New Affiliate Discoveries

Do you know the biggest most marketers make?

Do you know what is the single biggest make that affiliate marketers, and possibly you, make in their business? Not capturing customer information! Too many options on your website, flyer, promotional material or sales talk…even just one option too many, can lead your potential customer away from your product or even your site.

Capturing the visitors attention and providing a compelling reason to leave you their email address is vital to ongoing success as an affiliate marketer. There are many approaches to this, including a “squeeze page” system where the only option on the page is to enter your contact information. This guarantees that in order to continue on your site, the customer must leave their address.

You can also offer free products such as e-books or discount codes by emailing the information to your customer. Naturally they will need to leave their email address in order to receive the free information you are offering.

Do you know the best way to keep in touch with your customers?

Once you’ve got your customers address, what do you do with it next? What if they didn’t buy from you today? Research has shown that people need to hear a message up to seven times before it sinks in. If you didn’t capture your customer’s sale on the first go-round, you need to create additional opportunities to show the customer you have something valuable to offer.

A follow up email system called an “Auto Responder” will allow you to keep in touch with your prospects, newsletter subscribers and repeat customers. Auto Responders automatically send out follow-up messages to your prospects at regular intervals, based on when the initially signed up for your E-newsletter. (You do have an e-newsletter, right?) Alternatively, you can offer “back end sales” to your existing customers with an autoresonder. By having the messages automatically queued up for sending, there is no effort on your part after the initial set up is complete. Just capture the email address, and the rest takes care of itself.

New Affiliate Discoveries uses an auto responder service by AWeber, just look at the subscribe by email box in the right sidebar. That’s my e-newsletter that gets delivered automatically by Aweber. You’ve probably seen a lot of autoresponders around the web and not realized it.

How can an auto responder service help your business?

AWeber and others like it are preferred over homegrown email lists for several reasons, but two stand out. First is that your email gets delivered. They have an outstanding reputation and the majority of the time, AWeber marketing emails will get delivered to your customer without getting caught in a spam filter.

Secondly, AWeber fully complies with the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 by the Federal Trade Commission which can carry fines of up to $10,000 per violation for what is considered email Spam.

Finally, Aweber offers a 30-day money back guarantee on their $20 a month service. If you are making just a few sales a month, while simultaneously building customer loyalty and relationships, the $20 a month will quickly pay for itself. Plus if you become an affiliate, you will receive a small commission for each person you sign up.

Not so fast…you can’t get a discount by referring yourself, you sneaky web guru!

You can’t be your own affiliate referral with AWeber, and this is actually good for you as a potential Affiliate. Why? If someone simply replaces your affiliate ID with their own, then purchases the service, you lose your commission! Companies that do not allow this are protecting their sales staff…the affiliate marketers like you and I.

Here is my affiliate link to AWeber. You don’t need one to get started, but if you decide to keep the service, you’ll pay the same price regardless, so you might as well try mine. Go ahead and sign up, view the tutorials, read the helpful short emails you’ll receive from them in the next few days and see it doesn’t work out well for your own marketing projects.

Alternatively, you can sign up for a test drive of the AWeber service with no obligation.

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