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By Tricia Meyer (tricia.me) and Deborah Carney http://bloggingabcs.com Are you a blogger who isn’t quite sold yet on the benefits of affiliate marketing? Do you know just enough about it to be curious but are wondering if you will really benefit from it? Have you started adding affiliate links to your blogs but want to make sure that you are maximizing your benefits? If any of these sound like you, I need to show you “Five Affiliate Marketing Benefits for Bloggers.”Based on the great feedback I received speaking at Blog Indiana last month, I have tweaked my presentation from there and will be giving it again via a free live webinar on Blogging ABCs. Deb Carney will be adding additional ideas from the merchant and affiliate manager perspectives. Both of us will be available for Q&A as well.Whether you are a mom blogger, have a non-profit site, are a consultant or focus on content curation, you can benefit from affiliate marketing. Join us September 8 from 1-2pm Eastern to learn how being an affiliate will not only earn you money but also help you generate content, grow your network, and drive traffic to your site.If you would like to see the replay go to http://bloggingabcs.com and please sign up for our newsletter. Once you confirm your subscription you will be sent the link to the webinar replay and be notified of new podcasts and new webinars.
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5 Affiliate Marketing Benefits for Bloggers
Presented by:
Tricia MeyerOwner, MeyerTech, LLC
Deborah CarneyTeamLoxly and ABCs Plus
Why Is Tricia Here?
• Education• Legal Career• Switch to Affiliate Marketing• Current Endeavors
Tricia [email protected]
Twitter.com/sunshinetriciawww.tricia.me
Who is Deborah Carney?
• Affiliate: since the early days• Affiliate Manager: Former In-house for
CaféPress.com• Consultant: for several CPA networks and
other ecommerce companies • Outsourced Program Manager: (OPM)
since 2006 – Multiple programs in Shareasale Top 100 Merchants List
• Merchant: LoxlyGallery.com• Training and Podcasts: ABCsPlus.com –for
Affiliates, Bloggers, Merchants and more
MerchantABCs.com
@loxly@merchantabcs
Facebook.com/loxlyLinkedin.com/in/
loxly
Do You Recognize Any of These?
Affiliate Marketing Helps You Work With Them
How Does Affiliate Marketing Work?
Affiliate Marketing Wikipedia
5 Affiliate Marketing Benefits for YOU
• Revenue Opportunities• Free Products• Contest Sponsorships• Content• Networking
Revenue Opportunities
• Who can benefit?o Traditional bloggerso Non-profitso Consultantso Curators/Aggregators (deals, news, etc)
Revenue Opportunities
• How do you integrate it?o Bannerso Text links to productso Text links to storesoWidgetso Datafeedso Videos
Revenue Opportunities
Free Products
• How can you use them?oWritten reviews of productso Video reviews of productsoMonetize the reviewso Exchange the reviews for backlinks
Free Products
Contest Sponsorships• How does it work for you?
oMerchants supply prizeso Contest engages your userso Contests go viralo Contests get backlinkso Follow up with contestants o Introduces merchant to your visitors
Contest Sponsorships
Affiliate Marketing Creates Content
• What kind of content can you get out of it?o News of upcoming
product releaseso Lists of hot and best
selling productso Insider information
directly from merchants
Affiliate Marketing Creates Content
• What kind of content can you get out of it?o News of upcoming product releaseso Lists of hot and best selling productso Insider information directly from merchantso Exclusive coupon codes for your readerso Vanity codes lend credibility
Affiliate Marketing Creates Content
• What kind of content can you get out of it?o News of upcoming product releaseso Lists of hot and best selling productso Insider information directly from merchantso Exclusive coupon codes for your readerso Vanity codes lend credibilityo Pre-written articles or product descriptionso Videoso Editorial calendar suggestions
Networking• Who will you meet in the affiliate marketing
community?oWeb/graphic designerso SEO specialistso Social media expertso Customer service agents from companieso Other bloggers
How to Learn More• Affiliate Summit (Conference, Free Forum)
http://forum.affiliatesummit.com • Podcasts (Geekcast.fm, Webmaster Radio)
http://geekcast.fm• Network and OPM Conference Calls• BloggingABCs.com
Questions?
Tricia [email protected]/sunshinetriciawww.tricia.me
Deborah [email protected]
Twitter.com/bloggingabcswww.bloggingabcs.com
