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Four Great Affiliate Marketing Hacks
4 Ways To Stand Out From Other Affiliate Marketers
#1 – Get to Know Product Creators in Your Niche
One of the best things you can do, especially if you’re promoting digital products, is to get to know the companies, brands, and individual marketers who are creating the products that you’re going to promote.
When you develop relationships with them, you might get special deals on affiliate commissions – they even might give you a higher pay rate because you have a relationship. This can certainly give you a leg up.
In some cases, they might let you promote before anyone else. This can definitely give you an advantage over others who will promote later on. People will see your promotions first and are more likely buy from you instead of someone else.
#2 – Try Different Affiliate Promotions
Remember that you will promote a variety of products over time. That means you should always be on the lookout for great products you can promote.
Come up with promotions that are complementary. If people buy one thing they might be interested in that other thing as well because they’re a natural fit.
#3 – Stick with Companies Who Will Pay You
As you’re looking around for different products to promote, remember that if something seems too good to be true, it just might be. You only want to promote affiliate products you know are reputable. You want people who buy from your link to be happy.
You also want to make sure that you’re going to be paid. There are, unfortunately, less than honest companies out there who will be happy to give you an affiliate link but who won’t pay you. Again, make sure that the companies you promote have a solid reputation.
#4 – Start Searching for Your Next Promotion
Now it’s time for you to start searching for your next promotion. There are products out there that you can make some great money with.
Try the affiliate networks like CJ.com and ShareASale.com. Try Nanacast.com, WarriorPlus.com ClickBank.com, and JVZoo.com.
Try doing some Google searches to find great affiliate products in your niche that others might not necessarily find – that’s less competition for you.
It really is not that difficult at all to find great products to promote as an affiliate. You just have to get started and dive right in with promoting.
Four Great Affiliate Marketing Hacks was originally published on Adrenaline Digital Marketing
Gutenberg: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
Is The Gutenberg Block Editor Really An Improvement, Or Simply Going Backwards?
First off, I don’t hate WordPress’s new Gutenberg Block Editor. In fact, there are several features I absolutely adore! The ability to easily add a background image or color to a section is awesome to name one feature I truly love!
On the other hand, there are some things about the default WordPress editor introduced with WordPress 5.0 that I really, really do not like…
In all fairness, I have exactly the same feelings when it comes to every drag-and-drop editor I’ve ever worked with including Adobe Muse. My big complaint comes down to all the extra steps required with a block editor that transforms building a page from a simple matter of getting the content to the page to what often seems like a never ending marathon of editing to get what you are shooting for.
Case in point. You’re using a WordPress shortcode. You need the output of the shortcode centered on the page. With the old visual editor you just select the shortcode and center align the paragraph on the page. Fast and simple, no code required.
To pull off the same thing with the block editor you must wrap your shortcode inside the HTML code for a div with the text centered.
Net result: those with no knowledge of HTML are actually being “punished” by not being able to truly control how their page looks!
Then, there is the interface…
With the “outdated” visual editor I only needed to view a preview to see how the page looked with my theme before publishing. What I saw in the editor was an almost perfect copy of what the page would look like live. With the block editor I’m forced to continually view a preview to have any real idea of rather or not the page looks as I’d intended.
Copying and pasting text into the editor is also far harder than it has to be. The majority of my content has been previously written and tweaked for maximum effect. Paste plain text headline into the old visual editor and you get plain text. Select “heading” from the block editor and paste text into the heading block and it will transform into a paragraph instead. Only if I waste the time to type the copy in manually does the block remain a heading.
The net result for me has been taking a task that used to take perhaps an hour for a long form promotional page using the original visual editor into hours or even a day or more of work with Gutenberg.
In all fairness, I’m sure that will improve as I play with the block editor. That being said, I truly feel rather than rushing to adopt the new block editor that the powers that be at WordPress.org had made it on option for which editor to use rather than forcing everyone to use Gutenberg. That’s my current setup as I continue to attempt changing over to the new default WP editor.
What do you like or dislike about Gutenberg?
