There are many affiliate marketers trying to attract clients for any offer you may promote. You need an edge to stand out from the majority and boost your conversion rates and increase your commissions.

Three ways for growing your affiliate business.

1. Build a Responsive List

Every marketer knows that building a list is critical for long-term success. But that’s actually a simplification. You don’t just need any list; you need a responsive list. To create a responsive list with engaged subscribers, these tips are critical:

➤ Set expectations upfront. Your lead page and initial emails should make it clear what your list is about and why subscribers should be opening every email you send. People are more engaged when you meet their expectations.

➤ Stay in touch. You can’t build a relationship by dropping people a line once a month. You should be sending emails on a weekly basis at a minimum. For example, IM NewsWatch sends helpful information 5 days each week.

➤ Give your readers your best stuff. Make people look forward to opening your emails. Give them the same sort of stuff that they would pay for if they had to.

➤ Edutain people. Subscribers don’t want to read boring content, even if it’s useful, nor do they want to read entertaining fluff. So edutain them, which means you entertain while you educate. Use a light, conversational tone. Inject humor where appropriate.

➤ Interact. Don’t limit yourself to one-way communication. Encourage your subscribers to respond to your blog post or social media pages to discuss the issues and ask questions. We allow comments on all of our posts. We want to hear what you think.

Follow this process and you will have a responsive list of people who click on your links and buy what you’re selling.

2. Establish Yourself as an Authority

People don’t want to get their information from just anyone. Instead, they want to follow a leader, someone who is an expert in the subject matter. They’re looking for an authority. If you want to increase your results, you need to showcase your expertise and position yourself as an authority in your niche.

Here are three tips:

➤ Showcase your credentials. If you have credentials or a story that makes you an expert, flaunt it. This might include related awards, degrees, special qualifications and so on.

Seek out guest spots on podcasts and other speaking spots. The authorities are the ones who are being interviewed on webinars or even on blogs. Submit proposals to talk radio, podcasts, and blogs in your niche to land these guest speaker spots for yourself.

➤ Associate with credible others. When you create products or do webinars with other authorities in your niche, you’ll be seen as an authority too. Their credibility benefits you when they endorse you, even tacitly by appearing on your show or inviting you to theirs.

3. Use Commission Gorilla

It’s no secret that adding value to an offer can boost your conversion rate. What many affiliates don’t know is that this strategy can put up to five times more money in your pocket compared with not offering a bonus. This strategy is a lot more powerful than many people think. For most IM product launches, we get promotions from 15-20 affiliates. If we decide to invest at all, we look for the affiliate with the best bonus. We want to get “the most bang for our buck.”

But this bonus-based strategy also takes a lot of time. You need to know how to design web pages in order to create a good-looking promo page. You need to know how to code to do it right. It’s no wonder so many affiliates don’t bother with this powerful strategy.

So what’s the solution?

Use Commission Gorilla. This is an app designed by two super affiliates (Simon Hodgkinson and Jeremy Gislason) who wanted to build their own high-impact bonus pages quickly. That’s because speed is critical when it comes to affiliate marketing, especially during a product launch. With Commission Gorilla you can create bonus pages in as little as a few minutes (rather than hours or even days).

You don’t need design skills or coding skills to use it. It’s for the average non-technical marketer. You don’t even need your own website because you can mention your bonus page in social media posts.

Once you have Commission Gorilla, you won’t have any more excuses for not offering bonuses.

Get you own copy here: Commission Gorilla.

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