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Digg it UP - 6 BIG Benefits To Selling Big Ticket Items As An Affiliate
Before you do your next carwash fundraiser for a kids group it makes sense to teach each kid how to sell. The sales training can be simple by simply setting them down and teaching them how to sell carwash fundraiser tickets so that your advanced sales of tickets will guarantee that your carwash fundraiser is successful even if there is a very low turnout.After all you need the car wash fundraiser to raise funds for your nonprofit group and you need the money for important things. The better the kids do at sales, the more money you will make the less stress on the budget it will be for the parents and the coaches.Sales training for carwash fundraisers for the kids does not only include the selling of tickets it also includes the selling the day of the event. Simply sitting outside with the giant poster board sign and waving it at cars is not selling. There is a right way and a wrong way to do this
But this means that the product owners are constantly on the lookout for other products to use as bonuses. Or they have to create them to sell as part of the package.
As an affiliate, you don’t have this headache. The bonuses are the product owners responsibility.
Of course, if you think that you can provide a bonus that will make people buy the product from you as an affiliate you should definitely throw it in! This is one way you can differentiate your offer from any other offers on the same product by other affiliates.
Benefit #5: No Inventory and No Shipping Hassles
As an affiliate, you don’t have to have stacks of paper, shipping boxes, reams
of stamps, Jewel Cases, CDs, Binding Materials or any of the raw materials
typically needed to create and ship Big Ticket products. And you don’t have to
stock any of the product, period!
All the packaging and shipping of orders is
I used to think that “leadership” was the graduate level of management. As you learn more about people and the skills necessary to manage, you magically become a leader. In reality, it is vital to be both a manager and a leader. Here’s a summary of what both look like.Management basically means to maintain. So as a manager, you come in every day and focus your resources to accomplish objectives. So if you are in manufacturing, you focus on completing a number of widgets each day and make sure that the efforts of your team are aligned to do so. Management is more of a short term focus on immediate goals. Management is really the nuts and bolts of how things get done. If most of your activities during the day involve telling people what to do, then you are managing.Leadership is the act of inspiring others to want to accomplish long term objectives. Leadership deals much more with emotions. A
First, we had better define both Big Ticket Item and Affiliate.
A Big Ticket Item is any product or service that sells for more than $500 or $1000.
An Affiliate is someone who sells other people’s products.
Or, at least, those are my definitions. I’m sure there are other possible definitions but for this article, let’s stick with the simple descriptions I’ve given, ok?
Now, let’s take a close look at the BIG Benefits to selling Big Ticket Items As An Affiliate.
Benefit #1: Make MORE Money On Every Sale
As an affiliate selling Big Ticket Items you are going to make more from every sale. Typically, you receive some percentage of the sale as your reward from the product owner. This might range from 25%, 30%, 50% or maybe even 75% of the sale price.
An example should make this crystal clear. Say you’re an affiliate for a product marketer who sells both E-books and Home Study Systems. The E-Book sells for $37 and the Home Study System sells for $1497. If your share of the sale as an affiliate is 50% then you make:
$37 * 0.50 = $18.50
$1497 * 0.50 = $748.50
I don’t know about you but I’d much rather make $750 instead of $19!! Big Ticket means bigger commissions for you.
Benefit #2: You Can Make Money WITHOUT Having Your Own Product
That’s right! You don’t have to create your own product. If you currently don’t
have a product of your own, or even if you don’t have a Big Ticket product of
your own, you can still make money selling other people’s products.
This removes all product creation costs from your budget as a marketer. Costs
such as time to create the product, paying for expertise in areas outside your
own, audio or video recording and editing, etc.
It also gives you more time to plan and think about a product or products that
you want to create while making money selling other people’s products.
However, you should ONLY choose affiliate products that you believe in and know
are of high quality. And ones that the product creator will support fully. Make
sure that the product creator has an excellent reputation as you are putting
your own reputation on the line by selling their products.
Benefit #3: You Can Make Money WITHOUT Having Your Own Website or Sales Copy
If you plan to sell on the web today, you must have a website. If you have
expertise in or like to learn about website design then you can do this
yourself. Otherwise, you will hire someone to do this for you.
But as an affiliate, you don’t have to worry about this! The website for the
product will be hosted by the product owner. They will be responsible for the
sales copy on the site, the shopping cart system that takes the order and most
other aspects of the sales process.
You are only responsible for referring people to them. If that person buys the
product, you get paid!
Good product owners try to make it very easy for their affiliates to give them
referrals by providing sample email copy, sample banner, ezine
and magazine ads and other promotional materials. As the affiliate, you simply
use the provided materials to help promote the product in ways that you feel
will maximize sales opportunities.
