Part-1 AFFILIATE TRAINING! course.
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DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO SUCCEED?

It's a real shame! Too many people join an affiliate program with excitement, energy, and a gleam in their eye -- only to have that fire extinguished because they just can't seem to make any money.

The 3 Main Reasons for This Is:

1. Internet hype tends to downplay the work, commitment and investment needed to actually have a working business plan in place for collecting leads and turning those leads into paying customers, which is required to operate as an affiliate of any business opportunity.

2. There are too many people trying to tell you how to be successful, and the majority of them are still struggling to make a buck themselves, plus they are contributing to internet hype.

3. Some people starting out as an affiliate, just plain do not have the desire or patience that it sometimes takes to become a successful affiliate. In addition they are scared to spend any money.

Point being: Working any affiliate program can be quite rewarding. Just make sure that you are willing to put forth the effort required to be successful. And be willing to give that extra effort that will make yourself stand out from the crowd.

SUCCESSFUL SELLING TECHNIQUES.

The #1 secret to starting a successful business online as an affiliate is simply to build it around your expertise or the business idea you like the most. This will help take care of the motivational part, and help you develop uniqueness and separate you from the unsuccessful marketing class. For instance: I choose a Christian theme for my business because I love God, and want to acknowledge Him in everything I do, and make a living doing it. This alone increases my chances of success because I am more likely to stick with it even threw hard times.

Next, since we already know that we are selling Christian products and home decor products you should decide which of these target markets you are more likely to be able to give expert advice in or even which one could simply spark creativity in you. This is simply so you can appeal to your potential customers and stand out more than anyone else who may be selling or doing the same thing as you.

Keep in mind that selling is about selling yourself to your customers.

1. How you REACH your prospects.
2. What you say to your prospects.
3. How you refer them to your Christian1st Home Decor affiliate website where you can make commissions.

These are all important in your prospects interpretation of you and effects your credibility in their eyes.

Your job is simply to build credibility and good standing with your potential customer then let the website or brochures do the selling.

Its better to develop a concept that PRE-sells based on your recommendation. Then gets the customer to check out what you claim and decide for themselves whether they want or need what you have to offer.

Follow the steps below to come up with a selling position strategy and to help you stand out from the crowd:

1. TAGLINE: - Make a strong but true statement about yourself or your business and use on your website, your email signature and all your offline advertising pieces.

2. UNIQUE SELLING POSITION: - Establish yourself as the first or leader in what you do or how you do what you do.

SUCCESS THREW TRIAL AND ERROR.

I also want to stress the fact that testing is a very important factor in overcoming and making money in any affiliate program. Only threw trial and error will you really be able to find out what works the best for you. People don't like to test because testing requires money and the risk of losing money, but it is absolutely essential to making it into the 5% who actually succeed at affiliate programs. That's right a whopping 95% fail, and this is the main reason why!

Like the old saying goes: "It takes money to make money"

One very important thing to remember however, is becoming a successful affiliate is not an overnight task. Your business success is going to eventually depend on the type of products that you offer and/or the service that you provide, and once this is established the type or group of people you spend your time and money marketing to.

Therefore if you get the reputation of being associated with good products, you have won half the battle. And if you concentrate your marketing efforts and resources towards people who potentially maybe interested in the type of products you sell you'll win the other half of the battle as well.

APPLYING THE KNOWLEDGE OF SUCCESS.

O.k., we already know that we are selling Christian Home Decorations and we know for every product we sell we make 25% commission, right. Now all we need to do is find out where the people are that buy Christian home decor, and pre-qualify them as potential customers.

The trick to having as many pre-qualified potential customers come forward is to have your ads noticed and read by such a specific group of people as much, as often, and as effectively as possible.

By this I mean concentrating your advertising efforts, money and time towards Christians or anyone who shows an interest in serving God. This is after all are #1 target market. Another target market of ours is home decor in which studies show that women tend to spend more money in this category than men.

Advertising can be done both online and offline in Christian related newsletters, directories, classifieds and mailing lists which will give you the distinction of appealing to a very specific audience and thus increase the chances of your ads being noticed as well as read. Also women's home maker publications would be great if you decide to target home decor.

This is due to the fact that not only the readership of the Christian specialized publications will match your demographics but also that people who buy or subscribe to these types of publications have a tendency to read them from cover to cover (website to website) or whatever.

Your per capita hit-ratio will dramatically increase than if you would have advertised in a major publication that's too general or too vague.

THE ART OF AD WRITING AND TESTING.

1. Direct response marketing. This is a process in which businesses seek an immediate response as a result of their marketing efforts. While it is often used to sell in the immediate sense, many use this technique to offer a free report, item, or service. Little do people know, however, that the direct response strategy is usually not the true goal of the advertiser. The true goal is to get the prospects to come forward where you can give them all the details of who you are, what you sell, why they should buy from you and so on.

