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(4 Tips) How to approach influencers for affiliate marketing

How to approach influencers for affiliate marketing

Influencer Marketing is one of the best ways to quickly build an audience and also sell a lot of affiliate products.

The major idea about it is just that several affiliate marketers out there do not know about influencer marketing.

Their major focus is on paid adverts, SEO, and organic traffic just to get Affiliate sales.

But little did they know that having an influencer that can sponsor your affiliate promotion for you is also gold mining.

Several influencers are out there who have a lot of audiences that you can promote to.

You only need to know how you can get in touch with them and make them help you promote to their Audience.

If you want to go through the free route. It might take you a lot of time for you to be able to get a chance.

Because why should someone just promote for you if not that there is something that will be given back.

The world lives in a mindset of “You Scratch My Back… I Scratch Yours also”.

So, the ability to offer something is always very much important if you plan on getting them to approve your promotion.

That is why going through the paid way is more recommended if you have the budget to pay them.

Because influencers are ready to promote to their audience so far money is involved.

Who doesn’t want to make money just from promoting to the audience that has been following him or her for a long time?

Since growing an audience doesn’t bring the money directly. But promoting to these audiences does.

Giving out value to receive value in return is what will help you quickly get access to the audience of an influencer.

Let us take a look at what influencer marketing is all about and more details concerning how you can get in touch with an Influencer.

 

What Is Influencer Marketing?

Influencer Marketing is a process where an advertiser gets in touch with a high authority personality in a certain niche for promotion purposes.

The Influencer can be anybody irrespective of what they are or who they are.

For example, here on digitalproductsmonk, we offer guest posting to people who would like to promote their Internet marketing products.

Even though we do it for pay. We are already confident in ourselves because we have little power in the internet marketing world.

We also have an audience who are viewing and seeing our content and from there they get to be our business partners.

Influencer Marketing can be on any platform either social media or search engines or even private channels.

Private channels can be places like Email, SMS, WhatsApp, Telegram, and some others.

People are always getting in touch with influencers on these platforms to help them promote their affiliate products.

Why? Because audiences are everywhere and it doesn’t only have to be paid advertisements all the time.

Just with a good influencer who has good authority in a niche. And with you having a product that can solve a problem in that niche.

Then you are good to commence making money from that niche by promoting through the influencer in that niche.

 

How To Get Influencers

There are some techniques and strategies that you need to put into consideration to get an influencer.

You cannot just decide to use an influencer without even knowing where exactly you can get them.

So, in this aspect. We will be looking at where you can get an influencer who can help you run your Affiliate campaign to several audiences.

1. Udimi

The first platform that we are going to be taking a deep look at is Udimi.

Udimi is the home for Solo Ads vendors who have a lot of email audiences that they can send email campaigns to and will buy your offer.

Udimi is filled with a lot of Affiliate Marketing vendors who have audiences that are interested in internet marketing at large.

You will also find vendors in the crypto, weight loss, and finance niche.

Just in case you have an affiliate offer for those niches. You are going to find influencers who can promote for you in these niches.

Udimi is a platform that focuses majorly on email marketing. This means the vendors or influencers here are just email experts.

You also have to be careful with the influencers that you give out offers to.

Because the majority is always filled with bot clicks that might not be the real clicks you aim for.

The best way for you to get quality email leads and also achieve sales is by running an advert from a vendor with a lot of reviews and orders.

This way, you will be able to be less concerned about whether or not the traffic is quality.

Their prices differ per vendor on Udimi. As you will not get an even price. Some vendors can charge 0.45 cents while others can charge more and below.

But I prefer that the list vendor I go for should be around 0.40 cents.

Any vendor below this price can be filled with audiences that are not quality.

Also, do not just send traffic straight to your affiliate offer. It is always good to send to a squeeze page…

…where you will collect their email details before sending them to the affiliate offer you are promoting.

So, even if they don’t buy immediately. You will still be able to promote to them once again.

2. Shoutcart

Shoutcart is an influencer marketing platform where you will get several social media influencers.

This platform has been in existence for a little while and it is very good for scouting Instagram influencers majorly.

I have to be very careful with you. I have not used Shoutcart before for any affiliate promotion with Influencers.

The reason is that the Influencers there are mostly filled with gaming and fashion Influencers.

So, if you have an affiliate offer in the gaming and fashion niche. Then this platform is very cool.

But for someone like us that promote majorly Internet marketing softwares and make money online offers.

