One of the most important elements to your affiliate marketing success is traffic.
Without it, even the best product and web site will not do any good.
How do you identify traffic sources that can help you sell your product or service? Here are 3 proven sources that work very well.
1.
Search engines.
People use search engines for almost everything.
They use it to find information.
They search for product review.
They find stores which offer the product they want.
All sort of creative ways to use search engines.
You can either pay for traffic in search, or build content-laden web site and get ranked on organic search.
Both of them are two separate topics of their own but search engine traffic converts.
Targeting the right ones allow you to make insane amount of money.
Of course, competitions also are quick to notice opportunities.
You need a good strategy if you want to keep your spots.
2.
Forums Forum is a place where people with shared interest hang out.
They talk everything about the topic.
Often they also have problems they want to solve.
Just imagine, what's better than a group of people talking about a topic they are passionate about, all gathering in one place.
Branding yourself as an expert in this niche and make them feel comfortable with you is the first step to building trust.
The rest, as they said, is history.
Forum users range from freebie seekers to very serious buyers.
Most of the time you need to take it slowly.
Blatant promotion in every case will get you banned in record time.
3.
In-house list More and more, affiliate business is about long term relationship with your prospects and customers.
Instead of focusing on the first sale, put yourself in the role of the leader who leads them along the way to solve problems and improve their life in certain area.
Email is by far still one of the most commonly used technique to get in touch with people privately.
List subscribers also vary in its responsiveness but built correctly it is top converting traffic ready to buy from you again and again for the rest of their life.
I know, it's crazy that I don't include this one, so consider this as a bonus.
Social media.
It is all the rage nowadays because it is worth it.
Social media changes the way we use the Internet.
Now we can rely on community instead of just web site owners for information.
Very powerful, if you tap into that.