Gutenberg: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back was originally published on Adrenaline Digital Marketing
Affiliate Marketing With Social Media
How To Properly Use Social Media As An Affiliate Marketer
First things first, you need to understand that using social media marketing as an affiliate isn’t something you should make some fuzzy plan to do something about one of these days
This needs to be a priority! Take the initiative to set aside time in your schedule now. Doing this simple thing can really pay off for you in many ways.
Start off by getting your social media accounts set up. You should know by now where on social media your customers are, so set up your accounts accordingly. Not sure where they are? See this post to find out where on social media your customers are… Find Your Customers
Absolutely brand yourself, even if you will only use the account as an affiliate. Try to get the same or very similar user names on each of the social media sites you join.
Remember, it’s not important for you to have a presence on all of the social media sites. You really only need to focus on the social media sites that your customers favor.
That’s exactly why this is easier after going through the first part. You know which social media sites matter for your business and which ones aren’t quite so important. The only social media site that practically every niche can benefit from having an account on, is Facebook.
Your primary goal in your social media efforts in the beginning is to build your audience. You want to build true relationships, which does take some time and effort.
Do not waste time scrolling your feed when you’re on social media. If you want to reach your goal of building a list and promoting products as an affiliate then you will have to treat this like a real business.
When you’re on social media, make every minute count.
Share interesting posts of others, but don’t just do that. Post things your audience will really appreciate. Talk a bit about what’s going on with you, but concentrate on things that will interest your audience about the industry/niche, you’re in.
Don’t be afraid to drop hints about products that you’re looking into or planning to review. Be careful about adding lots of links, as this will hurt you in two ways.
Adding too many links to your posts will make Facebook and many other social media sites less inclined to help your content get seen. The reason for this is simple, links take people off of sites, and the social media sites want you to stay there.
The second problem is one of perception. It’s kinda like when you approve a friend request on Facebook and then get a promo from the person two minutes later. Gives you the impression that the persons only interest in you is to find out if you will buy their whatever.
No way to start a relationship.
Now when you do link to things, never link using straight or raw affiliate links. Instead, send them to one of your sites instead. You can use the same freebies you’re giving away to build your list, but without opt in pages. The promotion comes later, right now we are building a relationship.
Make sure you’re doing this in a way that’s exciting for your audience. Remember that they’re seeing a lot of other stuff on social media so the things you’re posting really should stand out and their attention.
Continue To Build Your Audience
Your ultimate goal is to make affiliate commissions by promoting things via social media. That means you must constantly be building your audience.
You want to create posts others will want to share. Grow your community and following using these social media sites.
But don’t forget, social media is a very fast changing landscape. Keep up with the changes. Doing this could allow you to become an early adopter of new social sites you feel could really take off allowing you to be the established expert to your audience. This can help show you as a leader.
Build relationships. Build a solid following of evangelists preaching about your brand.
Do that, and you will never have a problem getting people on your list and making money promoting affiliate products to them. They will buy because they have come to know, like and trust you over time.
Affiliate Marketing With Social Media was originally published on Adrenaline Digital Marketing
Just How Important are Autoresponders to Internet Marketing?
Could Internet Marketing Survive Without Autoresponders?
Everyone says “the money is in the list” but that’s only partly true. Why would I say such a scandalous thing?
Let me ask you this…
How would you like to have to send individual emails to hundreds, or even thousands of people multiple times every week? Besides the massive amount of time that would eat up, it would be boring beyond measure! That my friend, is what the life of a Internet Marketer would consist of without the paid autoresponder.
Internet Marketing and autoresponders essentially go hand-in-hand. In today’s online business world, you simply cannot succeed at Internet marketing without the use of reliable autoresponder account.
Free Is No Bargain
Yes, there are free alternatives. But every one has limitations. Some have problems staying out of your subscribers spam folder. Others have limitations on the number of emails you can send in an hour/day. Not good enough to depend on if your income is at stake. In marketing the saying “money loves speed” is always the reality.
Can’t mail your list all at once? Then you will continually lose commissions to others who can. Someone else will get the commission because they got the prospects attention first. So never limit the power of your list with your autoresponder. An paid autoresponder account will more than pay for itself simply by providing you with the security of knowing your emails will go out.
