Many people participate in affiliate based programs such as Amazon.com, Commission Junction and ClickBank. These programs are awesome and they can make you a lot of money! Commonly though, bloggers don’t really give these programs a full chance and rarely success with making any money with these programs. This can change for you! Here are a few tips that will help you improve your affiliate based product sales.
- Choose a product you believe in. When you join a program such as ClickBank, you are instantly presented with a huge list of products at your disposal that you can sell. Instead of diluting your campaigns by flooding your blog with hundreds of affiliate based products, hand pick one or two products that you like the best and beleive it. If you like the product and believe in it, then so will your readers when you blog about it, promote it and speak from the heart.
- Don’t just add a banner to your blog! Banners for the most part are really old school. They are the least effective form of Internet marketing and don’t deliver many results. Even the most inexperienced computer users know NOT to click on banners. If you must add a banner, be sure to do more than adding a banner. Try alternative ways to promote sales of the product you are marketing.
- Bring Out awareness of your product. Do your readers even know about the product you promote and approve of? If you have only included a banner graphic on your sidebar, then your readers might not know that you have a personal recommended product. Blog about the products you want to sell. You can also increase awareness by adding a brief promotional ad at the bottom of your posts.
- Learn about the product you want to sell. If you know a lot about the product you are selling, you will be better prepared to answer questions from your readers. If you research the product or even buy it yourself, you will have a better chance with helping your readers decide on whether they should purchase the product.
- Own the product yourself. Now I don’t mean buy it yourself… that is optional. When I say “Own the product” I mean to say become an extension of the product. Brand it so that the perception of this product is actually an extension of yourself and your blog.
I hope you enjoyed the few brief tips here. Drop me a comment if you have some specific questions or feedback.
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Date/Time: 12-2-2007 10:11:13 Comment #6942
Thanks again.
I have installed an amazon widget on my sidebar and have not really known what to do with it.
I almost removed it yesterday and still may do but I really want to look into making affiliate links work for me.
Date/Time: 12-2-2007 10:25:10 Comment #6943
Thanks for the advice Garry. I need to start promoting more products on my blog.
Date/Time: 12-2-2007 14:33:15 Comment #6944
Some good advice on product selling – I had an Amazon banner on my sidebar, don’t think I sold a thing in 3-4 months, you’re right when you say you’ve got to give your readers a reason to click through to an affiliate site.
I’m trying this out with a few of my more popular posts on my site and I’m slowly starting to see some returns.
Date/Time: 12-2-2007 15:07:02 Comment #6945
Excellent post! The key to being effective is making those products yours. I’ve done fairly well with affiliate marketing but that’s because I do more than drop it onto my sidebar. I know a lot about te products because I market them effectively. I write about them.
Date/Time: 12-2-2007 18:11:12 Comment #6946
Great tips. Very useful, again. I not partial to banners. I don click them either.
Thanks.
Date/Time: 12-2-2007 21:38:54 Comment #6948
Great post Garry! I am authoring a review right now for a product I own and believe in. We’ll see how it does!
Date/Time: 12-3-2007 10:44:25 Comment #6967
Hey There, just wanted to say I found your videos on Youtube. I love it! Hey if you wanna trade links or something for my site at YourHealthSiteOnline.com let me know
Also I have a question alittle off topic, i wasn’t able to find it. How do you look on google for a relavent topic lets say hmm baseball cards for example. Do you search for on google – baseball cards + links??
will@yourhealthsiteonline.com
Date/Time: 3-30-2009 16:14:37 Comment #32498
Hi Garry,
Great tips on selling more products on your blog. I haven’t really had much success with the banners on my blog, but that may be due to not much traffic. Would you say that the position of your ads and banners be important as well?
Thanks,
Alan