Affiliate Marketing Secrets Your Competition Can’t Beat!

Do you want to expand the reach of your business and earn more revenue? Affiliate marketing can be the way to achieve these goals efficiently. Affiliate marketing is a fast paced, easy way to promote sales through advertisements that people will see on their computers. 

Read on to find out how to make the most of this revolutionary new marketing trend. If there’s a signature option when posting on forums and blogs, use it. If you participate in forums, place a link to your site in the signature of your posts. 

Make sure you link your website to your email. By doing this you will be passively promoting your website every time you communicate with someone online. Additionally, you will also be building quality backlinks to your website which can have a positive affect on your website’s SERP ranking. 

Make sure to include a line of catchy text that encourages viewers to follow the link. Developing a high-quality website is the first step to securing high ranking on search engines’ results pages. This will be the first, and one of the most important, steps for anyone building a web business. 

If your site is functional and visually appealing, your future workload will be reduced. Online advertising is a great way to get attention and draw people to your site. If you spend this money, you will notice how much your traffic improves. 

Make sure to find a page that has a lot of traffic during the course of the day, to get your product name into the minds of a lot of potential customers. Offer special sales on your site’s check-out page. For example, give customers the option to add similar items at a discounted price as a kind of “thank-you.” 

You can get rid of additional stock, boost sales and make the client feel that received a great deal. Start with a small, well-optimized site when you’re first starting out. When a site is overloaded with millions of indexed pages, search engines may pass over the site and target a page with fewer and more focused pages. 

If you are good at creating an Ezine, it can be an on-going effective marketing technique where you can build a following with the people who subscribe to it. Include personal family photos of yourself or your employees. 

Anecdotes about your life, at work or at home, may amuse your readers and build a relationship. Make sure to put something interesting in the Ezine (this could be any easy or fast way to achieve an important goal) to grab your readers attention and spark their curiosity. 

If you want to improve your Internet marketing, you need to focus a lot on your emails. Remember to choose a secure e-mail service. Don’t use a service that will delete old emails because you may need access to them. 

Try creating archiving arrangements for emails, particularly if you have sensitive communication with consultants and customers through email. To assist your business in growing a base of customers with Online marketing, make sure you stay active on social media sites. 

Facebook fan pages give clients as well as customers a place to give feedback that anyone can view. You can easily chat informally with all your customers using your Twitter account. Wherever possible, avoid spam. 

It sometimes might seem like the right path to take, but it usually has undesired consequences and will drive traffic away from your website, not to it. Without your personal edge, most people will turn a deaf ear to your efforts and lose interest in your site. 

Make sure that you stay on top of all of the newest Internet developments. The Internet is always changing quickly, so it is important to keep up with the popular sites and new innovations. Doing so can give you ideas for getting your product to your target market. 

Our tips can lead to increased business, huge profits, and a more productive work ethic. You should now understand why the world of affiliate marketing is so important to every business. You should use these tips and strategies and gain customers. 

The more you know about internet marketing, the better the expert you will become. Use the information laid out here to help you better understand, and you will discover that it is easier than you thought. Just take your time and keep learning. 

http://networkmarketingproject.com/affiliate-marketing-secrets-your-competition-cant-beat/#sthash.jFOjO4Oi.dpbs 

Pinterest Bans Affiliate Marketing Links!

On February 12, 2015, Pinterest announced that it would “automatically remove all affiliate links, redirects and trackers on Pins.” This is important news because merchants with affiliate marketing programs could see a drop in revenue from that channel, depending on how many affiliates use Pinterest to drive traffic.

…merchants with affiliate marketing programs could see a drop in revenue from that channel, depending on how many affiliates use Pinterest to drive traffic.

Pinterest is a social media platform that enables users to curate collections of most any online content. For example, a fashion blogger can create a collection of links to her favorite denim jeans. These collections are known as “boards,” and each link is called a “pin.”

The fashion blogger has fans that she built up via her blog. Those fans could follow her to various social media platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest. 

And whenever those fans see a product recommendation from her, no matter what platform it’s on, they may be inclined to click through and complete a purchase. Pinterest is simply another way for bloggers to interact with their followers.

So how is this related to affiliate marketing? Say that the fashion blogger monetizes her content through affiliate marketing. She has a blog post on her site that features a review of various denim jeans, and that post contains affiliate links that her followers can click through to purchase the jeans. This is traditional affiliate marketing.

