What is ShareASale & How it works?
ShareASale was started in 2000 & it’s a popular service for marketers to launch an affiliate program for their product or services. At the time, bloggers & Affiliate marketers can find a new Affiliate program & join them. This tutorial is more inclined towards bloggers to understand how it works & how to use ShareASale. Marketers who plan to launch an affiliate program, can join them & use their Welcome Kit & training webinars to educate themselves.
ShareASale was started in 2000 & it’s a popular service for marketers to launch an affiliate program for their product or services. At the time, bloggers & Affiliate marketers can find a new Affiliate program & join them. This tutorial is more inclined towards bloggers to understand how it works & how to use ShareASale. Marketers who plan to launch an affiliate program, can join them & use their Welcome Kit & training webinars to educate themselves.
How to use ShareASale:
While using ShareASale is not very cheesy, I am presenting you with a guide to using ShareASale as easily as possible.
STEP 1: Signing up:
1. Goto the ShareASale website by clicking here.
2. You will be guided through five steps that are pretty self-explanatory. After completion of the signup process, you will have to wait for confirmation and account approval.
3. If you use an email id from the domain of a site you are going to promote it (likeexample@domainname.com), then it is approved fast. However, you can sign up with a simple email service like Gmail, or Outlook id.
4. If you have signed up from normal email id, you need to confirm that you own your website.
STEP 2: Confirmation and account approval:
Confirming can be done easily by either clicking an approval link sent to the email address registered with the domain or by placing a custom text code between the <head> and </head> section of your website template.
STEP 3: The Dashboard:
The dashboard is as easy to navigate as it could be.
The first thing you notice is a to-do-list that enables you to find what incomplete tasks you need to perform. Shareasale supports direct transfer of balance to the banks of many countries including India, so if you are from one of the countries that comply with their payment
ShareASale bank
The threshold payment for ShareASale is 50$ only. This is easily attainable by any blogger. Sometimes a single sale makes more than 100$ alone. The payment is made on the 20th of each month.
You can check out your earnings daily.
Getting started with ShareASale Affiliate Network:
For new publishers (we, the affiliate marketers) we have the merchants section where you can hunt the top merchants (the companies whose products will be promoted by you).
You can then sign up for the merchants individually; if their products interest you to promote them.
Some affiliate products require a confirmation from the merchant to enable you to promote it. For example - Hootsuite, Hootsuite pays a pretty good recurring commission on every signup, and I was interested and decided to join it. Now when I signed up for the product, I had to wait for a day to get approved by them before I could promote them.
After getting approval from merchants, you can get your affiliate links/banners from the Links section to promote on your blog.
Also, you can join the ShareASale “Aquarium”, the other name for the forum, where you can interact with other brands and find better merchants.
Some Tips to Get More Affiliate Sales:
Are you worried about how to get more income from ShareASale? In this section, I will explain how I made money by promoting products through the ShareASale affiliate network.
- Promote products that pay you hugely for single sign-ups. We cannot wait for a product that pays two cents per sale made, instead of products like
linktrackr , and Genesis, which pay a huge 331$ and 33% of the sales made respectively. - Choose products that fit your niche: I would say choose products that fit your niche and topic of blogging. After all, we do not want to harm our readers by promoting irrelevant items.
- Promote products you use or have an idea of it. This will help you in serving any doubt that the buyer asks you before buying a product.
- Clear the doubts of your readers: Try clearing the doubts of your readers regarding the product. This is directly linked with point 3 above. If you have used a product or have reviewed one on your blog, it can be useful for clearing the doubts regarding it.
Where to promote your product:
You can always promote your product on your blog, on a fan page, on landing pages, in forums that allow affiliate links.
You can be innovative as to where you can promote your product. Just be creative for promoting them on your blog, for example, write a review of the product (see a live example of a successful review post here), or make a list post list including that product (see this example). You can also create a Toolbox page.
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