It is not very much suitable for us. So, that is why I haven’t considered using the platform for now.

But I have seen several people claim authenticity of the website and say they have used their Influencers.

Giving it a trial if you are in the niches that the influencers are gathering is very cool.

But make sure to consider going for a tier 1 traffic audience if you are to choose an influencer on the platform.

3. Instagram

Even though Shoutcart is the home for Instagram Influencers who are ready to monetize their Audience.

I still always prefer to go directly and scout Instagram to look for Influencers in my product niche.

If you go to Instagram. You will find several influencers who will be ready to promote your product for you.

And what I try to do most is use the Instagram story for my promotion.

Oh yes. The reason is that they have a direct link under the story where viewers can just swipe up to navigate.

Compared to just an ordinary in-feed promotion on Instagram where you can not add a clickable link.

Every link on the Instagram feed cannot be clicked except if the influencer has to redirect them to his or her bio.

And I do not like something like that because human beings are always lazy and will find that difficult to do.

So, instead of still redirecting. I just run my paid promotion in their Instagram story where they can just swipe up.

Also, when looking for an Influencer. Try to see the engagement rate on the platform.

Several people out there are using bot traffic and likes including comments to win people.

You should always go for a quality audience instead of an audience that does not even exist at all.

4. TikTok

TikTok is one of the platforms that I like to talk about because of the rate of growing audience on the platform.

With TikTok, you can easily reach out to influencers and run a marketing campaign for a cheap price.

The reason why running a marketing campaign can even be very cheap is because young influencers are there.

You will already see an 18-year-old having millions of followers on Tiktok.

Does this mean that all his/her audience will be majorly children or teenagers of his or her age?

No. They also have an audience who are adults and will be ready to buy whatever you have in plan.

TikTok is a great platform and they have a lot of audiences with great influencers on this platform.

You just have to know who you will roll with and don’t just conclude that everyone will have your audience.

 

How To Make Them Promote For You

Now that you have gotten access to an influencer or a few Influencers whom you would like to promote for you.

It is now time for you to approach them towards helping you run the Affiliate campaign that will earn you money.

Even though you should always know that you won’t be running promotions directly to your sales page but on your squeeze page.

Let me show you the methods I use to get them to promote for me.

I am going to be combining both the Free and Paid Methods for you.

1. Be A Fan

The first method you can use (which is Free or Cheap) is to be their fan for a little while.

Being their fan will help you get access to them and also make them notice and know you.

The way you can be a fan of this influencer is by always commenting and liking their posts always.

Liking is part of it. But commenting on their post is what will do the magic for you and always mentioning them.

Although, this one is for an influencer with a couple of thousands of followers and not those with millions of followers.

A couple of thousand means only a few people will be commenting on their posts and you will easily get recognized.

Compared to commenting on an influencer with millions of followers that you won’t even get your comment recognized.

Once you notice from their reply to your comment that they are now getting more familiar with you.

That is when you get into their DM – but don’t even think of asking them to promote for you.

You can offer to teach their audience something that you are a little bit good in.

It can be a live online call where you will be invited to speak.

After speaking… you give them a freebie which will require you to collect their email address before you give it out.

This is how this method of being a fan works and favors you. It’s just that it takes time.

It will take a couple of 6 months at least for you to get this result.

2. Solve A Problem For Them

This method is very fast and doesn’t need you to become a fan that much. I call it the FISHY APPROACH.

This method is making me earn a couple of hundreds of dollars every month just from working for a top internet marketer.

Just because I saw a slack in his marketing funnels and I offered my designing skills to him.

I got in touch with him and tell him what he is missing out in his marketing techniques and offer my design as a freebie.

From there, he gave me the chance and things started working well over since I have been working that aspect out.

Aside from having access to his audience which he offered me and I am using it to promote affiliate offers.

He is also paying me a hundred bucks dollars every month which I use to take care of some other needs.

So, you see. This technique also works. But you just have to look for a problem in their marketing approach.

You need to funnel and channel down in their marketing techniques and offer them a solution.

This is how you get access to them and from there… you ask for something in return which will be to also build your audience for affiliate marketing promotion.

This FISHY APPROACH works very well – you just have to do it the right way to work out.

3. Promote Their Product

If you already have a few audiences you can promote to. You can promote their product and make sales for them.

Even if it is one or two sales. It is something and you can prove to them that you are also coming up.

Although I will suggest something up to 5 sales because one or two sales can easily be purchased by you.

