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6 Habits of Successful Affiliate Marketers

October 22, 2015 GDI Corporate Leave a comment

Being a successful affiliate marketer can’t be attributed to just one thing–many attributes and practices need to come together for someone to be a leader in affiliate marketing. While this can be a bit intimidating, the good news is that many of the habits of successful people can be learned. Read on to learn more about the habits of the most successful affiliate marketers.

Support

Successful affiliate marketers offer support to others they’re working with. This support can come in the form of leads, introductions, phone calls or other informational material. Success in affiliate marketing depends on the strength and success of your team and leading marketers understand that. Offering support in many different ways ensures a happy team that is more likely to stick with affiliate marketing and succeed.

Product Knowledge

Successful affiliate marketers know their product inside and out. GDI offers a domain, website building tools and associated services. Successful GDI affiliates know all about these offerings, how they work and who they work best for. When you truly know the product (and use it!) it’s much easier to share with others why it’s so important. Successful affiliate marketers also make sure their team members know all about the product to keep building an educated team and a happy customer base.

Friendliness

Successful affiliate marketers are friendly! Like many occupations, affiliate marketing comes with a bit of customer service and an easy way to give great customer service is to be friendly! Being a friendly affiliate marketer might mean sharing information about your affiliate program and asking questions without being too pushy. It can also mean checking in with a new affiliate to see how they are feeling and what you can help with. Friendliness is especially important when you may not get the chance to have face to face conversations with many of your team members–spread your kindness to your team and customers online as much as possible.

Updates

Successful affiliate marketers know the importance of letting team members and customers know that they are active and engaged. The best way to do this is to keep your website updated or send out email updates. This updates show your team that you’re working hard and interested in your business. Your enthusiasm for your business will be contagious.

Flexibility

Successful affiliate marketers know how to be flexible. They know how to be flexible with their business as well as their team members. As product offerings improve or update, successful affiliates know how to position the new product, share updates and adjust their marketing accordingly. Additionally, successful marketers know how to be flexible with meetings and phone calls with their team members. Not all of your team members will be local or even in your same time zone. Successful affiliates know how to be flexible to accommodate team members and customers all over the world.

Interest in Others

Possibly the most important attribute of successful affiliate marketers is an interest in others. Affiliate marketing is all about networking and building relationships, and a true interest in the success of others is needed to do this. Engage with your team members and invest in their success with your time, and the interest will follow.

These are just some habit of successful affiliates. You may have some we haven’t listed that make you successful! Also, habit can be learned so don’t worry if you don’t have them just yet.

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Affiliate Marketing Success without Face to Face Meetings

August 27, 2015 GDI Corporate Leave a comment

Working in affiliate marketing, it may be rare that you see your customers, clients, or team members face to face. Connections can be harder to establish and harder to keep when your customers are far away. While this can be daunting for some businesses, affiliate marketing can still thrive even if you’re not meeting with people in-person. Here are tips to manage and leverage long distance communications for affiliate marketing success.

Frequent Communication

Frequent communication is an important way to nurture business relationships from far away. Thanks to all the options available for instant communication these days, frequent communication doesn’t have to be a scheduled phone call. Consider reaching out with weekly personalized emails. Schedule a monthly conference call with your team using free conference call services. Depending on your relationship, texting may also be a good option to stay connected with some of your clients and team members. Also consider a Facebook or LinkedIn group to connect with many people at once. Well-timed posting on these social media sites and groups lets your customers and team members know you’re there for them and engaged with the business.

On-Call Availability

Communication is a two way street and that means that you won’t always be the one putting out messaging, sometimes your client needs to talk to you. A good way to make sure you’re available for your client is to set up on-call hours. These are blocks of time where you will be near your phone and available to take a call from clients or customers about anything. These on-call hours ensure you can give your client or customer the time they need and promises to them that you’ll be there. You can offer these hours once a week, or daily, but do try to offer them more frequently than once a month.

Video

Video is a powerful way to build connections when you can be in the same place as someone. Consider using video from the start of your interaction with a new customer. Do this by creating videos that share more about your product or offer tutorials on how to use it. Once you’ve established a relationship, consider video chatting tools like FaceTime or Google Hangouts. These can easily replace phone calls and allow for a more authentic feel for interactions. This can also be helpful to show a client or customer how to use a product in real time.

Strong Product

A strong product always makes building connections that much easier. If you sell a strong product or rely on it for referrals, people will have a great sense of trust in you right away. This also means your interactions are usually positive as opposed to negative phone calls complaining about the product. Choose the right company with the right offerings to ensure a strong product helps you build a strong relationship.

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Incentivize Your Downline Members

April 30, 2014 GDI Corporate 1 Comment

The longevity of your downline members is one key to success with GDI. Having a strong team that is always growing will keep you earning commissions. But when team members don’t stay for long, you can find yourself scrambling to build your downline each month. The easy solution is to just retain team members while adding new ones, right? Well sometimes that is easier said than done. Here are a few ways to sweeten the GDI offerings and keep your team members around longer.

Contests

GDI has recently ramped up our contest offerings. At any given time, chances are we’re running a contest to give you a chance to win more cash from GDI. GDI contests are separate from bonuses, so they aren’t based on the number of signups you have. Currently, GDI members have a chance to win $25 for creating a GDI board on Pinterest or even $100 for sharing advice with us. These are chances to win cash from GDI for just taking a few simple steps. Have your downline members follow GDI on Facebook and Twitter to know about the newest contests. Always encourage your downline to enter for a chance to win cash from GDI. An affiliate earning money is more likely to stick around and work on building their business.

Education

People are much more likely to stick with a business when they understand it. This tip may seem like a no brainer, but often new downline members are confused and feel left behind by their sponsor. Don’t let this happen to you and your team. Organize what you have learned in your time with GDI in a way that is shareable with new members. Reach out to your downline when they struggle to help them along instead of letting them quit. Education for your downline can be simple and shared in the form of videos, emails, blog posts, or just a quick phone call.

Bonuses

GDI’s Learning Bonus is designed to encourage longevity. The bonus does not require new signups to get several signups of their own in a short time, but just encourages them to learn more about GDI. The Learning Bonus asks new affiliates to accomplish simple tasks like setting up their .WS email, and then rewards them with $25 when all tasks are complete. The Learning Bonus helps to create an educated downline and encourage them to make more money. Be sure your new signups know how to take advantage of the Learning Bonus.

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