Where to Get More Affiliates for My Product?

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Hi,
we have baby bedding set we manufacture (no one on the internet have same item) and sell online on amazon, ebay and our site. we like to make more traffic and sell to it. we are looking for Affiliates help on that job.

Thanks
Eran
#affiliates #product
  • Profile picture of the author zoulkifl
    You would make a lot more if you just focus on bringing in more traffic and promoting yourself. Affiliates altough a nice added bonus will cost you more in terms of sales but that really depends on how you're selling your baby bedding set.
    Do you really trust affiliates to create enough trust with your audience so they can buy from you? Your best affiliates would be your buyers, stay in contact with them and show them how to promote your bedding set.
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  • Profile picture of the author eschnitz
    thanks, how i can do that? can you help me with this?
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  • Profile picture of the author Luke Dennison
    I'd outsource 20 great posts on the subject of baby bedding, and give them away free to popular blogs and ask them to use THEIR affiliate link to the product on Amazon.

    Cant imagine it would take that long to have all those posts posted what with people literally hungry for content, and money...
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    • Profile picture of the author zoulkifl
      To add to what Luke just said, find the top blogs that you'd think would be ideal for your niche. In your case i believe mommy blogs (not mom blogs) are great.

      Look around the blogs and familiarize yourself with them. Find ways in which you can contribute. It's nice to write or outsource a guest post for them with a link back to your offer but you will increase your chance of landing a guest spot if you provide a post that will benefit the writer of that blog.

      Find blogs related blogs that accept advertisement. Besides writing a blog post you can also place banner ads on them. You can work out a deal with these blog owners who will most likely want your business and repeat the process until you have a constant flow of targeted traffic going to your offer.

      Write a press release and distribute it among news channels.

      Give away a few sets to people who will use and write a review for you, video is great for this...

      Look for baby/new mom magazines - you'll be surprised at where you have an opportunity to make an impact.
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      • Profile picture of the author Luke Dennison
        Originally Posted by zoulkifl View Post

        To add to what Luke just said, find the top blogs that you'd think would be ideal for your niche. In your case i believe mommy blogs (not mom blogs) are great.

        Look around the blogs and familiarize yourself with them. Find ways in which you can contribute. It's nice to write or outsource a guest post for them with a link back to your offer but you will increase your chance of landing a guest spot if you provide a post that will benefit the writer of that blog.

        Find blogs related blogs that accept advertisement. Besides writing a blog post you can also place banner ads on them. You can work out a deal with these blog owners who will most likely want your business and repeat the process until you have a constant flow of targeted traffic going to your offer.

        Write a press release and distribute it among news channels.

        Give away a few sets to people who will use and write a review for you, video is great for this...

        Look for baby/new mom magazines - you'll be surprised at where you have an opportunity to make an impact.
        yeh great idea about the press release
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        • Profile picture of the author eschnitz
          i am not so good in all the marketing management, i will be happy to pay somone to make all this. do you have any one you can offer me?
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          • Profile picture of the author zoulkifl
            Originally Posted by eschnitz View Post

            i am not so good in all the marketing management, i will be happy to pay somone to make all this. do you have any one you can offer me?
            Marketing management? Pay someone?
            Are you trying to run a business or is your goal to just make sales?

            if you don't first educate yourself on marketing methods you will be taken advantage of.

            Do yourself a favor and start learning.

            You were alredy given a few ideas to implement, choose one, learn how it's done first, then look in the marketplace here to see if you can find someone to run the service you chose for you or you can go to elance to find another qualified individual to help you.

            Here are other ideas for you to drive sales if you have the coin:

            Facebook marketing
            Instagram - (This would be excellent oif you can contact people who share baby sheets pictures)
            Pinterest same as above
            Google PPC -
            Youtube ads

            You have to be willing to spend and gather enough data to determine a winning campaign
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            • Profile picture of the author eschnitz
              Originally Posted by zoulkifl View Post

              Marketing management? Pay someone?
              Are you trying to run a business or is your goal to just make sales?

              if you don't first educate yourself on marketing methods you will be taken advantage of.

              Do yourself a favor and start learning.

              You were alredy given a few ideas to implement, choose one, learn how it's done first, then look in the marketplace here to see if you can find someone to run the service you chose for you or you can go to elance to find another qualified individual to help you.

