Building TRUST as an Affiliate
Trust is essential in any relationship, especially when it comes to business partnerships. As an affiliate marketer, building trust with potential customers and other affiliates is critical to achieving success. Establishing trust between producers and consumers can be difficult, but it’s not impossible. It requires a combination of sincere communication, transparency, and consistent action. Establishing a strong foundation of trust is necessary for your business or affiliate to succeed.
So today we are starting to talk all about building trust as an affiliate. In the last episode, we really talked about owning your audience, but this is more about disclosing your affiliate links.
Honesty is the best policy
The first step to building trust as an affiliate marketer is to be transparent about who you are and what your goals are for the partnership. Providing honest information about yourself will help build credibility and demonstrate your commitment to forming a connection with your customers. Having clear expectations will enable both parties involved in the partnership to understand what success looks like from both perspectives. This can help foster trust by ensuring everyone is on the same page throughout the process.
it’s not required that you disclose an affiliate link, but it’s something you do when you’re recommending a product in return for a commission.
Customers won’t purchase from people they don’t trust!
Disclosing it up front and telling them that if they like it, great, I get some money. If you don’t, great. No big deal. If you disclose that I make a commission if you really like this product, then this really builds that trust.
Whereas if they find that out on the back end, because a lot of times when you have a link, they click on it, it redirects them, and it has your name on it at the top. So usually they’ll figure it out in the long run, and that puts a bad taste in someone’s mouth.
TRUST is worthy
What I’m telling you is, that I’ve recommended this software or tools to several people. So now when they’re going to encounter a problem using the software that I recommended to them. They come to me and they say, how did you do this and that? So I have built a relationship with these people by offering up not only a system that I actually use but at the same time guide them.
I’m not just an affiliate who throws things at the wall hoping they stick. These are programs I actually use. I know the ins and outs of them. I can help people how to start with them and be successful. They come to me asking what products I’m using that they like and now I’m sending all kinds of affiliate links out.
So just by taking the time to share and build that affiliate relationship and making sure that I am disclosing information about it. I have now endless leads for all of the systems I’m affiliated.
something to keep in mind
When using a video platform to introduce products that I’m affiliated with and put my affiliate link on the bio or show notes. I don’t need to put a disclaimer for it. Since it’s obvious that using my name as a code to get 15% off, I’m an affiliate for them. But if you are including links in blogs or somewhere that you’re not on video explaining it to people. I highly recommend putting the disclosures in there or something to let people know.
Affiliate marketing is the way to go!
I guarantee you’re already using products which has an affiliate program. But if don’t and you’re interested in getting started, you can go on the websites. It doesn’t have to be a certain product, it could be small boutiques, or it can be software. Anything that you like!
So if you’re not in my community, socially awesome entrepreneurs, I highly recommend you get in there ASAP. I give daily tips and tricks in there for all things social media marketing and affiliate marketing.
You can get all the value in the world there!
Make it simple
Make it social
Make it ausome.
