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I just enrolled into Affiliate Junktion as I find it looks promising as an affiliate program.
Here are the details:
Affiliate Junktion is now recruiting new affiliates to join the Affiliate Junktion Program. Affiliate Junktion, a global leader in providing internet marketing and affiliate marketing services online, is now recruiting new affiliates to join the Affiliate Junktion Program. It is completely Free to join, with 1-on-1 personal online support from your very own dedicated Affiliate Manager.
When you join the Affiliate Junktion Program you can expect quality results, superior personal support and an ongoing income online through our performance-based program. We set a high industry standard for program quality and provide the most sophisticated tools. Affiliate Junktion operates the only truly global affiliate marketing program where you are guaranteed to earn money.
The earning potential is great as well…take note of their guarantee of payment if you do not achieve daily income.
Here is a review of Gitte Dabek who joined the program a bit longer than me:
I have tested a new program for you. It is called Affiliate Junktion, and it is all about affiliate marketing.
Affiliate Marketing, selling other people’s products is indeed a great way to make money online and the only way for a newcomer. But usually you have to sell a membership or a product to earn commissions. Affiliate Junktion offers another way: pay per lead. That is to say, you will earn commissions by convincing people to sign up for free. So this program is not sales-based, but performance-based and it is much easier to convince people to sign up for free than convincing them to open their wallet and buy something.
After signing up every new affiliate will get his own affiliate website customized with his affiliate link and will be able to start right away. If he signs up for hosting, buys anything you don’t have to care about – you will be paid just because your referral signed up fro free.
And that’s the deal Michael Davies,the CEO of Affiliate Junktion is proposing: “You will start earning within 5 days or we will pay you $50 in cash for each day you are on our program”.
Okay that sounds a bit like the everyday hype you find on the Internet, but if you check the Terms and Conditions, you will see, that this promise will come true.
There is a simple reason, why you can expect some serious earnings with this Affiliate Marketing Program, even if you never made money online: You don’t have to sell a paid membership or hosting for making money with your referrals, all you have to do is to get them to sign up for free. So Affiliate Junktion is a pay per lead system, paying you $1 to $3 for every person signing up for free under you. Because the website converts well and signup is free, you can expect a very high conversion rate about up to 70%. Michael Davies tells about conversion rates of 70-85%. Well I would not go that high but I think the Average Joe really can reach a conversion rate of nearly 70% or more.
The program gives you a very easy to understand Fast Track Guide on the hand and lists some basic steps about how to start driving traffic to your affiliate site. The 1-on-1 personal support is a great help and your affiliate manager will be very friendly and helpful – I tested the system.
The only thing I am missing is more promotional tools. As this program is dedicated to newcomers and to people who never made money online, there could be some more professional designed material, some emails people could modify, keyword lists and ppc ads as a working base fort he inexperienced.
Putting all together and weighing it, I have to rate Affiliate Junktion as a great program. I can give my fully recommendation because:
* It is free to join,
* It is easy to work with,
* It needs no more work than 3-5 hours a week,
* It makes you easy money on a pay per lead base,
* You are guaranteed to earn money within just 5 days.

Are you trying to increase your affiliate income? Many affiliate marketers could significantly improve their affiliate profits by using a couple of the tactics below.

Sell only products that are related to your niche. If your website is about exotic birds, most of your site visitors are probably interested in birds. Products having to do with breeding birds, birdhouses, making money with exotic birds, and buying exotic birds at a discount are all products that would do well. Most of your visitors would not be interested in music CD’s, knitting products or cat supplies.

Place ads for the affiliate products that you are promoting on every page of your site. This is an important tactic to be a successful affiliate marketer. If your affiliate program offers free ads and banners, take advantage of them. If not, develop your own ads that match the look of your site. It’s really easy to do.

Develop a list. This is vitally important to your future income. A good list can triple your income over the long term. If your affiliate merchant provides a free promotional report, offer it as a free bonus when people subscribe to your list. If not, develop your own free report. It doesn’t have to be long, 5 to 10 pages is fine. Just make sure you include valuable information along with a number of ads and links to your site and affiliate products.

And finally: Market your list, market you site, and market you affiliate products. This is the probably the most tactic that can improve your affiliate income. With traffic, you have no business. You can use a number of different marketing techniques. Write articles, place free ads, place paid ads, use solo, ezine and classified ads, email, ppc and as many other different marketing techniques as you can think of. By using a diversified approach, you can determine which sources work best for you. Then focus on those methods that perform the best.

