DIGITAL STARTUP SOCIETY BLOG — Boost Your Affiliate Program Challenge

One way that an affiliate can make more sales for any product is to create customized bonus products that they will personally include when one of their customers clicks and buys from their link. Whether you can do this or not depends on the type of system you use for your affiliate and shopping cart management. But, even if your system doesn’t help them do it automatically, there are other ways, you will just need to teach them how to do it. Bonuses Increase Conversions A bonus is such a better idea than a discount. When a customer sees that...

There are many ways to sell your products and services to your audience. You can use sales pages, but you can also use a blog post to give the information needed while also having a purchase call to action. This is more of a soft sell approach. Some audiences need that soft sell approach and will respond better buying something due to a blog post over a sales page.  Know Your Product & the Problem When coming up with soft-sell content, it’s imperative to understand your product and the problem it’s solving exceptionally well. That way you can come at...

Many successful affiliates will not promote something they haven’t seen, and many of them will also not purchase it to try it. The reason is that even if they promote to someone else, they may not be part of their own audience and have no need for the product.  Instead, they’re professional salespeople and due to that need to see a free review copy before agreeing to promote it. It is understandable when you think of it. They value their audience and want to provide information and products that suit them that are high-quality.  If they don’t review a product...

One way to attract super affiliates and keep them promoting your products and services is to create a launch calendar and personally connect with super affiliates well in advance of each launch to give them a heads up on what’s going to happen during the launch.  This gives the affiliates time to plan their campaigns in advance and makes it much more likely they will be able to promote you since most super affiliates are more likely to be organized enough to have their promotions planned out months in advance.  Set Up Your Launch Dates & Topics  Even if you...

Your active affiliates will receive transactional emails from your system automatically. Most systems have messages already set up that you can edit and tweak to fit your needs. It’s important to go through and modify them to help you sell even more. Especially when it comes to commission notifications. After all, anything that mentions money in their account is going to make them want to open the message. Might as well take advantage of that fact.  When They Make One Sale, They Can Do It Again If an affiliate manages to make a sale, it’s likely they can do it...