Proven Affiliate Bonus Ideas to Increase Sales!

If you’ve been an affiliate for any length of time you know that offering a person an affiliate bonus is a powerful way to increase your commissions. You simply give them something for free or no cost for ordering the product through your affiliate link. Over the next few weeks we will be providing you with thirty hot ideas for an affiliate bonus. Each affiliate bonus will give your target audience a good reason to purchase the product you are promoting.

The best thing is that some of these affiliate bonuses you don’t even have to create yourself.

Here are this weeks affiliate bonus suggestions:

#16 My Bonus

Reward your prospects with the rights to use the same affiliate bonus as you are using. If most of your prospects are affiliates themselves they will likely buy and sign up to the affiliate program so they can use your affiliate bonus to make their own commissions.

#17 Domain Bonus

Grant your prospects a good preregistered domain name if they purchase resell, master resell or private label rights products through your affiliate link. Another idea is to offer them free web hosting for so long so they can cheaply set up the product to resell.

#18 Free Membership

Present your prospects with a free membership or subscription to a product if they order a certain product through your affiliate link. It could be a free membership for a year or a lifetime. People will see the long term value in it.

#19 Special Format

Furnish your prospects with a special format of the affiliate product you are promoting that isn’t available to everyone else. For example you could ask the product owner to create an audio version of an ebook to use as your affiliate  bonus.

#20 Charity Donation

Provide your prospects with a sense of helping out a charity. Tell them they you will donate a percentage of your affiliate commissions to a special charity. They will see you have a good heart and you are not just promoting the product for the money.

Today let’s talk about how to create your new killer product with the least amount of hassle possible!

Ok, so by now you should have a market that is profitable and all you need to do is create a product. There are lot’s of different products that you can create but for the purposes of these posts we will create an ebook and I will show you how to write a brilliant one even if you do not have a clue about the topic!

The reason that you should create an ebook as your first project is it is without a doubt in my opinion the easiest product to get started with! If your niche really takes off you can always come back and create an “add-on” product like educational videos, or an online course as an up sell but to start off with focus on an ebook.

So let’s get started:

First thing we need for our ebook is chapters. How do you know what chapters to put in your ebook? Well you need to know what people want answers too within your niche so for this we head over to Yahoo Answers. Yahoo Answers is an excellent resource to see what people are wanting answers to within a market. It is an awesome tool to find out what the chapters or sections of your ebook should be.

So all you do is type in the market phrase you have decided on into the search bar for instance “Dog Potty Training” so I will type this in, here is what comes up for me: From the example it is hard to see, but there is 1,266 results for the phrase “Dog Potty Training”. What you need to do now is search through the results and see what the main questions or subjects that are bought up are.

For instance for my example one of the topics that comes up a lot within “Dog Potty Training” is the question “Should I smack my dog when potty training?”  The answer to this question by almost everyone is a big resounding NO! So taking the example I would think about entitling one my chapters “The 4 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Smack Your Dog While Potty Training!”.

The amount of chapters you pick for your ebook is dependant on how many different questions are being asked but you should aim for about 5 or 6 chapters with good content. More on how to get the content next, for now find 5 or 6 questions that are being asked and make a note of them as these will be the chapters of your ebook.

The top 5 issues I found for “Dog Potty Training” was:

- Should I Smack My Dog When Potty Training?

- Is It Right To Shout At My Dog When Potty Training?

- Should You Use A Crate When Dog Potty Training?

- What’s The Best Routines To Potty Train My Dog?

- What Is The Best Way To Potty Train An Older Dog?

There was actually a lot more for “Dog Potty Training” but for your first product just focus on 5 or 6 main questions and save the questions in a notepad file and put them in the folder you made earlier. These will be the main subjects or chapters for your ebook and all you need to do know is make a good title for each chapter and obviously add content to each chapter.

For the start of your book always start with an introduction where you can tell them who you are and what you are going to tell them. This does not have to be too long however a nice little story will go down well.:) For the title of your Chapters I find that catchy titles following the top reasons routine works well.

So for instance you could entitle the first chapter

“The Top 10 Reasons Why You Should Not Smack Your Dog While Potty Training And The REAL Secrets You Must Know To Do Successful Potty Training!” As with every other step do not get too caught up on the titles of the chapters as you start to put content in your Ebook you can always go back and change them.

I find these three guidelines help:

- Try to think of a catchy title that grabs their attention

- Use words like “Secrets” or “Never Revealed Before” To Spark   Interested

- Also use the top 10 reasons methods or 10 thins NOT to do   when training your dog, as it is easier when you go to write your   book!

So to recap you should know have 5 or 6 questions that your product is going to answer and have thought of how to put them into catch chapter names.  As I say this does not have to be a masterpiece just think of 5 or 6 chapter headers that you are going to tell them the answer to. This will give you a focus for the content that you are going to create.

Once you have your chapter titles you are ready to start writing your content and we will discuss a simple way that you can do this quickly and easily. Don’t worry it isn’t as hard as it sounds!

Everywhere you look there is audio, video, or some other form of interactivity. The internet is being integrated with television sets, mobile phones, coffee shops, etc.

It’s a quickly evolving monster with new audio, radio, music, move and video services popping up every day offering streaming music, radio and movies directly from your internet connection. Video is powerful because it’s the next best thing to actually being in person with your prospect telling them about what you have to offer.

Not only are you hitting them with the sound of your voice, but also their eyes. Bascially, there is nothing more personal on the internet than video. Chances are, you haven’t seen anyone using video on a Squeeze page and this is because video is still relatively new when it comes to marketing.  I’m fairly certain that no matter what you are offering you could benefit greatly from adding video to your website  by getting more qualified sign-ups to your list.

But make sure you test it.

You don’t need to have a long video and it doesn’t need to be super professional. Just you in front of your web cam introducing yourself and emphasizing a powerful benefit that the subscriber gets for signing up will do the trick. If you have never added video to a website before a great tool to try is Video Generator  They also have a great example of a Squeeze Page there that includes video

I highly recommend you try this video style squeeze page and test to see if can improve your own sign-ups.