How Affilimate Grew

“I thought that SEO was going to be my distribution plan because it worked for me for something else. But what I didn’t realize was that every product might have different distribution plans, different distribution channels, and some may work better than others. So in that case, SEO was way more c...”

Hexdevs high

“So one of the things that was a bit of a surprise to me when I started with Affiliate Mate is actually how much more difficult it was to get organic traffic to the site compared to other websites that I've run... only now, you know, almost like I would say a year and a half since I started writin...”

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“But I think something that really worked well for me last year was starting with a distribution channel and figuring out the product later. I started with the newsletter and the product quote unquote as the community came down the road after I understood the people who were there. ... I would con...”

Hexdevs high

“I was a member of a lot of blogging Facebook groups... And I kind of realized through my own site, and as I was setting up my own kind of tracking and attribution for where my sales were coming from, you know, which pieces of content were driving the most commissions, I, yeah, I realized that a l...”

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“looking to acquire users through Facebook groups and communities is one, you want to make sure you're not going to get kicked out by promoting your product. ... as long as you are, you know, providing something that's genuinely valuable, people are pretty open to external links on Facebook, just ...”

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“These posts could be in the form of listicles, ultimate guides, and more: 'The benefit of these types of posts is that they are so much faster: both to create briefs for our virtual assistant, and for the writers to write for because we’ve already done the research.'”

Userlist high

“This also lends a bit of credibility to those lists. Being able to establish that credibility in the content and saying, we have an actual methodology for how we chose these has really resonated with people and also somehow indirectly with Google as well.”

Userlist medium

“This then pushed them to try looking for good backlinks through guest posting: ‘There are a lot of communities where you can find people who are doing guest posting for B2B SaaS content and a lot of reputable websites will also accept guest authors. There are a lot of ways to pitch them, and it’s...”

Userlist high

“when we do launch those integrations and form a partnership with those companies, oftentimes there’s also the opportunity to do co-marketing. They will be open to having us write an article for their blog and oftentimes those companies are also potentially bigger and are more established, which m...”

Userlist high

“We have hundreds of programs in our database, and then we’re able to mix and match these into a near infinite number of different articles and do it in a way that’s cost-effective.”

Userlist medium

“We run it through some proprietary tools that we have, and then we’re able to extract which ones are the most popular based on this method. This also lends a bit of credibility to those lists.”

Userlist medium

“And also I would say word of mouth. So we know like some of the most Successful people in terms of conversions comes from existing customers mentioning us.”

Listennotes high

“We have an affiliate program, obviously. But most of our users are not, they don't blog about blogging. So they don't necessarily have the target audience of people who would join our platform.”

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