HOW CAN YOU WRITE A SALES PAGE FOR AN AFFILIATE PRODUCT WITHOUT ACTUALLY BUYING IT ?
First, what is affiliate marketing?
In the affiliate marketing business, you promote other people’s products. In exchange for a successful referral of customers, you receive a percentage of the product’s price.
To become successful at affiliate marketing, you need a way to reach people and send them to the advertiser through your affiliate link.
In most cases, a website is used as a platform where you have 100% control over the content. But this is not the only option.
Why should you start with affiliate marketing?
Maybe you ask yourself why you should even start with affiliate marketing. Is affiliate marketing worth it, and can you really make money with it? What’s the difference between various forms of semi-passive income, like the difference between affiliate marketing vs. dropshipping?
Before you start, you may have many questions and doubts.
However, bear in mind that affiliate marketing is one of the largest and most popular ways to start your online business.
You do not need to manufacture or import your own products. You do not have to deal with customer service nor handle complaints. All you need to do is to get people to visit the advertiser’s website through your custom link.
If the potential customer makes a purchase, you will receive a commission.
How to promote affiliate marketing products without a blog?
You probably ask yourself, how to promote affiliate links and most importantly – where?
How to promote affiliate links without website?
One of the most popular ways to implement affiliate marketing is through YouTube.
Of course, you have to be comfortable with showing yourself on camera in front of the whole world.
However, YouTube isn’t the only way. Implementing affiliate marketing successfully via other social media channels such as Facebook or Instagram is also possible. Let’s explore all these options!
Affiliate Marketing via Social Media
If you want to get started with affiliate marketing quickly, the fastest way is via social media. You can use various social media channels to build a following base or community.
You can then cater to these people by sharing content and placing your affiliate link in that content.
When you start working with social media, it is important to understand that it can be quite challenging to gather followers on your new social media account.
The most fool-proof way to build followers base is by sharing valuable information on your social media account, every day. Of course, don’t start by sharing your affiliate link right away, you have to build authority first.
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Social media platforms do not encourage outgoing links, and some social networks even have a strict policy concerning affiliate links.
Therefore it’s essential to be careful when placing affiliate links because your account can be blocked if you do not operate according to the guidelines.
Affiliate Marketing on YouTube
The second-best most popular option for affiliate marketing (after having your own blog) is affiliate marketing through YouTube. If you don’t want to create your own blog, you can get started with your own YouTube channel.
YouTube is the second largest search engine after Google.
The biggest advantage of YouTube is that it is a very personal way of marketing. This immediately builds trust, making it relatively easy to score a sale.
You can talk about any topic in your YouTube videos. You can post reviews, tips, ideas, recipes, whatever. Simply add an affiliate link to the product you discussed in your video, down in the description box.
Since you can’t make a clickable anchor text in the description, it’s better to shorten your URLs using any URL shortening service, to make the links appear neat and clean.
Affiliate Marketing on Facebook
You are not the only one, wondering where to promote affiliate products, and many people who asked themselves the same question – turned to Facebook as the first resort. Of course, you can start by sharing information on your personal Facebook page.
However, keep in mind that your friends and family are not interested in daily promo offers from you and are unlikely to convert.
That is why it would be wiser to create a separate social media page for your business. When creating a Facebook page, make it targeted to build a community around a specific theme.
Don’t share random information; stay focused on your topic.
By sharing useful information and adding the right tags, you will slowly build your audience.
The more content you share on social media, the better.
In addition to having your own Facebook page, you can also create a Facebook group on a specific topic, where people can join and read your content.
It can take a while before you see any substantial followers. Stay active, reply to comments, reply to comments on similar topics from other’s posts. Join similar groups and be pro-active. If you keep yourself busy with it every day, it is absolutely possible to make money with affiliate marketing on Facebook.
Affiliate marketing on Pinterest
In addition to Facebook, Pinterest has become increasingly popular with affiliates. I just Googled the term “affiliate marketing Pinterest without blog” and I was amazed at how creative you can get. Pinterest is known to be a large channel to send a lot of traffic to your website.
New post coming up about affiliate marketing on Pinterest without a blog – stay tuned!
It’s also common knowledge that people who spend time on Pinterest convert well with internet purchases.
