Fact: It can cost you triple (or more) to attract a new customer than it costs you to retain an existing one.

This is why businesses build lists in the first place. It’s a proven fact that repeat sales will make up the bulk of your profits.

It’s also proven that the average prospects needs to see your message somewhere between 7 to 11 times before deciding to buy. You must get your visitor’s email address when he visits your site, so you can follow up with him. Otherwise, he’s probably gone for good.

Email remains the number one method of communication between subscriber and merchant because it is versatile, it is cheap and it is ridiculously simple to use.

When you own your own opt-in list, you can promote your business in whatever way works best – whether it’s through a special offer, an email course, or a steady flow of quality news. It’s up to you.

The point I really want you to get, though, is that you can not reach through your screen and compel that lost visitor to come back to your site. You can compel your subscribers to make repeat visits and repeat purchase by reaching out through e-mail.

In order to squeeze the most out of your list, you need a good autoresponder system – one which allows you to track open rates and click through, and to split test your mailings (e.g., one version of copy goes to 100 members, the second version goes to another 100 members).

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Following to two previous articles on Super Affiliate Bonus Ideas (Part1) and Super Affiliate Bonus Ideas (Part 2), I have listed 10 more hot ideas of affiliate bonus you can offer to your prospects below.

Affiliate Bonus #21 Free Trials

Grant your prospects a free or low cost trial to the product if they purchase through your affiliate link. You would just need to ask the product owner to give you this special option through his/her affiliate program. Another idea would to be offer free shipping.

Affiliate Bonus #22 Secret Bonus

Present your prospects with a secret affiliate bonus. You can give them all kinds of clues about it like the dollar value of it, how long it took to create, the cost it took to create, etc.  It will get people curious and they’ll end up buying through your link just to see it.

Affiliate Bonus #23 Free OTO

Issue your prospects a chance to get the one-time-offer for no cost. You would make  commission on the front end offer and give them the one-time offer for free. You would  just need to ask the product owner for this special request.

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Following to previous article on Super Affiliate Bonus Ideas (Part1), the following is a list of 10 more hot ideas of affiliate bonus you can offer to your prospects.

Affiliate Bonus #11 Gift Certificate

Present your prospects with a give gift certificate on any of your older or upcoming products. For example give them a $100 gift certificate for ordering through your affiliate link and they can use it on any of your products.

Affiliate Bonus #12 My Bonus

Reward your prospects with the rights to use the same affiliate bonus as you are using. If most of your prospects are affiliates themselves they will likely buy and sign up to the affiliate program so they can use your affiliate bonus to make their own commissions.

Affiliate Bonus #13 Future Product

Give your prospects a product in the future for free. If you don’t have an affiliate bonus you could create one later on for your buyers. You could hint to them how much it will cost for non buyers and what it will be about.
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