Affiliate Program Sales: Earn Real Money With These 4 Simple Steps and Never Spend a Nickel!
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There is only one way to earn real money in affiliate program sales: promote, promote, and promote some more! For the new marketer, it is crucial that you keep your costs down. Even if you are experienced in the business, it is simply senseless to spend money needlessly. Here are some suggestions as to how you may promote your affiliate product without spending a dime in advertising.
by GeneJimenez


There is only one way to earn real money in affiliate program sales: promote, promote, and promote some more! For the new marketer, it is crucial that you keep your costs down. Even if you are experienced in the business, it is simply senseless to spend money needlessly. Here are some suggestions as to how you may promote your affiliate product without spending a dime in advertising.

1. We begin by writing an article.

Articles are among the best and cheapest ways to promote your affiliate product. If you are any good at writing, it is not difficult to get published in the top article directories, so long as your affiliate promotion is not too blatant.

Send your article to the top five or six most highly ranked article directories. Send a re-written version of it to the next ten or twenty most popular directories. The point of the re-write is to avoid any duplicate content penalties from the search engines.

As a guideline, avoid talking about your product directly. Strive to provide good quality information relevant to your affiliate niche. For example, if your niche is "building doll-houses", then give the reader some tips as to how they can best solve common doll-house building problems.

The best article directories--- the ones you should be dealing with regularly--- will never allow you to do a straight affiliate program sales pitch. You need to be a little subtle about it!

You have to give; only then can you take. Your resource box may contain your website (top level domain only). You have a good chance of getting the reader's click if you have earned it by first giving good information.

This is a great strategy that can really help you earn real money.

But--- keep reading. There's more!

2. Now re-write your article as a tutorial. Educational and tutorial sites like eHow are great places to publish this sort of content. To turn your article into a tutorial, you will need to change the wording and the lay-out to give it more of a "how-to" feel. Very few article writers would ever think to take advantage of the good traffic that tutorial sites get. And... it's FREE.

3. Having made your article into a tutorial, now turn THAT into a Powerpoint presentation, being sure to include your URL. Submit it to Slideshare and similar sites, and find yourself with yet another traffic source that comes to you... totally free.

4. And finally turn your Powerpoint into a video. You can still do this for free using CamStudio, or you can trade up a step and use Camtasia.

You can make your video fresh, if you like, but since you already have the Powerpoint, why not recycle your work by simply adding a voiceover? Use your own voice if you like (it's free, after all!), or outsource this if you think you lack dramatic flair.

If that is not good enough for you, you could try a monthly paid service called Article Video Robot. They turn articles into video complete with background music and voice over. Never having used them, I will not comment on their work. You could give them a try, and then tell the rest of us.

What are your overall results now? Well, you wrote one article, and published it in four different formats!

There are plenty of other sources of free traffic. Article directories and social bookmarking sites are among the most popular, but they are only the tip of a very large iceberg.

Any article can be recycled into some non-article form, such as a Pdf. file, .exe file or RSS feed. These can all now be published for free in sites specializing in such formats, and are all available to you as free traffic sources.

One last word: You can earn real money in affiliate program sales if you will commit to publishing your articles in as many formats as you can.

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