
I think one of the best internet marketing strategies you can have is to automate as much as possible. By automating some tasks that free up your time to focus on what can’t or shouldn’t be automated.
When it comes to affiliate marketing…I mean having your own affiliate program…there are some things that you really can automate. And it doesn’t mean you have to have some big fancy program or an affiliate manager to get it all done.
Let’s say you don’t really want to deal with writing affiliate checks and let’s say you have an information product…maybe it’s on time management. What is a way that you can automate the affiliate process and maximize your time? By using ClickBank!
By putting your time management eBook on ClickBank you automatically have an affiliate program. ClickBank sends out the checks every two weeks. They will send a check to you and a check to all your affiliates. You don’t have to do anything. That’s pretty cool.
So now you can focus on getting more affiliates! Well, how about some ways to help automate that process? I mean, wouldn’t it be cool if you could clone yourself?
What if you put together an audio explaining how people can make money with your time management site. You can record yourself explaining step one, step two and so on…all the steps to becoming an affiliate and promoting your time management product. Then you can put that audio upon a download page…or maybe you just have a transcript of the audio with the steps listed right there on the page.
What’s powerful about this is you are basically cloning yourself…or at least leveraging your efforts…which is a pretty awesome strategy!
Now you have a tool that will teach people how to become your affiliate and how to do it profitably! That is going to really help the people you contact about becoming an affiliate decide that it is a really good idea.
This audio, or pdf or whatever you decide to use, becomes like an employee. They actually close the person on the idea of becoming an affiliate. They train the person and they can provide all the tools they need too! You don’t have to do yourself and you don’t have to hire someone else to do it either. You set it up once and it takes care of it the rest of the time.
And as far as contacting affiliates there are some awesome tools that you can use to leverage your time. You want to come up with a list of keywords for your niche…in this case it might be “time management”, “efficiency”, “productivity” etc. Then you find websites that fit those keywords.
Find the top sites in your keywords and start contacting people and getting affiliates. You can use software programs to help you identify the websites and to get the contact information. I have found that most people are pretty easy to find…really, they want to be found!
Use your internet marketing tools to figure out which of the sites have the best ranking, lots of backlinks…all those traffic indicators. Then you just start calling or emailing them.
If you want to automate your affiliate program and you don’t want to have to hire an affiliate manager just yet, then you can still automate parts of your program. By using internet marketing strategies and tools that I’ve provided here you can have a system that trains and pays your affiliates for you…and that is a very cool strategy!




