Before going foward with promoting an affiliate product as a your front end funded proposal you may want to test a few programs to determine the best converting product.
Remember it is not necessary to have a website to test an affiliate product.
Today I am going to discuss some important methods that can be used to test an affiliate program without a website.
So lets cover some basic ways of testing.
1. Email Marketing
People can click on your affiliate links in your emails and can go straightaway to the merchant site to purchase the products.
To make this work you must build your contact list. You can build your list by using the following methods:
Online forums
Chat forums
Social Networking Sites
Remember however to never spam. Otherwise you find yourself blacklisted by your internet provider which can take a long time to recover from.
2. Offline Promotion
Classified ads, flyers and business cards handed out to people on the streets is a great way to test the affiliate product to see if it drums up any interest.
3. Writing free e-books, reports or create videos
This method should be used in conjuction with email marketing, online forums and social networking. Try to keep the e-book, report or video interesting. The topics should be related to your affiliate products so that you can recommend the products within the content that you create.
By developing your own ebooks, reports or videos and giving them to your vistors you can build trust and a relationship so that the vistors continue to buy any additional products that you recommend in the future.
Building trust and relationships is what affiliate program success is all about.
