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Friday, December 10, 2021

Effective Affiliate Marketing Tips for New Bloggers

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Blogging has become a hugely effective tool for affiliate marketers to drive purchase-intent traffic to their website and affiliate offerings. The reason most affiliate marketers and actively involved in blogging. Even if you are new to blogging, what you do to get results must be similar to what experienced bloggers do. Even though affiliate marketers are expected to effectively promote different products and get a commission without having to deal with any physical products or even customers, many usually have great difficulties getting purchase-intent traffic to their affiliate offerings. One practical way around that difficulty is blogging. A good blog can help improve traffic and even sales/revenue for most affiliate marketing efforts.



New bloggers are best advised therefore to concentrate on using their blog to attract good traffic. This they can do by improving their domain authority, performing keyword research on purchase-intent keywords, writing reviews on products/services and joining new affiliate programs. Doing these things consistently will enable them to use their blog to effectively increase their chances of making more affiliate sales and increased commissions.
 
Even though experienced marketers usually volunteer many blogging tips for affiliate marketing, these here tips are particularly suitable for new bloggers who want to maximize their affiliate marketing efforts using their blogs.

Don’t Target Highly Competitive Keywords

If you do so, you’ll be beaten black and blue by more experienced bloggers who are already fully into such keywords. It is an avoidable mistake for new bloggers doing affiliate marketing to target highly competitive keywords early on. Once a keyword is lucrative, chances are always very high that many other bloggers, some very experienced bloggers at that, are already writing blog posts about the keyword. It is usually very difficult if not impossible for new bloggers to make any impact with such keywords. If you start with such competitive keywords immediately, you risk poor ranking. When that happens, it can be quite demoralizing and could even stunt your blogging efforts in totality.

What then is best to do? Just target low difficulty and less competitive keywords! By using such keywords, chances are very high that your blog posts can age and increase rankings over time. As you garner more blogging experience with even some initial traffic, you can then muster more confidence to target more competitive keywords going forward. It is best to aim for higher volume and lower difficulty affiliate keywords. Such keywords give you the best chance of driving more traffic to your website and making more affiliate sales as a consequence. To locate such words, you can do keywords research on online tools like Ahrefs.


 

Target Recurring Affiliate Sales

Recurring affiliate sales are a dream income stream for many affiliate marketers. New bloggers who have attained some level of domain authority and keyword research can rank competitively for many affiliate keywords. That is when it is best for them to target recurring affiliate sales. For new bloggers, having passive affiliate sales is OK but having recurring monthly affiliate revenue is much better.

Even though the commonest affiliate marketing model with most bloggers is to promote an affiliate product/service and getting a commission after a sale, that income can be passive. But, the recurring traffic you get by ranking well usually ensures you get more sales month in month out going forward. Now, that is great for affiliate income! Recurring affiliate sales are like the icing on the cake and they tend to improve greatly on the passive income model. With recurring affiliate sales, you are paid commissions indefinitely for each new customer you refer. That by all calculations is much better than getting a one-time commission for each sale. Your commissions come in steadily each month a customer you referred pays for a product indefinitely. Targeting affiliate programs like these instead of one-time commissions can skyrocket the affiliate revenue from your blog.

Increase your Domain Authority

Domain authority refers to the authority your blog commands in cyber space. Digital marketers measure domain authority by way of rating on a scale from 0 to 100. It indicates the quality and number of sites that link back to your website. The nearer your rating is to 100, the better your website is ranked in Google SERPs. This is important because backlinks are a ranking factor that Google uses to rank sites. The higher your domain rating therefore, the easier it is for Google to rank it for affiliate keywords. If you are a new blogger, you can improve your domain rating by doing guest posts and getting backlinks to your website among other blogging activities to help your ranking. Technically, this appears to be the most efficient way to increase your domain rating because it helps you get initial backlinks to your website and this can attract more natural backlinks to the site.

When your domain rating is high enough, you can start ranking for some important keywords. This helps to increase the traffic to your website significantly. Thus, if your website has a clean backlink profile and high domain authority, its commercial valuation as a valuable web property increases. This is so because domain authority is one of the main factors that buyers take into consideration in pricing a web property. The higher it is, the more valuable the web property is.

Friday, November 26, 2021

How to Leverage Affiliate Marketing to Increase Conversions and Sales

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If you run an eCommerce store, there is no doubt you contend with many issues daily trying to satisfy the increasing number of people who now find it more convenient to shop online. Now, that can be a very huge challenge at times trying to surmount the many obstacles relating to how to effectively position your products in the market to make sales. How exactly do you tackle real obstacles relating to how to position a given product before the precise audience? This is where affiliate marketing becomes very handy to help remove some marketing barriers and effectively grow customer reach. By being conversant with how affiliate marketing and advertising networks work, you can leverage this knowledge to increase conversions and sales for your eCommerce business.

 

Ecommerce store owners effectively leverage affiliate marketing to promote their products better and to a wider audience. They consequently make more conversions and sales as a result. From experience and because of the peculiarities of the Internet, what works most, however, is localized and personalized product promotion. This is exactly where a partnership between eCommerce store owners and affiliate marketers becomes highly profitable. Because of the tremendous influence most affiliates have on their audience, affiliates are the real drivers of campaign optimization and local targeting.

You may wish to ask, how does that relationship work? Just factor in that influencers, bloggers, content marketers and website owners as credible and effective affiliates. The main function of the affiliate is to promote products to consumers and to entice them to buy. Affiliates get paid commissions each time a consumer takes a desired action or buys products via the direct promo action of the affiliate. The more of affiliate efforts, the more products are sold and the more products sellers/eCommerce store owners make sales. The more products sellers leverage on this relationship therefore, the more sales they make.

When eCommerce store owners leverage effectively on this relationship, below are some of the direct benefits that accrue to their business.

1.    They can widen their brand awareness and business reputation.
2.    They can effectively drive repeat sales.
3.    They can generate the right leads to their websites.
4.    It helps them to keep track, control and measure their marketing progress/success.
5.    It is cost-effective and gives them real value for money since it is performance-based.

However, as a rule of thumb, as an eCommerce store owner, before you decide on which affiliates to work with, you must first decide which products you are going to promote and what results you expect. This will serve as your offer. It is what is on offer that will attract individual marketers/affiliates depending on their niche/products preferences.

Techniques to Earn Money Online with Affiliate Marketing

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For most digital marketers, affiliate marketing is one very practical way to earn money on the Internet. With it, influencers, bloggers and entrepreneurs can make money and earn residual income online. The primary source of income for affiliate marketers is by way of earned commissions. With practically very little or no financial outlay to get started, affiliate marketing is one of the most cost-effective ways to earn money online.

