This Is Why You Are Not Generating Sales
Why Am I Not Generating Sales Online?
Generating Sales Online Is An Art This Is Why You Keep Failing!
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What you will learn about making sales online.
Primary reasons you are not generating sales online!
Sharing our most profitable strategies for online sales.
Diving deeper into generating online sales.
Free stuff for my Medium subscribers!
Primary reasons you are not generating sales online!
There are 4 primary reasons you are not generating sales online. You are targeting the Wrong GEO location at the wrong time. Or your presentation does not create curiosity.
Perhaps you are providing the wrong product to the right audience! Or you are not interacting with your audience. Chances are that you might be driving poor-quality traffic and, therefore often also have a high bounce rate.
What is a bounce rate all about then? We’re glad you asked, and a very good question too.
A bounce means that your visitor is not scrolling your site, bridge page, affiliate offer, etc. Meaning, they do not visit beyond the home page. A “visitor” only becomes that when spending time on your site or bridge page.
These four facts are what will result in zero to very little sales if you’re lucky! Generating online sales is an art, not a contest. And a masterpiece takes time. Being an art, you want to see your marketing efforts as a blank canvas.
You must now create a masterpiece that will draw the attention of the right audience, at the right time, with the right solution (affiliate offer). Remember the being a problem solver and not a salesman phrase we so often mention?
GEO targeting must be the most important because it establishes affordability. This is where high-ticket affiliate products with recurring billing work rather well.
But that is also how to create a consistent monthly income with affiliate marketing, providing your affiliate offer solves a problem. And offer a proven solution that works.
Because you want your buyers to remain a member, therefore, you might want to test the product first before promoting it to your audiences and readers. Be personally convinced through results.
Only then should you promote any affiliate offer. It is important to know what you promote, so that when your audience has questions. Then you will have the answers to provide through personal experience.
The above-illustrated earnings are from an affiliate offer we have been promoting and using for a rather long time. Because it solves most of the problems affiliate marketers are struggling with.
Next, we will share some of our most profitable traffic strategies for generating sales. Which works with affiliate marketing, your online shop, and your Medium profile. Basically, these strategies will drive traffic to any URL.
Sharing our most profitable strategies for online sales.
Let’s dive right into the free traffic strategies we find exceptionally effective. The added advantage of these traffic strategies to generate online sales is that they are all 100% free to apply and use.
You will shortly have access to 4 proven (free) traffic strategies to start generating sales online. But, like anything else worthwhile, it will require quite a bit of effort and time from your side.
But before we proceed, let us just mention again the importance of bridge pages. In other words, a one-page website URL for instance, redirects to the affiliate offer.
Because you never share direct affiliate links anywhere, ever! There are also advanced cloaking strategies with (free) plugins like Pretty Links Lite. Using this plugin to cloak affiliate links, also renders your affiliate offer indexable in search engines!
Medium Stories.
Medium allows you to include affiliate offers in your Medium stories, but when you do. Then you must include an affiliate disclosure (as illustrated below) with each Medium story that contains affiliate offers.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Please do not copy this disclosure for personal use, it serves only as a guideline. Always provide and use your own original ideas when creating any content.
You will also notice this same affiliate disclosure in the footer area of this particular Medium story. Because some of the links in this post are affiliate links.
Because you will need these tools if you want to maximise your exposure and increase your online sales. When you plan on competing at a professional level, you will need certain tools to do so.
This is why setting an online budget is so important. We have a set budget, paying for software, plugins, extensions, and several other tools. Because that is what is necessary to compete at a professional level!
We are also covering the strategies and alternative ways of making money on Medium outside the Medium Partner Program. Because the Partner Program is not available to all countries yet.
You might want to check out that post too below, because being among said countries (South Africa) too. We had to come up with viable solutions for our readers.
YouTube Channels And Videos.
Creating YouTube Channels and videos can prove rather effective, providing you have the tools to boost your video SEO efforts. To do that you will need 3 browser extensions.
Create your own YouTube channels, because there are literally a mountain of YouTube videos that will show you how to do that. So we’re not going to get into all of that.
We also prefer you figure out using the tools mentioned above, because the best teacher always has been, and always will be you! But below is a screenshot of a ranking video on YouTube.
With the help of AI, VidIQ, Tube Buddy, and Keywords Everywhere. See how the video is ranking for search phrases directly related to a particular affiliate offer.
As illustrated below, you will notice the green and blue indicated ranking positions. Well, that is VidIQ and Tube Buddy in action for free!
But why is that important?
Well, in the phrase “profitable targeting”. Meaning that the people landing on this video are interested in a particular affiliate offer. Namely, Video Profit, which is a JV Zoo affiliate offer.
