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How to increase affiliate marketing sales
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I. Affiliate marketing guides
Affiliate marketing has never been a better way to make a living online. It is a fairly low-risk marketing
model that helps both the buyer and the seller, and can have a fairly high return if done properly.
Lately, a lot of services have started opening their own affiliate programs, giving you a large number of
products and services to choose from and start marketing. This is especially pronounced in the
WordPress community, where a lot of services like WPEngine (or even us) offer a commission for each
sale. In fact, we have an affiliate program of our own, released a while ago.
Taking Part In An Affiliate Program
Affiliate marketing is based around a simple idea: selling someone else’s products. In most cases, an
affiliate program will provide anyone who signs up with a referral link, which they can use to direct
visitors to the provider’s website. If someone makes a purchase, then the sale can be credited to
whoever brought him, and they earn a commision for it.
Affiliate programs have a number of advantages over other business models. For starters, you are selling
a product that you don’t have to maintain, and you are free to focus only on bringing more visitors. It
also lets you choose which product you wish to promote, since there are many different affiliate
programs all around and you don’t have to stick to only one.
Overall, affiliate marketing is a nice way to generate a fair bit of revenue while also providing value both
to the customer and to the seller. However, there are some things to take into account if you wish to
increase your sales as an affiliate.
Affiliate Marketing Is About Providing Value
The first and most important thing to keep in mind when doing affiliate marketing, is that you need to
provide some value on top of your affiliate links. Remember, you’re promoting someone else’s product,
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so you need to add your own personal twist to make it unique and above everyone else. People don’t
like having links shoved in front of them without having any reason to actually click on them, and you’ll
have to work so they find value in the services you’re selling them.
This can mean adding complementary information or providing content that can help a potential user of
that product. For example, you can create a detailed tutorial on how to use the product, or giving
insights into getting the most out of it.
If you were selling t-shirts, you might want to write about popular fashion trends so people know how to
best match them up, or which color will suit its wearer the best. The key is to provide high-quality
content that the visitor may be interested in, either as a complement of the product, or as a tool to use
it more effectively. One brilliant example of this is Carrie Dils, who gives you a lot of insight into the
genesis platform while having a few affiliate links.
Stay Relevant
You also need to account for the relevance of your content. Just posting any kind of content may not
suffice, since you’re trying to capture the attention of your readers. No matter how many visitors you
have, if the content you offer them is not relevant to their interests, they will most likely turn around
and leave.
Before creating your next piece of content, stop for a second and think about what a user of your
affiliate product would like to read. Does it help you accomplish something? What is its main purpose?
You should question your content as much as you need to in order to ensure it’s appropriate enough,
and that it adds upon the product or service that you’re marketing. One useful way to create good
content is to have a clear idea of who your audience is, so you should interact with your visitors and get
to know them as much as you can; once you learn about their needs, you will be able to find what they
might find the most useful.
Don’t Overdo it
It’s important to balance the amount of affiliate marketing you do, though. Since your visitors will be
coming looking for something of value, you need to provide that value first and foremost. People don’t
like being assaulted by excessive advertising, so you need to avoid promoting your affiliate marketing
left and right.
Providing your users with valuable content will eventually turn all that attention into loyalty. Great
affiliate marketers know that the best way to get users to click their links is by creating a solid brand, so
the audience will remain loyal and be more open to what he has to offer.
II. Affiliate marketingstrategies
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Affiliate marketing is a low-cost
way for merchants to build
awareness and showcase their
products and services. The model
is simple; it works as a
commission-based referral
system. A partner or affiliate
markets a merchant's products
for a "piece of the pie."
Affiliate marketing experts often make an income that can tally over five figures
per month, however only 1 to 5% of thousands of marketers achieve this level.
When an affiliate reaches this elite level they are often referred to as a "super"
affiliate.
How does one become a super affiliate? Can anyone do it? Super affiliates have
common tactics that they embrace and put into place. Anyone can become a
super affiliate, but it will not come without blood, sweat, and a hefty time
commitment. The typical super affiliate possesses the following traits:
Persistence
Patience
Thirst for Knowledge
These three traits combined with the following strategy gives you the formula for
the makings of a "super" affiliate.
1. Find a Unique Niche
The mistake that many affiliate marketing hopefuls have in common is that they
try to offer everything under the sun rather than focusing on a specific niche
market. Do not scatter your efforts, focus on your niche, promote it, and sell it
well.
2. Search Engine Marketing
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Once you've built your affiliate storehouse you will need to promote it. Many
affiliates use pay-per-click engines. I suggest that you learn how to achieve organic
search results or hire a search engine marketing company. This will save you from
spending all your profits on pay-per-click engines. Only use pay-per-click engines
if you know what you are doing, otherwise all your profits may end in the hands of
Google Adwords or Overture.
3. Know Your Product, Know Your Audience
Create a resource. By taking the time to learn about the products and/or services
that you are offering you can create information that builds your credibility. That
credibility builds trust. If your viewers do not have trust in you more than likely
they will not purchase from your storehouse. If you want more information on the
psychological process that an online buyer goes through I suggest that you read
my article on the Five Levels of Internet Marketing and the Sales Process. This will
help you in creating a web site that converts well, which in return will increase
your cash flow.
4. Don't Put All Your Eggs in One Basket
Promote products from different merchants. This way if you have a problem with
receiving payment from a merchant, or their products do not convert well the
effects on your business will be minimal. Watch out for exclusivity agreements;
remember this is your business. Protect yourself and diversify so that you do not
feel the famine effect if something goes wrong. There is absolutely nothing wrong
with promoting niche products from different merchants.
5. Seek Knowledge and Embrace Change
If you are familiar with Internet marketing at all you know that what worked three
months ago may not work today. Stay on top of the trends. Seek knowledge, start
by learning something new about affiliate marketing daily. For example remember
those marketing tools called "banner" that use to drive sales at an astronomical
rate a few years ago? Well those banners developed a term called "banner
blindness." That means most online viewers will not click on banners even if they
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do pertain to what they are looking for. To be a "super" affiliate you must always
spend time reading, learning, and embracing the changes in Internet marketing.
6. Don't Give Up
It's hard to do, and most of the time those dabbling in affiliate marketing give up
way too soon. Monitor your statistics, watch to see what is working and what is
not. Make changes when necessary. Do one thing daily to promote your storehouse
and be patient. Before you know it you will start getting payments.
Remember that it will not happen overnight. Encompass and develop the
persistence, patience, and knowledge. Then follow the tactics I've mentioned
above and you are on your way to becoming a "super" affiliate.