Here are some techniques, anyone, just about anyone who knows how the Internet works can use to make good money online with affiliate marketing.



Convert Followers to Customers: For social media influencers and bloggers, the first challenge is to build an audience of followers. The larger this audience, the larger your market base! That is where you begin to monetize your content/blog from your audience.

Consistently Create Informative Content: If the content you create is relevant, informative, educational and interesting enough, it helps to grow your audience of followers faster. You can effectively market to this audience, get leads/customers and earn good money from commissions.

Optimize Your Rate of Conversion: As you promote to your audience, the more conversions you get, the more sales you make and the more commissions you earn ultimately. The quality of the content you create and well optimized to attract good traffic plays a vital role here. In practical terms and as most affiliate marketers very well know, 80% of your profit is generated by 20% of your content.

Increase Your Mailing List: You can deliberately build an email list gradually over time and it becomes a very valuable marketing asset when large enough. At that level, you can segment the list for more effective marketing and that is the list you email consistently with your affiliate marketing promos. Affiliate marketers rely hugely on email marketing as one of the most effective tools for generating passive income online.

Deliberately Promote Products with Your Content: Be careful to choose a good niche and products that sell well to promote if you want to earn good commissions. These are products you can steadily promote using your content. The more your content attracts readers, the higher the chances that readers will click on your affiliate links embedded in the content to access products you are promoting and possibly make purchase. For your content to be valuable, you must choose topics that are close to the people looking for a solution to a problem. That is one practical way to make them think that the solution is the product you are promoting.

In very practical terms, affiliate marketing helps to promote a service, content, product, site, or business where the affiliate receives a percentage or payment for each successful sale. That is how everyone gets to make money online from affiliate marketing be they individuals, a specialized company or even a group of people, all acting as affiliates.

There are three distinct business entities/parties involved in an affiliate marketing system. These are:

1. The Product Merchant: This is the real seller of the product/service. It could be an individual business owner, a company or a brand. This party owns the product directly.

2. The Affiliate: The duty of the affiliate is to promote products from products merchants to consumers/customers and he earns a commission for his efforts. His main task is to induce a consumer to buy the seller’s product. Affiliate marketing companies, bloggers, content marketers, influencers and opinion leaders effectively act in this role.

3. The Customer/Client: Customers/clients are the ultimate consumers of products/services and through them sales revenue in generated to enable affiliates earn commissions and product merchants make sales/profits. Customers/clients are the final/target parties in the affiliate marketing process. This is because it is they who buy the product/service, which is constantly promoted by the affiliate.



How then is Money Earned in Affiliate Marketing?

Simple! Through commissions, that’s all. But, the process is a bit intricate. The amount of money an affiliate can earn depends on how hard the affiliate works and what percentages of commissions he is entitled to. These percentages depend on the deal between the affiliate and the seller and the affiliate program itself. However, most affiliate marketers are paid a percentage of sales even though some others do get paid a fixed amount for each successful deal with the customer. Cumulatively, these figures could really add up real big making affiliate marketing some sort of lucrative cost-effective business.

What the affiliate is entitled to is tracked by way of unique links/codes which distinctly identify the number of successful transactions and conversion rates. Unique links consist of unique codes which help to track where the customer came from.  Special codes/words, which are usually stated before purchase are tied to a specific affiliate partner for attribution and commissions computation purposes.

Common Affiliate Marketing Options

Two options mainly. The most common option of affiliate marketing is the usage of a referral link. These links are carefully embedded in affiliate marketing content. When people click on these links, they are led to where the products for sale are on the merchant’s website. This journey is usually from the website of the affiliate to the website of the product merchant. Once the product is purchased, the affiliate receives a commission from the purchase.

The next option is however not as popular as the first but it is effective too. It simply involves carrying out some deliberate actions as determined by the affiliate marketer. An affiliate can for instance ask his audience to do some action on the merchant’s website, such actions like, to register for a seminar or newsletter, fill out a form, take a survey/poll, or leave a phone number and email address. To do any of these actions, customers are given a special link, which can be used only once. The link leads to an affiliate product/service and it helps to identify, tally and pay commissions to the affiliate.

Sunday, November 07, 2021

5 Most Popular Types of Affiliate Marketing

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Through affiliate marketing, you get to tap into new audiences. The job of your affiliates therefore is to act as your sales team.  These affiliates get rewarded based solely on their performance and by way of earned commissions. This relationship works smoothly if you are able to tap into the huge audiences built by bloggers, marketers, and influencers. When people who build these audiences over time help to promote your products or link to your content, it helps to increase your sales. So, one great way to boost your marketing through other people’s efforts is through the use of affiliates. But first, you must tap into the right ways to use affiliates correctly.



To promote your business effectively, you can use different types of affiliate marketing. Find below some of the most common and interesting affiliate types that marketers like to use. Each one is unique and offers different types of benefits in its own right. What you choose depends on your own personal preferences and expertise.

1. Websites Reviews

Working with review websites is one of the best places to acquire consumers by affiliate marketers. You can consider working with review sites to partner up with. That is one great way to build trust and get your business in front of more people who rely on reviews to make their buy decisions. These days, even if you want a good restaurant to eat out, a good hotel to stay, a good travel destination, good airlines and good shopping malls, many consumers rely on reviews before making up their minds.

2. Video and Podcast Content Marketing

Marketers have since discovered that video and podcast content is widely consumed and popular. There are prolific content creators who get support for their work by taking on sponsors. You can consider working with these types of creators to bring your brand to the public eye, improve conversions and make more sales.

3. Email Marketing

Over time, bloggers, news publications, and niche verticals often build large email lists with audiences segmented into different niche groups. You can work with such email affiliates to send your content directly to their audience’s inboxes. It is easy, cost-effective and with very impressive returns.



4. Social Media Influencers

Social media Influencers make most of their social media followings by promoting products and services for paid commissions. Working with influencers can be a bit problematic for product merchants because of ethical and regulatory reasons. It is ethical that influencers fully disclose to consumers if the content they are promoting is sponsored. It is best to work with influencers who help conversions better instead of those who merely have very large followings. Some content may actually get a lot of visibility but doesn’t really lead to conversions. Conversion is where the money really is, so you must look to work with good influencers and develop performance-based parameters for your relationship.

5. Cash-Back Affiliates

This is one very unique niche of affiliate marketing. In this type of marketing, affiliate marketers are required to promote products and promise buyers a small amount of money that goes back to the buyer as an incentive. This small amount of money back is what actually acts as the incentive to get more people to buy the products. By doing so, the consumers really feel like they’re saving money and it makes them feel good. However, a major drawback about these types of affiliates is that they don’t always bring value addition right away. But, for marketers who want to promote their business and not make a profit right away, it is a good option.

