Everything you think you know about building an affiliate business is wrong. The tactics of the past few years just don’t work anymore. If you play by the old rules, you will lose this game.

The big lie

You’ve probably heard how easy it is to start an affiliate business. Well, that’s true . . . to a point There’s no doubt it’s easier than starting your own business. But that doesn’t mean it’s easy.

The bad news…

And to make matters worse, you’ve taught to do it the hard way. The first thing you’re taught is to pick some great products. Next to pick your keywords carefully. Then to use these keywords to buy ads promoting the product. And sit back and collect the profits. But, it’s all wrong.

Forget keywords

This method worked a couple years ago. But it’s just too competitive to use keywords now. Adapt and change…

The NEW game

There is a light at the end of the tunnel. Here’s how to win at this game.

• Start using CPA marketing
• Instead of researching keywords, research demographics
• Market on display networks

Get into CPA marketing

CPA means Cost Per Action. It’s so much easier than promoting products. Because your visitor doesn’t have to buy anything. You earn a commission for having them perform an “action”. Such as filling in a form. And it’s much easier to get them to do that.

Utilize demographics data

Keywords are no longer relevant (you’ll see in a minute). Invest your research time into demographics. First you select your CPA offer. Next, you go to Quantcast.com. And research what kinds of people will be interested.

Market on display networks

So you know what your promoting and you know who will be interested. You can target these exact demographics on display networks. And let images do the work. And there was no keyword research required. Plus you’re going to save a ton of money. Image ad clicks are much cheaper.

Summary

This is powerful method to make money online. Because getting started in CPA is free. You can buy image ad clicks for a fraction of keyword ad clicks. You can use demographics to target your ideal prospect. And you get paid for having them take a simple action.

Consider this: What is the number one reason people get online everyday? You probably already guessed that it’s to find information. Google alone serves up 400 million searches per day! So what does this mean to you? Well, this is an opportunity for your to provide what people want – information. And if you do it right . . . to make some money along the way.

Info marketing 101

First of all, an info business is the least complex business possible. You take information and turn it into a digital product – like and ebook. And then sell it to people who want to learn the info in it. Sounds simple enough, right?

How do you make it work?

We’ve established that it’s a simple concept. But to make it a successful business you’ve got to provide information people want. So the key is to figure out what people want. How do figure that out?

One very simple method is to do a little research. Head over to ask.com or Yahoo! answers and look at the questions being asked there. You want to find something a lot of people are asking about. That people are having trouble solving. And provide the answer – in the form of an info product.

Power tip

If you’re worried about how to write and ebook. Think about this: An ebook is just a series of articles. Don’t try to write a whole ebook. Just write some articles for your blog. And when you’ve got a few finished, flesh them out, add to them and combine them into a single ebook.

OK, what’s so hot about digital products? Well, that bring me to the tile of this article Here are the seven reasons

1. Ease

An info product business runs on auto-pilot. There is almost no support. Which means there nothing for you to actually *do*. It really is like and automatic money machine.

You have no physical inventory. You don’t have to ship anything. It’s digital.

2. Repackaging

When you have a created a few information products. You can combine them together to create new high ticket products. It’s a simple matter to merge a few ebooks into one. And your new product will be able to carry a much higher sticker price. There’s greater perceived value in a single big course. Instead of several small ebooks.

3. Resellers

Since it’s your product, you can offer other people the resale rights. Recently, resell rights have become extremely popular, because most people simply don’t have the time, money and effort it takes to create their own products. Plus, you get to charge two to three time as much for these rights.

4. Leverage

Leverage your ebook by using the content in different ways. Break it apart and create a multi-part email series with it. You can use this to build a list that you can marketing to again and again.

