Social Media For Affiliate Marketing

byRobert-A

10.9K followers

5 years ago

Effective Social Media Strategies For Affiliate Marketing

Hi Folks

Social networks like Facebook and Twitter to name but two are at everyone’s finger tips these days and you can utilize these social networks to make you money as an affiliate marketer. The key to it is to promote things that you’re an affiliate for, but do it in a natural way.

Social Media sites are growing rapidly and the two I mention above have 100's of millions of users every day. As an affiliate marketer, one of the biggest problems you will have is driving targeted traffic to your affiliate links.

Social Media Strategies To Follow In Order To Connect With Your Target Audience

Step 1: First of all you need to pick a profitable niche. You want to find one that social media people are passionate about. Niches like fashion, beauty, health, wealth, online gaming are good examples of what you want to focus on. Look for the most popular pages on Facebook and you’ll see a huge variety of niches to choose from.

Step 2: Pick one social platform to work with at a time, and I recommend that be Facebook. You need to create a Facebook business page and/or a group and start building a following by sharing content with them that they like. Getting them to like you is the key to all of this. They need to look forward to what you share. Ideally you want to be marketing your affiliate products on all social media sites. The trick is to be active on them, to help others with problems in the niche and offering affiliate products or a service that will help them solve their problems.

This way you’re a part of their solution! You should also be offering related bonuses that add value to the whatever you’re promoting.

Step 3: Once you’ve got a good following then I recommend you start to mention whatever you're promoting as an affiliate. I recommend that you use a link cloaker to make your links social media friendly. Be aware that social media sites don’t like affiliate links. They tend to block them as well. So protect yourself from this by cloaking your affiliate links that make them appear as if they’re coming from your site and then redirects to your affiliate offer once clicked. This way your affiliate links don’t get blocked.

Step 4: You need to continually build your following each and every day and you need to be posting content your niche audience. There are many ways you can build a following. Do some research and use what you learn!

Step 5: remember its not a race. There are rules you must follow. Once you build up one social network then you move on to the next one and rinse and repeat to build your presence there. Then again start promoting products you’re an affiliate for.

Note: If you go this route I also recommend that you also transition your following over into something you own. Like get them onto your email list, or get them over to your blog. Social networks don’t belong to you so at any time they can ban you, or go belly up. If either happens you would lose your entire audience because you’ve been cut off from them.

Use social media marketing to build your audience and build your email list. You could also have an email follow-up series in place that coaches your list while selling to them. Remember, your email list is your biggest business asset. Look after it, treat it kindly and keep growing it.

You’re going to need to get good at providing your followers with good content and good at building your following. Treat them right, promote products you’re an affiliate for that are truly good products and you’ll earn an income from this.

Ok folks that's all for this blog, and the last one tomorrow.

Have a great day and be successful.

Robert Allan