Ezine: Tool For Promotion In Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate Marketers are searching for means to market their chosen products successfully and a way to do this is by using E-zine. The associate must first know what this marketing tool is all about before they can utilize this tool for promotion.

Ezine is short for online magazine. Ezine advertising is placing advertisements in a newsletter sent to subscribers in an electronic form and the main topic and themes can be about anything. At a certain point when a newsletter ( after being posted for some time in the internet ) has gained a certain number of subscribers that is representative of the global market, it is then that the ezine publisher will begin selling advertising space to affiliates and online business owners.
To obtain the utmost benefits of e-zine advertising, here are some e-zine advertising tips.

*A number of e-zines are just paragraphs delivered via email, while other e-zines supply links to other websites. To encourage its recipients or subscribers to participate, it is important for affiliate marketers to choose e-zine that give external links to other sites. If the affiliate marketer has signed up with a PPC program, the affiliate can arrange the link to be directed to the merchant’s site or to the affiliate’s website.

*One type of e-zine ad is similar to a banner ad while the other type is known as a solo ad. The former is cheaper while the latter is more expensive. The solo ads take the complete attention of the reader, while the banner-like ads will be competing with other banner ads. It is up for the affiliate marketer to decide which ad type to choose according to the budget and what works best for his affiliate product.

* Affiliate marketers must pay attention on the placement of the ads. Preferably, pick the top sponsor ads first because these are more visible to the readers and they tend to click more on these ads. The second best is the bottom ads. The least effective are the middle ads since readers tend to skip ads in the middle of the article. The top sponsor ad is priced higher, of course. When the reader reaches the end of the article and find the bottom ads, the reader is more likely to click on the link in the bottom ads, especially when the article of the newsletter is appealing.

*A targeted niche is better than a generalized approach. To have an e-zine ad that seeks out a specific audience, the affiliate must find out from the newsletter’s publisher the topics of the next issues. Once the next issue is identified, for example “vintage cars”, the associate can choose among his products which is most related to the issue, for example, “car parts”. An e-zine ad about another topic, such as “computer software” will most likely be disregarded by the reader.

With these e-zine advertising tips, the affiliate can center his attention on ads that will produce profit and avoid the ones that do not.

By: Rames Nhlapo

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