If
building and maintaining a website is a tough business for you, then you’re
probably better off without one. Instead, affiliate marketing is beginning to
see more new types of affiliates that don’t have websites to begin with. These
are the new-school boys, where they are turning to social platforms to market
the products from the affiliate programs they join. We break down a few of them
in the list below:
You’re
really just a few clicks away from creating your own Facebook page. It’s really
that simple. And the folks who are big on these know just what to do and how
often to post up content. Affiliate marketers who use their Facebook profiles
or Facebook pages have an advantage over those who are beginning to start up –
they have an audience already. So how did they do this?
You’re
really just a few clicks away from creating your own Facebook page. It’s really
that simple. And the folks who are big on these know just what to do and how
often to post up content. Affiliate marketers who use their Facebook profiles
or Facebook pages have an advantage over those who are beginning to start up –
they have an audience already. So how did they do this?
Similarly
to how you get traffic into your website, the best way to get people’s
attention to your page is by doing a few things:
This
will help you target the audience types you’re looking for, as well as
advertise multiple types of links to different types of audience profiles.
Which means – each post or ad you do would be different, and you can set various
goals or objectives to achieve from it.
Do this
long enough, and you’ll soon be getting a following – though the benchmark for
success depends on just how compelling or interesting you’ll be making your
Facebook page about.
b.
Create videos or pictures for content
Think
outside the box and don’t do what everyone else is doing. Instead of just
linking products, use this as an opportunity to connect with your audience by
creating content they love – and things they can share more importantly.
By doing
this, you’ll at least gain a few more eyeballs that target outside of your core
audience – and if you strategically place your affiliate links in the
descriptions, you’ll at least be getting some conversions.
Instagram
The
picture sharing platform is a tough nut to crack for affiliate marketing, but
when done right, can yield incredible results – simply because the content
found there is incredibly easy to consume. We’ve seen the likes of super famous
folks like Kendall Jenner and more, endorsing products on their feed, to low
and mid-level popular Instagrammers posting up photos of them with products
they love – or in this case – “love”.
Now it’s
easy to get lost in this and not know what is genuine or not, but more often
than not, the affiliate marketers who are serious with using this medium tend
to stick to one or two themes, just to ensure any difference in product or
brands do not derail their identity.
It’s
important to set that tone for your followers, as no one likes to see what’s
not relevant – and the everyday end user are a pretty smart bunch – they can
smell hard-sell if you’re not careful.
From
here, affiliate marketers place their affiliate links in their bio descriptions
– and more often than not, most of them are pretty successful at converting
their followers into customers for merchants.
Twitter
One
would think that there’s only so much you can write in 140 characters, but the
real trick to being successful at Twitter is constantly posting up tweets.
You’ll want to turn it down a notch and not turn every tweet into an affiliate
related one, simply because you’ll just end up losing your identity and no one
will follow or retweet you thereafter.
We
suggest of following and taking a page from witty personalities like Chrissy
Teigen or more to learn a trick or two on how to capture someone’s attention in
just so few characters. Check them out below:
Buy
traffic
With PPC
ads, you can buy ads on Google, or other search engines with pay-per-click
modes of payment. This is easy to start with, and essential since you need to
have some traction to your site. From here, all you have to do is create an ad
or ads that are relevant to whatever you’re writing, or whatever affiliate
program you’re promoting.
This
will take some time, energy, persistence, research, and of course money! But be
patient, as you’ll learn a lot of ways to optimize the type of traffic you get
from this model.
However,
a note of caution: beware of the sort of bids you make, and ensure they do not
break the affiliate program’s rules. Some advertisers will not appreciate you
bidding on their keywords.
