How to ensure the "quality" of offers? (7)
When it comes to ecommerce we can always order a test sample and see it, feel it before taking things to the next level. How to ensure the same for affiliate products? I don't want to leave a bad taste in anyone's mouth, so I ensure the products I suggest are topnotch and REALLY going to the help them. So, I'm not after offers that are doing well, so I make a quick buck and then forget all about it. An absolute NO to offers that may not fit my audience or just make them unhappy.
Thoughts please! 
Well, quite a large part of the standard affiliate offers are not exactly designed to make people happy.
The popular sweeps for example... out of god knows how many, just 1 person will get a prize. The rest will likely end up "unhappy", especially with all the new ads that hit their inboxes. But that's quite normal with any "lottery" setup... and in the "real" world, people even pay $$$ to get their tickets.
Large part of the Nutra products are just a mixture of substances with questionable effects... just like half of the products you can buy at your local pharmacy, starting with homeophatics all the way to various diet pills that "might" help with weightloss.
I could go on, but you get the point Im sure
If you really want to promote HQ products, focus on ecommerce and choose your products wisely. Or explore some educational info products, ebooks, courses ...
Originally Posted by matuloo
The popular sweeps for example... out of god knows how many, just 1 person will get a prize. The rest will likely end up "unhappy", especially with all the new ads that hit their inboxes. But that's quite normal with any "lottery" setup... and in the "real" world, people even pay $$$ to get their tickets.
Large part of the Nutra products are just a mixture of substances with questionable effects... just like half of the products you can buy at your local pharmacy, starting with homeophatics all the way to various diet pills that "might" help with weightloss.
I could go on, but you get the point Im sure
If you really want to promote HQ products, focus on ecommerce and choose your products wisely. Or explore some educational info products, ebooks, courses ...
But here's a good point about sweepstakes... giveaways surely help list building, but I would be in touch with the list and finally declare the winners to all those who participated or shared on social media or brought more exposure to my product(s)/website. So, maybe once in a while to rake in a bit of cash for weekend shopping a sweepstakes promotion.
I personally haven't done a sweepstakes promotion, but now wary of them, especially if the winner isn't declared or there is no followup. Surely it can rake in some free quick cash from a big list, but may scar my reputation. Coming to physical products other than amazon, it would need a bit of effort. And my question was particularly along those lines. Though the Amazon review strategy came just NOW to me. I never got affiliated with Amazon because of low commissions, but they are great at upsells where the commissions rake in( I have heard and observed).
And yes you're right about nutra products and about sexual health too it's more of psychology.
I remember getting attracted to the crypto and the gambling niche when I first came on over here. Let's do a quality evaluation of those products.
But yeah promoting crypto and stock market education may be lucrative.I suddenly seem to have many answers myself. Anyways more thoughts on this would surely be helpful...
Well you can also have your questions about insurances, fashion and so on. How honest are these products? Fashion brands often see huge margins due to low production cost (slavery?). So is it fair to advertise a Gucci t-shirt for example, although considered "quality"?
Insurances have a bad name because of their "small letters" not covering the stuff you assumed it was covered. (also because people forget to read properly in general)
In fact, most products which rely on heavy marketing are in someway questionable. Honest marketing + honest product = barely seen, those only apply for certain niches for example and not suitable for the masses/bigger audiences.
Indeed education, charity programs, honest food/fitness programs etc might give you the karma points + money you wish.
As you said yourself, crypto education is a good clean niche and there is definitely demand for edu products... many people have no idea what it is about and you could actually build a quality product and sell it, or find someone who already has it and promote it.
On the other hand, there are many crypto offers on various affiliate networks, and most of them are just scams... basically luring people into depositing real $$$ by promising the sky and the moon. Many people lost their money this way.
Gambling is what is is, most people will lose their money in gambling, but hey, all of them know the risks so if they want it... their call, right?
Sweeps are basically just a way of building email lists really, and the prize is used as the bait to get peoples emails. What they do with the lists afterwards varies again, some spam them to death, some work with them in a more meaningful way.
As for the reputation harm... if you just buy traffic somewhere and send it to sweeps offers, there can't be much harm. But if you use your own list to promote some aggressive sweeps offers, that could definitely hurt you as the people would not like what you sent them to. Same goes for situations where people spend months/years on building their audience or stable visitors to their sites... these need to think twice when choosing offers to sell to their audience.
Originally Posted by stickupkid
Yet I guess, you get my point... Like if there are ten insurance companies, I would sell the best and that which people have been happy purchasing.
As for the reputation harm... if you just buy traffic somewhere and send it to sweeps offers, there can't be much harm. But if you use your own list to promote some aggressive sweeps offers, that could definitely hurt you as the people would not like what you sent them to. Same goes for situations where people spend months/years on building their audience or stable visitors to their sites... these need to think twice when choosing offers to sell to their audience.
I think using sweeps to build one's own email list may not help either because they will be random people who may not be interested at all in my website.
Right! One needs to be careful there. Thanks.
Maybe just declaring the draw of lots is going to happen in the next 24 hours to bring the anticipation and then give a hint that the winners have been declared, yet there's a sweet something for those who did not win... a 10 per cent discount or a coupon code that expires in 24 hours.
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