So having the product owner responsible for all the sales copy and promotional
materials makes your life as an affiliate much easier. And especially for Big
Ticket Items, it reduces your costs immensely.
Why?
Because Big Ticket Items need longer sales copy to
sell effectively due to their larger price tag. All possible objections must be
countered. Every conceivable benefit to the customer needs to be listed. And
the sales copy must be compelling.
Writing an excellent sales letter is time consuming and requires specific
expertise. In fact, it is not unusual to pay a professional copywriter anywhere
from $7,000 - $15,000 plus a percentage of the sales for a killer sales letter!
As an affiliate, someone else pays for that.
And this is true even if the sales letter is not on a website but is sent as
part of a direct marketing campaign instead.
Benefit #4: You Don’t Have To Come Up With Bonuses As Incentives To Buy The
Product
Today, product marketers often bundle bonuses with their products to increase
the value of the overall offer. These products typically don’t cost very much
but add a lot of value to the product. In many cases, the perceived value of
the bonuses will be higher than the price of the product itself.
But this means that the product owners are constantly on the lookout for other
products to use as bonuses. Or they have to create them to sell as part of the
package.
As an affiliate, you don’t have this headache. The bonuses are the product
owners responsibility.
Of course, if you think that you can provide a bonus that will make people buy
the product from you as an affiliate you should definitely throw it in! This is
one way you can differentiate your offer from any other offers on the same
product by other affiliates.
Benefit #5: No Inventory and No Shipping Hassles
As an affiliate, you don’t have to have stacks of paper, shipping boxes, reams
of stamps, Jewel Cases, CDs, Binding Materials or any of the raw materials
typically needed to create and ship Big Ticket products. And you don’t have to
stock any of the product, period!
All the packaging and shipping of orders is h
Now is the time to take action in order to get ahead of the competition!Many experts are reporting that the competitive nature of the job market continues to grow and is forcing job seekers to develop an extra edge to stand apart from the crowd. What will your edge be?Dental office management is a rapidly growing field that offers a strong potential for career growth. Many people, however, will begin their dental office careers as a receptionist or other front desk employee because they lack the skills necessary to jump right in as an office manager.Office managers enjoy not only higher salaries, but also greater responsibility and independence than front desk employees. They are the team leaders that keep the office running smoothly with their organizational and communication skills.You may now be asking yourself, “What can I do to get the edge I need to reach office management?” T
$37 * 0.50 = $18.50
$1497 * 0.50 = $748.50
I don’t know about you but I’d much rather make $750 instead of $19!! Big Ticket means bigger commissions for you.
Benefit #2: You Can Make Money WITHOUT Having Your Own Product
That’s right! You don’t have to create your own product. If you currently don’t
have a product of your own, or even if you don’t have a Big Ticket product of
your own, you can still make money selling other people’s products.
This removes all product creation costs from your budget as a marketer. Costs
such as time to create the product, paying for expertise in areas outside your
own, audio or video recording and editing, etc.
It also gives you more time to plan and think about a product or products that
you want to create while making money selling other people’s products.
However, you should ONLY choose affiliate products that you believe in and know
are of high quality. And ones that the product creator will support fully. Make
sure that the product creator has an excellent reputation as you are putting
your own reputation on the line by selling their products.
Benefit #3: You Can Make Money WITHOUT Having Your Own Website or Sales Copy
If you plan to sell on the web today, you must have a website. If you have
expertise in or like to learn about website design then you can do this
yourself. Otherwise, you will hire someone to do this for you.
But as an affiliate, you don’t have to worry about this! The website for the
product will be hosted by the product owner. They will be responsible for the
sales copy on the site, the shopping cart system that takes the order and most
other aspects of the sales process.
You are only responsible for referring people to them. If that person buys the
product, you get paid!
Good product owners try to make it very easy for their affiliates to give them
referrals by providing sample email copy, sample banner, ezine
and magazine ads and other promotional materials. As the affiliate, you simply
use the provided materials to help promote the product in ways that you feel
will maximize sales opportunities.
So having the product owner responsible for all the sales copy and promotional
materials makes your life as an affiliate much easier. And especially for Big
Ticket Items, it reduces your costs immensely.
Why?
Because Big Ticket Items need longer sales copy to
sell effectively due to their larger price tag. All possible objections must be
countered. Every conceivable benefit to the customer needs to be listed. And
the sales copy must be compelling.
Writing an excellent sales letter is time consuming and requires specific
expertise. In fact, it is not unusual to pay a professional copywriter anywhere
from $7,000 - $15,000 plus a percentage of the sales for a killer sales letter!
