Writing a review on products you’re an affiliate to is a great way of becoming a successful Big Selling affiliate marketer.

The beauty of writing an affiliate review is it helps to establish you as an expert in the market place, it helps to give you credibility.

Your role is to act as a credible information provider of information people want.

Now another benefit of using this approach of writing an affiliate review and combining this with a series of optin forms positioned strategically throughout the review is you can use Google AdWords to help you drive traffic to this page.

At the moment Google is penalizing markers whose optin pages are low on content so including valuable information on your review web page is going to give you a huge advantage and improve your AdWords “quality score”.

Writing a great affiliate review is very simple when you know how, the review is essentially a short article that explains the benefits and drawbacks of the product you’re reviewing.

The biggest question to ask when writing reviews is do you own a copy of the product you’re reviewing?

Obviously if you own the product and have tried it out your credibility will be so much higher, but I realize that buying every product you review isn’t always possible when you’re first starting out.

Let’s assume you don’t own the product you’re reviewing in which case you need to consider things like:

1. How relevant is the product to the market (end customers)

2. What are the potential benefits to the market

3. Find other reviews about the product you’re reviewing, when you do this you can sometimes find useful pieces of information you might have otherwise overlooked.

4. What reputation has the product creator/owner for quality. If their reputation is great you can mention that what they’ve created before has been of excellent quality.

5. Search through the sales letter of the site for the product you’re reviewing looking for benefits and features you can mention in your review.

6. Search through forums and blogs for any other information you can find about the product.

Google.com can help you with this kind of research, just type in the “product name” + review or just search for “product name”. If there’s anything negative this is how you’re likely to find it.

7. Write to the people in the testimonials featured on the products sales letter to see if they can give you some feedback on the product.

8. Contact the product owner and just ask them for a review copy of the product you’re reviewing. You might have difficulty with this until you’ve established your reputation online, but it’s always worth a shot.

Eventually you could be in a situation where you have people approach you with a copy of the product for you to review.

The basic formula for writing an affiliate review is this:

1. Gather information
What are your impressions of the product before and after you bought it?
(Your answer):

(If you didn’t buy the product look for other reviews in forums and blogs, if you can’t find anything give your opinion based on the content of the products sales letter).

What are the top 7 things you learned from this product?
(Your answer):

What one thing did you find most useful?
(Your answer):

Who would benefit the most from this product, who is it not for?
(Your answer):

What was left out of the product?
(Your answer):

How quickly can this product help you?
(Your answer):

What other skills or tools do you need to get the most benefit from this product?
(Your answer):

Lastly can you recommend it?
(Your answer):

By writing out your answers you’re building the ideal structure to your affiliate review.

2. Flesh out your answers
Now just follow through with each of your questions adding to it some more with any other relevant information you might have.

Be sure to introduce the product you’re reviewing quickly.

Give a compelling reason for people to read your review, this could be a strong headline and/or you start with a major weakness.

By starting out on a negative note it’s easier to grab attention, it draws the reader in because it’s more compelling than this is a great product. When you do this be dire to spin it into a positive.

Keep your writing conversational balancing out the pro and cons in the same sentence or paragraph.

Add something personal about yourself because it helps people to warm to what you’re saying.

Make it clear that you’re recommending the product, how strong is your recommendation. Why not use a star or points system to show your rating of the product?

Lastly be sure to work in clear calls to action, tell people what it is you want them to do.

If you’re already a big selling affiliate I have a special offer for you…

The next 5 people who write a review on one of these products and use the formula I’ve given you above will get the product you’re reviewing for free.

www.BigSellingNiches.com/workbook.html
www.BigSellingConversions.com/onetime.php

Just add your review of one of the products above as a comment to this post and I’ll send you a copy of the product you’re reviewing free of charge.

Become a free Big Selling Affiliate Partner here
Get your Big Selling Affiliate links and stats here

Popularity: 39% [?]

I’ve got something for you here that’ll show you a really powerful way of generating a vast amount of high quality keyword phrases to use when promoting our products as a Big Selling Affiliate using PPC (pay per click) search engines.

Just press the play button on the video below and you’ll see how it’s done…

Here’s what others have said about this video…

From David
Very nice video about generating list of targeted keywords! I will get it a try. Gave you a review and thumbs up on stumble.

From Geoffrey Cummins
This is brilliant. Many thanks. Just the kind of no bs info us keyword newbies need.

From Margaret Hampton
What an incredibly practical approach. Thank you. My keyword lists for my caregiver and health care focuses just expanded exponentially!

From Titos
Excellent technique, man. You really gave us the Easy Button for keyword research.

Action step:
Watch the video above and start building keyword phrase lists for each of the products we have that you can promote as an affiliate.

Here are a couple of our products to help you get started in building your keyword lists…

Domain: BigSellingConversions.com Product you earn commission on: Make My Website Sell!
Core keywords: website sales, website conversions, sales conversions

Domain: BigSellingNiches.com Product you earn commission on: The Niche Checklist Workbook
Core keywords: niche marketing, market research, niche profits

It’s the “core” keyword phrases I’ve given you above that you can use as starting points to build your own lists of keyword phrases using what I’ve shown you in the video above.