Wednesday, June 09, 2021

Top Digital Marketing Strategies for Creative Online Marketing

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It is extremely important to have a digital marketing strategy for your online business. If the digital marketing strategy is creative enough, it will help your online business to grow faster. Since we now live in a digital era, it is easier to get your business noticed if you have a credible digital marketing strategy in place to effectively market the business online. All you really need is a bit of creativity in your marketing efforts and you’ll get good results. 



Here are some digital marketing strategies that can help you out.

Deepen Your Blogs: If you blog for business, try to deepen your blogs with more information, data and statistics to attract more readership. Bloggers have since discovered that longer and deeper blog posts generate many times more success rate and help gain new customers when compared to short blogs. Expert bloggers recommend blog posts not shorter than 750 words but depending on your type of business, shorter blog posts as low as 250-350 words do really nice particularly on social media. However, search engines tend to have a preference for longer blog posts. For example on Google, the average word count for the top-ranking posts is 1100-1300 words. Make this info a very important guide when crafting your blog posts.
 
Research Your Competitors: It is not enough to just research your competitors, you can devise creative ways to even spy on their activities. It is of great help to your marketing strategy if you have a clear idea what your competitors are doing in the market and why they are doing what they are doing. To know what is going on in the minds of your competitors is a key intelligence digital marketing info you can use to distinctly differentiate your business online. If you know about your competitors’ strategies, you can use them to design your differentiators. In digital marketing, being different will make you stand out and apart from everyone else. Being unique and different can be of great help to help your business generate more traffic, leads and customers on your website. A quick Google search of the products/services you are marketing can help you to find out helpful info about your competitors’ digital marketing strategy.

Optimize Your Website for Mobile: Google now reports that about 65% of its search data is attributable to mobile devices. What this means is that your business website must be optimized for mobile devices to take advantage of this huge search data. Most people prefer doing business with websites they can easily interact with online. This is why user-friendly and mobile-friendly websites tend to get more and better traffic than others.



Personalize Your Marketing: Every human being likes to feel important and appreciated. The reason personalized marketing messages are very important in digital marketing. Even if you are suggesting similar products, using the customer’s name, or sending the deals that match their location, being personal will attract such customers more. You can use conversational tones whenever possible and be sure the message specifically addresses the needs of the recipient. Encourage customers to make suggestions and even specific demands you can meet to satisfy their needs.

Market with Email: Email marketing is cost-effective and delivers good returns on investment. You can segment emails, personalize marketing messages and optimize the mails for good results. Emails can also be well timed for delivery at appropriate times anywhere around the globe. This is why email is hugely popular with marketers and it now appears to be one of the best ways to promote most businesses online. By using AI, you can automate emails to help save time, efforts and other resources. The reason email is a great strategy of online marketing for most small businesses.

Sunday, January 24, 2021

Tactical Ways to Earn Money Online

A wad of dollar bills on a mouse trap.
Restrictions occasioned by covid-19 pandemic have caused many people to take to trying to earn money online right from the confines of their homes. By taking to the internet, many more people are exploring more ways to earn money online as additional means of income streams. Experience shows there are numerous ways to earn money online that are legitimate and profitable. Marketing experts however advise a tactical approach to avoid fake and get-rich-quick schemes that are numerous online. Here are some of the legit ways they recommend.

Web Designing

If you have the knowledge and you are a bit tech savvy, you can earn money online as a web designer. Now that nearly everyone is taking his or her businesses online because of the pandemic restrictions, a good web designer is always on high demand. With a good knowledge of coding and web designing, you already have the essential ingredients in setting up websites for others and you get paid handsomely for your efforts. Even if the demand for new websites is not very high, you can still do good business by helping others out whose websites need maintenance, modernization, sprucing up and updating. 



Writing eBooks

If you have the knack for writing eBooks to showcase your expert knowledge, you can work with Kindle Direct Publishing to self-publish eBooks and paperbacks. Publishing.com is another reputable place to get your book published to earn money. On Kindle Direct Publishing, you can reach millions of readers worldwide on Amazon. Publishing takes less than 5 minutes and your book appears on Kindle stores worldwide within 24-48 hours. What you earn on royalties varies from country to country depending on what rights you hold and control over your intellectual property.

Content Writing

Many businesses are always on the lookout for good content writers. Even if you don’t have a website of your own, you can use some online platforms to showcase your writing talents. What you are paid depends hugely on the quality of the articles you write and the business niche you are writing about. You can thus, focus on any niche in your area of expertise and build strength in that domain to increase your revenue stream. Better still, some company’s may hire you and give you some specific niches and guidelines to help you develop your articles for their specific needs.

Taking Surveys, Searches and Reviews

Online, there are many websites offering money to undergo online surveys, carry out online searches, and write reviews on products. This may however require some tactical approach as a bit of confidentiality may be required particularly when it involves individuals and financial transactions. Many companies do surveys regularly particularly when they want to launch new products or they have some old products they plan to spruce up and re-launch. These companies pay to have these surveys undertaken the way they want them. Exact same way some financial institutions pay to have background searches/checks and confidential information on their prospective customers.

Blogging

These days, nearly everyone in online marketing tries to blog to get inbound traffic. Many others take to blogging as some hobby, interest, and a passion. Such people may with time become professional bloggers and earn money from their efforts. Blogging is all about content marketing online. To earn money from your blog, it is best to go for a self-hosted blog website where you can have unrestricted control over your content. You can customize all the elements and functionality of your website and you can easily monetize it with Google Adsense to earn money from it.

Social Media Marketing Strategy

Many expert marketers have discovered ways to make money from popular social media platforms like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat. That is in addition to doing what everyone else does on social media such as building an audience of followers by interacting with friends and strangers on the platforms. Companies and brands pay social media strategists and influencers to help boost the popularity of their products. Influencers do this by regularly writing and posting content about the products and even endorsing such products. Many buyers rely hugely on the opinions of influencers to make their buy decisions. Creative posts by social media influencers can easily go viral and help boost brand value. Thus, by sharing posts regularly and interacting with their followers on a regular basis, social media influencers help boost brand value and companies like to pay for that.

Saturday, May 30, 2020

How to Treat your Blog as a Business

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If you are an online marketer, you must be aware that if you blog, you can make money online. Now that nearly everyone is forced to work at home because of the covid-19 pandemic ravaging the world, if you have a blog, you can generate some extra income right from the comfort of your home. You may even choose to blog full-time, meaning you can generate enough income to live on from your blogging activities. That is how to make blogging a full-time business and you can actually treat your blog as such.