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Affiliate Marketing: 7 Myths and Facts

Affiliate marketing has the reputation of being a gold mine of financial wealth with little or no work involved to attain these tremendous riches. While you can earn a substantial income as an affiliate marketer, there is work involved particularly now because the popularity of affiliate marketing has grown to the extent that a marketer will likely have tremendous competition. This makes doing your research and establishing a niche vitally important.

Once you start researching affiliate programs in greater detail, you’re likely to come across a number of myths about this kind of business. It’s easy to see why some of these myths have come about. Some people always want to believe in the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, in this case, that affiliate marketing programs are something capable of earning them a great fortune overnight.

In this article we will identify some of the myths and misconceptions surrounding these programs, and attempt to clear up some of the confusion around those myths. Discovering what the most common assumptions are can help you achieve greater success in your affiliate marketing efforts.

Affiliate Marketing Myth: Affiliate marketing is a “no-brainer”. This is most definitely not the case. It’s true that affiliate marketing programs will generally eliminate or automate many of the technical tasks that come with promoting and selling another company’s products and services. But selecting and configuring the best programs for you is not necessarily a simple decision, and there is no one program that is best for every single person.

Fact: You will most certainly need to use your brain to succeed as an affiliate marketer.

Affiliate Marketing Myth: I only need to join one good affiliate program. You might be tempted to identify the affiliate program that seems to be the best fit for your website. However, consumers generally like to do at least a little bit of comparison shopping, so you will want to give them some choice. You may want to consider marketing a few products that are in direct competition with one another (assuming that the terms of each affiliate program permit you to do so).

Fact: You will want to focus your efforts on marketing programs that complement one another. For example, if you run a culinary-focused website, then you could market cookware alongside affiliate offers for specialty ingredients and cookbooks.

Myth: The more affiliate programs I have, the better. If one affiliate program is not enough, then you should try to maximize the number you have, right? Wrong. If there are too many choices, then some potential customers may feel overwhelmed or confused, or perhaps that you haven’t carefully screened your affiliate partners. These potential customers are most often likely not to purchase through you at all.

Fact: Your patrons want to rely upon you to provide only the best affiliate offers to them when you have too many affiliate programs, you risk credibility.

Myth: Affiliate marketing is easy; it practically runs itself. Affiliate marketing does give you the opportunity to make money easily without many of the complications and difficulties associated with direct marketing. But like any other business or professional pursuit, your success depends largely upon the effort you put forth.

Fact: In order to maximize the effectiveness of your affiliate programs, you will need to monitor how many of your customers are considering (or clicking the links for) your affiliate programs, and how many of those are actually following through to purchase. Sometimes moving an affiliate link or graphic to a different part of your webpage will greatly increase your success rate, but you need to have the data available to be able to make comparisons of effectiveness.

Myth: Affiliate marketing is a money-making machine. You can definitely add to your bottom line by incorporating a few carefully-selected affiliate marketing programs to your website. However, be aware that there is a great deal of competition among the affiliates of each particular program, and there is only a certain amount of consumer spending to go around.

Fact: Make sure you have reasonable expectations as you begin affiliate marketing (because you can earn a decent return on your efforts), so that you don’t become frustrated and quit before the program gets going.

Myth: I’ll have to spend too much money promoting my affiliate programs. It’s true that to be a successful affiliate marketer you’ll need to do some promotional activities. The mistake some marketers make is focusing on quantity over quality. Rather than trying to increase the total number of potential customers who see your affiliate products, you will want to try to increase the total number of quality potential customers who see them. You can achieve this (and keep within a carefully considered budget) by careful Pay-Per-Click advertising, and by focusing on building a quality subscriber base, rather than simply promoting the products themselves.

Fact: Careful budgeting, testing, and planning will help you make financially sound, and profitable, decisions.

Myth: I’ll be able to tell right away whether my affiliate marketing efforts have been successful. This is rarely the case. In fact, it is very hard to predict exactly how long it will take for your affiliate programs to be successful.

Fact: You may need to spend some time and effort learning how best to promote your program, or your program may simply involve products that have a longer sales cycle.

The Internet has so many myths about how to achieve success in affiliate marketing that new marketers will likely become confused about what’s true and what isn’t. Do detailed research on any program you’re considering joining, and then jump in. The success of your affiliate marketing programs it entirely dependent on your hard work. There are a variety of ways to market affiliate products including via quality informative content, paid advertisements and pay per click campaigns, and all of those ways require a good head on your shoulders and careful tracking and assessment.

If you have patience and work hard, you’ll be able to achieve the results you want.