All the keyword phrases you find using the technique in the video above will come in very useful once you start setting up your PPC ad campaigns. It’s those keywords you select that make your advertisement for BigSellingConversions or BigSellingNiches appear in those PPC search engines you’ve set up ad campaigns with.

If you have any questions just post a message and I’ll do my best to help you.

In my next blog post I’ll show you where you can get discounted and free PPC advertising from, so stay tuned!

Become a free Big Selling Affiliate Partner here
Get your Big Selling Affiliate links and stats here

Popularity: 28% [?]

This is where we will spend the bulk of our time.

This is the most import part of the strategy — determining what is going to set you apart from other affiliates and give you that advantage that will help increase your sales and profits.

Step one, quite obviously, is to develop your incentive. What is it that you want to give away?

Determine what it is that you wish to offer as your incentive for making the purchase from YOUR affiliate link.

And not just “another free eBook.” Good grief, hasn’t that been beaten to death already?

(more…)

Become a free Big Selling Affiliate Partner here
Get your Big Selling Affiliate links and stats here

Popularity: 13% [?]

In affiliate marketing, there are many ways in which you can increase your earnings and maintain the account that you have worked so hard for already.

Most of the techniques and tactics can be learned easily. No need to go anywhere and any further. They are available online, 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.

One of the more important ways of increasing affiliate marketing bottom line and sale is through the use of product recommendations. Many marketers know that this is one of the most effective ways in promoting a certain product.

If the customers or visitors trust you enough, then they will definitely trust your recommendations. Be very careful in using this approach, though. If you start promoting everything by recommendation, your credibility will actually wear thin. This is seen especially when recommendations are seemingly exaggerated and without much merit.

Do not be afraid to mention things that you do not like about a given product or service. Rather than lose any points for you, this will make your recommendation more realistic and will tend to increase your credibility.

(more…)

Become a free Big Selling Affiliate Partner here
Get your Big Selling Affiliate links and stats here

Popularity: 8% [?]

If you’ve been online for any length of time already I’m sure you would have visited YouTube.com by now.

YouTube is without question  one of the most visited websites on the Internet so being able to tap into this incredible stream of free traffic is an absolute must for any Big Selling Affiliate.

The possibilities for video are endless, you can video yourself talking, you can record a slide show, you can even record everything you do on your screen.

Your video can be funny, serious or just plane crazy, it doesn’t even have to look like a “slick” TV station production or Steven Spielberg film. In fact it all adds to your believability of you as a regular guy on the street and not some big faceless corporation.

So how do you get started? 

All you need is a copy of Camtasia Studio which you can get with a free 30 day trial right here:
http://www.techsmith.com/download/camtasiatrial.asp

Or you could even use a digital camera to create a short 3 minute presentation, it all depends on your idea.

With Camtasia the  you can do things like record demonstrations of a product live from your computer, or you could record a slide show you created in PowerPoint that gives people some great advice on how to do something really specific.

Do you need a website?

It helps but it’s not always necessary, because all you do is create your video using Camtasia add your affiliate url to the video opening and closing screens, save it in a format YouTube accepts, upload it to YouTube (or any other video hosting service), write an interesting and compelling description for your video, chose your keywords and you’re done.

What then happens then is when people search for the keywords you’ve chosen your video will show up in the search results pages. They then read your description, if it catches their eye they’ll watch your video and hopefully visit the website through the affiliate link you added to your video.

The truth is anyone can create stunning videos, from multimedia tutorials and step-by-step presentations available online. The process is like having your customers seated next to you and looking at your desktop, as you show them the things they need to see and hear. All this done step by step.

Once you’ve created your video here’s a free online service that will enable you to submit your new video to dozens of other video hosting website (including YouTube)…

http://www.tubemogul.com

(more…)

Become a free Big Selling Affiliate Partner here
Get your Big Selling Affiliate links and stats here

Popularity: 12% [?]

Over the past years, web hosting has grown bigger than it used to be. With more companies getting into this business and finding the many benefits it can give them, the demand for web hosting has never been higher. These seem to be the trend of today.

38 million people have put up their very first websites online this year 2005 alone. It is estimated that by 2008, the internet sales industry will top then dollar bank. And to think, majority of those sites will be offering different affiliate programs for people to choose and participate into.

This only means one thing. It is easier now to find the right web host for your application. The possibility of quality web hosting companies separating themselves from the rest of the industry is anticipated. If this is done, the unprofessional and incompetent ones will suffer.

Support will be the number one consideration for people when choosing a web host. It will be obvious that traditional advertising will become less and less effective. Most people would rather opt for the web host based on things that they see and hear. Also based on the recommendations by those who have tried them and have proved to be a successful.

(more…)

Become a free Big Selling Affiliate Partner here
Get your Big Selling Affiliate links and stats here

Popularity: 7% [?]