5. More leverage

Utilize your content in as many ways as you can – like creating a few reports from parts of the ebook. These reports can then become lead generators for your ebook. You can give them away or even charge a small amount for them. And it still benefits you because it in a lead-in for the main product. And if you’re really clever, you’ll let your affiliate use these reports as marketing tools. Which brings us to…

6. An army of affiliates

This is a real power strategy. Once you have your own product. You’re able to let other people market it for you. How would you like to have an army of affiliates selling your products? Well, you *need* your own product to get affiliates.

7. JVs

Last, but definitely not least… Setting up joint ventures is the fastest way to gain success. Period. That makes this is the biggest reason for creating your own info products. No products of your own = no way to do joint ventures.

Summing it up

If you can’t see the power of info product marketing, then you’re either crazy or not listening. With your own info product you can write your own ticket. Because you’re the boss! So just get started:

• Head over to Yahoo! answers
• See what people are asking about
• Start writing

Don’t make info product creation any more complicated than that. Before you know it, you’ll have your own info product.

It would be hard to argue against the fact that adding audio to a website increases your overall results. In fact, not using audio is a big mistake. Audio increases opt-ins. It boosts sales, too.

But why?

It’s not hard to figure out. Audio breaks the silence of the web. It makes your site more “human”. And makes people feel they’re dealing with a real person. Basically, audio brings your site to life. Which fascinates greater interaction from your visitors.

Some more benefits

There are actually two profit boosts from using audio. First, you’ll make more sales. And second you’ll save money on the sales letter. You see, you’ll be able to skip the expensive copywriter. Simply record an audio message yourself. Your honest message about your product will sell better than a professional copywriter.

You’ll get more subscribers, too. Most people need to be led by the hand. Just add a short audio message saying: Fill in your name and email and click submit. Just this one simple thing will boost opt-ins up to 315%!

Some web audio ideas

Add a welcome to my site message on your main page. A warm welcome can be the deciding factor. This could be all it takes to get your visitor to decide to stay.

Step-by-step instructions. Just like in the opt-in example. Use an audio message to lead your visitors through a process. That includes filling in your order form!

Get testimonials for your services and products. A written testimonial is good. But what’s even better are audio testimonials. It’s pretty easy to fake a written testimonial. So audio adds real believability. And will definitely increase your results.

Power tip

Did you ever think of making a product just by recording some audio? You’ll be able to produce audio products faster than any other kind. And your customers will be very happy with the product. Think about how popular podcast are. Plus you can get them transcribed cheap. This is the easiest way to “write” an eBook!

Is it hard to add audio?

It’s so simple you won’t believe it. There’s software that will show you how to add audio to a website. The software does all the work. The software records the audio, creates the button code, etc. Simply copy the code and paste it in your site. So don’t let this stop you.

Summary

Here’s a recap of the benefits. Using website audio will increase your conversion rates. No doubt your sales will go up. And your opt-in rate will increase. And you can quickly produce products and website sales copy. It’s a less often used medium. So you’ll be one of the few reaping the rewards. Start using it today and you’ll be glad you did.

Affiliate marketing can be very difficult to break into. And that’s because you have a lot of other affiliates to compete with. The challenge is to try and outdo other affiliates and think of ways to do a better job promoting. And the sea of information about this doesn’t make it any easier. Here’s one trick that almost no one else is using.

Affiliate videos

The power of video is undeniable. People love watching videos and that’s why they’re everywhere. It’s so much easier to keep people’s attention with video. So using it in your affiliate promotions is a no-brainer!

Examples of how to use video for affiliate marketing:

• Record your testimonial
• Record a walk-through
• Record the order process
• Do a preview video

Testimonials

This is probably the easiest of all. Just click record on your web cam and start talking. It does not need to be polished or pro. Seeing a real person on the other end helps your viewers make a buying decision. In truth, mistakes and mess-ups just make it more believable. You really can just click record and start talking. If you don’t want to be in front of the camera use one of the other methods.

