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Affiliate Program:
8 Tips for a Successful CPA Offer
- 6 min de lecture
Increased visibility, better control of acquisition costs, and revenue growth: affiliate marketing offers many promises. But to live up to these, you need an effective affiliate program.
Today, the number of offers on affiliate platforms (especially CPA networks) is growing faster than the number of publishers (affiliates).
To stand out, you need one thing: to create an attractive offer with high added value for affiliates. In this article, TrackAd gives you 8 tips to create a truly effective affiliate program.
The result? An attractive CPA offer embraced by affiliates, a channel that boosts your sales, and better ROI!
1.Create an attractive description of your affiliate program
The first step to having a successful affiliate program is creating an attractive description of your offer.
You might ask why? Your offer description is a presentation of your affiliate program that will be published on your affiliate platform for its network of publishers.
These publishers will then decide if your offer is attractive enough to generate more income compared to a competitor’s offer.
The quality of the description is crucial as it determines the initial engagement of affiliates. In an extreme case, if no publisher is interested in your program, you won’t generate any sales. To avoid this, prepare the most complete offer possible and showcase it well.
Your offer should contain 4 sections:
- Description of your e-commerce site: who you are, what product ranges you offer, and what sets you apart
- Description of your target audience: age range, gender, socio-professional categories, and any other relevant information
- Your competitive advantages: why your customers prefer you over competitors – pricing, guarantees, and services offered
- Your benefits for affiliates: commission levels, types of marketing materials provided, and frequency of promotions
2. Share useful links with publishers
To have a high-performing affiliate program, it’s essential to guide your publishers by providing them with all the necessary materials to promote your products or services.
After all, no one knows how to sell your products better than you do!
To do this, share useful links and tips such as:
- the best landing pages of your site (to drive traffic and maximize conversion rate),
- popular sections of your site (best sellers, sales, etc.),
- product selections,
- attractive offers,
- your top advice.
3. Regularly update your promotional materials
To attract the maximum number of visitors to your website, it’s essential that your publishers have high-quality promotional materials. But what exactly are these materials? And how do you ensure their quality?
The promotional materials for your affiliate program include items such as: your banners, your emails, descriptions of your coupons.
To ensure the quality of your promotional materials, two steps are important: perform an internal quality check and regularly update the materials.
TrackAd’s Insight:
Every update to your marketing materials is an opportunity for your publishers to communicate again with their audience. So why not take advantage of it?
4. Communicate your promotions in advance
One of the key elements of a good affiliate program is anticipation, especially when it comes to communicating your upcoming promotions.
When you organize a promotional campaign, it is essential to inform your publishers so they can communicate the information to their audience. But that’s not all. Your publishers need time to prepare the integration of information into their platforms: integrating a banner, writing texts, web mastering.
On average, it takes about a week between receiving the materials and starting the action. So how can you better communicate about your future promotions and give your affiliate program the best chance of success?
TrackAd’s Tip
Ideally, delivering a quarterly promotional plan simplifies the work for your publishers. This will help you anticipate peak periods (e.g., Black Friday or sales) and avoid overwhelming them with last-minute requests.
5. Monitor the placement of your campaigns on your publishers' sites
Due to lack of resources, it often happens that publishers don’t thoroughly check the quality of your marketing materials’ publication, miss the launch of a promotional campaign, or forget to stop it at the agreed time.
Visitors sent by these affiliates may then encounter outdated or poorly presented information and have to spend time understanding or searching for your offer.
The result? Your program experiences a drop in conversion rates from visitors sent by these affiliates, and your brand’s perception suffers. How can you fix this?
TrackAd’s Tip
If you have dozens of affiliates, it’s impossible to control them all. Ideally, select the top 10 of your publishers (by revenue volume or strategic importance) and monitor the information published on their sites before and after each operation.
6. Control the quality of publisher traffic
In an affiliate program, the vast majority of your publishers are honest. Unfortunately, dishonest ones may join your program.
Their method? By using techniques to trick your analytical solutions, they capture sales from other traffic channels and even other publishers.
The consequences? It can lead to a situation where your best affiliates aren’t generating enough orders compared to the traffic they send you.
As a result, they may leave or deprioritize your program in favor of a competitor’s offer.
To ensure regular fraud control, here are the steps to follow:
- Assign a tracking code to each publisher in your affiliate program.
- Use an analytics solution that allows you to analyze each publisher’s performance.
- Focus your analysis on the following KPIs: new visits rate, bounce rate, conversion rate.
- Repeat this analysis twice a month to disable dishonest affiliates.
7. Organize a special campaign for your top publishers at least once a month
Typically, your top 10 affiliates generate over 70% of your affiliate channel sales.
Impressive, right? So, it’s crucial to focus on them specifically.
To do so, you can:
- maintain regular communication,
- organize personalized special operations,
- plan with the publisher a calendar of special operations for the coming months.
Since these publishers have a large audience, they can drive significant traffic to your site via dedicated newsletters and banners on their homepage.
TrackAd Insight:
Don’t hesitate to ask what they need to promote you to their audience and what they can offer in return. Both parties will benefit: you’ll get a significant traffic influx, and the publisher will gain additional revenue!
8. Get to know your best publishers
Prioritizing personal relationships to strengthen your connection with your top affiliates is also one of the keys to a successful affiliate program.
This can be done in several ways: by creating personal contact with them, organizing mini-events where you can invite them all together to present a new product line or a major special campaign.
The result? A strong collaboration that also allows you to discuss common actions you can take together in person!
Conclusion
Quality of materials, anticipation of promotion communications, and developing relationships with your best affiliates: you now know the best practices for making your affiliate program effective!
While all of these tips are important, one of the most effective is still controlling the quality of your affiliates. Discover how TrackAd Affiliate helps our clients save 23% of their budget!
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