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Holistic and Integrated Affiliate & Social Media Marketing. Automating your Processes

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This article brings everything together and I hope you find all articles useful to help kick start your affiliate empire. Here are some tips to ensure all your affiliate marketing content posts reach numerous social media channels with a click of your keyboard. Enabling you to share content across multiple platforms saving time, money and enabling a wider targeted audience reach.

Download www.Sharethis.com and Apply Social Media Sharing on all your Website pages

Visit www.Sharethis.com and setup your FREE code to add to your website / blog. When going through the on-screen instructions, select the social networks you wish your content to be distributed amongst. The most popular being Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, LinkedIn etc. See following example:

Download Hootsuite as a Social Media Management Tool

Download Hootsuite as a social media management tool to help you plan and broadcast your affiliate content and make sure all your Facebook fan pages and Twitter accounts are linked to your dashboard, easy to setup once it’s installed! I thoroughly recommend going for the Pro version which allows you to add RSS feeds and bulk schedule affiliate messages a month in advance plus add x50 social media account to broadcast to! An excellent way to plan, create, manage and execute affiliate content across all social media channels in an instant. Saves you logging into each individual Facebook and Twitter account!

You can also utilize Hootsuite via your mobile and tablet devices 24/7!

Link all related Twitter Accounts to Facebook Fanpages

Go to www.facebook.com/twitter and make sure your relevant Twitter account is sync’d with your Facebook fanpage. By doing this you will allow all your Twitter followers to have access to your Facebook fanpage affiliate posts as all content uploaded to Facebook will automatically be fed through to your nominate Twitter account.

A great way to allow followers and potential buyers to comment, like, share and even re-tweet your affiliate content to 1,000’s of other like minded peole keen to take up your offer / proposition.

Google Alerts – Sign Up, its FREE

Google Alerts – Setting up Google alerts is a fantastic way to be informed of the latest news based on specific keywords you select e.g. your pet website may benefit from finding out about latest pet health and research allowing you to share this on a website blog followed by pet health food affiliate links!

You’ll need a Gmail email address to register for Google alerts and once you agree the frequency of the content i.e. once a day or 3+ times a day, you can immediately post these articles to your Facebook page and Twitter account in seconds! A great way to engage with your audience and provide informative up to date content that they can share with other pet lovers and spread your website content and its affiliate links. This is just one good source of information. Try to use your own and source others online!

Google Analytics – Sign Up, its FREE

A good way to track global analytics for your website is to utilise Google Analytics i.e. www.google.com/analytics. This is a is a FREE web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic on a global scale i.e. how many clicks per country and what devices used!

Facebook Fanpage Apps / Add Ins

Another great tip for all you affiliate marketers when posting content to your website(s) and social media networks! When developing your Facebook page, add extra tabs with links to specific products, webpages or actual affiliate links themselves. You can simply do this by searching for the ‘Woobox Custom Tab’ App in Facebook whilst in your Facebook page. Also accessible at: https://www.facebook.com/Woobox/app_195646697137509 You’ll be able to add a number of new tabs and sort them accordingly in terms of your preferred display order.

Together with posting content from your website to your Facebook page, users can access the content they want directly from your Facebook page as opposed to going to the website. A great little way of driving affiliate traffic and generating revenue. For example, If you had a Facebook page relating to Forex online trading, you could multiple call to action tabs each relating to different areas of trading i.e. Currency, Metals, Gold, Oil etc.

Summary

I hope you have enjoyed reading this article. If you need any assistance and require my services to help consult, implement, test and launch your affiliate marketing than please contact myself to discuss services for hire further. I am professionally accredited in Hootsuite Online Social Media and Digital Marketing.

https://learn.hootsuite.com/u/michaeltantouri

Thanks Mike.

Socially Targeted Affiliate Marketing – Manage Social Media on Facebook

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We have to start with noting the importance of Facebook as a social media portal, the fact there are millions of people all over the work represented. A great opportunity for affiliate marketers to promote their offers to a specific audience given Facebook’s search capabilities.

Recent research has found that people spend on average 1-2 hours a day viewing Facebook account and related material on a their mobile and desktop devices! A staggering statistic in terms of marketing and exposure opportunity.

Lets get started…So you have set up website / blog and have begun creating and sharing content across all social media platforms especially using tools such aswww.hootsuite.com Not to mention already linking your Facebook page account to your Twitter account via www.facebook.com/twitter

Perhaps you want to manually post content to specific Facebook forums and community pages that have a huge loyal following. For example you have a new coupon code from your affiliate merchant and want to promote this to a targeted audience? Plus all other content you may want to promote.

The secret to Facebook Page Social Posting Buyer Targeting allows you to go into any targeted niche, create a Facebook page, build a massive targeted buyers list.

Step 1 – Create your Facebook page

To create a Facebook fan page:

  • Go to facebook.com/pages/create.
  • Click to choose a Page category.
  • Select a more specific category from the dropdown menu and fill out the required information.
  • Click Get Started and follow the on-screen instructions.

Make sure you’re signed into your own account to begin with.

When creating your page, have in mind the name of the page and topic(s) plus subject matter you wish to focus on. Ensure that it is related to the affiliate material / posts you are determined to promote. For example if you have affiliate links for Internet dating, call your page Online Dating etc. The name will be dependant on the subject matter of your original website or blog. This Facebook fan page needs to be targeted to what you are promoting.

Make sure you create a Facebook that is appealing and user friendly i.e. use a clear and relevant image for the header, plus a nice image / icon to represent your page and subject matter. Also make sure you activate the ‘Like’ page button to gain followers and build a subscriber list online.

Congratulations, you have now finished creating your Facebook page and are ready to post affiliate content, links and supporting images with hash tags.

Step 2 – Link / Integrate your Facebook page to Twiiter and add as a social media network to your Hootsuite account

Prior to begin posting any affiliate offers / material, please ensure your Facebook page is linked to you’re your Twitter account i.e. got to www.facebook.com/twiiter to setup.

Additionally, when logging into www.Hootsuite.com ensure you add your Facebook page as a social media work stream as with your Twitter account and WordPress website / blog.

Step 3 – Create your very first Facebook fan page post.

When dealing with posts a great way to promote content is to keep it simple and to the point with key hash tags and an image. For example, if you were to promote a dating offer:

OFFER: Get a 6 month subscription to #eHarmony #Australia Click Here!http://ow.ly/KBLD4 for only $29.95/month with the PROMO CODE: ‘EHAUOFFER’ Hurry Register Now! Valid until 30-04-15 #TeamFollowBack #love #dating #tips#single

Step 4 – Search for Targeted Facebook fan and Community Pages

Quite simply, if you are in the business of dating, enter the keywords search terms in Facebook to identify any relevant groups / pages to post the above item for example.

Additionally, based on the affiliate merchant products / services you are promoting, try to think outside of the box in terms of related groups that may also benefit. For example, not just dating pages but also single men and women groups, romance and love related pages etc.

By focusing your relevant material to targeted niche groups you have a higher probability of generating more click-trough’s and repeat traffic back to your Facebook fan page as well as your website.

Another example may be you are promoting Travel and can further segment your offers / posts by type of travel e.g. Flights, Cruises, Tours etc. So targeting each individual segment with offers and relevant images with a call to action to Book Here! Making sure you use a good image representative of the offer.

A great example post I saw recently was placed in a Disney Facebook page. The poster had promoted a travel offer stipulating Disney World holidays and had a supporting image of plane that had been painted with Disney characters. Excellent execution!

Make sure that whatever you post / share on targeted niche Facebook pages, that this is also on your Facebook fanpage.