To make blogging a lucrative income-generating business, you must be actively and professionally involved in blogging. To get going, you must follow these here some simple steps to bring it about.



Get some Training to Blog Professionally: This is a given. You can hardly make it in any business without the requisite training and knowledge. You can acquire hands-on learning by blogging and acquiring knowledge and experience as you blog along. Alternatively, you can enroll in any of the training programs available online or you diligently read and follow successful blogs online. Doing all these will help you to acquire the needed blogging skills and the tips and tricks of the business. There are also books you can buy and read to get relevant blogging materials and skills. As much as convenient, you can elect to attend offline blogging events to mix with bloggers and to acquire information.

Dedicate Quality Time to Blog: Just like any other business, blogging requires quality time and attention to gather your thoughts and to write them down. Blogging as a content marketing business remains a very serious business if you want readers to take you seriously. While making sure you give regular and dedicated time to blogging, be sure to blog only about content which is really informative, educating and entertaining enough to get readers to read and follow you.

Procure and Use the Right Blogging Tools: Every business requires the right tools to succeed. So is blogging. If you want to blog as a business, you must be ready to invest some money to acquire the right blogging tools. Some of these tools include but not limited to premium web hosting, premium blog templates, plugins, computer equipment, access to the internet, blogging resources, etc, etc.

Connect/Relate with like-minded Bloggers: You need this to be able to learn from the masters. In addition, you can hardly have a successful business without profitable partnerships. You need others to succeed the way they too will need you because cannot succeed as a one-man army or as an Island. In any meaningful business relationship, everyone needs real collaboration with other businesses in many areas of business endeavors in order to succeed.

Actively Promote your Blog: No matter how good your blog is, if you don’t actively promote it, it may appear mediocre for much of the time. No one lights a lamp and puts it under the table. Getting your blog out there on the internet for many readers to notice helps it to acquire the much needed readership soon enough. There are very many ways you can promote your blog to get good results. Some of these ways may be by way free promos on social media and even with paid ads if you have the resources to do so. The more you promote your blog, the faster it acquires readership which helps to grow your income from the blog.

Wednesday, May 20, 2020

How to Choose a Good Blogging Platform

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Many digital marketers are inevitably into blogging for business nowadays. In fact, you cannot be in content marketing if you are not blogging. Bloggers have discovered that blogging is one great way to connect with customers and to attract potential customers even though many bloggers tend to blog for many and varied reasons all connected one way or another with content marketing. If you write a blog, it can help your business to create a following and to establish your brand. Blogging is one veritable marketing tool you can effectively use to increase traffic to your website.

Even if you are a good blogger and you do not have a credible platform to build your blog on, it will not be effective. Not to worry though! Online, there’s a very wide range of blogging platforms you can always choose from.



To help you make a good choice, you must put the following into consideration.

Beginner-Friendliness

If you are a blogging newbie, you cannot aim to compete with the pros in their blogging platforms. All you need is a blogging solution that is easy to set up, manage, and doesn’t need complicated coding skills to run. Easy i suppose? A good platform for you must have 24/7 support for your efforts in case you have issues as you blog along.

Cost Consideration 

Cost consideration is inevitable in any business proposition. The blogging platform you need must be budget friendly and gives real value for money. Even if the platform is free, it is worth nothing if it doesn’t meet your blogging needs.

Monetization Options

Blogging has become a money making business for many bloggers in this age and time. Before you start a blog on any platform, it is good to consider if the platform will allow you to monetize your blog and earn money from it.

Maintenance and Versatility

Every blogger needs a blogging platform that will in no way impede the workflow of the blog. It must have tools and features that are simple to use and helpful with hands-on blogging solutions. You can best avoid blogging platforms that are unduly restrictive and not too user-friendly.

Features Flexibility and Extendability

As your blogging experience increases and your business expands, it is inevitable that the needs and requirements in your blogging site will change as well. The platform you need is the one that will allow you make these necessary changes easily as the need arises. Even if you choose to modify or overhaul your blog design, add features, or make other drastic changes, a good blogging platform must allow you make these changes with ease.

Recommendation

No matter what your skills, goals and requirements for blogging are, your blog can be classified into one or more of the following categories:

Personal blogs
Business blogs
Online businesses
Small hobby blogs

For these reasons, your blog can best be hosted by any of the following platforms. Looking through the platforms and taking into account the requirements to help you decide as earlier canvassed; you can easily make a choice from any of the following tested and reputable blogging platforms which I recommend.

WordPress.org – Best for Self-Hosted Blogs.
WordPress.com – Best for Free Blogs.
Wix.com – Best for Small Websites.
Joomla.com.
Medium.com. 
Ghost.org. 
Squarespace.com.
Weebly.com.
Blogger.com
Tumblr.com

Decide now, sign-up and host your blog. Happy and profitable blogging!


Monday, April 20, 2020

7 Proven Ways to Make Money from your Blog

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Most bloggers blog these days just to make money. You can too if you are able write a blog that most people want to read. The more popular your blog is with readers, the more money you can make from it. You do require some blogging skills though which you must master before starting out. Even with blogging skills, you need a bit of time, determination, hard work, testing and retesting before you can expect to make some impact in the highly competitive business of blogging.

Here now are 7 proven ways to make money from your blog as recommended by the pros.

#1.Affiliate Programs

If your blog is up and running, with some appreciable followership, you can sign up for some affiliate programs. After signing up and getting registered, you can then decide on some products/services related to your blog niche which you can help promote. These are products/services you will be earning commissions on as a blog publisher affiliate. These commissions will be paid by the product merchants depending on how much sales your blog is able to generate for them. There are many affiliate programs you can sign up with online but the most popular are Clickbank, SFI, Amazon Associates and Linkshare. These are the programs that already have good reputations and are working with thousands of affiliates. They pay good commissions too.



 

#2.Webinars

If you know something technical, informative and educative, you can package it in webinars and sell off your blog site. If your webinars are sufficiently helpful to your blog readers, they bring traffic to your blog site as well as helping you to make money from selling webinar slots. You must however ensure that the topics of your webinars relate to your blog niche. They must deal with issues much deeper than what your blog does not routinely deal with while offering how-to and where-to advice on getting things done.

#3.Google Adsense Monetization

 
By the time your blog starts to generate sufficient traffic, you can monetize it with Google Adsense. When you register with Google for Adsense Account, on approval, they start displaying ads on your site. You earn income from these Google ads when your blog readers visit/click on the ads. The more traffic your blog gets, the more income it generates for you from Google ads.

