There are a couple of things that could make your business soar this year. If you’re not doing them already, taking the steps to make one or both of these things happen could make your business unrecognizable next year.
They are:
Launch a Podcast and Start an Affiliate Program
Let’s talk about starting an affiliate program first.
I can’t tell you how often I come across a fantastic product that my target market would love, but then when I search around to find an affiliate program, I can’t find one!
Would it surprise you to hear me say that the internet needs MORE great products?
As an affiliate marketer, I don’t have ENOUGH high quality products to promote on my sites.
What’s holding you back from starting an affiliate program?
If you don’t understand the benefits of starting your own affiliate program, let’s talk about that for a moment.
Why launch your own affiliate program?
It’s pretty simple.
To make more sales! My affiliates make more sales of my products and services than I do. It’s just not possible for me to be everywhere marketing all the time. My affiliates are happy to send traffic and customers my way and I only have to pay them when they produce sales! (Far more cost effective than paying for advertising with no guaranteed results, or paying someone an hourly rate to market for you.)
If you need any help with the technical aspects of starting or running your affiliate program, get this guide.
If you prefer one on one help and need someone to take your hand, hire me to coach you on setting up your affiliate program, recruiting affiliates and helping them succeed.
As an affiliate marketer and someone who also has her own affiliate program, I know what affiliates need to succeed in making money with affiliate programs.
So let’s talk about podcasting for a minute.
So how could podcasting help your business?
This week on WahmTalkRadio, I joined Kelly McCausey to talk about why podcasting has been so important to my business. Definitely go over there and have a listen.
In a nutshell I said that podcasting benefits my business because it:
- was the easiest way I had found to have high ranking, well trafficked, authority sites in my niche link to me for FREE (my podcast is huge linkbait!)
- a fantastic way to make myself unique among my “competitors” – some of whom are far more talented than me. 
- provides another way to give my market unique, interesting content that they can consume
- is a HUGE lead generator that gets people talking about my site in message forums and elsewhere
- helps me create unique content almost effortlessly
Podcasting sounds intimidating but truly isn’t technically difficult. (Plus, you can hire someone to do some of the techy stuff if you like.)
I’m not a techy geeky kind of gal at all but I even do my own show editing, although when I started I didn’t.
Again – if you want some of these great benefits for your business that podcasting could offer, get some help to get that going!
Incidentally, you can have this Podcasting & Internet Radio guide for FREE if you hire me to coach you.
What are you going to do DIFFERENT this year to get better results from your internet business?