Autoresponders are vital in building a relationship with your customers and potential customers. allowing them to feel a personal connection and look on you as a friend trying to help them reach their goals. Building a good relationship with your subscribers is an essential component to a successful online business.
A Tool Every Internet Marketer Needs
Internet marketing can be very time consuming. If you do affiliate marketing you need a autoresponder. Create and market you own products? Then an autoresponder account should be a big part of your marketing strategy. Autoresponders play a key role as they allow you to keep in contact with your past customers, and to develop a relationships with new leads and turn them into customers.
An autoresponder can be used to virtually create cash on demand. Need some cash for some new toy? Something break? No problem, a simple email can send hundreds or thousands of dollars to your PayPal account in just hours.
The larger your list, the more cash you can generate this way.
Autoresponders can be used to deliver email courses, to send reminders, and even to help you build an opt-in list, or to help you expand your list if you already have one. There are many creative ways you can use your autoresponder to make more sales and to build customer relations.
Consistency is a priority when mailing your list, and having a reliable paid autoresponder account makes that easy by allowing to write emails in advance for occasions where you may have unreliable, or no Internet service for a period of time or family commitments to honor.
In fact, without the ability to schedule broadcast emails the “Laptop Lifestyle” would not be possible. The ability to make money while you sleep in or do what you love wouldn’t exist without autoresponders.
Any successful marketer will tell you that there are two tools that are vital to any type of online marketing. An opt-in list and an autoresponder. In fact, most marketers will agree that you could take away their home, their car, all of their other marketing tools, but as long as they have their list and their autoresponder account they would never worry about how they’re going to get money!
Just How Important are Autoresponders to Internet Marketing? was originally published on Adrenaline Digital Marketing
How To Become The Person People Want To Buy From
Becoming Attractive As a Seller
We buy from those whom we know, like, and trust. Simple enough statement. But how exactly do you make all that happen?
Short answer, put yourself out there.
I know…
Easier said than done on several levels.
There are some easy things you can do that will help get the ball rolling. If you have a list, do your emails contain a photo of you? Having a face to associate with a name is a major human mechanism for remembering people.
Take advantage of that trait every chance you get.
Add your image to your emails, your sales pages, your thank you pages, about us page, you can even add them to your blog posts if you like.
Speaking of your blog posts, don’t be afraid to inject some personal touches to your content. People identify with those with whom they have something in common with.
Your readers are not going to know little things about you. But sharing those little things like your favorite author (Stephen King) or where you live, (Arizona) helps people to construct a mental picture of you.
They might not know everything, but they will feel closer.
This especially applies to your email marketing. One of the most important jobs your welcome email should serve is to introduce you to your new list member.
If you are not sending a welcome/introductory email to every person who signs up to one of your lists then start doing that right away.
Add An Exit Popup To Your Sales Pages
Love them or hate them, they work. The best strategy seems to be offering something related to the offer on the page to the prospect for free in your popup.
By providing them with useful information you can show your prospects that you can indeed help them. That knowledge is your first tick in in the “trust” box.
A properly constructed followup series should take care of the rest giving you a sale you wouldn’t have gotten had you not prolonged the “courtship” with your prospect by using a popup.
Overcome Skepticism With Your Guarantee
By far the easiest way is with a strong guarantee. This is absolutely the best thing. I talk to clients, and man, if you use a guarantee in industries that don’t normally use guarantees, you just kill it.
Years ago I ran a very successful landscaping business. One of the services I pushed was weed control. I guaranteed that if my customer had a single weed pop up in their yard all they had to do was call me up and I’d be out to take care of it.
Now I charged a fee based on the square footage of the yard and the natural features of the terrain that might render the process I was using less effective. Once I got this down to a science, I made a bunch of money for just a few hours of work twice a year. This was super easy to sell because it’s the ultimate guarantee.
I worked in the same neighborhoods all the time so it was no problem to stop by and kill a couple of weeds down the street. People loved the fact that I stood behind my guarantee and I made a killing. Moral of the story?
You need a strong guarantee.
