by Rahimah Sultan

If you’re a marketer looking for opportunities in affiliate marketing (Read ) you need to continually improve your strategies if you want success and profits.

Learn how to outrank your competition, select a profitable affiliate program, use low-cost tools for your campaigns, and stay away from bad links among other things.

There is constant demand for consumers’ attention so it’s important that marketers remain creative in order to set yourselves above your competitors.

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The world of online marketing is fast paced and therefore unpredictable. To have success, you must be willing to continually test and refine your campaigns.

 

Most traditional business experts talk about following the money and not your passion. If you’re too attached to a business, then you won’t be able to see clearly what to do when it’s not going well. You won’t be able to tell if you need to scrap it and start over.

 

You need to adapt and don’t be attached, and always test. Read The World Of Online Marketing Is Fast Paced, Which Makes it Unpredictable for the details.

 
 

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When a prospect or customer signs up to receive your emails, there should be a response sent by an autoresponder. This should happen whenever someone clicks on a link and makes a purchase or when anyone signs up for a newsletter or membership in your program, to show your appreciation for their time and effort.

An autoresponder is a computer program that automatically answers e-mail sent to it. They can be very simple or quite complex. The software sends a sequence of emails to a person who has taken some action. You write the emails, enter them into the autoresponder system, set up the triggering function for the series, and schedule when they should be sent.

Sequence Emails

People generally want more than the initial offering. For example, if readers bought your ebook on the basics of knitting, you could do a sequence of emails beginning with the different types of knitting needles, the second email would be about the yarn, the third on patterns, and so on.

Drip Email Campaign

For readers who are ready to buy something from you, are thinking about it but want more information, and those who are interested in being on your list but don’t know if they want to buy anything right now, use a drip email campaign.

If you had a recent campaign to get more leads by offering something free pertaining to one of your services, and you’ve captured their emails, send this group a series of emails with engaging content about how you created the service to solve a common problem many readers encounter in the running of their business. You can give a case study in one email and another case study in the second email in a story-telling form.

In the bottom of these two emails, offer a short bit of content about your book or service with a link or CTA (call-to-action) button to the book or service on solving the common problem.

Now split your readers into two groups:  Those who made a purchase (Group A) and those who didn’t (Group B). Group A will receive automated emails referencing elements of the book shown in emails as to how you can help them be more successful. Once they’ve received a few of the supporting email sequences that may also have links to videos, you can offer your readers a product demo and a free consultation.

In the meantime, Group B is getting occasional automated emails like Group A received, but they also get other emails with different content about other services you provide, including links to content with more information such as a video. Those in Group B who click on the book link show they’re still interested in the book and, potentially, your personalized service but just may not be ready yet.

Webinar Autoresponder Email Series

Marketers like to show their fol­lowers how they can carry out something in their business that will help them make more money. Using the drip email example above, a webinar can be offered at some point for Group A because they showed the most interest in the product.

Group A has already seen a video or two as part of the sequence emails they received. Now you can send an email inviting readers to attend a webinar where they can see the service in action and how it can help them decide on using your product or information. When the webinar invitation goes out, readers fill out the form and send it back. This generates the reservation acceptance email that carries a link that is automatically code-created with that person’s identification and takes the person to the webinar link when the time comes to join up.

A day before the event you send a reminder email and again right before the webinar begins. Readers just need to click on the link several minutes before it starts. The link takes them right to the webinar page where each reader is recognized as a pre-registered attendee (because of the ID link code).

When the webinar is over, get the list of attendees and those who didn’t. Create separate channels (lists) for each group. Put aside those who attended but didn’t sign up for the service.

For the registered non-attendees of Group A in the “drip” campaign, now moved into a Group A short-term email list, send an autoresponder message saying they were missed at the webinar but there’s a link for a replay if they’d still like to see it.

If your short-term list of members clicked on the replay link but not the link to get your service, send an automated email several hours later, asking if they’d like to have a consultation to know more. They can click on a link in the email to generate a callback from you or set up an appointment with you.

After 24 hours, send out another autoresponder email reminding them that the discount will be over in 24 hours, so they need to act now. If no actions were taken, you can move non-responding people to another email list to receive regular emails about products and services you have to offer, including emails that just offer valuable content without any sales approach.

Sequence emails, drip email campaigns, and a webinar autoresponder email series are three types of email campaigns you can set up for a boost to your business.

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by Rahimah Sultan

 

You can start or boost your business using the internet and various platforms. A good place to begin is with affiliate marketing.

 

‘The beauty of affiliate marketing is that you don’t have to invest the time and effort to create a product to sell. You can begin selling something as an affiliate as soon as you have a platform to sell it on.’

 

There are two important rules to use when promoting products that are not your own:

 

1. Only recommend products with which you are familiar.

 

2. Never tell anyone directly to buy a product.

 

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You can market your business like a hunter or a farmer. As a hunter, you wake up in the morning, gather your weapons and head out to the hunt. Some days you come back with a kill and your family has a feast. Other days your family goes hungry. It’s a constant daily battle.

 

Your online marketing strategy for business success should be like the farmer who plants seeds and waits for them to be ready for the harvest, while nurturing and caring for them. You water and tend to your crop, and when it’s ready you start harvesting.

 

So many businesses operate like hunters—cold calling, spending huge amounts of time and energy trying to get new customers, discounting and competing on price out of desperation, and wasting large amounts of time pestering people who are not interested in their product or service.

 

When marketing your business farmer style, you set up a data base for emailing or direct mailing your prospects. Then you form relationships with your list, and some will eventually purchase your product or service.

