Recession-Proof Affiliate Marketing Ideas

[Linda Buquet]

<center><strong>Sorry, the looming recession is no laughing matter,
but I've been looking for an excuse to use this pic!</strong>

<a href='http://mine.icanhascheezburger.com/view.aspx?ciid=1132901' ><img src='http://images.icanhascheezburger.com/completestore/2008/5/13/affiliatesgots128551724099669086.jpg' alt='funny affiliate cat picture' /></a><br />moar <a href='http://icanhascheezburger.com'>funny pictures</a></center>

In case you missed it Ros had a good blog post yesterday about good products and services affiliates can focus on promoting during a recession.
<blockquote><strong><a href="http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/8-recession-proof-product-service-ideas-for-affiliates/">8 Recession-Proof Product & Service Ideas for Affiliates</a></strong>

"However, there are many ways to survive and even thrive during a recession and diversification is typically the first key to continued prosperity. Fortunately for most affiliate marketers, making the leap from promoting luxury items to ‘recession-proof’ products that consumers use regardless of their economic status or level of income is fairly simple. We can add new products to our current mix or start pumping out content on a new domain, join some affiliate programs, ramp up the marketing and be in a new business in relatively short order.

So, if your commissions from the sale of cars, diamonds and fur coats have been falling off of late, here are a number of recession-proof product and service suggestions for your consideration."</blockquote>

 

[kbldshmn]

It's a good, informative article. Thanks for posting, Linda.

 

[winningratings]

Recession..what recession!

OK
So there's a recession in USA - but does that mean you business will go up in smoke?

The answer is a definate no!

You see the internet is so massive and there are so many sales taking place all over the place every day online, that with the best will in the world, your efforts are only a very small pea in a very big pod

So by learning more effective marketing and advertising strategies you can infact increase your bit of the action, and so increase your sales significantly

How can you do that

Well there are a few ways, but I would say today the top performing methods to advertise your website and generate the most sales for free, are:

First build an email list, so that you can send out messages to your potential customers on a regular basis. This means adding a signup box on your website, and then using a third party autoresponder service to send out all your messages

Second produce videos on video sharing sites like YouTube.com with a good reference to your website. If you can produce several videos on the same theme, then this will qualify for a channel all on its own, which will make it more likely that people will use your content on their site, especially with the new Adsense program incorporating videos and ads together. Someone might be using your video on their adsense site - which of course means the more people that do this, the more traffic will come to your website

Third - the same kind of idea on the other social networking sites will work well too