Category: Affiliate Marketing

Make it a Good One

Your photo is essential and must be a good one, a memorable one and a professional one. Why? Because you are branding yourself. 

When you place a stream post, mail your Team, make a forum posts, and much more, all these are accompanied by your photo. Your Affiliates, friends or other business people respond to your profile picture, good or bad. When a person receives valued content from you consistently over time, then you begin to Brand yourself to that person, they begin to respond to you. I have Affiliates with whom I have built a trusted bond, and, now they no longer seriously engage in SFI, my primary business. But they still chat with me and make purchases every month through my affiliate links and my online store in TripleClicks. They are friends. They have a situation such that they can’t consistently apply themselves in SFI, but they do want to bring value back to me. They buy in TripleClicks those things they might have bought elsewhere. 

As you brand yourself, and if you are viewed as a provider of valued content, affiliates respond. They scan through various posted messages and when they see your face they stop and read. They scan the forum and stop and read your posts. They look to you for help, direction and guidance and you forge mutually beneficial relationships. They trust you because they feel like they know you and they truly do, in the cyber sense. 

My profile picture in SFI is the same as my picture in Twitter, LinkedIn, Webtalk, Apsense, CashJuice and gmail. In every ad exchange I am part of or any program I use that asks for a profile Picture I make sure I load it up and it is the same as my SFI Profile Picture. (here is an Example) Why? Because when a person signs up as an Affiliate I want them to recognize me immediately. When a person begins to associate my face with valued content they will engage, first as a prospect, then as an affiliate then as a vital member of the team and finally as a team leader.

Do not undervalue the importance of you profile picture both in your primary business, such as SFI, and synchronizing all your social activity around that picture. If you were an affiliate signing up who would you want to work with?

One of These People?

Or one of These People?

Who would you take more seriously? Who would you believe to be more reliable? I think we all know the answer.

With your lovely face you are building your “know, like and trust” factor. People do business with those they know, like and trust. Also, have you ever said, “I know the face, I just can’t remember the name…”? I have. And when I see the face of a friend, I respond.

If you go to LinkedIn and search on the name, “George McBride”, which I just did, you will get 73 results. At least that is what I got. How can you be sure which one is me if you are not familiar with my face. It is frustrating and it could potentially be a serious loss of business for you. People are trying to connect with you, why? Because they want to do business with you.

That smiling Face of yours is part of your brand. Use it!

That gets your attention doesn’t it? Or maybe you think this is some kind of Scam Letter about my husband who died and was the head of a Royal Bank of OZ and has left you a million dollars, hmm?

No. This is for real. When you build a list and have prospects who know, like and trust you and you are using a Top of the Industry Auto-Responder to communicate with that list, you need something to sell them.

Maybe you already have something. Digital Products or maybe super healthy coffee, or maybe weight loss products. Maybe. But how about having just about everything to sell?

I am, and have been an affiliate marketer with SFI since 2012. I have been Paid every single month. It is a great program. Here is what you can offer. Every prospect you engage results in commissions for life. No matter what they buy, no matter from whom.

1. Regular real products from the TripleClicks Store. Vitamins to TVs, Tablets, Thai Food to Toilet Paper. Almost any real product you can imagine.
2. You can earn on Auctions (Astro Auctions).
3. You earn on Gamers (Eager Zebra Games).
4. You earn whenever your prospect buys from 1000’s of affiliated Websites (RECA).
5. You earn when your prospect buys from 1000s of affiliated Brick and Mortar businesses (Localvantia).
6. You earn when your prospect uses any of 100s of affiliated independent service providers (Flexxity).
7. You earn when your prospect joins a Community Website for and by e-commerce entrepreneurs (Ecommergy)

Virtually every activity in that list creates reward points called Rewardicals (Radical Rewards). On every activity Rewardical Tokens (RTs) are given to both the prospect and the sponsor of that prospect. That would be you. These RTs are a reward, not a commission. You receive regular cash commissions on every transaction. But you will also receive loyalty rewards.

To date SFI has given away 934,463,632 RTs of which I currently have 100,882 tokens. But of which I have earned over the past 3 years more than 2,000,000 tokens. When exchanged for cash, 690 RTs is currently $1.00. You do the math.

RTs can be exchanged for many things including Cash, Products, Affiliates in your downline, Bitcoin, and much more. They even have a tutorial video that shows you how to redeem them.

