Make Money With ShareASale Affiliate Marketing – By Guest Blogger: Ibrahim Dahy

ShareASale.com is one of the most reputable affiliate networks out there, and in this post we are covering the basics of how to make money with ShareASale Affiliate Marketing.

It MIGHT not be as popular as Amazon or Clickbank but those who use it on their affiliate website can attest to the money making potential it offers.

Some of the top products on the market are on ShareASale (i.e. HootSuite) and across various niches you will find high paying affiliate products to promote.

Signup with ShareASale

ShareASale provides an easy and straight forward signup process.

They require that you own a website from which you will do affiliate marketing for your products.

The most notable requirement is that you need to enter a valid email address which is preferably from your affiliate website that you entered into your application.

For example if your affiliate website is “mysite.com” then you should sign up with “SOMETHING@mysite.com”.

You should not use a free email account like Gmail or Hotmail as this will require further verification that you own your affiliate website.

Make Money With ShareASale Affiliate Marketing: Payments.

The best thing about ShareASale is that your account has only $50 withdrawal threshold!

Meaning that once you earn $50 or above you can start withdrawing your money.

You can reach that number easily especially if you are a beginner affiliate.

And you can receive your payments via checks

Once you finish your application, you need to check your email to finish any required verifications and prepare your application for review by ShareASale.

Choosing Your Affiliate Products on ShareASale

There are over 3,900 products that are spread across very interesting niches, so you will have products of options to choose from.

Some products require separate approval from the vendor in order to become an affiliate for them. If you have a quality affiliate website and follow ethical promotion tactics then getting such approval will be fast and without problems.

ShareASale list coupon codes for the products that offer them.

This is a great selling technique for affiliates because many potential buyers are always looking for deals on the products they are interested in.

This increase sales conversion rates to high levels.

Accessing those coupons is easy once you login to your ShareASale account.

Unlike other affiliate networks where you have to either contact the product owner himself or visit his affiliate page to get banner ads and coupon codes, ShareASale gives you access to all these materials from your dashboard.

Choosing your offer:

When you are choosing your affiliate product you should keep three things in mind:

Relevancy of the Product
Reputation
Product Price

The most obvious criteria when choosing your affiliate product is how relevant it is to your affiliate website or blog.

Your affiliate product should not only be relevant to your affiliate website but also should be relevant to your micro niche.

For example, if you have a fat loss blog then try to avoid promoting generic weight loss products and instead find fat loss products with all its variations (i.e. fat loss around the waist…etc).

This will help increase your affiliate sales because your visitors will see your affiliate product as super relevant.

More importantly they will know it will solve their specific problem and trust your recommendation since your affiliate blog specialize in this micro niche.

The product’s reputation:

This play a major role in your conversion rates; it positively or negatively affects the reputation and trust level of your affiliate website.

Judging the reputation of any product goes beyond common sense, because not only the product’s effectiveness is a sign of good reputation…

But, also how well they treat their customers with their technical and customer support.

A simple Google search can show you the brand reputation of your affiliate product, “PRODUCT inurl:forum”

Not only you can know the reputation of the product from this search, but also you can use the positive testimonials on your affiliate website to boost your sales.

The product’s price is usually the first thing affiliate marketers look for when deciding to promote any product. But this should be the last judging factor to use.

High product price indeed can guarantee you high affiliate commission but it doesn’t guarantee you high volume affiliate sales.

That’s why you should combine the product’s price with the other factors I outlined above.

How to Promote Your Affiliate Products

There are many online channels that can drive targeted traffic to your affiliate website like:

Social Media
SEO

Social media is great when it comes to getting traffic to your affiliate blog, websites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest already have millions of daily visitors between them

Being able to direct a fraction of that traffic is not as challenging as you think.

You first need to setup an account on these social media website and link to them from your affiliate blog.

Try to be active on social media at least twice a week by posting tweets and content.

This will help increase your followers’ amount and encourage sharing of your blog’s content.

You might not get much traffic at first from social media…

Still, over time, your name and brand will become well known and people will start coming to your affiliate website with a certain trust level that was generated with your brand awareness.

Search Engine Optimization is a good source of quality traffic and if done right, it will be a source of potential buyers’ traffic.

A good technique that affiliate marketers use is to create an honest product review on their blog, and then try to rank the review page for the product’s brand.

But this technique is more successful for established products, or soon to be popular products.

In order to make sure that your affiliate product falls in that category, go to Google’s keyword tool and search for “ProductName review”.

If you see enough searches (300 or above) then you can start doing SEO and targeting this keyword.

Try to make your product review page as informative and honest as possible.

Once the traffic starts to come in, your review page will determine how well you are going to sell.

Affiliate marketing with ShareASale is like any other affiliate network; they all require the same amount of work and the same traffic generation and selling techniques.