We will go deeper into guarantees and other ways to overcome skepticism in the next post…
How To Become The Person People Want To Buy From was originally published on Adrenaline Digital Marketing
E-MAIL MARKETING
Technology with its advent has taken a toll even in the field of marketing at last. E-mail also known as electronic mail, is now turning out as an indispensable medium of marketing on internet.
Internet as whole has a wide marketing area because of the fact that it is spread whole and wide over the whole word. This makes it accessible to almost every country and eventually to the people in the country. E-mails are very techno-savvy and more effective and fast. This is the reason that we can now see e-mails developing as an indispensable media of marketing.
Over the years people and corporate houses have started realizing the advantages of e-mail marketing. E-mail marketing carries a lot of advantages along with it. Some of the benefits are:
a) Speed:
This is the main factor as to why e-mail marketing is considered better and over the other Medias of marketing. E-mail marketing along with it brings the advantage of high speed. E-mail marketing has a very high speed of information transfer. It just takes a second for the person to transfer information from his working place to the internet worldwide, where everyone can view it worldwide.
b) Reach:
One another factor as to why e-mail marketing is considered a better option is because of the fact that it has a better reach to the people worldwide than the other medias of marketing. E-mail marketing knows no boundaries and this helps the people to continue or conduct their marketing work in larger scale. The higher reach of e-mail marketing, attracts more people towards it and thereby assists the whole marketing process.
c) Inexpensive:
E-mail marketing is comparatively much and more cheap than that of the other medias of marketing. The people do not have to incur any special or extra cost to market their product or point of view. Being inexpensive it suits the people and they thereby resort to e-mail marketing than the other Medias.
d) Effective:
E-mail marketing is very effective than the other medias of marketing. The reason being, that they are very techno-savvy, very fast and still pretty cost effective. This whole package makes e-mail marketing very cheap and pretty attractive. This is the reason that e-mail marketing is pretty effective and thus more approachable.
e) Personalized marketing:
E-mail marketing avails the people the opportunity to avail and conduct personalized marketing. In this the people can send mails only to people whom they think that they would be interested in it. In this the mails will only be forwarded to people on whom the concern is interested.
Thus we see that why and how e-mail marketing has turned out to be an indispensable tool in marketing.
E-MAIL MARKETING was originally published on Adrenaline Digital Marketing
Why Your List Is Still The Most Important Digital Business Asset
Is The Money Still In The List?
As this is written, marketing via Messenger and Messenger Bots is the rage. At least that’s what every marketer seems to be telling anyone who will listen….
Does that mean email marketing as we know it is dying a slow death? Perhaps, but I like to look at things from a different perspective than most people do. Rather than relying on what someone is saying, I look at how they are saying it. If something is “about to replace email marketing” then why are they sending me an email to promote it. Why not rely on this “far more effective” shiny new software or SaaS (Software as a Service) instead of sending me a “more effective” whatever they are promoting?
Hmmmm, strange isn’t it…
The proof is not what someone says, it’s what they actually do that counts.
Another case in point is self hosted autoresponders. Every time another one is released, or re-released as is often the case your inbox gets slammed with emails proclaiming this new shiny object will replace your paid autoresponder account. Yet if you hover over their link, it’s cominng from their Aweber, GetResponse or whatever paid autoresponder they use, not this new, “email marketing miracle” they are promoting.
Now there’s no arguing the point that email open rates are at an all time low by Internet marketing standards. In reality, I honestly feel that is more of a reflection on the state of IM email marketing in general than any real massive decline in interest in emails by the people who make up the market.
Think about your own email inbox for a moment. Are there certain people who’s emails that you always open, while pretty much ignoring the majority of other senders? That is unless you know for a fact you want to buy something and are “bonus hunting” by checking out everyone’s bonus for the product.
That describes me, and I’m willing to bet you’re the same.
It all comes down to value. If you get value from someone’s emails, you are more likely to open their email and click on a link because they are not simply chasing the next affiliate commission. You know the kind of marketers I’m talking about there.
The “Shiny Object” pushers. They’re the ones driving the average down.
There is still no more powerful asset in digital marketing than a list of email subscribers. Email marketing is still the King.
Disagree? Lets talk about it in the comments…
Why Your List Is Still The Most Important Digital Business Asset was originally published on Adrenaline Digital Marketing
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