Simple Secret in Making Money from Facebook
Ok sorry for being hysterical in the title. By now you should already know that there is no such thing as secret in affiliate marketing. Or to be more specific, a secret that would literally explode your profits. Again affiliate marketing is all about testing and tweaking and the more you learn from your data, the more you will earn.
Before, it’s very easy to profit from Facebook. All you need to do is run that shady email submit and get it in front of as many as audience as possible. Time flies very fast and now with all those new terms, a lot of people find making money from Facebook impossible.
If you get lazy to do a good ad copy, most of the times it will just get rejected. Even if you do a good copy, sometimes it will get rejected even. The key there is by getting into the smallest niche or what is called microniches.
A good example. If you’re going to run a quiz offer where you are going to target literally everyone, target the tag entertainment and have as much people see the ad, are you going to make money? I doubt!
There’s no secret but here’s one thing you’ve got to bare in mind. When you promote something on Facebook, make sure you laser target your audience according to the offer you’re promoting. For instance, if you’re promoting the Avatar Quiz Offer, then target not just the Avatar movie avid fans. Target them by age, whether they’re single or not and stuffs. Do you think a 40 yr.old woman would be interested to take that quiz? I bet not! Or will an 11 year old devoted fan have the money to pay for the subscription? Naah!
At the end of the day, it’s just about simply trying to get as deep as possible. While you may get lesser impressions by doing this, it may literally double your EPC. What are you gonna do with 10 mil impressions and no leads? and on the flip side, how about 10000 impressions and 10 leads? Remember, the more your ad is clicked, the more it will be displayed. And the bottom line is that the cost per click would be much cheaper if you’re ad is getting clicked often.
What say you?
What is the Best Product to Promote?
In wickedfire, most of the question is about what is the best product to be an affiliate for? What is the best product to promote? The cliche answer/s is either it depends or there’s no best product to promote. So today I’ll explain a bit what it means and why. Let’s now dissect it.
It depends
People normally base it on the per lead tag, epc, and stuffs. For example two years ago, the ringtone market is a hot commodity. Everyone is in there, everyone’s like making money with it. The truth is only few did. While ringtone is a lucrative niche, the problem is its saturated. To be able to get a position in Adwords or YSM you need to shred out a lot of cash since the cpc is absurdly high.
Last year’s flavor is the rebill offers. If you don’t know, rebills are the ones that the customer just need to pay less than $5 for shipping YET they don’t know its a recurring payment. It’s shady but its how it was really designed. Like ringtones, it’s high paying but I doubt a lot of people made huge money with it. Researching, its obvious that the same and the same people are the ones that make the most of it.
So in the end it depends not just on the price per lead or the rising trends, but also on how suitable it is for your budget.
There’s No Best Product
This is true if you ask me. Every time I log in to my Copeac account, I always see the hot offers and stuffs but I rarely promote those. Sometimes you’d be surprised on how some of the offers work, what’s converting and why its converting.
For instance, I would like to promote a quiz offer which is working in UK. It converts well simply because Im promoting on a different demographic. Maybe not a lot of people promote that offer or promote it in that geographical location.
The thing is you can follow what others do by promoting those hot campaigns and yet still fail badly or promote something unknown, lose money, then capitalize in the end.
Affiliate Marketing is a testing and tweaking business (and spending too). Even the highest converting products will suck if you do your campaigns poorly. And besides if there’s such a best product to promote, why would I tell it to you anyway?
Incentivizing In Affiliate Marketing
Incentivizing in affiliate marketing also known as incentive marketing is a very popular marketing tactic which is done mostly by website owners that have a huge audience. Because of its nature, it’s not too hard to thrive and make some reasonable income doing it.
How it is done
Here’s a good example. Thesis theme is probably the hottest WordPress theme for the last 8 months and because of it, a lot of its affiliates are really doing well with it. So to incentivize Thesis, most people are offering what we call cash back. Thesis offers affiliates a 40% commission for every sale made and what wise affiliates do is share the commission with everyone who will buy under them. And therefore doing the math, instead of earning $35 per sale, the affiliate would make less because he’s going to give some cash back ($10-$15), YET can possibly quadruple his customers. Who wouldn’t want a discount anyways?
There are a lot of other ways to do this like adding something to the package, or giving a premium something as a bundle and many more.
Before doing this and conclusion
First and foremost, make sure the offer is incentivizable. If it’s not then obviously you will just be wasting your time doing it.
Second, make sure you have a good number of audiences and a tight community. You cannot just start a website and then have people believe you that you are really offering cash back. Reputation counts so if you already have an established website then it’s a big plus factor.
Lastly, communicate well with the merchant. Because of its nature, some will abuse it. You definitely don’t want to give some cash to people who really don’t purchase under you. Have a constant communication with the merchant to make sure everything is running well.
Overall, this is a pretty good tactic. A lot of people are doing it but not a lot of them are being successful. Getting the process implemented properly and good communication with the merchant are the only things you need to get this thing working well. Good luck and tell me your own opinion.
Tips For Creating a Good Affiliate Site
People want to make as much money possible nowadays. It is not possible for the marketers to make their place in the business marketplace. To achieve this position, you need to know the right ways in order to gain your commissions in the business.
The first thing to remember is to avoid affiliate hijacking. There is possibility of the people trying to use their name on your affiliate id. In this case, the person who has replaced your affiliate id will be able to earn ad you will be working but not earning single money. So, to avoid this, there is a necessity to learn proper ways to protect your affiliate id.
