Many affiliate marketers spend time setting up landing pages to promote their affiliate products. Some marketers set up a single site, with each product on a different page while others set up a new site for each different product that they're promoting. But guess what, setting up a website, sourcing graphics, buying a domain name and setting up a hosting account can be expensive, especially if you don't have the skills yourself. Professional web designers can aren't cheap and the costs can soon mount up.
There is another way, a better way. Use your blog as your own personal sales assistant. Blogs are free to set up and there are many other ways to earn money from your blog.
Take advantage of your readership your blog will already have a loyal following of readers who trust your judgment. If you are promoting a product that you believe they will benefit from, tell them. Don't preach or go for the hard sell. Your readers are too important for that. Just tell them of the amazing new product or service you've found, how it helped you and how you think it will help your readers.
It will be much more palatable coming from you (a blogger that they trust), than coming from a complete strangers web site whose sole purpose is to sell you their product whether they know the customer or not.
Do you see a pattern here? You, as a blogger, are trusted. Most of your reader will consider you an expert and if you tell them that a particular product is worth buying then they will believe you. In short, your readers are more likely to buy something if you tell them to than if they landed on a sales page, selling them the same product, while browsing.
The upshot is, your blog is the greatest asset you have when it comes to selling your affiliate products. Use your influence with your readers. Tell them what to buy and why they should buy it and they will buy it. If you do it tactfully without pushing the product too hard, your readers will become customers. You can start a new blog for every product you are promoting or you can promote all your products from the same blog. This is a great business model, especially if you're on a tight budget. As I mentioned earlier, blogging is free to set up. Once you have made a few sales and the commissions start to mount up, then there's no reason why you can't use some of your earnings to promote your business through more traditional advertising methods. The best thing, though, is that you don't ever have to pay a dime if you don't want to.
It's your business. Use your blog to your advantage. If you don't, one of your competitors will.
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