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New affiliates Code
1.) Be a Good student.
- No matter how much you want to get right in and get your feet wet, do not get ahead of yourself. Take the time to learn the skills that you will need to run a successful online business. Do not attempt to receive your training half way believing youve grasped the whole idea behind.
You will do yourself a big favor and will save yourself a lot of time and money if you simply buckle down and study the training materials available from your affiliate provider. If non- is available from such a program leave that program without a thought..
A genuine affiliate program should have a Training section with led out instruction and guidance detailing and pin-pointing the crucial elements and material resources required in running a successful business. Access to these materials should be free for members.
2.) Communicating with your Up line/Sponsor and Mentor
- If you want to be successful, look and follow the steps of those who went before you and found success. Your sponsors, upline leaders and the like have been trained and are better qualified to assist you in learning the system. Be in constant contact with your SPONSOR or MENTOR from day one and dont hold back. Bombard them with as many questions as possible and make sure you find out what methods they use to sign-up new affiliates, Sell products and what product sells best for them. In turn they will lead you through the processes that will help you achieve your goals just like they did. Also ask them about their achievements or their success story with the same program so you can set a benchmark at which you want to work at or work over.
Contact addresses and Names of your Sponsor and Upline/team leaders should be readily provided in your welcome letter as well as in your members area through your affiliate admin Centre. If your sponsors or leaders are not responding ask the companys admin to reallocate you to another mentor explaining the reasons why. If they cant assist you then probably the program is just a scum and is out to drain your wallet.
3.) Build your Personal Planner and filling cabinet
- Writing things down as a reminder is definitely beneficial and should be part of your every day life cycle as a management guide of your personal life. The same technique or writing down things should be applied when managing your online Business. As a foundation you should set Goals and device plans to accomplish those goals, and prioritise a list of tasks you need - to complete your plans.
Generally as part of setting up your business, you should run a business management guide which should comprise of things that you should do on a daily, weekly, monthly or annual basis and you will have a complete personal planning guide to ensure that you work by priority, doing the things that are most important to accomplish the goals you have set out for your self. Your business management guide should include at least all or more of the following tasks:
a.) Set your Month's Goals and Projects. (Sales and prospects expected etc)
b.) Scheduled Tasks - tasks that you should perform on a regular and scheduled basis. c.) A to Do List PRIORITIZE a list of things "to do" in order to complete your goals.
d.) Maintain Budgets Estimate how much you will use per month on advertising and promoting your affiliate products.
e.) Maintain a Filing - Cabinet .
4.) Communication Tools (email)
Communication is a vital life element of any businesses survival. For your business to grow you will need to set up a communication program that you can use to track your business activities. Websites are also a form of a communication tool that every online business needs (although most new affiliates disregard this). The other tool that is very common is an email feature. Communicating effectively and efficiently by email to prospects, Affiliates and members of your e-zine list is very important to your success in developing a network of business entrepreneurs both inside and outside your affiliate program. So basically you will need both these communication tools (WEBSITE & EMAIL TOOLS) as part of your requirements for setting up your Affiliate/online Business. Here are a few email programs and features that you may consider to have. Choose one that will be appropriate for you.
1.) EUDURA ( http://www.eudora.com/email/index.html)
With Powerful new features to combat Spam, search the web, import data, and more...
2.) OUTLOOK (http://office.microsoft.com/home/of...etid=FX01085793 )
Small businesses can use Outlook 2003 with Business Contact Manager to track business relationships and sales opportunities.
3.) MAILLOOP ( http://www.marketingtips.com/mailloop/mailloop.html ) (fee paying)
Will automatically filter your email, run your newsletters, import your leads or orders into a database, automatically email your personalized customer database, take care of an unlimited amount of auto responses & more.
4.) MSGTAG (Free email program)
Knowing whether or not your emails are opened by the recipient is very important and it will impact on how you will follow up with them. MSGTAG will let you know which emails have been opened. After you start to use and become familiar with MSGTAG FREE and your emailing increases, you may consider upgrading to MSGTAG STATUS. Download from http://www.msgtag.com
5.) Infacta Group Mail (Free email program).
An outstanding software that will enable you to send highly professional formatted messages that are personalized for each of your recipients. You can manage an unlimited number of lists with an unlimited number of recipients.
If you're using a software program like Group Mail, you'll also need a good form processing script to enable your visitors to subscribe like master form. To download group mail go to http://www.infacta.com
5.) Educate yourself in the area concerned
Read books written by people who have been successful in the same field of business (affiliate programs). Books in which these supper affiliates actually tell you how they made it to the top. There are a lot of places that you can find free top quality e-books and articles on the Internet. In effect I would like to recommend a book written by Gary Shawkey and his Best student Brian Garvin. (Shawkeys Secrets Revealed).
For those who dont know, Brian Garvin is commonly known as the Supper affiliate who made close to $200,000 with affiliate programs alone. If you are new to affiliate programs then this is a book to read, I have a copy myself and I keep reading it over and over again as though it was my first time.
6.) Subscribe to listings that discuss ideas relating to your Business
Same as above try to join some Ezine list and forums that gives tips and ideas on how to successfully run affiliate programs. If I were you, I would ask my Sponsor or Team leader for addresses to Ezine lists run by Top earners and experts in the same affiliate program. Its worth Gold finding out how these guys work and think especially the ones in the same field as you. Find out what influences them, books they read and what motivates them. Get to know the little bits that make them tick, read their free publications - believe me these things are there on the Internet just do your search. Join their lists or visit their websites occasionally. Join other lists if you can but dont overload yourself with too much information.
Tip Always know what you want and plan your journey before hand. Most lists have a tendency of driving you away from your business.
