10 Ways to increase your affiliate Sales

Affiliate marketing is one of the best ways to make big money online. Many people try affiliate marketing, but very few, make even the first one sale, so in the end, they quit and try other ways of making money online. Affiliate marketing may be challenging depending on how you do it. To best make of affiliate marketing try to narrow down to your niche in case you are a blogger, and promote products that are related to your blog niche. This way, if you have built your audience around a given niche, then there is  a high chance they will buy related products and increase your affiliate sales.

We are going to look at simple ways you can increase your affiliate sales, and get you smiling to the bank:

Write a review

Most people who are planning to buy a given product or service will look for reviews on the same. If your visitors like your review they will definitely buy from you. So if you are an affiliate marketer, try writing reviews on the products that you promote.

Offer a sign -up incentive or freebie

This can be something like an E Book.  You can mention the Product Brand that you are promoting in the  eBook as a reference with hyperlinks having your affiliate ID.

Help your friends

Introduce the products you sell, to your friends. Am sure if there are reputable products or brands your friends will definitely like and buy them. After using the products or services, your friends will refer their friends too. This is the fastest way to get a word around about a given product or service.

Get social

Try as much as possible to leverage the power of social media. Find out where your audience like hanging out most. Show up, and post content that is timely and relevant.

You can also read: Social Media Optimization

Become an expert

Work on becoming an expert in a given field. As your reputation grows, your traffic grows too. You can then sell affiliate products to your audience, especially those products that are related to your niche.

Related: Best way to make your first affiliate commission

Build SEO rankings

Ensure your site is optimized for search engines, in fact most of the traffic that converts comes from search engines, so if you a high percentage of your traffic from the search, you have high chances of making sales on your site.

You can also read: Basic On-Site SEO Techniques for Bloggers

Use Email marketing

Engage your subscribers with email campaigns. Don’t rush, build a relationship with your subscribers, overtime you can convert them to your customers.  If you don’t have a list yet, you can start building one with Convertkit or GetResponse.

You can also read: 5 Reasons you need an email list

Participate in forums

Find forums that are related to your niche, and be active there. You will definitely find people who are looking for a particular product.  Recommend your affiliate products where necessary.

Use effective strategies to promote

Using say infographics in your blog posts helps your content reach most audience, since they are  eye-catching, they improve SEO and they also increase brand awareness. With a large audience, you have a large market to offer your affiliate products. When using Banners, place them where they can be easily seen on your site like before the content (below the title). Use Call to action words where necessary to encourage your audience to take the next step and remember to include your affiliate ID whenever you mention your product.