Hey lovelies, today you were going to get my sponsored content pricing post, but I had so many requests for this in my twitter DMs and via email. I thought I’d post this today, and move my sponsored content to Tuesday. In July I set a goal to make an affiliate sale everyday. In June I’d been semi-consistently making sales, at-least 3 days out of the week. I wanted to push myself, get better at making sales. I wanted to work out how I got utilise my platforms to make an affiliate sale a day. The best part? I successfully managed it. So I’ll share all the relevant details. This post will include affiliate links, and links to my own product.
Why An Affiliate Sale A Day?
I’d like to think that I’m starting to master affiliate sales, it brings me a very steady income right now. I know that could fluctuate but making one sale everyday comfortably puts me on track to be able to afford living when I go freelance later in the month.
The idea of ‘consistently’ bringing in a passive income is incredible. I wanted to challenge and push myself. For the goal, I only included sales through my hosting affiliate code, Gumroad affiliate products and through my creative market affiliate link. I didn’t include my sales through Amazon affiliates or any other affiliate programs.
How Did I Achieve It?
If I’m honest the first 7 days of affiliate sales happened quite effortlessly, traffic from Pinterest really helped. I drive a-lot of my traffic to food or lifestyle posts but I make sure to pin at-least 2 affiliate marketing pins everyday. When marketing you need to remember that not all niches are created equal on Pinterest. Blogging posts don’t do well for a lot of people on Pinterest because it’s not a popular/trending topic. Finance on the other hand is.
Over 80% of my sales are driven directly from Pinterest/ readers on my blog. Although, Twitter is by far my largest platform and does bring me in sales, it doesn’t compare to the click through rate I have on my blog.
I’m not going to lie, day 25- 31 were the hardest. Maybe because I was so invested in keeping it up, that I overshared affiliate links, or because it’s pre-payday for some people in the UK? Those final days really were tough, and I can’t thank my twitter followers enough for pulling it out of the bag for me and sharing tweets, purchasing, commenting and helping me wherever they could.
Anyway now I’ll share some tips that worked for me, although I did publish A Beginner’s Guide To Affiliate Sales, if you’d like to support my blog and pick up a copy it is highly appreciated.
Quick Tips To Improve Your Sales
KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE – If you’re not making sales or regular sales, you probably haven’t got the right selling angle for your audience. I mention this every-time I write about affiliate sales but please learn about audience before you share popular affiliate links on your content/social media.
Invest in knowledge – I know not everyone believes in doing this, but investing in products that have the knowledge to help you does work. It saves you time and gives you the information you need to put to use. I’m not going to deny it there is some shite products out there, and yeah it can be off-putting. But, if you’re going to invest in just one money making guide, it needs to be this one. How To Make Your Blog A Money Making Machine (AF). It genuinely changed the game for me and will be going up in price soon.
If you affiliate through creators, keep up communication with them – It’s so important to do this. Keeping in contact with the girls I affiliate for, allowed me to have knowledge of any sales they were having, and when new products being released. The more information you have, the better you can share it/promote it. This worked incredibly well on the day of one of my friends product re-release where I helped her make a 10 sales in a day.
Timing is everything – Certain times of the day/ certain days are better for sales. For me it’s 8am on weekdays, or 1-5pm on Saturdays/Sunday if I promote on Twitter. My Pinterest traffic brings in sales almost daily between 1-5am. So, it’s easy to distinguish where the sales come from, and what platform.
Have multiple products/programs you affiliate for – I can’t stress this enough 1-2 is not enough to make constant affiliate sales. I affiliate for 7 creators, I then used my hosting link and my creative market link. That’s 9. Not all products sell the same. One of the guides I affiliate for I sold over 60 copies, where as with another I barely made 10 for the entire month.
Things I Learnt From Making An Affiliate Sale A Day
Email Marketing really matters – I’ve covered this on my blog and in my e-book but with the holiday season coming up, it’s important to use a mailing list for sales.
Pinterest Marketing– Pinterest is the best platform for directing sales to your products/affiliate links via your blog. I get 40K-60K pageviews from Pinterest monthly and it really does help when that traffic is directed to posts with affiliate links. There are a few rules on what you can and can’t share with regards to affiliate links on Pinterest and it’s worth learning them.
Your relationship with your audience matters – If you audience backs you, and supports you it’ll be easier to achieve. There are times where without the support of my followers I wouldn’t have been able to achieve it. My audience is the reason I’m able to go freelance this month, my readers honestly mean everything to me. Y’all are the best.
I hope these tips help people, I’m hoping to keep this streak up for this month as well if I can. I’ll try to continue to share content with you as I learn more, if you do want to learn more on affiliate sales. You can pick up my ebook, A Beginner’s Guide To Affiliate Sales.