2. Lead generation marketing. In your case, since you offer a specific product that caters to a specific market, find out ways to make your market come forward with minimal effort on your part. The best way to do this is to offer something free in exchange for the prospects name, address and phone number. It's best to offer something that pre-qualifies your target audience as a potential customer.

When advertising your headline, as well as your entire ad, should be adjusted for your target audience which depends on what you sell. If you are running the same ad in two different magazines, for example: Christian and home decor which are mailed to two different target audiences, you may want to slightly adjust your headline and ad copy for each target audience. This is testing to see which ads pull the most responses and which magazine is worth continuing to advertise with. By slightly changing your ads you could potentially pull more responses, but if the ad is good and you get a poor response rate you know to stop advertising with that particular magazine. This works the same way with internet marketing.

keep your ads short and sweet. Point being your ads should have one job: To either get the reader to respond and request more info or go to a place where they can get more info. That's it. It's not necessary for your ad to list your product name, features, price, or anything else.

The truth of the matter is the fact that specializing and narrowing your focus as much as possible will increase your likelihood of getting more and better leads and thus increase your chances of converting those leads into customers.

BECOMING A GOOD SPONSOR.

As you may already know the Christian1st home decor affiliate program is also a 5x10 forced matrix affiliate system which simply means that you can recruit and sponsor 10 people on your 1st level then show those 10 people how to fill their 1st level up to 111,110 total affiliates who can potentially earn you 5% commission each.

Other affiliate programs use hype by getting you to concentrate more on recruiting affiliates rather than making commissions yourself, but I want you to concentrate on your selling first. Then and only then will you be a fit and suitable sponsor.

I'm going to show you how to become a good sponsor because every time you receive an affiliate underneath you, you automatically will receive their email address in order for you to train, motivate and show them how to be successful by duplicating whatever it is you suggest. Which is simply what you do to make your sales commissions.

Question: how can you help someone else achieve success when you haven't even achieved success yourself? Contrary to the email some sponsors send out telling people how they made $1000 dollars in two days or something to that extent.

Why would they lie you ask? Simple they want so desperately to succeed themselves that they think that it would be faster and easier to just fabricate about their success. While it may fool a few new comers it lacks credibility and is bad for business in the long run.

You won't succeed this way and your downline certainly won't ever succeed by following in your footsteps. When its all said and done you will be moving your focus to another affiliate program using the same bad business practices and maybe even dragging your name in the dirt along the way.

But on the other hand if you are successful then you know what it takes to succeed and you can simply teach your downline the principle of duplication. That is to say tell them exactly what you did to become successful. If you teach the principle of duplication and they start doing the same thing you did to succeed, then that person alone can be worth to you several thousand dollars each year. Find just a few of those and you will be set for life.

Also remember that a affiliate in your downline can be interested in several things that you can offer him/her like another affiliate program or reseller program, so the life of a happy affiliate can be very rewarding to you.

WHAT'S THE QUICKEST WAY FOR ME TO BECOME SUCCESSFUL SO
I CAN TEACH DUPLICATION?

O.k., I've been doing some homework on this one for nearly 2 years, and no matter what any internet marketing guru says the best ways to advertise and market will still always be offline, period. Don't get me wrong I love internet marketing just as much as any guru but facts are facts.

People will always prefer up close and personal marketing because it's way more believable and sincere. Combine that with the fact that most people only buy from people or places they trust and we can see why ordering the Christian home decor brochure distributors kit would be the best and fastest way for you to succeed and teach your prospects to duplicate, and even recruit additional affiliates. listed below are 7 reasons to order it right now so you can get started in 7-10 business days when the kit arrives:

1. You get 50 brochures and 50 extra order forms customized with your name and affiliate website link!

2. It's only $25.00 which translates to only .25 cents per potential sale or 25 cents per item!

3. Throw in the fact that you can earn commissions 1 of 4 ways, by either website, mail-order, phone or fax!

4. You could easily make your $25.00 investment back in 1 sale!

5. Promote effortlessly to your church, family, friends, work buddies then branch out to local newspaper ads, bulletin boards and so on and so forth.

6. You'll be able to send your downline emails with confidence by describing what you did and how you did it, and may even enjoy doing it.

7. Your choices are endless and command more credibility and potential than internet marketing!

Summary of what you should've learned:

1. Commit yourself to being unique and creative.
2. Don't be afraid to spend money on testing (advertising).
3. Offer the right products to the right people.
4. Make money so you can show your downline how to make it, and thus consistently make more money.
5. Don't neglect offline marketing.

P.S. Don't forget Studies show offline marketing is the quickest way to earn an income and build relationships with people and thereby create sales.

P.P.S. Feel free to email me if you would like any additional tips concerning marketing your Christian1st home decor affiliate program or if you have any other questions. 

Thanks for your time and may God bless you and your entire family.

Sincerely David Hopkins,
Program Manager (Christian1st Home Decor Affiliate Program)
Mailto: support@christian1st.com

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