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Email marketing Tip. Subscribers clicking on Unsubscription link?

October 9, 2009 Webmasters-central.com Affiliate Marketing

According to ftc.gov, you need to keep unsubscription link in every out going email in your email marketing. The subscriber who don’t want to stay in the list clicks on the link to remove themselves from your list. This is also called ‘Permission based email marketing’.

Don’t keep guessing about why your subscriber is leaving your list:

Most email marketers complain about the unsubscription rate of their list(s). They wonder why this person was unsubscribed inspite of good information he is receiving … Nobody can tell the reason why a subscriber has unsubscribed. So stop guessing and keep a form (mostly a small textarea) on the unsubscription page. So in that textarea your subscriber enters why he is leaving yur list. These comments are useful for you to improve your list marketing. Ofcourse, your software should allow you to get this information from the subscriber.

Don’t let them go empty handed:

On unsubscription page give them a gift and say thank you for staying on your list all these days. It won’t hurt to say thank you. Right?

Keep links like:
* download link to a free report
* irressistable discount code on your product
* free access to your membership area
* free software

All these are to make your subscriber to stay in your present or new list as a subscriber or member.

See the sample unsubscription form:

 

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Affiliate commission theft – Affiliates, There goes Your Affiliate Commission.

October 8, 2009 Webmasters-central.com Affiliate Marketing

Recently many vendors are following a method that steals the affiliate commission from their affiliates. I think some of them are doing this unknowingly …

They offer an affiliate program (inhouse or hosted one). We join and get the affiliate link. This affiliate link only credits the sale if the buyer buys through Paypal or whatever their primary payment processor is.

Here comes the tricky part … On order page, they will add another payment processor, the sale which don’t credit the affiliate.

Example: I got affiliate links where main payment processor is Paypal. On order page vendor says – ‘You can buy through Regnow.com here.’. What is this? So if buyer I sent to his site buys using Regnow.com link, I don’t get the affiliate commission.

See the example below:

Vendor is offering affiliate program through Commission junction and Clickbank. Point is I can send the visitor ONLY through either one of the links. So what if the visitor buys different link if I send him through Clickbank link?

On the order page this same vendor is offering Clickbank link and Money order option. So there is no way the vendor can know that I sent the visitor to his site.

So what I did was, I spend sometime on my site and I even updated some of my affiliate links to links who have one Payment processor. When I promote them, I’d like to get paid. What do you say?

Take time and check the prder pages of the vendors. I really don’t know they wantedly doing that or unknowingly stealing their affiliate commisions etc, but be careful to promote such programs.

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Simple and Effective way to promote Your Affiliate links.

October 7, 2009 Webmasters-central.com Affiliate Marketing

Most of the internet marketers promote others products called ‘Affiliate marketing’. They join into a vendors affiliate program and get affiliate links to promote. They can keep these affiliate links on their web sites, promote to a mailing list etc to make a sale and get the commission.

One of the best ways to promote your affiliate products is by giving away FREE REPORTS.

Free reports are short reports on any topic. In between the content of the report, you can add your affiliate links for the reader to click on and go to your vendor sites.

Steps in creating free reports:

* Have an idea about your affiliate product: If you are a user of the product then it would be easier for you to create a report. Otherwise read the merchants sales page or use the trial version or exerpts of the ebook to get an idea of what the product is about.

* Do a research: Search on the internet and gather the information on the topic.

* Compile the information: Read and understand the information and write it in your own words under 10 – 20 subheadings.

* Create pdf report: Use any free pdf creator to create a free report of these 20 articles.
http://www.exp-systems.com/

Make your PDF viral:

* Promote: Use Hubpages, Squidoo to create short webpages from which you can offer your free report. Use your forum signatures, web site links to promote it. Send it to your list. Ask your subscriber to forward it to their friends.

* Brandable: Make your ebooks and Pdfs brandable. Branding of ebooks encourages your affiliates or visitors to download the report, brand it with their site information and distribute. This makes your report viral.

Here is a free pdf brander for your affiliates:
http://www.pdf-power-brand.com/

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