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Will You Add? - How to Easily Increase Your Affiliate Commissions in Two Days or Less?
The catchword today for business is flexibility.With changes in suppliers, customers, and the processes connecting them altering almost daily (or so it seems) the future clearly belongs to the organisations which can adjust to change quickly and effectively.The good news for Call Centres is that, unlike more traditional sales organisations, the modern Call Centre has the equipment in place to measure this easily.Instead of doing a sales training course and then waiting some weeks or months before you can reasonably evaluate the effectiveness of the course, the Call Centre can institute any change regarding CRMs and measure its effect on sales on a frequent, regular basis.In the traditional face-to-face small-scale operation, the manager can make the change but not be sure of its effectiveness or whether the change is due to the changes instituted as things change anyway.How do you know the improvement in sal
Clicks. You should be able to get this from the affiliate program you are promoting.
Amount Earned. Again, your affiliate program should provide this information to you in real time.
Now, in order to do a valid test, you'll need to promote to a fairly significant number of people. I would recommend that at least 300 people see each ad. Otherwise, you won't have enough information to make a valid judgment. Ideally, you should hit about 2,000 with each ad, but your resources may not allow for this.
*Learning point: If you're going to send an ad via a newsletter, see if you can run a "split". That is, get one ad sent to 1/2 of the list and another sent to the other 1/2. That is the most accurate way to compare the effectiveness of any pair of ads.
Day 2
Step 6 - Run your "B" ads.
It's tough to get consumers to adopt innovations – and it's getting harder all the time. As more markets take on the characteristics of networks, once-reliable tools for introducing new products and services don't work as well as they used to. The efficacy of advertising, promotions, and the sales force has declined; it is more difficult for innovators to rise above the din of information from competing sources; and only hard-to-manage relationship skills seem to make a difference.Executives need to rethink the way they bring innovations to market. By using game theory, they can develop new strategies for playing in today's networked world. By understanding how social, commercial, and physical networks behave, innovators can develop new tactics. And by working back from an end-game, they can change markets from foes to allies.Nature's WayMarkets, by their very nature, resist new ideas and products. Despite the risks involved
Allow me to cut right to the chase. Here is a plan of action. This may seem like a lot of work, but don't worry! At the very end, I'll show you how to automate all of these steps. For now, just read through to get a general idea of how you need to proceed:
Day 1
Step 1- Vow to organize your affiliate efforts. Begin with organizing all contact information, payment information, and vital statistics about your affiliate programs in one central location. This may seem like a silly step, but believe me; you don't want to spend your time digging through emails for contact information and codes. You should also know, with just a few mouse clicks, how much is owed you by the various affiliate programs in which you are participating.
Step 2 - Select one affiliate program on which to focus your efforts for the next 3 weeks. In order to apply some of the various principles I will show you in a few moments, you need to select one area of focus. It's best to select an affiliate program that has several products, instant online tracking of sales, instant notification of sales, and the ability to segment your promotions. Internet Marketing ProShop has all of this and more.
Step 3 - Select three promotion methods and two products to promote.
This is crucial. This will make sense in a few moments. If you can't think of three promotion methods, here are a few ideas:
An ad in someone else's eZine
A mailing to your own subscription list
A text link on your site with some ad copy
A banner on your site
A product review on your site
An FFA submission
Now, some of these methods are more effective than others. But you don't need me to tell you that. I'll show you how to find out for yourself.
Step 4 - For each promotion method and each product, develop two ads. So, since you have three promotion methods, two products, and two ads for each - you will have to write 12 ads total. So, for each ad, let's give it a code. If it's method one, product one, ad one, you can call it:
M1P1A1
For method one, product one, ad two, you can call it:
M1P1A2
For example, if you plan to promote my marketing course 1,001 Killer Internet Marketing Tactics using ads in someone else's eZine, you will need two ads. One would be M1P1A1, and the other would be M1P1A2. If you also plan to promote it using a review on your site, the first review would be M2P1A1 (method 2, product 1, ad 1) and the second would be M2P1A2 (method 2, product 1, ad 2).
This is just one way to code your ads. You can do this any way you like as long as you can distinguish precisely which campaign these codes refer to.
This sounds like a lot of writing. Don't be daunted by this! Just crank it out. Don’t think too much about each ad. We'll find out in a while which one is good and which one is bad. You won't decide this - your customers will! Don't be afraid to try something wild.
Now, when you promote each product, you'll need to tie each promotion to the code you created. With the Internet Marketing ProShop Partner program, you can segment your campaigns by adding an _code to the end of the URL you use to promote each product.