              Here are other ideas for you to drive sales if you have the coin:

              Facebook marketing
              Instagram - (This would be excellent oif you can contact people who share baby sheets pictures)
              Pinterest same as above
              Google PPC -
              Youtube ads

              You have to be willing to spend and gather enough data to determine a winning campaign

              yes ,"Marketing management Pay someone". i dont have time to make all this and handle also my stores.
              do you have someone you now that can make this work?
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  • Profile picture of the author eschnitz
    i have no idea how to make all of this. can i get a recomndtion of a good marketing maneger ? i realy like to bost p the sales and traffice.
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  • Profile picture of the author Manoj V
    Look for blogs in your niche and propose a commission for a banner of your product on their site. Their sites will be the best source of traffic for your product and you can get immediate sales if your product is good.
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  • Profile picture of the author eschnitz
    recommendation for marketing management ? i i think this will be the best help .
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  • Profile picture of the author eschnitz
    by the way, i have read in this site about jvzoo. how they can " sell" my item on line?
    my site is :http://www.babybeddingdesign.com/
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  • Profile picture of the author saif saif
    You have amazon business but no sell .you can't see your product in top rank .please rank your keyword then you see your product more sell and profit .
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  • Profile picture of the author saif saif
    You have amazon business but no sell .you can't see your product in top rank .please rank your keyword then you see your product more sell and profit .
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    • Profile picture of the author eschnitz
      we have nice sells on amazon but we like to have more .
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  • Profile picture of the author davejarvys
    Someone like commission junction would be your best bet with regards to aff marketing.

    Out of interest are your products licenced?
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  • Profile picture of the author eschnitz
    Yes all products licenced!
    we have locale stores and we start selling online .
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  • Profile picture of the author aizaku
    why not get in touch with mommy bloggers

    i'd go to topmommyblogs.com

    hit up their forum and create a promotion.

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  • Profile picture of the author JohnVianny
    You can rely on third party platform for affiliates, which maybe have a lot of them

    OR

    you can build your own! Using amember etc.

    And for attractin audience? In your case the best choice would be FACEBOOK ADS, as
    the "physical" nature of the item you're selling
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  • Eran,

    First, to widen your reach in finding seasoned affiliates -- You can sign up as a merchant / advertiser in affiliate networks. Search for networks that specialize in relevant physical goods. You're already in Amazon. Your produc is already available for promotions by affiliates in Amazon's affiliate network. Look for similar networks to widen your reach ...

    Second, to entice seasoned affiliats -- You need to show them that it's worth their time and resources to promote your products. This means you need to make a good chunk of initial sales on your own ...

    Third, to realistically increase your chances of making a good chunk of initial sales on your own -- You need to drive convertible traffic to your offers in Amazon and in the other networks that you find ...

    >> An ideal situation is for this convertible traffic to come from your own list of fans / subscribers. This is for you to drive them to your current and future offers in Amazon and in other networks that you join ...

    Fourth, to get fans / subscribers -- You also need convertible traffic; and

    >> Since you already have products -- What you can do first is to develop a profile of your ideal customer. Once you do that:

    >> You can then look for online places where your ideal customers hang out. A straightforward way of identifying these places is to spy on your top competitors and on non-competing online places that are very popular to your ideal customers ...

    For example, let's say 123.com is the website of one of your top competitors. Let's also say that 123.com has top ranking pages in Google for exact match keywords xxx, yyy and zzz, each of which is most likely used by your ideal customers when looking for relevant content and products. Let's also say each of these keywords got 10K searches from your target countries for the last 30 days according to the Google Adwords Keyword Planner ...

    >> Now, since 123.com in this example is most likely getting good convertible traffic that consists mostly of your ideal customers in your target countries -- What if you have ways to find out the estimate percentages of the direct traffic, referral traffic, organic and paid search traffic, social traffic and paid display traffic that 123.com has been getting for the past 90 days or so?

    >> And, what if you can also identify the sites that are sending referral trafic to 123.com; the social networks that are sending social traffic to 123.com; the exact match keywords that are sending organic and paid search traffic to 123.com; and the display advertising networks that are sending paid display traffic to 123.com?

    If 123.com is getting good direct traffic, then you can spy on 123.com to know what they're doing in their site to get direct traffic -- Do they have subscription offers? Membership deals? How are their opt-in offers crafted? How are their sales funnels created?

    If 123.com is getting good referral traffic from xxx.com, yyy.com and zzz.com, then you can go to those sites and verify if there are banner / text / email advertising and content placement opportunities for you in those sites ...

