Saturday 13 October 2012

Strengthen Your Business With These Top Affiliate Marketing Tips

By Dupree Pitman


Running a successful online business can be a hard and tedious task, especially if you are having trouble gaining users and helping your website become popular and known. With the help of these tips/tricks, you will find yourself feeling more confident about yourself and your website, as well as the popularity of your site slowly increasing.

Here's a good tip about using trackers. You can get statistics on any 'action' at your site − an action being an event such as a sale, a download, a subscription to your mailing list, a sign−up to your affiliate program. Recording a sale action for example can provide you with the important ROI (Return on Investment) figures which give you the real proof of how successful a campaign is.

Before you decide to sign up with a particular affiliate program, it might be a good idea to talk to other people who have used that program before. Get a sense of how easy it is to work with the company and what sort assistance they offer to their affiliates.

For affiliate marketers being honest is always best! If you absolutely cannot try out a product you are reviewing, tell your customers why, and explain how the product works. Lying to customers will always be found out, and doing so will cause you to lose loyal readers and business partners. Be thorough with explanations, but also, be honest about what you truly know.

Avoid posting affiliate promotions on or near the holidays! If your promotion is holiday-specific, try to post it at least a month ahead of time so people will be able to read your review and make the decision to purchase, and have the item delivered in time for the big day.

At the end of the year you should make sure to send out a thank you to all of your customers for working with you over the past year. You can also tell them that you would like to see them next year and give them a preview of what to expect. People always like it when you try to connect with them.

If you're already running Adsense or something similar, analyze the results. This will help you to see which affiliate marketing to target. For example, if visitors to your health blog click on Adsense ads for vitamins, you could maximize revenue by adding affiliate links for an online retailer that sells those same products, which you already know your visitors are interested in buying.

Consider using a pay-per-sale or PPS affiliate. This marketing plan only pays you if the click through to the affiliate site results in a sale, so you could potentially be wasting advertising space. However, when it is successful, it pays off considerably. You can always perform a test run if both you and the vendor are in agreement.

It's extremely important to explore all the avenues you can to share your affiliate promotions. Just writing a blog post or article and waiting for shoppers to buy is NOT the most effective method. Post on your blog, share with your social media followers, put a blurb and a link in your email newsletter, and consider posting a follow-up blog post with more information later.

If you're unsatisfied with the results that affiliate marketing is giving you, then something needs to change. This article has given you all sorts of great suggestions on how you can maximize your affiliate marketing earnings. Try putting them into practice. You'll be amazed at how much your earnings will increase.




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