Article Marketing Strategies to Save Affiliate Marketers From Heartache
Posted By Eric Gruber, Your Article Marketing ExpertAre you having a hard time promoting affiliate products within your articles so you can get more commissions?
In my Article Marketing Experts LinkedIn Group, Terri Brooks (a Certified Social Media Trainer, Consultant, Speaker and Author) mentioned that EzineArticles.com will flag any article that has an affiliate link in it and so will many top publishers. They are trying to avoid sales-only articles!
So how can affiliate marketers effectively use article marketing?
Article Marketing Strategies for Affiliate Marketers Who Want to Make More Money Online
1. Create a special report or ebook related to the topic of the product you’re trying to promote. If you don’t want to write, you can also create a video, series of videos or even a audio that people have to opt-in for. Create a squeeze page for this specific offer. For squeeze page help, check out http://www.livewebsitereviews.com/youtube. In your article bio box (resource box) add a link to the squeeze page with your high-value proposition. This way you can market to prospects on the back end. Plus, you can offer them additional products and resources. If you are just sending people to affiliate sales pages, if they become a customer, the person who owns the product you’re selling gets the customer for life. You just get a one-time commission instead of additional opportunities.
2. Become affiliates of similar programs that offer a free tool (even as a trial offer) or ebook. Then create a free tools page similar to www.freepublicitytools.com. And, notice how Dan Janal has an opt-in offer right up front. It can be stronger and I’d advise him to make the call-to-action more appealing but it’s right up front. On this page, youcan have additional articles and blog posts that promote the free tools. And, don’t forget to mention when you submit articles online, mention your free tools page in your bio box as everyone loves free tools
By following these strategies, affiliate marketers will get more exposure as their articles will actually get published. Plus they’ll have more opportunities to promote to prospects over and over again so they can make more money online!
For even more article marketing secrets, check out my online article marketing course at:
http://www.onlinearticlemarketingcourse.com/special
July 29th, 2010 at 5:37 pm
Great article Eric and I’m happy to be the inspiration. These are great ideas and ones that I’ll certainly implement for both me and my clients. As affiliate marketing is fairly new to me, I know many people are successful in this area and I appreciate learning from those experts, like you!
July 30th, 2010 at 1:18 am
These are great tips. If you do not have time to write your own articles affiliate marketers and bloggers can have someone else write for them.
July 30th, 2010 at 1:22 am
Your idea of having audio or video content instead of, or in addition to your printed article is right on! Not sure that you provide that service but if not we do provide that service. For instance we recently took 50 written reviews for a destination site and turned them into short video summaries. http://www.renoweb.net. Thanks for sharing this valuable information.
July 30th, 2010 at 5:18 am
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