FTC Friendly HealthCare Affiliate Marketing?
A few days ago a story broke that the FTC is planning on monitoring blogs and other websites for tainted reviews, a current BIG approach to affiliate marketing in healthcare and other markets. Excellent!!!! Since unwitting consumers are misled daily by reviews that are biased, this is a GREAT thing. For one, we might have more truth in advertising. For another, this is going to be a GOLD RUSH boon for ethical affiliate marketers who know how to position themselves and their products correctly.
So it comes down to this. Assuming you are an ethical online marketer, how do you stay out of harm’s way and/or handcuffs while profiting handsomely?
Picking a HealthCare Niche? Pick Women’s Healthcare!
According to ComScore, second only to consulting physicians, women turn most often to the Internet for health information. Of those women who use the internet, 85% have used it to research health issues and 63% have used it to research birth control specifically.
Overall, in the ComScore research report the internet came in second only to health-care professionals for health information. 82% turn to their doc or other healthcare provider, 60% to the internet and 51% to friends and family.
What topics to pick? Here are some major leaders with searches in multiple millions per month. Many of these topics and complementary available information products and affiliate offers have a large number of women searching for answers: pregnancy, cancer, diabetes, weight loss, fitness and depression.
Helpful hint: Take these and enter them into Google’s Wonder Wheel tool or KWBrowse. You will find more than you can handle as far as niches to explore.
Why is HealthCare Internet Affiliate Marketing Different?
OK, this might be a very rude newsflash for some, but it REALLY can’t be all about the money in health-care product marketing. You’ve got someone out there buying your ebook or solution or physical product that may have a really big health problem. If you don’t help them, or worse if you screw them up, they lose and YOU lose. If you truly help them out, they’re likely to seek you out so that they can send MORE money to you than you asked for in the first place. This could be your next product or the raving fans in your continuity program upsell. They win, you win. Get the difference?
If this strikes a cord with you, read on. If not, you’re probably not going to want to learn how to make tons of money truly helping people, and you should move on. Don’t pass GO. Don’t collect a lot of inner satisfaction and money. Just move on.
The 7 Golden Rules To Affiliate Marketing
The 7 Golden Rules To Affiliate Marketing
Thousands of people have quit their JOBS and started earning money exclusively online. There are a lot of ways you can do it on the Internet… such as creating your own products, offering a service, licensing products, etc.
Many people have done it without having ANY products of their own. This is done through affiliate income or selling other people’s products for a commission.
Here’s how it can be done:
How To Make Money Affiliate Marketing – 3 Necessary Tools
How To Make Money Affiliate Marketing – 3 Necessary Tools
Are you interesting in making money in affiliate marketing? If so, there are few key ingredients you need. Please know that there is no shortcut to affiliate marketing success. You will have to do some work. Not hard work. Smart work!
Affiliate marketing is the easiest way to start making money online from the comfort of your home. All you need is the right tools, a clear plan and the determination to take action. You have to take action. You can have everything in place and have the best plan in the world but if you do not take action, you will not make any money. So read this article, and then take action. Ok?
Now, here are the 3 tools you need in order to start making money in affiliate marketing.
Affiliate Marketing – Marketing Your Affiliate Product On A Budget
Affiliate Marketing – Marketing Your Affiliate Product On A Budget
Affiliate marketing is the most cost effective way to start making money online. You can literally start you affiliate marketing business without spending a dime. While it is rather simple to find products to promote without any initial cost, it is a little more difficult to find successful marketing strategies that are free. Since most of us starting online are on a budget, I have compile some free marketing tools help you promote any affiliate program.
Squidoo is a free website that allows you to create web pages which they refer to as a lens. The lens are extremely simple to set up with some very interesting choice of modules to choose from. A well constructed lens with good keyword content will generate great traffic due to Squidoo’s high page rank with Google. You will also receive traffic from within the community of lenses if your lens is good enough to make it in the top 100 of any category.
Blogging is also a cost effective way to promote your affiliate product. Setting a blog with Google Blogger, Word Press or Hub Pages are all free to start. Blogs are great for reviewing affiliate products and branding yourself as a marketer. Promoting your products from your personal point of view will make you potential customers connect with you better therefore increasing your chance of a sale. Blogs can create a more relax environment where your readers get to feel how passionate your are about your product, so it really helps if you actually use the products that you are promoting.
Article marketing is similar to blogging but there are some differences. Instead of promoting your product like you would do in a blog, article marketing is more about giving substance and giving readers a window into your product. Writing articles is also more viral because an article with great content may be distributed to hundreds or even thousands of directories. Being featured in many directories will not only bring great traffic to you affiliate program but you will also generate backlinks to your website. Backlinks are essential in increasing your page rank with the search engines.
Forum participation is another form of free advertising for your products. The key to forum advertising is making valuable post in categories that pertain to your niche. After making several post, members in the forum will notice you expertise and most likely will visit your affiliate site. To spruce up you advertising, it is more attractive to use a text message in your forum signature instead of a plain URL.
Ultimately, there are not any substitution for paid advertising resources like PPC, but if you are new into the business and are in need of a fast start, the free advertising methods will yield some good results.
By: Marc Marseille
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Marc Marseille is an internet marker with several websites across the net providing valuable resources to many. If you would more information on affiliate programs, you can visit Top Ten Affiliate Programs.