Are you still advertising on your blog? Affiliate Marketing can Make more Money

The "Navi4you" blog you are reading has both Google Adsense ads and affiliate marketing promotion links. After one month's statistics, the income of affiliate marketing is more than 10 times that of advertising.

Many blogs on the Internet, such as the blogs on PIXNET, still rely on MIB (Money In Blog) advertising profit sharing plan or Google Adsense advertising clicks to make money.

If these bloggers can also use their own network traffic channels to operate affiliate marketing, then their profit prospects will be multiplied.

 1. What is Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate marketing simply means selling other people's things and taking a cut. Manufacturers promote their products with the assistance of their partners, so that sales performance grows rapidly, and at the same time, some of the profits earned are distributed to these marketing partners. Everyone is happy. It is a kind of Mutual benefit and win-win mode of making money.

On the other hand, from the point of view of promoters (partners), because there is no need to invest money, and do not need to do inventory and customer service. Therefore, it is a low-risk and high-profit method of making money online.

 How affiliate marketing works can be explained simply as follows:

• The manufacturer (advertiser) first proposes an affiliate program (offer), and then recruits a group of marketing partners (publisher) to assist in promotion.
• Partners use their own marketing channels (such as blogs, Facebook fans, YouTube channels, LINE groups
• or buy paid advertisements) to insert relevant affiliate links. As long as a visitor clicks this link, they come to the manufacturer The product page above. There is an opportunity to make further trading actions.
• For each traded product or task, the manufacturer will pay the corresponding profit sharing commission to the partner

2. Advantages of doing affiliate marketing

Affiliate marketing is very much like a real estate agency or insurance in traditional industries. It is also like an online version of running a business job. Because as long as an order is completed online, you will get a performance bonus.

This marketing model using the Internet has several special benefits:

• Free to join – Most of the affiliate marketing promotion programs are free to join. It is a very friendly way to make money online.
• It is a good source of passive income. The channel of marketing promotion can be open all year round, and website visitors can complete the transaction through the promotion link at any time. It allows you to have passive income even when you sleep.
• There is no need to go to the customer to visit, avoid the embarrassing situation of being rejected during face-to-face or telemarketing
• Only focus on product promotion, as for the cash flow of goods, logistics and follow-up customer service are all handled by the manufacturer. It can be regarded as a risk-free method of making money online
• There are no geographical restrictions. Through online marketing, you can sell things to Taiwan, Hong Kong or further afield in Europe and America
• Through different Internet media traffic, you can reach a considerable number of potential customers. Significantly increase the chance of profit.

3. Function of Affiliate Marketing Network

Some advertisers who do affiliate marketing operate their own affiliate programs, but most of them entrust affiliate marketing platforms to help manage them. Its benefits are:

The platform will provide a complete transaction tracking system, such as tracking codes, promotion links, transaction records and the issuance of audit bonuses, etc.
There is a Marketing Account Manager (AM, Affiliate Manager) to answer and solve various problems that members may encounter when promoting
The platform will be responsible for helping recruit new members, screen qualified promoters, and let the manufacturer's affiliate program have enough human resources to do a good job in marketing.
From the perspective of a publisher, the affiliate marketing platform gathers many merchants in the same place, allowing members to easily select their favorite affiliate program. Just find a product that sells well and has a high bonus. Apply Participate in its promotional programs. Start marketing and earn commissions.

Of course, members can also operate many affiliate programs at one time, first test to see which promotion project has a high conversion rate and is easier to make money, and then increase efforts to promote it. Let your income increase rapidly.

 4. Types of Affiliate Marketing Promotion Programs

There are many different types of promotion in affiliate marketing, but Alfred will only classify it into two different types here:

4.1 CPS (Cost per Sale) – The bonus is calculated according to the sales. It mainly promotes physical products, but also includes some digital products.
The famous Amazon Associates is selling This type of product. At present, there are more than one million kinds of products on the Amazon shopping site in the United States, and the items that affiliates can choose to promote are very amazing.

Generally speaking, for the CPS affiliate program that mainly sells physical products, most merchants will provide a transaction commission ranging from 2% to 10% to the promoter according to the price of the product. Related Topic

Sometimes it can reach 50% or even 70% of the unit price of the product. This The type of affiliate marketing platform that specializes in selling digital products is represented by ClickBank.

In fact, after digital product developers have made products, they can continue to sell them without limit. Because there are no inventory and delivery problems, the cost of products is mostly very low. Therefore, the commissions that can be obtained can be higher than that of physical products. a lot of.

4.2 CPA (Cost per Action) – The bonus is calculated according to the number of completed tasks.
These tasks such as completing the collection of customer lists, applying for a bank credit card, joining as a market research member, renting cloud software services or downloading a mobile game, etc. . Because the marketing items are more diverse, several subsidiary types are also extended, the more common ones are:

CPL (Cost Per Lead) – This type of promotion plan is mainly to obtain a customer list or complete a membership registration.

CPI (Cost per Install) – mainly for downloading mobile video games and apps.

Pay per Call - When someone sees the phone number on your ad, and uses this number to call and ask about the product. For every successful call, you will get a bonus. This type of promotion program is now more extended Mobile-based models such as Click2Call and Click2SMS. Make marketing plans more flexible.

COD (Cash on Delivery) – that is, cash on delivery in Chinese. Many early marketing plans for beauty and health care products will allow customers to first free trial (free trial) and then automatically debit (rebill).  At present, this type of promotion scheme is very popular. The marketing stuff also extends to many trendy products.

5. How to choose a good affiliate marketing platform

At present, more than half of the affiliate marketing programs in Taiwan that Navi4you runs are using foreign affiliate marketing platforms. The reason is very simple, because the commissions they give are higher.

In the past few years, Affiliate Networks has contacted more than 30 Affiliate Networks. It covers a wide range of countries and regions, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Israel, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Malaysia.

So what should you pay attention to when choosing a good affiliate marketing platform?
Make sure there are no products you want to promote on the platform
The company's reputation is better – try to choose a company with a large scale and a long-term operation. At the same time, pay more attention to whether there are any negative reviews on the Internet. For example, the distribution of profit sharing bonuses is not punctual or the commission of promoters is maliciously deducted
Ways of requesting money – Generally, the distribution of bonuses is mainly through PayPal, bank transfer or check.
The minimum amount of bonus payment – ​​the current general standard is about $100 or more before it will be issued. Of course, the lower the specified amount, the better it will be for you.
Distribution cycle of profit sharing commission – Distribution cycle of profit sharing commission – After the platform confirms the effective promotion bonus, some are distributed in 1 month, and some are delayed until 3 months or longer before giving you the money. For the payment cycle Too long a platform will increase the risk of poor turnover or not getting money, so it is necessary to consider whether it is worth helping them promote. 

6. Apply to join the affiliate marketing platform

Membership applications for most affiliate marketing platforms or the Affiliate Program are free. The difficulty level of each company’s qualification review is also different. Generally speaking, CPA-based platforms will review more Strict. Sometimes there will be a phone interview.

In fact, sometimes the application for membership will be rejected, so try a few other companies, and there will always be places that are accepted. In addition, you may wish to cooperate with Skimlinks , an intermediary service provider for affiliate marketing .

Skimlinks brings together about 50 mainstream affiliate marketing platforms in the world (such as Amazon affiliate, CJ Affiliate, Rakuten), and provides affiliate programs of nearly 50,000 manufacturers for you to join freely.

It is easy to apply for Skimlinks. Currently, there are more than 60,000 members worldwide. More than half of the top 100 online media in the United States such as USA Today and Buzzfeed are its users. Of course, it is also useful in the "Navi4you" blog. Its service!

