We all know video is hot and a well done product demonstration or TV commercial video clip can super charge your pre-selling efforts and boost conversion rates. However VERY few merchants are offering video ads to affiliates yet, even though the merchants themselves may have great sales videos on their sites. What's a poor affiliate to do? Here is a video marketing trick I just thought of that could work very well in certain circumstances.
<center>Click Below to Watch - Top 10 Tech Products Countdown Video
<a target="_new" href="http://www.buy.com/buytv/"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/162/427018300_fc9f515688.jpg?v=0" alt="top ten tech products video"</a/></a></center>
So what happens after you click to play the video? It takes you to the merchant site to watch the video. The image above was just a screen grab image of the video with player from the merchant site and could have had an affiliate link embedded. (I didn't use an affiliate link.)
Note: above is not the perfect example - normally you'd want to link direct to the Tech Top 10 video - but it's in java so I couldn't.) The Buy.com site also has consumer review videos and their latest TV commercial you could direct link to.
So now picture a golf club merchant or exercise equipment merchant. They have great sales and product demonstration videos on their site but don't offer a way for affiliates to add the videos to their site with your affiliate ID embedded. Just take a screen grab of the title video screen or the best action shot, add it to your site and link to the video with your affiliate link. When people hit play to watch it, they'll be cookied and sent to the merchants site to watch.
When merchants don't have good banners you make one right? Well if they won't give you videos, take a screen shot of their video and link to it.
TSK TSK A big company like Buy.com should not need to monetize their site with Adsense. Just noticed the Google ad on top right of the page. Why would a company with a wealth of products like Buy.com has, want people to surf off their site to buy tech products somewhere else for a few Adsense pennies? STUPID! Bad leak for affiliates too Adsense ads are even on all the product pages. STUPID, did I say that yet??? Side note, someone should tell Zvue all their PAID ads on Buy.com go to a <a target="_new" href="http://www.zvue.com/zvue_ggle_01_mp4.aspx">404 error page</a>.
STOOOPID Advertisers! (My tip turned into a rant) ;-)
<center>Click Below to Watch - Top 10 Tech Products Countdown Video
<a target="_new" href="http://www.buy.com/buytv/"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/162/427018300_fc9f515688.jpg?v=0" alt="top ten tech products video"</a/></a></center>
So what happens after you click to play the video? It takes you to the merchant site to watch the video. The image above was just a screen grab image of the video with player from the merchant site and could have had an affiliate link embedded. (I didn't use an affiliate link.)
Note: above is not the perfect example - normally you'd want to link direct to the Tech Top 10 video - but it's in java so I couldn't.) The Buy.com site also has consumer review videos and their latest TV commercial you could direct link to.
So now picture a golf club merchant or exercise equipment merchant. They have great sales and product demonstration videos on their site but don't offer a way for affiliates to add the videos to their site with your affiliate ID embedded. Just take a screen grab of the title video screen or the best action shot, add it to your site and link to the video with your affiliate link. When people hit play to watch it, they'll be cookied and sent to the merchants site to watch.
When merchants don't have good banners you make one right? Well if they won't give you videos, take a screen shot of their video and link to it.
TSK TSK A big company like Buy.com should not need to monetize their site with Adsense. Just noticed the Google ad on top right of the page. Why would a company with a wealth of products like Buy.com has, want people to surf off their site to buy tech products somewhere else for a few Adsense pennies? STUPID! Bad leak for affiliates too Adsense ads are even on all the product pages. STUPID, did I say that yet??? Side note, someone should tell Zvue all their PAID ads on Buy.com go to a <a target="_new" href="http://www.zvue.com/zvue_ggle_01_mp4.aspx">404 error page</a>.
STOOOPID Advertisers! (My tip turned into a rant) ;-)