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Posted by Joel as Affiliate Commissions, Affiliate Marketing, Affiliate Sales
It doesn’t matter what market you are in or what type of product you might be selling, you need to keep up-to-date on how your potential customers use the Internet and what they like.
If you do not deliver your affiliate promotions how your customers want to see them, then you will not make a single sale.
This is one very important fact that I see many affiliate marketers missing out on… they do not understand how and where their customers will see their message. If your customers want to quickly and easily see your message instead of reading a long sales letter, then you better deliver a quick and easy way for them to do that.
Before starting to promote any affiliate product, you need to properly do your market research to find out where your market hangs out and what type of content they like to see/read. If your market likes watching videos, then you need to make some videos. If they like listening to podcasts on their way to work, then you need to create those audio files.
With the Internet changing quickly and more and more people using a broadband Internet connection, this will mean that your message will have to become more and more multimedia (audio, video, presentations, etc.).
Do you understand your market?
9 Responses
Mike Paetzold
May 7th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
1Great point. One of the things I always try and do when entering a niche is create a client profile to find out who and more importantly how they want information.
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Earl Netwal
May 7th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
2So what if you have a list that isn’t very well differentiated? I know I could do a survey to get some idea of what those who took the survey are about, but would that be reflective of the whole? And how would I go about sorting folk?
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Joel
May 7th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
3Thank you for the comments.
In reply Earl… what I meant was that you should research your market as a whole, what the majority of that market is like. Like what Mike commented above, you should create a client profile of the average visitor/customer in that niche.
You don’t have to know exactly what each of your subscribers are like, but the overall market.
With that said, if your market has sub-markets which are a bit different in terms of how you should market to them, then you might want to separate those people.
Joel Osborne
Lonnie Minton
May 7th, 2009 at 5:27 pm
4Joel, I have read before that you need to know your customers. What I don’t know is how to really do that. I have surveyed my list in the past and got very little response.
Also, I do not know how to do a client profile as Mike refers to above. Maybe someday you could elaborate on all of the concepts. Maybe start a series on getting to know your potential customer.
Captain Affiliate
May 7th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
5Great reminder, Joel! It’s distressing how often I see affiliates trying to market to a variety of niches using the same list; once you’ve defined the niches you want to work within as an affiliate, begin building a SEPARATE list for each niche. This will give you a much better picture of what buyers are interested in for each niche, as will searches for the top products in each niche, or looking through ClickBank to see which products are currently selling best.
Once you’ve identified what’s selling well currently, see what methods are being used to sell it – try their e-zine if one is offered, join their affiliate program to see what resources they’ve provided their affiliates with, etc.
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Fred Lotgering
May 7th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
6Some great thoughts you brought up Joel. I’m slowly preparing to run an affiliate program and I should do some better research and make sure i know my affiliates.
Thanks
Fred
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Andre Arnett
May 7th, 2009 at 7:25 pm
7Some good information Joel as I see that as a real problem for a lot of people, me included. Trying to determine just what your customers or the market want. It is good to be reminded that you are trying to sell to a niche market and what may work well for one may not work well for another. Thanks.
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Ron Barrett
May 7th, 2009 at 8:14 pm
8Some great ideas Joel.
Will have to work on that better with my efforts.
Thanks.
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Brett McEllhiney
May 7th, 2009 at 11:09 pm
9Good post Joel, and you are right. It is vital to know your market.
This might be a good idea for another post, but could you explain how to go about identifying the target market in your niche. What are some of the places you would goto and some of the things you would look for.
Thanks,
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