Affiliate marketing is a bit easier because you do not need to have your own products.What you must have is a squeeze page (also called a landing page or optin page) a hosting account and an auto responder account where prospects can get more information about what you have to offer.An effective squeeze page can drastically increase your income, so it pays to know how to do it correctly.

If you market your affiliate page directly, you are competing with thousands of other people with the exact same looking website.Why would someone sign up on your site instead of your neighbors for instance?

You simply must have your own squeeze page because you will miss out on that visitor forever unless you catch his/her name and email address so you can contact them again and again.It takes 7+ times for someone to see an offer before a sale is made online.

First of all, make the squeeze page as simple as possible.Avoid putting any distracting elements to it like advertisements for instance.

You do not want to distract the visitor with too many options at this point.Your main focus is to get them on your mailing list.

When you have them on your list you can start sending them useful information closely related to your affiliate product and recommend your product as a solution.

It is a good idea to make a separate squeeze page for every product you wish to promote.

Make good use of the space.A cluttered and overwhelming page will scare away the visitors.

Make sure you space out the content, you can use bullets that shows the benefits why the visitor should give you their name and email address.(What kind of free offer would you sign up for your self?)

A good squeeze page should also give away something for free in exchange of name and email address.Free mini-courses, free special reports and how to manuals work best.Just make sure your offer has lots of value.No one will sign up if your offer can be found easily somewhere else.You need to be unique!

Keep the content on your squeeze page short and to the point.You mainly want to highlight how prospects will benefit from the product or service and what is in it for them.It is also highly recommended to put the image of the freebie on the squeeze page. it makes it easier to understand what they are going to receive instantly after pressing the "submit button".

Create urgency! All the great internet marketers have short time limited offers to create urgency.This tactic should be used on your squeeze page as well.You need to tell people to "Get instant access now, before the offer is gone forever."

Keep the optin form (that you get from the auto responder company) in the middle of the page if possible.If the optin form in down on the page and your visitors need to scroll down to find it, they will leave.Like I mentioned before, keep everything as simple as possible and avoid too many options.Too many options will result in that your visitors will not do anything and just leave.

The internet is full of information about how to build a good squeeze page.There are ready made templates that you just download and edit to suit your needs.

You can go to Google and type in the keywords "optin templates" or "squeeze page templates" to find ready made templates.

If you are a newbie, you can easily design your own squeeze page with step-by-step instructions at InstantSqueezePageGenerator.com.

When your squeeze page is ready, you need to insert the optin form (which you get from your autoresponder service) and upload the page to your webhost.

When you are looking for an autoresponder service and webhost, there are free alternatives available.I would recommend you go with a professional paid service because free solutions often have advertising in them and are unreliable.(You can get all you need for about $25 per month.) Choosing free options will save you some money right now, but when your business grows you need to have proper solutions in place.Do not make the mistake of saving money in the wrong place.

I highly recommend you get an autoresponder account from Aweber.com and hosting from Hostgator.com

Click here for an example of a simple but highly effective squeeze page!