Do a video walk-through

This technique works slightly more subconsciously. Make this more like a tutorial helping them use the product. And seeing it being used is a great way to make people want to buy it. As long as the product is good, the tutorial makes them want it. So pick some really helpful aspect of the product and show how to use that.

Ordering

This one is killer! Record yourself placing an order. Watching you make a live purchase will inspire your viewer like nothing else. First, it’s social proof. People will feel more comfortable buying after seeing you do it. This also makes your viewers trust you. They are much more likely to take your advice to buy when you’ve taken it yourself. And finally, it creates envy. People want what they see you getting. You can add some extra punch to this by ending with: In order to get to see the inside, you gotta buy the product.

Sneak peak

This one is perfect for building up the value of what you’re promoting. What you do is record a tour of the back end. They get to see everything they’ll receive when they order. It also reduces the reservations of skeptics. Once they’ve seen the back-end, they know it’s real.

It’s easy!

No special skills are required. Anyone can create stunning videos with some easy-to-use software. All the work is done by the program. So you don’t have to worry about the technical part of this at all. Just focus on the benefits:

• Make more money You will increase your affiliate sales when you start using videos. People love video, so please use them.
• Reduce refunds You’ll lose less of the commission your earn. Your customers will know what they’re getting into ahead of time. So, very few of them will cancel their order.
• Rise above the competition! Adding video is so simple. But pretty much no one does it. That puts you ahead of the pack.

Take your affiliate promotions to a higher level and getting started with this now. Not using video is detrimental to you business. So do it!

You need a list. That’s a given. This is the most important factor in your long-term success. After it’s built, it’s yours to use any time you want. It’s a resource you can tap at any time and generate income.

So, how do you build a list?

Here are the three components of list building:

• Your Opt-in Page
• The Incentive
• The Thank You Page

The Squeeze Page – Your opt-in page is the page you send visitors to to build your list. This page is the one that asks them for their email. This page needs to look professional. And it needs to be simple to see how to opt in. And your call to action must be clear!

Failure to include a great “call to action” will result in failure. Your call to action tells the visitor what to do. Without this your opt-in rate will plummet. It’s strange, but if you don’t tell people what to do, they won’t do it.

One way to really spice up your squeeze page is to add a compelling video to the page. Adding video will help keep your visitors attention. Plus it give you a chance to tell them to opt in multiple times. And you can have the video just tell them to fill in your form after it’s done playing.

It’s OK, if you’ve never made a video before. It’s very easy to hire people for a couple hundred bucks to make one for you. Or you can get email list tools that have everything pre-built for you.

The Incentive – Next, you’ve got to figure out what your bribe is. People won’t give you their email for nothing. Email privacy is very important to most people. This means your bribe needs to be very attractive.

You have to provide value in your bribe for it to be good. It has to be something that people actually want. And something from which they can derive a benefit. This can be:

• A free report
• Some useful software
• Training videos
• An email training series

Basically, you just need some content. Something that’s useful and helpful to your visitors. It goes without saying it must be free. If you make it good enough, they will give you their email in exchange.

Once again, don’t worry if you don’t know how to create the freebie. It’s super easy to hire someone to create it for you. Simply tell them what the topic is and they can write the content. A 5-part email series is a good freebie. Each email will cost between $20 and $25. And whole thing will only cost a hundred and fifty buck.

You can also get email list building tools that include the premium. Two things to keep in mind when writing (or buying) and email training series. First of all it has to give the subscriber what you promised – valuable information. And it’s nice if it earns you some money, too. Mixing some affiliate products into your email series is a great way to do this. This allows you to get started with no products of your own. And it enables you to generate cash right away from your new list.

The Opt-in Success Page – The last bit is the thank you page. After subscribing to your list, your visitor is redirected to this page. It’s nice to give them some great content right away. Then they feel good about giving you their email address. It also helps to build the relationship. Then they’re more receptive when you email them.

Again, a simple solution to this is to get an email marketing package that includes everything. Or you can go the DIY route. And write it all yourself. Or hire ghost writers to write them for you.