For example, if you are promoting 1,001 Killer Internet Marketing Tactics, you would use this URL:
..../kt.cgi?sponsorID
To segment your campaigns, you would add your campaign code on the end of that URL for each campaign:
..../kt.cgi?sponsorID_M1P1A1 (for campaign one)
..../kt.cgi?sponsorID_M1P1A2 (for campaign two)
Note: The above method is only valid for our affiliate program, so don't try this with any other affiliate program. We don't know of any other affiliate programs that allow you to segment your campaigns, this way, so please use caution here.
Step 5 - Before you finish for the day, promote the product using your "ad 1" for each product.
You'll need to record:
Impressions. If you're advertising on a web page, this will be the number of times your ad appeared on the page - or the number of times the page was viewed if your ad comes up each time the page is viewed. If you're advertising using some form of email, impressions = number of emails sent.
Clicks. You should be able to get this from the affiliate program you are promoting.
Amount Earned. Again, your affiliate program should provide this information to you in real time.
Now, in order to do a valid test, you'll need to promote to a fairly significant number of people. I would recommend that at least 300 people see each ad. Otherwise, you won't have enough information to make a valid judgment. Ideally, you should hit about 2,000 with each ad, but your resources may not allow for this.
*Learning point: If you're going to send an ad via a newsletter, see if you can run a "split". That is, get one ad sent to 1/2 of the list and another sent to the other 1/2. That is the most accurate way to compare the effectiveness of any pair of ads.
Day 2
Step 6 - Run your "B" ads. N
Minute taking has changed over the years. The requirements and expectations of the 21st century are very different from the expectations even 10, but certainly 20 and 30 years ago. Here are some points for you to consider about minutes and taking minutes.• Minutes are written for people who were at the meeting, not for people who were not! They are not designed to be a story to tell everyone who was not at the meeting, what went on. It may be smart to publish the key decisions but that is all.• Around 60% - 70% of the minute taker's work is done before the meeting begins. Most but not all of this work is in the preparation of the agenda. The agenda is essentially the draft minutes! Most experienced minute takers know this.• If the minute taker is to do the job properly, then he or she must be involved in physically preparing the agenda. The Agenda is your secret weapon!• Shorthand is not a necessary skill for a good minute
Step 2 - Select one affiliate program on which to focus your efforts for the next 3 weeks. In order to apply some of the various principles I will show you in a few moments, you need to select one area of focus. It's best to select an affiliate program that has several products, instant online tracking of sales, instant notification of sales, and the ability to segment your promotions. Internet Marketing ProShop has all of this and more.
Step 3 - Select three promotion methods and two products to promote.
This is crucial. This will make sense in a few moments. If you can't think of three promotion methods, here are a few ideas:
An ad in someone else's eZine
A mailing to your own subscription list
A text link on your site with some ad copy
A banner on your site
A product review on your site
An FFA submission
Now, some of these methods are more effective than others. But you don't need me to tell you that. I'll show you how to find out for yourself.
Step 4 - For each promotion method and each product, develop two ads. So, since you have three promotion methods, two products, and two ads for each - you will have to write 12 ads total. So, for each ad, let's give it a code. If it's method one, product one, ad one, you can call it:
M1P1A1
For method one, product one, ad two, you can call it:
M1P1A2
For example, if you plan to promote my marketing course 1,001 Killer Internet Marketing Tactics using ads in someone else's eZine, you will need two ads. One would be M1P1A1, and the other would be M1P1A2. If you also plan to promote it using a review on your site, the first review would be M2P1A1 (method 2, product 1, ad 1) and the second would be M2P1A2 (method 2, product 1, ad 2).
This is just one way to code your ads. You can do this any way you like as long as you can distinguish precisely which campaign these codes refer to.
This sounds like a lot of writing. Don't be daunted by this! Just crank it out. Don’t think too much about each ad. We'll find out in a while which one is good and which one is bad. You won't decide this - your customers will! Don't be afraid to try something wild.
Now, when you promote each product, you'll need to tie each promotion to the code you created. With the Internet Marketing ProShop Partner program, you can segment your campaigns by adding an _code to the end of the URL you use to promote each product.
For example, if you are promoting 1,001 Killer Internet Marketing Tactics, you would use this URL:
..../kt.cgi?sponsorID
To segment your campaigns, you would add your campaign code on the end of that URL for each campaign:
..../kt.cgi?sponsorID_M1P1A1 (for campaign one)
..../kt.cgi?sponsorID_M1P1A2 (for campaign two)
Note: The above method is only valid for our affiliate program, so don't try this with any other affiliate program. We don't know of any other affiliate programs that allow you to segment your campaigns, this way, so please use caution here.
Step 5 - Before you finish for the day, promote the product using your "ad 1" for each product.