So add SFI to you Affiliate Marketing efforts and promote about any product or service for Cash commissions and get your share of the of those 900 million tokens. I have.

Wondering how to create success in Affiliate Marketing? You’re not alone! My goal with this article is to help you get a better understanding of what it takes and how to do it.

The first thing you want to realize is that we actually CREATE success in affiliate marketing. We don’t stumble in to it. We don’t win the lottery.  We actually MAKE Success Happen by doing the simple things consistently.

Success in affiliate marketing comes down to a few simple realities that we absolutely must face if we want to create financial freedom:

Affiliate Marketing Is a Business I see people constantly treat affiliate marketing like a lottery ticket, a social club, or a “spare-time” habit. But the people that succeed in affiliate marketing know that it is a business. As with any business, the goal is to find customers for your product or service.

Traditional retail business models have you in a situation where you have to invest a lot of money getting started, opening a store, aquiring inventory, and more. Tremendous financial start up costs. Then you generate your customers and you are the one doing the work. Affiliate marketing lets you apply leverage to build a team so that you can move more products and provide services to more customers with much lower start up costs.

Affiliate Marketing Takes Work Yes, you can build your affiliate marketing business part-time. In fact, in most cases, I recommend starting on a part-time basis. Here’s the key: Part-time is very different from “spare-time”. That person who can consistently put 5 to 10 hours per week in to building their affiliate marketing business will eventually create success in affiliate marketing. That person who is always in that “When I have the time” mode isn’t going to experience success. The worst part is, they will ultimately decide “affiliate marketing didn’t work” when, in reality, it was them that did not do the work.

Affiliate Marketing Takes Time We all love seeing those “over night success stories” about how someone went from rags to riches in 90 days or less. Here’s the part they don’t mention in those stories. Sure, that person may have reached that incredible success level within 90 days of launching the business they are with, now. But the story often omits the part about how this new “super distributor” spent years training, learning, making mistakes, trying things, and falling on their face before they put it all together. If you can’t commit to building your new business for at least a full year on a part-time basis, I recommend staying away from any affiliate marketing company.

Here is where I stand: If you are going to spend the next year at your regular job … KNOWING it will not make you financially free… commit your evenings and weekends over the next year to LEARNING and BUILDING your new affiliate marketing business.

Then, you will be in a much better position to determine your next step, whether that be early retirement, scaling down your day job, or scaling to a whole new level of success. Just remember: We CREATE Success in Affiliate Marketing.

Why I chose TrafficWave

Why? Because I think BIG.

I did not “try it out”. I did my research and that research narrowed down my choices significantly. Here was my Criteria:

1. Growth Potential. I planned on building a Big List over time
2. Running multiple campaigns
3. HTML editor easy to use and built in
4. Personalization
5. Customized templates
6. Scheduled Broadcasts
7. List Segregation
8. Tracking of Click Throughs and Open Rates
9. Ability to select and re-mail to subscribers whose email went unopened.

My list is currently over 5000 Subscribers. I have over 50 Campaigns running simultaneously. I mail 1000s of emails a day. I can track each and every open. I view statistics from the perspective of the email sent or from the subscriber perspective. Consequently I know what my subscribers want, and I know what emails they will open. This is a winning combination.

Now the bottom line. Which provider gives me all that at the best possible price without compromising services? TrafficWave.

Pricing Based on my current List:

1. Trafficwave $17.95 a month
2. Getresponse $79.00 a month (has limitations)
3. Aweber $69.00 a month
4. Convertkit $59.00 a month

For this data I went to each program. But check TrafficWaves price comparison page for yourself:
TrafficWave Pricing

Now I think all these services give you a free point of entry. But what would have happened if I picked the wrong one, and my list was where it is today. I would have been paying the prices above. Or I would have had to change providers – a Real Pain.

Better to just start with the right one. I chose based on where I wanted to be not where I was starting.

You need an email list to effectively build a reliable and consistent online business.

If you are a sole affiliate marketer you need to be branding yourself so people will buy from you.

If you have an affiliate sales team you need to be training your affiliates and providing them with sales tools, email swipes, graphics, online ad training and more.

If you have a sales website where you retail your own products you need to consistently engage your customer and be building a prospect list.

Every business has a customer list and a prospect list. These are the two most valuable assets of any business. Look at TrafficWave’s Case Studies tab to find out why your business should be using TrafficWave.