The advantage of using Skimlinks is once and for all, you don't have to apply everywhere in order to join individual affiliate marketing programs. Of course, the disadvantage is that it will take a cut. About 25 % of the bonus you earn will be deducted as a service fee.

The good news is that membership of several mainstream platforms in the Chinese market (such as Tongwang , Alliance.com ) is easy to apply for success. You can join several more platforms at a time, so that you have more choices of promotion plans, and then Increase your chances of making a profit.

7. How to choose an affiliate marketing promotion plan

The promotion programs in the affiliate marketing platform often exceed hundreds or even more than a thousand, and sometimes it is quite difficult to choose. Navi4you has sorted out some points to be considered here as a basis for selection:

① The products to be promoted are best related to the content of the website – for  example, if a travel blog sells cleaning robots. It may seem quite abrupt.

② Try to sell popular products – Most of the affiliate platforms will make a ranking list for popular products with high transaction volume. You can make good use of this statistical data to find ideal products for marketing.

Generally, hot-selling products have several characteristics as follows – good reputation of the brand, excellent quality of products, high conversion rate of transactions, good profit sharing bonus, etc.

③ Shop around, don’t suffer – sometimes on different platforms, you will find exactly the same products, but the commissions given by each platform are different. At this time, you have to make comparisons diligently and pick out Programs with high bonuses to promote.

④ Find the sweet spot of the best selling price of the product – if the product is cheap, you will get less bonus. If the unit price of the product is high, it may be difficult to sell, and you will not get a commission .

How to find out the popular transaction price, increase the number of orders (more performance bonus), it may take a while to observe and analyze by yourself.

⑤ The longer the validity period of the tracking code (cookie), the better – the tracking code of the Amazon Affiliate Program is only valid for one day. If the visitor goes to Amazon to shop through the promotion link, if the transaction is not completed within 24 hours, they will not get the commission.

In the current promotion plans of manufacturers, the validity period of cookies is mostly within 30 days to 90 days. It is better for you to choose a marketing plan with a longer cookie validity period.

⑥ Choose products that are not easy to be eliminated – some electronic products, the frequency of new updates is very high, if you promote this type of products, you must update the marketing copy every once in a while. It will cause a lot of work burden.

For example, you specialize in promoting popular mobile phones, and on your blog, you introduce more than 20 styles in one go. However, a new model comes out the next year, so you have to obediently change the promotion content again.

Think about it, this will be very tiring. Therefore, when looking for product sales, it is best to choose something that will not be out of fashion (such as ergonomic chairs) to promote.

⑦ Pay attention to promotion restrictions – Many affiliate programs will have promotion restrictions. If you do not comply with these norms, your transaction bonus will be confiscated. It is equivalent to doing white labor.

Similar restrictions, such as, when operating keyword advertising (PPC, Pay per Click), prohibit the purchase of brand-related words.

In addition, some network traffic pipelines may also be on the banned list. For example, you cannot use pop-up windows (pop) for promotions.

⑧ Confirm that the manufacturer's product landing page (landing page) is highly persuasive - when a visitor comes to the manufacturer's product page through your promotion link, if he finds the content of the introduction boring, the persuasion is very low. Then this order There will be no deal. You also won't get the bonus.

Therefore, when choosing an affiliate program, you must first determine whether the manufacturer's product page is very attractive. Make customers willing to place an order.

 8. Do CPS or CPA affiliate program, which one will be more profitable?

There are people in these two camps who have made very considerable income. Most of the CPS-type promotion programs are carried out through websites/blogs. Once the website has considerable traffic, it can bring in closed orders one after another, and then become a very popular Good passive income channel.

In addition, many people will sell the website at a price of about 30 times the average monthly income after making the website profitable. That is to say, if the monthly income of the website's affiliate marketing is 10,000 yuan, you have the opportunity to sell it in a similar Flippa On the website auction platform , he made 300,000 yuan for himself.

As for those who operate CPA, many people choose to use a large amount of advertising (media buy) to operate. The advantage of it is that you can immediately buy a huge amount of traffic to operate the affiliate program, and the speed of making money will be very fast.

 
Although this type of advertising operation is very profitable, it requires high capital and technical requirements.

First of all, there is a time lag between paying to buy ads and actually receiving commissions, so you will encounter cash flow problems.

At the technical level, there are more problems to be dealt with in advertising, such as:

• Choice of web traffic type: What kind of traffic do you use to advertise. Google keyword traffic, social media traffic, native ads, pop up/under traffic, push notification traffic, etc. The price and quality of each kind of traffic are different, so you need to know how to adjust.
• Selection and operation of advertising platforms: Google Ads , FB ads and many third-party ad traffic exchanges (Outbarin, PopAds…)
• Operation and use of ad trackers: Trackers are an indispensable tool for measuring the effectiveness of advertising. Such as Voluum .
• Enhancement of web host and application of Content Delivery Network (CDN, Content Delivery Network) settings. Make the landing page more responsive.
• The use of advertising copy analysis tools (ad spying tools): It is mainly used to analyze the advertising copy of competitors. To inspire more marketing inspiration. Such as WhatRunsWhere, AdPlexity.
• Ad copy and landing pages are constantly being optimized and improved to increase conversion rates

The technical projects of these advertisements can be described as dazzling, and people who are new to it may be dazzled. Therefore, using paid advertisements to operate CPA affiliate marketing is more suitable for experienced people to operate.

9. Request for Affiliate Marketing

Generally speaking, it takes about 30 to 60 days for a successful order to get a profit-sharing commission. The affiliate marketing platform will settle the bonus you can receive once a month, and remit the money to the payment method you instructed. you.

As for the channel of receiving the money, the most commonly used is bank remittance or the channel of PayPal to receive money.

In addition, you can also consider using Payoneer's cash flow service. In addition to many affiliate marketing platforms that directly support transfers, you can even use the US (or other major foreign currency) virtual personal bank accounts provided by it to receive any Earned foreign currency commissions (such as Amazon affiliate marketing revenue).

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10. [jargon] often used in affiliate marketing

Affiliate marketing has a high chance of participating in some foreign promotion platforms. At this time, most of the communication will be done in English. Now list a few terms that are often seen. Occasionally, you can use them to make comparisons. "Pro" some 🙂

AM – Affiliate Manager (Marketing Account Manager). Many CPA-oriented affiliate marketing platforms often assign an AM as a window to contact you after you join as a member. AM will usually suggest which ones have good conversion rates. Marketing plan. And help you deal with all kinds of intractable diseases encountered in the promotion.

Cap – usually refers to your monthly promotion quota. Some affiliate marketing plans have advertising budget restrictions, or you need to control the quality of task transactions (such as list collection), the platform will give you a promotion amount in advance. Exceed the quota You may not be able to get the profit sharing bonus.

Geo – refers to the valid countries and regions specified by the marketing plan. If the order you successfully promoted is not in the specified list, you will not get a commission.

Lead – The number of promotion orders/tasks that are effectively reached

Offer – refers to the affiliate marketing program itself. Some people use the word campaign instead.

Now for a simple example. Your AM might write an Email to you:
HK : 50 leads
TW : 100 leads
 

11. Affiliate Marketing Platform Recommendation

If you want to do affiliate marketing in Taiwan, Navi4you suggests that you can apply for Tongwang or Affiliate Network first.

There are more affiliate programs on the channel king. But if you like to promote the CPA (Cost per Action) type of marketing plan. Instead, you will find more diverse projects on the affiliate network.

In addition, another feature of the Affiliate Network is that it provides opportunities for cooperation with manufacturers and businesses . You can find many sponsorship activities that you can participate in in the case-receiving area on the platform, just through your own media Channels (such as blog, Facebook, IG, YouTube) are exposed and published, and you will be able to get industry awards.

