You’ve chosen affiliate marketing as the focus of your online home based business but you’re not pleased with the amounts on your affiliate commission checks to date. You’re looking for ways to increase your commission income and after discussing your situation with several other affiliate marketers online you’ve decided on these six strategies to help increase your home business income.
1. Write an e-book related to affiliate marketing with a link to your website attached and give it away at every opportunity to help promote your home business. You can submit your book to several of the most prominent e-book directories on the web, make it a freebie on your squeeze page in exchange for your visitor’s contact information, give it to other affiliate marketer’s to use in their promotions and include it as an item on your free download page, all in an effort to increase sales of your merchandise.
2. Instead of using the same advertising materials as all the other affiliates selling your products create your own. Write your own classified advertisements and sales letters. If people receive the same ad from several different marketers it’s not very likely they are going to read your advertisement. People appreciate the fact that you made an effort to be creative and different with your marketing approach and this will increase the odds they will read your material.
3. Participate in chat rooms, discussion boards and forums which are related to the affiliate products you’re promoting. Make an honest effort to address people’s concerns and try to solve any issues they may be experiencing. This goes a long way toward building trusting relationships with the other members and they are more likely to seriously consider your offer when the situation arises. Creating a good reputation online will pay dividends in the future which will benefit your affiliate marketing home business.
4. Promote your affiliate home business website offline at every opportunity. Advertise your website on your car via a bumper sticker or an electronic scrolling text license plate. Print business cards and leave them in public areas and hand them out to friends and to people you meet in different social situations. Classified ads, community television advertising, billboard ads and radio spots are all very effective offline marketing techniques.
5. Create a member’s only area on your home page and offer free memberships to people who purchase your affiliate products. In this area you can add free affiliate marketing software, include related articles which members are free to download, add a chat room for members to socialize and perhaps an entertainment area with games and a monthly contest with a prize offered to the winner.
6. Place a link to your website in your email signature file with a short tease disclosing why your readers should visit your home business. Make sure your message is an attention getter and that it explains a major benefit for your reader for visiting your home page.
Employing some or all six of these affiliate marketing strategies will help increase targeted traffic to your home business website and as a result you will see your commission checks grow proportionately.