You'll need to record:
Impressions. If you're advertising on a web page, this will be the number of times your ad appeared on the page - or the number of times the page was viewed if your ad comes up each time the page is viewed. If you're advertising using some form of email, impressions = number of emails sent.
Clicks. You should be able to get this from the affiliate program you are promoting.
Amount Earned. Again, your affiliate program should provide this information to you in real time.
Now, in order to do a valid test, you'll need to promote to a fairly significant number of people. I would recommend that at least 300 people see each ad. Otherwise, you won't have enough information to make a valid judgment. Ideally, you should hit about 2,000 with each ad, but your resources may not allow for this.
*Learning point: If you're going to send an ad via a newsletter, see if you can run a "split". That is, get one ad sent to 1/2 of the list and another sent to the other 1/2. That is the most accurate way to compare the effectiveness of any pair of ads.
Day 2
Step 6 - Run your "B" ads.
Before the Internet, conducting research for school, work or out of curiosity involved a set of encyclopedias and a trip to the library. However, we now live in an age where information is readily accessible from your computer.On the Web, you can find information about any topic you desire. The World Wide Web is a huge database of user-submitted content where you can access an astronomical number of informative sources, online groups and multi-media.Because all of the content on the Internet is self-submitted, and there are very few regulations as to what a person can and can’t publish (depending on local laws), content found on the Web may be inaccurate and opinion based.Nevertheless, the Internet should not be disregarded when conducting academic research. It is a major source for scholarly journals, current news, books, credible magazines, general information and other relevant content. Here are a few tips to help you efficient
M1P1A1
For method one, product one, ad two, you can call it:
M1P1A2
For example, if you plan to promote my marketing course 1,001 Killer Internet Marketing Tactics using ads in someone else's eZine, you will need two ads. One would be M1P1A1, and the other would be M1P1A2. If you also plan to promote it using a review on your site, the first review would be M2P1A1 (method 2, product 1, ad 1) and the second would be M2P1A2 (method 2, product 1, ad 2).
This is just one way to code your ads. You can do this any way you like as long as you can distinguish precisely which campaign these codes refer to.
This sounds like a lot of writing. Don't be daunted by this! Just crank it out. Don’t think too much about each ad. We'll find out in a while which one is good and which one is bad. You won't decide this - your customers will! Don't be afraid to try something wild.
Now, when you promote each product, you'll need to tie each promotion to the code you created. With the Internet Marketing ProShop Partner program, you can segment your campaigns by adding an _code to the end of the URL you use to promote each product.
For example, if you are promoting 1,001 Killer Internet Marketing Tactics, you would use this URL:
..../kt.cgi?sponsorID
To segment your campaigns, you would add your campaign code on the end of that URL for each campaign:
..../kt.cgi?sponsorID_M1P1A1 (for campaign one)
..../kt.cgi?sponsorID_M1P1A2 (for campaign two)
Note: The above method is only valid for our affiliate program, so don't try this with any other affiliate program. We don't know of any other affiliate programs that allow you to segment your campaigns, this way, so please use caution here.
Step 5 - Before you finish for the day, promote the product using your "ad 1" for each product.
You'll need to record:
Impressions. If you're advertising on a web page, this will be the number of times your ad appeared on the page - or the number of times the page was viewed if your ad comes up each time the page is viewed. If you're advertising using some form of email, impressions = number of emails sent.
Clicks. You should be able to get this from the affiliate program you are promoting.
Amount Earned. Again, your affiliate program should provide this information to you in real time.
Now, in order to do a valid test, you'll need to promote to a fairly significant number of people. I would recommend that at least 300 people see each ad. Otherwise, you won't have enough information to make a valid judgment. Ideally, you should hit about 2,000 with each ad, but your resources may not allow for this.
*Learning point: If you're going to send an ad via a newsletter, see if you can run a "split". That is, get one ad sent to 1/2 of the list and another sent to the other 1/2. That is the most accurate way to compare the effectiveness of any pair of ads.
Day 2
Step 6 - Run your "B" ads.
The issue concerning whether the Internet plays a pivotal role in globalization is a highly contentious and debatable topic. Globalization, often defined as “the integration of economic capital markets and culture throughout the world” is seen as a concept that has both negative as well as positive benefits. The rate of growth in the globalization of nations and geographical regions is seen to be heavily assisted by the speed of information knowledge that the Internet provides.However, although in theory, the sharing of knowledge is supposedly to be beneficial towards the development of humanity, the Internet also provides a pathway to homogenizing culture and creating an unequal playing field for developing nations. This argument can be clearly seen in case studies of Asian nations, especially in Thailand. Hence, the use of Internet and the growth of businesses on the Internet have increased, the question raised is that although technology has
Now, when you promote each product, you'll need to tie each promotion to the code you created. With the Internet Marketing ProShop Partner program, you can segment your campaigns by adding an _code to the end of the URL you use to promote each product.