In closing

It doesn’t matter if you do all of this yourself. Or hire someone else to do it for you. Or if sign up for a “complete package” solution. It’s just important that you start today building your opt-in list. Because once its built… You’ve got a license to print money!

Why you must presell

The most important thing you can do to increase your affiliate commissions is to presell properly.

Before we begin, we need to first define what preselling is. Preselling is both an art and a science. The goal is to get your reader prepped to make a purchase. Then when they’re ready, refer them to the product website so they can buy it. And when it’s done correctly, they don’t know it’s happening.

Basically, you give them some content. And then refer them to the product website. In a second we’ll talk about how to do actually it. Before we get into that, you should understand what’s in it for you. Just a few of the reasons you want to presell.

• It builds trust – Readers who trust you are more likely to click your links. Which obviously means you’ll make more sales.
• Preselling is disarming – Nobody likes to be sold something. By not doing that to them, your reader is less defensive. And in turn they read to understand what you’re saying. So your content get absorbed.
• It preps them to buy – Now they’re open to hearing what you’re telling them. And in turn, they’re open to other messages, as well. Like the info on product sales page you’ve linked to. And being open to the information there means they are much more likely to buy.
• It increases your sales – Now your reader arrives at the sales page in a buying mood. With a feeling of trust and openness. The only possible result is more sales!
• It boosts customer loyalty – Your referral now feels like they decided to buy. Versus being pitched or convinced. So they are happier with their purchase.
• Your profits go up – Satisfied customers are less like to refund. And that translates to more commission staying in your affiliate business.

The need to presell is clear. You increase your profits. Your customers are happier. Everybody wins!

OK, so how do you do it?

You’ve learned the importance of preselling. So, hopefully you’ve decided to start preselling. So, let’s talk about how to make it work. Remember, there are two components – art and science.

Part 1 – The art of it

First, you have to gain the trust of your reader, so they let their guard down. And the only method of doing this is to give exceptional value to your readers. Now, providing enough info to be useful, but still making them want more – that’s the art of it. The idea is that they want more and the sales page you send them to gives them more. And since they’re more open, they are more likely to make a purchase.

It’s also a science

There are also several key elements that need to be included.

The first is how you present the information. You’ve got to map out your strategy before you start writing. Your end goal is to make a sale of the product you’re preselling. You use the information to do this in one of two ways. The first method is to provide enough info to get them started, but not enough to finish. The other method is to explain all the details and expose how difficult it is to do what you’re explaining. Either way, the product sales page solves the problem.

Next, you have to use “convert linking” methods. Instead, you use a direct link to the product website. This increases your clicks. But how will you earn affiliate commissions if you don’t use your affiliate link? There’s a trick to make this work… You “pre-cookie” your reader before sending them to the sales page.

The next trick is to hyperlink specific words and phrases inside the content of the article you’re providing. People are used to clicking on hyperlinked words to get information they’re looking for. Plus, if you link on relevant words, it only makes sense to click on there.

What you have now is a super powerful system for affiliate marketing success.

OK, here’s the not-so-good news:

It’s extremely difficult to do this correctly. Let’s talk about everything required to put this plan into action: Great content. First and foremost, you have to be able to write a great article that provides valuable information. Which means you need to be both knowledgable on the subject and capable of writing a high-quality article. Strategic writing. First, you have to give good information. You also have to present the info in a way that provides real value. And somehow also make them want to learn more. The other approach is to reveal a self-evident problem through the information.

Product selection. After that you have to figure out which products you want to promote. If you can manage to get the article written well. All your efforts are wasted if you send your reader to the wrong sales letter.

The technical know-how One of the keys to this system is using “covert cookies” for the tracking. This is actually pretty simple – just embed a 1 pixel X 1 pixel image and set your affiliate link as the “source” of the image. (But if you mess it up, your referrals won’t be tracked.)