Other affiliate marketing platforms worth checking out are:

 Foreign market:

• Amazon Associates
• Commission Junction
• ShareASale
• eBay Partner Network
• ClickBank

 10 Affiliate Marketing Platforms Commonly Used by Internet Earnings

How much money can affiliate marketing earn each month? From the member bonus records of August 2021 published by Taiwan's " Affiliate Network " (screenshot below), it can be found that for powerful new members, the commission earned in one month can reach About 50,000 Taiwan dollars.

Many money-making channels on the Internet often use affiliate marketing as an important source of income. Whether you are a blogger or a social media KOL influencer, learning how to operate affiliate marketing will be an essential online profit-making skill.

A Brief Introduction to Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is a low-cost way to make money online, mainly through the promotion of other people's products or services to receive bonuses. If this online earning method is combined with the huge number of people on the Internet, it can often bring amazing commission income.

The Role of Affiliate Marketing Platforms

The role of the affiliate marketing platform is like an online human bank. It provides a space for manufacturers and workers to trade, so that many merchants (advertisers) on the platform have the opportunity to recruit a group of promotion talents (publishers) to help with marketing performance. .

In addition, the platform will also track the effectiveness of marketing activities, and provide relevant query tools and reports, so that merchants and promoters can grasp the promotion performance.

Top 10 Affiliate Marketing Platforms Comparison Chart

Here, navidforyou has specially compiled 10 platforms with good reputation at home and abroad, and I hope everyone can make good use of it.

Introduction of 10 Popular Affiliate Marketing Platforms

1. CJ Affiliate

Therefore, as long as you become a member, there are a lot of marketing plans that you can enjoy.

For promoters, if they operate a Chinese website, they can implement much fewer plans than English ones. However, on CJ Affiliate, about 350 manufacturers' products can be found, which are suitable for promotion in the Chinese market.

Famous ones are: Skyscanner travel comparison network, GoDaddy web hosting, Fiverr
five yuan outsourcing network , GetResponse email automation software, McAfee antivirus, NordVPN circumvention software , GoPro action camera, Swarovski jewelry store, etc.


In addition, it is worth noting that after joining CJ, if there is no transaction record within 6 months, the membership will be cancelled. So before applying to participate, it is best to have enough traffic sources, To ensure that results can be seen in the short term. 

Advantage

• There are many international heavyweight manufacturers stationed
• There are many product categories, and the choice of marketing promotion is flexible
• Provide an advertising exchange market, which is convenient for promoters to obtain additional advertising revenue
• A powerful promotion analysis tool

2. iChannels

Founded in 2007, it is the earliest affiliate marketing platform established in Taiwan. It has accumulated more than 70,000 promotion partners, and it can be regarded as the one with the largest number of members in Taiwan.

At present, there are about 250 manufacturers cooperating with Tongwangwang, including the large shopping website momo and blogger.

Advantage

• The search function is very intimate, and can use a single product name to query the promotion plan
• There are many promotion opportunities for physical products, and it covers momo shopping network ( momo diandian ) and blogo ( blog ap strategic alliance ) which is also an affiliate marketing platform
• The threshold for requesting money is relatively low, and you can withdraw gold at 500 NTD
• Member Center has complete affiliate marketing teaching resources
• Can use LINE to contact customer service, improve a lot of communication efficiency

3. Affiliate Network

It is a rising star in Taiwan's affiliate marketing industry. The categories of activity plans are very diverse, whether it is physical or digital products, there are many choices.

Many promotion programs on the affiliate network often cover neighboring countries in Asia outside of Taiwan. This platform will be a good starting point for newcomers who want to branch out into overseas markets.

Another unique feature of the alliance network is the opening of a "case reception area", where many manufacturers hold writing activities and product trials, allowing members to apply for participation freely, which should also be regarded as an alternative to bloggers or KOL influencers. Industry distribution pipes.

Advantage

• Membership application is easy to pass
• Provide factory and business matching case area

4. Amazon Associates

This is a platform operated by Amazon, the world's leading e-commerce company, and its US online store alone has more than 2 billion visits per month .

With Amazon's huge loyal customer base and a higher-than-industry average transaction conversion rate, Amazon Associates has always been one of the most popular ways to make money online.


This platform also provides many useful promotion links, such as smart advertisements (Native Shopping Ads) that use big data to determine visitors’ preferences, and automatic guidance (OneLink) to Amazon, which is the closest country to the visitor’s location. Shopping online.

In recent years, the Amazon platform has lowered the proportion of rewards and profits several times, and the bonuses that can be earned are not as good as they used to be. However, due to the huge traffic on Amazon’s website and the high purchase rate of customers, it can still generate considerable promotion income. .

The Amazon alliance is subdivided into more than 10 different independent platforms according to the country, and the effect tracking and reward system are independent, and you must apply for membership separately.

For personal websites whose traffic sources are scattered in many countries, it may be necessary to operate multiple accounts, which is inconvenient in promotion and management.

Just like CJ Affiliate has member performance appraisal mentioned just now, Amazon Associates account will be suspended if there is no transaction revenue within 3 months.

Advantage

• High customer loyalty and good transaction conversion rate
• Powerful promotion tool
• The request threshold is low, as long as you earn a $10 commission, you can use the Amazon Gift Card to withdraw money
• A successful affiliate marketing website can easily change hands at a high price in the auction market, which is a good digital asset investment operation

5. ClickBank

This old-fashioned platform with a history of more than 20 years can be said to be the largest digital product marketing base in the world. The products in it include e-books, application software, online courses, paid membership websites, etc.

Since almost all digital products are on the platform, high commissions have become an important feature of ClickBank. Most of the profits that promoters can get are between 40% and 75%, and sometimes they can see an outrageous 90% Draw.

Another feature of this platform is that you can find many recurring subscription products. If the introduction is successful, you will receive a fixed monthly bonus, which becomes a good source of passive income.

Another basis for selection is to refer to the popular promotion indicator (Gravity) provided by the background. This score represents the popularity of the product being promoted. Generally, a score of more than 20 points is an ideal promotion project. Useful third-party statistics The ranking tool can refer to this link .

Advantage

• Many digital products
• Has a high reward
• The request threshold is only $10
• There are many subscription-based products, which are good passive income channels

6. ShareASale

The target of this platform is mainly the US market, but there are still many products that are also suitable for promotion in Asia.

ShaeAShare currently has about 3900 marketing plans, spread over 40 different product categories. Because of the large number of manufacturers, it is a good alternative platform for CJ Affiliate. In case the promotion license on one side does not pass, it will stop by the other side. Go and apply.

For example, navidforyou applied for the promotion license of Grammarly, an English grammar tool , in CJ a while ago , but was rejected the next day🙁. However, he successfully obtained the marketing qualification in ShareASale.

ShareASale's parent company is called AWIN , which is a heavyweight platform in Europe, and Afu is also a member. For those who are interested in operating the European market, it is also worth applying to join.

SahreASale Advantages

• Choice of physical and digital goods
• There are many exclusive cooperative manufacturers, which are not found on other platforms

7. eBay Affiliate Alliance

The world's largest online auction platform has now been transformed into selling new products, and about 80% of the products on the shelves are new products.

In terms of transaction mode, eBay has also changed from the original auction (Auction) to buy it now (BIN, Buy It Now) as the main sales method.

The rewards of eBay Partner Network (EPN, eBay Partner Network) are generally not high, mainly according to the product category to provide bonuses ranging from 1% to 4%.

