Do You Recommend A Service And Send An Affiliate Link To Your Client?

Most busi­ness own­ers have signed up as an affil­i­ate for ser­vices they use and trust.  We have and do. 

When we have a client that needs a par­tic­u­lar ser­vice that we use, and believe in, we tell our clients of this ser­vice and pro­vide our affil­i­ate link (with dis­clo­sure) assum­ing that we will get a com­mis­sion for this offer­ing if they choose to use that service.

Do you do this and think you will receive commission?

Think again.

We offered an affil­i­ate link to a client for a ser­vice we highly rec­om­mend, and we use, which our client signed up for.  We dis­cov­ered we were not paid com­mis­sion and checked into it.  We were told:

If some­one clicks on an affil­i­ate link after yours then they get the com­mis­sion. <quote> last affil­i­ate link clicked is the one that gets the sale. <end quote>

This started me think­ing.  So, you rec­om­mend a ser­vice to your client.  You explain the ben­e­fits, also explain that it is an affil­i­ate link, and send them off. 

If they don’t sign up, so be it.  But if they do and you don’t get the com­mis­sion then what hap­pened.  Well here is some of my think­ing from the quote above.

If you rec­om­mend a ser­vice and the client wants to check on reviews well they can land on a site that has embed­ded affil­i­ate links (most don’t have dis­clo­sures).  Sup­pose they like the review and they click on the link of the ser­vice name. They may not even real­ize that their action of click­ing on a sim­ple link of the ser­vice name is going to delete your cookie. 

It sure never occurred to me,

So, do you offer affil­i­ate links to your clients and assume you will be prop­erly com­pen­sated for the refer­ral IF the client signs up for the service? 

Think again.

Likely you have lost in commissions.

What can we do?  Not sure there is any answer at this point but wanted to alert you to this issue.

If I find any answers I will post them here.  If you have any sug­ges­tions please share.

 

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Want To Know How Top ClickBank Sellers Do It?

Any­one who is in our busi­ness, or an online mar­keter, will almost surely have seen screen­shots of huge Click­Bank checks posted on forums and splashed on sales pages.

It’s no secret that the top Click­Bank earn­ers are mak­ing the big money by using the already exist­ing base of Click­Bank affil­i­ates, the only ques­tion is… how can you do it too?!

Want to know how top Click­Bank sell­ers get those huge checks? They use the mas­sive base of Click­Bank affil­i­ates, over 100,000, to flood their web­sites with a never end­ing stream of cash-in-hand visitors.

I’ve dis­cussed the value of using affil­i­ates here before, both on this blog and on my site. Affil­i­ates are a crit­i­cal com­po­nent of suc­cess­fully mar­ket­ing your prod­uct on the Inter­net. Many affil­i­ate pro­grams, offered through carts like ‘1 Shop­ping Cart’ or ded­i­cated pro­grams such as ‘Com­mis­sion Junc­tion’ (CJ) pro­vide you with tools and access to recruit­ing affil­i­ates and directly inter­act­ing with them.

How­ever, Click­Bank does not give easy access to their army of affil­i­ates, but recently, I found a prod­uct called Click­Bank Stam­pede that appears to have solved this. It is reveal­ing back­doors and loop­holes that will let you tap into this mas­sive base of sell­ers who are wait­ing to sell for you.

http://www.jbcr-virtualsolutions.com/stampede/

This is the fastest, eas­i­est and most effec­tive method I’ve seen for get­ting tons of vis­i­tors to your Click­Bank sales page. Even if you don’t sell any­thing on Click­Bank, you should still check it out.

Jan

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Marketing - Just 'Cause The "Term" Is Hot Does Not Mean It Works!

I caught a bit of Oprah yes­ter­day. On the show they were talk­ing about the book “The Secret” and “The Law of Attrac­tion”. Some very inter­est­ing guests and sub­ject mat­ter, for sure.