As an affiliate, someone else pays for that.
And this is true even if the sales letter is not on a website but is sent as
part of a direct marketing campaign instead.
Benefit #4: You Don’t Have To Come Up With Bonuses As Incentives To Buy The
Product
Today, product marketers often bundle bonuses with their products to increase
the value of the overall offer. These products typically don’t cost very much
but add a lot of value to the product. In many cases, the perceived value of
the bonuses will be higher than the price of the product itself.
But this means that the product owners are constantly on the lookout for other
products to use as bonuses. Or they have to create them to sell as part of the
package.
As an affiliate, you don’t have this headache. The bonuses are the product
owners responsibility.
Of course, if you think that you can provide a bonus that will make people buy
the product from you as an affiliate you should definitely throw it in! This is
one way you can differentiate your offer from any other offers on the same
product by other affiliates.
Benefit #5: No Inventory and No Shipping Hassles
As an affiliate, you don’t have to have stacks of paper, shipping boxes, reams
of stamps, Jewel Cases, CDs, Binding Materials or any of the raw materials
typically needed to create and ship Big Ticket products. And you don’t have to
stock any of the product, period!
All the packaging and shipping of orders is
A vitally important sales activity is that of managing existing customer accounts to consolidate and grow the relationship. Yet unfortunately, when compared over time, the customers’ interest levels increase while salespeople’s interest levels tend to decrease. This creates a “relationship gap” and is due entirely to complacency.Another major issue is that too often the salesperson fails to expand his “contact base” as this next survey proves which results in vulnerability and exposure to competitive activityPeriodically, the Financial Times conducts a survey of British industry to establish how companies go about their purchasing. The survey is very comprehensive, broken down into many kinds of products and services.From a Sales Director’s perspective, these are very worrying statistics.Customer size (Number of employees): Less than 200Average number
Benefit #3: You Can Make Money WITHOUT Having Your Own Website or Sales Copy
If you plan to sell on the web today, you must have a website. If you have
expertise in or like to learn about website design then you can do this
yourself. Otherwise, you will hire someone to do this for you.
But as an affiliate, you don’t have to worry about this! The website for the
product will be hosted by the product owner. They will be responsible for the
sales copy on the site, the shopping cart system that takes the order and most
other aspects of the sales process.
You are only responsible for referring people to them. If that person buys the
product, you get paid!
Good product owners try to make it very easy for their affiliates to give them
referrals by providing sample email copy, sample banner, ezine
and magazine ads and other promotional materials. As the affiliate, you simply
use the provided materials to help promote the product in ways that you feel
will maximize sales opportunities.
So having the product owner responsible for all the sales copy and promotional
materials makes your life as an affiliate much easier. And especially for Big
Ticket Items, it reduces your costs immensely.
Why?
Because Big Ticket Items need longer sales copy to
sell effectively due to their larger price tag. All possible objections must be
countered. Every conceivable benefit to the customer needs to be listed. And
the sales copy must be compelling.
Writing an excellent sales letter is time consuming and requires specific
expertise. In fact, it is not unusual to pay a professional copywriter anywhere
from $7,000 - $15,000 plus a percentage of the sales for a killer sales letter!
As an affiliate, someone else pays for that.
And this is true even if the sales letter is not on a website but is sent as
part of a direct marketing campaign instead.
Benefit #4: You Don’t Have To Come Up With Bonuses As Incentives To Buy The
Product
Today, product marketers often bundle bonuses with their products to increase
the value of the overall offer. These products typically don’t cost very much
but add a lot of value to the product. In many cases, the perceived value of
the bonuses will be higher than the price of the product itself.
But this means that the product owners are constantly on the lookout for other
products to use as bonuses. Or they have to create them to sell as part of the
package.
As an affiliate, you don’t have this headache. The bonuses are the product
owners responsibility.
Of course, if you think that you can provide a bonus that will make people buy
the product from you as an affiliate you should definitely throw it in! This is
one way you can differentiate your offer from any other offers on the same
product by other affiliates.
Benefit #5: No Inventory and No Shipping Hassles
As an affiliate, you don’t have to have stacks of paper, shipping boxes, reams
of stamps, Jewel Cases, CDs, Binding Materials or any of the raw materials
typically needed to create and ship Big Ticket products. And you don’t have to
stock any of the product, period!
