Boost Your Affiliate Commissions Using these 3 Top Ways

Affiliate Marketing involves promoting for sale products belonging to someone else. You, as the affiliate marketer, get a commission for every sale that goes through as a result of your promotion. You do not necessarily have to have your own website and dealing with customers, refunds, product development and maintenance are the responsibilty of the product owner making this one of the easiest ways of having an online business and making an income.

Let's assume that you have made a start and are already an affiliate marketer promoting a few products, but are not very successful at it yet. What would be your next goal? Double, or even triple, your commissions, right? So, how are you going to achieve that?

Consider implementing these 3 powerful ways to boost your affiliate program commissions quickly.

1. Choose the best program and products to promote.

Naturally, you want to promote a product in a program that will make it possible for you to achieve the highest profits in the shortest possible time.

What are the factors to consider when selecting an affiliate program?

The company must:

• Have a generous commission structure.
• Have products that fit in with your target audience.
• Have a solid track record of paying their affiliate easily and on time.

And very importantly, if you cannot seem to increase your investments, dump that program and keep looking for better ones.

There are thousands of affiliate programs online which gives you the leeway to be selective. You may want to select the best to avoid losing your advertising dollars.

Write free reports or short ebooks to distribute free from your site if you have one. Remember that you are competing with other affiliates who are promoting the same program and you need to outwit them in your promotional strategies. If you write a short report about what the product can do for you, you will immediately distinguish yourself from the other less creative affiliates.

In the reports you write, always provide some valuable information and add a few recommendations about the products themselves. Do some online research into customer feedback on the product and include this information in your report. The idea is to begin to build up credibity so that people will turn to you when they want to buy a product.

2. Collect and save the email addresses of those who download your free reports.

That is your list of prospects that needs to be nurtured and respected. They will form the mainstay of your buyers. You will need to email your list regularly giving them tips as well as promoting your affiliate products. It is a known fact that people very seldom make a purchase the first time they hear about a product. You may need to send out your message in different emails more than six times before someone actually buys.

As an affiliate, it is crucial to get the contact information of a prospect before sending them to the website of the vendor. Bear in mind that you are advertising the product free for the product owners and you only earn commission when you make a sale. If you send prospects directly to the vendors, chances are they would be lost to you forever. With a list of prospects, you are able to send them other marketing messages and, in this way, are able to earn ongoing commission in place of a one-time sale only.

If you can, publish an online newsletter or Ezine. The internet marketers who are earning a very good income online all concur that it is better to recommend a product to someone you know than to try and sell it to a stranger. This is the reason behind publishing your own newsletter. You will gather a group people around your ezine that enjoys what you write which allows you to develop a relationship of trust with your subscribers.

This strategy requires that there is a delicate balance between providing useful information and giving a sales pitch. If you continue to write informative editorials which your readers find helpful, you will build a sense of loyalty in your readers and that is likely to lead them to support you by buying your products.

3. When you begin to do well promoting products for a particular company, you are perfectly within your right to ask for higher than normal commission from them.

If you are already successful with a particular promotion, you should approach the merchant and negotiate a higher percentage commission for your sales. If the merchant is smart, he or she will likely grant your request rather than lose you because you are a valuable asset. Keep in mind, too, that you are a zero-risk investment to your merchant, so do not be shy about negotiating higher commissions.

Test these affiliate strategies carefully and you could begin to see a difference in your commission checks in a relatively short time.

Private Label Rights (PLR) - What is it All About?

I've been doing a lot of reading lately about Private Label Rights (PLR) content. I used to think that it was only for lazy people who didn't want to do their own writing. But as I learn more, I've come up with lots of great ways I can use PLR in my own business.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, PLR is content that you get from the original author along with their permission to use it as your own. So you can get a great report, put your name on it and have your own product to sell or give away!

The first couple of products I created using PLR only took me about half an hour. There have been a few sales so far from them so that was definitely time well spent.

When searching for PLR content to use, I found there were a lot of different types of sites available. Some offered monthly memberships and others offered just one time purchases. So be sure to look around before you decide where to buy.

The site I found that was by far the best was PLRWholesaler. Not only do they have an unbelievable amount of content, but it's completely FREE. Most sites charge an arm and a leg for the amount of content that this guy is giving away.

And although I haven't been through everything yet, what I have read is very good quality. It's stuff you would actually want to use as your own.

Since it's free, I highly recommend that you check out PLRWholesaler and see if they have anything that you can use in your business. There just may be an ebook or audio recording that you could quickly brand with your information and start selling to your list.

Check it out by clicking on the banner and let me know what you think...

How to Sell your Digital Photography at Stock Photo Sites

In the tough economic times of today, we have to become inventive to find additional ways to make money. Look around you - at your hobbies and interests - and see if you can open up a whole new (and exciting) career path. If taking photos is your hobby, consider turning it into a business that can make you money. As a digital photographer you can sell (or lease)online all those beautiful photographs you have been taking.

Here are some ways to do that.

Digital photography allows you to capture a variety of images in a variety of formats. Modern editing techniques can do wonders for your photos and turn them into professional-looking pictures. Do you remember those 'old-fashioned looking' pictures that photographers would take of people at the amusement park? The pictures looked faded and very old - an effect created by the sepia tone they used when taking the picture. That is just one of the kinds of effects you can create with your digital camera when you edit a photo.


Stock photography is a great way to break into the online digital photography market. You sell your photos to others who need pictures for websites, newsletters, magazines and e-zines and other media. Have you surfed the Web lately? Have you noticed that many of the photos look the same? Your unique photos can add a new flavor to what is currently available online. It is exciting - and not a little challenging - to see how people will respond to your photos. Latent talents can be unleashed in the process!

What type of digital photos will sell?

Just remember 'more of the same' will not make a good impression. The stock photography companies are also businesses that need to make money to survive and thrive. Be creative and try out new ideas for holiday photos or photos of daily life, eccentric people and ordinary people going about their daily lives. Test what works and what does not work. If a style or topic is not well received, don't take it personally. Just say to yourself "Hmmm, that is not what people are after. Let's try something different." Sooner or later you will develop a good sense of what webmasters and bloggers are after.

Once you feel more confident, create a website or start a blog (free at Blogger.com or Wordpress.org) and link it to the stock photography sites featuring your work. In this way, more and more people will be able to view your photos which, in turn, may lead to other opportunities opening up for you in the future.

It is worth it. Click Here for some constructive help and guidance with getting the project off the ground and turning it into a profitable enterprise or sideline.