In closing:

Now you know what it takes to be a Presell Pro. And doing this increases your affiliate commissions by over 500%! The important thing is to use these techniques for everything you promote as an affiliate. Don’t wait another minute. Put in the effort to reap the greater rewards.

Everyone knows the number one thing you need to be successful online is traffic to your website. Obviously, this assumes you actually have a reason for wanting this traffic. After getting the traffic you just need to convert it into subscribers and customers . . . but that’s the easy part. So, the critical step is to generate a steady flow of visitors.

Here are some tips for generating website visitors:

These are the best and fastest ways to get free visitors coming to your site:

• Web 2.0 Sites
• Article Websites
• Video

OK, so how do they work?

Web 2.0 Sites

A Web 2.0 site gives its users the ability to interact with each other and create the site’s content together. The exciting thing about Web 2.0 sites is that you get to add your own content and it becomes part of these sites. Because these sites get so much traffic, Google and the other search engines treat these sites with greater importance in their algorithms. The benefit of this to you is that your content is now considered as part of these sites. By placing links to your websites in this content you’ve created, you get traffic from the site and search engine ranking for the keywords you choose. That’s the real benefit of adding content to this sites – search engine ranking means ongoing free traffic. How to generate web 2.0 traffic is something we’ve only scratched the surface on. I don’t want to be exhaustive – I want to give you an overview of all the methods…

Articles Sites

The natural next topic is article marketing. Article directories fall under the category of web 2.0 sites. In typical web 2.0 fashion, article sites rely on user-generated content (i.e. your articles). And just like other web 2.0 sites, you get all the SEO benefits from having your content on them. And in addition to this, other users can take your article and place it on their own website. And because the terms of the directory say they have to include your “resource box” you get links back from all these other sites, too. Here are a couple article marketing traffic tips:

• Figure out what keywords you want to go after
• Tailor the content of your article for the keywords
• Use anchor text links in the article and the “resource box”

Video Marketing

The last of this group is video marketing. Once again, this is really a sub-set of web 2.0. And just as article directories give you great SEO benefits and allow others to redistribute your content on their sites. video sharing sites give you all these same benefits. And in addition to this, because Google and the others love video so much, you can get listed for highly competitive keywords much more easily.

OK, so how do you do effective video marketing?

• Get a YouTube account
• Make your profile uncluttered by turning off all the modules
• Use the tags in your profile to enter the keywords you want to rank for
• Include a link to your main site in your profile
• Upload at least 1 video
• In the title, the description and the tags for each video, include your main keywords

Putting it all together.

If you take action on the items listed here you’ll have free traffic in no time.

Let’s talk about niche selection. This is very important to ensuring the profitability of your membership website.

First – Look for Fanatics

If you want your membership business to be profitable, you have to find a marketing with fanatics in it. Simply put, a fanatic is someone who’s willing to spend time and more importantly money on a topic they are interested in. Now that we know what we’re looking for, let’s talk about how to find them…

• Look at magazine racks. This is an often overlooked, yet extremely simple way to find niches that people are interested in. In today’s economy, running a magazine is tougher than ever – some of the best ones are going out of business. So if it’s on the shelves, it’s making money, which means there is a big market interested in this topic. This is a very good indication that it’s a good niche for you to go into.
• Pay attention throughout the day in your regular activities. See what people are talking about on the radio, TV, at parties, in public, etc. If people are talking about it, they are interested in it. And this means there may be a market for information about it.
• Again, looking in the physical world for clues you can tell there are lots of people interested in something if there are clubs and organizations around the topic. By the same token, if enough people are interested to hold a convention on a certain topic, you can definitely find enough people to build a membership business around that same topic.
• What about your interests and hobbies? If you’re interested in something, it’s highly likely others are, too. And, as an added bonus, it’s much more fun to build a business around things you’re interested in.
• Another fantastic way to discover what people are interest in is Google Trends. This service shows you the current most popular search terms. These are the things people are actively searching for in Google. They’re searching because they want information. These are the niches you want to be in – lots of people actively searching means lots of opportunity.

