Thank you so much for your interest in the Start Blogging Today affiliate program.
One of the questions we have been getting all the time since we started talking about Start Blogging Today (SBT) has been, “Do you have an affiliate program?”
The good news is we do. Below we provide you with how you can recommend SBT and make some extra cash in the process. We are offering a 33% commission on any sale you send our way with your affiliate link.
How to Sign Up to be an Affiliate
- Sign-up here – its free, easy and we promise painless.
- Once you sign-up, you will get an email with information on how to grab affiliate banners and other sales material you can use to market SBT.
- Finally, please sign up below to be on our Affiliate Newsletter Mailing list so you will get links to banner images, marketing tips and heads-up about upcoming promotions.
Once you get all signed up at 1ShoppingCart, you will receive an email with links to the SBT affiliate area where you can grab banners and check your affiliate stats.
And here is the sign-up box so you can receive any updates or tools we provide to our affiliates.
A little bit of advice – from someone who has been there. We highly recommend you become a member of Start Blogging Today. This is not meant to be a desperate, sleazy, trashy sales pitch. However, each of us do not recommend a product we have not either used or read. We have found we are each more successful at recommending something we have used or read for the simple fact, we know what the product offers. Furthermore, those who are having the most success with the affiliate program have been interacting with the course themselves.
A few other tips and hints as to what you can do to drive sales
After looking at the current affiliate sales figures, trying my own ways of promoting the ebook and workbook, and watching other peoples’ approach, here are some ideas.
1. Use email as a way to reach your own list. A lot of the time, we see the best conversion rate sending out things to our own mailing list. The key to this is to make sure you only send out emails to your list about products you can honestly promote. Products you, yourself trust from people you can trust. This is why we recommended you have your own copy of the product you are promoting.
2. Some affiliates include a bonus for anyone who buys with their affiliate link. Some of us have done this in the past and it converts well.
3. Get personal with your recommendation. We are assuming if you are promoting Start Blogging Today or for that matter any other product, it has worked for you. Than tell them that. Tell your audience that you have read and used the product. Discuss what it has done for you and the benefits you have received.
4. Use twitter to promote and offer your affiliate link. We are always amazed at how much traffic we can drive to our blogs or to affiliate links by simply posting to twitter. And it only takes a few minutes to do a post. After all, how much can you say in 140 characters? Plenty it would seem. What we have found however is, you need to tweet during peak times of the day. And you need to do multiple tweets during the day and over a number of days. Keep in mind, your entire twitter network will not be on twitter at the same time. And to reach as many as possible, you have to tweet the same post more then once.
5. Don’t just use one method of promotion. While anyone of the above suggested methods of driving sales will work alone. Use in some form of combination will actually get you the best results. You can time an email to go out one day, a post up another and tweets to go out over a number of days too. Get the most bang for your buck!
Some final thoughts and suggestions
Our one and only request is this. Please keep your promotions personal, relevant, non sleazy, non spammy and don’t over hype things. We firmly believe this course can and will help the new and even seasoned blogger have a successful blog. But, and yes there is always a but isn’t there. But, we don’t win, you don’t win and the buyer doesn’t win if you build the product up beyond what it is.
Other than that, go forth and have fun. And thanks again for your interest in being an affiliate for Start Blogging Today.