#4.Product Sales

If you have products related to your blog for sale, you can create a storefront in your blog page to sell such products to your blog readers. Even without a physical product to sell, you can create for sale e-products like e-books and sell to your blog readers at very attractive prices.

#5.News Content and Videos

If you are creative enough to add news content and videos on your blog, you don’t only get more and better traffic, you earn more money as a result. Online marketing experts advise that visual contents like videos, graphics and photos somehow help to attract more traffic to your blog than written content. Therefore, by embedding relevant news content and videos on your blog, you stand a very good chance to earn more money as well as very valuable return visitors’ traffic from it.

#6.Private Products Ads

If your blog becomes very popular with good inbound traffic, you can earn income from it by selling private ads related to the blog. It is left to you to decide how much you charge for displaying products banners on the ads space you’ve created on your blog. The more clicks and sales attributable to such banner ads, the more money your blog earns.

#7.Job Board

You can decide to add a Job Board to your blog if your blog provides freelance writing or blogging advice.  By doing so, the Job Board will not only add to your blogging income, it will also be giving your blog readers some good reasons to be returning to your blog. Returning blog readers are very valuable traffic as most expert marketers will tell you. With a Job Board on your blog site, you can then decide to charge advertisers some agreed fees to enable them to place their jobs advertisement on your Job Board for an agreed number of days’ duration. Job seekers then constitute their own unique return traffic back to your blog site since they know they will be able to view and apply for any jobs on your Job Board free of charge. 



 

Thursday, January 02, 2020

4 Surefire Ways to Make Quick Money Online

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Most significantly the internet has created many and various ways to make quick money online. Many people now make second paychecks from it while some others earn full-time incomes online.  The internet now appears to be a very ideal place to make money online. It is suitable for anyone who has access to the internet, be they young, old, students, employed or even non-employed individuals. Some persons are as at today earning their entire paychecks from working online. If you too are keen on making quick money online, you have practical and legitimate options available for people of all walks, ages and nationalities. You can even decide to make your online money-making venture a part-time or full-time endeavor. It’s all up to you.


 

These here four options to make quick money online are practical and fairly easy to use.

#1: Start a Blog

If you know something that others will like to read, you can be a blogger. You can write about practically any subject under the sun or on any specific subject that relates to a profitable niche in your chosen market. By the time your blog gets good readership/followership, you can then monetize it by way of Google Adsense to make money from it. Good blogs can be on any hobby, passion or thoughts that incorporate well-presented content. Such blogs can be coupled with paid adverts and affiliate marketing strategies that create steady streams of income for the blogger.

#2: Affiliate Marketing

A good platform for affiliate marketing incorporates three partners, the product merchant, the publisher and the customers. Publishers help product merchants to sell their products to buyers/customers and they earn commissions from their marketing efforts. As blogger, you fit into the publisher leg of the partnership and you get paid commissions depending on what your blogging activities help to market and sell. All you need is to embed affiliate tracking links in your blog. These links are made available by online merchants who also give the necessary marketing support needed to promote their products. The affiliate method of promotion enhances the partnership by helping to build a customer network to follow up and generate more sales. The more the sales generated from such efforts, the more commissions the affiliate earns.

#3: Freelancing Skills

Nearly everyone has some specialized skills which can be marketed online. That is how online freelancing is gradually becoming a mainstream way to make money online.  On the internet, there are many and diverse skills anyone can efficiently market on the various platforms available therein. These days, because of its cost-effectiveness, many companies like to engage temporary or long-term assignments by way of outsourcing their content-driven marketing strategies. This arrangement is fairly easy to set up and does not need formal personnel requirements attendant to full employee engagements.  That is what makes freelancing one of the fastest ways to make money online in this age and time. With some computer skills and access to the internet, boom, you are on to make some money.

#4: E-commerce Websites

These are websites that habitually look for publishers to help market their products and they pay out commissions to such publishers. A typical e-commerce website is an online store where physical products are displayed for sale. It features a hassle-free way to make money online by way of affiliate relationship. Most affiliates like to take advantage of drop shipping common in most e-commerce ventures. What that entails is that orders are taken from buyers through an e-commerce website and a third-party source is made responsible for manufacturing and shipping the goods so ordered. As soon as a sale is made, appropriate commissions are paid out as per pre-agreed percentages of the sales taken in. One quick way influencers, publishers and bloggers get to earn good money online. 


Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Highly Economic Ways to Boost Conversions

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Most online businesses are always looking for ways to increase their conversion rates. For such businesses, affiliate marketing always comes in very handy because of its unique qualities of helping to boost conversion rates. It is economical too and advert budget friendly because it delivers effectively on a pay-per-performance model. What that means is that merchants pay commissions to affiliates only on the basis of the conversions they help to garner. That appears fair enough on the surface but merchants still have to experiment with different affiliate partnerships and sales strategies until they find the one that works best for them. That requires some unique strategies to get right.  When merchants manage to get that right, they can then expect a remarkable boost in conversions and ultimately business revenue figures.


 

Here are some strategic effects which help to enhance the process.

Effects of Someone Your Consumer Trusts

This comes into effect by simply targeting people your consumers can trust and bringing them on board your referral marketing chain. In this regard, bloggers and social media influencers are particularly effective because they already have a large following of persons who trust and rely on their recommendations to make a purchase decision.  These people are very effective at helping to grab conversions from their loyal and dedicated fans/followers on the basis of the relationship they’ve established which subsists on trust. To get the desired results, you must as a matter of deliberate policy try to build very strong relationships with your affiliates, be on the lookout always for affiliates who really like your product/service, are trustworthy and have a full engagement of a large following. Such affiliates help a great deal to boost conversion rates at very cheap costs.

Effects of Hyper-Targeting

In modern day online marketing, you get better results when your ads are specially designed to appeal to a very specific group of people. That is hyper-targeting. As a remarkable improvement over traditional marketing methods, marketers are now able to focus on a very specific demographic, down to age, gender, location, education, and even brand preference. The results of such hyper-targeting could be very impressive. When you introduce affiliate marketing in the mix, it not only allows you to control what message is sent about your brand, but also who sends it and to whom. That makes it imperative for you to work with affiliate partners who are closely aligned with your target audience. Doing so enables you to deliver at all times, a clear and powerful message to your consumers from someone they trust.  That is what helps to get the best results which reveal this method as a very effective strategy for boosting conversions. However, for it work satisfactorily, it is advisable that you know very well your target consumer at the outset. Research deep to find out your consumer’s core values as well as where and how they spend their time online using the right online tools which enable you to make changes in your marketing strategy as necessary.

