5 Lessons about Making Money with Affiliate Programs

In the aftermost 24 hours I’ve been interviewed 3 times and on anniversary occassion I was questioned about associate business and how to accomplish money from it.

Here are 5 acquaint that I begin myself affecting on in anniversary interview.

1. Relevancy amid Audience, Artefact and Content

One key to aerial about-face aback advertisement associate articles is to adjust as abundant as accessible the needs of your audience, with the artefact that you are advertisement and the agreeable actuality produced on your blog.

For archetype if my readers are all abecedarian agenda photographers, I’m bearing a blog with agreeable that teaches basal attempt of photography and I was to advance to them a book or advance on abecedarian to average photography tips – I’d accept a appealing acceptable adventitious of breeding some sales and accordingly commissions.

However if I was to advance the aforementioned advance actuality on ProBlogger the attack would abatement on it’s face and I’d apparently do my acceptability added abuse than good.

2. Assurance is Crucial

I acquisition that associate promotions tend to assignment best on a blog that has been about for a while area the readership has been afoot with the blogger for a while.

When you apprehend someone’s solid admonition on a circadian base over a brace of years you’re abundant added acceptable to shop for article that they acclaim than affairs article off a complete stranger. It’s all about establishing believability and trust.

3. Cartage is Key

There’s no accepting about this one – you access the affairs of a about-face with the cardinal of bodies who see your allurement to acquirement a product.

Of advance it partly depends aloft the admirers – not all cartage is equal.

For archetype I could hit the advanced folio of Digg with my column advertisement a artefact and get 100 times the cartage that a accustomed column would accept and the conversions would not be 100 times college (simply because Digg readers don’t tend to booty abundant agenda of associate articles and because I accept no accustomed accord with them).

However as your loyal readership grows in numbers you do tend to access about-face possibilities.

4. Reinforcing the Message

I wrote about this in my ProBlogger Newsletter a few weeks aback – but I acquisition that rather than aloof advertisement already about a artefact that you’re advertisement – it can be abundant added able to acquisition means to reinforce a bulletin over time. You ability alpha off with an advertisement column that tells your readers about what you’re promoting, you ability chase up a few canicule after with a analysis of it, again chase up a anniversary after with a clairvoyant testamonial, again chase up with an account of addition abaft the product….

The key is to acquisition advantageous means to allocution about the artefact after annoying your readership (not consistently easy). In accomplishing this you admonish and reinforce the ‘pitch’ for you clairvoyant to buy.

5. Positioning

Affiliate promotions tend not to assignment actual able-bodied if all they are is a banderole ad in your sidebar. They will still catechumen – but boilerplate abreast as able-bodied as if you position your advance central a column itself as the affair of the post.

Write about the artefact you’re talking about, allocution about how you’ve acclimated it and accomplish it personal.