How to Write Articles that Convert into Affiliate Sales

Pre-sell – A Background

The best way to write a powerful review of the best affiliate product is to find it first.  Obvious right?

For the newbie to the field of affiliate marketing, the Clickbank is the best possible starting place. You can find the best infomercial or digital products that need no physical stockpiling. You can join the Clickbank marketplace and sell any product that suits your niche.

The product manufacturers help you with all the advertising materials such as e-mail campaigns, sales pages, photographs and images, easy affiliate links, and a great landing page to send your visitors to buy. The product is sold by the product manufacturer and you create an automatic commission on the sale of that product. The commission percentages are very high, and you can earn up to 75% of the selling price. The Clickbank marketplace also has powerful tools to suggest which products have the potential selling power. Using these powerful tools, you can easily choose the best affiliate product that will suit your niche topic.

With so much to help you start an affiliate career, you must find the niche topic that you are interested in. An interest in any niche topic is a beginning to a profitable career. Your deep interest allows you to find everything bout that niche topic with little efforts.

The internet can help you educate yourself to limits without having to pay anything.

Help yourself by first understanding the huge market that is available for any potential online entrepreneur.

There are effective tricks that you can learn fast. You can begin with a search for interesting profit-pulling products that include complete sales materials and know-how about how to set effective campaigns for selling them. The tricks and techniques include:

Forming blogs or mini sites to build a foundation for your affiliate products and setting up focused landing pages for your website visitors.

You can also use the powerful Web 2.0 techniques like the Squidoo lenses, using MySpace and FaceBook sites, Google and Yahoo pages, etc.

Creating effective search engine optimization techniques to create targeted visitors to your pre-sell pages.

This method includes writing a great content using the keywords best suited to your products. Use blogs and forums; sites like Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Del-icio.us and other social bookmarking websites to generate targeted traffic to your pre-sell page. Use free promotional tools, advertisement methods like the Pay-Per-Click (PPC) to generate laser-targeted visitors to your product’s pre-sell page. You can also use the CraigsList website and post your advertisements effectively and USFreeAds. Then, you can use other methods like joint ventures, articles submission sites, and other sites that attract thousands of visitors daily.
Know-how to create effective squeeze or landing pages to convince the web traffic to buy your product. This is achieved by including the best features of the product and how to add testimonials, etc.
Easily gain the knowledge of how to get your web visitors to subscribe to your mailing list, ezines, and newsletters. This method can help you sell more products to your list.

As you can see, everything is freely available to a person who has definite goals. Although you can create all the above methods within a short period of time, you will still find it hard to sell any product because there are too many affiliates that are competing to sell these best affiliate products. So, what could help you overcome the competition? It is writing a sales page or a product review that is unique and interesting.

Most of the competitors will use the basic sales page found on, for example, the Clickbank marketplace that is provided by the original product manufacturer. As these competitors are using the same sales page, or are not taking enough care to produce uniqueness, these competitors lag behind in the race to win potential customers. The few affiliates that produce huge sales are the ones who have taken care to form a unique landing page, and who have created effective advertising campaigns.  Yeah, I am big on being unique!

Writing A Great Review Of The Best Affiliate Product

You too must create unique content by writing a great review of the product. The review can be a simple article that states products features in such a way that will impel your visitors to click your affiliate link to know more about the product. This page is also called the pre-sell page, or the landing page, because it is where your targeted visitors land after clicking your advertising link, either from the search engines or from other websites.

If you buy the product, you can write a great review which can highlight the product’s usefulness quite uniquely.

Sometimes you can contact the seller and tell them you are writing a review on the product and they will provide you with a free copy, so try that first.

After using the product, you are in the best position to convince your web visitors on its effectiveness and ease of use. Simply create the storyline that uses short and simple sentences. Remember that not all users have English as their first language. Even those who are, they should be guided to your product in an effective way.

The simple yet the most effective way is to write in a way that will create interest and trust.

If your reader trusts you enough, you have not only created a potential customer, you have also created a potential repeat customer. But to win the trust of any potential customer, your product should also be a high-quality result-oriented product. You can recount your experience with the product. Give examples that helped you solve your problems effectively. Highlight the most effective features of the product and arouse the interest in the minds of your readers.

Use the merchant’s website and learn the useful features that are the selling points of the product. Note down them carefully. Even if you have not bought the product, you can still use these methods to write an effective review. Use those highlighted items and write in your own words how it was helpful to you. Use a bulleted list to write the important features of the product. You can embed your affiliate link effectively in your story.

Find the most effective portion of your story and put the link there. This portion of your text can be a part where you have aroused the interest sufficiently in the readers. At the end of the story, add a strong call-to-action that should be carefully worded so the reader is impelled to click it to find everything about the product. If you are able to create this urgency in the mind of your reader, you have almost effectively created the sale!

You can also use articles submission websites like the EzineArticles and GoArticles to get ideas about how to write the effective storyline or the review of your product. These articles submission websites have so many articles about everything that can make your own writing efforts simple. Do not copy the articles, but write the story in your own words using the theme of those specific articles. Your main aim is to create enough encouragement in the mind of your reader to buy the product.

A review is almost the first place that a potential buyer looks in to before buying. It is also a pre-sell page that creates a feeling of trust about the buy of the product. The potential buyer has already made up his or her mind to buy the product and is searching more information about the product before spending the hard-earned cash. If you are able to convince the reader in buying the product, you have also won your competition who is also trying to do the same. Getting the potential customer’s attention and helping him make the buy is the sole aim of the pre-sell page. This is not as hard as it sounds.

You can easily master this art of pre-selling the product, but you must carefully follow these tips to create an atmosphere of trust about your product, and more important, about creating a long-lasting relation with your reader. Use any method to drive the traffic to your product’s website, but remember that your skills in writing an effective review will create the first sale for you, or for that matter, the hundredth sale within a short time. This is because, your compelling and effective pre-sell page will be read by thousands of visitors daily without your further interaction, and will create sales after sales for you on autopilot.

Also, remember to check your website’s statistics and see if your pre-sell page is converting well. If you find that your pre-sell page needs more tests and fine-tuning, do it until it becomes powerful and converts into results. To have a proper perspective of the conversion ratio, if your pre-sell page converts between 1 and 3 percent of the overall traffic into customers, you have done well in affiliate marketing. Do the same for other affiliate products, and you will be a successful affiliate in a short time.