Marketing tips and tricks for newbies

You have joined a few affiliate programs and now you wonder what to do...

As a newbie you may have various options:

Article Marketing
Write great positive reviews of the products you are promoting
Include your affiliate links at the end of the reviews
Post yours reviews on sites such as Goarticles.com or Ezinearticles.com

Blogging
Create a free blog using a blogging platform such as Blogger.com
Write posts (reviews) of the products you are promoting
Include your affiliate links at the end of the reviews
Then ping your blog at a site such as Pingomatic.com
Your posts will be picked up quickly by search engines

If you want to host your own blog, read this:
From Blogger to WordPress (tutorial for newbies): http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=8270241

Social Bookmarking
Welcome to the Web 2.0 era!
In order to make it easy for your readers to save and share your content you may add social bookmark links to your blog
Link: SocialMarker.com

Forums
Join popular forums, go into your forum profile and edit your signature
Make a signature that includes your affiliate link(s), or links to your own reviews
Make frequent relevant contributions - Don't spam!
Depending on what you are promoting and the forums you are joining you will target direct sales or subaffiliates

Social Networking
Use social networking sites to promote your relevant reviews blog if any
Don't spam with affiliate links!

PR
Once every few weeks you may post a press release at sites such as PRweb.com
Your press release will be a favorable review of the product you are promoting, alongwith your affiliate link

Email marketing
If you own a list of subscribers (people who have opted in to receive email offers from you), you may send them an email telling them about the products you are promoting and include your affiliate links in the email
Once again, don't spam!

Pay-Per-Click (PPC)
You may easily generate incomes with affiliate programs and PPC like Google Adwords
You may also loose a lot of money before making your first sale
So be careful if you do use this way to drive traffic to your sales pages
Learn how it works before!
Learning centers: http://adwords.google.com + DP + PPCdiscussions.com

Make your own tools, write your own texts and try to think like a visitor or a potential buyer, study competitor tactics (use Google!), experiment, upgrade yourself all the time...

It's a matter of creativity, trial and errors, time and dedication

Never give up

 

Looks like a great overview. Noobs should bookmark it. You forgot one major category up there though, social bookmarking.

 

Thanks for the comment and the + rep jquindlen

Also, remember when you join forums or social networking sites: don't spam!

You may be banned or you may irritate people

 

great for beginner...thanks for the tips...

I must agree that social networking site is great to get your friends and family to participate in your website..

also consider digg and stumbleupon...they are great traffic source

 

Yes great tips for newbies. Why don't you try to re-edit your post and include something about social bookmarking.

 

Thank you sir - Done

 

Write more! It's a good manual data!

 

Great advice! I would add that marketing doesn't stop once you get someone to your site. Good content is what will get people to your site and keep them coming back. Also don't underestimate the power of video. Promote your product and put it on youtube.

 

make sure people always come to your website (content),

Nic

 

great overview.
BTW, What are recommended sites for Social Bookmarking?
Thanks alot

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Stumbleupon.com
Digg.com
Technorati.com
Del.icio.us
Propeller.com
Slashdot.org
Twitter.com
Reddit.com
Tagza.com
Fark.com
Newsvine.com
Furl.netswik.net
Connotea.org
Sphinn.com

 

Nice information and thanks for sharing. But for newbie, how long this tips could be maintained? since lot of newbie will be very difficult maintain the motivation to perform this.

any suggestions please

 

Great list. One important thing though in regards to article marketing with EzineArticles.com.

EzineArticles doesn't allow you to link with affiliate links. You can link to a top level domain (TLD) however that redirects to an affiliate page, although they tend to question that sometimes and the subject will be coming up a bit more in the future from the sounds of it.

It's better, in my opinion, to link to your own pages. From there, you can link to any affiliate product you want, but more importantly, you can include an opt-in form for them to sign up for your newsletter so you can continually contact them and build a relationship with them. You'll yield far better results this way in the end. Newbies can do this, but it takes some effort. It can also be done for free as well, but eventually you would want to have a good quality autoresponder like Aweber.

Anyway, that's a whole other topic in and of itself. The point is that you can't have affiliate links in EzineArticles author boxes. They'll reject your submission. GoArticles does though - at least, last time I checked they did which was awhile ago.

 

What do you mean? How long before you have to make the first sale?

It all depends on the affiliate program you choose and the way you promote it

When you start from scratch it can be a few hours (don't dream anyway!), a few days or a few weeks

I do have a friend who tends to give up when he is not performing well

When I do a bad day with poor sales I want to work more to improve the situation

 

del.icio.us dominates the social bookmarking space

 

AddThis: http://www.addthis.com

Well, let's say Digg + del.icio.us + StumbleUpon + the others

 

Easy way to get backlinks: http://www.squidoo.com/dofollow (The Only DoFollow List You'll Ever Need)

 

Great tips. I've also had some good results this way: When I write an article, I get one deep link to it and then Digg it and maybe stumble it. I've had a few end up on the first page of google that way.

 

Great list and added comments!

1. Work Hard
2. Read and Learn
3. Take Action

The "Secrets" have all been shared, shut down the forum!

 

Thanks mate