Smart affiliates see the value in creating a sustainable competitive advantage. This talk explores strategies to help you create defensible affiliate campaigns which perform well over the long run.
Experience level: Beginner
Target audience: Affiliates/Publishers
Niche/vertical: Campaigns
Nicholas Reese, Chief Executor, Microbrand Media (Twitter @nickreese)
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Microbrand Affiliate Marketing: Keys to Long-term Success
1. The Keys to Long Term Success By Nick Reese nicholasreese.com #ASEMB #ASE11 Microbrand Affiliate Marketing
2. As an affiliates there are very few real competitive advantages you can create. The Problem All Affiliates Face I know your keywords. :D @nickreese | nicholasreese.com
3. The strategic advantage one business entity has over its rival… -Wikipedia Competitive Advantage @nickreese | nicholasreese.com
4. If so, you don’t have a long term business. What other businesses are like this? Does Talking About Your Business Hurt Your Business? Tweetable: Does talking about your business hurt your business? If so, you don’t have a long term business. #ASEMB @nickreese
5. Creating a Competitive Advantage The Affiliate Value Chain @nickreese | nicholasreese.com
6. What is the easiest way to cut costs? Cut out the middle men that are extracting value. The Battle of the Middle Man @nickreese | nicholasreese.com
7. Referrer Cloaking Cookie Stuffing Promoting low value rebills Shady business in general Examples of Extracting Value @nickreese | nicholasreese.com
8. What can you do to make Merchants & Customers Love you? Win-Win-Win @nickreese | nicholasreese.com
11. Educating the Customer Being Transparent Relationships Reputation What Worked @nickreese | nicholasreese.com
12. What can you do to make Merchants & Customers Love you? Creating a Win-Win-Win @nickreese | nicholasreese.com
13. Being Educated (most cases) Honest reviews & unbiased opinions Personalities A Solution to Their Problem What do Customers Love? @nickreese | nicholasreese.com
14. Educated Customers (most cases) 3rd Party Reviews 3rd Party Interviews Online Reputation Management (affiliates are great for this) What do Merchants Love? @nickreese | nicholasreese.com
15. What is missing from the current market? How can you as an affiliate add a unique perspective? It’s All About Positioning @nickreese | nicholasreese.com
16. Build Amazing Content Build a Reputation Build Business Relationships Build a Following The Long Term GameplanBuilding a Microbrand @nickreese | nicholasreese.com
17. Build content that is hard or impossible to replicate. Interviews, How-Tos, Case Studies, Comprehensive Guides Build Amazing Content(aka – Do Something Awesome) @nickreese | nicholasreese.com
18. Reputation is simply, repetition. For me, it’s all about ethics. Build a Reputation @nickreese | nicholasreese.com
19. From 1x to 10x via one custom relationship. Think outside the standard affiliate model. Build Business Relationships @nickreese | nicholasreese.com
20. People Like Personalities Disclosure: I’m not a social media expert. Build A Following @nickreese | nicholasreese.com
21. Here’s Why: You can Ignore me on Facebook. fb.me/nick.reese You can Ignore me on Twitter @nickreese You can Ignore me on Google Plus gplus.to/nickreese But you have to delete my email I’m Still Banking on Email Tweetable: Email is still king. You can ignore me on Social Media, but you still have to delete my email. #ASEMB #ASE11 @nickreese
22. Customer know they have a problem. Customer will spend money, instead of time, to fix the problem. Choosing the Ideal Market @nickreese | nicholasreese.com
23. Solve a problem for the media companies’ viewers. Be available for interview. Create a killer resource they can link to. Ask them to link to it. Leveraging Traditional Media @nickreese | nicholasreese.com
25. Learn more about me at: nicholasreese.com 30% off Traffic and Trust (today only) nicholasreese.com/aff-sum/ Q & A
Notes de l'éditeur
I know your keywords.
I don’t want sound like a college class, so here is the part of the definition you need to know.
Go into how talking about your sites, your keywords, your affiliate offers, inherently invites competition.Joke about how when I first got started in the affiliate world, my friends thought I was a drug dealer.
Where you fit in the equation… What tangible value can you add between the retailer (merchant) and the customer?
How do you create a win-win-win situation. This gives you an earned place in the value chain. If you aren’t you may be extracting value which means you shouldn’t be in this session, you should be talking to a few different networks to see who has the highest payout or rebill.
How do you create a win-win-win situation. This gives you an earned place in the value chain. If you aren’t you may be extracting value which means you shouldn’t be in this session, you should be talking to a few different networks to see who has the highest payout or rebill.
Talk about getting started in the auto loan business. Making money was all that mattered
Talk about how we turned everything around and revamped the business model and now have passive income since 2008