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This is such an inspiring post! I have really been getting into my affiliate sales recently, I think i’ve done 4 days in a row now! It’s exciting to see growth and I am excited to make more. It’s amazing what you’ve achieve and I hope to make even a weeks worth of affiliate sales!
Em | http://www.loveemblog.com x
Really interesting post and tips. Well done on reaching your goal 🙂
Huge congrats on making an affiliate sale everyday last month, that’s incredible! This was a super interesting post to read, especially as I really don’t know much about affiliate marketing at all x
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I’m so pleased that you reached your goal Kayleigh, you should be so proud of yourself! x
Lucy | http://www.lucymary.co.uk
This is so amazing! I will definitely be taking your tips on board because I’m really trying to start monetising my blog more! X
Well done for achieving your affiliate goals! Thanks for sharing your tips too – they are very helpful.
Paige // Paige Eades
Congrats on achieving your affiliate goals! I’ll definitely be following your tips!
These are great tips! I have really been digging into affiliate marketing more as of late, trying to learn everything that I can about it. I know that it has great potential, so I’m investing my time in learning the best methods to make it work for me. For that reason, I really appreciate those who have had success, like yourself, sharing some insight into what works for you!
I am always in awe of your achievements…you are totally smashing it. I am learning lots about affiliate marketing from you, and it is so inspiring. Well done on making sales everyday for the month!
Aimsy xoxo
Aimsy’s Antics
These tips are amazing, well done for this! You did an amazing job!
Love, Amie ❤
The Curvaceous Vegan
Wow! Congrats on reaching your goal! I’ve just started with affiliate marketing two months ago and I find these tips really helpful. Thank you so much 🙂
Great tips, thanks Kayleigh! I’m hoping to up my affiliate sales now to supplement my income so these are great tips. Especially with the timing!
This is amazing, Kayleigh!! I would love to be able to make an affiliate sale a day too, so reading your post is so motivating. 🙂 I agree with your point on investing in one’s education!! Thank you for sharing this. 🙂
Really helpful post, just starting out in affiliate marketing so hang tips are so great fully received!
Such a fantastic, informative post!! I’ve never really one affiliate sales, but at least I’d know where to start if I did do it 🙂 xx
Brilliant post. You’ve worked so hard this month and sharing your progress will really spur people on.
Good luck for August. I have no doubt you’ll smash it again x
Such a fantastic, informative post!! I’ve never really done affiliate sales, but at least I’d know where to start if I did do it 🙂 xx
Thanks so much for all the tips about affiliate marketing. I always learn so much from your posts. One day, I might try the affiliate a day challenge too!
Great post! Thank you for sharing! This is so useful!
First huge congratulations!
I wish I could make Pinterest work better for me! Still struggling with it
Wow congrats on the success! Your tips were really informative and I’m sure will be helpful when I try my hand at affiliate marketing!
This is such a useful post! I have been reading and researching about affiliate marketing and hopefully going to have the confidence to give it a go soon! Or even this month 😊 xx
This is so impressive! And such an informative post!
This is such an inspiring post and I love these tips. Thank you for sharing with us!
Congrats on a sale a day! That’s a fantastic achievement!
You did so well! You should be so proud of yourself, these are great tips as well. It’s great to see a sense of community in it x
Sophie
Wow, that is an incredible accomplishment! Congrats!! I just recently started signing up for affiliate programs for things I’ve purchased myself. I’m planning to try making sales soon, so this is very helpful!
These are fantastic tips! I am just starting out on my blogging journey and I’ve stumbled upon a few different affiliation opportunities. It’s great to read these posts to fully understand how to optimize them and get results! Thank you so much
This is so inspiring, thank you! I’m definitely keen to monetise my blog once I’ve got way mor content on there, so will be booking marking this post for later! x
You did amazing with this! I was rooting for you every single day!
This is amazing, Kayleigh!! I would love to be able to make an affiliate sale very soon, so reading your post is so motivating. I agree with your point on investing in one’s education!! Thank you for sharing this.
Oh wow! This is so helpful! I am so lax with affiliates – I really need to sort it out! xx
Your success inspires me to keep on going. I’m still working on building my audience, but I know I can get there someday. 🙂 x
This is a very helpful post explaining a lot of things and seamlessly including affiliate links! I’m going to keep reading your articles to help me with affiliate marketing. Thanks for sharing!
This is so great. Definitely going to go back and check out all the links on affiliate marketing. When I had my blog in 2016 I had gotten up a pretty good following but never did “get” the way to really get good affiliate movement. Hopefully this time around I can get better action on my site,
Such great tips and tricks here. I’d really like to begin making consistent income with affiliate links. I do pretty well during a few months of the year, and the rest of them are really challenging. I want to pick it up for sure, so I appreciate articles like this to inspire me!
Great post! I learned a lot.
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Great post! I learned a lot! Keep up the good work.
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This so helpful! As a new blogger, I decided not to dwell on affiliate marketing for now. But I hope to get the hang of it after a year!