But trying to purchase the product 5 times will mean a lot of desperacy which might feel impossible to them.

So, they can still trust you with 5 sales. But even though it is small and it also depends on the type of product though.

If it is a high ticket sale{LINK} of $1000 and above. Then 1 sale is huge.

Compared to a low ticket sale of $27 product that is very low and you need a couple of sales to convince them.

So, if you can do this. You can also get access to their audience by creating an alliance with them.

Although you will still be needing a little bit of the FISHY APPROACH Method I explained in the second point though.

But it’s all good since you are still able to get access. You scratch their back and they scratch yours.

4. Pay Them

Well, finally… the last thing that I know you can do is just to pay them off and get access immediately.

Just like I have taught you how to get access to them either through email marketing or social media marketing.

Just enter their DM or Email straight up and ask for a promotion and pay them.

If you are just a newbie or beginner. I suggest you go for Influencers with less price.

Don’t just blow up your money even if you have that fund to spend. Try to limit the way you spend.

So that you will be able to understand how it works.

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The 20 best cheap traffic sources for affiliate marketing

The 20 best cheap traffic sources for affiliate marketing

This Guide Is Going To Explain The 20 best cheap traffic sources for affiliate marketing.

Are you an affiliate marketer and you’re looking for 20 reliable sources that are not expensive to get traffic to your Affiliate Link?

Well, if that is your case. Then that is what we will be discussing in this guide as I will be revealed to you…

…the free and paid methods and sources where you can get traffic at a cheaper rate or even at no cost.

But before I digress fully into these platforms. I must reveal a little secret to you.

I am aware that the major reason why you searched for this is that you are looking to get more affiliate sales.

Maybe you have been doing Affiliate Marketing and you also want to top the leaderboard like other successful ones.

You don’t know if you should just focus on one traffic source or focus on multiple traffic sources.

Anyway, the best thing for you to do is to make sure that you provide value on these sources.

Don’t just go there to spam the place with your affiliate link or go there to litter your affiliate links on these sources.

Promote responsibly and you will see yourself soaring high with affiliate commissions rolling into your bank account.

So, in this guide. You will be learning almost everything about these twenty best cheap traffic sources and you can promote on the platforms.

Now, let us head over to the traffic sources and we are going to split them into the Paid and Free Methods.

The Paid Methods don’t mean that you will be spending much though. It is just a little money that you have to spend to get clicks there.

It depends on how well you want to get many tractions though. So, let’s get focused on what we are about to get into.

 

Paid Methods But Cheap

Below is the paid but cheap traffic method that you can use today and start selling your affiliate products.

1. TikTok Ads

One of the cheapest traffic sources now is the TikTok ads at the time of writing this guide but several people do not know.

It is just that – The TikTok ads majorly focus on video adverts which means you won’t be able to promote with just texts.

With a small budget. You can reach a lot of people on Tiktok without even spending that huge money.

They have a very cheap plan because they are still one of the newest platforms in the social media category at the time of writing this guide.

Unlike some other social media platforms. TikTok is very cheap and they have a pricing plan that is cheap and not cost.

You can just start making use of Tiktok and commence start using it to drive a lot of traffic.

And gone are the days when Tiktok is majorly filled with young audiences who are just using the platform.

Now, a lot of adults are making use of TikTok to promote their business and make a lot of sales online.

Also, some people are on this platform to look for solutions to their problems aside from watching dance videos.

So, using the platform is not a bad idea as it can help you grow more and make more money from Affiliate Marketing.

2. YouTube Ads

Just like the Tiktok ads. YouTube ads are also very cheap and economical for a lot of affiliates who are looking to promote online.

You can easily start making use of the YouTube ads to reach a targeted audience who is ready to buy.

The reason why YouTube ads are very economical compared to others is that you are getting access to targeted traffic.

People who are looking for a particular solution to their problem and are watching a video.

If for example you are promoting a health product and you get can promote your product on a channel around health matters.

Or if you are promoting a teeth whitening product and you promote the product on a dentist channel.

You are directly promoting to the people who require your offer. They have a likely chance of buying.

Compared to you just promoting to everyone on the internet. And you can even be spending less amount.

You won’t have to spend a whole lot of money before you can be able to reach this Audience.

3. Facebook Ads

Facebook-owned by Mark Zuckerberg under the brand name Meta is also another important thing to mention.

Facebook ads are also very economical and cheap compared to other sources of traffic.

