Affiliate marketing is one of the best ways to make big money online. Many people try affiliate marketing, but very few, make even the first one sale, so in the end, they quit and try other ways of making money online. Affiliate marketing may be challenging depending on how you do it. To best make of affiliate marketing try to narrow down to your niche in case you are a blogger, and promote products that are related to your blog niche. This way, if you have built your audience around a given niche, then there is a high chance they will buy related products and increase your affiliate sales.
We are going to look at simple ways you can increase your affiliate sales, and get you smiling to the bank:
Most people who are planning to buy a given product or service will look for reviews on the same. If your visitors like your review they will definitely buy from you. So if you are an affiliate marketer, try writing reviews on the products that you promote.
This can be something like an E Book. You can mention the Product Brand that you are promoting in the eBook as a reference with hyperlinks having your affiliate ID.
Introduce the products you sell, to your friends. Am sure if there are reputable products or brands your friends will definitely like and buy them. After using the products or services, your friends will refer their friends too. This is the fastest way to get a word around about a given product or service.
Try as much as possible to leverage the power of social media. Find out where your audience like hanging out most. Show up, and post content that is timely and relevant.
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You can also read: Social Media Optimization
Work on becoming an expert in a given field. As your reputation grows, your traffic grows too. You can then sell affiliate products to your audience, especially those products that are related to your niche.
Related: Best way to make your first affiliate commission
Ensure your site is optimized for search engines, in fact most of the traffic that converts comes from search engines, so if you a high percentage of your traffic from the search, you have high chances of making sales on your site.
You can also read: Basic On-Site SEO Techniques for Bloggers
Engage your subscribers with email campaigns. Don’t rush, build a relationship with your subscribers, overtime you can convert them to your customers. If you don’t have a list yet, you can start building one with Convertkit or GetResponse.
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Find forums that are related to your niche, and be active there. You will definitely find people who are looking for a particular product. Recommend your affiliate products where necessary.
Using say infographics in your blog posts helps your content reach most audience, since they are eye-catching, they improve SEO and they also increase brand awareness. With a large audience, you have a large market to offer your affiliate products. When using Banners, place them where they can be easily seen on your site like before the content (below the title). Use Call to action words where necessary to encourage your audience to take the next step and remember to include your affiliate ID whenever you mention your product.
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I'm working on several of these!
Hi, thanks for visiting.
Thank you for this. I definitely need to start writing in forums!
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Hi John,
I plan on trying Tip 1 soon. I'm the affiliate.
Janice
Hi Janice, glad to know that you are already implementing some of these tips. Thanks for visiting.
Excellent post! I really find helping others a key point here. When you help your fellow bloggers, and other readers - they will most likely engage with you. This can also establish you as an expert in your niche. Thus, helps in affiliate sales.
I totally agree with that, success comes in collaboration and building relationship with fellow bloggers and user. Thanks for reading.
I love these tips this is one area I am still totally clueless on . Will implement some and hopefully they work for me :)
Hey Tachira, it takes one step at time, and reading a blog like this is one of the ways to develop your skills in affiliate marketing otherwise thanks for reading.
These are so useful! Especially to someone like me who's a bit clueless at things like this! thanks :)
Hi, most welcomed.
Great tips! i am thinking about writing a review soon!
Thanks for visiting.
Yes these are all so important! I am definitely looking to increase affiliate sales in 2018.
Glad, that you found this helpful. All the best.
Thank you, it was really helpful.
Hi Elevee, appreciated.
These are some great tips! I myself am just about to start with affiliate marketing so this is very useful for me! :)
Hi Monika, glad this was helpful. Thanks.