If you have the correct strategies, affiliate marketing on Facebook can be profitable and effective. Affiliate marketers do business promotion in many ways by finding new ways to reach a larger audience strategically. Facebook advertising can be a cost efficient strategy. The advertiser benefits since they only pay for direct results.
Facebook Ads is a great way to take a part of Facebook’s population to get into your Facebook page, affiliate site, squeeze page, or offers. One good thing about Facebook is that it contains information about users’ locations, ages, and most importantly their general interest, which is a helpful in getting traffic to an offer quickly. There are several ways to set up Facebook Ads.
From your Facebook account you can find an option to create an ad, and as you go along you will encounter options depending on different goals. For example, if you want more engagements and interactions from people to your page you may choose the top option. Then, send your ads to a squeeze page and get them to your website content or offers.
The next step would give link to your ad and to your Facebook page that enable your page to get more publicity. At the same time, it helps to establish the association between your Facebook page and your affiliate site. Then, you have to do is to bring your ads to the right people or the target market of your affiliate site. In order to hit the best audiences, include genders, locations, ages, languages and interests to your ad.
Finally, make sure to enter your account settings, plus your currency, country, and time zone. Have your budget fixed for a specific period of time and then either set the ad to run, or start and end on specific dates. How your Facebook ads works in promotion, consider factors like marketplace competition, target audience, and ad performance history.
Facebook pixels should be placed on every website and every page you have in your business to collect all the demographic information you need to target your desired audience.
Facebook Live Video
Facebook live video is a breakthrough for Facebook users but also for affiliate marketers. Though, Facebook is not the first one among existing content platforms to do live video streaming. Other platforms such as Google had developed a Hangout brand which is in demand in the market especially designed for live lectures and webinars.
While posting videos in other platforms like Periscope and Snapchat is so available for everyone, but the videos are not permanent. They vanished after a period of time. But Facebook has a different story. Currently, all Facebook users are encouraged to enjoy sharing posts on their timeline without the worry that it can be expired except deleted by the user.
Facebook’s live video streaming gives the users the chance to broadcast, live, to their friends or page followers. However, unlike in other platforms, the video is automatically saved on the user’s timeline. You can use this platform to reach your followers and tell them about your current promotions and educate them on reasons why they need your bonus.
Get creative with your promotions and using live video separates you from all the other affiliates. You can use Facebook ads to boost your video views and a very inexpensive campaign cost.
Instagram, which is now owned by Facebook, provides the most powerful visual content and this is definitely a competitive advantage. Instagram is the best platform to share content and establish a strong brand. Instagram possesses a great market consists of age group of 25-34-year-olds, making it an effective marketing tool for your brand.
Since, Instagram is obviously a visual platform, make sure to have a good amount of creativity in order to stand out in the market made up of millions of users and other competitive and innovative brands. People have a great appeal and connection to emotions that makes Instagram and other visual-oriented platforms popular nowadays. For you to reach a wider range of audiences, hashtags are very helpful.
They help you to find images on topics that you are more interested. About 70% of users look for a brand on Instagram! These people are actively searching for their preferred brands or other interesting items. While, 41% of users would keep following a brand for a great offer.
Reddit is basically known to be a social media, social news website, discussion website and web content writing. Just like other sites such as Facebook and twitter, which serves as a message board that enable users to submit links.
Unlike other sites the stream of content in Reddit is rated as ‘upvoted’ or ‘downvoted’ base on level of value by the registered members of the community.
This is very important in order to determine the position of a post in the site where items hitting the front page received higher number of views. Content entries are organized based on the areas of interest called ‘subreddits’ which include topics such as news, gaming, science, music, books, movies, fitness, food, image-sharing and many more.
You have to be more observant in the Reddit community by checking out what people are talking about in the comment threads and see how content moves around at least once a day. Reddit is naturally a discussion website with areas for discussion allowing users to discuss links that are posted and voting for or against others’ comments.
This property makes Reddit so self-referential where you can see how referencing works.
For an instance you can see something posted that are defined clearly and then you explain something in the comments that will help you to gain votes to top the thread. Your comments are undeniably the most interesting and important part of the site. Reddit offers free account registration and it doesn’t require an email address for the members to complete the registration.
There were already 36 million user accounts as of June 2015. The redditors are entitled to vote for comments and submissions. Comments and submissions are sometimes abbreviated and some terms are used within the Reddit community such as Op for original poster or NSFW or not safe for work. If you have posted a humorous and highly quality content post then you will be lucky to receive ‘Reddit gold’.
Reddit Tips
- Make competitors as your first choice of business.
- Make use of the things that they failed to advertise.
- Always choose the right subreddit for the post and make sure that you read the rules to avoid getting blocked.
- Never be a marketer when using reddit, be a redditor.
- Publish Ads in Reddits when the credibility of the account is built.