Effects of Bolstering Valuable Content

 
Online marketers have since found out that one great benefit of affiliate marketing is that it contributes immensely to your presence on the internet and, ultimately, your search engine rankings. Influencers, bloggers and publishers who routinely write highly informational and educative posts about your products/services work in anticipation of Google’s need for user-friendly content that serves a useful purpose to the reader. When Google likes your content, it ranks it high on its SERPs. That gets it better noticed for greater readership and ultimate conversions. To be so favoured by search engines, affiliates must habitually write good content that people like to read. Such content must be SEO compliant for better rankings and merchants must regularly frontload their affiliates with vital and current information about their products/services.

Effects of Leveraging Special Promotions

 
Affiliate marketing can help grow your conversion rate by helping to attract new and repeat customers through special promotions. Most online shoppers depend on someone they trust to take most of their buy decisions. In that category are influencers, bloggers and publishers whom the buyers trust and are already following. Even if buyers are hesitant to commit on account of price or some other impediment, a recommendation from influencers or bloggers helps that process along for them to commit to buying. Special promotions which come highly recommended by these online influencers help boost conversions for the business.

Promo codes, discounts, deals and sales on their own may help grow conversion rates but without a good reach, their effects are severely limited. It is influencers and bloggers who help to provide this much needed reach and eventual boost in conversions. So, when merchants combine affiliate marketing with special promotions, they manage to get their promo deals in front of many more people as a result. That helps them to pick up more conversions from both brand-new and repeat customers. For this to work effectively, merchants must always look out for the best ways to regularly offer exclusive deals and discounts using affiliates special promo codes and partnering with such affiliates for freebies and giveaways.

Effects of Building Your Backlinks

Google maintains that, “having other sites link back to your site is like a vote for the quality of your site.” That appears to be why Google uses the number and quality of backlinks to a website as part of its ranking considerations. If your site has high-quality influencers/publishers linking back to it, Google is more likely to rank it higher on its SERPs. That alone can help in a great way to boost conversion rates for your site. Even though backlinks can help merchants rank higher on Google’s SERP, it is possible only if they’re done in precisely the right way. Expert Marketers advise adequate care when building backlinks to avoid “spamming” which Search Engines routinely and mercilessly penalize. For this reason, merchants must not ignore suitable keyword search and usage. All their affiliates must be provided with specific anchor texts for use on their sites and cross-posting actively encouraged among the affiliates. All these help the value of backlinks, search engine rankings and a boost in conversion rates.


 

Thursday, December 12, 2019

How Affiliate Marketing Helps to Boost Conversation Rates

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By exploring some delicate ways to fuse some tried-and-tested sales strategies alongside some proven modern marketing methods, affiliate marketing can indeed help companies grow conversion rates exponentially. It is all about online promotional efforts effectively using affiliates to push your brand online. These affiliates are made up largely of bloggers, social media influencers and publishers whose main marketing function is to promote products/services for a merchant in exchange for a commission paid them by the merchant. Traditionally in affiliate marketing, affiliates get paid based on specific actions completed by consumers such as link clicks or subscriptions. That is why affiliates promote vigorously to get more of such direct actions from their promotional efforts. The more direct actions they generate, the more the commissions they earn. Conversion rates get boosted by way of boosted direct actions from the promotional efforts of affiliates. That is how affiliate referral programs using well-known promotional tactics with increased vigor gets to have a direct boost on conversion rates. 

In affiliate marketing, one of the biggest reasons why revenue grows for merchants is because of a spike in conversion rates. If affiliates increase their promotional efforts to get enhanced commissions, their efforts help to boost conversion rates as well for the business of the brand they are promoting. This works well when affiliate’s posts help to turn blog readers to customers thereby helping to boost the affiliate’s business as well as the business of the merchant. Direct actions from affiliates resulting in attracting readers to theirs websites do result in making such readers to make a purchase, sign up for a mailing list or perform some other desired action. These sequential actions inevitably count towards a boost in conversion rates for the business of merchants. That is if the affiliate marketing works well and desirably. Do you know how affiliate marketing works well to get expected results? What it does is to simply help to connect your product/service with its intended consumers through a channel they trust. Such trusted channels are usually bloggers, publishers and influencers with large following built largely on trust. The more of these followers/readers they manage to lure to a brand, the more commissions they earn and in turn the more they help boost conversion rates for the business whose brand they are promoting.



 

Friday, November 29, 2019

How to Retain High-Performing Affiliates

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Among experienced marketers, affiliate marketing now has a reputation for boosting conversion rates, strengthening brand awareness and helping to increase search rankings. This comes about as a result of the highly rewarding partnership between Merchants, Affiliates and Consumers. Merchants rely on Affiliates in the mold of bloggers, publishers and influencers who act as steadfast promoters of the Merchant’s products to attract Consumers/buyers. It becomes a win-win situation for all the three parties involved in the partnership if it is well deployed as a business strategy. That is the reason why businesses always seek to nurture and retain high performing affiliates as business partners.

Find below some very simple ways you too can nurture and retain high-performing affiliates for your business.

Provide Valuable Incentives: Yes indeed! Business persons give incentives for a reason and it is always for the benefit of their businesses. To attract new affiliates and to keep them engaged even after the initial deal, some high-value incentives come in very handy. From experience, some of the best affiliate marketing incentives out there include but not limited to giving affiliates special discount codes and offering them competitive commission rates. Others include giving them extra freebies and branded business paraphernalia like caps, T-shirts, key-holders, mugs, tea cups, notebooks/pads etc.



 

Reward High Value Affiliates: A valuable reward system is also an effective business incentive some of which may be intangible and immeasurable gestures like simple “thank you” notes and remembering anniversaries with tokens. If feasible, occasional telephone calls are also helpful. That is in addition to occasionally giving away gift cards, freebies and bonuses. These token gestures amazingly go a long way to show affiliates how much they’re appreciated and valued.

Focus more on the Positive: You must learn to focus more on the positive if you want to build enduring business relationships. Yeah, everyone gets to make some mistakes once in a while but that shouldn’t take away the good they’ve been doing all this while. It pays better to focus more on the good while doing everything to avoid greed and presumptuousness. In a business partnership, ensuring everyone gets their dues out of the relationship is what helps to nurture the relationship. Consciously making decisions with utmost respect for what benefits all parties is what helps business relationships to blossom.

Recognize Affiliates Success: Everyone likes to be recognized for what they do if they’re doing it well. It is not out of place to share in the success of your affiliates by helping them to showcase it in whichever way you can. That makes them proud and willing to continue to be in partnership with you. It can make other marketers easily notice their efforts thus engendering more business referrals for such affiliates. Since referrals can have two-way benefits, appreciated and grateful affiliates are much more likely to recommend your business to their fellow publishers, bloggers and influencers. That helps in no small measure to grow your business reputation. As a marketer, reputation can sometimes be the key that unlocks the real growth potential of your business. You can retain affiliates if they genuinely recognize their own benefits from that growth potential.

