Promoting Your Affiliate Products
Once you have your affiliate link, you’re ready to go!
All you have to do, as we’ve discussed earlier, is to pre-sell your affiliate’s products by marketing the
same through your affiliate link. An affiliate link would lead the would-be buyer to the affiliate
merchant’s payment processing page. Once you have managed to do that, your job is done, and the
affiliate merchant would take care of the rest. This system makes affiliate marketing a very convenient
home based business for anyone!
Pre-selling, however, should be carried out through effective marketing strategies to make this home
based business really profitable for you. These marketing strategies should be able to ensure a high
conversion rate, or the power to convert the people who would be exposed to your affiliate link into
successful sales.
Here are some of the more popular types of marketing campaigns being used as promotional tools in this
home based business:
l Promoting your affiliate links through viral marketing. Viral marketing is a very powerful
strategy that would rapidly expose your business message, or your affiliate links in this case, in
just a short period of time. Viral marketing tools usually involve eBooks, special reports and
other information products. We will discuss this effective promotional tactic for your home based
business in the succeeding lesson.
l Marketing your affiliate links through forums. As we’ve discussed in a previous entry, promotion
in online communities is an affordable and efficient way in spreading the word about your
products or website, including your affiliate links. You could try to be active in these forums,
befriend other members if you have to, and before you know it, you’ll have more traffic for your
site and more referrals that could rake in some good commissions for your home based business.
l Affiliate marketing. As we’ve likewise discussed in a prior entry, writing articles and submitting
them in various venues, with your resource box firmly attached at the end of each piece, is a
magnificent way of promotions. People would scour the Internet for information, and if you write
something about what they’re looking for, you’ll win their favor and expose your affiliate links to
them as well. This could only redound to the benefit of your home based business.
l Search engine optimization. As we’ve mentioned earlier in these lessons, having your own
website would help a lot in marketing your affiliate links. If your website carries your affiliate
links, you could always optimize the same for the search engines and drive a humongous amount
of traffic to your pages. Every visitor you’ll have would always carry with him the chance of
clicking on your affiliate links.
l Create your own mailing list. With a mailing list in place for your home based business, you
won’t have to lose any visitors. You could always “capture” them, warm them up for an offer
later on, or present to them new packages that they might be interested with in the future. Most
successful affiliates make a killing with their mailing lists alone! We will discuss this in detail in
one of the the forthcoming lessons.
These are but some of the ways by which you could market your affiliate links. If done well, they could
assure for you a very successful home based business that can be easy to sustain, as well.