As for the length of the cookie to track the effectiveness of the promotion, the "Buy Now" sales method is only valid for 1 day. However, if it is an auction-type transaction, the cookie validity period will be increased to 10 days.

Since the products of eBay stores have a high degree of overlap with Amazon, in practice, this platform is often used as an auxiliary promotion channel for Amazon Associates. That is to say, mainly to promote Amazon products, and then place some eBay items as needed. .

In addition, many price comparison websites will also use the products of these two stores to do price comparisons and earn commissions from them.

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Advantage

• High visibility, it is easy to attract visitors to spend in the store
• The types of products that can be promoted are very diverse
• The threshold for requesting is low, only $10 is required

8. Skimlinks

So as long as you successfully become his member, it is almost equivalent to indirectly joining more than half of the affiliate marketing platforms on the market. It directly provides promotion programs for nearly 50,000 manufacturers, and does not need to apply for additional marketing licenses from individual merchants. Feel free to choose freely to promote and earn commissions.

Recently, Skimlinks has also begun to strengthen its business scope in the Asian Chinese market, and some promotion and marketing plans for Taiwan (such as Shopee Shopping, Rakuten Lotte Market) have also appeared one after another, thus adding a lot of incentives to apply for joining.

This platform provides the function of intelligent dynamic links. As long as a small piece of code is added to the website, it can automatically convert the name of the manufacturer mentioned in the blog into a promotion link. Time spent setting up the link.

However, the above benefits also come at a price. Skimlinks will deduct a 25% service fee from your hard-earned performance bonus.

Advantage

• There are a large number of manufacturers, and there is a lot of choice when promoting
• There are many special cooperative manufacturers who will provide promotion bonuses higher than the market price
• Provides the function of automatically inserting promotional codes on the website

9. Flex Offers

This is a super-large affiliate marketing platform, and its scale is not inferior to the CJ Affiliate just mentioned. Therefore, there are promotion programs that cannot be found on other platforms. Great odds can be found here.

FlexOffers provides very flexible link generation tools, including:

① Flexlinks – You can use the self-developed WordPress plug-in plug-in or directly install the provided code to dynamically and automatically insert promotional links for the products in the website articles.

② Price Comparison Widget - As long as you select the same or similar products across manufacturers in advance, this tool will help you create an instant price comparison table with pictures and texts.

Advantage

• Newbie friendly, relatively easy to apply for membership
• Numerous marketing promotion programs to choose from
• Useful Promotional Link Builder
• PayPal withdrawals with commissions over $25
• Customer satisfaction is high

10. Impact.com

Impact.com is particularly emphasized as a service platform (SaaS, Software as a Service) between advertisers and promoters. Also for this reason , The platform is like a small United Nations, merchants have high autonomy, and even the invoices when withdrawing money are independent of each other, with different numbers.

Impact currently has more than 1000 manufacturers stationed, although the number is not many, but there are many well-known brands, many of which are suitable for promotion in the Chinese market, such as:

• Canva - The world's largest graphic design platform.
• Udemy – Online Courses
• Envato Market – a marketplace for web themes and app code
• BlueHost – Famous web hosting provider
• UpWork – a leading provider of outsourcing solutions

Impact.com Advantages

You can find many well-known brand marketing plans suitable for promotion
Simple and easy-to-use background management interface

How many affiliate marketing platforms do I need to participate in?
Although it is more troublesome in management (including payment), it also has the following advantages:

Access to more merchant products and increase promotion opportunities
In case the promotion license is rejected, there is still the opportunity to apply for the same merchant's license on another platform.
Take the English grammar check tool Grammarly just mentioned as an example. After the CJ Affiliate application was rejected, the promotion license was obtained at ShareASale.

 Easy-to-use and powerful network marketing tools first find here

There are often differences in the marketing software used by online earners and newcomers, and the biggest difference is the price of the software. Some monthly fees start at thousands of Taiwan dollars. If you use more than one kind of software, these costs add up , for those with less income, it will be a big burden.

Here, navid4you has specially selected 16 digital marketing software with high CP value and suitable for use when the Internet slash is used concurrently. I hope these tools can help you develop your Internet business smoothly and quickly increase your profitability.

Why do net earners use marketing software?

Simply put, Internet marketing is the use of existing digital media channels to increase visibility on the Internet, thereby bringing opportunities for profitable realization.

From the practical point of view, whether it is operating e-commerce, social media or blog, through effective digital marketing, you can increase your visibility, bring in buyer traffic, increase your chances of closing deals, and generate considerable income.

At this time, if you can effectively use the marketing software tools and let the computer program perform the promotion tasks, you can do more with less, and bring the following benefits:

• Automate jobs, save execution time and reduce labor costs
• Help find popular topics and create content with high click-through rate
• Help do SEO search engine optimization, thereby increasing the natural search traffic on the Internet
• Collect and analyze marketing big data, grasp accurate customer groups, and use it as a reference for developing opportunities and expanding business
• Increase online exposure and enhance private brand awareness
• Help cultivate customer relationships, build loyalty, and facilitate follow-up marketing guides
• Assist in the management of marketing promotion plans to ensure that tasks can be executed effectively

Types of Internet Marketing Software

Internet marketing has a wide range of applications. Although the self-media channels that can be matched are often different, they can be roughly classified into the following types:

①Content Marketing

This type of software is mainly to help bloggers or social media channel owners discover popular topics, analyze data through keywords and web traffic, assist in content creation and carry out related SEO search engine optimization, thereby increasing exposure opportunities and improving online visibility.

The application category items in the chart below, such as YouTube marketing, social marketing and visual marketing related software, can also be classified into this category.

②Customer list collection and remarketing

Existing customers, as long as the relationship is well managed, there is a high probability that they will come back to your products. The most common software for this type of customer list management are Email marketing systems and Chatbot chatbots.

Through these tools, it is easy to build customer loyalty and facilitate future shopping guide remarketing, thereby bringing a higher return on investment.

③Automation tools

This type of software plays the role of an automation medium, specializing in providing functional linking services between different marketing application software. It will automatically execute repetitive tasks through preset activation trigger conditions, thereby improving work efficiency and reducing labor burden.
 

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 16 Top Marketing Software

There are various kinds of marketing software on the market, some of which are powerful, but complicated to operate. Some are very popular abroad, but they are not localized enough to the Chinese market, and their benefits are limited. Started slash online earning family use.

Here, Navid4you specially selects 16 popular marketing software with high CP value, most of which provide free plans. If you are satisfied after using it, you can upgrade to a paid plan with more complete functions according to your actual needs, allowing online marketing Maximize results:

1. Google Keyword Planner

Whether it is a blog article or YouTube video introduction, the effective control of keywords directly affects the ranking and exposure opportunities on search engines, so it is an extremely important part of online content marketing.

According to statistics, Google's search engine market share in Taiwan exceeds 90%, and it has mastered most of the Internet's natural search traffic. Therefore, how to do a good job in Google SEO search engine optimization and increase Internet exposure will be the operation of content marketing. A very important part.

Google Keyword Planner is a keyword planning software officially developed by Google. It was originally designed for customers who purchased PPC (Pay per Click) click ads, allowing them to easily find suitable keywords to bid.

However, because this software is free and open, even if there is no advertisement in Google Ads, ordinary people can log in with their own Google Email account and use it directly.

Using Google Keyword Planner, you can query keyword groups with similar content, monthly traffic range and advertising competition. These data will help you find suitable topics and create content that meets market needs.

2. Google Trends

Google search trends is also another useful content marketing research software. In addition to being able to query the current popular Internet topics, you can also obtain the topic in a certain period of time (such as the past 30 days, the past 1 year) according to the search terms. ) search times and fluctuations. When operating content marketing, you can grasp the market trend and the seasonal demand increase or decrease of commodities.

