The road to becoming a super affiliate can be challenging, but also extremely profitable.  Long before you can start to enjoy the passive income, there are several things you will need to become extremely good at.  Keep in mind that you will be able to outsource some of these things should you have the funds to do so.  Here are the key steps to keep in mind to becoming a super affiliate.

Step 1:  Learn How To Build A Great House Or Pay Someone Else To Do It

Take a look at some of the larger affiliate sites online.  The one thing that you immediately notice is how clean and professional they look.  If you are thinking of doing any type of affiliate marketing online then it would serve you well to learn how to create a professional website.  Or at the very least, pay someone else to create it for you.

Content management systems such as self-hosted WordPress sites can make the novice affiliate marketer look like they have been doing this for years.  WordPress has A TON of themes you can choose from and tweak to suit your niche.  The designs and easy set-up of these themes make them an ideal choice for affiliate marketers.  There is a bit of a learning curve, but you will find it can be easily done with a few how-to guides and videos found free of charge online.

There are also some great drag and drop website builders online that will make this process much easier for you.  Some of these programs are Weebly and Homestead.  The key is not to have a site that looks like it was designed by a three year old – black text on a clean white background that is filled with more content and fewer advertisements will do just fine.

Step 2:  Build Other Smaller Houses

Building your affiliate website is critical to making sales and becoming a super affiliate, but don’t just leave the burden to build up your readership on just one site.  You can build out smaller sites to build your list and link back to your main affiliate site.  These sites won’t cost you a dime and each one can be built in a matter of hours.

One type of site that you can build is a free blog.  WordPress and Blogger will allow you to build free blogs on their platform.  Just be cautious of the type of content that you put up as they can close your account if they see it as being too promotional.  You can also create other mini-sites using social networking platforms such as Twitter and Facebook.  When it comes to affiliate marketing, the more sources of traffic you can put out there the better, just be cautious when it comes to the type of content you create and post.

Step 3:  Master Conversion Strategies

I have put this step before traffic strategies because I think it is important to highlight conversion strategies first.  What you don’t want to happen is to send A LOT of traffic to a site that doesn’t convert very well.  Imagine sending thousands of visitors to a website to sign up for a free gift and have only a handful of them actually do it.

Conversion strategies involve copywriting.  All the content that goes into your site should be evaluated.  If you are looking to create content to warm prospects up and pre-sell them, then be sure that your content is doing just that.  If a specific page is meant to get people to opt-in to an email list, then make sure that your offer is outstanding and that the headline, benefits and copy is extremely persuasive as well.

Another area you will need to also look at when it comes to conversion strategies is your email marketing messages.  Keep them dry and uninformative and you won’t sell anyone on anything.  Keep them punchy and information filled and readers will be looking for the “buy” button quicker than you think.  Luckily for you, this step can also be outsourced to a writer if you can afford to do so.

Step 4:  Learn The Basics Of Traffic Generation

You can’t go by the old saying – “If you build it they will come.”  What you need to do is learn the basics of traffic generation.  This starts off with getting your site ranked highly in the search engines for your desired keywords.  Basic on page and off page search engine optimization (SEO) will help get your site in front of your target audience, but don’t stop there.

You can also promote your affiliate sites through other traffic channels.  For example, you can upload videos to video sharing sites within your niche.  Let’s say that your niche is gardening.  What you could do is upload videos of yourself showing people how to do things such as pruning hedges or how to choose gardening equipment.

You can also do this with article directory marketing by writing about your niche topic and submitting to article directory sites.  Add in a press release or two and you have the foundation for a very strong traffic generation campaign.  There are other traffic sources you can look at, but some are more powerful than others for specific niches so doing your research here will help out tremendously.

Step 5: Building Relationships

Building relationships is a big key to becoming a super affiliate.  There are specific relationships that you need to build if you plan on achieving any level of success in affiliate marketing.  The first relationship you need to build is with your visitors and subscribers.  You can do this by providing quality content and information for them.  When you build your opt-in list of subscribers be sure to offer something of high value as well.  Your messages to your readers should contain information that they are opting in for.

For instance, if you are sending messages on gardening then don’t start sending messages on soccer.  Also, pay attention to any emails and questions you get from your readers.  Responding to them could mean the difference between keeping them and losing them.

The next relationship that you must build is with the product owners you are promoting for.  In most cases you will be working with the affiliate manager and not the actual owner of the product.  By getting to know the people behind the product, you may be given information that the average affiliate is not.  Affiliate managers and product owners want to make more sales, so it makes sense to help their affiliates to do just that.  If you are making more sales than the average affiliate then it just makes sense for them to give you as much guidance as possible in promoting their products.  Besides, the more sales you make the more money they make.

The last relationship you will need to build is with others in your general niche area.  These types of individuals are sometimes called Joint Venture (JV) partners.  If you have something of high value such as a short report you created for your niche, then you can approach others in your niche area to promote your short report to their list of subscribers in exchange for promoting their offer to your list.

This is a win-win situation for all as you both can offer high value products to your subscribers and can gain new subscribers through this cross promotion.  You can also offer to become a guest writer on their blog or site in exchange for a link back to your own site.  The more relationships you can build within your industry, the greater your chances will become to make more sales and become a super affiliate.

Conclusion

These steps do not include product selection, as that is dependent on each individual and the product that you feel comfortable promoting.  One thing to look at when selecting a product are refund rates, the sales copy and the actual product.  Once you are comfortable with all three areas, you can then put this entire plan into action.  In some cases you will be able to request a review copy from the product owner instead of having to actually purchase it.

While there are a few other things you can do to put yourself on the path to super affiliate stardom, taking these five steps into account will put you on the fast track to success.  You can take a huge short cut by outsourcing some of these tasks, but to truly become a super affiliate there are some things that you simply cannot outsource such as building relationships.

To become a super affiliate remember these steps: Build sites that are visually pleasing as well as ones that provide quality content, learn how to convert your visitors into subscribers or buyers, learn how to drive traffic to your sites and build relationships within your niche.  Once you have gotten these things down then all it comes down to is time.  Follow these steps over a little bit of time and you will find yourself ranking as a super affiliate before you know it.

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Just came upon this again today – good reminder that we shouldn’t be expecting to succeed spectacularly on our first try or even several tries.

Time ago I had a great boss who always was (or seemed to be) very quiet and having everything under control. Whenever one of us or he himself commited a mistake, he used to say: “Well, we are here to learn”. He never yelled at us… he was a true leader in our company.

Nowadays I live with the same principle. Every time I fail at something I think what I can learn about it and take action to fix my strategies, behaviour, etc. And I always remember this: Winners never quit. And those who quit never win.