Monday, September 05, 2005

offline marketing an online offer

There are so many different ways to promote an offer. Everyone has different ways, so I thought I’d lay out some of the most common methods, so you can see how others are doing it as well. In the future, we’ll try delve a little deeper into the different forms of promoting the merchants offers. I’ll start with offline marketing.

 

Offline Marketing is making smart marketers a lot of money.

 

Believe it or not, some affiliates are doing well using offline methods, such as advertising on radio, tv or the press, or doing offline PR. The first question people always ask is how you use offline marketing to promote online offers as you have to give a long url fulled with your affiliate ID so that your visitors get tracked.

 

Here’s a little secret that some of the top affiliate marketers use. Register a domain name which is memorable, and simply redirect it to your affiliate URL. Simple, but few use this innovative way of marketing offline. So when you are being interviewed on the radio, or place a classified in a targeted magazine or newspaper or take out an advert somewhere, you use your unique domain name. As an example, if you are promoting an offer for our affiliate network, TrafficSynergy, using the url which we give you, for offline marketing is a little cumbersome, and there won’t be that many people offline who go and type in the entire url.

 

So go and spend the 10 bucks and register a domain like www.number-one-affiliate-network.com (that’s just an example as it probably has been already registered).

 

But when you promote offline, you now advertise that URL and it redirects to your affiliate URL.

 

And when people tell each other about the advert they saw or the radio show they were listening to, they’ll mention the number-one-affiliate-network.com as the URL – and you get credit.

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