For an affiliate offer. You can promote offers on Facebook and make a lot of money from it.

The people on Facebook are just people scrolling on the internet and indirectly looking for any new shiny object.

Looking for the new celebrity who just bought another whip or the news about someone who just bought a house.

Also, some even get to see their old friends who are making it online and see them buying new things and making new Investments.

So, if you can be able to take advantage of this platform and get access to these people with a nice sales copy.

You are going to make a lot of affiliate sales and make several affiliate earnings topping your leaderboard.

The reason because you are getting access to them when they need a new opportunity.

Although the instance I have is for those who are in the make money online niche.

If you are in the health niche. You can also do some nice targeting in your Ads Set inside your Facebook Ads Manager…

…and you can target the people that you want to promote to specifically and you see yourself earning huge.

4. Quora Ads

Quora Ads are just like forum ads where a lot of people are going there to seek solutions and answer questions.

I have seen several Affiliates leverage Quora ads to sell a lot of affiliate products.

They claim it is very cheap and it is also very good to reach a lot of tier 1 traffic if you are in need.

And since the people who will be clicking on your ads are also people seeking solutions to their problems.

Then you are very much likely to make a lot of affiliate sales.

5. WarriorForum

Making use of the WSO also called the Warrior Special Offer Marketplace in the Warriorforum Platform.

Several internet marketers are also coming to this platform to look for a solution.

Although, unlike Quora which is a general forum and question & Answer platform for anything.

Warriorforum is majorly about Internet Marketing and that is what you will be able to promote.

Maybe you have a software or a course around internet marketing. You can use this platform to sell several affiliate offers.

Their marketplace is filled with a lot of internet marketers who are seeking solutions.

Make money online stuff will sell well in the Warriorforum marketplace.

6. Solo Ads

Sola Ads are also email ads that you just have to pay an email marketer or an Influencer who has a lot of email leads.

These leads are what you can promote to and you will be able to make several affiliate commissions.

Several affiliate marketers are using this method to grow their email list and get sales.

The best way for you to just do this is not by sending traffic straight to your affiliate offer.

You are to send the email audience to your squeeze or landing page where you will get their email address.

Which means you will offer them a freebie and send it to their email inbox. Then you will now upsell them on the affiliate offer you want to promote.

This way, you will be able to keep getting back with them and Retarget them even if they don’t buy immediately.

7. Instagram

There are a lot of opportunities on Instagram now and you can start making use of it to sell Affiliate offers.

Among the opportunities is the Instagram story and reels which you can use to reach a lot of people.

With Instagram Reels, you can just upload a video and several other people who are not even following you can view it.

And what you need majorly is to be able to get your audience to the eyeball of several people.

Oh yes, when you can get your affiliate offer to the eyeball of several people.

Then you will be able to make sales even if you are doing it free of charge.

8. Influencer Marketing

You can also use influencers within your niche to sell your affiliate offers.

Several influencers on the internet have a lot of followers that will always buy anything they recommend.

What you just have to do is to pay any of these Influencers money to promote to their audience.

The moment they promote to their audience. Then you have access to these audiences and make sales.

You do not have to even stress much with this because the audience will always trust their leader.

And this method is cheap because the influencers have nothing to lose even if they promote.

9. Pinterest

Pinterest is another platform and source of traffic that a lot of people most especially bloggers have milked traffic from.

The only thing about Pinterest is just that you need to have a web page for you to sell on Tiktok.

They do not accept Affiliate links even if you are running paid ads on their platform.

So, you need a web page that can serve as a bridge page that you will first make the audience land.

The moment they land on this page. You will now redirect them to your affiliate page where they will be closed.

This is how to use Pinterest very well to make affiliate sales for your brand.

10. Native Ads

Another source of cheap traffic that a lot of marketers are using for referral offers is Native Ads.

Native ads are all the Outbrain or Media.net kinda ads that you see whenever you land on some websites.

These websites are publishers for these ad networks that promote for advertisers like you when you pay.

So the thing is that when you run paid ads on these platforms. You get to enjoy more and a whole lot more.

 

Free Method

The next traffic aspect that we will be looking at is the free methods that you can use to generate traffic.

11. Blogging

Blogging is what I like because it is what I do from time to time and that is what I use to get the majority of my traffic.

If you can launch a blog and start publishing on your website. You don’t have to pay any dime to reach people.

It might just take a little time for you to reach a lot of people who will be coming to your website.