Humphrey Lupyani
1.) Be a Good student.
- No matter how much you want to get right in and get your feet wet, do not get ahead of yourself. Take the time to learn the skills that you will need to run a successful online business. Do not attempt to receive your training half way believing youve grasped the whole idea behind.
You will do yourself a big favor and will save yourself a lot of time and money if you simply buckle down and study the training materials available from your affiliate provider. If non- is available from such a program leave that program without a thought..
A genuine affiliate program should have a Training section with led out instruction and guidance detailing and pin-pointing the crucial elements and material resources required in running a successful business. Access to these materials should be free for members.
2.) Communicating with your Up line/Sponsor and Mentor
- If you want to be successful, look and follow the steps of those who went before you and found success. Your sponsors, upline leaders and the like have been trained and are better qualified to assist you in learning the system. Be in constant contact with your SPONSOR or MENTOR from day one and dont hold back. Bombard them with as many questions as possible and make sure you find out what methods they use to sign-up new affiliates, Sell products and what product sells best for them. In turn they will lead you through the processes that will help you achieve your goals just like they did. Also ask them about their achievements or their success story with the same program so you can set a benchmark at which you want to work at or work over.
Contact addresses and Names of your Sponsor and Upline/team leaders should be readily provided in your welcome letter as well as in your members area through your affiliate admin Centre. If your sponsors or leaders are not responding ask the companys admin to reallocate you to another mentor explaining the reasons why. If they cant assist you then probably the program is just a scum and is out to drain your wallet.
3.) Build your Personal Planner and filling cabinet
- Writing things down as a reminder is definitely beneficial and should be part of your every day life cycle as a management guide of your personal life. The same technique or writing down things should be applied when managing your online Business. As a foundation you should set Goals and device plans to accomplish those goals, and prioritise a list of tasks you need - to complete your plans.
Generally as part of setting up your business, you should run a business management guide which should comprise of things that you should do on a daily, weekly, monthly or annual basis and you will have a complete personal planning guide to ensure that you work by priority, doing the things that are most important to accomplish the goals you have set out for your self. Your business management guide should include at least all or more of the following tasks:
a.) Set your Month's Goals and Projects. (Sales and prospects expected etc)
b.) Scheduled Tasks - tasks that you should perform on a regular and scheduled basis. c.) A to Do List PRIORITIZE a list of things "to do" in order to complete your goals.
d.) Maintain Budgets Estimate how much you will use per month on advertising and promoting your affiliate products.
e.) Maintain a Filing - Cabinet .
4.) Communication Tools (email)
Communication is a vital life element of any businesses survival. For your business to grow you will need to set up a communication program that you can use to track your business activities. Websites are also a form of a communication tool that every online business needs (although most new affiliates disregard this). The other tool that is very common is an email feature. Communicating effectively and efficiently by email to prospects, Affiliates and members of your e-zine list is very important to your success in developing a network of business entrepreneurs both inside and outside your affiliate program. So basically you will need both these communication tools (WEBSITE & EMAIL TOOLS) as part of your requirements for setting up your Affiliate/online Business. Here are a few email programs and features that you may consider to have. Choose one that will be appropriate for you.
1.) EUDURA ( http://www.eudora.com/email/index.html)
With Powerful new features to combat Spam, search the web, import data, and more...
2.) OUTLOOK (http://office.microsoft.com/home/of...etid=FX01085793 )
Small businesses can use Outlook 2003 with Business Contact Manager to track business relationships and sales opportunities.
3.) MAILLOOP ( http://www.marketingtips.com/mailloop/mailloop.html ) (fee paying)
Will automatically filter your email, run your newsletters, import your leads or orders into a database, automatically email your personalized customer database, take care of an unlimited amount of auto responses & more.
4.) MSGTAG (Free email program)
Knowing whether or not your emails are opened by the recipient is very important and it will impact on how you will follow up with them. MSGTAG will let you know which emails have been opened. After you start to use and become familiar with MSGTAG FREE and your emailing increases, you may consider upgrading to MSGTAG STATUS. Download from http://www.msgtag.com
5.) Infacta Group Mail (Free email program).
An outstanding software that will enable you to send highly professional formatted messages that are personalized for each of your recipients. You can manage an unlimited number of lists with an unlimited number of recipients.
If you're using a software program like Group Mail, you'll also need a good form processing script to enable your visitors to subscribe like master form. To download group mail go to http://www.infacta.com
5.) Educate yourself in the area concerned
Read books written by people who have been successful in the same field of business (affiliate programs). Books in which these supper affiliates actually tell you how they made it to the top. There are a lot of places that you can find free top quality e-books and articles on the Internet. In effect I would like to recommend a book written by Gary Shawkey and his Best student Brian Garvin. (Shawkeys Secrets Revealed).
For those who dont know, Brian Garvin is commonly known as the Supper affiliate who made close to $200,000 with affiliate programs alone. If you are new to affiliate programs then this is a book to read, I have a copy myself and I keep reading it over and over again as though it was my first time.
6.) Subscribe to listings that discuss ideas relating to your Business
Same as above try to join some Ezine list and forums that gives tips and ideas on how to successfully run affiliate programs. If I were you, I would ask my Sponsor or Team leader for addresses to Ezine lists run by Top earners and experts in the same affiliate program. Its worth Gold finding out how these guys work and think especially the ones in the same field as you. Find out what influences them, books they read and what motivates them. Get to know the little bits that make them tick, read their free publications - believe me these things are there on the Internet just do your search. Join their lists or visit their websites occasionally. Join other lists if you can but dont overload yourself with too much information.
Tip Always know what you want and plan your journey before hand. Most lists have a tendency of driving you away from your business.
Humphrey Lupyani
