Do you remember your first day as a business owner? You were probably just like the rest of us... pretty darned happy and bit on the proud side. Yeah, back then we thought we could conquer the world. Now we're too busy conquering our own little corner of the world to pay a lot of attention to the rest of the world... unless it's to learn a few tips from successful marketers just like us who have made it big. Tips just like these... that will apply to every market - regardless of the product or service - are a great motivators to try something new. Yeah, you never know when the next idea will be worth a million dollars!

1. Create a Special Offer

A special offer is exactly that... an offer that is special. Normally, customers would not be able to purchase this product or combination of products, and once the products are gone... sorry!

You don't have to go out and order a bunch of new products to put together a special offer. It don't take a whole lot... just use what you've got. Grab a few items that are related, group them together, discount the price, and your customers will be excited to be getting a good deal. Think about it from your standpoint... you've sold three or four items rather than one. Yeah, combination offers are winning deals for everyone!

2. Address the Small Customer Groups

Niche markets are everywhere, right under your nose! Within the customer audience that you serve right now are groups of people who share common traits. Think about it... maybe you have a group who speaks Spanish, a group of teens, and a group of middle class family men and women.

Evaluate these classes of people, and discover the unique needs and desires they share. That will set you up to customize your advertising campaign directly to them. It’s not hard to take your current ads, and make a few changes to adjust to the niches. They’ll be impressed that you understand THEM, and the increase in your profits will be the best thanks you can get.

3. Set Up a Winning Referral Program

Successful marketers develop the ability to turn their customers into advocates. Often, they don't even have to directly ask customers to refer them to others. Their willingness to go the extra wins customer loyalty and support. Naturally, satisfied customers refer their friends and family to the place that will take good care of them.

Quality service and is the first step toward referrals, but you can easily take it one step further. Studies show that every satisfied customer tells three people about you. What would happen with a little incentive added to the picture? Yeah, a lot more. Give customers who refer friends a thank you - whether it's a discount, special gift item, or a simple thank you card - and watch the referrals spiral!

You can get two birds with one stone by implementing customer surveys. A few quick questions about what the customer does and doesn't like about your product, followed by a request for the names and addresses of friends and family who would benefit from the product, and you're all set to go with the contact information of a prospective customer!

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Affiliate Marketing for Beginners: From ZERO to HERO!

Hello TRIBE, In this post I’ll show you everything you need to know to start your own Affiliate Marketing Strategy from ZERO to HERO! In 7easy and clear steps!

As you all know, every single day I do my best, to answer each one of you and give you my best advice based on my experience.

So, I think that the best advice I can give you today is to GET OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE, STOP COMPLAINING AND START TAKE ACTION ON A NEW JOB!

To do this you need to innovate yourself, improve your skills and reach everything you want!

A lot of you are asking me for suggestions to get a job and make money. Start thinking that you have plenty of time and money is the last thing you need. Get your job for your goals, not for the money!

Every job I can suggest you IS NOTHING if you don’t get the real passion and motivation to do it! Even if it’s an easy job (like Affiliate Marketing), it will not get you to reach your dreams if you don’t build it on your passions.

My friend, the solution you need is about passion and mindset.

- Passion: if you find your real passions don’t need to force yourself to study or whatever. If you really do something within your passion you will think about it, night and day, without any distraction.

- Mindset: once you have defined your passion, you have to set up your goals and the time to reach them. Once you have your goals you will work hard and consistently on it to reach them!

Find your real passion, think about what you need and set up your mindset to start your new job as a great affiliate marketer!

In this article I’m going to walk you through everything you need to know to start affiliate marketing, even if you’ve never made it before, don’t have a huge audience, or even if you haven’t started to work for yourself before.

We’ve a lot of work to do, so let’s get going!

Introduction to Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is performance-based marketing. So, keep always in your mind that you have to track your performance every single day!

Whereby affiliates (people like you that want to start a profitable job) promote a vendor’s (someone who wants to sell something) product or service and get compensated for every sale, visit, or subscription they send to the merchant.

There are different ways you can run, manage, and promote an affiliate program and this may involve multiple parties in the relationship. But there are two main participants without which the existence of the very type of marketing as such as affiliate marketing would have not been possible. And these are the party that has the product or service and the party that sells it, YOU.

The former is the merchant, sometimes also called advertiser or vendor, while the latter is the affiliate (you), sometimes also called publisher.

In this article, we will focus on the latter on affiliates (as you maybe will become).

How it works

Here are 7 steps to start affiliate marketing:

1. Choose one Affiliate Marketing Platform to start with (ClickBank, Amazon, etc)

2. Choose your niche

3. Search for the best product for your niche on the Platform

4. Sign up for their affiliate program: You will get a special link that allows the vendor to track the people who clicked your link

5. Plan your strategy to let people click on that link

6. Take action on that plan every single day

7. Be consistent

GOAL: They buy the product, you get a commission.

So simple as it is!

Let’s start

Here’s exactly what you have to do to start your affiliate business right now from scratch!

Remember, nothing is easy, my friend, no shortcuts but hard work, strategy, ideas and CONSISTENCY in everything you do.

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