 

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by Rahimah Sultan

Marketing trends are continuously evolving. Following are four tips for online marketing in 2018.

Influencer Marketing

Influencer Marketing Will Change. It is closing the gap with video advertising. Readers want shorter roundup posts with more authentic stories and actionable knowledge. Focus on “collaboration” with influencers to create content that speaks to your and the influencer’s audience.

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence will enable marketers to do a better job with things like email personalization, A/B testing, and more. Although we’ve been able to get names and data for a while, AI will soon progress to the point of potentially helping to figure out which messaging is working, and which needs improvement.

When it comes to websites, personalization will go a step further by examining your site users’ history and providing them with relevant content, for wherever they are in the buyer’s journey.


SEO

SEO is forever changing, and Google’s algorithm updates will shake up things for marketers. For example, keywords will require a greater emphasis on natural, long-tail key phrases, optimized for the increasing popularity of voice search—which, as you might imagine, works more like how we actually talk.

Instead of “marketing trends 2018,” make a question of it just as you would speak.

As voice search becomes more user-friendly, technology is shifting to voice understanding, as opposed to voice recognition. SEO elements like search history, keyword research, location data, and more, will all be affected by this change.

Search engines are getting a lot better at figuring out what people are looking for when they enter a question into the Google search box. You need to figure out what questions people are asking and go after those questions with your SEO strategy.

Ad Blocking

Marketers need to be prepared to allocate budgets to working around ad-blocking technology. These include social media and influencer marketing—mentioned above, as well as inbound.

Blog posts and articles still work to improve the SEO of your website.

To recap, influencer marketing will change, artificial intelligence will enable marketers to do a better job with personalization, SEO will require a greater emphasis on natural, long-tail key phrases, and you can circumvent ad-blocking technology.

These four tips for online marketing in 2018 are not new. They build upon existing trends.

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In the online business world there are three key things needed to grow your business. These Internet Marketing Solutions include targeted traffic, something to sell, and a marketing funnel. These key factors are needed for all products and services sold online.

 

Targeted Traffic

 

The first element you need to grow your online business is a steady flow of targeted customers visiting your website and online sales pages. These are people who are…

 

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As a marketer you are performing a balancing act between remaining relevant and keeping your sanity. There are only so many hours in a day, and sometimes we become overwhelmed trying to manage all the responsibilities.

 

When it comes to staying in contact with prospects, a well-crafted auto responder campaign is the way to go.

 

Respond to People

 

People don’t like to feel ignored. When people land on your site and want to touch base with you they want an immediate response. Auto responders work like clocks, delivering customized responses at exactly the right time. They work 24/7 so you never miss that midnight lead.

 

Be Relevant

 

Prospects find you through a website visit, an order placement, a subscription or some other action. By scheduling a pre-arranged response like a thank you and including a bonus of some kind, you are maximizing marketing potential and maintaining relevancy while advancing customer relations from the beginning.

 

Save Time and Stress

 

Most of us are wearing many hats so automating things is important. You can set up an auto responder series for a week, a month or however long you like and not have to worry about forgetting to follow up with prospects. Once you set up a series you’re done. Doing this initially saves you time and stress later on. If you want more contact with prospects you can always set up a broadcast that goes out to everyone.

 

Get people to Know, Like and Trust You

 

Produce high-quality content and communicate with consumers on a regular basis so you can develop a good reputation. Do not make every communication about a sale. Share tips and information about how your product or service can help solve their problems.

 

Every online business needs email marketing tools that allow you to follow up with prospects.

 

Deliver your emails via the auto responder function of your email marketing program. Write the best content you can for your autoresponder. The time you put in now can continue to grow your business in the future.

 

Consider these 4 tips on the need for auto responders to help automate your business and save time and reduce stress.

 

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Blog article marketing is useful for your online business. It’s a cost-effective way to drive traffic to your website or blog, a way to get your website indexed on search engines, a way for web promotion and backlinks, and it’s a vehicle for obtaining potential customers.

 

Cost

 

You can showcase your business, products and/or services for free or you can use paid advertising or both. When you write about what you’re offering, you can place a link in the article that redirects wherever you wish – another article or website.

 

Traffic

 

Write quality, keyword-rich, informative articles to pull in more online consumers and Internet users to view your site.

 

Website Indexing

 

When you use keyword-rich articles with proper SEO your site can be found by search engines which in turn allows more people to find you and your information.

 

Promotion and Backlinks

 

In your article writing, the links you include can give you more exposure and get more people viewing your site. Good quality articles are important for gaining more readers.

 

When writing a new article, link to one of your other articles. Using one article to promote another will increase reader interest.

 

Obtaining Customers

 

Blog article marketing is an effective way to convert readers into potential customers and boost online business.

 

Aim for writing a minimum of one article a week. Creating content regularly will also enable you to produce content more efficiently in the future. Use your articles to offer knowledge to your readers. People are always looking for free advice. Use your own voice when writing. Don’t try to sound like an expert, unless you are.

 

An article is a full-text document that is used for communicating information and creating awareness about your product or service. It has become the successful way to drive more traffic to your website.

 

If you own a business or home business and want to spread the word about it, blogging can be a method of doing so and a way of branding yourself. You can write articles about your products or services and post them on your blog with a link to those products or services.

 

Use blog article marketing to keep down advertising costs, pull in more online consumers and Internet users to view your site, for website indexing on search engines, for promotion and backlinks, and for obtaining customers for your products or services.

 

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I ran across an article titled 10 Steps to a Successful Affiliate Marketing Strategy that laid out what affiliate marketers needed to do to succeed in 2015 and beyond? The operative words are…

 

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