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Tip: Reverse engineer successful affiliate marketers

Reverse engineer successful affiliate marketers

There’s no need to reinvent the wheel to become a successful affiliate marketer. You don’t need to pay exorbitant fees, either. Just study and implement the strategies you used by successful affiliate marketers who are trying to sell YOU stuff.

Example: Learn how to run an email campaign

Let’s say that you want to run an email campaign promoting affiliate offers. If you browse affiliate product pages, you will often notice opt-in forms. Submit your email address here (just create a new one from yahoo or gmail if you hate spam). Don’t buy anything they market to you! Just collect the emails and study how they are running their campaign. How frequently are emails sent? How long are emails? How much content vs marketing?

Search for affiliate codes with Google

If an affiliate does not cloak his affiliate links, you may be able to see the unique identifier in the affiliate URL. Try searching for this on Google. Now you see what offers that affiliate is promoting, and even how he is promoting them. If you find a squidoo lens, try searching for the URL of the lens. Now you see how that affiliate is promoting squidoo lense. You can learn a lot by researching your potential competitors.

Reverse engineering: a free affiliate education

Internet marketing gurus will tell you all sorts of things about how to make money online. However, often there is a big difference between what they say and what they do. Forget the theory and market-speak. Look at what they do. This is how to make money, and you can see how they are doing it for free!