So you have done your homework, researched your particular niche and finally decided on your affiliate marketing opportunity. At last everything is starting to fall into place, your website; blog has been designed and built. Your advertising and traffic generation is working and if you have decided to drive traffic to your site before taking them to the merchants sales page you have managed to gather their names and e-mail addresses to build up your list and at last the sales are coming in and the commissions are on the way to the bank.

But have you done everything you can to obtain the maximum from all the visitors to your site? Have you squeezed everything possible from every visitor at every stage of the process? If you have answered yes there is no point in reading on, if you honestly feel that there is no more you can possibly do to get that extra dollar from your visitors you might as well close this page now and go and check your face book or see how many tweets you have on your twitter page because there is a system that all the “Gurus” (I detest that label) and “Super Affiliates” use to make sure that they dont leave money on the table and they have extracted as much as possible from all of their visitors.

What is this closely guarded affiliate marketing secret? What are you missing from the jigsaw puzzle? Well I will tell you, its the “One Time Offer” commonly known and referred to as OTO.

Of course its not a secret and it has been around for many, many years but the majority of marketers use this method to drive traffic to their sites or to build their list, whereas I recommended that you also use it as your visitors attempt to leave your websites. There is a very good reason for this and why this system works and works very well. The whole process of getting people to your site has been a slow but calculated system. Firstly with your advertising whether it be text adverts, banners, article marketing or one of the many free or paid methods that we all use (I will discuss traffic generation in later posts).This is the point here you get their interest, grab their attention and start getting their buying juices to flow. Next they click on your link and go to your website or blog where you tell them little more, get them even more interested and their buying juices flowing even faster and so they go onto the next stage and visit the landing, sales page. By this time if you have done your job right and the sales page is up to scratch they are at a stage where they are ready to buy. But what if your product is not quite right or too expensive, do you let these people simply leave your page and go and spend their money on your competitors site after you have done all the hard work and got them into the buying state. We all know that when we are ready to buy we have to spend. How many times have you gone shopping for a certain item only to find the product is sold out or is not available, you feel disappointed and let down, this is because your need to buy, the need that has been stimulated by all the advertising and the excitement created around the product has not been satisfied.

This is where the One Time Offer really comes into its own with affiliate marketing no matter what niche you are in. All you simply have to do is create a page that pops up as they close the sales page. This pops up offers your visitor a onetime chance to purchase a related product at a greatly reduced price or a bundle of goods at a great price. You will be surprised just how many merchants are willing to join together to offer these onetime offers. For example lets use the infamous “Dog training” niche, it stands to reason if someone wants to train a dog, they own or know somebody who owns a dog, what other products do dogs owners need? There are hundreds, bundle some of them together and offer them as a onetime offer. If you dont want to do this find a product similar to one that you used to entice your customers to your site in the first place and offer them that, something as simple as a report that you may have written or an e-book which you have the rights to sell, but whatever you do offer them something to satisfy their buying need. You will find by doing this your customers come away feeling good about your site and will visit again.

For those of you that are in the affiliate marketing niche there is a great free programme available called OTO Goldmine. Raama has put a great deal together where he supplies the offers and does all the hard work and you receive your commissions. I have been using it for quite soon time now with some fantastic results and have even introduced it to some of my twitter campaigns. Its very simple to use and comes with great video tutorials in fact you dont even need your own website they have added the facility to use this system with generic affiliate landing pages.OTO Goldmine is free to join with the option to upgrade if you want higher commissions and a good thing about Raama he is not emailing everyday hassling you to upgrade. The packages he has put together range from $19 to $99 and are all excellent value for money. Even if you are earning good money from your site extra cash for doing very little is always a good affiliate marketing opportunity.So if you want to take advantage of extra earnings CLICK HERE

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