Dominating affiliate marketing and becoming a super affiliate isn’t easy – it’s a real jungle out there in the affiliate marketing wars. Every other affiliate is also trying to make the sale – of the same product!
Since we were old enough to go to school, we’ve been pressured to fit in and be like everybody else. But now it’s time to venture out into new territory, be different and learn to be a winning competitor if you hope to succeed in affiliate marketing.
Unless you’re a true Type A personality, this means some radical changes for you – no longer worrying about fitting in, being ok with making people jealous of you, ignoring those who talk behind your back – all necessary qualities in every super-affiliate and most others who want to have successful affiliate marketing businesses online.
And because affiliate marketing really IS a business in it’s own right, first you have to make sure that you have your own website dedicated to your affiliate marketing promotions. This is vital as it allows you to build your own affiliate marketing opt-in lists and an avenue to promote numerous affiliate opportunities and products instead of promoting just one affiliate link at a time – and having to start all over again for the next affiliate promotion you push.
Next up, always avoid using the affiliate marketing promotional materials that are provided by the affiliate manager or merchant. You will find that you make more sales when you create your own material, including free gifts such as e-books and reports. Use the copy and e-mails provided as a basis for your own articles and blog posts, and study them for any great selling points that were missed – those are the type of points to really hammer home and separate yourself from the affiliate marketing wannabes…
While you promote affiliate products in your affiliate marketing promotions, be sure to promote your website and your opt-in list more than you promote anything else. Super affiliates use article marketing, pay per click ads, forum signatures, social bookmarking and other Web 2.0 methods to drive targeted traffic to their affiliate marketing websites and opt-in lists, then promote the specific affiliate products to their opt-in lists and on their websites. Remember – bring the traffic to YOU – THEN send it to them.
Once in a while, offer bonus gifts to those who purchase through your affiliate marketing links. You can create your own gifts, or use private label rights products. Most affiliates don’t do this, however most of the super affiliates do.
Save it for the more expensive affiliate marketing promotions though – it becomes less effective if you are constantly offering bonuses and, worse yet, you can end up like some who no longer get a buying response from their lists unless they offer some heavy-duty bonuses. If you condition your audience to always buying for the bonuses, you’ll see your affiliate marketing results dropping when you don’t have new bonuses for them.
Another powerful affiliate marketing tactic is to host teleseminars to promote affiliate products. Your teleseminars MUST give your listeners useful information that they can use – and must be on a topic related to the affiliate product you’re promoting. Don’t make the bulk of the call a sales pitch – not only will they hang up, but they’ll avoid your calls in future.
Give them good solid information, either on your own or through an interview, for 55 minutes of a 1-hour call, then use that last five minutes to direct them to the affiliate offer on YOUR affiliate marketing website. Get their opt-in and then funnel them through to the merchant’s salespage – and watch the nice bump you get in your affiliate marketing commissions!
If most of your affiliate marketing activities are in the same niche, write and submit articles on a regular basis. Get your name out there and become a recognized expert in your niche. Also make it a point to actively participate in related forums and newsgroups – always with a link to your site in your signature. As your name recognition and credibility grow, so will the profits you’re raking in from your affiliate marketing efforts!
In summary, always strive to do things just a bit differently to stand out from the rest of the affiliate marketing crowd, but don’t ignore any of the proven marketing methods just because other affiliates are using them. Use EVERY affiliate marketing strategy you can – just be sure to ALWAYS put your own spin on them!

According to a report from MarketSherpa, affiliate sales in 2006 amounted to 6.5 billion dollars. That’s Billion with a B. This is a phenomenal amount of money. Are you getting your share of affiliate profits?

The hottest sectors were adult, gambling, and retail. Areas that are expected to do well in the future are: cell phones, finance, travel, entertainment, and Internet related services. If you have not been able to make money using affiliate programs in the past, there may be an opportunity here for you.

You might start out by doing some research on affiliate programs in these hot areas. This works best if the product can be related to the content on your site or blog. Find two or three products in each area. Then look at each of the sales pages. Are they compelling? Do they make you want to buy the product? If you answer “no” to either of these questions, you should continue your search and look for other products.

Once you have found what you consider the best product in each category, develop at least two attractive ads for each product. Include a tracking string with each link so that you can determine which ad performs the best. Place these ads in various places through your site.

Keep records as to how each ad is doing. This is a key component to any ad campaign. Eliminate the worst performing ads and replace them with new ads. Again, make sure you include the tracking information. Continue this process until you can no longer see improvements in your ads.

Of course, this technique only works if you have traffic coming to your site. If you are just starting out and not getting much traffic, use a variety of traffic generation methods to bring in visitors. By using products in the strongest niches, you should begin to get your share of affiliate profits.

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