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Facebook, Twitter, IM and RSS. Email has survived had so many would-be assassins that you’d think it was part vampire. In fact, email has flourished to the point where email lists are a cheap, sustainable way of earning a very profitable ongoing commission from people who will continue to respect you. So, how do you develop an email newsletter list? You do it by following a few simple steps. Step 1) Put Together The Mechanics All successful email lists are made of two things: The squeeze page, where you get email addresses and consent and the email software that manages the list and sends out the emails. Designing squeeze pages is usually not hard and requires little coding knowledge. In fact, more thought should go into the message than the code because a good squeeze page can double the number on your email list while a bad squeeze page can drive people away. There is a lot of email software out there to help you manage your list easily and some service providers include aWeber, Constant Contact and MailChimp. Step 2) Deciding On The Strategy The next step is deciding how to create a central concept so good that complete strangers will trust you enough to give you their email addresses and allow you to constantly update them on topics. In most cases, the emails center around a particular topic, and they generally offer information of interest in addition to advertisements. It could be anything from tips for mechanics to camera tips to suggestions for eBay resellers but essentially it should be something that is not only interesting to the person that is signing up but related to the items you are marketing so they will buy your merchants’ items once they do sign up. Step 3) Executing The Strategy Once you have decided on a topic/concept it is now down to you to work the squeeze and subsequent emails into sales writing so good that the prospect can’t help but buy. Squeeze Pages Squeeze pages should display enough information to show the benefit of ‘signing up’ while ‘not giving the milk away for free’ as it were. Make the page attractive, clean and enticing as this will be the thing that convinces people to join your email list. Emails Emails should be interesting to the person concerned as well as lucrative for yourself , otherwise they will end up in the spam folder. Spend the most time on the title each time as it’s this that determines whether people will open it or not. Shorter titles tend to work better than longer ones and power words/linkbait titles also tend to work well. Five Final Suggestions 1) DON’T spam Don’t overwhelm your readers with emails once you have their email address. Email marketing is one of those things that looses its effectiveness over time and if you are emailing people on a daily basis there is a good chance your email is just being deleted. 2) Test your messages. Don’t wonder which offers work best for a certain email group, test it out. Send ? to one group and ? to another and you will quickly find that you are able to maximize returns from a particular group. 3) Give your readers real value. The more you give, the more you get back. By giving them an interesting resource they are going to open your email first, no matter when it comes, because they know that your email is interesting. 4) Research, research, research There’s no shortage of free resources out there and large numbers of forums dedicated to email marketing. Keeping up your reading will help you to put together your emails better and get better results in the long run. 5) Multiply your efforts Once you have set up one email group and its running smoothly set up another. By multiplying your lists you are essentially just increasing your income. There you have it, with just a little work and a little research and a little work you can be making good ongoing profits with an affiliates program.

