Integrate Your Affiliate Programs to Explode Your Affiliate Income

Posted on: 2005-11-15 06:22:04
Author: Ron Passfield

When you have been involved in affiliate marketing for a year ormore you tend to accumulate memberships in a diverse range ofInternet programs that are often disconnected.

You will have memberships in a number of income opportunities,downline building programs, traffic exchanges, and paymentsystems. In addition, you will have one or more domains and webhosting services and access to autoresponders (free and paid).You might also be lucky enough to have a storehouse of e-booksand articles that you can draw on.

The problem with this accumulation of diverse programs is that itcan cause you to become unfocused and can dissipate or drain yourenergy.

There are parallels in the corporate world of the 1970's whencompanies decided to diversify through random acquisitions. Bythe 1980's, many companies were drained by these acquisitions andhad to off-load them. The catch-cry was "get back to your corebusiness". There was a strong move to "integration" ofprocesses, products and services to lift revenue and profit.

In affiliate marketing, you too can explode your affiliaterevenue by identifying your core business and integrating otherprograms around this focus. This will require some harddecisions but it will be worthwhile in the end.

Here are 3 ways that you can achieve integration of yourprograms.

1. An integrated downline building program

There are numerous downline building programs available that canhelp you integrate your programs. You need to make sure that theone you choose also builds downlines in your core incomeproducing business.

It should also enable you to build downlines in trafficexchanges, payment systems (such as Paypal, e-Gold, and IntGold)and other downline building systems.

You should also make sure that the owner of the downline buildingprogram is genuinely interested in helping you build yourdownlines and is not just focused on promoting themselves andtheir own affiliate links.

This form of integration enables you to promote one core programURL and simultaneously build downlines in multiple programs,including your core business.

2. An integrated autoresponder

Often affiliate marketers have one or more autoresponder systems,a separate storehouse of e-books and a different repository forarticles.

One way to integrate the functions of ezine publishing, leadcapture page creation and list building is to locate aprovider/program that gives you an autoresponder integrated withan electronic warehouse of software and e-books and a library ofarticles for your use.

You can then build lead capture pages that offer an e-book orsoftware (from the integrated warehouse) as a teaser and capturethe "lead" as a subscriber to your ezine (through using yourautoresponder link). Your weekly ezine can be built from theintegrated article library.

Make sure, however, that you are also able to plug-in your ownarticles. As you become more proficient with writing articles,you will be able to include more and more of your own articles inyour ezine and build "resource boxes" or "author profiles" thatdirect prospects to websites or blogs of your choice.

3. An affiliate marketing coach focused on integration

There are now endless resources available on the Internet to helpyou with your affiliate marketing. There are e-books, video andaudio resources, online tutorials, special reports and e-mailcourses on every conceivable topic. Increasingly, many of theseresources are free.

However, gaining access to information is no longer the realchallenge. The challenge of today's world is learning how tofocus and harness this information to achieve your goals.

This is where an affiliate marketing coach can help you. Theycan help you identify a niche product/service that draws on yourstrengths and life history, assist you to develop a comprehensiveand integrated marketing plan, and build your confidence inaffiliate marketing. Such a resource person is priceless becauseall the information in the world is of little use to you unlessyou can translate the great ideas into real, focused action.

If you adopt the "integration" mindset, you will find numerousways to achieve synergy amongst your programs so that yourresults grow rapidly because each program is reinforcing the others.

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