All the packaging and shipping of orders is
Have you ever known someone who seemed to, just be lucky in life? They seem to have it all and things just seem to come to them with no real effort on their part. Life appears easy for them and we wish we could have their luck. The good news is you can - everyone can.I'll never forget the definition of luck I heard many years ago. A friend of mine said "Luck happens when preparation meets opportunity." This has never been more, true of good fortune, than in the world of investing. When you are prepared you will recognize opportunities others do not; thereby making you appear lucky.Taking the time to learn about the many ways in which you might invest is a perfect example of preparing yourself for an opportunity. The more familiar you are with a concept, the easier it is to recognize opportunities when they present themselves. Often times the most profitable situations appear to be unsolvable
So having the product owner responsible for all the sales copy and promotional materials makes your life as an affiliate much easier. And especially for Big Ticket Items, it reduces your costs immensely.
Why?
Because Big Ticket Items need longer sales copy to sell effectively due to their larger price tag. All possible objections must be countered. Every conceivable benefit to the customer needs to be listed. And the sales copy must be compelling.
Writing an excellent sales letter is time consuming and requires specific expertise. In fact, it is not unusual to pay a professional copywriter anywhere from $7,000 - $15,000 plus a percentage of the sales for a killer sales letter!
As an affiliate, someone else pays for that.
And this is true even if the sales letter is not on a website but is sent as part of a direct marketing campaign instead.
Benefit #4: You Don’t Have To Come Up With Bonuses As Incentives To Buy The
Product
Today, product marketers often bundle bonuses with their products to increase
the value of the overall offer. These products typically don’t cost very much
but add a lot of value to the product. In many cases, the perceived value of
the bonuses will be higher than the price of the product itself.
But this means that the product owners are constantly on the lookout for other
products to use as bonuses. Or they have to create them to sell as part of the
package.
As an affiliate, you don’t have this headache. The bonuses are the product
owners responsibility.
Of course, if you think that you can provide a bonus that will make people buy
the product from you as an affiliate you should definitely throw it in! This is
one way you can differentiate your offer from any other offers on the same
product by other affiliates.
Benefit #5: No Inventory and No Shipping Hassles
As an affiliate, you don’t have to have stacks of paper, shipping boxes, reams
of stamps, Jewel Cases, CDs, Binding Materials or any of the raw materials
typically needed to create and ship Big Ticket products. And you don’t have to
stock any of the product, period!
All the packaging and shipping of orders is
From the Eye of the Potato: Train the people that deal with your customers.I called a support number the other day—I got the message! A recorded female voice said that I must call during a certain time period and "goodby."My first impression was: My this lady hates working for a living—and me!Then I thought: She can't be that bad—just not properly trained.Maybe she should listen to the telephone message systems of big corporations:"Thank you for calling Big Corporation. Your call is very important to us. If you speak English, press one. Si usted habla espa?ol, toca dos"This may go on for French, Italian, German, Japanese and Chinese. In fact, you could swim to China by the time you get to a live person. But still, your call is important to them so you sit there listening to music you hate, waiting, waiting…I Called the Lady Back to See What She Was Really Like<
But this means that the product owners are constantly on the lookout for other products to use as bonuses. Or they have to create them to sell as part of the package.
As an affiliate, you don’t have this headache. The bonuses are the product owners responsibility.
Of course, if you think that you can provide a bonus that will make people buy the product from you as an affiliate you should definitely throw it in! This is one way you can differentiate your offer from any other offers on the same product by other affiliates.
Benefit #5: No Inventory and No Shipping Hassles
As an affiliate, you don’t have to have stacks of paper, shipping boxes, reams
of stamps, Jewel Cases, CDs, Binding Materials or any of the raw materials
typically needed to create and ship Big Ticket products. And you don’t have to
stock any of the product, period!
All the packaging and shipping of orders is handled by the product owner or
their fulfillment center. So you don’t have to worry about trying to find your
car under an avalanche of product and materials :-)
Benefit #6: Affiliate Selling is the Easiest Way To Start Making Money With
Big Ticket Items
I hope by now, after reading the first 5 benefits, you can see how easy it
really is to sell Big Ticket items and make money. This is a HUGE benefit and
so it’s worth calling out as a separate benefit of its own.
Most affiliate programs are super easy to join (after all the product owner
wants to encourage people to sell their product and help them make money). You
get an affiliate id of some sort and a way to use that id to refer customers to
the product. As I mentioned before, you are often given all the copy for ads
and emails you can use. Plus the website is done and ready to convert all
prospective customers. All the shipping and filling of orders is handled by the
product owner as well.
Your startup costs to become an affiliate are very low (almost zero) and your
main job is to get more prospective customer “eyeballs” on the offer. This
could be traffic to the product website or a postal mail direct marketing
campaign.
You can start making big money with Big Ticket items almost immediately!
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