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Is There Really Anything More You Can Do To Sell Affiliate Products?

by Jon Tees
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You get people to click on the links to your affiliate products through any means necessary, and they go to the page where they can actually purchase the product, they opt not to for whatever reason. Is there anything more you could have done to influence the person and cause a click to become a conversion, or is it more of a case of some bored person clicking on links for products they have no intention of buying?
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  • Profile picture of the author Steve B
    You can't force someone to buy. But you can determine what kind of traffic you're driving to the offer. You are looking for laser targeted buyers traffic - those people who are ready, willing, and able to purchase exactly what is being offered.

    Many affiliates fail because they don't target their traffic appropriately.

    Another reason for failure is the fact that the sales offer isn't compelling.

    Make sure you are promoting great offers with excellent sales copy.

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  • Profile picture of the author agmccall
    You left a lot of parts out of the equation.

    It all happens between the point they get to your site and when they click the link. It is what you do with that time that will increase, or decrease the odds of someone buying or not.

    Don't forget, in that time you should also be trying to capture an email address

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  • Profile picture of the author miklanderson2
    There's a lot more to it than just getting people to click on your affiliate links. Traffic should be driven to a landing page where you attempt to capture e-mail addresses. If you properly presell customers before sending them to an offer, they'll already be ready to buy by the time they click through to the affiliate product page.
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  • Profile picture of the author bennie07
    I feel that you need to pre-sell your audience with engaging content. Let them know why they need the product and what they will lose by not purchasing. In the meantime, give something of value away in the form of a course or report to encourage them to sign up to your list.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by Jon Tees View Post

    Is there anything more you could have done to influence the person and cause a click to become a conversion
    Of course.

    Your entire list-building, communicating, continuity, relationship-building, credibility-establishing, subscriber-expectation-fulfilling and pre-selling process: realistically, there's very little affiliate marketing income available without that.

    Originally Posted by Jon Tees View Post

    or is it more of a case of some bored person clicking on links for products they have no intention of buying?
    It's the affiliate's job, as a "supplier of targeted, pre-sold traffic", to make sure that it's not just that, and our incomes are naturally enough in proportion to our skills at doing so.

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  • Profile picture of the author Jarrod
    Jon Tees, people buy from people they know, like, and trust. Whether your own product or an affiliate product, if you want people to buy from you, get them to know like and trust you.
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  • Profile picture of the author AndrewStark
    Have you ever noticed that the super affiliates are the ones who happen to also have buyer's lists and the most influence in the marketplace.

    To become better as an affiliate you need to learn how to sell in your marketplace and become the person that people listen to.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jeffery
    Originally Posted by Jon Tees View Post

    You get people to click on the links to your affiliate products through any means necessary, and they go to the page where they can actually purchase the product, they opt not to for whatever reason. Is there anything more you could have done to influence the person and cause a click to become a conversion, or is it more of a case of some bored person clicking on links for products they have no intention of buying?
    Originally Posted by Jon Tees View Post

    You get people to click on the links to your affiliate products through any means necessary
    Personally, I never and I mean never use the mind set.. any means necessary. After all, it is just a mind set, but to me it screams Gorilla Marketing.

    Jeffery 100% :-)
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