{"id":4769,"date":"2015-11-14T10:20:01","date_gmt":"2015-11-14T08:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestprofitsonline.com\/myblog\/?p=4769"},"modified":"2015-11-14T10:20:11","modified_gmt":"2015-11-14T08:20:11","slug":"affiliate-back-end-offers-and-marketing-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestprofitsonline.com\/myblog\/affiliate-back-end-offers-and-marketing-mistakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Affiliate Back-End Offers and Marketing Mistakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Michigan by Rail Forum in Flint Michigan Photo by Michigan Municipal League by Michigan Municipal League (MML)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bestprofitsonline.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/5041909544_c9976ce8d4_laptop-and-woman.jpg\" alt=\"laptop and woman photo\" width=\"500\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><small><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Image inserted by the ImageInject WordPress plugin\" href=\"http:\/\/wpinject.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Photo<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/26476817@N04\/5041909544\" target=\"_blank\">Michigan Municipal League (MML)<\/a> <a title=\"Attribution-NoDerivs License\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nd\/2.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bestprofitsonline.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-inject\/images\/cc.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Residual income puts money in an affiliate marketer\u2019s pocket without any work or effort on their part. It doesn\u2019t get any better than that. Sales of back-end products allow you to get paid for work that you do more than once. The idea here is to work smarter\u2026not harder.<\/p>\n<p>So what are back-end products? They are products\/services you offer to existing customers, i.e. to people who have already bought a first product (front-end product. lead product) from you.<br \/>\nMost online marketers make much more money selling customers the second, third, fourth etc. product than selling their first product. The reason is that people who&#8217;ve already bought from you once are much more likely to buy again.<\/p>\n<p>Strategies like back-end offers shifts the focus from the short sighted &#8220;take the money and run&#8221; strategy that is so much in use on the internet today. You&#8217;ve seen these sites all over. The focus is on getting a massive amount of traffic and then selling visitors an over-priced product that doesn&#8217;t deliver what was promised. They might make money in the short run but they will only sell to each customer once and will have to continue spending a lot of money on advertising to get new suckers to visit their site.<\/p>\n<p>More successful sites focus on building a strong relationship with their customers. Your main goal shouldn&#8217;t be to just make sure your customers are somewhat satisfied&#8230;you want them to be extremely satisfied. If you deliver the goods, your customers will trust you more. If you have their trust, you can sell them anything. When you send your very satisfied customers an email offering another product that they would be interested in, they will flock to your site to buy it because they trust you. Trust is everything.<\/p>\n<p>It isn\u2019t hard to set up a good website and start and affiliate marketing career. It isn\u2019t hard at all to find affiliate marketing opportunities on the internet. However, it is a very simple thing to make deadly mistakes that will insure your failure to thrive at affiliate marketing.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most notable affiliate marketing mistakes is to think that all you have to do is find the ones that pay the most, sign up, drive traffic to that site through your affiliate link and you\u2019re all set right? Not exactly.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s great to choose an affiliate program that pays a high percentage, but that\u2019s not most important thing to consider. It\u2019s much more important to find a quality affiliate program that meets certain criteria. Here are three mistakes you don\u2019t have to make:<\/p>\n<p>1. You want to make sure the product is a proven seller. You don\u2019t want to waste your time and money driving traffic to a site that doesn\u2019t convert. Find one with a good conversion rate.<\/p>\n<p>2. Make sure the site you become an affiliate for protects its affiliates, and has your best interest at heart. Look for one that provides banners, e-mails, and other tools you can use to promote the site. Also, make sure that there is only one payment option. As an affiliate marketer, you need to be sure that you will get credit for your referral. If there is more than one payment method, you can get shortchanged.<\/p>\n<p>3. Do not choose an affiliate program that promotes an e-mail course. Nothing is worse than becoming an affiliate to a site that\u2019s first goal is to capture e-mail addresses, and then tries to make the sale second. As an affiliate marketer, you need to capture e-mail addresses, then to convert that prospect into a sale. Stick with affiliate programs that aren\u2019t focused on capturing leads because it\u2019s simply not in your best interest. Build your own list, not someone else\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residual income puts money in an affiliate marketer\u2019s pocket without any work or effort on their part. It doesn\u2019t get any better than that. Sales of back-end products allow you to get paid for work that you do more than once. The idea here is to work smarter\u2026not harder. So what are back-end products? 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