Grab the Interview and Grab the Sales.

This tip is priceless. What better way to make affiliate sales than to show people the value of what they are about to buy?

For instance, you’re getting a lot of value from this free course. I hope it makes you feel enticed to buy some of Jimmy’s products.

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Tip #18 of 21: “Use Interviews”
by Jimmy D. Brown of ListProfitSystem.com

Here’s a great way to use your list to increase your affiliate commissions.

Find a product or service that you want to promote to your list (remember, it must be targeted towards your specific audience for best results) and contact the author / developer of that offer and ask them for a short interview.

Either do the interview via email or, better yet, get them on the phone and record a short interview.

Then, do a mailing to your list (or any list for that matter) and let them know about an “exclusive interview” you have with “Well Known Guru” and explain all the things that are revealed in the interview.

AND …

Get them to your site where they can download the transcript of the interview and / or listen to the audio version.

Of course, your purpose of the interview is to get them to buy the product or service. So, in addition to the free content that your interviewee offers, you also have a strong recommendation at the end of the interview for the product or service … through your affiliate link.

You can have the “landing page” where this interview is stored, designed with links to the product or offer.

And just like that you can have a higher open rate (subject link reveals an exclusive interview, so more people open the email) a higher click-thru rate (your benefit-laden message describes the great content in the interview and gets them to your site) and more profits (the interview and your specially designed page get more people to actually order the product or service).

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Speaking of affiliate marketing, the next tip gives you another easy way to stand out from the competition.

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