We hear about diversification in investing, it’s the only free lunch says MSNBC investing guru Kramer. How ever, what if I was to tell you it could slowly be stunting the growth, if not killing your affiliate business?
That’s right, being in to many markets or niches at once without the man power to effectively address the audience and make it worth while financially is a waste of time.
A mentor I had in the past told me never leave an offer and move to another one until you’re sure you’re making the maximum amount possible from that offer.
Are you doing that with each market/niche/affiliate offer you’re working on right now? If not, here are 5 ways to get you back on track to maximize your affiliate income from each market and offer you work on.
Start Article Marketing
I know there has been a ton of buzz the past few years about “BUM MARKETING”. I don’t support this method as a business model as per se, how ever if you can use it as one of your tools in the tool box why not right?
Writing a few articles a week and posting them to high traffic sites such as Ezinearticles.com, Squdioo and Hubpages might get you a few more clicks to that affiliate merchant and make you a few more bucks.
Remember to link back to a redirect domain for the product you’re promoting in the article (You can’t link direct to a merchants website from ezine articles).
Why Not Organic SEO
If you’re a PPC affiliate and have a crazy converting offer why not start a competing site, or use the same site as your PPC campaign to start taking over the natural search rankings for you top converting paid search keywords.
When you’re into SEO you usually stick your nose up at PPC marketers and vice versa. How ever using these two methods together can be the one-two punch that knocks your revenues out of the park.
Pay Per Click
Like what I said above, if you do natural search and SEO for your traffic why not add in a spice of PPC. This servers two benefits in my eyes. Of course it’s going to allow you to target different keywords to test, and make more money, but it’s also going to show you more converting keywords you can target for your natural search rankings.
There’s a lot more to be said on this topic but you can create quite the money machine if you learn to master the marriage of SEO and PPC.
With PPC don’t just do search ads but consider running ads on the Google Content network as well. Again a post all on its own, but do your research on it there can be some diamonds found in there.
Social Media Advertising
I can’t claim to be an expert in this, but I have read a lot about Facebook ads and the likes. Mike Geary, author of top selling ClickBank product The Truth about abs has made some serious money promoting his product this way and revealed it to his affiliates in a private email newsletter a few months back.
Don’t go gang busters on Facebook ads right away, but test them out on an offer or two and track your clicks and conversions. You’ll likely see lower conversions then your regular methods since the visitor wasn’t likely looking for what you advertised but if you can pick up a sale or two in there why the heck not.
Off Line Methods
Another method I don’t claim to be an expert in but it works well for certain markets. Think about picking up local business for certain offers that pay on a per lead basis or for products that have huge mass appeal.
You could look at classified ads in local papers, direct mailings, local and community flyers or newspaper advertising, even direct selling face-to-face with a business card or brochure that directs visitors to a URL owned by you that redirects to the merchants web site.
This can work really well for B2B offers, lead generation offers, and specific niches such as credit repair and other sub prime markets where people are desperate for solutions.
These are five methods can could double, or even triple your current income from an offer, but don’t stop there. If you know you’re promoting something that a huge market wants keep going, be creative. Super affiliates are the ones doing the same old thing over and over. While you have to often start with you tried and tested method be it PPC, SEO or Bum marketing once you find a hot offer expand on the methods of marketing it.