| Building An Affiliate Income - Profitable Newsletters |
Copyright 2003 by Kevin Bidwell
All-In-One-Business.com
[This article is one of several on building an affiliate
income. You can view the other articles by going to:
http://all-in-one-business.com/imm/20030808 and
http://all-in-one-business.com/imm/20030815 ]
There are thousands of email newsletters online, spanning
almost every conceivable interest.
But very few of them make any significant money. In fact,
most of them don't even make their publishers a "minimum
wage" income.
If you are going to build a profitable affiliate income, one
of the key components is creating and running a profitable
newsletter. That's where the real dollars will come from.
Here are some keys to starting and running your newsletter
profitably:
1. Stick to your niche.
In another article (the URL is above) I covered choosing a
niche for your affiliate target audience. If you want to
have a profitable newsletter, make sure the articles are of
interest to that particular niche. If your niche is scuba
divers, don't publish articles on web marketing.
2. Write articles yourself.
The real goal of the affiliate site is to build your own
reputation and expertise. If all you do is run other
people's articles, you are building THEIR reputation, not
yours. Sure, you can occaisionally run an article by
someone else, but you need to write the introduction to
that article yourself, explaining why you chose to run
someone else's artice.
What if you can't write?
There are people who will "ghost" write for you--meaning
they do the writing but you get to take the credit. If you
set up an ongoing relationship with one of these writers
they will often write a weekly 200-300 word article for you
for $20-60. Here is a list of places where you can rectuit
writers for your articles:
http://all-in-one-business.com/writers
3. Publish AT LEAST Bi-Weekly, but NO MORE than weekly.
People WANT to hear from you--but not more than about once
per week! If they don't hear from you a couple times a
month, they will forget you.
4. Make most of your articles short.
A good length for articles is 150-750 words. Longer ones
can be broken up into a series of 2 or 3 articles.
5. Focus on one product/offer per month.
Each month choose an affiliate product you wish to promote
for that month. Focus that month's articles on topics
related to that particular product. Then...
5. One week send out a personal recommendation to your
list.
Once you have focused your reader's attention, send out a
personal recommendation for the product. Try to give them
an incentive to visit the site--either pique their
curiosity or reward them with a special bonus just for
visiting.
Following these five steps can create a growing affiliate
income from your newsletter. If you would like to see a
list of places where you can gather free and low-cost
subscribers for your own newsletter, go to:
http://all-in-one-business.com/listbuilder
For a 100+ page report on building an affiliate income, go
to:
http://all-in-one-business.com/affreport
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Kevin Bidwell is owner of http://www.all-in-one-business.com
Kevin is offering a FREE BUSINESS START-UP KIT to everyone
who visits his site. If you liked this article, you will
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