How can I stand out in affiliate marketing

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I've been struggling to make sales in affiliate marketing over the years on my blog, social media advert and forums.

What exactly do I need that is missing.

How can I stand out in affiliate marketing?
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  • Profile picture of the author savidge4
    Originally Posted by humphrey udoh View Post

    I've been struggling to make sales in affiliate marketing over the years on my blog, social media advert and forums.

    What exactly do I need that is missing.

    How can I stand out in affiliate marketing?
    I will guess this will ring true... you are so busy trying to sell.. that you are not loading your end of the deal with value.

    Aside from a sales page to take money.. what exactly are you offering those that you wish to sell to?
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  • Profile picture of the author DIABL0
    I've been promoting affiliate / CPA offers for a little over 19 years. However, I do things differently than most.

    I heavily promote PPL (pay per lead...lead generation) offers. This is because there is no credit card / purchase required to complete an offer. All a user has to do is fill out a form, so conversion rates are typically much higher compared to offers that require a sale to be made.

    I favor offers that have a make, get or save money benefit to them, as they have overall worked the best. They also tend to have the greatest mass appeal (will be of interest to a large general audience), so the potential exists to produce high volume and they are fairly easy to cross-promote on the back-end.

    Some of the verticals (niches) I have done extremely well with are: education, insurance, loans, debt, credit, mortgage, assistance, discount offers, homeowner offers, etc...

    The bulk of the PPL offers that I promote pay $15-$40 per lead, but I also promote offers that pay more and less. You don't want to get too caught up on what an offer pays because how well it converts is just as important. For example, if you have an offer that pays $9, but if it converts at 2X or more of a $20 offer, then it will perform about the same or possibly better. At the same time, if you have an offer that pays $90 and it converts poorly, it may not even be worth promoting.

    I have also done just as good with dating website sign-ups and pretty good with free trial + S/H offers. I also promote a very limited number of offers that are straight sales. For them, mass appeal is still the number one thing I look for and I also look for one of the following...

    1) The product is new and/or novel-unique and you can't purchase it locally or even something similar. I don't waste my time with it once something similar shows up in Walmart.

    2) The buyer can truly get what is being offered at a decent discount.

    3) Solves a house is on fire type problem.

    However, I mainly promote non-PPL offers on the backend.

    Bottom line, it's far easier to get someone fill out a short form than to get them to pull out their credit card and make a purchase. So why struggle with trying to sell this or that, when you can provide free information that users want/need and get paid well doing it.

    Something to think about.
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  • Profile picture of the author krishna59
    You need to do deep research about the marketplace. Also, use social media for traffic generate. thanks for this question.
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  • Profile picture of the author RuskinF
    Try the products that will buy without a second thought like something that burns a very little hole in the pocket of the audience. That way they will not think twice before buying it.
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  • Profile picture of the author ChrisBa
    Originally Posted by humphrey udoh View Post

    I've been struggling to make sales in affiliate marketing over the years on my blog, social media advert and forums.

    What exactly do I need that is missing.

    How can I stand out in affiliate marketing?
    Well, what exactly have you been doing? How often do you post on your blog? How much traffic does it get? What's your strategy?
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  • Profile picture of the author esa1
    for free traffic, you need to create better design view of website and do SEO. for paid traffic, you can use facebook ads or bing ads or adwords, depend of your budget
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  • Profile picture of the author TobiMDD
    Originally Posted by humphrey udoh View Post

    I've been struggling to make sales in affiliate marketing over the years on my blog, social media advert and forums.

    What exactly do I need that is missing.

    How can I stand out in affiliate marketing?

    I like your last question and would like to give you an answer for this.


    Because thats exactly the point, how to be different? Why should people buy from you and not another affiliate or kind of person?


    How can you be able to be unique and attract people to your mission.


    The answer is: Define your who.


    Imagine it like this:

    You open a new club and you are always in there because you own that thing. Who are the people you would like to invite into your club? Would you invite just completely everybody or wouldn't you be more happy to be around people who are more like you?


    What I'm trying to say, if you define exactly who and which people you want to attract, you stand out completely and appeal extremely interesting to your custom audience and then they are more likely to buy from you because you are just like them.


    I give another example here:


    I forgot the name but there is an affiliate marketer who is extremely specific in his targeting, he openely advertises this way:
    'If you are a muslim, I can teach you how to make money online'


    I forgot the exact phrase but its an example.



    Therefore if you can target and define your who precisely and speak to those people they feel more attracted.


    You can also target people in an age range for example: You are between 60 and 80 and want to earn more money for your rent, click here


    Also job targeting is possible.
    'You are working as a nurse and now you are looking for a way to earn additional income, then this is for you!'

    okay I better stop here because I'm not good in formulating these example phrases but I hope it was clear enough what I mean here.


    Think about yourself, where are you from, how old are you, what was your old job, why are you doing affiliate marketing now etc.


    This is if done right a good way to completely stand out from the crowd and attract special people who like to buy stuff from you into your business
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  • Profile picture of the author DABK
    Who knows? You did not tell us anything you've done, besides that you have a blog.


    Who are the top bloggers in your niche? How does your blog compare to theirs (in every way, from looks (colors and layout and such) to content?


    People buy from people they like and trust. Does your blog say you're likeable and trustworthy?


    Then, do the products you promote match your blog content? The reason people come to your blog? Do they solve problems your visitors are trying to solve by coming to your blog?


    How many people visit your blog a month?


    How do they get to your blog?


    Do you have an email list?


    Originally Posted by humphrey udoh View Post

    I've been struggling to make sales in affiliate marketing over the years on my blog, social media advert and forums.

    What exactly do I need that is missing.

    How can I stand out in affiliate marketing?
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  • Profile picture of the author Randy McLean
    Study copy writing and get good at it.

    It's not always what you're selling but HOW you sell it.

    You can pre-frame your offer before people even see the sales page.

    Watch videos and read books by guys like Gary Halbert.

    Human nature never changes, but the medium does.
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  • Profile picture of the author aktar al
    I am doing review video since two week. As I have started during the corona crisis I can say despite of all this I am getting results so. So doing continuesly and adding as much possible other channales like social media it helps to get gut results. I hav come out of my comfort zone and i trying to give value . But all this takes lot of patience and hard work. And as i have on my day time no time because of my baby so I take one two hours when sleeps at night. It is hard but I am enjoying it.
    You can do YouTube revieo video on marketing product launches. The are comitition but also good opurtinities. But you have to look which product you want to offer and which are your traffic source. And plz send yoour leads direct to the sales page because you don't know if they convert and if they do then you would loose them and then seller will only get them on their list and you only your commission. You need to collect leads and then send it to your seller wose product you are promoting.
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  • Profile picture of the author spartan14
    How another people said you focus to much on selling and this will make you to make everithing wrong .This game its about finding a way to give the real value to people .Its like in real life ,you cannot sell something if you dont show people your product brings value to their life ,you must make people trust you ,you need a good marketing ,clients etc
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  • Profile picture of the author cheese1688
    Originally Posted by humphrey udoh View Post

    I've been struggling to make sales in affiliate marketing over the years on my blog, social media advert and forums.

    What exactly do I need that is missing.

    How can I stand out in affiliate marketing?
    You can stand out by not giving up. 90% or more of people who starting any business fail because they giving up after a failure. If you don't give up and keep pushing and take consistent action, you will start making sales, guaranteed.

    What have you reached so far? Maybe you started to build a list? maybe you have created a landing page/squeeze page? Maybe you have a website that needs to be fixed because the conversion rate is very low close to zero?

    Tell more about what you have done in these years.
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