Make More Affiliate Sales This Way!

I use offline all the time with CPA offers and make a really good amount for the effort put in. When I go to the supermarket, BAM put up flyers. Whenever I go out I always have my offline arsenal in my trunk.

Sometimes a single flyer can make as much as 40 per day. Put ten up and thats a nice extra income stream.

Offline is the most underrated promotion method for newbies...in my opinion

So true man.

As soon as I find a good offer that converts well online I run (not walk) to offline marketing.

I like getting those free business cards, there's a company here that puts their ad on the back. I only pay shipping (or I pick it up for nothing). I don't get too cute. Just a web address and some sort of headline and sub head.

Then I leave a card everywhere I go, a paper trail, coffee shop...bank...etc.

With some CPA and affiliate programs this works awesome and costs me no money and a tiny bit of extra time. I guess it's multitasking.

If that converts well I might get some college kids to put up some bandit signs and flyers for a few bucks.

Tons of ways to get the word out there.

Best offers for me are always the good old sex (fat loss / diet), money and religion.

Any good marketing idea is good no matter whether it is online or off. Thanks for sharing the idea.

Selling offline is fantastic, door to door flyers, putting flyers under cars windshield wipers is great (just go to a mall and start going at it).
My friend made a killing off leaving flyers at apartments, it took him about 3 hours of legwork and made him hundreds in sales.

Pick a good converting niche and just go for it. You will get some fresh air and exercise also (which is something that us online marketers can use).

Baggies, "offline arsenal", getting exercise.....all great stuff guys

@lowjo....religion offers convert well?, what kinds if you don't mind sharing

It's amazing how old school techniques still work pretty well, and this includes postcards. If anything, they work better because you stick out like a sore thumb! Whenever I feel like getting some exercise (and exercising my 25+ page per minute laser printer...lol!) I whip up 100-200 flyers and then get to the mall or some crowded parking lot and just start sticking them on the car windshields. Of course this is not my primary form of marketing, but as Shane mentioned above, it's just my way of getting out from behind the computer and getting some fresh air and exercise, especially when the weather is cooperative.

Great ideas guys. I live in a college town so needless to say there's plenty of flyers around advertising ways to make a few bucks quick. I should definitely try this strategy out.

I can vouch that offline to online marketing works great.

When i first started in IM I did a lot of MLM type stuff. I live in a college town so I posted up flyers on campus and built a downline with that strategy. I got into trouble though as I found out I was posting in areas that I wasn't allowed to.

But yes this works great if you place your marketing materials at high traffic areas where you know your prospects will be going to.

- Sam

@fitz10 - if you're in a college town then you have a real gold mine in front of you. I live one block away from a city university, and it's a great place to post flyers and have lots of eyeballs on them! Also, if you're in need of cheap labor for computer/technical tasks, etc. you have a never-ending source of people right there.

I'm a little surprised they stay in place long enough to get results. I would have thought they'd be in the garbage within minutes.

I've been using these advertising techniques for years, and it really does get sales, the best mediums that worked well for me were free pens and mouse mats with your company details on, it's all about exposure !

Azzurro

Posters and flyers have worked well for me, and in one of my niches I've even had people buying stickers, car bumper stickers, posters, flyers, t-shirts that promoted my site.

They would buy posters and flyers to hand out at events, slap up on walls and become activists for my stuff.

It's a great feeling when your customers not only become fans but become almost evangelical about your products.

In my eyes that's a sure sign they not only value my stuff for themselves, but it's so good they are willing to pay to promote it to complete strangers. Man I love my customers.

LOL. That is a niche that could totally use some exploration! I'm on it!

Best,
Shane

Something I've seen people doing around where I live is putting business cards in niche related book at the bookstore.

They'll literally just walk up to a shelf of books on a subject (like marketing, business...etc) with a handful of business cards then just open to the middle of the book and stick a card right in... Kinda a sly tactic if I say so... No sure of the legality because many people might think the card is part of the book and think it's legit...

And if it's a scam or something... well obviously that's no a good thing.

Not sure if this was on this post yet, didn't see it, but you could couple that with a squeeze page with a CPA offer of some sort that redirects to the product. White hat only, no iframes of course.

You gotta be careful how you promote offline though. Spamming flyers on car windshields can't be legal. So you should look into your local laws on flyer distribution.

hello all.
i have a suggestion that works with other products and you could adapt it for this method.
i am planning to set up a "get a free website" booth with this idea to build myself a list.
BUT THE ADAPTION HERE WILL WORK
what you do is pay to set up a booth inside your supermarket, gym,club pub or wherever. naturally it must be in a place where you will get traffic and preferably the correctly targeted traffic. naturally a local flea market works just as well.
stalls are cheap.
then you need to have a very professionally designed booth, never ever put up a crappy cardboard and string booth. printed adverts etc.
then you have a pigeonhole type system where you have topics that the visitors can choose the "special offers" or promotional offers that are in their favorite topic.
horses for courses. you can have affiliate links, your own e books, CPA and other promoted stuff.
then (here is the sneaky one) you offer 2 that they have to pay you one dollar for the opportunity. you tell them that those are limited and you can only do 200 the whole weekend, and that they are $1 or $2 each. or even more.
people will pay i promise you and with a bit of luck your booth and printing expenses will be paid for and your traffic then becomes free.
if you hooked them up to a list, and also offered them free (plr) ebooks as a bonus if they "x" you could get a lot of customers.
just an aside here - make the card or flier that you give out of a high quality and put only bullet points on them, as all you really want them to do is get to the site.
if you really wish to ramp it up choose a young product like a cpa sunglasses promotion and then employ a young hot staff member to get your list/ fliers moving.
have fun with it.
rob

Some would think it's an old fashion way of getting free traffic, but from my point of view
what counts is the result... and yes it does pay

Personally, i fancy forgetting your cards in the bus or some pub areas.

This is really a great idea, wish I would have thought of it sooner.

Jess

I've seen a lot of that type of marketing lying around in Manchester. It is a good way to get a few extra page views, but it usually doesn't convert to a sale. I have tried leaving cards in internet cafes before, and it actually works better - Call it a case of curiosity caught the cat.

I do the card-in-book thing at the library. Lots of desperate people at the library, and free computers. I know the library staff and I very nicely got permission.

I find that bright colors and an ugly design get the best response.

There are so many ways that you can promote your site offline, it is pretty amazing.

You can order a sticker for your car.
You can place your site in the paper.

If you have some great ideas to do offline marketing, anytime you have a new idea in your mind, write that down.

Tal

Here is an idea. You can go to local restuarants and ask permission to put your business card on their bulletin board. I see it all the time where i live.