8 ways to successfully promote an affiliate offer

No matter what your blog is about tech,lifestyle, marketing etc. there is alway a time where you want to try an affiliate offer in order to give valuable content to your readers and make some money out of it too.

Below you can read 8 ways for successfully promoting an affiliate offer, read them, twist them and apply them to your own blog.

1. Don’t try to sell but pre-sell by motivating, informing and educating(MIA) your visitors, that way you can later advise them to buy products or services that will save them time and money.
2. Promote products or services that you either tried yourself or know by first hand they work in benefit of your readers, be quite personal on your recommendations.
3. Try to be more descriptive as possible, cover both pros and cons of the product/service you are promoting and give your visitors as much data as needed to let them realize they will benefit from it.
4. A great The best way to promote an affiliate offer is by email. You probably know this already since many of us already bought a product that was promoted via email.
5. You can use Twitter to promote your offer, its fast and easy to use BUT keep in mind that best conversion tactics for Twitter is to tweet your offer during peak times spreading your tweets over a number of days so you can reach as many followers as possible.
6. Try to use more than one promoting tactics such as email, twitter or blog post so that you reach as many of your readers as possible.
7. Give a bonus for your readers for purchasing the promoted offer, for example offer a free ebook, report, gift card, etc.
8. Ad multimedia content instead of text when applicable. Posting some text and an affiliate link or banner will make your article boring and drive your visitors away in seconds, try to add some style like bold letters or numbering(1,2,3,4,5…) and enrich it with multimedia content such as fine cut images or/and related video that you will present the affiliate offer in less than 3-4 minutes.

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