For one type of product, there are literally hundreds or even thousands of affiliates that are actively promoting it. Affiliate marketing, after all, is a competitive business and the result of having too many affiliates can present a challenging problem to each affiliate. One problematic result is that one customer may have already heard of the product being promoted by one affiliate. It is possible that your prospect has seen the advertising for this item before.
With so many affiliates offering the same product, how can one affiliate stand out from the rest so that the customer will choose him and not the other affiliates? What makes one affiliate different and better from the other affiliates? This is the present challenge of many affiliates, especially the new ones.
Many affiliate marketing experts suggested using extra specials. An extra special is something valuable that is given to a customer if this customer purchases the product from the merchant through the affiliate's website. The affiliate must also mention that such extra special cannot be obtained from other websites. This will warn the visitor that if he purchases the product from another link, he will not have that extra special. Probably, the visitor to a site would continue to stay in the affiliate's website after discontinuing his/her browsing in case that extraordinary special is also required by the visitor.
Now that the affiliate has decided to provide the extra special, the next question in mind is what extra special will be attractive to the customer. You will know based on observing whichever kinds of shopper actually buy your item. And the type of product will give a big clue on the personality of the customers.
For example, if the affiliate's website is all about rock climbing and other extreme sports, offering information about how tattoos are placed will not appeal to the majority of rock climbers, even when some of them may be wearing tattoos already.
On the other side, if the affiliate will be sharing information on different rock climbing locations around the country, the rock climber's interest will be piqued and he'll eagerly click on the merchant's link (to their website).
Other extra specials can be a free email or phone consultation, an e-book, or links and ads in the newsletter. What the affiliate has to remember is that the extra special should be relevant to the main product being sold.
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