But it is always worth it because these audiences are people who are hungry and looking for a solution.

And if you can offer value to them on your website. Then they will be ready to buy your affiliate offer.

So, blogging is a great source of generating traffic for your affiliate offers.

12. Article Websites

Article websites like Medium and several other platforms are also great for affiliate marketing.

The reason is that these websites or platforms already have a high domain authority that you can leverage on.

Aside from that, they also have members who are always ready to read content and articles on these blogs.

Even places like Forbes, Entrepreneur.com, and several others are not excluded from platforms like these.

They have a huge email list of audience and if your article can be very unique. You can get it broadcast to their audience.

From there. You can even link to a landing page where you will be promoting an affiliate offer.

13. Telegram

If you haven’t used telegram before to promote an affiliate offer. Then you might be missing out on a lot.

Telegram is a great platform where you can get access to a lot of people who also want a solution to their problems.

The only thing not good about telegram is the high rate of scammers and fraudsters on the platform.

So, it is not a place where you can get access to a lot of Tier 1 traffic. It is Not.

You won’t find a lot of tier 1 traffic on this platform except if your product is not focused on a tier 1 audience.

But if you don’t care about third-world countries. Then you can go to Pinterest also. Traffics are there.

14. Facebook Group

Facebook is still one of the best social media platforms in the world and its flux of traffic can not be under-emphasized

This is another place on Facebook that you can use to leverage and milk out traffic.

A lot of marketers have leveraged the Facebook group the right way by providing value and building an audience.

And some have leveraged it the blackhat way or method by spamming their links on several groups with the hope of earning a commission.

Whichever way you plan to use it. It’s all good. The only thing that matters which you have to know is that…

…if you are looking for longevity and the ability to sell a lot of products. You should go for the White Hat Method of providing value to groups before promotion.

15. Q & A On Quora

If you can also answer questions on Quora. Then it’s a nice method to get cheap traffic for Affiliate Marketing

If you check some answers on quora.com. you will see some having over 50,000+ views on them.

Some people on Quora already have an aggregate of over 2million views on all their answers on Quora.

This is the ability that this forum possesses which a lot of affiliate marketers online have used to build an audience and make sales.

You just cannot promote affiliate links directly on Quora. You will not be allowed to do that.

Same also, you cannot just post a link to a sales page or landing page. It has to be to an existing article that is buttressing the answer you gave.

It is now inside this article that you link on Quora that you can now make an affiliate pitch to the visitor or prospect.

16. WarriorForum Q & A

If you’re someone who also likes to answer questions relating to internet marketing a lot. Then you can go for Warriorforum.

Not even the WSO at the time but just be answering questions in the forum which people ask.

What I like about Warriorforum is that there is an aspect where there is a signature.

This signature costs $10 at the time of writing this guide though. It might have increased a bit when you are reading it.

But just with this signature. You can include your link which can even be the link to a sales page.

Or you can make it be a cloaked link to your Affiliate offer.

So, it is in this signature that you will put your link and your signature will always be below every answer you give on Warriorforum.

Which makes it very easy for someone to buy from you easily.

17. Twitter

Twitter is also a source that has a lot of traffic that you can tap from and start earning a commission.

There are now several stuff on Twitter that make it very fun and now very easy to get traffic.

With Twitter space and several others, you can easily tweet about your offer and you can get people who will be ready to buy.

18. WhatsApp

WhatsApp is very good for local leads that will be ready to see or feel whatever you have to offer them.

The WhatsApp means of marketing is very popular and common in tier 3 countries.

Not very popular in Tier 1 Countries or for their audience but it is also an amazing traffic source.

Using it can also get you a lot of affiliate commission.

19. Reddit

Are you in some Sub-reddit where you can join some groups and get questions answered?

You can even create a Reddit post that you will get people who will visit your Affiliate link.

One thing I ever like about Reddit is that their website can even rank on Google which makes your content liable to being seen by search traffic.

Reddit is an awesome place that you should also try out as a traffic source.

20. YouTube Channel

Having a YouTube Channel is not bad and you can also use this method of the search engine to pull traffic.

With a YouTube channel, you will also be able to get access to Audiences who are searching for solutions.

And if you can provide a solution to their problem. Then, they will be very much glad and entitled to you.

You will only have to offer them your affiliate products as a permanent solution.

This brings us to the end of this guide. We have discussed the twenty best cheap traffic sources for affiliate marketing.

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