Today I want to open your eyes to the ninjitsu art of creating upsells for those that have bought hosting through your affiliate link. It does seem completely unconventional but sit back for a moment and you’ll learn some of the sneaky ninja tricks you can use to boost your affiliate commissions.
You are promoting hosting, right?
I’m not claiming to be making a massive amount of money but if you’re blogging and not using affiliate links to hosting companies you’re severely missing out.
Hosting companies pay anywhere from $30 – $200 per sale; the higher package and length someone buys, the more you’ll earn.
In the real of talking about blogging or setting up websites (which many of us blog about), you’re creating the perfect system of referrals. You’re already using hosting, you’re well knowledge about it and you’re giving them tips that compel them to get started with their own website. It’s a perfect sales funnel!
So before you finish the rest of this article, get on over to your hosting company and sign up for their affiliate network. It literally takes a few minutes of setup but afterward you could be pulling in money for quite some time. Okay, go, now!
Enter the 36 chambers of commissions
This is where we go all ninja-craziness mode.
When you make an affiliate sale with your links you’re going to be notified via email. Right then and there you’re going to perk up because you know it’s money in the bank but why do you want to just stop there?
The person that just picked up hosting has just started – this is the perfect opportunity to create an additional sale and be a very helpful person.
What am I talking about? Here’s a clue:
- After a person buys their domain they’re going to need setup; shoot them an email and offer to help out. This creates a great networking opportunity because you’re there from the beginning.
- The person will then install a blog or website theme; more often than not they don’t have much knowledge about the important of a great design (despite reading your articles). This is where you give them a little push to take a look at premium themes – that’s right, throw in that affiliate link.
- After the new theme is up, why not go ahead and help them start out by offering a guest post or just leave a couple great comments? You’re setting up some great networking. But here’s the ninja part – send over an uber helpful email that tells them what you think of their blog – critique it. Be honest now.
- If the person wants to know more about blogging, you could then setup some kind of consultation (cha-ching!) or recommend them a blogging/website resource (cha-ching!).
So what you’re doing is: Hosting > Theme > Networking > Consulting/Resource.
You just turned a simple hosting affiliate commission into a sales funnel. How’s that for some ninja tricks?
What do you think about this tactic? Leave a comment below.
Great ideas for taking a simple hosting sale and turning into an awesome sales funnel.
If a new person needs all of that help (as they do) they might as well get it from you. And you give them help with guest post etc. along the way.
God stuff
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Just think of the networking opportunity as well, ya know?
You could immediately create a long time subscriber because you helped them from the beginning. Additionally, if they joined your list they would be the perfect candidate if you were to release a product around blogging, websites, etc.
In fact, this way, they NEED you.
That’s kind of a marketer’s dream isn’t it, until you can get the whole package, the pieces need to separated.
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Yeah! If you throw in that consulting side of it, even have a discount for “first time bloggers” you could get them coming back over and over again – a single hour session isn’t enough to cover it all.
In fact, you could break it into some kind of consulting course – ooooh, continuity! Just think:
Call 1: Blog setup, implementation, WordPress guide
Call 2: Writing, ideas, etc
Call 3: Marketing your blog
Call 4: Driving traffic
Call 5: Social media
Call 6: Monetization
Call 7: Advanced stuff
You could essentially turn it into a course. One call a week. Even if you charged say $10 per call that would be an extra $70 on top – if you had 10 people doing it a month it would be $70. 30 and you’re up to $2100!
Plus, you don’t have to make any product – no writing ebooks, creating videos or audio courses.
Oooh, you could record audio sessions and later repackage them as seperate courses you sell on your site as well!
Thu – in many ways you bring out the best haha!
You know this reminds me of the fivrr review you just wrote. Starting off cheap I know but it’ll be a great testing ground to give new clients an-y-ting from this list.
I’m just might take up this idea even on the writing part. New project!
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When I was hired on Fivver to start writing hosting reviews, I went into it thinking that the only ones out there that mattered were GoDaddy, and HostGator. But the person I’m working with said he could place orders for 70 of them, I thought I better investigate this a little more. There’s at least 80 listed on Commission Junction, and plenty offer affiliate links through their own website.
I decided to start focusing some energy towards creating a site around hosting sites. There’s so many hosting companies out there, it’ll be hard not to break even (it helps that the domain was on sale for less than $2).
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Wow, now that’s thinking outside of the box. It’s great that you turn a quick job into something you can benefit from in the long run – that’s what I like a lot about writing for clients, it kind of pushes you to new subjects you may never have touched before. Additionally, you can learn the business backend because if you pay attention you can pick up on what sort of direction they are going with the articles; replicate something – a bit of competition but there’s always room on the net
There was another blog eblogtip.com which was doing very well with hosting and there was always discount codes so that’s one of the things I thought was interesting. Other than the big names like Hostgator, Bluehost, Dreamhost, Go Daddy, I think the rest aren’t known much so there’s hesitancy in trying them. Would love to see if when you put this site up James.
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Ya know,
I haven’t gotten around to implementing my buttons on hosting accounts. But I’ve done that with my other blog. Just not getting traffic to it so it’s kind of dormant there. Over all, this sales funnel is going to whip up some pretty neat cash, especially now that my report is relevant too.
Kind of noticed you got the ads up here as well. You got the funnel going on?
Good to know about this Murray as it’s something I will get on as well, but now you’ve reminded me again.
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Glad we can bounce ideas around like this Thu – cheers to any success you can gain through the method and when you get around the implementing hosting affiliates – since it’s passive it’s always amazing when you see that ‘you’ve made a sale!’ email come through.
Hey Murlu,
Awesome insights. Great way to create a sales funnel and get visitors, subscribers and eventually turn them into clients.
Love the discussion here. It gave me some wonderful ideas I can implement in my blog..
Thanks guys.
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Just got to go above-and-beyond, brainstorm new ideas and figure up what compliments what you do – that’s the secret to success
Thanks for the comment Adam.
I dig your style man….more I read, more I like
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I wouldn’t go too far back haha – it gets a bit dry because I had a stick up my ass when I first started writing on Murlu.