One of the ways I first became aware of affiliate marketing was through a site called Rpoints which is a “cashback community”. Now I know cashback sites are one of enemies of the affiliate marketeer, but I found this site very useful as a way to learn more about UK e-commerce and also earnt a bit of money with zero risk.
As a member of Rpoints, like the hundreds of other cashback sites, you can earn cashback when you use their links to visit a website and purchase a product or service. In some cases you simply need to register for a site to get points (I have no idea why merchants allow this, the sign up must be pretty worthless to them compared to genuine sign-ups).
One of the extra features at Rpoints though is you can also earn by promoting an offer on their forums. When you post an offer on Rpoints you earn 10% of the points that each member earns that takes up the offer, so if you have no website or a site with no traffic this gives you way a getting some revenue from a great offer you know about.
Using this method I found I could :
- See what merchants and what types of offers convert well. Remembering though, that the context of a deal hunting site is different to most sites you (I) will probably develop.
- Refine my text to encourage click throughs. Including an image helps for example as does helping the reader as much as possible – spoon feed them the info they will want.
- See what affiliate schemes were available and have an idea how much % they pay.
- Get feedback on offers, because people can reply in the forums, e.g. if they have found a cheaper way to get the product or service.
- Earn some money.
Another aspect of earning at Rpoints is you can get rewarded for referring other people (as I am doing here!), but I am happy to do that because I have been paid by them so I know it works.
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I can understand the cash bck principle, but I wouldn’t be happy about having to keep buying products in order to earn money myself.
I prefer to pay a one off fee (e.g. £10 per year) and then promote an in-deamnd product at zero cost to myself.
Plus, my product is one of those products that prospers even in a recession – something very relevant in today’s uncertain times.
Ohhh, Thanks for sharing all this things here.