Old money making trick that still works
Affiliate marketing is not easy money as you probably know. You need to have the right flow of the right people to buy the right product. Even when all 3 are just right you can still struggle to sell because you can’t get your visitor to switch into the buying mood. When the person does not want to buy a product any attempt to sell will only drive them away. When the person is in buying mood however you can even sell them 3 products in the raw. It has been proven that one of the best times to sell someone a product is straight after their first purchase, while you customer is still in the buying mode, with his/her credit card out.
So what if you already had a customer looking to buy one product or another? All you had to do was to find that product for them. Seems to good to be true? Not at all! I introduce you to Yahoo answers. What you do is simply scan for the right question. For example: “What spyware cleaner should i buy?”. That person has a problem and needs a solution. In this case he wants to buy a spyware cleaner. What you do is jump into your clickbank quickly. Go to marketplace and find a nice spyware cleaner. Create your hoplink and answer the guy’s question: “Hey! Here is a very good spyware cleaner i use -link-. Never had a problem with it. bla bla bla”. Then go and find some more questions. You will usually be able to find a nice product for most questions.
Think quality rather than quantity. Take your time to write a natural looking answer that does not look like a sales pitch. It is a good idea to cloak your affiliate links too. You can create a quick blog on blogger and then use the following code in your template to redirect people to your affiliate link: < meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=http://ww w.youraffiliatelink.com">. Now you can use your blogger url as your referral url in Yahoo answers.
February 20th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
Although mentioned some other place before and I have not really taken note of it, I guess you are right. Seeing to it at that specific moment that the customer is in the mood for buying (he/she would literally just asking for a recommendation for WHAT program to buy). This is an opportunity for a very targeted customer. You will just need to carefully pick your word. Just like the $1 Paypal trick, this one is a very nice thought out trick. Thanks.
April 12th, 2009 at 10:17 am
Yahoo Answers will ban your account if you use an affiliate link. There’s always some beady eyed person out there that will spot it and report you.
About 2 years ago I used to answer a lot of questions on Yahoo – and I linked a few through to my legitimate site where I wasn’t asking anybody to pay anything or buy anything … the links were relevant… and I had my 4rse banned!
I’d be interested to know how come you have managed to get away with it.
April 12th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
Use TOR and open a new account every time you get to 50 or so posts. Even if one of your accounts gets banned you will get to keep all the others. By the way, if you take your time to type a proper reply and cloak your affiliate link you should not have any problems. I find that my accounts only get banned when I start copying and pasting the same reply over and over again.
April 14th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
Yah using other account will be not an issue..and even if u end up making 5-10 sales with 50 comments, it is worth spending time.