Have you started to look online for ways to make money from home? Would you like to supplement your regular income, or perhaps even break away from the shackles of a 9-5 job completely?Then there’s a good chance you’ve come across the concept of being an affiliate before. Affiliates are essentially salespeople who get paid for sending somebody to a site/getting somebody to take an action on another website. This traffic can be generated from your own site or by taking part on forums and other portals. It’s a new type of business which has helped some people do very well for themselves Unfortunately, as with any new field it brings its own jargon with it. So lets take a look at this jargon and explain it in easy-to understand English. AffiliateAs mentioned before, an affiliate is a person that puts links on the internet to direct traffic to particular websites. The affiliate then gets paid a comission when the customer buys something/completes an action. They can also be known as an Associate or Publisher)Affiliate ProgramWhere a merchant (see below) allows affiliates, partners or associates to promote their products or services and pays the affiliate, partner or associate part of the money they make off sales. This is done by the affiliate using an affiliate link (more about this later) to keep track of who they send to a site and allows the merchant to work out who to pay commissions to. This can also be known as an partner or associate program. MerchantThis is a company that sell products or services and uses affiliates to generate traffic and sales. Affiliate DirectoryA site or company that keeps a database of different types of affiliate programs that affiliates can join. Affiliate directories are not organized as thoroughly as affiliate networks and once signing up for one affiliate program you are not automatically signed up for others. Affiliate NetworkThis is a site or organization that not only allows merchants to list their affiliate program/s there but also manages it so affiliates can take part in one or more programs easily. All the sales from multiple affiliate programs in an affiliate network are pooled into one affiliate network box. This is usually paid every month. URLThe ‘address’ of a website. It is what people type into their browser when they want to go to a particular site. Affiliate LinkThis is a special type of URL with a code unique to a particular affiliate (say awebsite. com/&M=18925) This code will stay on all links that a site visitor goes to, and when a purchase is made, will tell the merchant to pay a commission to the afilliate (aka associate/publisher)Banner Programs / advertisementsThis is a program/link generation system where the affiliate links are behind a merchant banner on the affiliate’s site. These banners tend to be graphical advertisement and are usually sized 468 pixels wide by 60 pixels tall. Those using this type of affiliate link usually get a commission for every 1000 impressions, per sale, or per click-through. PopUpsAdvertisements or websites which open up in a new browser window. They normally popup when your visitor is on the site. Popunder & ExitsA Popunder ad displays behind your site so no one notices that it is there until they leave. Exit ads appear once a visitor leaves your site. LeadAnother name for a site visitor/potential visitor that can generate money for affiliates. ReferralsThe technical name for what the affiliate gets paid for. The referral, or Referral link, is the link from the affiliate that points the customer to the merchant site. Pay Per Click (PPC)A system where the affiliate (or web agent) gets paid every time the visitor clicks on referral/affiliate link and goes to the target site. The most famous example of this is Google Adwords? Which is itself used by affiliates as a lead-generation tool. Pay Per Lead / ActionThis is when an associate/affiliate gets paid commissions for each visitor that follows a referral link and then completes surveys, downloads or signs up for a membership. Pay Per Impression (CPM)Earning its acronym for cost per thousand (M is the in the abbreviation is the Roman numeral for one thousand) Pay per impressions means a system where the affiliate makes money every 1000 times the page the banner is on gets viewed. Affiliates normally get paid per 1000 impressions/page views. Pay Per SaleA program where the affiliate gets paid a commission when the visitor/lead you have referred buys a product or service from the merchant. Raw VisitA raw visit is counted every time a page is viewed. Unique VisitA Unique visit is counted every time a site is viewed every 24 hrs. Text LinksText links are links that either describes a merchant’s product, service or their site. When the link is clicked on it will take you to the merchants site. This is one of the more commonly-used ways of marketing for affiliates who do not have their own site as it is the easiest to do. 2 Tier CommissionWith a 2 tier commission an affiliate won’t only get commissions from sales they generate but sales their own affiliate generates. How do they work? Well, if you refer a visitor to a merchants site, they become an affiliate and he / she then makes a sale with an affiliate link then you yourself will also get a commission. Direct ReferralsPeople that you refer directly to an affiliate program. Indirect ReferralsPeople that are referred to an affiliate program by your direct referrals (see 2 tier commission). Net 60/30Net means accumulated profits in the world of business so net + number just means a system where you are paid after a defined period. Net 60 programs pay after a period of 60 days net 30 programs are paid after 30 days. There you have it, now you have all the tools at your disposal to start learning more about the world of affiliate programs.

