affiliate marketing with social media

 How to use social networks in Affiliate Marketing.

Promoting affiliate programs is one of the best strategies to monetize your website or blog.

Surely you publish content cautiously, carefully choose the programs that you think will most interest your readers and share them on social networks. Well done!

Networks are the perfect tool to drive sales . But are you squeezing its full potential to the fullest? Time to check it out!

The field is wide and the information on how to do it right is scant. There are no exact formulas and the steps: trial - trial - error, are inevitably necessary. But we do know some good practices that will help you shorten the path. Here they go!

Twitter:

If your strategy is based on launching tweets with a direct link to the product or sending Direct Messages with the same content. STOP! You're doing your business, marketing, and yourself a disservice.

The basic rule is to create a relationship with your community, which lets you intuit that behind each tweet there is a real person and not a robot that does not stop “spamming”. Someone who helps and provides solutions. The million dollar question is how do you create that trust?

Create lists. Both public and private, both will help you.

A private list serves to have the public of controlled interest, it is something like "spying" on what they post, what interests them, with whom they interact ... Another way to find out about their interests without them knowing it.

Public lists allow you to organize your audience into specific and relevant segments. In addition, for many it is a recognition, since by being public, they know that they have been added and that therefore, you are interested in their content.

The ideal is also to follow them (many will return the follow). In this way, you can start to have a closer communication and launch offers or discount codes but without abusing it, that is, combining it with other types of more informative and interacting tweets.

How to thicken the lists?

You must monitor the words and phrases related to the products you sell and know what they are saying about that product to find new potential customers and add them.

The ultimate goal is to sell, and as in everything, we trust an acquaintance rather than a stranger, right?

Pinterest:

It is a natural platform for ecommerce. Pinterest users flock to it to find ideas especially for fashion, decoration or travel. Until not long ago affiliate links were not allowed, but now you have a free hand. You just have to optimize your profile so as not to shock and anger your followers.

Optimizing the profile well means:

That at a glance you know what you are selling. Describe your business well and create boards by themes. It is important to use Keywords both in the general description and in the titles of your pins, so that they appear first when someone does the search.

Choose which product you want to promote and add it to the appropriate board . Once done, edit the pin by writing the description that best suits using keywords and adding the affiliate link on "website" and save it.

Expand the exposure. A good way to drive traffic to your products is to share it on other social networks. Of course, make sure that the board is optimal and that not only products that you want to sell are shown, but also ideas and solutions related to it.

Instagram:

It begins to be a very interesting social network for affiliate marketing. To date, you could only put links in the images but they were not clickable, the solution was to put the link that was most interesting in the BIO. But at the same time, it was a very limited solution since you had to think very well what product to promote. At present it is still like that, but with the difference that there is a quite significant change, that you can now insert clickable links in your Instagram Stories that direct your followers directly to the web, blog or app where you can proceed to purchase the product. Basically what we were all waiting for, right? Many influencers and publishers are already using this strategy.

How to insert the link to your Instagram Stories :

You need to have a professional profile, if you don't have one, you can easily change it in your settings.

You need a minimum of 10k followers.

Is it your case? Well, you can start to monetize more and if not, you already have a good motivation to start working in that direction.

Facebook:

It is the platform where your target is sure to be. The massive number of users is its great advantage, but you have to know how to find the right niche and exploit it .
If you have a profile with enough users who already know your blog and your products, it is best to create a fanpage. The vast majority will follow you if you advertise it well. It is the ideal place to share your content and interact with your community.
As in the rest of the networks, do not focus only on the sale, inform and provide solutions of interest . An advantage of the fanpage is that it allows you to measure the reach and popularity of your publications, so if any post has had a certain relevance, it is interesting to promote it to get new potential customers and therefore increase sales. Another option is to create Facebook Ads with the affiliate link to the product and taking into account the image or images to be used.

If you do it right, you will see that networks are more than entertainment, they are literally a mine of information and information is power!

Take this opportunity and make social media your tool for gaining financial freedom.

THANK YOU!