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5 Strategies to Boost Your Affiliate Sales
Copyright 2005 Diane Hughes Are you promoting affiliate products? This article will show you 5 strategies to boost your Affiliate Sales, so make sure you read it and put in practice what I'm about to reveal you. The KEY to affiliate marketing is...
6 Tips For Affiliates - Choose Your Merchant Wisely
Copyright Since 2009 Peter Tarrida del Marmol
Affiliate marketing has become increasingly popular in recent
years. Affiliate programs offer merchants the opportunity to
employ vast armies of sales people who only get paid for the
results they...
Affiliate Marketing: Action Learn Your Affiliate Business
Copyright 2005 Ron Passfield
You want to develop your home-based business but feel isolated
and unsure? One of the downsides of working for yourself is the
loss of social interaction that frequently accompanies working
for someone else.
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How To Build Website - Seven Steps For Building Optimized Websites For Affiliate Programs.
The web has developed in such a mass marketing arena, that many offline advertisers are now coming online. This is the first sign that selling online will be a trillion dollar media in a couple years. Research has proven that online buying has been...
Make 100% commission on your affiliate sales!
If you've been involved in making money on the internet, you will no doubt have tried affiliate marketing at some point. For the uninitiated, affiliate marketing is the process of selling another person's product for a percentage of the product...
Managing Your Affiliate Program: Software Systems vs. Network Systems
There are numerous aspects to starting an affiliate program. You've got to do all kinds of research and footwork to get the ball rolling, and the work doesn't stop there. Assuming that you've already done your research, found a great product, and...
One Simple Method I Use To Skyrocket My Affiliate Revenue
============================================================ One Simple Method I Use To Skyrocket My Affiliate Revenue (Or How I Get Up To 1 In Every 3 People Who See My Affiliate Links To Click Them) By Richard Adams (c) 2004. All rights...
Sell Your Affiliate Products at the 'Back-End'
A little used technique that I seldom see affiliates using is selling affiliate products at the ‘back-end'. But what do I mean by ‘back-end'? Basically this means that the visitor has taken an ‘action' and after the action they...
The Key to a Successful Affiliate Program
Two Christmases ago I tugged on one of those paper crackers and after a small bang, out popped a piece of yellow paper the size of a credit card. On one side was a riddle that didn't make much sense, but on the other side was an 'Inspirational...
The Red Flags of Affiliate Marketing Scams
Thanks to the legitimate business model of online affiliate marketing; many people are earning a good living working from home. Unfortunately there exists a series of affiliate program scams masquerading as genuine Internet marketing opportunities....
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Adult Affiliate Programs: My Personal Blue Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory
This is getting ridiculous. I've had well over 1200 hits for my
Pimproll affiliate program and NO sales. Maybe it's the banner
I'm using on the message boards. I'm primarily promoting Mandy's
Diary , a Pimproll solo girl site. Maybe it's not so much the
affiliate program but the site itself.
I'd always thought that solo girl sites, where the girl
sometimes chooses to pose with a few girlfriends now and then
but the site is basically softcore, did well. I guess I'll have
to revise that sentiment.
That being said concerning solo girl sites, it's still no secret
- and it's been this way for a while - that both amateur porn
and young/teen porn do well as niches in the adult industry. I
guess that only pertains to those niches hardcore varieties.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that I think hardcore is
making a comeback. Not that it ever left, but it seems to be
preferred far and away by a lot more people these days. I have
heard guys complain quite a bit lately (and I myself have had
this gripe on occasion), wondering what the big deal is with all
the lesbian porn.
On the other hand, consider the fact that Jenna Jameson - who
mostly does lesbian shoots nowadays since she's been married -
garnered over 1.4 million searches in the Overture search tool
in a recent one-month period. Then again, that might just be
her...
Speaking of The Jenna, I signed up for her affiliate program
JennaCash way back in March of this year. But it wasn't only
because of how big she was per se (although I did think just her
name alone would be good for a handful of click-throughs and
sign-ups given her star power), but because of the sites of
other big name pornstars under her label: e.g. Tera Patrick,
Jill Kelly, Briana Banks, and Gina Lynn. And she continues to
sign up new sites of big name adult stars all the time.
Don't get me wrong, she's got some good content. From what I've
seen, they do some first-class things over at ClubJenna. But the
bottom-line is just not there for me in terms of sales. Part of
me thinks it's a perception (erroneous as it is) that she, as
well as those other top starlets, doesn't have exclusive
content. After all, you can find tons of free pics and movie
clips of Jameson, Patrick, Kelly, etc just by googling their
names. But there is some exclusive stuff in those pornstars'
members' areas, things you will not find anywhere else on the
net. Trust me because I myself have been known to sign up for
trial memberships in the past in order to evaluate a website for
review.
