Low Cost Affiliate Website Templates – Is there Anything Better?
By Bill Schnarr
If any of you reading this have plans to be or are interested
in affiliate marketing (and let’s face it, why wouldn’t you be?) then sooner or
later you are going have to start looking for some good template sites to boost
your productivity.
Let’s face it; as with any job you work from home, time means
money, and why waste precious hours developing your own web sites when you
easily purchase
low cost templates
designed specifically for affiliate marketers that you can simply
drop your text and graphics into for instant professional looking websites.
If you are looking for just such a template for your affiliate
business, then you need to know what to look for in the low cost template
market.
Professional looking templates need clean design, easy
navigation and downloading, ease of use, and simple, straightforward support
such as online help and tutorials to get you moving.
Clean Templates are Happy Templates
Nobody likes trying to navigate confusing or overloaded
websites. Let’s face it; most of us don’t like reading on a computer screen as
much as we’d like to think. Trying to manoeuvre around messy, flashy websites is
a headache that most people would prefer to avoid.
Their discomfort means lost sales for affiliate marketers!
Online shoppers would rather close a website window than try
to work their way through sloppy design. It reeks of amateur, and people who
might want to shop online have no confidence in amateurs. When they have no
confidence, they are definitely not going to give up their credit card numbers
to buy goods or services.
Keep it clean! Keep your text to the point and error-free, and
make sure nothing overlaps or looks out of place. Remember, great websites are
like special effects in action movies; the less you notice them the better off
you’ll be overall.
Easy Navigation: Finding Your Way to Success!
Easy navigation is a must for any affiliate marketer intent on
driving up sales, and good low cost templates must be easy to navigate if they
are going to do their jobs properly.
Consider this: the second a potential customer gets lost in
your website and has to start pounding the “back” button, you are pretty much
assured that you have already lost them. Again, this is a confidence thing;
anyone unsure of where they are on your website is less likely to start checking
out your links and buying stuff.
Would you shop at a store regularly if the only way you could
find it was to drive around aimlessly until you stumbled across it? Why would
you expect online shoppers to be any different?
Support Troops Win the War
Just like you always need to be on the ball with your own
levels of support and help for your customers, so too should any web template
and website design company worth its salt be on the ball when it comes to
helping you.
Remember, for the affiliate marketer, time is money. Use it,
as a mantra, so you’ll never forget it. The more time you spend with a confusing
issue with regards to your website templates, the less time your sites will be
out there earning you all the money you deserve for cashing in on the Internet’s
fastest growing business industry.
Online tutorials, on-the-spot web help such as email or online
chat help can be a great benefit to getting yourself organized and ready to
start working on your sites. The last thing you want to do is be stuck wrestling
with complicated code issues or other template-related problems.
Support troops win the war, not just the front line guys. Keep
that in mind when you are shopping for a good low cost web template company, and
you should have no problems with your affiliate marketing business.
Getting Started with Low Cost Templates
A
great place to start looking for low cost web templates for affiliate marketing
would be www.goldenpinecone.com.
These guys are good enough to attract the attention of
James Martell, a
professional affiliate marketer and the author of the
Affiliate Marketers
Handbook. In fact, Martell uses this company regularly to get his long line
of great professional looking affiliate sites off the ground.
Things like their Ready-2-Go website templates that come
preloaded with all kinds of goodies such as SSI (Server Side Includes) and come
as Microsoft Front Page for Beginners + files for beginners and Dreamweaver
files for advanced and professional users.
All you have to do is drop in your text, add a title, and
you’re all ready to go! No muss, no fuss!
Golden Pinecone is a business that specifically targets
affiliate marketers in their business dealings. They know about web search
optimization, “spider-food”, and a host of other things affiliate marketers need
to carefully consider before they build a website.
They’ll work with you to implement everything you need to make
your website a success, because they firmly believe that when your site looks
good, Golden Pinecone looks great.”
Affiliate marketing is a great way to augment your income, or
it can be an exciting career all on its own. Being prepared with the right tools
for the job can go a long way in helping you step out of the mire of
unsuccessful affiliate marketers and into the ring where the real winners are.
Keep an eye on the bottom line, and you’ll be amazed at how successful you can
be.
For more information, see www.goldenpinecone.com.
About The Author
Bill Schnarr is a single parent and freelance writer who works
from his home in Calgary, Alberta. As well as having dozens of online and print
publishing credits, you can also look for him in the upcoming "Chicken Soup for
the Single Parents Soul" due out in February 2005.
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