If you are a beginning affiliate marketer or internet marketer outsourcing is probably not something that should be on your radar at this point for the most part.  Someone who is just starting out should be creating their own content and putting up their own websites and publishing their own blog posts.

The biggest reason for this is to get a really good feel for what each of these processes takes.  You want to know how long something takes and what the basic steps involved in finishing it are or you will never be able to properly price or explain these things to an outsourcer.

There are some exceptions to this.  If you have a very specific vision for a website that you just cannot create on your own or you need some sort of a technical plugin or piece of software created and you just don’t have the skills then it may be your best option to pay someone to create this for you.  Especially if you do have a budget to get started and you do have experience in hiring people.

But essentially, in this article, I am talking about outsourcing things like content creation and link creation.  When will this be something that you should look into.

In my opinion, a good time to start outsourcing content creation and link creation is when you have a steady income – no matter what that steady income is.  When you are bringing in $100 a month or $1000 a month each month, go ahead and take a percentage of that and use it to start outsourcing your content creation or your new website creation or whatever takes the most work for you and whatever makes the most sense to be outsourced in your business.

There are some affiliates that have gotten to the point where they outsource everything and they are just the guy or gal behind the scenes orchestrating all the moving pieces and envisioning the final product.  These are truly super affiliates in that they have built a true business that they do not have  to work in.  They just run it.

This is a business that is truly worth a lot of money because all the pieces are in place an anyone could pick up the business and continue to make money with it without having to do all the work.

This is the kind of thing that you do want to strive for, and if you can take a portion of your profits from the beginning and start learning how to find good outsourcers and how to incorporate outsourcers into your business the faster your business will grow.

So Where Can You Find Good Outsourcers?
Elance and guru.com are great places to look for outsources.  Once you find someone who is good and can finish products to your specifications you may want to try to develop a private relationship with him or her.  This isn’t necessary, but it may work well for your business.

You may also want to ask around in an internet marketing forum and see who comes highly recommended and for what reasons.  Some of these forums may also have a ‘for hire’ section where you can find people advertising their services.  At a forum it is easy to check around and see what other members think of these people so this is a good option.

Basically when somebody in affiliate marketing wants to scale something up that means they want to take something that is working and do it on a wider and broader scale so that more people see it and it works in more ways. Usually what they mean by working is something that is making sales. A good way to scale sales in internet marketing is to find affiliates.

Say you have a sales page about an e-book that sells well. You’ve done split testing and you know what works and what doesn’t and what your conversion rate is. Now, you find affiliates that send traffic to this sales page, and depending on what kind of a reach they have, they can double or triple or quadruple your current traffic, hopefully increasing your sales by just as much.  That is scaling up your sales with affiliates.

But what if you are the affiliate?  What are some ways that you can scale up your efforts?  The absolute biggest one for anyone who is creating content online is to repurpose that content.

You take your content that you have created for one reason, and you use it for several other reasons and in several other ways.

Here are some examples.  Let’s talk about an informational article that you created for your website.

Use 1) put it on your website.

Use 2) make an autoresponder message out of it and put it in your email list

Use 3) release it for syndicated content (with a research box linking back to your website) at ezinearticles and other article marketing websites and with private website owners

Use 4) Put it together with a few other very good articles you have written on the same topic and create a short report for sale or to give away.  If you give it away you could use it to entice people to sign up to your list.  You could also give other people rights to give it away as long as they keep the links back to your site intact.  Say something in the report like “If you are reading this report you have full rights to give it away as long as you do not sell it and as long as you leave it exactly as it is.”

Use 5) make the article into a video and put it up on youtube and the other video sites.  Use a slightly different title and description that still applies to the article each time.

Use 6) Make the article into a pdf document and put it up on pdf sharing sites like scribd.com

Use 7) take ideas from each paragraph of the article and rewrite and expand on it and create a page with this expanded topic at squidoo and or any other revenue sharing website.  Link these pages back to your original page for traffic and backlinks.

Use 8) Make the article into a podcast – make a recording out of it and put it up on podcast websites.  Talk about and link back to your website.

Can you see how repurposing your content will increase your reach across the internet exponentially, but not take near as much time as creating brand new content?  This is truly working smarter, not harder and should pay off in increased traffic and sales.

Unless you’re getting lots of traffic already one of the first things you may want to consider doing is building back links to your website or to the pages you are creating. You also may want to start exploring other ways to get traffic than just what the search engines send you.

Let’s talk about how to get back links:

One of the very best ways to get back links is to create something known as linkbait.  There are a couple of ways to do this. You can study pictures that go viral on Facebook and consider whether or not you could make your own.

If you think you could then you want to put the picture on your website and make sure you have social share buttons above and below the picture.  Once you have this going then start sharing your picture and start recommending it to all your friends and do anything you can think of to get the ball rolling.

Make sure that you also are linking back to your main website from this picture so that your website gets the benefit of any social shares that are made. If you are using free websites, the process is the same.

Another way to create linkbait is to write an extremely informative article about something related to your topic. Make it almost like a Enquirer-style article but do not put any sales links in it. You wanted to be something amazing that people just have to share with their friends. Again, put social share buttons above and below the article and link back to your main site so that the search engines see that people really like this page that is associated with your site.

Other ways to get links into your site are to go out and create them. There are many free websites and blogs and revenue sharing websites that will let you go in and create pages about anything that you want and link back to your website within them. These websites do have authority and will count as links to your website. Here’s some examples:

• Hubpages
• Webnuggetz
• Loveblinks
• Xomba
• Shetoldme
• paper.li
• weebly
• inlinkz
• BestReviewer
• redgage
• in forum signatures of forums that allow this
• in dofollow blog comments

These will keep you busy in starting to create backlinks to your website.  If you are already getting lots of traffic and you don’t think you need to be creating backlinks than probably what you need to be doing is figuring out how to translate that traffic into sales.

There are many things that can affect how well your traffic converts, and this is the kind of thing that you will want to start looking into. Search in Google for how to increase conversion rates and start experimenting.  In affiliate marketing you can always do better than what you are doing now.