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Owning an affiliate site can be the key to big profits online. With proper care and attention you can find a range of products and services relating to a single interest, get your referral links in place, write some worthwhile content and put the whole thing together to start gaining traffic from lots of different sources.

What is the Problem?

The problem is, once your affiliate site becomes successful, it can fall victim to what made it a success in the first place.

You see, as you continue to develop your affiliate site you will come across other products you want to promote. They may complement the subject of your site, or alternatively they could start to go off topic a little. Not much, but enough to warrant another page on your site to deal with that topic.

And then off you go to find more products on that topic alone. Before you know it your affiliate site is getting rather too unwieldy to handle.

What’s the solution?

As soon as you notice your website is starting to split off into sub-divisions of the main topic, it’s worth starting to think about creating another website to deal purely with that. Because it is still related to your first website you can still link one to the other and benefit from the traffic you are already getting.

This is worth bearing in mind even while you have just one affiliate site to concentrate on. Watch for subjects that might be worth their own website, and think about how you could exploit them and build on the audience you already have. If you have built an email list of subscribers you can let them know about your spin off venture the moment it is launched… so you should even see visitors and sales very early into its new life.

Sean Rasmussen
Internet Marketing Blog
WealthCreationAffiliate.com © 2007 - 2008

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Building up an email list is an essential part of any internet marketing business.  Not only does it enable you to keep in touch with your customers, it also gives you a ready made audience to promote your business to. If you think about the email lists you have signed up to in the past, you’ll notice they all have one thing in common – and that’s value.  No matter what the subject is or who sends it, they must all have value otherwise you wouldn’t have signed up in the first place. Making sure your own email list receives value from you is therefore of paramount importance if you want to make sure your subscribers don’t start disappearing on you.  Remember, happy subscribers are much more likely to spend money with you. 

You can add value in lots of ways, but one good method is to offer a free email course

Choose a subject that is relevant to your website and create a short course of articles on that subject.  Each part would then be sent to your subscribers in a separate email. It’s important to remember that you don’t necessarily have to promote anything in these emails; in fact it’s often better if you don’t.  But you should make sure you provide a link back to your website in every part of the course as this will encourage people to visit and have a look at what else you have to offer.The key word here is value.  You need to offer valuable and useful information in every email in order to get the best response possible for your mailings.  Keep them reasonably short but pack in as much as you can and edit out anything that doesn’t need to be there. Focus on keeping your email subscribers happy and your internet business will benefit enormously as a result.  

Sean Rasmussen
Internet Marketing Blog
WealthCreationAffiliate.com © 2007 - 2008

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