A Secret Few Understand About Affiliate Marketing and Traffic Exchanges

A Secret Few Understand About Affiliate Marketing and Traffic Exchanges
Two industries that are many times misunderstood when it
comes to Internet marketing are traffic exchanges and
affiliate marketing. Let's take a look at how you can
effectively combine both to create an excellent income for
yourself.

We could probably summarize this article in one sentence by
saying, when you use traffic exchanges go for the lead as
opposed to going for the sale. What we mean by that is
promoting your affiliate marketing website is not the best
way to utilize traffic exchanges.

What you want to do is go for the lead, meaning capturing
contact information by giving away something of value such
as a free report or e-book. This contact information is
sent to an autoresponder where you can now follow up over
and over for future sales.

If you've ever surfed on a traffic exchange, you know that
you have a minimum amount of time for your page to be
displayed. This is another problem with promoting your
affiliate website itself.

People just do not have enough time or the attention span
to sit and read a sales letter. But they will have enough
time to quickly read a short splash page that hits a few
high points and at the end has a sign-up box where they can
put their name and e-mail address.

To do this you will need to create a landing page that is
attractive enough to encourage your reader to give you
their contact information. This is also an excellent place
to include a header that you begin to brand yourself with.

You might even go so far as to put your picture in the
header or on the landing page itself. As you develop
campaigns in various traffic exchanges, you will be
branding yourself as well as trying to build a list for
future follow-up.

This is such a simple concept that it really is amazing
more people do not do it. You yourself have probably seen
almost everything promoted on traffic exchanges. Think
about what captures your attention and maybe ones that you
have actually clicked on or joined.

Very few of us ever buy a product off of the traffic
exchange. But we do sign up for free reports and e-books,
which then get us on a list where we begin to receive
e-mail. It's off of these e-mails that we may very well buy
a product from an affiliate marketer.

This is the secret few people seem to really understand.
The right way to use affiliate marketing and traffic
exchanges is to go for the lead and follow-up for a sale at
a later date.

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