How Should I Promote This Affiliate Program?
This is the number one question we get from people who are interested in promoting the SMS Text Message Affiliate Program.
Here are five great tips on how to market this affiliate program:
- Write an Article
- Start or Post to a Blog
- Send an E-mail to Friends
- Post to Your Social Media Sites
- Use Pay-per-click Advertising (like Google Adwords)
Write an Article
Article marketing is one of the fastest ways to get your affiliate information disseminated to the Internet. With sites like Buzzle.com, eZineArticles.com and ArticlesBase.com, you can write a quick article that emphasizes the great features of SMS text message marketing and post it to these sites. These sites are indexed by Google and the other search engines on a minute-by-minute basis, so there is a great chance that your information is going to get picked up by them quickly.
Start a Blog or Post to a Blog
There are numerous sites where you can start your own blog for free. WordPress.com and Blogger.com are two of the most popular. Simply sign up, verify your e-mail address, and start blogging! Send out one or two postings per day talking about the benefits of text message marketing, and include your affiliate link.
Send out E-mails to Friends
Have a solid network of friends who you think could benefit from text message marketing? Are they business owners? Church volunteers? Do they run or help out with sports teams? There are dozens of ways that text message marketing can be used by your closest network of friends and business associates. And, because you are providing them with a time-saving and cost-effective service, you don’t have to feel like you are ‘hard selling’ them on anything!
Post to Your Social Media Sites
If you are savvy enough to be looking into an Affiliate Program, you probably already have at least one social media site set up. Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and MySpace are all great places to post your affiliate link. The friends you have on these sites already trust you, so if you are recommending a great new service, they are likely to try it out.
Use Pay-Per-Click Advertising
Unlike many affiliate programs that don’t permit you to use pay-per-click adverting — we encourage it! Google Adwords is the 800 pound gorilla in this space, so give it a try. The best part about pay per click advertising is that you don’t pay unless someone clicks. It is a ‘pay to play’ scenario. In some cases you can get an ad posted that only costs you a few cents when someone clicks. Do the math on that and see what kind of amazing return on investment you can get!
No matter what you method of advertising — just do it. The more the better.