You can create boards with Pins on Pinterest (Pin + Interest) and categorize these pins by groups. What’s great about Pinterest is that it is basically a search engine. People can search for a specific topic on Pinterest, and the best results will come up.
What’s even better about Pinterest is that you can add a clickable link to the images you save on Pinterest. And, this can be an affiliate link.
I know from experience that the more active you are on Pinterest, the more your pins come up in searches. When getting started with Pinterest, it’s important to be consistent with image posting. It is best to make images yourself so that you do not infringe copyright and end up having them removed.
It is also possible to use royalty-free images from sites like Freepik, Pixabay.com, or Unsplash.com. The bottom line is, Pinterest affiliate marketing without a blog is possible too.
Affiliate Marketing on Instagram
I decided to mention Instagram as the last social media alternative. I have mixed feelings about it. Some people make millions on Instagram, while others fail to obtain many followers or earn a dime.
To make money with affiliate marketing on Instagram, you need to know exactly how Instagram works. You can only put a link to your affiliate offer in your bio. This makes it a lot more challenging to generate clicks through your referral link.
What you can do, however, is use Instagram to drive people to your mailing list. For example, give away a free ebook through Instagram and then promote your affiliate offer via good old email marketing. Providing something free is often easier than selling a product that costs money.
Before you begin to promote products to your Instagram fans, you must first build a broad base of followers. These must be real followers who are interested in your content.
You need to be very active daily on Instagram to achieve this. Affiliate marketing without followers is nearly impossible.
In most cases, a post per day is not enough; you should think of posting an Instagram Story 3 or 4 times a day. Same as with Facebook – comment on other’s posts, use hashtags wisely and hustle, hustle, hustle…
This is why becoming popular on Instagram is a time-consuming task. If you do not have much experience with affiliate marketing, you can better apply it to the other social media channels.
Email marketing
How to make money with affiliate marketing without a website? Simply send out emails, instead of driving visitors to your website. As I already mentioned it’s possible to promote affiliate marketing products without a blog, but you can still use email. The truth is, you don’t need to have website, to build a mailing list.
If you want to get started with affiliate marketing via social media, it is a good idea not to send people directly to your affiliate offer, but to your email list first. Most people on the Internet do not buy anything upon the first encounter.
By having them signed up to your mailing list, you can build trust with the people who follow you. You do this by sharing valuable content via email. A lot of content, all free. Don’t try to sell anything right away; get people to appreciate your content. You can then market them with multiple products.
If you have been sending valuable emails for a while, you can send an email with a product you are promoting. Chances are, a certain percentage of your subscribers will purchase it.
To utilize email marketing successfully without a blog, you need an email marketing provider. A place where you can create registration forms, send automatic emails (autoresponders), and keep track of people who viewed your emails and how clicked on your affiliate links. Services such as MailChimp are free and easy to use.
The best way to get people’s email addresses is to give something for free.
You can come up with a free ebook, printable checklist, or anything else that benefits your target group.
Online advertising
Another way to display your affiliate links to a large pool of people is through advertising. You don’t have to have a blog to promote an affiliate product, but you can place it on someone else’s blog.
You can advertise through Google Adwords, Facebook ads, or by buying advertising space directly on someone else’s website.
Unlike social media, advertising is not free, and you need to know exactly how it works.
With social media, your only investment is your time, while advertisement will cost you real money. If not done right, the advertising campaign’s margin will not cover its costs or result in a loss.
If you don’t have a good strategy and experience, you are more likely to lose money on your ads.
Forums
Yes, they still exist. And yes, it’s still possible to make money with affiliate marketing in a forum, but it’s not as easy as it used to be.
Everyone who is doing affiliate marketing without a website turns to an external resource, i.e. websites owned by others, that already exist, and you can just sign up and start using it as a platform. A forum seems to be the perfect place.
Once you have found a product to promote, you can search the Internet for forums dealing with the topic associated with the product or niche you are promoting. For example, if you promote a piano course, you can see if there are forums where people talk about learning to play the piano.
The idea is not to spam your affiliate link, but to actively participate in the forum, sharing valuable content.
Share helpful information by answering questions. Many forums allow you to add an affiliate link to your signature or profile page. This link will then be displayed under all posts you write in that forum.
