It’s no secret that there’s a lot of money involved with affiliate marketing. This is only true however, for those who are serious and hard working on their affiliate program. The biggest part of succeeding depends on your perseverance and determination.
Even the best of affiliate programs won’t prosper if you don’t build the business on a solid foundation. Nothing happens if the banners and links you place on a website just decorates the pages. The affiliate must convince visitors to click on the banner or link then proceed to the program to buy products.
Affiliate marketing can be easy if you have planned your campaign well and have taken the right steps towards success. Choosing the right product and designing your website with banners and the right material are keys to making things happen.
An ad tracker is a software program or service that will allow you to trace and monitor every click that is made by visitors through your referral link. To make things even better, you know exactly where you placed the link. You can either use an ad tracking service provider or purchase ad tracking software.
My recommended ad tracking service of choice is Goto-Pro.com by my good friend Frank Bauer from Australia. In fact, he’s a German, too ;-). He moved to Australia just recently. You can pick up a membership for his famous ad tracker at less than what you would have to pay for a family meal at your local McDonald’s!
With ad trackers, you can monitor the progress of your advertising campaigns, even for offline advertising campaigns. If you are advertising on the Internet and you want to know where your sales are coming from, you’ll definitely need this service.
Each and every decision you make should be well grounded in facts. By using an ad tracker, you’ll be able to generate traffic reports for your personal sales page. Armed with the proper knowledge and an ad tracking software program, you’ll have no problems succeeding in the affiliate marketing world. You can drop the losing campaigns as soon as you have enough data and focus on the winners. This will make you a lot more money than just “shooting in the dark” and not knowing where your sales are coming from!
It can be tough to get started – although once you start making money you’ll be glad you took the chance to actually track your ads!
Detlev as usual you are right on the money. I just wonder though how many people really remember what Affiliate and Internet Marketing is supposed to truly be about. As to identifing my market, mine would have to be about being DEAf, and there is no market or products available right now. And if I was to write a ebook, there is no one interested in buying it. But that is what this business has become about. You are suely ahead of your time, and a Very Nice person.
Warmly,
Melody