What is an Affiliate? A general overview.
Well, for the last two weeks I’ve been reading emails, talking to many people about the program, and now reading through all of the Affiliate Program threads on the forum. I have come to the conclusion that there are a lot of general misconceptions about the Affiliate Program, and more specifically about what an affiliate is.
Some of you already know what an affiliate is, what an affiliate does, and how to successfully generate commission by understanding how to communicate with and get a read on your audience. That is great! Maybe you would be interested in sharing some of your experiences and techniques. What works for you? How have your goals changed? What do you think is needed?
As for the rest of the community, let’s start at square one assuming that some of you are new to this concept.
“Affiliate marketing is an Internet-based marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate's marketing efforts.” - Affilate Marketing On Wikipedia
Ok, so the basic gist here is to sign up, put on a banner on your page, and then wait on the money to come rolling it. Yes, being an Affiliate is that easy. Now being a successful affiliate takes more effort and planning. I fully realize that not everyone has the same goals. Some affiliates are happy making a few dollars in commission here and there to put towards an EF purchase, while other affiliates are actively seeking to use their blogs and websites to make money.
Getting started…
I think that first logical step here would be to realistically decide what your goal as an affiliate will be, and compare that against the goals of your website/blog.
Next, you should fully familiarize yourself with all of the promotional tools available to you through the Affiliate Program. In my research, I have noticed a significant lacking in this area – especially when it comes to using the very effective customizable widgets. They seem complicated but will only require a little bit of time used on trial and error testing, and once you are familiar with the tools, you will not need to ‘test’ again. I think that, for some people, learning about the product widgets will spark ideas for ways to incorporate them into the existing framework of their site / blog more seamlessly and truly fit them in with the content and audience.
Now that you have signed up, set your goals, learned about your tools, and made specific choices in setting up everything on your blog, you should be in a very good position to begin seeing what works well for you and what does not. For some of you, this will likely be the end of the line, but for others this is only the beginning. It just depends on how active you want to be – this program truly is what you make it and the profit potential is limitless.
The point of this post is to get feedback from the community and to give a general overview of the program. If you are interested in learning more, the link for sign up and further information is here.
Thank you all for checking out this thread and please share your thoughts, ideas, and questions, by either posting here on the forum, or emailing me directly.
Gary
Affiliate Program Manager
affiliates@edenfantasys.com
Well, for the last two weeks I’ve been reading emails, talking to many people about the program, and now reading through all of the Affiliate Program threads on the forum. I have come to the conclusion that there are a lot of general misconceptions about the Affiliate Program, and more specifically about what an affiliate is.
Some of you already know what an affiliate is, what an affiliate does, and how to successfully generate commission by understanding how to communicate with and get a read on your audience. That is great! Maybe you would be interested in sharing some of your experiences and techniques. What works for you? How have your goals changed? What do you think is needed?
As for the rest of the community, let’s start at square one assuming that some of you are new to this concept.
“Affiliate marketing is an Internet-based marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate's marketing efforts.” - Affilate Marketing On Wikipedia
Ok, so the basic gist here is to sign up, put on a banner on your page, and then wait on the money to come rolling it. Yes, being an Affiliate is that easy. Now being a successful affiliate takes more effort and planning. I fully realize that not everyone has the same goals. Some affiliates are happy making a few dollars in commission here and there to put towards an EF purchase, while other affiliates are actively seeking to use their blogs and websites to make money.
Getting started…
I think that first logical step here would be to realistically decide what your goal as an affiliate will be, and compare that against the goals of your website/blog.
Next, you should fully familiarize yourself with all of the promotional tools available to you through the Affiliate Program. In my research, I have noticed a significant lacking in this area – especially when it comes to using the very effective customizable widgets. They seem complicated but will only require a little bit of time used on trial and error testing, and once you are familiar with the tools, you will not need to ‘test’ again. I think that, for some people, learning about the product widgets will spark ideas for ways to incorporate them into the existing framework of their site / blog more seamlessly and truly fit them in with the content and audience.
Now that you have signed up, set your goals, learned about your tools, and made specific choices in setting up everything on your blog, you should be in a very good position to begin seeing what works well for you and what does not. For some of you, this will likely be the end of the line, but for others this is only the beginning. It just depends on how active you want to be – this program truly is what you make it and the profit potential is limitless.
The point of this post is to get feedback from the community and to give a general overview of the program. If you are interested in learning more, the link for sign up and further information is here.
Thank you all for checking out this thread and please share your thoughts, ideas, and questions, by either posting here on the forum, or emailing me directly.
Gary
Affiliate Program Manager
affiliates@edenfantasys.com
