3 reasons to have affiliate website
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Budding entrepreneurs entering the affiliate marketing business
invariably struggle with many questions on the setup, methods and
strategies of their new business.
In dealing with prospects on a daily basis the same question arises
time and time again:
Should I get your own website? Do I need one? Will it make a
difference to my affiliate sales?
If you have ever joined any affiliate programs at all then you will
know that every affiliate program provides you with your own version
of the merchants sales page - coded with your affiliate link, in order
to track sales.
Technically it is possible to make money promoting this turnkey site
that the merchant has provided. In my professional opinion and from my
own experience though, this is NOT the way to go if you are serious
about making your affiliate business a full-time enterprise.
Let me explain why - giving the most important points against using
the affiliate website:
1. By far the most important factor is that the affiliate program can
go out of business at anytime leaving any promotions that you have
done for your affiliate site useless. If you have links on the www
pointing to an affiliate page and the company is no longer in
existence then those links will fail to work.
If you have your own website then YOU are in control. You can simply
point the link on your end to a new company and thus give you a chance
of building a new income stream.
2. It is undoubtedly of massive importance that you build your
reputation online. If you only promote another persons website, even
though it will bring you commissions, it will usually have the name of
the product owner on this site. So, in this case, you are building the
merchants' reputation and web presence instead of your own. Branding
your name and business online will lead to further success so it's
better to get YOUR name out there right from the very start.
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3. Point 3 is, that with an affiliate page you don't have the ability
to make changes to your webpage. Again, this is a business, so you
MUST add your own uniqueness and some personality to the aspect of
this business that you are presenting to the public. You CANNOT do
this with the affiliate site that the merchant provides - ONLY with
your own website and domain name.
So by now you may be asking for the solution. The only answer is to
get a website and build YOUR own web presence and brand rather than
someone elses. This way you can promote any affiliate programs you
like from your new site AND you can change the links, content etc. as
often as you require.
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This is how I personally do it. If you visit my own sites you will see
that I have added loads of my own content BUT each of the links from
within that site point to affiliate product from which I will get a
commission for evey sale that is made.
Do you see how this works? Do you see how it is a much better strategy
than promoting an affiliate page that will NEVER belong to me?
Now, at this stage you may be terrified as to how you where you would
even start to acquire your own business domain name and website.
The process is actually quite simple, once you actually begin to push
through the fear and take action.
If you don't see the importance of having your own website now then
believe me, it WILL become clear as you get a better understanding of
online business.
For a few dollars per year for a domain name and hosting you are much
better to have an affiliate website than be without one.
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