Combining resale and affiliate physical products - My strategy

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Hello to all,

I am researching on what would be the most appropriate ways to promote my products online. I will first open a hosting plan with unlimited domains.

Any brainstorming will be sincerely appreciated

Case 1
Actions:
I have imported a coffee related machine.
After listing it on ebay I want to make a site where it can also be promoting other coffee amazon affiliate products. And as time is passing, I can recognise what products sell more and then import them, too, hoping to increase my margins and maybe make an ecommerce shop.

Questions:
-Should I make a landing page for the product with a wordpress plugin?
I haven't understood how it goes with the one page templates. I am willing to pay for a premium one page template in order to look more professional but if I put one of these am I able then to have a blog?
-How can I set a seo strategy on that. The domain name and main keyword should be about coffee or about the name of the machine which is not the same. Coffee unfortunately is competitive and I would prefer to avoid. The name of the coffee and similar ones are in less competition but I'm afraid I will not be able to base a whole blog on that.

Case 2
Actions: This looks it is going to be an affiliate only site which will be promoting products made from a healthy oil. However, I have one main product in which I have good keyword on (not much competition, good searchability).

Questions:
-Should I base the keyword campaign on the product or on the name of the oil and similar keywords. Because I have read affiliate instructions where they base their keyword research on a keyword similar to the main product. The branding name of the product is similar to the name of the oil but I wouldn't use it as a domain because is is branding.

Case 3
Actions: I have imported a herb and I want to create a campaign on that. I am planning to make a worpdress blog, SEO optimised in the herb.

Questions:
-Should I make a landing page with calls to action to buy the product and then behind have the optimized blog?
-The above hypothesis is easy to happen with wordpress, a landing page plugin and a paypal plugin or is something more needed?
-Should I think about platforms for one product promotion like shoplocket? And if yes, can they be combined with a wordpress blog so that I have them in the beginning and then the blog being "behind"?

-With the case of ecommerce sites if I have more imported products in the future and I want to make a shop? Do the hosting plans let me create an ecommerce site if I want or should I purchase another plan for ecommerce sites?
-When you make an affiliate site the basic rules are that you pick a main product (and the corresponding keywords) which you promote in the first page and then you have similar ones which you promote in seperate categories or you make a site about a topic (by icking the corresponding keywords) and then you create categories on these and review products in them?

I appreciate a lot your time reading all the above
#affiliate #combining #physical #products #resale #strategy
  • Profile picture of the author lotsofsnow
    If you want to get real answers I suggest that you focus on 1 question, get that answered and then post the next question.

    You have mixed a lot of things.

    Ebay, SEO, blog.

    I suggest that you focus on 1 thing first, get it straight and then do the next.

    So, start selling you coffee machine on eBay and see what comes out of it. No need to worry about SEO or blogs or landing pages for now.
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    • Profile picture of the author angelosbg
      Originally Posted by duplication View Post

      Here is the plugin you need for amazon it will let you do many things with amazon. I use it and it is well worth your time. http://rapbank.com/go/5481/73645
      Thanks, I am checking it now and it looks very useful.
      It's also from a Greek guy, like me


      Originally Posted by hpgoodboy View Post

      If you want to get real answers I suggest that you focus on 1 question, get that answered and then post the next question.

      You have mixed a lot of things.

      Ebay, SEO, blog.

      I suggest that you focus on 1 thing first, get it straight and then do the next.

      So, start selling you coffee machine on eBay and see what comes out of it. No need to worry about SEO or blogs or landing pages for now.
      Thanks a lot for your reply, I get it. I have this tendency to not focus in one thing at a time. However, ebay is very easy to happen, I have the description ready, I am just waiting for the products to arrive. That's why I need to move forward in promoting this through a blog and my own site.
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      • Profile picture of the author Eric Lovelace
        I personally love landing pages with any kind of traffic I send to my site.

        Why not capture your prospects name and email and make your marketing efforts that much stronger. Especially when your selling physical products. You can send notifications to your list when there are discounts etc. That way if you wanted to you can send them straight to the product or in terms of certain sites TOS send them to an optimized blog with a full review and call to action.

        Etc.
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        • Profile picture of the author angelosbg
          Originally Posted by Eric Lovelace View Post

          I personally love landing pages with any kind of traffic I send to my site.

