An Affiliate Marketing Plan

Before you can draw up an effective Affiliate Marketing Plan, you have to figure out what type of Affiliate you'd like to be. Yes I know, we all would love to be Super Affiliates, but there are many different avenues of Affiliate Marketing...

So called Affiliate Marketing secrets are only going to get you so far. All the Affiliate Marketing tips and strategies in the world, alone, will not make you a successful Affiliate marketer. If you do indeed aspire to be a successful Affiliate, your going to need and Affiliate Marketing Plan.

Firstly lets give 3 examples of Affiliate Marketing opportunities: (there is more)

1. Clickbank, promoting only digital products for rather high commssions.
2. Amazon, promoting physical products for smaller commissions.
3. CPA, which is cost-per-action, with CPA, your paid when a visitor sent by you takes an action, and action could be as simple as submitting their name and email, or as difficult as 3 page forms.

Clickbank - is a huge network, 1000's of vendors and 1000's of Affiliates. Clickbank only deals in digital products which are usually available immeadiately via download. If you'd like to go the Clickbank route, I'll give you a priceless Affiliate Marketing Tip, build an email list. The best part about Clickbank would have to be the huge commissions which can be as high as 80%. Believe it or not, some vendors are willing to give their Affiliates 100% commission, because they have up sells, or what ever the reason. However, the average Affiliate commission at Clickbank is around 50%.

Amazon - is beyond huge they sell just about anything you can think of. It's all physical products from 20 page books to I-Pads. Surely you know of a new product that will, or is already selling well. Well, sign up for an Amazon account and you can promote it yourself. At Amazon sadly, the commissions are much lower.

CPA - Affiliate Marketing is my favorite. In order to become a CPA Affiliate you must be accepted into Affiliaite networks. We'll discuss 2 actions PPL which is pay-per-lead and the more difficult PPS, which is pay-per-sale. Obviously PPS is going to result in higher Affiliate commissions, but it's also going to result in less conversions. Believe it or not, some PPL companies pay as high as 60 dollars for one page form submissions, but the one page forms usually require your visitor to sign up for a free trial which requires a valid credit card number. Some PPL CPA offers only require the visitor to enter their name and email, or sometime just their zip code. Obviously these CPA offers result in less Affiliate Commissions, but convert very well.

There's 1000's of Affiliate Marketing Tips, Affiliate Marketing Secrets, and Affiliate Marketing Strategies, but trust me, All you need to be a successful Affiliate is a solid Affiliate Marketing Plan.