How to Use Websites and Blogs for Affiliate Marketing

 The business of affiliate marketing simply revolves around products promotions and sales. You can promote products and services on an existing website or blog or you can identify a product and build a website around it. If you already have a website with a sizable audience, you can start by partnering with affiliate programs that are relevant in your niche. Doing so could help you to get started real quick and to get a handle on affiliate marketing much faster. If however you do not have a website, all you’ll have to do is to build one especially if you intend being in affiliate marketing for the long run. You do not necessarily need a website or blog, but having one gives you more control and a real advantage over your marketing campaigns.

Online marketing experts believe that a website is the only ethical way to build your email list, which is the input of your sales funnel that will bring in highly relevant leads. Even if you do not start with a website, you can have it in your plans to have at least one website or blog. Experienced marketers routinely have multiple websites with each targeted to a niche and used to sell products and services relevant to the niche. It takes real practical experience and expertise to get that done for good results.

Expert marketers believe that a niche website works best with affiliate marketing. Because such a site is usually focused to a niche, it attracts mostly people interested in that niche. They are the only ones who will most likely visit the site. What that means is that such people will more positively respond to promotions if they are relevant to the niche they are interested in. Niches like trends, fashion, wines, foods, flowers, furniture, technology, jewelry, travels, resorts etc, etc, are very popular niches anyone can build a website around depending on your tastes, experience, likes and expertise.

Best Marketing Methods for Beginners in SFI Business

To my mind, what really should constitute the best marketing methods for beginners are methods which give the best results, are easy to use, cheap or even free to use. For that reason, it is pretty difficult to settle for just one marketing method as the best. It is always advisable to use many methods singly or in combinations. That is what gives the best results which can immensely benefit beginners. For best results, the marketing message can be packaged in form of: 

 
-Text ads.
- Banner ads.
- Blogs.
- Articles marketing.
- Brochures.
- Bulletins.
- Newspaper ads.
- Flyers, etc, etc.

Then the message can be put out in any of the following common and popular methods:

1. Internet marketing (e-mail, Websites, Blogs, etc.)
2. Print media (periodical/magazine ads, card decks, etc.)
3. Direct mail.
4. "Warm marketing" (friends, family, co-workers, etc.)
5. "Power Retailing" (extensive retailing beyond warm market)
6. One-on-one local recruiting.
7. Opportunity meetings (group presentations).
8. Telemarketing (phone prospecting and sales).
9. Radio/Television.
10. Social media.
11. Dropping Business cards.
12. Dropping Gift cards /Flyers.

These methods could be very good for beginners because:

a) Many of the methods are cheap or even free.
b) They are easy to use by beginners.
c) They are very effective.
d) They can be used any and everywhere.
e) They are cost-effective.
f) They are readily available and easy to access.
g) They give very good results. 


 
What is really important is that beginners should never forget to use their Gateways correctly in all their ads. That is the only way the credits of the ads will go to them. If not well used, all ads no matter how well-designed will not yield the desired results.

How to Create Business Cards to Promote SFI and TripleClicks

 You can purchase business cards very cheaply at SFI TripleClicks stores. If however you are artistically inclined and you know something about printing, you can design and print your own cards. If you want to create business cards that will be effective in promoting SFI and TripleClicks, please consider the following:

1. All SFI logos/Cards/Colors/Texts have Patent Rights cover. Be sure you have the correct permits to produce them.
2. Be sure the cards tally with the standard size.
3. The color combination should also tally.
4. Messages/Texts should be pre-approved.
5. Be sure your SFI/TripleClicks Gateways are well inserted in the cards.
6. The cards must have your name, Affiliate ID Number, SFI rank, Telephone contact, email address, the URL of your Gateways, Websites, Blogs and ECA store.

From my own perspective, you may not require to go through all these hassles if you can simply purchase SFI business cards which can even be customized for you if you so wish.

How to Learn to Write Effective Ads in SFI Business

I am happy to talk about the word “learn.” Yes indeed! That is what we are all doing in SFI on daily basis, simply learning the business day in day out. We can all learn to write adds if we do not want to use the free ads SFI has made available to all affiliates. Personally, I am not good at writing ads so I use SFI free ads. That is what I always recommend for others to use. 

 
If however you want to learn to write your own ads, there are many places on the web you can learn about ads and how to write them. Just like me, even if you have no experience or have not written any ads before, you can still write effective ads using these sites and reading other ads written by others. There are ads you can read about on the web from some internet social websites, newspapers, magazines and even in SFI.

If you really want to write your own ads, be sure that the ads are catchy enough to attract your target audience. To be able to guarantee that, make sure your text ads contain one or more of the following words:

1. Fast
2. Guaranteed
3. Limited
4. Easy/Simple
5. Testimonial
6. Discount/Sales
7. Free
8. Important
9. You/Your
10. New

If you manage to design ads which have one or more of these words, the ads will be catchy enough to “arrest” your target audience. That is what matters not just designing ads for the sake of designing ads. Anyone can learn with practice to do things right. Good luck!!!