Pinterest vs. Affiliate Marketing

However, with the advent of social media, the blogger can now post those same affiliate links on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and other social sites. She is simply communicating her product recommendations across multiple channels in the hopes that her followers will click her affiliate link and complete a purchase, thus generating a commission to her.

But now, Pinterest is blocking all those affiliate links. The pins remain, but the links are blocked — the pin still appears on boards, and can be shared, but click-through functionality is removed. 

This is not a surprise to affiliate marketers, as Pinterest has blocked isolated affiliate links in the past. But this is the first time that the website has issued a comprehensive ban on all types of affiliate marketing.

Revenue for Pinterest

The ban comes at a time when four-year-old Pinterest is considering how to generate revenue from its 70 million users. In April 2014, Pinterest launched a test for “Promoted Pins” that enabled brand advertisers to pay for promotion on a cost-per-click basis. 

There is also industry speculation about Pinterest partnering with payments company Stripe to add its own “buy” button to user-generated content within the next three to four months. This move could place Pinterest in the role of the affiliate.

In fact, Pinterest experimented with the affiliate role in 2012, when it partnered up with Skimlinks (an affiliate marketing tool) to auto-convert pins into affiliate links. But the Pinterest abandoned that practice after it came under fire for not disclosing the practice to its users.

By banning affiliate links, Pinterest could be paving the way for another attempt at affiliate marketing, perhaps a transparent attempt at monetization.

Reliance on Pinterest? 

There are still methods for affiliates to benefit from Pinterest. For example, the fashion blogger who curated a board featuring her top denim picks could link each pin to her own blog post, which could link to the retailer’s e-commerce site for affiliate commissions. 

While this approach could work in the interim, affiliates should not depend on Pinterest for that traffic. If Pinterest implements a “buy” button, the blogger’s traffic from Pinterest would likely reduce.

If a retailer wants to benefit from a blogger’s Pinterest following, the retailer would likely need to work directly with the blogger, outside of an affiliate relationship. The retailer could compensate the blogger for curating a board, paying her a fixed amount instead of a commission.

In short, if a retailer’s affiliates use Pinterest as part of their marketing mix, that retailer will likely see a decline in affiliate revenue based on these changes. However, affiliates that depend mainly on Pinterest for their revenue may not be adding any value to your affiliate program anyway. 

These affiliate are building their success off a single site, instead of creating unique value — the heart of true affiliate marketing.

http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/81802-Pinterest-Bans-Affiliate-Marketing-Links 

How To Write Better Affiliate Marketing Content!

Maybe you are just dipping your toe in, or maybe you’re in the deep end. Either way, you’ve found yourself in the affiliate marketing pool. Now you want to take it to the next level. Your content is good, but you know it can be great. Where do you start?

A few months ago, we shared a great affiliate marketing infographic. It showed how important it is to have fun, relevant content for your audience. But what does that content look like?

Well, for starters, it:

1. Speaks From Personal Experience
If a friend recommended a snack bar to you, but hadn’t actually tried it, would you want to to buy it? Probably not.

The same goes for your readers. Any products or services you mention, you should have experience with. Your readers will have questions, and they’ll want you to answer them. Those answers should come from personal experience whenever possible.

Personal stories keep people interested. They want to know about the time you got lost on your way to the mall and this app saved your life, or the new restaurant you tried. Stories are fun to listen to. Getting personal will improve the content that needs to convert.

2. Keeps The Reader In Mind
The first rule of marketing is, “if your audience doesn’t want, they’ll never buy it.” Amy Lynn Andrews talks a lot about this in her post on affiliate marketing tips. Think of what they will buy, when, and how much they might spend.

Finding the right products and services for your readers is important. It’s also important to highlight why they’re are a good fit for your readers.

Do busy moms read your blog? Then how can this new mixer help them? Why is it worth the investment? Put yourself in your audience’s shoes. This will help make your content more persuasive.

Keep this in mind when you’re building your audience, as well. Before you have an established audience, you need to do the reverse. Find readers for the products and services you’re promoting.

3. Connects Content And Promotion
No one gets on Twitter for the promoted tweets, or goes to a webpage for the banner ads. People want to hear what you actually have to say. Your entertaining content might include a brand mention. Your readers will read that too.