3. Ubersuggest

This is an affordable SEO search engine optimization software, and the data provided is more detailed than the Google Keyword Planner just mentioned. Through this tool, you can easily find suitable keywords and content creation directions.

Ubersuggest provides a free version, but only has a limit of 3 queries per day. This online software is simple to operate and is a worthy marketing tool for new online earners with a small budget.

4. Ahrefs

It is a comprehensive SEO analysis tool, and it is also the most commonly used keyword research software of Navid4you. It can provide relevant data on backlinks and keyword rankings for individual websites.

The main functions of Ahrefs are as follows:

• Backlinks Analysis – Research the source of external links of your own or competitors’ websites, as a reference for SEO search engine optimization
• Keyword Search – In addition to Google, there are also options for global popular search engines including YouTube, Amazon, Yahoo, Bing, Baidu, Yandex in Russia, and Naver in South Korea.
• Helps you find many related keyword groups, and provides important information such as traffic and competition difficulty.
• Website SEO Health Check (Site Audit) – help to discover the problem points and areas that need to be improved in the search engine optimization of the website
• Keyword Rank Tracking – Regularly monitor the changes of website keywords in search engine rankings (SERP, Search Engine Results Page)
• Content Gap – The system will compare your website with your competitor’s website for keyword differentiation. If the opponent’s keyword is ranked but you really don’t, it will be listed and used for future content creation. important development direction.
• Content Explorer - Here you can find inspiration for writing, just enter the subject, you can find the most shared articles on the Internet, which will become a good basis for creation.

Ahrefs' software is very powerful and complex, and it takes a while to get used to it, which can be regarded as his strengths and weaknesses!

Other highly rated SEO marketing software:

SEMrush – is an all-round SEO tool, which is very popular in the industry, and the data collected is highly informative. Unfortunately, the scope of the query does not specifically distinguish the Taiwan market (Hong Kong has it), so it is only recommended for overseas websites or cross-border customers. E-commerce to use.

5. TubeBuddy

The huge traffic brought by the platform has not only created many KOL celebrities, but is also one of the most popular channels to use the Internet to monetize.

TubeBuddy is a marketing software specially designed for YouTube, which can help manage channel operations, assist video SEO optimization, and increase exposure opportunities.

The main features of TubeBuddy include:

• Improve Management Efficiency - Schedule automatic video upload, thumbnail generator, batch update content in information card, title and description fields. Video SEO Search Engine Optimization - Tag usage suggestions, competition and traffic analysis , ranking tracking, automatic translation in multiple languages.
• Data Analysis Research – Track the dynamics of competitor videos and provide relevant comparative data and charts. In addition, channel health check reports and video viewers’ Comment Word Cloud are also provided as a reference for channel improvement.

6. VidIQ

It is a relatively simple YouTube marketing software. Although it has fewer functions than TubeBuddy, it is relatively simple in operation and is very suitable for new YouTubers to try to use.

7. Canva

Online marketing often uses many images to achieve eye-catching effects. This is where the cloud graphic design software Canva can come in handy.

This platform provides many free design samples and materials. For freelancers who work on the Internet and slashes, the occasions that can be used are also very diverse:

• Graphs on the blog
• YouTube video thumbnail
• FB or IG posts, limited-time updates
• TikTok Videos
• Online course presentation production
• We media advertising
• Digital posters, flyers

With Canva's easy-to-use Drag and Drop editor, even people with a weak background in art design can quickly produce high-level visual merchandising works.

8. GetResponse

The methods and channels of Internet marketing are constantly innovating, but the traditional Email marketing is still standing still and is still favored by many online earners. There is no other reason, because the return on investment (ROI, Return on Investment) of email marketing very high.

With a customer list in place, it is possible to repeat shopping guides and remarketing, all of which have a better chance of making a profit than a one-time deal.

Generally speaking, it is not easy to develop new customers, and sometimes you even have to spend money to buy advertisements to get them. If you ignore the management of the customer list, you must constantly look for new customers, which will increase the cost of operation. .

GetResponse is the email marketing software currently used by navid4you. Such tools usually have the following functions:

• Send a lot of emails at once
• Schedule automatic mailing
• Make sure the email is delivered to the recipient's inbox, reducing the chance of being marked as spam
• Make interest or behavior pattern classification (Tag and Segmentation) on the customer list, which is convenient for personalized and precise marketing in the future
• Easy-to-use editor, easy to customize the presentation of Email
• Offers many different types of subscription form templates and email layouts
• Content A/B testing, analysis of the degree of preference for the title or content of the email
• Provides tracking performance analysis data, including statistics on Open Rate, CTR, Bounce Rate and Unsubscribe Rate.

In addition to the common features of email marketing software mentioned above, GetResponse's strengths include:

Highly marketing-oriented, providing a marketing funnel (Marketing Funnel) template, from the welcome letter, follow-up product description and trust tracking letter, as well as the final sales stage sales letter, etc. in one go.
Provide additional marketing channels such as Webinar, Live Chat and Push Notification
Affordable basic plan with generous annual fee discount

9. ConvertKit

This email marketing software was originally designed for webmasters who operate blogs. The point of consideration is not to have too many complicated functions, so that bloggers can get started quickly and focus on content creation.

ConvertKit is loved by many well-known (making a lot of money) bloggers.  The format of the email is not fancy, the main purpose is to highlight the importance of the text content, so that the readers will not be distracted .

This software has a free usage plan, as long as there are no more than 1000 subscribers, there is no charge.

10. Active Campaign

There are quite a few online earners in Taiwan using this marketing tool, and many of its functions revolve around the establishment of automated sales processes. Therefore, it is very suitable for use in the environment of running e-commerce or selling online courses.

The backend of ActiveCampaign has a strong customer relationship management (CRM, Customer Relationship Management) system in operation, which can maximize customer lifetime value (LTV, Lifetime Value).

Other well-known email marketing software

Mail Chimp

It can be regarded as a time-honored email service tool. It has been listed in 2001 and has a lot of users.

One of its highlights is that it is free for subscribers below 2,000. However, MailChimp has stricter copywriting controls on affiliate marketing (Affiliate Marketing), and if this is your main mode of making money online, it may be inconvenient to use.

Electronic Leopard

It is a cloud email sending platform developed in Taiwan. Due to the high level of Chinese culture, it is very suitable for use as a marketing tool to develop the Chinese market.

The fee for this software is not the general traditional monthly fee system, but is calculated by the number of emails sent, and for some users, it is more flexible.

11. Manychat

Many merchants' Facebook pages use chatbots to expand their business. In addition to customer service, this tool is also an ideal channel for advertising and marketing.

Through the triggering of keywords, the chatbot software can be programmed or judged by AI artificial intelligence to conduct human-machine interactive conversations. Its main functions are as follows:

• 24/7 auto-reply to posts
• Increase the number of interactions with fans, which can effectively attract fans and increase Internet volume
• Can analyze customer needs and preferences, and then provide more accurate marketing
• It is a good advertising shopping guide medium, which can improve the awareness of the product and increase the chance of receiving orders.

Manychat is currently the chatbot marketing software with the largest number of users in the world, with more than 1 million users. In addition to being used in FB Messenger, it can also be used in IG or Shopify e-commerce online stores

12. Chatisfy

Chatisfy is a chatbot software developed in Taiwan. It is very suitable for use in the Chinese environment. The company itself is also an official Facebook Certified Marketing Solution Partner (Global Marketing Solution Partner). It enjoys a high market share in Taiwan.

