Articles are the perfect promotional tool for your affiliates - they bring in more sales than banners, book covers, and ezine ads. Your affiliates can post them on their website, use them in their newsletter, or turn them into a free eBook. One the easiest ways to build your affiliate program is to offer your articles as a zip file and allow people to replace the link in the resource box with their affiliate link. Here is how to do it: . Copy all your articles as text files, formatted to characters-per-line, to a single folder on your hard disk. . Create another text file in the same folder called 'index of articles' which lists each article by title and file name. . In the 'index of articles' write a brief message explaining how to join your affiliate program and how to customize the affiliate link in the resource box. You can see an example of this at: Then just zip your 'articles' folder using WinZip. WinZip is free and can be downloaded from: http://www.winzip.com/download.htm To create a zip file using WinZip, just follow these steps: . Open WinZip and click on 'File' and 'New Archive'. . In the 'New Archive' box, choose a folder where you want to save your zip file . Choose a name for your zip file and press OK . In the 'Add' window, browse until you find your 'articles' folder and double-click . Click on 'Add with wildcards' That's it! Your articles zip file has been created. Offer your articles zip file for free download in as many places as possible:
on the index page of your website on your affiliates tool kit page in the welcome message for your newsletter in your email mini course as a bonus gift to your customers in your sig file
This technique will not only increase sales of your existing affiliates - it will quickly bring you dozens of new affiliates. Good luck with your articles!
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