Readers don’t want a long string of funny tweets from you, and then an awkward sales pitch. Try a funny story involving brand X, Y, or Z instead. People don’t mind promotion when it’s entertaining.

4. Is Honest About Flaws
Readers expect you to be honest, which means including negative feedback now and then. When every product is your “new favorite,” it starts to sound fake. Mentioning anything that you didn’t like helps balance out your reviews.

Holding off on five-star ratings also gives them more punch when something truly great comes along. Just like in school, when that one teacher would never give anything a 100. You knew any project he or she gave an A was top notch. You want to be like that teacher, so people know you only recommend the best.

5. Has Variety
Even if your blog or Twitter account is great, variety is the spice of life. Try new methods of promotion to reach new people. Maybe an email newsletter, a Pinterest account, or pay per click advertising. Think of new ways for people to find you. Have a friend with a similar blog? Maybe ask if they would let you write a guest post. Look at that, there’s a whole new audience for you.

If something you try doesn’t work, feel free to stop using it. But continue to try new things. You never know what might be your next big break.

What truly sets the best affiliate marketers apart is their content. Personal, relevant, and honest content will win out.

http://www.business2community.com/affiliate-marketing/write-better-affiliate-marketing-content-01132488

How To Become A Social Media Affiliate Marketer!

Times are hard, at least that what’s being rammed down our throat, right…?

Times are as hard as you want them to be, it’s your choice, you can either jump on the whining wagon of misery and hardship or be different. ‘Make your own luck’.

Don’t you find that those that spend the best part of their lives moaning about governments, tax’s and gas prices are generally those that are least prepared to bust a gut or work their fingers to the bone. In other words, get off their backside and do something about it.

If you are a perpetual moaner but do try to do something about your situation, then I apologize for my rant. My experiences of these people has more than been justified, several times over, I can assure you. Rant over

A question.. would you buy a gold watch off of someone you had never met?

Chances are, probably not. But. If we were to build a relationship first and you like my watch’s then maybe or probably yes.

Affiliate marketing first and foremost is about making a connection with your audience – engaging with them. You can offer those on your website the greatest offer the internet has ever seen but if you don’t first gain their trust so that they actually listen when you speak, it will all be in vain. They will click off your site at lightning speed.

With this said, your are going to need to network with other like minded people, try making contact with similar bloggers or business owners in your niche and invite them to view your stuff. In return, tell them that you will too spread the word of what they offer. 

I say this with some caution. Be sure to like the content they provide and approve of their work ethic. You don’t want to be associated with someone who provides poor content or worse still is going to spam you or your followers with mindless garbage.

When I first set out to build a site, be it a niche or high authority site I never look to monetize it until I know it’s well optimized and climbing the rankings. In fact, I will not monetize it until it’ just approaching page 1 of google. This benefits my site in many ways:-

* It forces me to work hard on providing good content
* It also forces me to not be lazy with my on-site SEO
* It enables me to get a good amount of content uploaded to the site before the traffic turns up.
* This time that passes is time to tweak, make changes, iron out the cracks.

Okay, so your site is now all good you’re ready to go, what next?

When writing your content be sure to include your affiliate links when mentioning a product or service that can help your readers see the same results. I try never to promote a product that I haven’t tried myself. 

The exception to this is when someone I trust profusely recommends something that I am yet to try for myself. I always end up buying the product too though as I find promoting just any old garbage to be immoral. 

I like many of you in many moments of weakness have been caught up in the bull-shit that unfortunately plagues our industry. I call it, “Shinny Shite”.

Gone slightly off track here – include links in your posts, and include images/banners where you can. Not too much though, remember your stuff needs to engage not disengage.

Social media has changed the way we do Affiliate Marketing forever. It gives you the platform to promote your stuff for free. All you have to do is again provide some value, in return for another subscriber to your blog or like your fanpage. 

I see so many ‘newbie’ and surprisingly experienced marketers miss the fundamentals of social media with regards to affiliate marketing. 

They try to make the sale. Of course you need to make sales to make any money. But, try selling directly on facebook, twitter or indeed any social platform is a sure fire way to lose what credibility you have with them running in the opposite direction.

http://oranckay.net/become-social-media-affiliate-marketer/