If building and maintaining a website is a tough business for you, then you’re probably better off without one. Instead, affiliate marketing is beginning to see more new types of affiliates that don’t have websites to begin with. These are the new-school boys, where they are turning to social platforms to market the products from the affiliate programs they join. We break down a few of them in the list below:
You’re really just a few clicks away from creating your own Facebook page. It’s really that simple. And the folks who are big on these know just what to do and how often to post up content. Affiliate marketers who use their Facebook profiles or Facebook pages have an advantage over those who are beginning to start up – they have an audience already. So how did they do this?
You’re really just a few clicks away from creating your own Facebook page. It’s really that simple. And the folks who are big on these know just what to do and how often to post up content. Affiliate marketers who use their Facebook profiles or Facebook pages have an advantage over those who are beginning to start up – they have an audience already. So how did they do this?
Similarly to how you get traffic into your website, the best way to get people’s attention to your page is by doing a few things:
a. Create an ad or boost a post
This will help you target the audience types you’re looking for, as well as advertise multiple types of links to different types of audience profiles. Which means – each post or ad you do would be different, and you can set various goals or objectives to achieve from it.
Do this long enough, and you’ll soon be getting a following – though the benchmark for success depends on just how compelling or interesting you’ll be making your Facebook page about.
b. Create videos or pictures for content
Think outside the box and don’t do what everyone else is doing. Instead of just linking products, use this as an opportunity to connect with your audience by creating content they love – and things they can share more importantly.
By doing this, you’ll at least gain a few more eyeballs that target outside of your core audience – and if you strategically place your affiliate links in the descriptions, you’ll at least be getting some conversions.
The picture sharing platform is a tough nut to crack for affiliate marketing, but when done right, can yield incredible results – simply because the content found there is incredibly easy to consume. We’ve seen the likes of super famous folks like Kendall Jenner and more, endorsing products on their feed, to low and mid-level popular Instagrammers posting up photos of them with products they love – or in this case – “love”.
Now it’s easy to get lost in this and not know what is genuine or not, but more often than not, the affiliate marketers who are serious with using this medium tend to stick to one or two themes, just to ensure any difference in product or brands do not derail their identity.
It’s important to set that tone for your followers, as no one likes to see what’s not relevant – and the everyday end user are a pretty smart bunch – they can smell hard-sell if you’re not careful.
From here, affiliate marketers place their affiliate links in their bio descriptions – and more often than not, most of them are pretty successful at converting their followers into customers for merchants.
One would think that there’s only so much you can write in 140 characters, but the real trick to being successful at Twitter is constantly posting up tweets. You’ll want to turn it down a notch and not turn every tweet into an affiliate related one, simply because you’ll just end up losing your identity and no one will follow or retweet you thereafter.
We suggest of following and taking a page from witty personalities like Chrissy Teigen or more to learn a trick or two on how to capture someone’s attention in just so few characters. Check them out below:
I always have a note in my pocket that says “john did it” just in case I’m murdered because I don’t want him to remarry #truelove #tips
— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) August 30, 2014
When you’ve mastered shorthand witty lines, you’re ready to let some affiliate marketing slip in between those witty tweets. Good luck!
Snapchat
New to the game, we’ve not quite seen many who’ve taken advantage of Snapchat’s meteoric rise to social media, but if their stories are any indication to what’s to come, we’re pretty sure we’ll be seeing some interesting affiliate marketing tactics being displayed here.
Stories refer to short videos or pictures shared with followers, and they can have quite a profound effect if done correctly. Check out an interesting “story” below:
New to affiliate marketing and want to explore more creative ideas and ways to promote the programs you join? Speak with our highly skillful team of marketers at InvolveAsia today. We’re happy to give you some ideas!
