Affiliate marketing is a simple concept to grasp. Promote a product or service and get rewarded in commissions for the successful sales you’ve referred. Here are some powerful tips on how you can boost your affiliate program commissions overnight.
1. Know the best program and products to promote.
Here are some factors to consider when selecting a program. First of all, you’ll want to choose the ones with a generous commission structure. And you’ll want to see how those products fit in with your target audience and even your media assets. Never take something that doesn’t have any relevance to whatever you write. It’ll never work!
Having said that, Involve Asia has thousands of affiliate programs to choose from, and you’ll want to select the best programs that will suit you the best in terms of commissions as well as relevance to your site.
2. Create a database, maintain it, and use it!
Most people don’t buy on the first pitch. You’ll have to slowly convince them to. Research shows that a sale is usually closed after six to seven times of contact to the pitch or product. So how do you keep getting in touch with your audience? Use that database you’ve been building up!
With a database, you can make follow-ups on these contacts and remind them to make a purchase from you. But beware of hardselling. Most people don’t like that sort of thing. Instead, you’ll want to keep providing your pool of readers via email interesting points that relate to reasons of why they should make a purchase instead.
You’ll have to thread with caution too as this is a delicate balance of sales pitch finese. Our advice: continue to write informative editorials to build either rapport with your readers, or credibility of your opinions.
3. Ask for higher than normal commission from merchants.
If you’re already #winning in commissions, and you’re certain you can scale and optimize the programs you’re running, approach your affiliate manager and negotiate a higher percentage for your commissions.
If you can deliver a higher KPI of sales to the merchant programs you’re running on, they will likely grant your request to test you out. If it works, it’s a win-win situation. It is after all, a zero-risk investment to the merchant.
In our next article, we’ll be talking about scaling affiliate campaigns.
Check out more programs available on Involve Asia here.