          Why not capture your prospects name and email and make your marketing efforts that much stronger. Especially when your selling physical products. You can send notifications to your list when there are discounts etc. That way if you wanted to you can send them straight to the product or in terms of certain sites TOS send them to an optimized blog with a full review and call to action.

          Etc.
          Thanks for your advice. I guess I will set up an account with aweber and have calls to action inside the posts, in the side column,maybe in the down bar and in the about section. What concerns me is if it is normal to put it also on the landing page. Because there I will have usual calls to action for buying the product. Do they fit together or it's too much?
          Moreover, i don't like so much pop up form for subscriptions, I find them a little annoying but maybe this is just me.

          As for the landing pages that you are a fan, the wordpress plugins are enough to create a professional manner or should I look for a premium service?

          Originally Posted by JohnTheJock View Post

          Good advice, and worth heeding
          I value and appreciate both your opinions. I was just thinking that ebay doesn't need much effort if you have only one product. Apart from making a nice listing and optimizing it what else can I do for that?
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          • Profile picture of the author heseg
            Moreover, i don't like so much pop up form for subscriptions, I find them a little annoying but maybe this is just me.
            I am not fond of popups, popovers, popunders, etc. But, they do work, and will increase your conversions/subscription rates. You are on a good path with building a list, then marketing to that list, over and over...

            Good luck!
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            • Profile picture of the author angelosbg
              Originally Posted by heseg View Post

              I am not fond of popups, popovers, popunders, etc. But, they do work, and will increase your conversions/subscription rates. You are on a good path with building a list, then marketing to that list, over and over...

              Good luck!
              I get it. I will think about the pop up more. Thanks!

              Originally Posted by CpvTrafficPro View Post

              Need to focus on mastering one traffic source / revenue stream before trying to tackle something else, otherwise you will always be distracted and NOT 100% ready to go to actually make money.

              I suggest trying to figure out what YOU really want to do. The people who succeed online with their own business are the people who take idea's and tweak it to make it work for them. However if your not passionate or have some connection to the what you promote it can be even more difficult to succeed.

              That's why 99% of people fail ... Which doesn't mean didn't make money but QUIT
              You have out a lot of thoughts in my mind about exaggerative multitasking. Truth is that the whole day we say techniques, wayes etc. I will try to control.


              Originally Posted by Moneymaker2012 View Post

              Hey,
              Dude you are asking too much question that makes me confused well.I am answering about SEO keyword.As you say coffee is most competitive keyword then you can use machine name like: abccoffeemachine.com but in article you use for backlinks use both as keyword machine name and your keyword.Best of luck!

              Yes, I put them altogether to ask them all at once
              The machine's name doesn't contain the word coffee but its name is interconnected as it is a kind of coffee. Also, in keyword ideas the name of this coffee exists together with the word coffee.
              So I guess I can set the main landing page based on the machine and then the blog is going to have categories like [machine name] uses, [machine name] history, [kind of coffee] articles etc etc
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    • Profile picture of the author JohnTheJock
      Originally Posted by hpgoodboy View Post

      If you want to get real answers I suggest that you focus on 1 question, get that answered and then post the next question.

      You have mixed a lot of things.

      Ebay, SEO, blog.

      I suggest that you focus on 1 thing first, get it straight and then do the next.

      So, start selling you coffee machine on eBay and see what comes out of it. No need to worry about SEO or blogs or landing pages for now.
      Good advice, and worth heeding
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  • Profile picture of the author CpvTrafficPro
    Need to focus on mastering one traffic source / revenue stream before trying to tackle something else, otherwise you will always be distracted and NOT 100% ready to go to actually make money.

    I suggest trying to figure out what YOU really want to do. The people who succeed online with their own business are the people who take idea's and tweak it to make it work for them. However if your not passionate or have some connection to the what you promote it can be even more difficult to succeed.

    That's why 99% of people fail ... Which doesn't mean didn't make money but QUIT
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  • Profile picture of the author Moneymaker2012
    -How can I set a seo strategy on that. The domain name and main keyword should be about coffee or about the name of the machine which is not the same. Coffee unfortunately is competitive and I would prefer to avoid. The name of the coffee and similar ones are in less competition but I'm afraid I will not be able to base a whole blog on that.
    Hey,
    Dude you are asking too much question that makes me confused well.I am answering about SEO keyword.As you say coffee is most competitive keyword then you can use machine name like: abccoffeemachine.com but in article you use for backlinks use both as keyword machine name and your keyword.Best of luck!
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