For example, if you are promoting 1,001 Killer Internet Marketing Tactics, you would use this URL:
..../kt.cgi?sponsorID
To segment your campaigns, you would add your campaign code on the end of that URL for each campaign:
..../kt.cgi?sponsorID_M1P1A1 (for campaign one)
..../kt.cgi?sponsorID_M1P1A2 (for campaign two)
Note: The above method is only valid for our affiliate program, so don't try this with any other affiliate program. We don't know of any other affiliate programs that allow you to segment your campaigns, this way, so please use caution here.
Step 5 - Before you finish for the day, promote the product using your "ad 1" for each product.
You'll need to record:
Impressions. If you're advertising on a web page, this will be the number of times your ad appeared on the page - or the number of times the page was viewed if your ad comes up each time the page is viewed. If you're advertising using some form of email, impressions = number of emails sent.
Clicks. You should be able to get this from the affiliate program you are promoting.
Amount Earned. Again, your affiliate program should provide this information to you in real time.
Now, in order to do a valid test, you'll need to promote to a fairly significant number of people. I would recommend that at least 300 people see each ad. Otherwise, you won't have enough information to make a valid judgment. Ideally, you should hit about 2,000 with each ad, but your resources may not allow for this.
*Learning point: If you're going to send an ad via a newsletter, see if you can run a "split". That is, get one ad sent to 1/2 of the list and another sent to the other 1/2. That is the most accurate way to compare the effectiveness of any pair of ads.
Day 2
Step 6 - Run your "B" ads.
I want to tell you about two steps to get whatever you want. You can use these steps in any area of your life, not just Clickbank. But if you're reading this article, then you're interested in how to make money with Clickbank. So we'll steer it towards Clickbank, but just remember that these steps can be used for you to get anything you want in life.1) Decide exactly what you want.This is the first and most important step. It's been said that the reason people don't get what they want is because they don't know what they want.I'm sure you've heard gurus talk about goals, how you need to set goals. Why do you think gurus talk about it so much?Because it works.So, let me ask you this: What do you want with your Clickbank business? How much money do you want to make? What kind of lifestyle do you want from your Clickbank income?You need to get crystal clear on this. How can you hit a target if you don't even know
Clicks. You should be able to get this from the affiliate program you are promoting.
Amount Earned. Again, your affiliate program should provide this information to you in real time.
Now, in order to do a valid test, you'll need to promote to a fairly significant number of people. I would recommend that at least 300 people see each ad. Otherwise, you won't have enough information to make a valid judgment. Ideally, you should hit about 2,000 with each ad, but your resources may not allow for this.
*Learning point: If you're going to send an ad via a newsletter, see if you can run a "split". That is, get one ad sent to 1/2 of the list and another sent to the other 1/2. That is the most accurate way to compare the effectiveness of any pair of ads.
Day 2
Step 6 - Run your "B" ads. Now that you have run your "A" ads and have given them a bit of time to take effect, run your B ads. Do this first thing this morning!
By the end of the day, you should have some good results from both campaigns to compare and see where you stand.
By comparing and analyzing all of the information you have just compiled, you will be able to start to have a good idea about:
Which product seems to sell more. Which type of campaign is most effective Which type of ad for each campaign is most effective This short bit of testing won't allow you to make clear conclusions, but it will put you on the right track. Immediately, you should start using the ads that sell as much as you can. If ad A is making you 5 cents per impression and ad B is making you 5 dollars per impression - using ad B just increased your affiliate commissions by 9900%! OK, that's a dramatic example, but you get the point, right? If you aren't tracking these things, you'll never know. If you track and continue to refine, before you know it, you'll have an arsenal of ads that you know pull well to use over and over again. Once you do the leg work, it's easy!
As you see, though, this can get quite complex. How does one actually analyze these campaigns? What if you have scores of affiliate programs and quite a few campaigns for each?
Don't worry. As I told you at the beginning, there is an easy, cost effective way to keep track of all of these things with just a few mouse clicks. It's called Affiliate Assistant.
I highly recommend checking this out as it will, among other things, allow you to quickly and easily implement the above plan in one central location. With just a few mouse clicks you can compare and analyze all of your various affiliate ad campaigns so you'll know which are making you money and which are wasting you time.
You could do all of the same things yourself with a good database program and multiple spreadsheets, but Affiliate Assistant will save you quite a bit of time and money without having to go through all that.
Either way, you should implement some type of organizational and tracking plan like this for your affiliate advertising efforts immediately. The amount of time you put into this will pay off exponentially in terms of higher commissions.
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