Affiliates Home Page

This is a page that you need to create. It is where the affiliate goes to once they have signed up (I will tell you how to set up an affiliate sign up further down). This page should be focused only on how to help the affiliate market your product or service. The way to create this page is best shown by way of example. Here’s how I help my affiliates promote my products and services.

Text Links

I give my affiliates suggested text links to include on their website and then tell them to embed their affiliate link into the text link. So the text links I suggest are:









So think of some punchy text links that are eye catching and explain your product or service in very few words. Then tell them to embed their affiliate link into the text link.

Adverts

Some affiliates may want to include a whole load of text about your site so they would want a mini advert/article to put on their site. So give it to them on a plate! The adverts I offer my affiliates look like this:

This advert lets them know that:

• I’m credible because I’ve written ten books on property investment.
• You can start with as little as £500.
• The information is free.
• You get a tenancy agreement for free.
• They have made some money out of what I had taught.

 

This advert informs the reader that my site has a high number of subscribers and there are plenty of like-minded investors’ opinions on my site for them to browse. I also highlight the live chat facility which almost all property websites do not have.

Again this advert reinforces my credibility because I have written some books on the subject of property investment and that they have followed my advice and profited from this.

This advert tried to identify with the reader’s pain of going to work with the hope of triggering with the reader some kind of empathy. It also hinted that you could find your true dream job from joining up to this email series.

So write something that’s like an advert or an article which highlights the benefits and features of your products or services.

Banner Advertising

I give them graphical banners I create in MS Paint. If you have a bit of graphical know how then consider creating a banner that is eye-catching. I have to admit the internet is becoming immune to banner advertising, but some affiliates still swear by them so try to give them a banner or banners to download. I use this one:


and link it to my www.powerseries.org website.

Article Advertising

Some affiliates like articles to put on their site. So write a punchy, attractive article that gives the reader a lot of information and tips rather than writing it as a sales pitch. The article I offer my affiliates reads like this.

Further Marketing Ideas For Your Affiliates

Apart from the ideas above you could suggest some other ideas on promotion depending on your product or service. Some of these below may or may not be applicable.

Type	Description
Newspapers	Place ads in free newspapers and magazines, local papers, tabloids and broadsheets. Classified sections would be a good place to put them as it will be cheap.
Email	Send an email to your friends list, work group list, your subscriber database or any other list you have.You could also tag it on to the end of every email message you send. Use the newspaper advert examples above.Please note: Do not spam. If you do not know the person and you’ve just got the email from a website then do not send as the email will get reported as spam and will not get through.
Website	Create a website and use your number and affiliate link as the only contact.
In person	Tell your friends, family, business contacts, work collegues, people on the street and whoever you come in contact with! You could get flyers made and hand them out or post them through people’s letterboxes.If you’re a member of a club you could give out these flyers to all the members or place a well positioned poster on the notice board.
Split your commission	You could offer to split this with another introducer. This could be anyone you know, a shopkeeper or simply someone you know who knows a lot of people.As long as you track the people they introduce there should be no problem in paying out commissions.
Post message on online forums	You can mention my services on money making or property forums and informally tell them about my services. You could also add at the bottom of your messages the newspaper adverts mentioned above to generate interest.

So use all of the above information from text links, adverts, banner advertising, article advertising and further ideas form the affiliate home page to which you make the landing page after an affiliate signs up. This way they can get straight in to promoting your products and services because you’ve given them the tools to do so.