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Make Your Affiliate Program Stand Out
How can you differentiate yourself from all the others trying to sell the same thing? It’s really very simple yet something that I’ve seen very few people do.
Trick to Apply
It’s a simple 2-step process. First, you absolutely must be marketing your affiliate or associate program from your own website. Do not under any circumstances try and market or advertise the self-replicated affiliate page you were given when you signed up.
Now here’s the trick to making your offer stand out. And again, I’m assuming you have taken the initiative to setup some type of web page to market your affiliate or associate program. All you have to do is offer something unique for anyone who buys the product or service your affiliate program offers. Think about it. Offer free banner creation, or, do you design web pages? If so, offer a free 3 page web site.
Do you get the idea?
Whatever you are marketing, offer something as a bonus. The customer sees this as something few if any others selling the same thing are offering. The list could be endless as to what you offer. It can be as simple as free reports, or a great ebook. Maybe you’ve been given reprint and resell rights to several products. Instead of trying to sell them, offer them as a freebie if you think it will help get the sale for the affiliate or associate program you are marketing.
Use your own judgment and base what you give away on the commission you get from making a sale. You don’t want to give away $200 in services if you are only making a
$25 profit on your affiliate sale.
Try and make whatever you use as your free bonus offer something of real value. Don’t just use the same old worn out reports that have been floating around the web for years.
Conclude
The bottom line; If you are marketing an associate or affiliate program, and are not getting the sales you were expecting, it is never too late to try something that can jump start your sales. Unless you can make your offer stand out, you are more than likely to be one of many not earning any money with the program you have joined. Think differently. You don’t have to be one of thousands.
Select a Free Affiliate Program
A free affiliate program describes the network of merchants interested in selling a product or a service a similar network of websites that are interested in advertising for these merchants at no cost to them for a commission.
In order to choose a free affiliate program that would work best for the readers of your website, take a look at the content your provide. If you host forums for gardening clubs, maybe you can join a free affiliate program with a seed company that pays for every catalog you get your readers to sign up for.
If your main focus is productivity in the tech-savvy, perhaps you can find a free affiliate program that directs readers to a merchant selling the latest in personal digital assistant accessories. If your website content provides a steady steam of readers interested in simple, earth-conscious ways of life, maybe you can find a free affiliate program that pays per click leading to the merchant selling preservative free cleaning solutions.
If you don’t feel comfortable providing your readers with the potential of sales of an existing good or service, you may be interested in joining a free affiliate program targeted to your content. Café Press is just one example of a merchant that sells t-shirts, hats and other products to your readers with your website’s logo or other content that you choose yourself.
When you choose a free affiliate program, make sure that it is exactly what it advertises to be – free. Some “free” affiliate program actually charge a website that terminates advertising for the vendor before certain amount of time has lapsed.
Best Affiliate Program for Your Website
First Step
First, take inventory of your audience. Who visits your website the most? Are your readers within the coveted 18-35 year old demographic? Are they the elderly surfing the Internet for the very first time? In order to find the best affiliate program for your website, you must be able to identify how your readers will be of value.
Second Step
Second, take a look at how much of an advertising presence you want on your site. People generally don’t like to feel like they’re being exploited for advertising purposes, so as a Webmaster; you walk a fine line on targeting the audience and offending them. Are your readers of the persuasion that would be annoyed by directed advertising or would they welcome it? If you host a website that provides content about home ownership, perhaps links to mortgage providers would be the best affiliate program for you. However, if you host a blog whose content is of most interest to fellow high school fans of a punk band, your efforts of providing competitive rates on home loans would not only be in vain, but be annoying to your readers.
Third Step
Third, identify how much of a control you want on who advertise on your website. If you are able to choose what types of merchant will be advertising on your website, a site like CJ, Pepperjamnetwork, shareasale etc. may be the best affiliate program for you. Remember, though, that affiliate programs that allow the Webmaster to choose the advertisers can be more difficult to secure.
