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:
Write a review
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.
Offer a sign -up incentive or freebie
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.
Help your friends
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.
Get social
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
Become an expert
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
Build SEO rankings
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
Use Email marketing
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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Participate in forums
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.
Use effective strategies to promote
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.
Comments
50 responses to “10 Ways to increase your affiliate Sales”
Thank you for this post. I’m not at this point in my blog career but I hope to be and this post is so helpful, I’ve pinned for future reference x
Thanks for reading!
I’ve found affiliate marketing really difficult so far, but there were some great tips in here that might help push me on my way to earning a little bit of money. Thanks for the great tips!
Thanks Sarah, for your honest feedback.
This is really helpful John! Let me bookmark this post for later use 🙂 I really need to increase my affiliate sales.
Hi, am glad to learn that this post is helpful to you. Welcome.
I will take note of the tips mentioned herein. I am just starting with affiliate and honestly, I don’t know how and where to start. Thank you for sharing these tips. I will get back once I’ve done the needed things so i can ask some assistance.
Hi Sharon, thanks for visiting. You are always welcomed.
Hi, John. I need help I can’t make one sale. with my website
Which kinds of products are you selling and what is your target audience? If we know that, we can be able to advice.
Very good article, it hard to make sales in 2018 but this articles will help me a lot
Hi Issam, thanks for visiting.
These are great tips! I agree becoming an expert in your niche really does help gain trust and more affiliate sales.
Yes, when you work on building your expertise in a given field or around something you are passionate about, then it is easier to recommend resources or products related to the niche you write about to your audience and since you’ve build trust with them, you will be able to drive affiliate sales. Thanks for visiting.
Great to the point and effective tips! Seriously John, you have some of the greatest content for bloggers out there, and so far…you’re giving it to us free! Thanks.
Hi Carrie, thanks for the positive feedback!
Very useful tips for affiliate marketers. I find reviews, freebies and becoming an expert to be especially effective.
Hi Priya, yes, we need to be more creative to drive more affiliate sales. Thanks for visiting.
Glad that I found this post, I really need to work on some of these. I tried to go with Amazon Affiliates and I don’t get enough traffic for them to keep me in the program. So disappointing.
Hi Kristen, Amazon have specific requirements which usually locks out many publishers but there are so many other affiliate networks to try out. I like the CPA/CPL networks like Peerfly and AdWork Media They have simple offers like Email submits, Free trials, downloads, that are easy to convert. Succeeding at affiliate marketing takes time, so you have to be patient and work smart otherwise thanks for visiting.
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.
Thank you for sharing these tips! It might be useful in the future once I transfer to a web host.
Am glad you found these tips very useful. Welcome.
I think the first tip in this article is the most powerful. Writing reviews is a really awesome way to drive affiliate income, especially if the reviews are detailed and honest. Master the art of writing unbiased reviews and you can make tons of cash as an affiliate marketer. Excellent post.
Hi Timothy, Reviews if well done, can drive sales otherwise thanks for your insightful comments on the post.
I tried affiliate marketing, but perhaps it was too soon. I didn’t have enough traffic and lost that affiliate status. I am sure that as we grow, we will be approached to do sponsorship and to do reviews. Thanks for sharing your suggestions.
Hi Vox, thanks for visiting again and commenting on the post.
I agree with affiliate marketing as one of the best ways to make money online. I am earning with affiliate marketing using social media and blog post. I still struggle with SEO. Would love to learn more about it.
Hi Sarah, good to hear that you are already making sales, it is usually a learning curve, so you keep on improving everyday. On SEO, you can read this post for a start: Basic On-Site SEO Techniques for Bloggers
Thanks for sharing, my blog is almost a year old and im still striggling to make sales, these tips will really help.
These are awesome tips for affiliate marketing!
Hi Christina, thanks for reading.