Author: Jason Gazaway

More and more people are getting into online businesses for a
variety of reasons. First, because the Internet provides a wide
market for businessmen and selling through the Net is often
synonymous to selling their products to the world. Second,
because starting an online business requires only a portion of
the start-up cost that you will need if you are to set up an
actual business establishment. And third, because you would
virtually gain more profit online, considering your wide market
and your savings.

One aspect of online business today that many people,
businessmen and non-businessman alike, are willing to get into
is affiliate marketing. Simply said, affiliate marketing is a
relationship between a merchant, who has the need to sell and
advertise his products, and his affiliates, who are willing to
post the merchant’s ads in their own websites. The affiliates
get paid whenever an action is taken by a visitor on the
ad—either in a pay-per-click, pay-per-lead, or pay-per-sale
basis.

The selling point of affiliate marketing is that it gets
everybody benefited not only a little but a lot. The merchant
saves a lot because he only has to pay whenever an action is
made on his ad. On the side of the affiliates, they simply earn
a living even without trying to. And they get all these benefits
by simply getting involved in affiliate marketing. What more if
they take affiliate marketing more seriously?

Some people claim that affiliate marketing simply won’t work for
serious online businesses. They’re wrong. Affiliate marketing,
if taken more seriously, would translate to larger profits. And
yes, both for the merchant and the affiliates. How? Why not get
into a tried and tested marketing method of getting more
profits—back-end selling!

Back-end selling is simply the selling you do after your initial
sale; and that means selling another product to the same
customer. The product you sell after the first sale is called,
for obvious reasons, the back-end product. Back-end selling has
long been proven to be effective in boosting a business’s sale,
not only for online businesses but for traditional businesses as
well. Why? Because if your product is good, you would generally
get the trust of your customer after your first sale, and if you
have another product that he likes or needs, there is a great
chance that he will also buy that product from you. As a
businessman or marketer, that means additional profits just from
a single customer!

If back-end selling works for traditional and many online
marketing strategies, there’s no reason why it shouldn’t work
with affiliate marketing! And it works even better as back-end
selling with affiliate marketing may work both for the merchant
and the affiliates. It’s really just a matter of knowing how to
efficiently carry the back-end selling process.

For the merchants:

As a merchant in an affiliate network, you really won’t have to
concern yourself with the advertising of your initial product as
your affiliates should already be doing this for you. This
leaves you with enough time and energy to focus your attention
on back-end selling. There are a number of ways for you to
promote your back-end products to your customers. If you have no
idea what these methods are, we provide you with some tried and
tested methods in this site.

• Upon ordering the first product from your site, ask your
customer if he wants to receive newsletters about your future
products. Newsletters are good media for promoting your back-end
products.

• Send your customers a thank you letter and try to mention your
back-end product at the end of the letter (works both for snail
mails and emails).

• Give your customers a call and ask them if they’re happy about
your product. Then, try to inform them about your back-end
products.

• Most online magazines have “customers only” portions in their
websites that only subscribers of their printed magazines can
access. You can also have a site like this and place your ads
for your back-end products there.

• If you’re selling electronic products like e-books, find a way
to add a link that would direct your customers to your site or
have an ad about your back-end product inserted somewhere on the
pages.

• Redirect your customers to a “thank you” page after their
first purchase and insert in there some of your back-end product
ads.

• Insert a flyer or brochure about your back-end products on the
package that will be shipped to your customers.

For the affiliates:

Just when you think that back-end selling would only work for
the merchants, here I am to negate your thoughts. Back-end
selling works as well for the affiliates as it worked for the
merchants. And what will your back-end product be? You’re
affiliate products. Here are a few methods on how you can take
advantage of back-end selling with affiliate marketing:

• If your visitor has signed up for a free newsletter on your
site, give him a complementary email and have your ad for one of
your affiliate products at the end of the mail.

• If your visitor has signed up for free email courses, find a
way to insert your back-end affiliate products ads in some
portion of each new email course.

• If your site has a download page, place an ad for your
back-end product or a link to a page promoting your back-end
product somewhere on the download page.

• If you are an affiliate who in turn has products to sell, you
can promote your back-end products in the complimentary letter
or package that goes along with your product.

Back-end selling does really work with affiliate marketing; it’s
really just a matter of knowing how to make it work. And it
works not only for the merchant but for the affiliates as well

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