One of the great things about affiliate programs is that there is absolutely no sales experience necessary. In addition the merchant normally provides you with the marketing material needed for the product such as a range of image banners, text links and that all important product information. You simply insert these into your website and you’re done.
However for some reason most affiliates are terrible at promoting the product. It could be that they’re just not aware of the product so they go for a random product on the first offer they find but don’t forget that you need to understand the product you’re promoting. You need to know why people are interested in buying the product and you need to know how to reach these people.
If you find a random product you don’t really understand and you have no idea how to sell it then that’s a recipe for failure. If you find a product you understand and how to sell it then go for it.
So let’s take a look at some ways to promote your affiliate product:
1. Write an article on the product. This is a great idea if you have actually used the product. Now you may not understand it but if you’ve used it then you may offer some useful insight to your readers who do.
2. Create a review page or review blog. You can offer your insight about the product, give them a link to order the product and then provide a recommendation on the product itself. Remember to avoid offering a link to buy the product as this will most likely lead to a loss of sales. Just offer a link to order the product.
3. Create a video for your review page or review blog. Simply offer a link to your review page or review blog. Also make sure you have a unique video for each product you’re promoting. Do not reuse the same video over and over. You will find yourself banned by Google as they seem to hate duplicate content. The most important thing here is to keep it short. A video lasting 2 minutes is ideal. It gives your readers plenty of information without exhausting the audience. If you don’t get around to creating a video for the product then your readers will get bored and drop you as an option for recommending the product.
4. Create a forum post or a comment section at your blog. With the right content this is a fantastic way to promote your affiliate product. The only downside is that it’s still a video, review or blog for the product. For each post you need to provide an informative comment on the post. This can be in the form of a question or a comment on the post itself. So the content can be in the form of: an in depth review, a question and answer, an endorsement or just an everyday comment.
Hopefully you can see how even simple strategies like keeping your videos under 2 minutes can keep your videos appealing to your audience. Keeping your review or blog on topic is vital as it will help to keep the page load time at a reasonable amount of time. And the content is equally as important as well, so don’t neglect to include some quality content.
The key to success with this strategy is to use a combination of all the features and this is where it becomes easy to implement this type of strategy. It’s still one of the best and simplest ways to generate traffic for a product as well. If you can make a video appealing to your audience then you are well on your way to earning a lot of affiliate commission.