Archive for Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing without a list is a lot like fishing in a swimming pool. You may have all the right poles and tackle, but you’re not likely to catch anything. It may be that someone occasionally throws a bass in your pool out of pity, but again, it won’t keep your family fed.
Listbuilding is Essential for Successful Affiliate Marketing
How do you think that the top dogs of affiliate marketing sell so much stuff if they’re not listbuilding? You can evaluate their pages all you want, and chances are they aren’t any better than yours, except for one thing—they have an opt-in box. Even if you have an opt-in box, you’re not going to get anywhere if no one knows about it.
The only thing that separates you from them is the relative size of your lists. They can sell a gazillion widgets because they have a stocked pond to fish from. Now, let’s talk about how you can turn your swimming pool into a fishing pond.
Building Your List by Driving Traffic to Your Website
The first thing you need to know is how to start building your list. You do this Read More→
When a newbie marketer gets a healthy affiliate marketing list, the idea of e-mailing them can be scary. The idea of a mass exodus of un-subscribers can be terrifying, but don’t let it get to you. Fear is failure and the forerunner of failure. You have to be positive and upbeat in your mailings and YOU HAVE TO MAIL.
Entertain Your E-mail List
If a lot of people un-subscribing from your e-mail list is your concern, there are some ways to make sure that they stay on. An important way of doing this is to entertain your subscribers. By now, you have a good idea of what kind of people are on your list. Use this to your advantage.
Your niche will reflect the way you’ll entertain your readers. You can use humor, either making it niche-specific or according to the type of people on your list. Naturally, if you have a lot of white collars on your list, “You might be a marketer if” jokes probably won’t fly very well. You might be better off entertaining them by “declaring war on the search engines” or a similar sort of performance.
Doing an Occasional Product Review is a Plus
You can either mail out a product review to your list, or Read More→
Two of the ripest social media sites for affiliate marketing are Facebook and Twitter. They’re among the top ranking social websites on Alexa, and they’re both catch words in every home. In fact, phone companies have “there’s an app for that” as a slogan, which includes stuff you can use on Facebook and Twitter.
Posting Affiliate Links on Twitter and Facebook
One of the greatest things about Twitter and Facebook is that you can post your affiliate links directly in your posts. The trick of it is that you have to remove the HTML part. Many people think that you have to have a Twitter or Facebook tool to post your affiliate link, but it’s not necessary or even desirable.
You want your links to look like anyone else linking to a website. The only way this works is to do it “as if” you’re merely linking to a cool site you’ve found. Just look at the script in your affiliate link, select the URL part, paste it, and there you go.
This is, of course, assuming that you’re not affiliating with a vendor that is already aware of the Read More→
There are so many common mistakes people make when they’re new to affiliate marketing. It all begins with making the wrong assumptions about what it takes to make it in the business. Here are a few of the most common problems and their solutions.
Spending too Much Time Selling Products
While selling products is “technically” what you’re doing, selling the product without any authority on your part isn’t going to get you anywhere. Few products are so awesome that they sell themselves. Sell yourself, connect with your audience, and THEN pitch the product.
This is the formula of good sales copy. The general idea is that you establish yourself as someone who has become a success in your niche: You had all the same problems that the visitor has encountered, and this product is the answer to the problem. You spend a decent amount of effort establishing yourself, a lot of effort connecting with the viewer, and virtually mention “in passing” that the product fixes those problems.
In selling yourself, this should go beyond the sales copy. You have to spend time Read More→
There are several things you have to pay attention to when you’re driving traffic to your affiliate marketing sites. First of all, you need to know where you can drive traffic from. You also need to know the approach you need to make when you draw people to your sites. It’s also good to have a strategy for getting them from one place to another.
Page Ranking and Offsite SEO Sources
Of course, everyone in affiliate marketing wants to be at the top of the search engines’ page ranking. Generally speaking, this is something that can only really come with time and effort. Once you have your page made, your energy is best spent in offsite SEO, mainly at social media platforms.
There are 3 main angles of attack in your Web 2.0 strategy. Video sites, such as YouTube, are always a prize commodity. Article databases, such as Ezine or Articlesbase, are the proverbial work horses of your campaign. Blogs are always a good way to draw traffic, as well as social networking sites.
Each of these sources can provide a much needed backlink to your site. They can all be beefed Read More→
Trying to get spotted on the search engines is getting more and more difficult these days. This is especially true if you’re running multiple affiliate marketing campaigns. That’s where social media sites like Facebook can pick up the slack.
When Making Friends is Listbuilding
Listbuilding is a snap on social media sites. All you have to do is make friends. Facebook has an upper cap on how many friends and fans you can have. For the most part, you’ll never have to worry about it, but if you do reach the limit, just set up another account and try not to overlap the friends’ list too much.
With that said, it doesn’t take very long to build a decent friends’ list on Facebook. The more you “friend” people, the more their friends will “friend” you. Once you think you’re at a good starting place, start posting messages.
You don’t want to start right off posting links, and Read More→
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