In addition to supporting FB and IG, this marketing software can also work with LINE, so it is very suitable to use it to develop business opportunities in the local market.

13. HootSuite

Facebook, IG and other social media often need to attract fans through continuous posts. And thus increase the exposure on the platform. Due to the high frequency of posting and the ideal upload time, it is very time consuming. Hard work.

If you are running multiple different platforms or channels at the same time, it can become a huge and complicated task. This is where social marketing software like HootSuite can come in handy.

The main feature of this type of tool is that it can support the scheduling of posts on multiple social media channels at the same time and automatically upload and publish. In addition to being convenient for management, it can effectively simplify the process and save work time.

HootSuite can be regarded as a very mature social marketing software. It began to provide services in 2008. Since then, its functions have gradually become stronger. The objects of service include FB, IG, YouTube, LinkedIn, Twitter and Pinterest.

This SaaS (Software as a Service) cloud software provides the following main functions:

• Visual post scheduling and automatic posting to multiple media channels
• Built-in editor and free gallery to work directly with text and video posts
• Multi-working environment, can be managed by multiple people
• Detailed data analysis, in addition to tracking the effectiveness of posts, can also conduct analysis and research on popular topics, tags, and competitor channels, as a reference for content creation
• Centrally manage fan messages of various media channels, and do instant palindrome

14. Buffer

It can be regarded as a light version of HootSuite, the user interface is friendly and relatively cheap, it is very suitable for quasi-influencers who operate social media as a tool for content scheduling and publishing.

15. IFTTT

Using automated tools for network task chaining, you can connect multiple popular marketing applications to each other, so that data or content can be quickly disseminated, increasing the level of reach.

IFTTT (IF This Than That) can be regarded as the representative of this type of automated cascading software. A simple application example is: if a new YouTube video is released, it will trigger the execution mechanism of the software, which will automatically log in the Facebook page. Page to share.

16. Zapier

It is the same type of automation tool as IFTTT, specializing in serial automation services for business-oriented application software.

Zapier is good at handling more complex connection tasks, so the price of paid plans is higher.

The God helper used by the Slash Family to Improve Efficiency at Home

The heavyweight professional community platform LinkedIn has a report that working from home will be a major trend in the future workplace. So what APPs can help you complete more tasks at home?

Nowadays, more and more people use the Internet to make money with slash at home. In addition to the original SOHO people and freelancers, slash youth with multiple careers and traditional office workers also have the opportunity to work remotely from home.

If you choose to work from home, in addition to not needing to spend time commuting to and from get off work, you can also adjust your work and rest periods freely, which not only makes you feel at ease, but also the comfortable environment at home can often lead to better work efficiency.

At this time, if you can cooperate with some efficiency-enhancing APPs, the task will often be multiplied with half the effort, and the set goal will be quickly achieved.

In the article " Five Health Magic Weapons of Internet SOHO ", navid4you introduced several methods to create a healthy working environment at home. For example, using a lift table for standing work, choosing a good ergonomic chair and Large size computer screen, etc.

Now, we will focus on popular APPs that improve work efficiency, hoping to bring more results and benefits through these practical network tools.

List of 8 work-from-home apps:

1: Tomato ( Android, iOS )
2: Trello
3: Slack, Skype, Zoom
4: Google Drive
5: APP Link Service: IFTTT, Community Sharing Tool: Hootsuite
 

Time management tool

Although working from home is very flexible, due to the lack of supervision, it is easy to relax and waste valuable working time by some tedious things. Chatting, even taking a casual nap, etc.

A good time management tool can help control your work and rest time, allowing you to concentrate more on work within a fixed period of time. Among them, the popular Pomodoro Technique is a good time management method, and related applications on the Internet Not many.

To put it simply, the Pomodoro Technique is to take a 5-minute break every 25 minutes of work. Through intermittent work and rest arrangements, the concentration of work can be effectively maintained at the best state. In actual operation, we can easily use some APP timings software to execute efficiently.

Recommended free Pomodoro Technique apps:

1. Small tomato

If you have an Apple iOS mobile device, Focus Keeper is also a good option.

In addition, for users of Google Chrome browser, Marinara Timer provides a simple and easy-to-use plugin.

Work progress control

This type of APP can help to formulate a clear task list and completion date, and arrange and combine them according to their importance. The advantage is that you have a clear work direction, and it is easy to complete tasks on time according to the progress.

2.Trello

It is an easy-to-use project management application software with more than 50 million users worldwide. Whether it is an individual or a small team, this tool can be used to effectively control the execution of work.

The most special feature of Trello is that the work items are presented with cards on the board, which mainly inherits the Kanban workflow management method used by Toyota in Japan .

Advantages of using Trello:

• Visual Kanban design for easy tracking and control of work progress
• Provides a simple drag-and-drop interface
• Chinese culture
• Provide a common use environment for multiple people
• There are many pre-planned samples that can be directly applied according to the nature of the task
• "Extended Reading"

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 Instant messenger

Remote home work often has the opportunity to communicate with customers or work partners in real time. A good communication APP can not only send text messages, share information and do video interaction, but also have the function of effectively dividing groups and using permissions.

At the same time, such tools also require good network security controls, complete data backup, and powerful search functions.

When it comes to online instant communication tools, perhaps the first thing that comes to your mind is LINE or FB Messenger. This type of application software is indeed very useful in daily private life, but if it is moved to business occasions, it is often used in function. It seems to be stretched, and it is difficult to meet the needs of work.

These drawbacks are, the lack of multi-person video conferencing capabilities, and the lack of strong ability to save and search conversation records. A more extreme example is that if a LINE or FB account is accidentally suspended, the entire communication channel will be suspended. These are all It's something you don't like to see when you're running an online business.

Now let's introduce several instant messaging software suitable for use in commercial environments:

3. Slack

This is a multi-functional communication application software with more than 10 million users worldwide. Uber , a well-known car sharing service company, uses this software as a communication tool between tens of thousands of employees.

Slack is not only suitable for large companies, but also for SOHOs who are slashing at home, it is also very suitable to use it to communicate with remote work partners, cooperative manufacturers or outsourcing clients.

Key Features of Slack:

• According to the team organization, the task plan area can be divided into multiple exclusive channels (channel), and the public sharing level of the information in the channel can be set.
• In addition to text messages, it also provides online voice and video conferencing functions
• The drag-and-drop interface makes it easy to share text, image or video files on the platform
• Powerful search function to quickly find previous conversations or files
• Provide screen sharing function to facilitate the introduction and explanation of remote video
• It can be integrated with many popular application software (such as Google Calendar, Zoom), and then volatilize higher work efficiency.

4. Skype

This free instant messaging software has started to provide services as early as 2003, and the user base accumulated over the years is also very large.

The functions of Skype can meet the basic needs of both personal and business users. Therefore, it is also suitable for use in the environment of working from home.

In addition to the normal version, this communication APP used to have a commercial version of Skype Business developed for corporate groups, but this version has now been merged into Microsoft Micsoft Teams, which is suitable for large enterprises. For the work group at home, ordinary A version of Skype should be sufficient.

Features of Skype:

• Software development is very early, users are widely distributed, and it is easy to establish communication channels
• Whether it is sending text messages, online voice or video conferencing, it has a good software performance, suitable for one-on-one or small group conversations.
• Provide instant Chinese and English voice and text message translation function, which is convenient for communication with foreign customers
• Ability to make calls online
• Sharing of data files and screens

5. Zoom

When it comes to online video conferencing software, Zoom can be said to be one of the most popular. Although both Slack and Skype mentioned above also have the function of online video conferencing, in terms of overall performance, Zoom seems to be even higher. a piece.