Learn about affiliate marketing by getting a training or reading success stories from other affiliate marketers, this will help you evolve as a marketer in general and as affiliate marketer in particular.

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Reciprocity and the Law and Science of Persuasion in Affiliate Marketing.

Reciprocity is a concept that you should be familiar with as an affiliate marketer if you want to increase your affiliate sales.

Simply because if you learn the science behind the reciprocity concept you will understand how sales are made and how the art of human psychology can help you make more money.

In general all the average affiliate marketer does is try to present his pitch to the readers and hoping that some of them will end up buying the product he is promoting.

While this works perfectly most of the times, it won’t yield a high conversion rates all the time.
This is simply because the fact that…

People don’t always use all the information available to them in order to make a decision, that’s the harsh reality.

Instead people depend on certain rules and shortcuts that guides them into taking any decision.

One of these shortcuts and rules is Reciprocity.
Reciprocity is one of the basic concepts in the science of persuasion, which basically helps you as an affiliate marketer understand how to make people take a certain decisions, like buying your affiliate offer.

I am going to explain the Reciprocity concept and how to implement it in your affiliate marketing efforts to increase your sales and make more money.
The science of persuasion tells us that reciprocity is the obligation to give when you receive first.

So a real life example will be, when a friend invites you to his birthday party (you receive) then you feel obligated to invite him back to your birthday party (give).
If someone did you a favor then you feel the need to return the favor to him/her.

This all leads us to the rule that people are more likely to say “Yes! To you when you give them something first.

Of course people will not say yes to anything just because you gave them something first, you must ask them or expect from them something reasonable.

Also it might not be as easy as:

“I give someone something then he will be obligated to agree to do something for me”.

You have to consider how you are giving something to that person.

For example, when a waiter brings you your bill in most cases you will pay the bill and pay him a reasonable tip.
But if that waiter gave you a mint with your bill then you probably going to increase his tip, and if he said to you “this mint is for you my best customer” then you will give him even more tip.

This shows us that the way you give something is very crucial even more than what you are giving itself.

So for reciprocity to work:
• You need to be the first to give
• Give something personalized
• Give something unexpected

How to Implement Reciprocity in your Affiliate Marketing Plan

Using what we know about the reciprocity concept, I am going to explain some strategies that you can implement on your affiliate page to boost conversion rates and sales.

Strategy #1

Select a profitable niche that you want to sell affiliate products in, and then build a blog filled with content and perhaps free training course.
Try and promote this blog to get as much readers as you can. Over time you will see that all your blog posts got tons of likes and retweets which gives you more social media exposure.

And after sometime put an ad for the products you want to sell as an affiliate.
Because at this point many of your users will be regular visitors to your blog, and when they finally see a product that you recommend they will feel the need to buy it because you were so generous to them across the time they have been visiting and reading your blog.

Strategy #2

In your affiliate product review page tell your visitors to download something that goes well with the product you are trying to sell.
For example:

If I am selling (as an affiliate) a wordpress plugin related to SEO then I will offer them a 15 pages pdf guide on SEO as a bonus.

But his bonus will be given to them before they buy the actual product.
Here I was the first to give, and I did something unexpected because I gave them a generous bonus before they even buy, and it was personalized because it helps solve their problem and it goes well with the product they are considering buying.

Strategy #3

You know how nowadays every ebook, guide, software out there can only be downloaded if you opt-in or provide your email address, as much as that work it is still annoying to have to be the one to give first in order to take.

Try offering your PDF guide without an opt-in and tell your visitors that download doesn’t require them to give their email.
When you do that, at this point people feel how generous you are and how unexpected this is which is very important factor in persuading them to buy your affiliate product.
So what you do is at the end of your PDF guide, you mention the affiliate product that you want them to buy and introduce it in 1 paragraph.

People will feel the need to return you the favor of giving them something for free first.

Strategy #4

If you are promoting a software product or service, then try to contact the product owner and convince them to give you a version of the product that you can give to your visitors.

Except this version should allow a trial usage for free.
It has been known that when people are given the product for free for a period of time, they end up buying it at the end. They feel how generous you are and they may end up falling in love with your affiliate product, and that is more persuasive then any word you can type.

Strategy #5

In your blog, try to organize a monthly events and training sessions for your readers.
You can see Google hangouts or Skype group video chat for that or even any online webinar service that will help you host such events.

These events are amazing for selling affiliate products, because you get very personal with your audience via video or audio and you spend like 1 hour giving them advice and tips and tricks and at the end you sell them your affiliate product.

Using any of these strategies or even developing your own strategies that implement the reciprocity concept can really add a huge improvement to the way you do affiliate marketing.

These changes are cheap and not time consuming yet they can bring you more money.
As an affiliate marketer I think you should always try to find ways to convince people to buy from you as it mounts to higher conversion rates.

Also there are many other affiliate marketing techniques you can learn from this one. Combine them with what you have learned here so far and you can see sales increase.

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