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What to Do When an Affiliate Promotion Isn’t Performing

What to Do When an Affiliate Promotion Isn’t Performing

What do you do when you’ve agreed to promote something and it’s a total flop? Maybe it’s not resonating with your audience. Perhaps the sales funnel isn’t converting. Or for reasons beyond your understanding, it’s just not working. What do you do?

Affiliate promotion not performing

A reader who wishes to remain anonymous was recently going through this exact problem. He agreed to promote someone’s launch and it tanked.

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7 Ways to Promote Evergreen Affiliate Offers

7 Ways to Promote Evergreen Affiliate Offers

We all love the big product launches. They are exciting, have great contests and prizes, and a wonderful way to bring in a lot of money in a short time. But evergreen offers can be incredibly lucrative as well.

How to promote evergreen affiliate offers
The advantages of a time-bound launch are clear:

  1. They build buzz. When many people are promoting the same thing, it certainly makes waves.
  2. Affiliates love the contests and prizes. Let’s face it…affiliates are competitive by nature.
  3. The “Launch Echo.” A “launch echo” is the natural positive effect launches have on your brand, which is often long-lasting. Credit to Jeff Walker for coining this term.

But they also have their downsides…

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7 Ways to Warm Up Your Audience Before an Affiliate Promotion

7 Ways to Warm Up Your Audience Before an Affiliate Promotion

Imagine for a moment that you are at a party and an acquaintance of yours tries to sell you something from someone you’ve never heard of. It’s not likely that you are going to be that interested. And yet, that is what most people try to do every time they promote and affiliate offer.

How to warm up email list for promotion

Imagine that same party and that same friend now. But instead of introducing you to someone you’ve heard of, he introduces you to someone he’s talked about before. It’s a totally difference scenario.

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Top 10 Mistakes Affiliates Make on Social Media

Top 10 Mistakes Affiliates Make on Social Media

I’m not sure if you heard but social media is a big deal. And it’s evolving every five minutes. As social media has grown in popularity and impact, so have the number of mistakes entrepreneurs make, especially when promoting affiliate offers.

Mistakes affiliates make on social media

Today I’m sharing the top 10 mistakes affiliates make on social media. I’ve purposely kept them outlet-neutral, since tomorrow there will be a new one and by next week something will die out. These apply to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and whatever pops up later today.

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Should I Focus on Affiliate Promotions or My Own Products?

Should I Focus on Affiliate Promotions or My Own Products?

It can be hard to choose what to focus on: Your own products or affiliate promotions. But what if it didn’t have to be either/or but it was both/and?

Affiliate promotions or my own products?

Asheritah Ciuciu from One Thing Alone recently reached to me and said this:

I’m still trying to figure out where affiliates fit in. Obviously, I don’t want to detract from our own work and momentum, but some side income would be nice as well.

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