If you want to use the Internet to market products (such as online courses developed by yourself), it is also very suitable to use Zoom to host online seminars at home. In addition to introducing your own products, it can also increase the interaction rate with potential customers. Increase your chances of closing a deal.

Key Features of Zoom:

• The free plan allows you to host an online meeting in HD with 100 participants
• Paid plan can accommodate up to 1,000 people to participate in the conference, while allowing 10,000 auditors
• Participate in video conferences or webinars without a Zoom account
• The meeting content is recorded and backed up in the cloud
• Provide interactive electronic whiteboard function, participants can share content and make notes on the whiteboard.
• The software has high stability and is suitable for work teams that often need to do video conferences or remote brainstorming.

Data management platform

When working from home, you often encounter all kinds of documents, such as doc, pdf, excel spreadsheet, ppt presentations, etc. These data, in addition to sharing with work partners, may also require multiple people online. Work together to complete. At this time, Google Drive, the free cloud data access platform provided by Google, can come in handy.

6. Google Drive

This data management platform combines Office application software, data collaboration interface and cloud storage space into one, which can effectively solve the needs of data creation, sharing and storage when working from home.


Google Drive has no operating system restrictions, and mobile devices such as laptops and mobile phones from Microsoft, Android, and Apple can operate smoothly. In addition, users can get 15G of free huge cloud storage space, so it is online An ideal collaborative creation and sharing field for small teams.

The advantages of using Gioogle Drive are:

• Offers Microsoft Office-like applications that can handle general word processing, spreadsheets and presentations with ease
• Collaborative and cooperative environment, multiple people can jointly create or modify the same data file online. And can effectively handle version control, reducing many unnecessary email round trips
• Data allows you to set a variety of usage permissions, which not only increases the security of the file, but also makes data sharing more flexible
• Compatible with a variety of mainstream operating systems and devices

Automation tool

Office automation is often an important indicator for improving work efficiency. Some work items that originally required manpower can be replaced by automated application software. These time savings, from the perspective of slash freelancers, means that Ability to complete more outsourced cases, or create more transaction orders.

The following two free online automation helpers can easily use programs to help repetitive tasks that take time to operate through simple settings.

7. IFTTT

This cross-platform automation tool that runs on the cloud has a jingle in its name: "IF This, Then That" (if that's the case, do that action).

IFTTT can automatically execute two different applications or devices through pre-arranged trigger conditions.

Software and hardware that people often use at work, such as WordPress, Facebook, IG, Trello, Slack, Google Drive, and even Google Nest smart speakers, etc., can use IFTTT to do automatic data connection applications.

for example,

• Automatically repost new articles published on WordPress blog to Facebook.
• Synchronously reprint completed work items on Trello to Google Sheets (spreadsheet)
• Gmail's additional files are automatically dumped to Google Drive
• Back up your product's Instagram photos to Google Drive.

8. Hootsuite

Social marketing is a very important part of running an online business. You can use Hootsuite, an automated promotion tool, to help you schedule posts and track statistics with fans. interactive effect.

Hootsuite can be regarded as the most widely used social marketing management tool at present, with more than 15 million users worldwide, and can manage multiple social media including Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, etc. at the same time.

The main features of Hootsuite are:

• Automatic post scheduling can schedule individual posting times in advance, and share the content together to multiple designated community accounts.
• Manage multiple social channels in one place, saving time and effort in content distribution and tracking
• Provide comprehensive reports, including analysis of important marketing efficiency indicators such as post CTR, fan location and number of shares
• There are more than 250 applications developed by third parties (such as Google My Business, Slack) for plug-in use. Significantly increase the reach of services
• Provide team multi-person collaborative management function (paid plan)

The current Hootsuite free plan allows you to operate three media channels at the same time, and automatically schedule 30 posts in a month.

How to Improve Your Productivity with Slash at Home

Although working from home is very comfortable and convenient, there are also many potential distractions. How to avoid these unfavorable factors and improve the work efficiency of the slash at home has become a very important topic.

You can try to create a work area at home, which may be a room or a fixed and exclusive corner. Its main purpose is to clearly separate the two areas of work and private home, so that you can have a clear This will have a positive effect on improving work efficiency.

In addition, the ideal office equipment is also a place to pay attention. A good ergonomic chair, a desk that can stand up, a large computer screen, etc., can all help to create a healthier and more efficient work from home environment.

All in all, in order to achieve the goal of working from home efficiently, in addition to the help of the 8 apps mentioned above, you should also hold as if you are running a small company. Really control the cost of manpower and time, and then become a People who work from home to make money.

 7 Ways Instagram Makes Money Online

Brad Lau, a Singaporean IG celebrity who started by introducing food, currently has about 600,000 followers. According to the statistics of the " Instagram Rich List " published by the British marketing company Hopper HQ, the average income of a post with an industry is US$1,700 (about 5.5 USD). million Taiwan dollars).

Aimee Song, a Korean-American Instagram celebrity who once ranked among the top 30 outstanding young people in the fashion design field of Forbes magazine , currently has about 5.5 million followers, and each sponsored post is worth an astonishing $18,500 . (about 550,000 Taiwan dollars) .

At present, Instagram has more than 1 billion users worldwide, and about 70% of the users are under the age of 34. This social platform based on visual images has gradually become a base for manufacturers to win young consumers. For IG people, in addition to the opportunity to receive job matching, there are also many different ways to make money.

1000 followers on Instagram

As mentioned in this article, Nano-influencer with more than 1000 fans is the beginning of striving for cooperation with manufacturers.

IG influencers with a small number of followers tend to have a better interaction rate, and the loyalty of fans is also higher than that of influencers, which will also increase the conversion rate of transactions. Therefore, it is the niche for small influencers to attract business partners and sponsorships. .

New IG limited-time dynamic external link (Link Sticker)
External links are an important basis for making money with IG, which can divert users on the platform to external websites for further marketing profits.

The early limited-time dynamic "Swipe Up" external link function requires accounts with more than 10,000 followers to apply. However, Instagram has officially lifted this restriction in October 2021. Instead, each account, regardless of the number of followers You can freely use the new external link function " Link Sticker ".

This is a great boon for IG accounts with few fans.

Enable IG Business Account

The personal account and business account on Instagram can be freely switched.

• You can use the Insights report (Instagram Insights) through this analysis tool, you can see the performance data such as the exposure rate and interaction rate of the post, as well as the user information such as the gender, age group, geographical distribution area and active period of the followers.
• Provides an automated scheduling tool to pre-schedule the posting of posts, reducing the burden of many operations. In addition, some third-party professional scheduling software such as Hootsuit and Buffer require an IG business account to function properly.
• Add a call to action (CAT, Call to Action) button in the account profile to increase the chance for visitors to click
• Ability to advertise, do merchandising or increase the visibility of a post

Ways to make money with Instagram

IG uses images and short video as a medium, in addition to visual marketing, it also extends some more distinctive ways to make money, which are now introduced as follows:

1. Receive factory commercial distribution

When manufacturers choose Instagram influencers to cooperate, in addition to the number of followers on the account, the engagement rate (ER, Engagement Rate) will be another extremely important reference indicator.

The conversion formula for the interaction rate is as follows:

Interaction rate = (likes + comments) / IG followers

Suppose your IG account has 1000 followers, and a post gets 20 Likes and 3 comments. The result is (20 + 3 ) / 1000 = 0.023

That is to say, the interaction rate of this post is 2.3%. From the perspective of community marketing, IG influencers with an average interaction rate of more than 2% will have a greater chance to receive business from manufacturers or advertising agencies With sponsorship.

As for IG's industry distribution income market , the difference between them is also very large. In addition to the number of trackers and the level of interaction, other factors such as the industry category and the promotion product itself will affect the amount of income.