Affiliates who are just starting out can sometimes find it difficult to generate as much money as they like. Whether it’s getting the traffic to your site/video/review in the first place or converting that traffic into buying customers for the merchants in question it doesn’t matter. In practice the business of selling somebody elses’ products isn’t as easy as some people make it out to be. However, by taking a few steps you will soon be able to earn affiliates commissions envied by many with less effort and less cash than you’d think. Here are 10 simple things you can do make your commission earnings explode. 1) Talk To The Merchant’s Affiliate Managers If a merchant is leveraging the affiliate system of getting traffic there is a very good chance that they have a staff member that is dedicated to handling affiliates. This person is likely to not only understand promotional methods, technical problems, and product lines and can help you design campaign so that both parties make money. After all it’s in the merchants best interest to help you sell because it means more sales for them. Which ecommerce vendor doesn’t like more sales? 2) Link Deep Not Wide! This is where communicating with the merchants’ affiliates manager and getting to know the merchant’s site really come in handy. By linking to a product that is most appropriate to the ‘conversation’ you are having you increase the chances of making a sale and increasing your commissions. There’s also steps you can take to analyze which links are getting you sales and, by making some changes to the URLS you will be able to work out which links work and which links don’t. 3) Monitor Your Statistics Visit the “Activity Details” and “Activity Summary” links regularly to view details on your sales and clicks. Sign up to Google Analytics if you have your own website. If you have specified optional afftrack values for links you’ve created, you’ll see those next to your completed sales. This will give you more information about what things work and what things don’t. 4) Study Customer Behavior So what do you do with all that information you’re gathering. You use it to improve your conversion rate of course. You can use the “Return Days Analysis” to see how long it takes buyers to make a purchase after seeing a link. You can also see which campaigns work better than others and fine tune efforts in the future. 5) Ask Your Merchants For Feedback If merchants have strong positive or negative feelings about how you are promoting their products, they may leave you feedback. Keep track of this to build better relationships with the merchants and lift your commissions in the future. Even if there is no feedback get in contact with them and see what they think. They might have some ideas that could lift your results considerably. 6) Monitor Merchant ‘Health’ Merchants can get low on affiliate funds. They can leave networks completely. Before you start any new promotional campaign, you need to ensure the company you are doing the work for has the money to pay you when it’s successful. If a program says “Low Funds”, proceed with caution. If it’s closed, move on to something else. 7) Stay Up-To-Date With Your Network. Networks are businesses in themselves, they are communities of loosely assoiciated merchants, affiliates and administrators. What does that mean to you? What it means is that there are rule changes, new promotions and new developments all the time and new opportunities and obstacles may be facing you and you don’t know it. Some networks like shareasale maintains an active blog with news and important information for their affiliates. But even with others there should be some forum where affiliates and merchants get together to discuss the health of the network. By getting involved, or at least monitoring that network, you will always be in the loop and in the best position to profit from any changes. Help Your Customers Get Discounts And Results As a rule people shopping online want one of two things: Faster results and cheaper prices. With affiliates networks like commission junction or shareasale there is often a “Coupons/Deals” link that will help you find available deals for merchants in the network. This will allow you to set up coupons where customers can make a ‘saving’ on an item and you can get a higher conversion rate. With some ecommerce websites, many customers do not do not speak English as their first language. This puts you in a position to increase foreign-language sales for the merchant and tap into an under developed market. 9) Leave Page Design To The Experts If you’re slowed down by page design and coding then there are solutions to this problem. Many affiliate networks, like Shareasale have a “Make a Page” feature, which allows you to create specific product pages quickly. All you need to do usually is to enter in details about which items you’d like to promote and you’ll get back the raw HTML code you can upload to your website for an instant page. Otherwise there are sites like elance that has many coders who can also do the job for you in a fraction of the time for little cost. 10) Put Earnings On Automatic With Datafeeds The great thing about the internet is that once its set up it can be automated so that, with little ongoing input from you, it can go on generating money for you. The secret behind this is often datafeeds. Some affiliate sites like Shareasale have merchant datafeeds that you can download by clicking on them. However, even if a site doesn’t have a datafeed it is still possible to generate one if you know your way around code. RSS feeds can be ‘repurposed’ if you know a site has one. There are also some third-party tools like PopShops and GoldenCAN that will do the job for you. By doing this you will be able to make your commission earnings explode all with little effort and little cash. What more could you ask for? Sign on to the electronics affiliate program that is guaranteed to pay. Visit the wholesale affiliate program leader Chinavasion. com today.