You made it - You made your first dollar online

Affiliate marketing can be a hard nut to crack even if you follow all the directions from your tutors.



But the relief you feel once you've made your first dollar online, you struggle to find words to describe it.



But you have to examine what you did to get the sale.



Was it the result of social media, a link in a post, an article on your website?




How did you word that article? Were you selling or pre-selling?




Most informed buyers will think twice before buying as a result of a sales pitch and will want to read more information about the product to assess whether it is for them or not.



If you are pitching on your blog you really need to take a different path than that of the sales page.




As an affiliate, many tutors suggest that you pre-sell on your affiliate site and then let the merchant do the selling on the sales page as you have warmed them up to buy and then they have all the information they need about the product.



And they have virtually made the decision to buy.



They just need a CTA (call to action) to click through to the payment page.




It is better to analyze your marketing efforts than just merely hoping that you will get a sale.




And purchasing affiliate training to zero in on best practices for article writing, social media training, and ad writing is worthwhile.




You may have to search for these courses as they seldom are covered in one package.




The words in your article need to flow and need to be easy to digest.



Remember you are writing for the general public and not a thesis.



As you write your articles you are writing for two separate audiences.




The reader, the most important audience, and search engines.




Some people place high importance on getting a high search engine ranking that they keyword stuff, and their article writing suffers and the article doesn't flow.



Social media marketing is difficult as people don't go on social media to be sold to.



Most of the time if you try selling your product on social media the bounce rate will be high.



People, if not for business purposes, are on social media to find information and news from their friends and family.



If you tap into this and offer information and warm them up to buying, social media can be a profitable tool.



But sending prospects straight to a sale page kills off any chance you may have with prospects.




However you made your first dollar online, congratulations, but you need to find out why they bought.



Then repeat, repeat, repeat.



Which is why much of the eCommerce world invest in analytics programs.



And one of the best analytics programs is Google Analytics, and it's free.



With Google Analytics you can zero in on who your target market is and who is clicking which links and where they are from.



Social media sites like Twitter have analytics programs that you can access for free to find out who is clicking your links and how many people see your posts.



Depending on whether you are targeting keywords or how you are marketing your website, Google Analytics will tell you what your numbers are.



Have you made your first dollar online?



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