Cody Moya’s article “Using a newsletter to boost your affiliate income” is reprinted here. [Article]


Cody Moya’s article is reprinted here.

Using a newsletter to boost your affiliate income

There are thousands of email newsletters out there, covering every possible interest and activity. While some of these newsletters are significant profit centers for their owners, most of them make very little. In order to build a high affiliate income, however, it is important to build a profitable newsletter. A good, high quality, high volume newsletter is one of the fundamental keys to raking in the affiliate income.

There are some important tips and tricks to building a profitable, high volume newsletters, and this article focuses on the most important tips we have found.

Tip #1 – Know your niche
Niche marketing is one of the most powerful secrets on the internet, and niche markets are often among the most loyal and the most profitable. In order to have a profitable newsletter, you must consistently provide content that is relevant, useful and interesting to your niche market.

Tip #2 – Use only private label articles
Of course, providing that consistent, useful content means that you will be spending lots of your valuable time writing – or will you? If you are not a writer, or if you simply have better things to do with your time, you can outsource your writing by purchasing private label articles from a website like http://www.YourOwnArticles.com. Buying private label articles means that you have full publishing rights, and that you have the right to put your name in the author resource box.

This resource box is very valuable real estate, since it contains your website address, name, email address and other relevant information. It is this resource box that will send people to your squeeze page. This squeeze page will allow those who enjoy your writing to subscribe to get more of it. This opt in subscriber list will form the basis of your affiliate marketing efforts.

Tip #3 – Pay attention to timing
When publishing a newsletter, it is important to publish at least once every two weeks, but no more than once a week. Publishing frequency is always a balancing act. Publishing too often can give you the air of a spammer and cause recipients to trash your newsletter, while not publishing often enough can cause subscribers to forget about you. Surveys have shown that publishing weekly or biweekly works best for most audiences.

Tip #4 – Be short and sweet
Most of your articles should be relatively short, between 150 and 750 words usually works best. Making the articles relevant, short and to the point is the best way to ensure they get read. Longer articles should be presented in a series of two or three articles.

Tip #5 – Focus each offer
Each offer should focus on a particular product or offer. Try to choose just one affiliate for each newsletter. Most affiliates find the greatest success when they promote a single affiliate for the entire month. This repeated exposure will give your target audience some time to get acquainted with what you and your affiliate have to offer.

Tip #6 – Include a personal recommendation
After your target audience has gotten to know you, be sure to include a personal recommendation in one of your newsletters. A personal recommendation is a great way to increase conversion rates, but it is important that the item you recommend be high quality and reliable.

In most cases, you will want to arrange to test the product personally before recommending it. Recommending a product that does not work, or one that is shabbily made, can alienate your audience and undue your hard work.

Following the tips outlined above is one of the best ways to boost your affiliate income. A newsletter can be a great marketing tool, as well as a useful resource for your subscriber base.

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

*IMNewswatch would like to thank Cody Moya for granting permission to reprint this article.