As many of you may have noticed, the entire affiliate industry is changing. People making million of dollars in commissions are now struggling for profit. If you haven't innovate your marketing strategies, you are out of the game. It is not a game for amateurs anymore.
That's why many super-affiliates are moving to eCommerce, and that's why many of them are building their own offers to run.
Advantages:
- 100% in control of the funnel
- up-selling/cross-selling/down-selling
- if you can think it, you can do it marketing strategy
- higher margins
- no GEO restrictions
- long term profitability
- retention
- 360 degrees follow ups to increase CR
I know what you are thinking right now: "I started my affiliate career to not have to focus on many things. I like running traffic, making conversions and going to the beach club".
Well, affiliate marketing is not like that anymore, if has ever been. But what if I tell you chances are you can still have an affiliate marketing approach while making money in e-commerce?
uDroppy co-founder Luca Borreani wrote an article on Medium about that, you can read it here: https://medium.com/udroppy/how-to-le...d-24d848e8a2d0
Main Takeaways:
- create a
- create a uDroppy account
- import the products you wish to promote
- create a buy button for that product/s (you find it under the sales channels section)
- create a mini-funnel (pre-landing/advertorial + sales page + upsell page). Tip: you can use clickfunnels/instapage/leadpages/optimizepress in order to make it fast. Tip 2: If you set up a 1-click payment for upsells is better.
- integrate the buy button (just paste the code from
- start running traffic
You can even create email/messenger sequences to increase your CR and have higher value checkouts.
Every day go on uDroppy, pay for the products you have sold (you made 100 sales? In 1-click you can order, fulfill and ship them directly to your customers) and you are done 
PRO TIP: if you are an affiliate network you can create thousands of offers following this strategy.
PRO TIP 2: as an affiliate you can create these funnels and give to other affiliates earning a fee for each sale they make
Be creative!
About uDroppy:
uDroppy is not "just another integration" between Shopify and Aliexpress. In fact, uDroppy cuts out Aliexpress from the equation. uDroppy has 200 factories, different fulfillment centers and ships your products Worldwide between 7 and 10 days (with tracking number). Its in cloud platform allows to automatize all the backend, giving you the ability to focus only on marketing strategies.
Marketing on you, the rest on us! That's uDroppy's motto!
Read the full articles here: https://medium.com/udroppy/how-to-le...d-24d848e8a2d0
Sounds great on paper, but how do we know you can handle volume? My last fulfillment company claimed to be great and screwed up several thousand orders earlier this month. That's just me too, I'm sure there were many other guys like me.
I might give this a go and sign up for an account, I am currently successful in high ticket drop shipping running an Australia store but looking to have a worldwide store in any niche but with anything I really focus on the customer which is why I have been successful in high ticket items and strayed away from Drop Shipping off Aliexpress.
Are there any examples or reviews of people using your platform at the moment you can share?
Udroppy is solid
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