Step 2 – Determine the financial feasibility

After selecting a possible niche to build your membership site around, the next step is to find out if it’s a profitable niche to be in. An easy way to determine this is to figure out if anyone else is making money in this niche.

Here’s how to determine if you can make money in your chosen niche

• Are there blogs or forums in this niche? Take the name of your niche and search for “niche name blog” & “niche name forum” in Google to see if there is an active group of people talking about and interested in the niche. This lets you know there is a market (a group of people actively interested in the niche.)
• See if other people are creating and selling product in this niche by searching in Google Shopping, ebay and Amazon. It’s a good sign if there are because it tells you people are making money here.
• Watch Google Adwords for a period of time and look for ads the run again and again. Adwords ads are expensive, so people only run them repeatedly if they are profitable. And to be profitable, they have to be selling products and making money.

Last, but not least… How hard will it be to break into this niche?

After figuring out a good niche and determining that other people are making money in it, the last thing to do is decide if you will be able to enter the market. Here are some things to look at to figure this out:

• Figure out what kinds of products people are interested in. If it’s mostly physical products, coaching and live seminars, then it will be harder to break into this niche. That’s because it’s much easier to build a membership business around information vs. any other kind of product.
• Competition. How many other people are trying to sell to this market? You want to start in a market that’s not completely saturated with competitors.
• Size vs. Competition. Some competition is good. It means that this is a profitable market. And as long as the size of the market is large enough to support the competition, you’re fine.
• How ready is the market for marketing messages, and how willing are the fanatics to buy. Depending on the market it can be anywhere from a couple minutes to a many months between when someone starts the investigation process to when they actually make a purchase.

In Summary

So far, we’ve talked about exactly what it takes to pick a great niche: One with a hungry crowd of fanatics, who are ready to spend money on information about their topic. And you’ve determined your barrier to entry is small enough to give it a go. If you’ve followed along with these steps you’re success in practically guaranteed. The only thing left to cover is exactly how to run your membership business…

The best way to ensure your success is to build automated traffic sources to send you visitors day and night.

Traffic is useless . . . unless…

Keyword research is really the first step in getting traffic to your website. This is because you will building your traffic funnels around specific keywords. Which means you need to put some thought into the keywords you’re targeting.

Here are the important considerations for your research:

• Are the keywords you’re interested in attainable? This involves doing some competitive analysis to determine the ease of entry for each keyword
• What kinds of visitors do these keywords bring? Certain keywords are good for generating a lot of visitors who don’t buy anything. What you want is buyers!
• Will these keywords bring affiliates? Generating your own customers is great – having other people do it for you is even better. So make sure you are also targeting keywords to attract affiliates.

Although this is an essential step, doing it all by hand can take a very long time. Experts are expensive and don’t guarantee results. The upside is that these two factors keep most everyone from even doing their keyword research. What I recommend is using website traffic software to save the time of doing it yourself and the money of hiring someone else. This will not only speed it up. It will give you better results, as well.

Once you know your keywords…

Now that you’ve completed your keyword research, you can begin using these keywords to get traffic to your website.

Powerful Traffic Tactics:

• Surveys
• “Help” Websites
• Video Websites

Surveys

People love filling in surveys. You can use this fact to provide “sticky” content for other website owners. They benefit by getting free content for their site and you get a link to your site under the survey. Think about that – you get website traffic for free just for making a survey! This is a sneaky little idea that most people never even think of. Just make the question interesting enough that people will want to share it with their own visitors.

“Answer” Sites

Maybe you’ve seen these help sites where people post questions and other people answer them. But, like the surveys, that’s not why you’re going to pay attention to these sites. What you want to do is use these sites to generate traffic and leads for your business. One thing you can do is to visit sites like Craigslist and Yahoo! Answers and manually extract contact info to contact other users. So, if you’re smart, you’ll use website traffic software to do it all for you. These tools put the whole thing on auto-pilot and just deliver the leads to you each day.

