My Membership Empire - Getting Targeted Traffic Using Affiliate Program

One best way to get rich on the internet is by running a membership site. Think about it this way. For offline business, a magazine company will charge monthly to their subscribers. You can do the same on the internet. You can give away information, articles, tips eBooks and videos every month in return for monthly payment.

However, keep in mind that you still need traffic in order for your business to survive. This article will show you one way to drive targeted traffic to your website. If you need more traffic generation strategies, please refer to My Membership Empire course.

The number one method would be to run your own affiliate program. If you have your own product, affiliate marketing should be your number one traffic strategy. Affiliate program, also known as associate program is about paying commission to your online marketing partners for each customer they referred.

In most cases, the more super affiliates promoting your product, the higher more money you will make. Your business will grow faster. Which is why, you must know how to attract more affiliates to sell your product.

One way is by joining free forums like Warrior Forum. Remember to follow forum rules and post your joint venture proposal in related section.

Running a contest among your affiliates can increase your sales dramatically. The more sales they made, the higher chances to win the contest. Give them great prizes like holiday trip, cars, computers.

How much commission you are going to pay to affiliates the depend on the price of your membership site, your niche market and the target audience. Normally, the more competitive one market is, the more you need to pay to affiliates.

Also, keep in mind that it pays to be generous to your own affiliate. If you are selling a membership site, the customer they referred to you is lifetime customer. Therefore, even if you made just $10 profit for each sale, you have the potential to earn up to $120 from each customer in one year.

This is an example. Your product is sold at $50. Then, you need to invest around $10 for product creation, hosting, domain name and certain program. If the traffic comes from other source, let say viral marketing, you will earn around $40 from each sale. So, the appropriate payout for affiliate would be $30 commission for each sale. You on the other hand, would make $10 monthly profit from that one customer.

Another issue is how you are going to track affiliate sales and pay them commission. One way would be to buy software and setup your own affiliate program. However, the best would be to use third party services like Clickbank or Paydotcom. These companies will track and send checks to affiliates each month. Therefore, no hassle to do everything on your own.