subject: Affiliate Marketing Strategies: 3 Unique Ways To Explode Your Affiliate Commissions [print this page] Are you earning a steadily rising income as an affiliate and enjoying massive success on a consistent basis? If yes, I wish to congratulate you for a job well done. But if you seem to plateau, then the affiliate marketing strategies in this article might help.
A plateau can be due to many things; but most commonly, it's due to the fact that affiliate marketers exhaust their efforts. The problem is that everyone knows the basic ways to promote products and they just use them.
Now these efforts are fantastic and work quite well, which is why everyone knows about and uses them, but you need to expand your efforts to avoid a plateau or pick yourself up off of one.
Here are some proven techniques to become a better affiliate marketer:
Affiliate Marketing Strategy # 1: Think outside the box; take your efforts further than your computer.
Now everyone knows about using the computer to promote products in their niche. But what a lot of people tend to overlook is offline efforts. You don't have to stay solely online to advertise your websites and the products you're offering in a specific niche.
Do you know how many people read your local paper? Tons! Do you know how many people check out the classifieds in the local paper? Tons! You could be taking advantage of this right now; and if you're not, you're missing out big time.
Getting out an ad in the paper provides you with a massive amount of exposure. If you're promoting a service, you can put out an ad in that section of the paper. If you are promoting a job opportunity, then the wanted section is the place you want your ads to be.
Determine where your promotion fits in the best and place an ad there. You can even do the same in magazines. In the back of basically every magazine, and throughout the publication, are ads. You can talk to the publishers about placing your ad in the magazine along with the others.
A targeted magazine is a great place to promote and earn big time, especially when you have a targeted audience.
If you're not quite ready for an advertising budget, you can simply print fliers and put them in high trafficked areas.
Affiliate Marketing Strategy # 2: Harness the power of videos.
You Tube is a huge community, and many videos there end up with several thousands (sometimes even millions) of views.
If videos are so lucrative, why aren't many affiliates doing them? Creating videos seems to put people off, because they think they need some extensive technical knowledge to come up with a masterpiece.
Fortunately, you don't have to be some software guru or anything like that to create a video. Nowadays, computers come with some kind of webcam and video creation software you can use to easily create videos.
Even if your computer doesn't have any of that, or maybe you don't want to make a video with your face in it (maybe you're camera shy), there are free programs that can help.
The most used and popular one is CamStudio, which allows you to turn presentations and screenshots into videos that you can then stick up on YouTube and other video sharing sites.
Tap into the power of videos; you won't be disappointed.
Affiliate Marketing Strategy # 3: Simplify your site and eliminate distractions.
A lot of times you see affiliate websites that are jam packed with everything you can imagine. They have ten different affiliate products, a dozen banners and lots of ads. You might think that the more ads you have, the more chances you can sell something and make money, right?
Not exactly. There are a couple problems with this approach. First, a site with tons of banners, ads and graphics will not load very quickly and this could drive people away.
An affiliate website should be straight to the point. You can have more than one product on a page (example if you have a review site), but don't put up tons of banners and graphics that distract your visitor. Having too many products being sold on the site could actually confuse people, which prevents them from making any decision at all.
Some affiliate marketers include Adsense ads in their sites to balance their pay-per-sale and pay-per-click income. This is fine; but if you're promoting affiliate products in your site, one set of adsense ads is enough. One suggestion is to actually test your sites whether promoting affiliate products alone, or combining adsense with affiliate promotions, can get you the best results. If the adsense ads are only preventing you from earning the highest possible income, then chuck them out.
As an affiliate marketer you may hit a plateau, but you don't have to stay there. Implement these affiliate marketing strategies and you will easily get off the plateau that's stopping you from becoming a super affiliate.
