Profits can be found almost anywhere in cyberspace if you know where to look, which
is why affiliate marketing has such drastically different results among similar websites
within the same industry. If you want your affiliate website to be the one pulling in most
of the cash for your particular genre, then you’d better not be afraid to get out there on the
web and market to some unique audiences. The best part is that these types of marketing
campaigns are completely free and only take up a few minutes of your time once you
figure out what you are doing, yet each one of them can bring in thousands in affiliate
commissions. Here are just a few of the places that you can start-
Affiliate Marketing on Forums
Type your affiliate marketing website’s main keyphrase into a search engine and add
the word “forum” afterwards to find out where people talk about the products that you
represent. Once you’ve located the top two or three forums, feel free to join the website
and post a few pointers about the industry here and there. Use your affiliate website
banner as your signature on each of these sites so even though you’re just passively
talking, you’re promoting your affiliate marketing campaign at the same time.
Affiliate Marketing on Facebook and Twitter
The same concept would apply here; have your newest articles and promotions
uploaded to these sites as a news feed for your friends and family to read. As you
rediscover people that you haven’t thought of since high school, you’re also letting them
know that you’re active in affiliate marketing and you’d love to have their business.
Remember that their friends will be able to see your posts as well, so by “friending” or
getting “followers” from just 200 people on each site you could realistically reach 80,000
people with each of your posts.
Affiliate Marketing Email Campaigns
Have you ever wondered why so many websites ask you to register there even though
they are not really selling anything? Well, the answer may surprise you, because they
are essentially building a database of email addresses that they can market any way that
they please. Now, you may think to yourself, “Wait a minute, I registered at a football
website; that can’t have anything to do with this email I received for laundry detergent,
could it?” The website owners agree to not sell or trade your email address to anyone
else, but that does not mean that they can not solicit you for just about anything.
Affiliate Marketing Giveaways
Giving something away for free on an affiliate website can often gather a ridiculous
amount of attention, even if it is only a $10-25 dollar item. The best news is that you do
not even have to buy the products yourself- just send an email to major companies and
agree to give them a free backlink for supporting your website and donating something.
Freebies like that get picked up by hundreds of giveaway websites plus your Twitter and
Facebook accounts will get serious pagehits.