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The First Baby Step

When you haven’t yet developed your own internet marketing information, software or audio-video training products, affiliate marketing is the least complicated and easiest way to start earning an income online from your work-from-home office. Don’t be fooled by guru offers that tell you a website or web page is not necessary. To be viewed as a professional affiliate marketer, one or both is absolutely essential.

The learning curve for building a web site or web page with HTML is so intimating for many affiliate newbie would-be’s, they won’t even take the First Baby Step. Here is your solution. I’ve been using Kompozer for more than 2 years, an Open Source, free to download WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Editor, considered superior to many Editors costing $97.00 or more. Ready to get started building your first web page? Download Kompozer at http://kompozer.net/download.php.

I also recommend a simple, easy to learn graphics creation software, such as Web Graphics Creator. You will, in time, be amazed at what you can do with just these two pieces of software. I create professional looking web pages, if I had to outsource, would easily cost me upwards of $1,000.00!

Your total investment in these two essential software applications? $0.00 for Kompozer. $39.95 for Web Graphics Creator. For your convenience, here is the purchase and download site: http://www.laughingbirdsoftware.com/the-web-graphics-creator.html

Your First Goal and Primary Objective

Your goal, as an affiliate marketer, is to make money with affiliate products. You must learn how to effectively drive massive amounts of targeted traffic to your web page, also called landing pages, squeeze pages, affiliate funnel pages, the intent being to capture the name and email address of your potential customers.

Question: Why would you drive traffic to an affiliate link that passes through to the seller’s product sales page? Answer: Don’t you think that’s a little like “putting the cart before the horse?”

It only stands to reason, then, that your First Goal and Major Objective is in the building of a huge potential customer base. Don’t try to reinvent the wheel. Do what has been time-tested and time-proven to earn a full-time income as a professional affiliate marketer.

Affiliate Marketing Trick No. 1 for Earning a Full-time Income

Why would you take the time required to write your own original Ezine or Newsletter? What is an Ezine or Newsletter in their simplest form? Both are essential content emails which you program an autoresponder to deliver to your potential customer database of opt-in subscribers.

The following define the most important purposes for developing an ezine, newsletter or mini-training course:

1. Newsletters, ezines and mini-courses may be used to develop a trust between your subscriber and you, as you deliver valuable free content to him and her.

2. The most direct route to informing your potential customers of the latest marketing strategies, software developments, audio-video training and information products is via your autoresponder email series.

3. The time you are willing to invest into the development of your original ezine, newsletter or mini-training course is pure gold. It is an investment, like gold, that accrues the interest to return dollars for products delivered into the tens of thousands of earned income per month over time.

4. Newsletters, ezines and mini-courses delivered at the correct intervals (days between delivery of your followup emails, ususally four) is the most powerful marketing strategy with which you will build and drive significant targeted traffic to your affiliate product offers.

5. The rapport and trust developed through ezines, newsletters and mini-courses are the real secret ingredient that leads to increasing sales of affiliate products. Your subscriber base is your affiliate goldmine, to which you may still be selling to 25 years into the future.

To sum it up, there is no more effective way to become a part-time or full-time affiliate income earner than to develop your own affiliate funnel pages (at least in the beginning), driving huge numbers of visitors, out of which a percentage will opt-in (subscribe), becoming your customers, as you deliver high quality information to them via ezine, newsletter or mini-course, and validate your status as a professional online marketer, well into the future.

To your good fortune and online marketing success,

Timothy R Walls

Editor, Marketing Secrets EZine