Here are some nice tips on promoting email submit offers from one of my favorite blog Melvin Blog – This is a contest entry to the previous “Secret Is Out” Affiliate marketing contest. Will be posting more such secrets in the coming days. If you find the article useful, head over to Melvin Blog to find more such interesting tips and updates. Much said, here we go :
Note: This targets newbies more than anything else. One thing Im sure of is this works because I’ve tried it and it went well for me.
So not everyone has the cash when starting out affiliate marketing, as you know affiliate marketing requires some hefty cash from our side even when starting out. Although, there are free coupons from Adwords, yahoo and MSN occasionally, the truth is its hard to time it because all the coupons are already used up even before you know there’s a coupon available. Here is what I normally do with it. I utilize easy converting email submit offers and use free traffic. Let me explain.
First, take a look at the Market Leverage Offers.You see there are over 10 offers of this kind. For those who do not know, email submits are offers that you get paid for a valid email from customers. It costs nothing to consumers and the pixel is fired on the first page of an offer. Easy money eh?
Now we head on to the landing page. Basically we cannot direct link here because we’re not using payperclick. Now I know building a landing page seems to be frightful experience for newbies but here’s a tip that I think will make sense. In some point of time last January, I used it and I can say it worked and is definitely working. First let’s use the ipod nano email submit offer. Take a look:
So read the description of the campaigns properly because some offers are strict and most are not. Do also take note of what country does the offer accepts traffic from. In this case its United States. Now back to the landing page. Most people don’t use this and i am sure others will find it silly to do it but one easy way of building a landing page is just getting the email creative for that and putting it into your site. Take a look at this:
What I do is just try to copy the email html content and putting it into my site. Again most people will find it silly but actually if you look at the codes its actually SE-optimized and you just need to do a little tweaking in it. You can basically add a title to the title tag and such stuffs. Looking with what it looks like here it goes:
Not bad eh? I believe the site looks good enough to attract readers. Of course, you can do your own landing page if you have more skills but again for those who know virtually nothing, that is definitely a quick way.
So we’re now in getting free traffic. At the start we said we’re not gonna use pay per click and we will try to squeeze anything using free methods. Although the income potential are definitely lower with free traffic, its still possible to make money from it. Anyway first make sure you install Google Analytics to your site so you could split test your pages, see the data and make adjustments. Now how do I promote it? Here it goes:
1. Forum Marketing –everyone knows exactly the power of forums but how do they utilize it? It depends. Now I assume you are a quality member of a certain forum, meaning you’re not just signed up yesterday. In my case, im a big fan of basketball and I am a member of some famous forums about basketball for a long time which means I have the reputation. So I try to put the landing page url in my siggy and of course I try to use an attractive anchor to attract clicks. Another secret I do is I pawn the offtopic section of forums with the offer itself. In the offtopic section I post something like “I heard this site gives nanos upon completion of surveys so I signed up, what do you guys think?” Be careful though with this because it can get you banned! Freebies forum tend to also do well with it. Want some freebies forum, then here’s the list of sites that normally have 2000 uniques a day.
http://www.freestuffhotdeals.com/freebies/
http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/free-stuff/
http://www.bobsfreestuffforum.co.uk/
http://www.totallyfreestuff.com/submit.asp?m=0
2. Blog Catalog – now this has got to be something most people don’t do. Blogcatalog is a known directory for blogs and while its known to be site that has some serious 100,000 visitors a day traffic, I don’t see a lot marketer using the discussion page for it. The discussion page is hell with traffic as well. But the main key here is putting up a discussion that can intrigue a lot of people. People posts here as often as they can and if your discussion page doesn’t make sense, then in 2 minutes your discussion is in page 10 instantly. One for example is when I tried promoting the “cokeorpepsi” offer from ML before. Look:
The discussion got about 110 replies, 50% of them clicked the link and 7 have actually made conversions. So you see really it makes sense considering all you need to do is type. It varies depending on the type of offer though as some tend to perform really well as opposed to others
3. Incentivizing – Now here it depends on the offer. Most likely there are few offers that allow incentivization of their offers. How do you incentivized then? The sky is the limit actually! I give entrecard credits, I give free stuffs, I tell them they will get a free domain for this and that and etc. Incentivizing is like “bribing” them to do something in your favor. At the end it benefits you both. Again you must first contact your affiliate manager with regards to these matters.
That’s it. I would like to share this tip more to beginners but sure experts can also use it and they can very well duplicate their incomes more because they are expert. Now if it builds you up a small hundred dollars, then maybe you could jump into bigger waters now and start doing pay per click w/o worrying the money to spend. Hope this helps… 
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10 – Friendship with the network – Last but not the least, create a friendship with your affiliate network and affiliate managers. Ask them for various promotional offers, marketing tactics, special commission, banners/landing pages, keywords and so on. Ask them which offers are converting best. There are various dedicated AM’s out there on Market Leverage to help you out.
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