Making it much more likely that someone viewing the video, might already be interested in purchasing the product. But next, we will get to a video strategy where you can also turn Medium stories into YouTube videos.
Thus driving visitors and readers to your Medium stories, which include your affiliate offers. These are proven free traffic strategies with a rather targeted concept to boost sales.
Turning Medium Stories Into Videos.
This can easily be done with 2 free video-creating and editing software programs. From there you simply choose the more attention-grabbing text in your Medium story.
Remember, people, are mostly looking for answers, solutions, guides, and free stuff. Especially with online marketing and making money online. One of the most competitive niches by far!
Use the text portions of your Medium story that best address the need, offer a proven solution, and benefit. You must convince your viewers that this is what they have been looking for.
Below is an example of a Medium story we turned into an HD YouTube video with Canva. Which we also used to create the video thumbnail. The SEO part will be covered if you use the free tools provided earlier.
Quora And Medium Fusion.
Let’s take a brief look at this traffic strategy to generate online sales because we have already covered it in depth with another Medium story. Therefore you might want to check out the Medium story before the next subheading.
In a nutshell, you look for questions on Quora related to your niche, and a particular Medium story which offers an affiliate product (solution to their problem).
You also want to look for questions with a high follower count as illustrated above. That way you have a chance of reaching a wider audience.
Write an informative answer, as you would any other online content to generate online sales. We have recently learned, that it is believed that Quora now give preference to longer answers.
Answer your question in such a way that it directly relates to the Medium story you want to share in your answer. Because that is the next step in this strategy for online sales.
With the demonstration as illustrated below, the question on Quora is: “Can you use a Clickbank affiliate link in a Google AdWords ad?”. With the answer, we offered reasons why you cannot do that.
Along with a solution to solve the problem, and get Google Ads traffic to affiliate links through YouTube. You want to include your Medium answer related to the topic in the answer footer area.
When you enter your Medium story URL, it should automatically load a thumbnail as illustrated above. Therefore, be sure that when you use any text in your presentation image.
You focus the text to the centre of the image because thumbnails get cropped from the sides with medium and in search result pages with search engines on mobile devices.
This can result in your entire message being lost. Completely defeating the purpose of the presentation in the first place. With this strategy, you will also be getting traffic from Quora to your Medium stories.
Diving deeper into generating online sales.
Generating online sales is a lot of work, as you might have noticed by now with the free traffic strategies mentioned above. How much you will make depends entirely on you.
These are free content marketing and traffic strategies from which we have seen sales. Not thousands of dollars per day, but the point is that they clearly work! It’s about the strategy, not the reward!
The sales as illustrated below were mostly from Medium visitors, but the volume will depend entirely on a few paramount factors. Considering and focusing on these is a sure way to boost your sales.
We will be taking a brief look at the basics of these 4 factors when it comes to generating sales online. Because curiosity plays a paramount part in generating online sales.
Remember that a curious audience will always be an active audience. Creating curiosity is one of the keys to generating online sales. And you can do that by leveraging the following.
Your Presentation.
Usually in the form of an article presentation image, video thumbnail, profile cover, etc. Your presentation image is what your visitor sees first, and this is where they will either scroll past or stop to take a look.
When creating presentation images and using text with the image as we have mentioned earlier. Do focus the text on the centre of the image. Try to address a need and suggest a solution with your presentation design.
Your H1 Header.
Your article or video title AKA the H1 header. Because that is what the content will be showing up In search engines for. Do the research and find trending topics.
Then address those needs by means of your H1 title header, which will in most cases be the search phrase your content will be ranking for. That is why the research is so important. Base your titles on trending topics.
First 2 to 4 Lines Of Text.
The first 2 to 4 lines of text are usually automatically used as search engine meta descriptions. You want to include your target keywords and search phrases within these sentences. While sentences should not exceed 20 words.
Your content title will also form part of this meta description, so try and keep it below 60 characters, also counting spaces. Yes, we know you are allowed more characters.
But then your title will be cut short in search result pages display. Kind of like losing part of your message, like when including presentation image text to the sides.
GEO And Interest targeting.
This is where it gets extra interesting, GEO location targeting because it establishes affordability. You must calculate the time difference from where you are, to that of your target audience.
For instance, we are in South Africa. So, when we want to target a United States audience. Then the time difference is +8 to +9 hours. Therefore if we want to meet our target audience at 12 noon.
Then that means we must be posting, publishing, and sending emails at around 8 PM or 9 PM on our side. With interest targeting, this is simply where you distribute your content and how well you address a need.
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