Advice for Affiliates – Solve Problems for Shoppers
There was a great post with a video from Shawn Collins today at the Affiliate Tip Blog. Shawn talked about how affiliates can turn themselves from being a simple link page that takes visitors to stores one time (and potentially never get the visitor back) into a real resource that visitors will bookmark and come back to again and again (generating more revenue for the affiliate and their selected merchants alike.)
The key – solve a problem for your audience. Share your wisdom and expertise. Worked all your professional life as a plumber? Awesome! Write a blog on how to accomplish tasks you did all the time – join programs that link sell to the products you mention and link to them. Are you a hardcore scrapbooker? Do the same thing. Are you an expert in home theatre set up? Awesome – share your expertise.
There are great programs out there in pretty much any niche you can think of. If you establish your expertise and regularly solve problems for visitors, they will not only keep coming back to you… they’ll tell their friends about your site and sing your praises on social networks as well.
Here’s the video:
LinkedTube – Awesome tool for affiliates
Thanks to Shawn Collins and Linda Buquet for pointing this one out. It’s a good one.
Have you always wanted to harness the power of video on your site? It’s easy to do now using LinkedTube – you can create video creatives using existing YouTube videos and the links and copy of your choice. Here’s a sample of a Greg Laurie video ad I created using my Shareasale affiliate link and an excerpt from Greg Laurie’s documentary “Lost Boy”
For more info including a sample demo video and a form you can use to create your own LinkedTube video ad – check out LinkedTube.com
BlogWorld 2009 affiliate program now live in SAS
I’m really excited to announce that GTO Management will be managing the affiliate program for the BlogWorld and New Media Expo, held October 15-17 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The affiliate program offers a great opportunity for grass roots promotion of the event, which has grown into a really impressive conference featuring content for military bloggers, sports bloggers, real estate industry bloggers, political bloggers and more. The show has also expanded to include video and podcasting and all flavors of social media with Twitter riding a huge buzz following last year’s conference.
Affiliate Marketing rose to the top of the discussion at last year’s BlogWorld in the Blog Monetization track organized by Jim Kukral and featuring prominent affiliate marketers Shawn Collins, Missy Ward, John Chow, Brian Clark and Darren Rowse sharing on how bloggers can use affiliate marketing as a major piece of their revenue generation strategy.
The BlogWorld and New Media Expo Affiliate Program is now open for business in Shareasale. It pays a 10% commission on all registrations and great commissions are already being earned. Sales range from $50 for Exhibits only passes up to $600 for Full Conference + the Executives and Entrepreneurs Day. Early pricing is now in effect and in this economy, that means the time to promote is now. Pricing and commissions will increase as the event draws near.
If you’ll be attending the conference, we definitely encourage you to invite your blog’s followers and make it compelling for them to come. Stage a meet up with followers of your site who buy through your link or find some other way to tie in the fact that you’ll be there as a reward for using your affiliate link.