Some­thing I notice is when a par­tic­u­lar book / topic is aired or pub­lished every­one wants to use the fla­vor of the week buzz word /phrase. Now, in the scheme of things this is not bad, don’t we all want to jump on the ‘riches’ band­wagon. But in fact what hap­pens is that the search engine searches become sat­u­rated with the buzz word / phrase so if, in fact, you are using it to try to draw more traf­fic to your site it is prob­a­bly not a wise deci­sion. You are actu­ally more likely to go down the search list for that term.

Why? You are going to become a much smaller fish in a much big­ger ocean!

In this exam­ple, the folks who wrote “The Secret” and who wrote the book “The Law of Attrac­tion” are so far up the search lad­der, as well as their affil­i­ates, that you likely will never be found.

So is it worth it to use ‘buzz’ words / phrases. Yes and no.

In my hum­ble opin­ion, do not use them on their own. Only use them if you they are actu­ally part of your web­site and busi­ness and even then it is very impor­tant to incor­po­rate your own spe­cial niche. Stand out — be a unique fish :)

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Jan

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Have Blog - Now What?

Work­ing in the inter­net bussi­ness indus­try (web design, seo, mar­ket­ing, etc.) I am often asked what to do to get ‘your’ name and ‘your’ busi­ness in front of poten­tial clients /customers. After a web site I always recommed set­ting up a blog. About 90% of my clients are thrilled with the idea and I set up a blog for them… then… yes, silence.

Now I know that I am not a great exam­ple at blog­ging (see the last time I posted) — but I have a good excuse — I’m work­ing :) ) Ok, not a ‘good excuse’, but the truth.

So what can you do when you have a blog and can’t seem to find the time, or the con­tent. After think­ing about what I do on my lunch break (which is in front of my com­puter) I came up with the answer.

Take 5 min­utes out of your day and just write about what’s new with you. Don’t think read­ers will be inter­ested? Well, in fact, it is amaz­ing how many blogs are at the top of searches just from talk­ing about “what’s new”. For exam­ple, on my lunch break I grab a cup of soup and read through emails I have received from forums I belong to, newslet­ters I have signed for, and unau­tho­rized spam :) )) Ok, so maybe for­get the spam, but the lit­tle tib-bits you get from other emails you receive can be worth their weight in gold on a blog.

Not at your com­puter on a lunch break? Well then how about post­ing about your day just before you read your email after you get home. I know, prob­a­bly the last thing you want to do. But in fact if you start to do it every day by two weeks you it will feel nor­mal, by 30 days it will be a routine.

So… have a blog — now what? Now you write!

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Jan

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Is A Blog Really Worth It?

One of my clients asked me this today and I thought that it was a good ques­tion and worth talk­ing about here.

As a web developer/designer, and SEO opti­mizer, I totally believe in blogs. A blog informs your cus­tomers / clients about you, your products/ ser­vices, your events, whether per­sonal or busi­ness, and much more. A blog also intro­duces read­ers to your website.

As well, a blog can increase cred­i­bil­ity. Why? Because peo­ple get to know and trust you. You become more than just a name. I have been blog­ging for a num­ber of years now and I have seen the dif­fer­ence when I blog often and when I haven’t ’cause of lack of time.

I started a new blog just over a year ago for a spe­cific topic. This has been very inter­est­ing, and learn­ing expe­ri­ence. Over this past year, on this spe­cific blog, just an exam­ple the Alexa is almost equal to my busi­ness web site rat­ing. From this expe­ri­ence I do have to say that I do believe, even more so, that blog­ging not only works but it goes beyond that.

Is hav­ing a blog enough? Yes but — BUT.… sub­mit­ting a blog to blog direc­to­ries, shar­ing it through social net­work­ing, adding images, audio, video and RSS… all of these are crit­i­cal. As in all things, it grows.

As I said many years ago, and I still say today, for a blog to be effec­tive you need to “blog”. In other words, you need to update often, keep peo­ple inter­ested and informed, invite com­ments. Of course, make sure you host the blog on your own url. Even bet­ter, buy a domain name just for your blog host it on its own is an even bet­ter way to make peo­ple aware of your blog and your site.

So, yes I do think a blog is worth it — do you? Would love to hear your comments.

Jan

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