Last Updated on June 18, 2018 by admin
Welcome to our Affiliate marketing blog series. We are sharing the best strategies to help you boost your affiliate sales. Today we will be focusing on how to make consistent sales with your affiliate blog posts to increase sales. We want to share with you the exact strategies we use to increase sales from our blog on a monthly basis. If you are interested in knowing what affiliate programs we recommend, get the list of our top earning affiliate programs here: full list of 20+ more affiliate programs!
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Want to catch up on the Affiliate Marketing Series?:
- 5 of the best Affiliate Programs for bloggers
- How to Boost your Affiliate Income and Make Money Online
- 6 Professionals give you tips on how to boost Affiliate sales
How to ensure you make consistent sales with your affiliate blog posts is something we will look into a little more closely today. Don’t expect to make any sales by splashing your affiliate links into all your posts and expect to make thousands of dollars from it. It just doesn’t work like that! So what is the secret to making consistent sales from affiliate marketing?
YOUR READERS NEED TO TRUST AND BELIEVE IN THE PRODUCT OR SERVICE YOU ARE REFERRING THEM TO.
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If you haven’t already made a sale with your affiliate marketing strategy, then we highly suggest you take a look at how to make your next affiliate sale in the next 24 hours. Once you have that mastered come back here to see how you can keep the sales going. The goal is to get you to make consistent sales with your affiliate blog.
Making consistent sales with your Affiliate Blog posts
This will require that you test out the service or product for yourself before recommending it. For example, I am a big breakfast fan! I love to eat at great places (I am a foodie at heart). A friend of mine recommended a restaurant to me the other day, but she had never eaten there before. She mentioned that she drove by it every morning and it was always packed full of clients. So my boyfriend and I decided to give it a try. You better believe it, we hated it. The service was slow, the tables were dirty and the food was extremely salty. Needless to say, I am not recommending it and I will never go back to it.
It was a waste of $30.00 and I could have made better breakfast at home. I would have been okay with some cereal that morning. If you want to make good on your word, ensure you have tested the product in some way.
Can you imagine if your clients stop following you or stop reading your work because you sent them to one bad place? They will never trust your word again. The perfect way of ensuring trust is by writing a blog review.
STEP 1: WRITE A REVIEW ON YOUR PRODUCT OR SERVICE YOU WANT TO RECOMMEND
Do you want to make consistent sales with your affiliate blog? Don’t confuse your readers with too many products or services. Create a blog post focusing on just one item that you really believe in. Get this post and ensure you promote the heck out of it. Consistently promote it and market it to make consistent sales with your affiliate blog post. Your post should be extremely in depth about the product. Here is what to include:
- It should be over 1000 words (use keywords) – More words, the better.
- Outline the pros and cons of the particular product
- An honest opinion of how it has helped you
- Any benefits of the product that your clients might enjoy
- Do you have concrete proof of how it has helped you? Highlight it.
Here is an example of a post that makes me sales: How to make money in affiliate marketing within 24 hours using Pinterest!
STEP 2: SHOW SOCIAL PROOF AND CONCRETE EXAMPLES
Your readers want to believe you. You have one shot to impress a first-time reader to your blog and to turn them into a potential client. Every reader that lands on your blog should be converted into a long time client. Entice and capture your client by showing them examples and proof of your achievements from using a particular product or a service.
Why should they sign up for a product that you are recommending? Why is that product better than product B? Show proof with screenshots of your progress, how to use a product and include videos if you can. Every time I want to know something, I go to YouTube. I love visuals and step by step video tutorials. To make consistent sales with your affiliate blog concrete examples are needed.
STEP 3: GROW YOUR EMAIL LIST
If you want to make consistent sales with your affiliate posts, you need to grow your email list. This is an engaged mailing list of your most loyal supporters that will read and potentially purchase what you recommend. The bigger your list, the more money you can make! 40 to 30% of your email list will actually open what you send. Out of that amount, between 2-5% will make a purchase. That is why we recommend always growing your list every chance you can. Want to learn how to grow your list?
I use mailerlite to capture my subscribers. It’s free for the first 1000 readers and the open rate is way better than MailChimp.
