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Affiliate Marketing For Leads & Sales: Things You Must Know
1. Digital Marketing Webinar
Affiliate Marketing For Leads & Sales: Things You
Must Know
June 27 , 2014 | Swati Bhargava (Co-Founder, Cashkaro.com)
www.digitalvidya.com
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3. “Affiliate marketing is a marketing
practice in which a business (‘Advertiser’)
rewards one or more affiliates
(‘Publishers’) for each visitor or customer
brought by the affiliate’s own marketing
efforts.”
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1. Affiliate Marketer joins
affiliate program of brands it
wants to promote. Gets a
tracking link & agrees
commission per sale/lead
2. Affiliate promotes these brands
via various marketing
techniques like social media,
email, PPC, SEO
3. Customer clicks-through
affiliate’s link & shops
4. Affiliate earns commission =
HAPPY!
5. 1. Performance driven, no fixed costs: Pay only if affiliate drives a Sale. No fixed cost
2. Higher ROI compared to other channels
a. Often cheaper than PPC on Google
b. Affiliate marketing kicks in faster than SEO
3. Get extensive Marketing & great brand exposure: Not all promotion results in sales but
brands get great exposure through all promotional activities of the affiliate
4. Achieve specific objectives e.g. we offered Coupons for Firstcry that were valid over
certain minimum threshold > increased basket value
5. Increased traffic, more backlinks, joint promotions & contests, working as partners, channel
for news dissemination
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Review sites Bloggers
PPC affiliate marketing
Email marketing list
affiliates
Social media affiliates
Content & niche
market websites
Other Affiliates
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Common Advertisers using Pay-per-Lead
programmes:
Banks collect data for Financial products eg
credit cards, loans
Insurers collect data & contact applicants
Automobile & Car launches, test drives
Survey based leads
Utility companies & education courses
Offline products
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Get sample leads before agreeing price
Don’t give incentives for providing info
IP & Fraud checks to ensure unique responses are
collected
Ask very relevant and targeted questions
If using PPC or SEO, use long-tailed keywords
Once you have leads, respond quickly & be direct
Don’t purchase leads, the math dosen’t add up
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Focus on generating content
that readers want to read and
click on. Then only you can
have a SUSTAINABLE Affiliate
marketing business, rather
than getting adhoc clicks &
sales
#Video Content is HOT
nowadays!
#Focus on having Good UI
#1. Generate
Engaging Content
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Understand who your audience
is.
Pick Affiliate campaigns to
promote accordingly.
Analyse performance regularly
& strategise.
#Data Segmentation is KEY!
#Stay Relevant.
#2. Know Your
Audience
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Some Affiliates focus on
diverting existing sales
through them & earning. These
games don’t last long & give
the industry a bad name.
#Focus on growing the pie i.e.
number of people actually
shopping online. Then only we
all benefit
#3. Play Clean.
Don’t Steal.
Grow the Pie
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Add value so people WANT to
Click through your link e.g.
Cashback = sharing your
commission
Reviews = help making informed
decisions
#Run sites with the aim of
generating repeat business
#4. Add Value to
your Members
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If you can build a brand, you
can monitise it, get back much
more than only Sales’ worth.
#Brand building never goes
waste
#Be Trustworthy
#5. Build a Brand.
Don’t just go after
Sales
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Advertisers spent £1bn on
affiliates, got back £14bn sales
15% year on year uplift. Diverse channel encompassing
price comparison, editorial, cashback, voucher codes and
loyalty
In India, Affiliate Marketing constitutes about 10-15% Sales
for retailers & is cost effective