Online Affiliate Marketing

HERE goes for ANOTHER piece of this amazing formula. The total recipe would NOT be complete without this, yet nobody else even thinks to mention it. To ignore it is like trying to make an omelet without eggs.

Did you know that 60% of all online sales are B2B?

B2B means Business-to-Business. That means that 60% of sales over the Internet are between the owners of different sites.

Why should that surprise you? I am an Internet businessman (a netrepreneur). I am also a buyer of Internet Marketing Products.

Are you a netrepreneur? – Of course you are.

Do you purchase products on the Internet? – Of course you do.

In fact the B2B ratio is much higher than 60% in the sector that I am in (Internet Marketing Products and Information). Yet too many netrepreneurs just do not realize that the perfect customer can be another netrepreneur – just like them. In reality, they are top of the scale of potential buyers.

Contacting other netrepreneurs and selling your product direct to them WILL increase your sales, but it also has two other effects…

1.It increases your site traffic (when your fellow Internet business people go to look at, and buy, your product), which improves your search-engine rankings, which increases your site traffic, which improves…

2.It gives you ANOTHER opportunity to talk to them about exchanging links

And fellow travelers on this weary Internet road are PRIME customers. Most have already bought several things online, so have no fear of buying on the Internet. Also, they are highly interested in our particular topics. Enough to have created web pages about it, right?

Sell to your Internet colleagues. They WANT your products.

Question… Where can you find contact addresses for millions of online businesses?

If you were paying attention in Chapter Two when we were talking about Super-Affiliates, and also Chapter Four when we covered Bulk e-mail Marketing, you would remember the Internet Success Spider.

And all these businesses are quietly sitting there in the search engines. It’s all right under our noses.

Ok, lets suppose that you are selling THIS BOOK, so the subject is web traffic tactics.

(By the way, as a little side note, traffic tactics is THE subject in highest demand at the moment. If you can help other webmasters to get visitors and earn a profit at the same time, everyone will have benefited. Don’t forget, this e-book is YOURS to resell and redistribute as you want, for whatever price you want.)

So, to find your direct market manually, go into any top search engine, type a keyword related to ”marketing” and - WHOOPPEE - thousands and thousands of potential prospects will leap (slowly) before your eyes.

Of course, you can achieve the same thing 1,000 times quicker when you use the Internet Success Spider.

So, get your list of Web sites and go ahead and contact the owner or webmaster (search for the e-mail address manually, or use Spider to automate the process).

Send them a message something like this:

Hi,

My name is “name” and I just stumbled across your excellent web site at: www.website.com

I thought that because you offer information about (write the keyword you typed in the search engine, in this case it would be “marketing” or “e-business” or “home-based businesses” or whatever), you might well be interested in some information I have about attracting high volumes of free and low-cost web traffic.

If you want to read it, just reply to this note with a blank message and I will e-mail it to you.

Have a great day,
Your name.

You may have noticed that, even though I don’t have the site owner’s name, I have still managed to personalize the message by quoting the web page address.

Not only does it help gain the other person’s trust, not only does it add more power to your message, but it also avoids him feeling that he’s been spammed.

As you can see, it is done with respect and nobody should bother you if you mail them this way. It's a personalized letter.

(Quick, true story while you sip your coffee…
I once had an unexpected response from one site-owner who accused me - IN VERY LARGE LETTERS - of spamming him.

I responded that I had only visited his site as a result of his e-mail to me a week earlier …

He apologized! …

(I leave it to you to decide whether I was telling him the absolute truth.☺)

Okay, back to the REAL storyline …Notice, too, that my note is short and to the point. It DOES NOT SELL, or advertise anything. I’m just offering FREE info on a subject that already interests him. It arouses the curiosity, and that’s all it’s intended to do.

When your fellow-netrepreneurs reply, respond with a message something like the one that follows. You’ll have to substitute your own product testimonial, but you’ll get the gist here.

Hi (use his name if you now have it),

Thanks for your reply because, like you I have a web site and I wanted more visitors. (Don’t we all?) So it’s good when we can help each other.

Like everybody else on the Net, I was searching for ways to improve my traffic. Then I found this
amazing e-book that reveals it all. (And I REALLY DO mean ALL.)

I don’t think the info will be around for long because some of the tips are red-hot and are soon going to be used by everybody. (They always lose their effectiveness when that happens, don’t you think?)

But I can promise you that, since using these secrets, my traffic is increasing out of all proportion. It’s great!

You can visit that download site at http://www.thetrafficjam.com/

Hope this helps.

Your name.

P.S. One of the top methods (free) of improving traffic is by link exchange. If you’ve no objection, I’ll give you a few days to read the book, then I’ll drop you a line to see if this interests you.

So what have you achieved so far?

1. You have offered to help resolve a problem, so you are building a good relationship.

2. You have created credibility. (You've been there and you’ve found the solution, so you know best. You’re now thought of as a good resource.)

3. You are not trying to advertise yourself, nor your product, nor your web site. So you are building respect

4. You have his personal contact information so you can contact him to make an offer (or exchange links later).

5. You have a 10% to 30% chance of getting an order for your product.

You are on your way to success. What happens next is up to you.

a) You can write to offer a link exchange, which will boost your traffic for a long time.

b) You can write to recommend another product.

c) You can write to invite him to subscribe to your e-zine.

d) You can simply follow up on the sales pitch. It is a well-established fact that it can take up to 3 more “reminders” before someone decides to buy.

You want more leads, so you can write to more people?

Simply type another related keyword in the search engine and there you are - another couple of thousand highly targeted visitors.

If you target your market precisely and personalize your offer, you can make yourself a lot of money without needing a lot of visitors (if you have a good product).

I can’t emphasize enough the power of using Internet Success Spider. If you are searching for sites and e-mail addresses manually, it could take you ten minutes to find just one address.

With Spider, you can turn up 1,000 addresses in the same time, and that’s high velocity marketing.

Of course, you will need an auto-responder like Mailloop to deal with the mail but, by this stage, with traffic flowing in from all directions, the cost should no longer present a problem.

Here’s what you need to concentrate on RIGHT NOW…

1. Extract the e-mail addresses and the Web site names of anybody who, in your opinion, could benefit from your product.

2. Mail them with your proposal, then FOLLOW UP.

Moh. Ali Albar
I rewrite this article of E-book “TheTrafficJam™ Formula” by Graham Hamer