This is not an easy task so; there are chances that you may not be able to completely protect your affiliate id. But, a simple php script can accomplished this task. A javascript can also be helpful to redirect the people visiting your site to the merchant site in order to protect your affiliate id.
After writing the articles, people usually submit them to the article directories. Make sure while submitting that the article directories in which you are providing your articles can bring traffic to you. Try to use the keywords which are easily searchable over the Internet while writing the articles. This will increase the rank of your articles on the searching engines and the viewers will be able to search your article immediately. The main intention of writing the articles with proper keywords and submitting them to the articles directories is to receive as much traffic as possible so that the articles can be put for pre sell.
To maintain a good website, you will require adding the latest and creative content on your website on regular basis. Try to write new articles with innovative ideas. If it is possible to write the articles targeting at long keywords, then this may be helpful in bringing you more traffic from the search engines. Understanding the latest trend and taste of the visitors, place the articles on your website. Ensure that the articles are of some use to the visitors. For an example, if you are developing a weight loss website, then try to include BMI chart which will be very useful to the visitors.
SEO is an important part in order to increase the traffic at your website. Learn some of the important SEO techniques so that you can enjoy good traffic from the search engines. The on site as well as off site optimization are very necessary as well.
Promoting Email Submits With Free Traffic
This is one of the winning entry on ML’s Share Your Secret Contest that was held last year.
So not everyone has the cash when starting out affiliate marketing, as you know affiliate marketing requires some hefty cash from our side even when starting out. Although, there are free coupons from AdWords, Yahoo and MSN occasionally, the truth is its hard to time it because all the coupons are already used up even before you know there’s a coupon available. Here is what I normally do with it. I utilize easy converting e-mail submit offers and use free traffic. Let me explain.
First, take a look at the MarketLeverage Offers.You see there are over 10 offers of this kind. For those who do not know, e-mail submits are offers that you get paid for a valid e-mail address from customers. It costs nothing to consumers and the pixel is fired on the first page of an offer. Easy money, eh?
Now we head on to the landing page. Basically we cannot direct link here because we’re not using pay per click. Now I know building a landing page seems to be frightful experience for newbies but here’s a tip that I think will make sense. In some point of time last January, I used it and I can say it worked and is definitely working. First let’s use the iPod Nano e-mail submit offer. Take a look:
So read the description of the campaigns properly because some offers are strict and most are not. Do also take note of what country does the offer accepts traffic from. In this case it’s the United States. Now back to the landing page… most people don’t use this and I’m sure others will find it silly to do it but one easy way of building a landing page is just getting the e-mail creative for that and putting it into your site. Take a look at this:
What I do is just try to copy the e-mail HTML content and put it into my site. Again, most people will find it silly but actually if you look at the codes it’s actually search engine optimized and you just need to do a little tweaking in it. You can basically add a title to the title tag and such stuff. Looking with what it looks like here it goes:
Not bad, eh? I believe the site looks good enough to attract readers. Of course, you can do your own landing page if you have more skills but again for those who know virtually nothing, that is definitely a quick way.
So we’re now into getting traffic. At the start we said we’re not gonna use pay per click and we will try to squeeze anything using free methods. Although the income potential are definitely lower with free traffic, it’s still possible to make money from it. First make sure you install Google Analytics to your site so you could split test your pages, see the data and make adjustments. Now how do I promote it? Here it goes:
- Forum Marketing – Everyone knows exactly the power of forums but how do they utilize it? It depends. Now I assume you are a quality member of a certain forum, meaning you’re not just signed up yesterday. In my case, I’m a big fan of basketball and I am a member of some famous forums about basketball for a long time which means I have the reputation. So I try to put the landing page URL in my signature and of course I try to use an attractive anchor to attract clicks. Another secret I do is I pawn the off topic section of forums with the offer itself. In the off topic section I post something like “I heard this site gives Nanos upon completion of surveys so I signed up, what do you guys think?” Be careful though with this because it can get you banned! Freebies forums tend to also do well with it. Want some freebies forums, then here’s the list of sites that normally have 2000 uniques a day.
http://www.freestuffhotdeals.com/freebies/
http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/free-stuff/
http://www.bobsfreestuffforum.co.uk/
http://www.totallyfreestuff.com/submit.asp?m=0
- Blog Catalog – Now this has got to be something most people don’t do. Blog Catalog is a known directory for blogs and while its known to be a site that has some serious 100,000 visitors a day, I don’t see a lot of marketers using the discussion page for it. The discussion page is great for traffic as well. But the main key here is putting up a discussion that can intrigue a lot of people. One for example is when I tried promoting the “Coke or Pepsi” offer from ML before. Look:
The discussion got about 110 replies, 50% of them clicked the link and 7 have actually made conversions. So you see it makes sense considering all you need to do is type. It varies depending on the type of offer though, as some tend to perform really well as opposed to others.
- Incentivizing – Now here it depends on the offer. Most likely there are few offers that allow incentivization of their offers. How do you incentivize then? The sky is the limit actually! I give Entrecard credits, I give free stuff, I tell them they will get a free domain for this and that, etc. Incentivizing is like “bribing” them to do something in your favor. In the end it benefits you both. Again you must first contact your affiliate manager with regards to these matters.
That’s it. Now if it builds you up a few hundred dollars, then maybe you could jump into bigger waters now and start doing pay per click without worrying about money to spend. Hope this helps!