For example, some manufacturers will give NT$300 per thousand followers. Others will be as much as NT$1000. Of course, you may also encounter unpaid reciprocal experience programs that only give free samples 🙁

However, a common rough calculation method is that every 100 IG followers can get $1 USD (about $30 NTD) in karma income.

After having a sufficient number of fans and a good interaction rate, how can we increase the opportunities for brand cooperation and business matching? There are several directions for reference:

Join the online celebrity matching platform to make it easy for manufacturers or advertising and marketing agencies to find your services. Service platforms with good reputation such as: KOL Radar , Internet celebrity hunter , SOOCKER

Take the initiative to find some merchants whose product attributes can match your IG customer base to make self-recommendations.

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 2. IG store for product sales

The shopping function of IG is not fully open in Taiwan, only managed clients of some marketing companies can use it. The neighboring Asian countries that have been opened include Japan, South Korea and Singapore. I believe that in the near future, Taiwan can also be fully Open this e-commerce earning channel.

Basically, the shopping function of IG is an extension of the FB store. The merchant needs to enable the e-commerce function on the Facebook fan page first, and link the established product catalog to the IG account. After completing these basic settings, You can put product tags in the posts, and link to external official websites for follow-up shopping guides and transactions.

In addition, the above shopping function will gradually evolve into a new version of the IG store (Instagram Shop), and has a shopping cart function, allowing customers to directly place an order and pay to complete the transaction without leaving the IG platform.

3. Do Affiliate Marketing

Many ways to make money online use affiliate marketing as one of the revenue channels. Affiliate marketing simply means selling other people's goods or services and earning commissions from the middle.

Generally, affiliate marketing is done on the Instagram platform, mainly through the self-introduction field (bio) or the external link in the limited-time dynamic, and replace it with a promotion link that can track the effect. As long as a visitor clicks, it will be taken outside. Product pages or landing pages to complete marketing tasks.

The actual operation process can be:

① Joining the affiliate marketing platform The advantage of joining the platform is that there are more than hundreds of marketing programs to choose from, and it is easy to find suitable products to promote. Platforms with good reputations such as iChannel and Affiliate in the Chinese market . In addition, global orientation CJ Affiliate , Skimlinks can also find many products suitable for promotion in Chinese areas .

② According to the interests of following fans, find out the appropriate marketing plan, and put promotion links in appropriate places (such as self-introduction, limited-time dynamic posts).

In addition, affiliate marketing can be operated in the following ways on the IG platform:

①Paying Shoutouts to actively contact and track enough IG accounts, and IG accounts that match the fan audience with the promoted products, to see if placement marketing can be done.

After negotiating the price, in addition to using the position of the other party's self-introduction column to enter the promotion link, your marketing post can also be pushed to his followers through the other party's IG account, which will increase the number of users you reach. The commission income will also increase as a result.

In addition, if the number of fans on both sides is similar and the content of IG is similar, you might as well try a free friendly post reciprocity (S4S, Shoutout for Shoutout), the practice is that each party sends each other's advertising posts. While increasing exposure opportunities, It also achieves the purpose of mutual benefit and win-win.

②Advertising Since Instagram and Facebook share the same advertising delivery tool, you can directly operate IG's advertisements on the management platform at the back end of FB.

Paid advertising can effectively target the audience, in addition to effectively grasping accurate traffic, it can also bring a high conversion rate. Although the advertising cost may be large, it will often bring good profits through continuous optimization.

The above-mentioned affiliate marketing methods on IG are of course also applicable to the marketing promotion of IG stores.

4. Outsourcing services online

To make the number of followers on Instagram grow steadily, not only do you need to post pictures or videos frequently to maintain freshness, but you also need to invest a lot of effort in interacting with fans. These time-consuming tasks often make many IG account owners who are overwhelmed. Start looking for someone outside to help.

There are also many related services extended by IG. If you happen to have expertise in this area, you can make money by providing services on outsourcing platforms such as 104 Outsourcing Network, Tasker, and Fiverr.

A few common IG services include:

• Art editing or professional photography Graphic design, photo shooting, video clips, etc.
• When the editor thinks about the content, writes the copy, schedules the posting, interacts with the fans by leaving a message, and tracks the performance data, etc.
• Host IG live broadcast to do product introduction or sales
• Influencer marketing matchmaking service Assist manufacturers to find suitable IG influencers for marketing industry cooperation
• Advertising on behalf of operators Use advertisements to target specific audience groups to help manufacturers run brands or do sales
• Rental of IG advertising and marketing space If your IG account has a lot of followers, you might as well use the rental method to provide external links and place customers' advertising posts or marketing videos. For example, provide 48-hour posts, plus a limited-time dynamic Instagram Advertising and marketing mix, TWD $300 per placement.

5. IG TV (IGTV)

This video and audio channel on the Instagram platform allows uploading videos of 15 minutes in length. For accounts with a large number of followers or verified accounts, the length of the video will be relaxed to 60 minutes.

Since IGTV can put external links where videos are introduced, it is convenient for product shopping guides or affiliate marketing, so it has become one of the important channels for making money with IG.

In addition, no matter how many followers you have, as long as you share the IGTV video to the limited-time dynamic, you can also get the external link of Swipe Up by the way. For small IG accounts with few fans (compared to 1 It is a small shortcut to increase income.

In addition, Instagram also recently launched the IG TV advertising profit plan, which is very similar to YouTube's Adsense advertising profit sharing model. IG will play commercial advertisements on your video and audio channels, and according to the number of plays and clicks, the advertisement will be placed Revenue sharing to channel creators.

6. IG Reels short video

Reels can be said to be the Instagram version of TikTok. His videos are mainly 15 seconds long. Like the IG TV just mentioned, it also provides a similar function of e-commerce shopping. Visitors can directly use the product tag (product tag) Make shopping transactions.

In addition, due to the short video characteristics of Instagram Reels, it is very suitable for advertising and marketing, so it will gradually be favored by manufacturers and sponsors, and become an important channel for KOL influencers to match their careers.

IG's Reels feature is still very new and is currently being gradually rolled out around the world.

7. IG Live (Instagram Live)

Through the immediacy and interactivity of live broadcast, the distance between the audience and the audience can be quickly shortened. Whether it is a new product launch conference, industrial and commercial cooperation, online shooting or affiliate marketing, it can often achieve good results.

In addition, IG live broadcast also provides an official fan sponsorship channel. Fans purchase sponsorship badges (badge) in advance, and then use them in the live broadcast. In operation, it is a bit similar to YouTube's super chat.

How to quickly increase IG followers

Using the Internet to make money is nothing more than to master sufficient Internet traffic. The more IG followers, the more opportunities to generate more income. Therefore, how to quickly increase followers and improve your Internet celebrity status, also It has become the most important topic to use IG to make money.

There are many ways to increase the number of IG followers, the more common ones are:

• The frequency of posts should be high, and good content can be used to gain more followers and likes
• Make more messages and interact with fans to cultivate a sense of trust
• Hold quizzes, give samples, free lottery and other activities to increase fan stickiness
• Use the hashtag tool to find the right mix of hashtags to increase the chances of your post being found
• Timely track or tag other IG accounts of the same type
• Increase the number of followers you follow through paid advertising
• Make good use of IG's built-in Insights report (Instagram Insights), to really grasp the situation of interaction with fans, and to make corrections and improvements in a timely manner
• Use the scheduling tool to automatically post when users are active (you can get it from the IG Insights report)
• Cooperate with other like-minded IG accounts to do friendly post reciprocity (S4S) to increase each other's exposure