    If 123.com is getting good social traffic from Facebook and Twitter, then you can study what 123.com is doing in Facebook and Twitter, and you can also verify if there are any viable advertising and content placement opportunities for you in those social networks ...

    If 123.com is getting good paid and organic search traffic from Google Adwords, Google Web Search and Google Mobile using the exact match keywords xxx, yyy and zzz, then you can study what 123.com is doing for their organic SEO and paid search advertising campaigns in Google Adwords, how their ads are crafted, and also verify if it's feasible for you to compete for those keywords through organic SEO and paid advertising campaigns in Google Adwords ...

    If 123.com is getting good paid display traffic from Google Adwords, then you can study how their display ads are crafted, and also verify if it's feasible for you to run display advertising campaigns in Google Adwords ...

    >> Well, there are tools that you can use to do this, such as SimilarWeb.Com, SpyFu.Com and others, and keyword suggestion tools like UberSuggest.Org among others to come up with less competitive, high search demand exact match keywords from the ones that are used by your top competitors for their organic SEO and paid search campaigns in Google Adwords ...

    >> Also, once you find sites and social media pages that are sending good convertible referral and social traffic to the sites of your top competitors -- You can contact the owners of those Web properties for possible paid or X-deal content placement and advertising or affiliate partnership opportunities ...

    >> To expand your options -- You can also do this for non-competing sites that are very popular to your ideal customers ...

    Hope this helps!
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    • Profile picture of the author eschnitz
      Hi,
      thanks for the reply. i have good SEO word from what i see . but we need more traffic and sellers. i dont have alot of time spending on making all this search, this is way i think i will need someone to make all the facebook, email marketing and other stuff for me. will affiliate will do that or need to look for other thing?
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  • Profile picture of the author 2NWO
    Try joining CJ (commission junction). You can get affiliates for your website there. You'd have to spend some time mailing people to join your affiliate program in the beginning but once affiliates start joining. It will start to snowball.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ellen Chedid
    I think it may be beneficial to look to other methods for getting direct traffic. You can do by spending some good time on SEO. It would be more profitable for you and safe.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dora1245
    Commission is the main which is attractive for anyone . At the OP, are you still looking for affiliates?
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris-
    As others are saying, getting affiliates is possible but not typically easy, so you'd probably get a better return for your time and/or money by focusing on marketing you can do yourself.

    Research Ecommerce marketing strategies, and see what is most suitable for your specific needs. Paid adverts and Paid traffic can work well, but need more testing than most people realize, because people don't think through how random events work . . .

    basically, random events are much more clustered than people imagine. What that means in practice is that a good "rule of thumb" is that you need to spend 4 times as much as your potential profit, on EACH test, before you know if that exact funnel is profitable or not. Then if you change one word, that's a new test. Doing anything less than that, you won't know what your results really are, unless you are doing extremely well and getting more than 10 sales from smaller tests than that.

    SEO can work well but can take time, although some approaches, such as guest-posting or press releases, can get a lot of traffic in a short time, if done really well.

    If you do look for affiliates, keep in mind that nearly all affiliates you get will never make any sales. So you either need to get a LOT of affiliates, or get good affiliates!

    Hope that gives you a few pointers to think about.

    Chris
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    • Profile picture of the author eschnitz
      Originally Posted by Chris- View Post

      As others are saying, getting affiliates is possible but not typically easy, so you'd probably get a better return for your time and/or money by focusing on marketing you can do yourself.

      Research Ecommerce marketing strategies, and see what is most suitable for your specific needs. Paid adverts and Paid traffic can work well, but need more testing than most people realize, because people don't think through how random events work . . .

      basically, random events are much more clustered than people imagine. What that means in practice is that a good "rule of thumb" is that you need to spend 4 times as much as your potential profit, on EACH test, before you know if that exact funnel is profitable or not. Then if you change one word, that's a new test. Doing anything less than that, you won't know what your results really are, unless you are doing extremely well and getting more than 10 sales from smaller tests than that.

      SEO can work well but can take time, although some approaches, such as guest-posting or press releases, can get a lot of traffic in a short time, if done really well.

      If you do look for affiliates, keep in mind that nearly all affiliates you get will never make any sales. So you either need to get a LOT of affiliates, or get good affiliates!

      Hope that gives you a few pointers to think about.

      Chris
      thanks.
      today we are showing our item on google shipping product. we get nice traffic from it but no sell. i dont understand why. when you got to my site we see any problem on design?
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  • Profile picture of the author Djwillster123
    You're talking on the right place lol
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