Affiliate Marketing With Your Own Website
By Dave Cooper
For many people marketing online, Marketing is a popular way to promote products and services. marketers generally earn money through either their coded link clicks (as in a pay per click ad), subscribers (or registered leads), a percentage of the sale, or a combination.
To reap the most rewards, savvy marketers use their own websites to boost their efforts. Here are top ways you can put your own marketing sites to use.
Capture Leads
Before turning leads over to other companies, smart marketers set up web pages or forms to capture leads for themselves first. Pages or forms can be created with HTML in Notepad or Wordpad, with website creating software like DreamWeaver or Microsoft Word, with autoresponder form creating tools like those available at Aweber.com and 1Shoppingcart.com. You can also seek other tools for this by keying in “splash page creator” into your favorite search engine or seek templates at places like DotcomBuilder.com.
You then follow up with your own leads with a regular newsletter or broadcast announcements with articles reviewing various products in your niche, or that focus on news and other hot topics for your readers. Send your subscribers free ebooks, reports and other goodies from time to time, pointing them to your products, too. This way you can increase your earnings with additional purchases and click-throughs.
Follow Up even if Marketing Company Goes Bust
Another benefit of using your own website is that if a company goes bust or the product becomes obsolete, your efforts aren’t washed out overnight. Simply redirect your leads to
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