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Hi Blog Reader,

Let me ask you something.

How much time do you spend each week marketing your products?

There’s quite a bit to be done to generate sales, including advertising, writing and distributing articles and free reports, working on SEO, participating in forums just to name a few. All of this takes quite a bit of time and there’s just so much you can get done in any given day. Do you see how this can potentially limit the amount of sales you can generate each month?

There is one way to multiply your efforts dramatically without having to pay for advertising or pay per click. It’s what the gurus use — every one of them. And, if you looked behind the scenes at their stats, you’d see it clear as day.

They all have active affiliate programs.

If you don’t have a great affiliate program in place for each of your products right now, you are leaving quite a bit of money on the table.

Note that I said “Great Affiliate Program”.

You want a program in place that has affiliates that are actively promoting your products and are excited to do so. You want what Jimmy D. Brown calls a “Sales Army”.

Jimmy has been a success Internet Marketer for well over 11 years and learned early on that he can multiply his own efforts by recruiting good affiliates. (If you asked him what his #1 source of traffic is… you guessed it!) Now he has put together a comprehensive audio and written course that will walk you through setting up and improving your affiliate program.

I was able to implement a few of his ideas and suggestions the first week and started seeing results right away. My existing affiliates are actively promoting my products, new affiliates are signing up for the program each week and my sales overall are skyrocketing. If you don’t have an affiliate program yet, this is the best resource I’ve come across to help you get it set up and running. If you already have an affiliate program in place like I did, you’ll pick up tons of tips to get your affiliates excited about promoting your products instead of the competition.

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To your success,
Mark Tse

P.S. Get going today and start building your own sales army. You’re losing money every day you don’t.

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“If you make dramatic changes to your offer, or create some other kind of “story” or “news” that warrants discussion promptly, you’ll find you can get many fence-setters active in promoting you.” – Jimmy Brown

This article revealed three critical methods to get your affiliates to promote your offers fast and actively.

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Featured Article by Jimmy D. Brown

See if you can spot the similarity.

What do the following three statements have in common?

1. I can’t do it right now, but maybe later.
2. I’ve already got my mailings scheduled.
3. Let me get back to you.

Got the similarity spotted?

These are all typical responses that most people get when asking partners and affiliates to promote their offers.

Chances are you’ve gotten answers much like these, right?

Don’t despair … there are ways around the barriers of reluctance and passiveness.

Let me share some simple ideas for getting affiliates to take action on your promotions quickly. I use the acronym “N.O.W.” to describe three ways to get others to promote you now…

N – News

In journalism, no one wants to be “scooped” when it comes to newsworthy items. Sharing some big story that another network or publication broke days ago is a big “no-no”. You always want to be first when it comes to getting the word out.

That same philosophy applies to what I’ve labeled “The Principle of First”. The idea is simple: being “first to market” aids in responses. Those who let their contacts know about your news promptly will generate the greatest results. If they wait, someone else will break the news.

So, to apply this principle, you simply need to create some newsworthy buzz that your affiliates and partners can’t pass up on sharing with their network of influence.

**CASE STUDY**

Several months ago I decided that I was going to remove the archives from one of my membership sites. This announcement served as a strong motivator to get my affiliates to promote my site promptly before someone else did. The result was almost 500 new members paying monthly fees!

If you make dramatic changes to your offer, or create some other kind of “story” or “news” that warrants discussion promptly, you’ll find you can get many fence-setters active in promoting you.

O – Occasions

Another great way to motivate affiliates to get active is to use “occasions” that have a real deadline involved.

Some examples include –

* Product launches
* Firesales
* Live events (teleseminars, workshops, etc.)
* Contests
* Special offers
* Limited quantities

This is what might be referred to as “The Principle Of Force”. That is, you MUST promote the offer now or miss out simply because the offer will no longer be valid. You “force” participation.

For example: If you have a 3-day “firesale” set for a specific date, then anyone interested in earning commissions for referring customers to the “firesale” would be “forced” to promote it during your pre-determined timeframe or they’d miss out because the event will end.

My recommendation is that you schedule some kind of “occasion” every quarter. That should give you four significant spikes in your revenue each year, which can be a tremendous boost to your bottom line.

W – Wants

What do your partners and affiliates want? Seriously, stop and think about that for a moment. In fact, go one step further than that and ASK them a simple question…

“What would it take for you to promote this offer this week?”

Make it happen.

I want you to remember the intangibles here: the sales of your initial offer aren’t really all that important. (Don’t freak out, hear what I have to say It’s building a lead list, an affiliate list and a customer list along with ADDITIONAL offers over time that makes the real money.

Consider this –

Option A:

Miss Ima Guru ignores your request to promote your offer as it currently stands.

Option B:

Miss Ima Guru accepts your modified offer which includes giving her 100% of the revenue she generates. You make nothing off her promotion…but in the process of her promotion she adds 500 new subscribers to your list, 75 new affiliates and 60 new customers.

Which would you rather have?

Whatever it takes to get people to promote your offer now, make it happen.

*** NOTE ***

Now, let me make a simple suggestion here: The deal you make should be directly proportional to the potential results the partner represents.

Some affiliates and partners bring more to the table and should be offered more in order to get them to participate.

That being said, you can get virtually any affiliate to promote you now if you make it worth their while. So, ask them, “what will it take?”

This is what I call “The Principle Of Fear”. That is, a feeling of “This is such a compelling offer, I can’t afford to miss out on this deal.”

All of this adds up to more involvement and participation among your affiliates and partners…

N – News +
O – Occasions +
W – Wants =
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Other people promoting you NOW!

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Jimmy D. Brown is the author of the course, “5 Practices Of Highly Profitable Affiliate Programs”. For your free copy, drop by ==> www.marktse.com/recommend/sales-secrets/

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