Free Social Marketing Strategies for Affiliate Marketers 

Free Social Marketing Strategies for Affiliate Marketers

The days of hard sales pitches are almost gone from the face of the World Wide Web. Consumers rely more on peer-to-peer recommendations more than they do a business-to-consumer pitch. But unless you happen to already have their email address and fir...

Viral Video Options and Opportunities for Affiliates 

Making a viral video when you're an affiliate marketer is really simple. You probably already do text reviews of the products you promote, so why not capture the computer screen and show the product in action (without giving anything away, of course)?

You can showcase your success with a product. Let's say you're promoting an eBook about building a Squidoo lens, for example. You can make a quick screen capture video that shows your finished product while you discuss how easy it was to make.

You can then show your online earnings thanks to the Squidoo lens creation, or give some additional tips you learned about making a lens work that aren't found in the eBook itself!

Use Camtasia or another similar software tool to create viral videos that generate a flood of traffic to your domain.

If you upload them to YouTube, make sure your description includes a hyperlink to your landing page so that you can capture contact information before funneling your targeted traffic on to the affiliate offer you're touting.

List Building From the Ground Up 

List Building From the Ground Up

If you're an affiliate marketer, you might think that your only task is driving traffic to a product owner's site. But if that's all you're doing, you're missing out on some major profit potential! Affiliate marketers have been kept in the dark by p...

Using Text as Your Viral Conduit 

Text is much easier to create for affiliate viral use, but it may not be quite as effective as video.

A viral text product can be something simple - like a free tip sheet, a 5-page report, or even a full-length eBook.

When you create viral text products, you want to make sure you include your affiliate links in them. You could have a single free, viral Internet marketing guide 10 pages long, with each page touting a different idea to do with Internet marketing.

On each page, weave in your affiliate links for the products you'd like to promote that teach the whole nuts and bolts of the concept. For example - one of your pages might talk about the importance of Web 2.0 marketing and Squidoo. While you discuss why it's important, you don't teach how. Let your affiliate links do that work for you.

Another page could discuss the important of building a list. Your affiliate links to Aweber or other autoresponder tools could help beef up your commissions. As the free viral guide gets shared to others, your income increases because the link exposure grows.

If the guide is well-written and provides valuable information, your conversions will be better. If it's poorly written, the readers won't trust your recommendations as much and the viral element will be wasted.

If you have your own membership site, make sure you notify them whenever you have a freebie they're allowed to share. Some won't do it without your permission.

Affiliate Marketing Free Traffic Ideas 

Affiliate Marketing Free Traffic Ideas

As an affiliate marketer traffic is your primary concern. You don't have to bother with product creation, site development, or joint venture partnerships if you don't want to. You just have to get prospects funneled into the system through your affil...

What Is Viral Marketing? 

Viral marketing and viral advertising refer to marketing techniques that use preexisting social networks to produce increases in brand awareness, through self-replicating viral processes, analogous to the spread of pathological and computer viruses. It can be word-of-mouth delivered or enhanced by the network effects of the Internet.

Viral marketing is a marketing phenomenon that facilitates and encourages people to pass along a marketing message voluntarily. Viral promotions may take the form of video clips, interactive Flash games, advergames, ebooks, brandable software, images, or even text messages.

It is claimed that a satisfied customer tells an average of three people about a product or service he/she likes, and eleven people about a product or service which he/she did not like.

Viral marketing is based on this natural human behavior.

The goal of marketers interested in creating successful viral marketing programs is to identify individuals with high Social Networking Potential (SNP) and create Viral Messages that appeal to this segment of the population and have a high probability of being passed along.

The term "viral marketing" is also sometimes used pejoratively to refer to stealth marketing campaigns May 8, 2007--the use of varied kinds of astroturfing both online and offline December 14, 2005 to create the impression of spontaneous word of mouth enthusiasm.

What Viral Marketing Method Is Your Favorite as an Affiliate? 

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