You might also like: How to effectively grow your email list fast!
Once you have a list going, start by nurturing your list. Send them useful weekly information, direct them to your blogs and then you can eventually add affiliate links to your email marketing to promote sales. This is an amazing way to keep making sales with affiliate links. They are bloggers that have over 10, 000 people on their email list. This means they can easily make over $5000 per months depending on what they are promoting.
STEP 4: GENERATE TRAFFIC TO THAT POST
Next step to making consistent sales with your Affiliate Blog posts is by driving consistent traffic to that particular posts. You can do this by using Pinterest. Create 3 to 4 different images for that blog post and promote the heck out of it on Pinterest and every social media platform you have. Don’t forget to share it with your email list at least twice every month. And when we say promote, we mean to make it your job to promote this post multiple times a day, multiple times per week and per month. Link it to older or newer posts if it is relevant.
Sign up for Maven and promote the product on it. When you sign up for maven, fill out your profile and include your blog URL for extra push!
Here is a post to get you started: 10 Places to promote your blog after you hit the publish button!
I hope you enjoyed this post. Don’t forget to download our FREE list of 20+ affiliate programs we use every day to make money online. Our next post will feature a round up of tips and tricks from professional bloggers that earn a living from Affiliate sales. Don’t miss out!
Did you miss our last two blog series? Catch up here:
- 5 of the best Affiliate Programs for bloggers
- How to Boost your Affiliate Income and Make Money Online
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very nice
Thanks very interesting blog!
i just got done reading this piece now,putting down some points and hoping it works form , i need to make a side income real quick
Thank you. This was a great post on affiliate marketing. Been reading about it for few days now and am worried what if it doesn’t work? But still going as per plan and learning all I can first. Thank you for this useful content.
I am glad you found this helpful.
Thank you so much for sharing this, many bloggers tend to forget the basic thing that could help them earn more from affiliate marketing which is; scaling up.
So, if you have a winner blog post that is bringing in a couple of dollers you need to optimize it so that you can earn more. But to start you will need affiliate programs that pay really well.
Cheers, to blogging success 🙂
Great post! Very informative and it works!
Thank you Timothy!
Love these tips, so useful!
Great suggestion to focus on only one product for a review and make sure you promote, promote, promote your content!!
Promote, promote and more promotion is the name of the game!
Thank you for this amazing article Marie and as I am a newbie have taken a lot away from your comments too. I am just learning about affiliated marketing so have not started into it yet.
Thank you so much
regards
Ruth
I hope you find much success!
Marie, this is a great article. Affiliate marketing is a great way to make money online. I use it in my business and these tips you share are great ways to grow your sales. I love recommending products that I actually use in my business to my clients, readers and members. Thank you again for writing a great article.
You are welcome. Thank you so much for stopping by! I appreciate it!
Thanks for writing this! I got this bright idea about doing product reviews for our food blog several months back. Needless to say, it was horrible and I will never do them again. It wasn’t a good fit for our style of blog and readership. After reading your post, I see where we went wrong. Thanks again! 🙂
Wow, I hope you get much success this time round!
I keep saying that i’m going to do the affiliate thing but I always stall…I’ll get to it, and when I do I will be referring back to your posts!
Get started, it will grow slowly but will be worth it!
This is great! Thank you! I’m definitely going to check out your list of 20+ affiliate programs. Love these tips. I’m definitely going to pin this. 😉
Thank you so much Geneva!
These are great tips! I am just starting to work on my email list, so I will have to work on using that for affiliate sales.
Your email list is absolutely vital to your blog growth! I am glad you are working on it!
Awesome advice! I will be pinning this for future reference. Thanks!
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Thank you Lacee,
This was SO helpful thank you!
Great advice. I’m brand new to affiliate marketing. Will definitely start with reviews!
Yay! That’s awesome Kim!
This is probably the most complete post I’ve read on affiliate marketing. Thank you for sharing. Pinning for later too!
I am glad you found it useful!
Ive actually read this already but found it really helpful thank you.
Thank you Hannah!
I seriously have the worst time with Share-a-sale
Oh no! How can I help? They just sent me payment and I was so happy!