Foster Seamless Partnerships: Uncomplicated partnerships have a very strong way of making all the partners happy and contented. Working with unpleasant, presumptuous and difficult partners is usually not good for business. The best way to keep a partnership relationship alive and in good stead is to always be open and transparent in your communications with your partners. That helps to keep everyone in the relationship well informed and comfortable. If you habitually act unpleasantly, difficult to reach and generally evasive, it is difficult to foster seamless partnerships.

Provide Affiliates Valuable Information: Good communication is always vital in partnerships. Content marketing affiliates thrive on providing high-value content to the users. Without it, they find it very difficult to attract the needed traffic to patronize their partner-merchant’s products. So, it behoves on merchants to provide affiliates a hefty flow of valuable information relating to the products they are marketing. That enhances the ability of such affiliates to churn out very valuable content for the benefit of the products. When merchants provide good information to help affiliates write high value content, it also helps to ease up their writing and ability to produce more content at faster rates. That helps to nurture and maintain the partnership in good stead.

Partner only the Right Affiliates: It is best to work only with affiliates who like your brand and are ready to identify with it. That is the only way they can get to represent your brand adequately. It helps a great deal therefore to start off your partner relationship on a very strong footing by working only with affiliates who make sense, are easy to work with and capable of providing real value to your business. No doubt you are aware life is a whole lot easier when you’re doing what you love doing and working with people you actually want to work with who share your ideals about your business and your brand. When you work with the right persons as affiliates, sustaining such relationship and benefiting from it is a lot easier.

Involve Affiliates in Company Promos: Why not? They are your business partners remember? When your business has a promo going, making available to affiliates promo paraphernalia like branded mugs, key-holders, stickers, t-shirts, caps, etc. is one great way to get them interested and be fully involved in your promo efforts. As a business owner, you get to benefit from giving affiliates these items in several ways. Firstly, they help to incentivize your affiliates and make them feel appreciated for being part of your business. Secondly, the products help to put your affiliates in good stead to effectively promote your product/brand on and offline. Your business can actually get immense benefits from such promos if influencers actually get to lead the way in your promos. You must however ensure that all persons in the partnership get their full measures and benefits accruing from the promo. That is what helps to nurture the partnership.

Work Only as Real Partners: As marketing experts always like to say, genuine partnerships yield better results. There must be mutual respect and understanding for real partnerships to yield these results. Affiliate marketing partnerships work well when all parties to the relationship are rewarded appropriately in line with the partnership understanding. Anything short can lead to a sour relationship among the partners, particularly when one partner wants to take undue advantage of the others by scheming to get more out of the arrangement than the others. To promote better affiliate relations, a merchant should never try to eke out free promotions from other partners. Every partner must transparently be on board and rewards due to everyone from any promo appropriated transparently as well in line with the partnership understanding. That is what real partners do that helps the partnership to endure and benefit all parties.



 

Pay Affiliate Commissions Promptly: All business persons work to get benefits from the work they do. For affiliates, the commissions they earn serve as such benefits. Product merchants must never lose sight of the fact that their affiliate partners put in a lot of work and effort to promote their brand. This they do by constantly producing engaging content to grow their followers who patronize the products thereby helping merchants to grow their businesses. These affiliates deserve prompt and adequate rewards for their efforts. For that reason, merchants must endeavor to always keep them as active members of their payroll making sure they are remunerated in line with agreed terms and promptly too. That helps to motivate them well enough to enable the partnership endure.

Provide Free/Discounted Products for Trials: Influencers are opinion molders and the people who follow their lead do so out of trust. Because merchants should not expect every affiliate partner to automatically share their passion for the product/service they are marketing, these affiliates deserve to have a foretaste of the free/discounted products from the merchant. That puts them in a better stead to genuinely promote the products. You get much better results as a consequence of that.

Adopt Structured Commissions Payment: This is one great way to reward affiliate partners in direct proportion to their efforts. In online affiliate marketing compensation plans, it is well known that not all links, promotions, and conversions should pay the same. This is because some of these promotional efforts require more time and effort from affiliates than others. The real reason some need to be better compensated than others. Some merchants deal with this problem by using a tiered commission structure. That way, different affiliate actions garner different rewards. For instance, some merchants tend to pay more commissions if the consumer opts into marketing e-mails after making a purchase or if they convert a new customer rather than a repeat customer. That is why it makes a very good business sense to tier your affiliates’ commissions payment based on performance. That means, you’ve got to pay top performing affiliates more than others thereby incentivizing all your affiliates to work harder for their pay. Business-like no doubt!


Monday, November 18, 2019

How Affiliate Marketing Enhances Your Small Business

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When modern day small business owners want to build their own clan of marketers to help promote their brands with a strong force, they turn to affiliate marketing. These days, around 70%, according to reliable estimates of online shoppers trust and rely on the advice of an influencer to purchase products. This high statistic is sufficient to ginger small business owners to invest in affiliate marketing because they need new and effective techniques to influence the buying decisions of this huge numbers of buyers. Many affiliate marketing platforms as a matter of course offer some of these new techniques. Small business owners also know that one very useful way to ensure an increased customer base is by way of affiliate marketing.

Affiliate Marketing is quite a self-explanatory concept involving partnerships and collaborations to market goods/services worldwide 24/7. Many thanks to the internet which never sleeps! When small businesses link up with affiliate marketing platforms, they get mutually beneficial rewards from such associations. It presents a win-win situation to both the businesses and the affiliates who are in the marketing relationship. These relationships are cost-effective because the businesses involved are only required to pay commissions on the sales generated through the efforts of their affiliates. No other directly related fees/costs are involved. With that arrangement, affiliates get rewarded with handsome commissions for merely driving buyers to their partner e-commerce stores. Great and hugely rewarding relationship if you ask me!



 

Mentioned below are a few tried and tested ways affiliate marketing helps to enhance small businesses. Affiliate marketing:

Helps Build Reputation for Your Business

Many affiliate marketers traditionally enjoy great credibility and repute with their website visitors. This because they are trusted bloggers/content marketers who work as a third-party opinions that people mostly trust and rely on to purchase products/services online. Thus, when a business decides to join forces with them in partnership, their top repute also helps your business in generating credibility with them. When they promote a product/service, it is a way of endorsing the products/service to their audience, which already trusts their calls. Such good reputation easily influences buying decisions.

