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The Affiliate Sales Kit - Writing Killer Proposals and Selling Yourself To Merchants

The Affiliate Sales Kit - Writing Killer Proposals and Selling Yourself To Merchants

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Presentation with 2 appendices. Hear two experts within the Affiliate Sphere talk about how to power up your Sales armoury. Nadeem with 10 years experience in the sector who has won pitches often against larger companies for clients including Trinity Mirror (for mirrorcashback.com), Newsquest, Tesco and Virgin Holidays will be presenting on Writing and Presenting Killer Proposals and Pitches. In this must attend session Nadeem will go into detail about how to hit the right buttons to win contracts from big brand advertisers. Topics include; research, client requirements, templates, projections and financials and presentation skills. Meanwhile Grant will be presenting on how Affiliates must influence the key decision makers within the respective online teams. He’ll discuss how you need to ensure you sell your business and the sales benefits to the client and that Affiliates need to promote the efficient use of budget and try to pull budget from other less efficient marketing channels to grow, develop and survive! Topics will include; Talking to the decision makers, selling your services, PPC, SEO & Twitter, Targeting, The importance of regular contact, other RTM's as competition and the risk reward model.

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The Affiliate Sales Kit - Writing Killer Proposals and Selling Yourself To Merchants

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Nadeem Azam

Recent client wins

affiliate marketing

email marketing

search marketing

business development

web design

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Why Sell Yourself to Advertisers

Affiliate marketing becoming more professional

- Premium networks, agencies and advertisers

- Hidden campaigns

- Higher commissions

- Lucrative RFPs

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Selling Yourself to Advertisers

Your Sales Armoury

Website

Social Media

Email

Print Literature

Digital Literature

Face-to-Face

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Website

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Website

Logo – 99designs.com

Design – do something special

Copy and SEO – you will be judged

Contact – be easily contactable

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Social Media

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Social Media

If small business, only maintain one social media presence, otherwise you will probably struggle to update them in the long term

Syndicate via Twitterfeed, Ping.fm, HelloTxt

Be professional – big brands don’t work with people who come across as prats on Facebook

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Emails

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EmailsBusiness email address

HTML email

Signature

Correct English

Useful resources:

www.emailsignature.eu

www.emailreplies.com

www.microsoft.com/outlook

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Emails

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Digital and Print Literature

PDFs

Powerpoints

Business Cards

Presentation Folders

Stationary (letter headed paper, compliment slips)

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Digital and Print Literature

PDFs and Powerpoints

Generic Overview – who you are, what you do

Case Study

Proposal

Azam Word template example

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Face-to-Face Presentation

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Face-to-Face Presentation

If meet Affiliate Manager in person, they are more likely to work closer with you (and pay you more $$$s)

If based outside South-East England, arrange to come to London once every month or two. Schedule a few meetings

Arrange meetings before/after/during conferences like this one

Print and bring relevant information

Dress one degree smarter than person you are meeting. Shows professionalism and respect

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Any questions?

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Further information

Website: www.azam.net

Blog: www.azam.info

Email: [email protected]