be able to learn from you, |
| trying to sell your own product or a single product | | | | be interested in you, be entertained by you etc etc. |
| you need a webpage focused on that one product. | | | | Essentially you have to give you visitors some reason |
| This style of website usually has a main sales page. | | | | to stay, you cannot simply create a load of poor |
| You will have seen them, those long pages that | | | | content and expect people to buy your products. |
| show you the product, how it works and shows you | | | | You can have the best website design and hosting in |
| testimonials from people who have had success with | | | | the world, a million hits a day. But if you have just a |
| it. The reason these long sales pages exist is because | | | | few pieces of crappy content you will not make |
| they work. | | | | money. |
| If you are selling a number of affiliate products you | | | | If you have a website, traffic and content then you |
| are better with a blog. A blog is a website that is | | | | will start to make $. If you have any one of these |
| designed to be updated much more regularly, your | | | | elements missing you will fail. Each part is equally |
| visitors can leave comments and feedback so the | | | | important. If you want to take the next step and |
| website process is much more interactive. These | | | | turn that $ into $$$$s check out |
| blogs are great when you are selling multiple products | | | | I wish you the best of success. |