Helps Build Business Partnerships

 
Every business relies hugely on reliable and profitable partnerships to grow. When businesses take on affiliates, it comes down to business partnerships. Such partnerships grow as the business gets more leads through the relationship. Long-term, such business relationship will pay your business dividends arising from an increased number of people who tend to trust your brand. That is how businesses get long-term experienced marketing professionals to promote their products/services and affiliates get reliable and reputable clients that help them to earn cool commissions. Great and mutually beneficial partnership!

Helps to Broaden Your Customer Base

All businesses grow as a result of good customer-patronage. Affiliate marketing is a perfect way for any business to broaden its group of customers and audiences. Because most affiliated influencers and websites already have a huge audience, it is easy for businesses to latch on to their wide reach to automatically market their brands without much additional add-on efforts. As a business, that saves you the huge overhead costs of hiring and maintaining a sales-force. It is costs saving no doubt. What works to the advantage of your business is to simply offer a pre-determined percentage commission on each sale to the affiliates who consciously invest their time and energy in promoting your brand to their followers/viewers. That helps to broaden your business customer base no end.

Offers Low-Cost Marketing Solutions
 

As is generally well known, most businesses operationally spend huge sums of money on their marketing strategies on and offline. With affiliate marketing partnerships, such marketing efforts can be done at very low budgets. That is cost-saving which is good for the bottom-line and profits. A preferred cost-saving marketing solution for most marketers who want to have a huge cut back on their marketing budgets is to simply enroll trusted bloggers and influencers as their affiliates. These people get the same marketing job done at very low costs because they are entitled to be paid only pre-determined and agreed commissions. That helps to enhance cost-control measures for the business.

Gives Real Time Access to Worldwide Markets

The internet is global and it never sleeps. Many small businesses now take advantage of that to hit global markets. With Affiliate marketing, many small businesses easily gain access to foreign markets and make considerable impacts with little efforts. When you have a product/service that has global appeal, you can always find people in the user-base of affiliates who would be interested in what you are offering.

Helps to Extend the Lifespan of Web Stores


On the internet, the competition is always very fierce among marketers. That is the reason why many e-commerce sites are perpetually struggling to get by. Such struggling e-commerce stores/websites can be helped to remain in business by far longer with the activities of affiliate marketers. Therefore, it is always a great idea to offer affiliate programs to the influencers who literally add years to the life of your brand. Some influencer content with affiliate links embedded can go viral and remain evergreen for years. That is hugely beneficial for the lifespans of e-commerce stores.


 

Guarantees Sustainable Traffic
 

Undeniably, one of the many reasons for the failure of a web store is lack of traffic. Directing traffic to a web store is one of the primary responsibilities of partner content markers/publishers. This is one key motivation for any business to offer an affiliate advertising program to publishers, influencers and bloggers. They indirectly work for your brand as they generate their content for their own products. Such traffic is generated mainly from their own websites/blogs, their social media profiles on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube channels.

Makes Progress Tracking Easy
 

Traditionally, every affiliate in partnership with an e-commerce store gets to have an ID number unique to the affiliate. That number helps for unmistaken identity for traffic, leads and sales attribution to the affiliate. It is the unique ID from affiliate platforms that makes it easy for all parties to keep track of their overall performance in terms of impressions, clicks, and sales. Affiliate marketing characteristically offers businesses and affiliates this unique wherewithal to keep track of their respective progress in their marketing efforts. With that, businesses are always fully aware of and therefore make no mistakes about the resources that generate traffic to their web stores. As for affiliates, it allows them to easily keep track of their progress and earnings through an automated system everyone relies on and believes in. It is this simplified and automated platform which helps to forestall any chances of dispute since everything is clearly displayed and open to the participating partners.

Sunday, November 17, 2019

How Affiliate Marketing Platforms Help Bloggers

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Successful bloggers rely hugely on partnerships and collaborations to make money online. The most prominent of these partnerships are affiliate marketing and e-commerce platforms. In the ever-changing landscape of digital marketing where bloggers ply their trade, everyone of them is always looking out for what works best for them in their content marketing efforts. It may be fairly difficult at times to determine what truly works, but, what is not in doubt is that affiliate marketing networks do offer enhanced and mutually beneficial support to bloggers. By collaborating with such marketing platforms, it is easy for bloggers to browse through a host of affiliate programs and campaigns before selecting the ones that are best suited to their needs and preferences. These choice options are always many and varied depending on what bloggers want to achieve.


 

Traditionally, affiliate marketing has been one of the most popular ways for bloggers to monetize their online traffic. These days, many bloggers are beginning to understand the value addition that partnering with affiliate networks can drive for them. This is the real reason why a growing number of bloggers/publishers are consciously linking up with affiliate marketing platforms. Doing so allows them to maximize their earning potential with minimal efforts. As more bloggers actively partner with affiliate platforms to seamlessly access new business opportunities, it engenders and enhances significantly the growth of the blogging industry and the affiliate marketing industry. A win-win situation for both parties!

As a way of helping more bloggers, some affiliate networks deliberately create innovative online solutions to make content marketing easier. Such very significant innovative solution is a type of Google chrome extension named Admitad Lite. This innovative tool can be leveraged to access several advertiser programs across the globe through a consolidated platform. Thus, by using a single account, bloggers/publishers can on one spot access multiple advertiser programs around the world. That spares them the hassles of having to register and deal with multiple affiliate networks. That arrangement helps to save bloggers valuable time, efforts and resources. When bloggers install the extension and register with the platform, they get easy access to a host of advertiser campaigns. They get this access even from advertisers that they are not associated with. That no doubt helps to open up a world of new opportunities for bloggers, who can now simply explore programs, request to be a part of them and create instant deep links to start earning post-approval. Just like that!

Several businesses/brands now leverage affiliate marketing to create referral programs and reward bloggers/content creators that drive the maximum value for their businesses/brands. This no doubt serves as a very valuable revenue stream for bloggers/publishers. In addition, affiliate platforms deliberately offer bloggers/publishers the opportunity to choose their working models, payouts, traffic type and geography in a more detailed and accurate manner while associating with a brand as affiliates. Associating and working closely with partner businesses/brands can, thus, lead to a very valuable relationship-building which enhances continued earnings for the blogger/publisher.

Online activities like traffic authenticity, user targeting and attribution which ordinarily should worry bloggers can be taken care of by the affiliate networks. That hugely helps bloggers/publishers to free up time and resources to focus more on creating and optimizing their content with the help of the extensive customer insights which affiliate networks provide for them. Through affiliate marketing platforms, bloggers/publishers can also accurately gauge campaign performance and returns-on-investment real-time. That is the vital information they really need to refocus and grow their content marketing business for enhanced income and returns.