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Your friend,

Patric Chan

CEO, IM Tactics Inner Circle Membership

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Affiliate Marketing

I'll be focusing on one main topic in this issue -- Affiliate Marketing.

You're either an affiliate marketer or you have your own

affiliate program. Or maybe BOTH. If you're NOT in any of

these categories, you're losing on a lot of opportunities to

make money online.

If You Are An Affiliate Marketer ...

Why Are You Promoting Someone's Else

Product As An Affiliate?

To earn affiliate commission?

That's true ... but there is another important reason

that must come first before thinking about yourself

making a profit.

Yup. You want to help your subscribers or visitors.

Only then, will you want to make your affiliate commission.

It sounds corny and cheesy right?

But, don't you think that's true after all?

If you recommend a product and the customer is happy

after buying it, you're going to get more businesses.

It's just logical and practical. Besides that, you'll feel

happy when you go to sleep at night.

If you start to change your thoughts on how to ADD VALUE

to other people's life by becoming an affiliate rather than

thinking how to make money, trust me -- You'll get

excited about it and be prosperous. You'll cut down stress

because you are not desperate for sales anymore.

How To Choose What Products To Promote?

Whatever products that you plan to promote for commissions,

YOU MUST LIKE THEM or HAVE REVIEWED THEM first.

No exceptional to this rule.

Imagine if you have never been to Hawaii -- Can you

recommend your friends to go there for a holiday?

But if you had been there and enjoyed it, I guess you'll

be all excited to tell your friends about that place.

In my experience, I have never promoted a product that

I have not reviewed personally unless it's a product that

cannot be reviewed like a tele-seminar or a product/service

that has not been created yet. Even if I do, I'll make

sure that I know the creator/organizer personally so that

I can rest assured that he will deliver what he claims.

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Side note: If you're an affiliate marketer that is not

building a 'permanent' online business, you don't need

to review or like it. A non-permanent affiliate marketer

is someone who promotes the product without the

customer knowing the existence of the affiliate marketer.

An example is using Pay-Per-Click to direct traffic directly to

the sales page of the affiliate program. This is the strategy

that Google Cash focuses on.

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There are many reasons why you need to do that. But

I think the main reason is, you don't want to associate

your name with rotten eggs. If you promote a product blindly,

do you think your subscribers/visitors will trust you again

if the products they had bought through you are not up

to the claims?

Maybe. But if you do that five times, YOU'RE OUT.

"But if I do that, I won't have time to review all of

the products I want to promote."

So don't promote it!

For instance, I get quite a number of Jv proposals each week.

Sometimes, I'll just politely turn it down because I just

don't have the time to review it.

It's ok. Don't worry about losing the affiliate commission.

Plan and think LONG-TERM. You might make a lot of

money right now but over time, people will start to

lose trust in you if you keep on promoting products that you

don't know the quality of.

Another Tip To Select A Product To Promote

Don't promote a similar function product.

Let me explain -- I'll try not to promote a 'similar' product. Like,
I won't promote three types of autoresponder to my

prospects to choose from. I'll just promote  one autoresponder

that I use. Why?  Because I know this autoresponder is good.

If you are promoting more than one program of similar

type, you might get your prospects confused. Just choose

one that you think is the best.

For instance, if someone was to ask me what hosting

or e-commerce solution to use, I'll ask them to go for

Third Sphere. This way, I'll narrow the choices for my

prospects and also, give them the BEST CHOICE that I

know of. Secondly, I'll be a 'recognized' affiliate for Third

Sphere (More on that later).

Avoid This If You're Not A Pro

Once in a while, you'll see a high-end product being

promoted online. Or, it could be a 'Fire Sale' promotion.

If you're not a pro, avoid it. Don't get involved with it no

matter how big is the affiliate commission is.

The main reason is, you'll be wasting your time, effort and

money. But worst of all, you'll get disappointed.

Sounds cold? Good. I like to be frank so that I can teach you.

Recently, I came across an internet marketing seminar that

cost $2997 (or $3997, I can't remember the price exactly). One

of the affiliates to this program was Nitro Marketing.

If you're not a pro, you wouldn't want to compete with them

because they have over 50 products.

I think I saw that they are offering bonuses over $10,000

if anyone will buy from their affiliate link.

Now -- Let's be sensible. Do you think someone would rather

buy from you or from Nitro Marketing to get bonuses worth

over $10,000?

Secondly, by the time you promoted it, your potential

customer might have already bought it from someone else

because the same customer is probably subscribed to other

mailing lists or visited other websites that are promoting the

same product. You'll then 'wasted' a promotion.

Instead, choose a product to promote that is great but is

not over-exposed.

A Good Affiliate Program Has ...

Many products that are using the same tracking system.

This is important so that you get to earn some back-end

sale profit as well.

Let's take Corey Rudl's products as an example. Since all

of his products are tracked under the same system, you'll

be rewarded if the customer continues BUYING OTHER
products from him. So, your effort will be rewarded many

times over. And since his products are inter-related,

there's a good chance you'll earn more than one-time

affiliate commission.

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Side note: Derek Gehl and the team of Internet Marketing

Center are offering "Accelerated Internet Wealth Video"

series for 30-day free trial. This is the footage of Corey Rudl's

seminar last year's September when he was still alive. I have

one of it at home as well and I can tell you that it's worth the

investment. Click Here to get the special free 30-day trial.

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A real life example is Russell Brunson's products. Recently,

he launched a new membership site called Self Improvement

Millionaire. I did not promoted it at that time but I was

rewarded with several sales because I've promoted his

other products previously.

In fact, many of my own affiliates get this privilege as

well because I use the same tracking for my new products.

Full details of my affiliate program is at

http://www.mymarketingtactics.com. You can join for free.

This does not mean that I'll no longer be interested in

promoting one product. You'll just need to justify how valuable

the product can be helping your customer and how much

profit you can get from the one-time earning.

Normally, I'll do a JV swap if it's a one-time commission

product so that it's fair for both parties. Of course, I'll make

sure that the product that I want to promote is excellent.