As an affiliate, having a loyal audience and following is essential for long-term success. With video content now being earmarked as one of the most popular content forms for customers to engage with, affiliates who are building loyal audiences are able to increase their earning potential.
It’s not rocket science to know that a dedicated fan base means more clicks, higher conversions, and ultimately, better affiliate earnings. Building that loyal tribe of customers takes some strategic effort to maintain.
In this post, we’ll explore proven strategies to attract and retain a loyal affiliate audience that keeps coming back to purchase allowing you to earn continued commission.
The key to building loyalty is consistently delivering value that helps your audience. Before they keep returning to your website, content and offers you’re sharing, you will need to prove you can improve their lives or solve their problems. You must discover where the enhanced value proposition is and how you can present that to your customers.
Some good ways to create powerful value include:
The more value you provide upfront during the buyer awareness journey, the more loyal fans you’ll attract and retain, in your affiliate business. Retaining customers helps increase your earnings.
Being genuine and open about the products you’re promoting vs trying to only showcase the positive parts to please the advertiser will help you build customer trust and also authenticity in your affiliate brand. Showcasing the benefits and features of each product honestly is what customers are looking for. There cannot be any pro’s without con’s and customers will understand that not every item you’re promoting is always perfect.
Being transparent about why you’re promoting a service or product of choice – really helps forge deeper connections with your customer audience. They’ll see you as a trustworthy authority worth following and will align themselves to your brand.
Here are some ways to nurture loyalty and authenticity:
By being authentic and transparent, you build the trust needed for true loyalty.
Loyalty comes from fostering meaningful relationships with your audience, not just gathering faceless followers that don’t engage. Interact with them as real people – allow them to comment, like and share your content.
Tactics to forge stronger connections include:
The more personal connections you make, the more loyalty you inspire
Community marketing is fast growing as customers want to be connected online.
70.0% of marketers feel community-building is important to customer retention as mentioned in the recent Big List Of Community Marketing stats on TINT.
People crave belonging to positive communities filled with like-minded others. Make your audience feel part of an exclusive inner circle.
Ideas to cultivate an engaged community:
With an upbeat, engaged community, fans stay longer and you can better leverage your customer tenure to earn more commission.
Finally, the key ingredient for any lasting loyalty is consistency over time. It takes regular effort to stay top-of-mind.
Be consistent in:
By showing up reliably, you reinforce your authority and importance in their lives. Inconsistency erodes loyalty quickly. The more consistently awesome you are as an affiliate your customers and advertiser brands can trust, the more commission you will earn!
Looking for new brands to build a loyal following for?
Look no further than the list of advertisers we work with at vCommission.
