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Boost your affiliate income by making sure your emails get read

Building a solid list of subscribers is the basis of any successful affiliate program, and the key to making serious money as an affiliate. It is not enough, however, to build a list of hundreds, thousands or even tens of thousands of opt-in subscribers. That huge list of subscribers will do you no good, after all, if the emails you send are sent straight to the trash folder.

The key to success as an affiliate is to get your subscribers to actually read your emails, and to then take the next step and click the affiliate link embedded in your emails and articles. The most critical part of getting subscribers to read, and respond to, your email messages and articles is to create powerful, intriguing and compelling subject lines for those articles. Cutting through the clutter of the average email box is absolutely vital to your ultimate success as an affiliate.

One great way to determine which subject lines work, and which ones don’t is to analyze the email subject lines that get your attention, and those that head right to the trash. The best way to do that is to create three different documents in the word processor of your choice. Label these articles ““ Read, Unread and Spam.

Into the first article, copy all the subject lines of emails you opened (not counting, of course, those from family members and friends). You are focusing on advertising emails, those providing information you requested, or those that prompt you to take an action. Collect these subject lines for at least a couple of weeks.

The second article, the one called Unread, will contain the subject lines of the emails that headed right to your trash folder unopened. If you are like most internet users, this will be a big list. The best way to capture that list is simply to open your trash folder every day and do a cut and paste job.

The Spam article will contain the subject lines of those articles that were flagged by your spam filter. Everyone who has used a spam filter knows that the technology behind these filters is far from perfect. I personally have to comb through my spam folder at least once a day to capture those messages that are not truly spam. It is important to understand the types of subject lines that trigger spam filters, and to carefully avoid them.

Once you have these three documents together, it is time to start analyzing them to determine which types of subject lines are most likely to get the attention of the average reader. Pay attention to what made each subject line in your “Read” document so intriguing, and use variations of those intriguing subject lines in your own email documents.

Also pay close attention to those in the “Unread” pile. What was it about the subject lines that made them so easy to ignore? Was the content offensive, or merely boring? What could the author have done to improve the subject line and make it more intriguing? The more you understand about why emails are read or discarded, the better you will be able to craft email messages that will prompt your subscribers to read and respond to them.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Cody Moya writes about How to Earn As Affiliate in his Free Courses on Internet Marketing. You can sign up for his free Courses and get additional information at his website: http://FreeInternetMarketingCourses.com

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