Video Websites

Another great resource is video sharing sites like YouTube. In fact, YouTube has over 2 billion videos watched per day! If used properly, video sites can get you more website traffic than you know what to do with.

Even if you don’t think you can make a good video. One super easy thing to do is take an article or website you’ve written. And use free screen capture software to record yourself reading it. You can even get software that will automatically do this for you.

Summary

Figuring out how to get some visitors to your site is not hard at all. Use your noodle and come up with things other people aren’t doing. And today there are tons of options for software tools that can help with every part of this process.

Get started right away:

• Step 1 is researching your keywords
• Set up some viral surveys
• Build your traffic traps
• And definitely include video sharing sites

Winning Affiliate Marketing Strategies

If you want to get started quickly and easily in internet marketing, then affiliate marketing is for you. What “affiliate marketing” means is that you just refer visitors to someone else’s website, they handle the sales, support and billing, and you get a percentage of the sale price as your commission (usually 50% or more for digital products).

These are a some of the benefits

1. You can start instantly with no up-front costs and no need to make a product, set up a website and sales page, develop the website, create marketing materials, or set up the ordering, billing & delivery system.
2. It runs on auto-pilotfor you because they handle the billing, support, maintenance, etc.
3. Your efforts are risk-free, because the product owner has already done all the research , development and testing. So you know that your traffic will result in sales.

Obviously affiliate marketing makes sense – these benefits make it a clear winner!

OK, but it’s not all rosy…

After all your hard work of generating traffic to the sales page, you will never see any of those visitors again. Unfortunately, the majority of those visitors (at least 90%) will not buy on their first visit. That’s fine for the product owner because she can sell to them again and again, but you can’t.

Is there are way around this?

What you need to do is capture the contact info of your visitors before sending them to the product website. If you do that, you can contact them again and send them back the product website multiple times. This will increase the number of sales you make. And if you’re a super star affiliate, you’ll provide high-quality content before sending them to the product website.

Here’s why you want to implement these affiliate marketing strategies:

1. By building your own list, you’re creating a renewable resource that you can tap again and again for instant profits.
2. By providing great content without a sales pitch, you put them in a buying mood. So when you do send them to the product website, they’re much more likely to buy.

In order to set a system like this up, you will need the following affiliate marketing tools:

1. A Video Squeeze Page (with video)
2. Several high-quality content pages
3. An email series with at least 5 high-quality content emails

The video squeeze page is where you’ll direct your traffic instead of directly to the product sales page. Your squeeze page adds your visitors to you autoresponder. This is how you start building your list, and at the same time begin sending them useful information. After subscribing them to your email list, it redirects them to your content mini-site.

These high-quality content pages provide value and build good will. This way your visitor is more likely to buy when they get to the product owner’s website. And at the same time, the email series begins following up with them to get them back to the sales page, in case they don’t buy on the first visit.

Putting all of these pieces together will increase your sales by 500% or more, so it’s obviously worth the time and energy to do it. After setting it up, you simply send visitors to your squeeze page instead of the sales page. And the rest runs on auto-pilot.

One option, if you’re not up to the challenge of setting this all up yourself, is to let someone like Affiliate Silver Bullet do it for you. Services like this design the enter system (the video, the video squeeze page, the email series, the content pages, etc). On the plus side, you’ll save a ton of time and money vs. trying to build this yourself. Plus you can get started instantly. The downside is that other people will be using the same affiliate tools as you. But the internet is pretty big, so this isn’t much of a concern.

Alternatively, you can use a service like Elance to “outsource” each of these compnents. Whichever way you decided to go, it’s critical to get an affiliate marketing system like this in place, if you’re at all serious about your business.