Social media have sometimes clamped down on marketing in general on their sites, but many people still do very well there. The first thing you want to do is make sure that your niche and topic are not against their rules. 

Facebook in particular can be very strict on this and they are forever changing their policies, terms and conditions etc.

What you do is create valuable, personalised content for a page or group that hopefully will perform well for your chosen topic.  Use sites to connect to your blog and showcase your information and affiliate links. 

Twitter doesn’t require a lot of content and you’re allowed to promote on the site without apology. People do search for things on Twitter, and you can make affiliate commissions even if you’re not filled to the rim with followers just yet. Make sure you follow people in the niche so that they’ll follow you and hopefully you’ll get your links seen by more potential buyers. 

FaceBook fan pages and groups are a premium way to make affiliate sales! If you can build a fan page or group on Facebook, then you can do the same thing you can do on a blog pretty much – write long posts, insert hyperlinks, and engage in comments (one of our favourite methods)

Just bear in mind that you don’t own this site, so at any time you could wake up tomorrow and it might be gone. That’s why it’s great to use in conjunction with an affiliate blog to increase your earnings. 

We can testify to this after a week of complete madness on Facebook (more on that for another day)

Pinterest is built on images, but you can Pin things on here and direct traffic to your blog so you can build a list and contact people in the future.  

People follow your boards and then re-pin them on their own boards and before you know it, your recommendations have gone viral. You can do the same with digital products for topics like weight loss, for example – a huge niche on Pinterest. 

Email marketing lists are another way to increase sales. Some affiliates mistakenly believe they don’t “have to” build a list when they’re just affiliates and not product creators.

But you should want to build a list – because that way you can repeatedly market to the same individuals who have proven that they are buyers in the past. Give away a free report to get them on your list and then email them whenever you have a new review on your blog or whenever you want to link directly to a product and review it or promote it within the email itself. 

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