Affiliate marketing seems so easy when you first hear about it. You find people who have a platform, you give them a commission, they promote for you, their audience instantly buys because the trust is already there, and you guys make a ton of money and impact together with your affiliate launch. Of course, then
You have a product you really believe in, but you’re not the only one trying to sell a product like that. Many companies across your industry, and others in complementary industries are competing for the same coveted spots on top affiliates’ calendars. You need an affiliate partnership that makes you a priority. How do you
If you’ve been in affiliate marketing for a while, you probably know that managing an affiliate program takes a lot of work. To overcome it, companies hire assistants and assign them part of the tasks, which they view as admin tasks. But if you’ve been doing these tasks, and you feel it’s a lot more complex
When it’s just you running your affiliate program, you probably learn over time what works for you and what doesn’t, what you’re willing to give affiliates and what you expect them to give you. You know how to recognize the great deals and which deals to run away from. But sometimes it gets tricky, because
If you’re feeling like you’re always chasing affiliate deals, and you’re lying in bed at night worrying about whether you’ll make enough money this quarter or this year, you’re not alone. That’s how many target affiliate programs were run. That’s how we used to work, too. But we’ve found a way to get off the
One of our favorite things about affiliate marketing is that it gives you access to audiences you wouldn’t have otherwise had access to. Yes, you split the commission with them, so the profit per sale is smaller, but the overall profit from product sales can be exponentially higher than anything you can generate on your
Affiliate email marketing is hot – many marketers list it as the #1 skill they’d like to master – and it’s hot for a reason. When you partner with affiliates, you get to multiply your sales by gaining access to complementary audiences that could be ideal clients, but that you wouldn’t otherwise have access to,
If you’ve heard all about the rewards that wait for you in the affiliate marketing world, but have been staying on the sidelines because you’re afraid it will cost you your audience or reputation, you’re not alone. People everywhere associate any type of promotional or sales work with shady tactics and dishonest people trying to make
If you feel that everyone in your space is going after the same affiliate opportunities, or that you’re just not finding really good opportunities yourself, it’s time to dig deeper, where most people won’t, so you can win long term. To help you out, we talked to our very own lead affiliate manager, Gabrielle Hafalia.
When most people talk about affiliate marketing, they usually talk about everything that goes great – the partnership that drove a million dollars in sales, the working relationship that turned into a lifelong friendship, stuff like that. And as a team that’s been loving the affiliate space for many years, we can relate. Most aspects