So at this point I'm thinking maybe exclusive content is where
it's at these days as far as adult affiliate programs go. Case
in point, look at the Bangbros network.
For those who don't know (which means you must be relatively new
to internet porn), Bangbros is a company that runs a host of
adult niche websites (from those concerning big breasts to those
concerning mature women), and from what I know all their content
is 100% exclusive. That is, all their content is shot only for
their websites. And you will not find any of their content used
to promote any website (unless it's being done illegally) that
is not in their network. From what I've heard, they're raking
the money in hand over fist down there at Bangbros headquarters
in Florida.
And as much as I'd like to throw my main affiliate program
PECash (my very first sponsor and the reason that I'm in this
adult business in the first place) under the bus as well,
they're the only ones that garner any conversions for me at all.
Even if it is once in a blue moon. Then again, that might be
just because their links are plastered on every single page of
my site. You know the old saying: "Even a blind squirrel/link
finds a nut/sale once in a while."
I admit that part of my lack of sales is directly my own fault:
I'd said in a previous post that it would probably be a good
idea to sign up for the Hustler affiliate program. After
all,
they have a lot - if not total - exclusive content. Now Playboy,
you might expect, also has mostly exclusive content. But
Hustler, compared to Playboy, is known for its riskier, hardcore
content. All I know is Playboy recently reported dwindling
magazine sales.
I was thinking of boosting their visibility (read, more Playboy
banners) on my site, but after that bit of news I'm thinking
what's the point?
I, at one point, had thought that the lack of ethnic diversity -
e.g. blacks, Asians, Hispanics - was why the Playboy affiliate
wasn't doing so well. Let's face it, Hugh Hefner's idea of a
cultural alternative is a brunette with brown eyes and small
breasts. But the lack of cultural diversity hasn't seemed to
hurt Hustler's online presence in the least.
Besides, the two sponsors that I promote the most, Pimproll and
one called Fetish Hits, have diversity coming out of their
you-know-whats but it hasn't done me any good in terms of sales.
Those two programs each have a site for every niche you can
imagine, including some niches you didn't know existed.
One affiliate program type that I've neglected is the adult
dating / live online chat / phone sex genre. Sure I've always
had a live chat banner or two up, but not in a place of
prominence. I'm trying to fix that by recently signing up with
the AdultFriendFinder program, an adult dating sponsor you may
have seen just about all over the place on adult sites. They're
like the Google Adwords (who don't allow porn sites to sign up)
of the adult website community, i.e AFF pays you just to send
click-throughs in their direction.
From my traffic analysis so far, the way AFF credits you for
those clicks is a little suspect and doesn't seem to be all that
they promised. But they are still paying you just for the
traffic, whether it be blind or targeted. What other reputable
site is going to do that for your adult site? No really, if
anyone has any ideas, I'm open to suggestions...
I've been following a lot of the business news concerning
high-tech/gadget porn; you know, porn on cell phones, porn on
the Playstation portable (PSP) device, and porn on iPods. From
all that I've read, as it stands now, Europeans are far and away
ahead of porn mongers in this country insofar as mobile phone
adult subscriptions. I've been doing some research (okay, I saw
their ad and I remembered that they had a good reputation) , and
Xobile looks promising as a sponsor that provides adult content
for cell phones.
There are a handful of companies in Japan that are producing
porn content on the Universal Media Disc (UMD), which is the PSP
disc format. I don't know of any companies State-side that do it
(they may exist, but they're just underground right now). But
since PSP porn hasn't really caught on yet, it's probably not
worth my time to look into a UMD porn content affiliate. Or
maybe I should get in on the ground floor...
On the other hand, I think iPod porn is going to be very
profitable. Even though Apple Computer Inc. - the maker of the
iPod - washes its hands of and publicly frowns on those who
would produce porn content for their hardware (much like the
folks at Sony Entertainment in regards to their PSP), it's only
a matter of time before iPod downloaded porn is everywhere.
Adult content availability is only as extensive as that of the
medium the content is on, and right now iPods are selling like
hotcakes.
If you're an adult webmaster and are ever at a loss for some
good affiliate programs, go to Xbiz.com or
AdultWebmasterHangout.com for ideas.
This time I'll follow up on those prospective good affiliates. I
promise.
About the author:
The author is affiliated with Sex-Toys-Videos.com,
and writes regular adu
lt reviews and sex toy articles for his blog page Sex, Toys,
and Videotape.
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