6 Killer Strategies To Make More Sales As An Affiliate Blogger

OK, so you’ve got your blog up and running, you’re regularly posting engaging content to it, and you’re even receiving some traffic, but sales are just . . . soso.

Now that you’ve put in the time and effort necessary to start seeing some sales results, it’s time to implement some strategies for increasing your revenue.

Here are six things you can do today to boost your affiliate blogging earnings:

Strategy #1: Double-Check Your Content

If you’re a blogger who wants to make money with affiliate links, your content is king.

It must be outstanding material that people will actually want to read.

Sales won’t come rolling in if you haphazardly string words together.

You can find inspiration for your own content creation by going through the content that is currently performing well in terms of user interaction, which can be found online.

You can also hire a professional content creator to make great content for you that will help you make more sales if you are not good at making this kind of content yourself.

You can make money off of that content for a very long time after making a single investment.

Strategy #2: Increasing Exposure Will Boost Revenue

To state the obvious, it stands to reason that increasing the volume of visitors to blog posts that are currently generating revenue will lead to an increase in overall revenue.

There is nothing wrong with reinvesting some of the money you made from a particularly successful blog post into more advertising.

This will direct visitors to a post that is already generating revenue for you.

Why not put that extra money into advertising if it only costs you a little?

Naturally, you should identify the most successful blog entries and allocate funds accordingly.

To make sure that advertising dollars are well spent, you need to test and track results.

Strategy #3: Blogging Is Not the Only Option

If you’re an affiliate blogger, you might assume that blogging is your sole option for reaching your target audience.

But a blog may also be used to grow an email subscriber base.

In all candor, you’re leaving a lot of cash on the table if you’re not doing this.

By encouraging your blog’s visitors to sign up for your email list, you can communicate with them at any time.

You may use that list for a variety of purposes, including promoting affiliate products, communicating with subscribers, alerting them to new monetizable blog entries, and more.

Make sure to implement this strategy if you implement none of the others I’ve outlined.

Even if you’ve already established your identity as a blogger, it’s still important to work on growing your email list because each email sent to your subscribers will result in a dramatic increase in revenue.

Strategy #4: Exhibit Your Affiliate Products and Services

Video marketing, when done correctly, is one of the most effective tactics you can use.

Show the products and services you’re advocating to your blog’s audience in person.

The obvious rule of thumb is that you should only endorse things that you actually use and enjoy.

This is a multidimensional method with a lot of selling power, and demonstrating to your readers that you use them too will develop trust, authority, bonds, and a whole bunch of other psychological selling strategies I won’t get into.

As an added bonus, this method gives you a wide range of choices for promoting your business through video.

Videos can be made comparing products, using a screencam (no need to reveal your face), reviewing the product, opening the package, or utilizing the goods.

You’ll have a lot more ideas while you’re actually making use of the products and services, so write down whatever you can think of.

Strategy #5: Pose As A Spy

Obviously, I’m not advocating any kind of illegal activity, but I am suggesting that you track down your rivals and spy on them.

I’m referring to the other affiliate bloggers in your industry that you know are successful and have built up a sizable readership.

Check out their methods, blog layout, and anything else you can use to improve your own efforts, and make notes.

Of course, I’m not advocating mimicking someone specifically.

That would be unethical and illegal, but studying the competition can help you develop winning tactics.

Never forget… If you want to find more success, you nneed tojust follow in its footsteps.

Strategy #6: Hold Them Accountable

Affiliate bloggers that produce high-quality content and attract a sizable following often struggle to turn those readers into paying customers.

The most important reason is because they don’t direct the reader to take any specific action.

You won’t increase sales by merely mentioning a product casually all the time.

You need to explicitly instruct your readers on what to do and explain why they should care about doing it.

We obviously want to get them to go to the site and find the answer to their problem or the help they need.

We are doing this despite the fact that most of us would rather die than come out as “salesy.”

Don’t listen to anyone who tries to tell you otherwise; we just want to make a profit.

There is nothing wrong with making money as your primary motivation for being an affiliate blogger; if helping and educating people is your secondary motivation, then by all means, go ahead and ask for the sale.

Your affiliate sales will skyrocket if you commit to learning how to craft “calls to action” that encourage site visitors to make purchases using your referral links.

So there you have it: six proven strategies to boost your affiliate sales immediately.

You can save some for later or not use any of them at all.

Simply choose one, put it into action, and adjust it until it is producing the desired results.

Your sales will increase exponentially as you layer these tactics on top of one another.