Physical products can definitely make for an easier time as an affiliate, but there it’s just like every other kind of affiliate marketing in that it comes with its own set of rules and quirks.  Before you get started with marketing physical products, consider these tips:

• You need to be very specific. If you’re promoting grills, you can’t just bid on the keyword “grill” and except big things to happen.  Even “Weber grills” is probably not specific enough.  You want people who are very close to knowing exactly what they want, as they are the most likely ones to convert to sales.
• Modifiers can mean big money.  Often, merchants advertise their goods with brand names and colors and model numbers.  A lot of them, however, forget that consumers also search things like “cute recycling bins” or “stylish blue flats”.  These less common modifiers can be easier to rank for and much more profitable for the average affiliate.
• Not all products work for paid advertising. If you’re promoting a $5 product with a 10% commission, your take on each sale is going to be $.50.  If you’re paying .25 cents/click, that’s not a margin you can support for long.  It’s better to focus on products with a minimum of $10/sale for the average transaction.
• SEO is your friend. When margins are tight on PPC, you can dramatically improve your overall profits with the SEO traffic that continues to come even after campaigns have failed through paid traffic methods.  With a properly optimized site, no paid traffic test is ever completely wasted.
• Finding ways to keep your visitors can be the difference between a super affiliate and a struggling affiliate. You put a lot of time into getting people to your sites, so it makes sense that you should also spend time building a newsletter or otherwise bringing your traffic back again and again.  It’s not about single commissions anymore.

One of the best resources on learning to market physical products is Rosalind Gardner’s Affiliate Marketing Handbook.  Check it out and see what you’re missing.

What is this industry? Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing programs are simple by nature: They work by rewarding
marketers for promoting products online. The affiliates are then compensated on a commission basis. Basically, affiliates get paid each time they refer new customers to the website of the company they are promoting.

Becoming an affiliate is one of the most lucrative online money-making opportunities out there, and the breadth of products that can be promoted as an affiliate is staggering. Affiliate marketing creates a cost-effective option for big and small companies alike to reach out and expose their products to a much larger audience of potential buyers. Instead of being limited to just one large website companies of any size can now offer an affiliate program and have their products promoted on hundreds or even thousands of individual sites, at no upfront cost to them.

Likewise, the affiliate marketing industry also provides a virtually unlimited source for income for those who aggressively promote offers. Affiliates have been continually reaping the rewards of larger profits as the affiliate marketing industry continues to grow in popularity. Affiliates can easily earn anywhere from 30-90% of the profits from each sale that comes from customers they refer, and with some affiliate programs offering recurring monthly payouts for their products, the earning potential becomes even higher.

CPA marketing, in which affiliates can earn money just for referring traffic and having visitors do as little as fill out a short form, without even making a purchase, is the latest hot trend in affiliate marketing, and promises to keep the industry highly profitable and exciting for many years to come.

Unlike other businesses, there are no specific criteria for becoming an affiliate, other than a commitment to work hard and some knowledge of Internet marketing and how to go about researching and promoting the best offers for maximum profitability.

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Avoid These 6 Mistakes like the plague:

1. Not Building For Search Engines:

If you're an affiliate and want to be successful at it, you
better learn to make search engines your best friend.
Search engines are a better source for long-term, targeted
and FREE traffic.  Make sure to build your site in clean
HTML coding, provide good content and optimize all your
pages (not just the home page).  

2. Not Enough Text! Too Many Banners:

This might be the #1 problem that I see across hundreds of
sites almost daily. Think back to why you're online!
To find information right?  What good are banners to you?
Do banners provide you any good information? Absolutely
not.

Don't get me wrong, I don't discourage using banners. I am
just saying to use them only after you have content on your
website.  Preferably, stick to just 1 or 2 banners. The goal here
is to hook someone with good content, then urge them to
click the banner to learn more.  Don't just slop up a bunch
of banners and expect to become a super affiliate?

3. Promoting Only One Product:

This was something I learned from Ken Envoy and it made no
sense to me until I tried it. Let's use an example to
illustrate:  Let's say you're looking for a car and you ask
someone,  Hey, which one should I buy?  Would you rather
have the person show you 3, give you the positives and
negatives and then suggest a car or just shove one of
them down your throat and refuse to talk about anything
else?

I think the answer is clear you much rather have someone
RECOMMEND something.  So, do the same on your websites
let your consumer choose what link they click on (your
conversions will go through the roof).   

4. Not Giving Away FREE Products:

Another mistake committed on almost 98% of the websites I
visit is an apparent lack of viral marketing built into
their system. If you want to hook someone and build
loyalty, put some of your best information into a small PDF,
give it away for free, and watch your sales and traffic
multiply.  NOTE:  This is a more long-term strategy so be
patient!

5. Hard-Selling:

If you know anything about affiliate marketing, then you've
heard of PRE-SELL.  Surprisingly it's a shocker that most people
never use it.  PRE-SELL is when you warm up to your visitor
with some good content and information and then slowly
recommend them to buy something.

I also never thought this would work until I tried it.
Hard-selling is what your merchant should be doing, you,
however, should avoid it at all costs.

6. Too Much Going On?

This mistake is similar to the Too many banners
mistake. I can't even begin to tell you how many times I
have WANTED to buy something but just couldn't find the
right link to do it.

Some affiliate websites have a million things going on that
the reader gets so confused they hit the back button
and never come back.  Keep your pages targeted and
clean and go for ONE goal- to get the click over to the
merchant(s) you're promoting.

Golden Rule:  The more you show them, the more confused
they get.

I highly suggest reading those 6 again.  They are very
important to master if you want to become a super affiliate
one day. Even I am going back to my old projects and still
fixing my mistakes; they're all over the place.  Fortunately,
the second I fix them I see an enormous difference.  If you
take the time to do the same you will see an enormous
difference too!

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