TIPS, RECOMMENDATIONS & MORE
(This is all the fun stuff!)
This page contains some helpful tips and a collection of information for you to become a successful Smokerolla affiliate, IF YOU TRY. There's a lot to learn, so grab a cup of Joe or roll up a fat one and explore.
1) Attitude is Everything!
- Have fun with being an affiliate because your attitude about being one is the key to your success!
- Don’t be bashful or shy about being an affiliate entrepreneur in any way, but rather, be loud and proud and embrace the fact that this is a way for you to create your own wealth from the comfort of your own home working in an industry that you love.
- The money you make will largely be based on your own efforts, so we strongly suggest that you don’t be low key about writing or saying your affiliate links or coupon codes in your posts, but rather, be clear in pointing people to your links, coupons, and banners, etc, using creative tag lines and humor. HAVE FUN WITH IT.
(because... The fact of the matter is that you can TALK ALL DAY LONG about how cool our products are, but if you never INSTRUCT people as to how to find or USE YOUR LINKS OR COUPON CODES to:
1) save your fans and followers money off orders of Smokerolla products they love and want, and/ or
2) help you earn a sales commission by them buying from YOUR TRACKED AFF CODES,
then your efforts and traffic won't pay you anything because the system won't recognize the sale as coming from you... (and that would be a cryin' shame!)
So, talk it up and give out your coupon codes and/or aff links with some pride and attitude! - Also, once you see a few sales in your account and realize this is a REAL way to earn some actual extra income, why not consider making some money from different sources by becoming affiliates of other companies too? In today’s modern day digital and social media driven work environment, being an entrepreneur working from your own home is trending, cool, and smart. (Realize we don’t require that you ONLY work as an affiliate for Smokerolla, but instead actually suggest that you branch out and work as an affiliate for other products or companies you believe in too… meaning, our affiliate agreement with you is not exclusive to us - and most successful affiliates have multiple brands, products and companies they work with.)
The bottom line is that the better you get at the concept and skills of selling products as an online affiliate, the more success you will have with earning some income for yourself- and we want you to succeed because your success is our success!
2) Be Curious & Learn from Other’s Success
- The more you learn about affiliate marketing, the more knowledge you will gain about the subject overall, which will in turn give you better insight into knowing what others like you are doing or not doing to achieve (or limit) their success.
- To that end, it should be no surprise that YouTube has a wealth of information about the subject!
3) Product Showcasing & Creative Placement is king!
- Getting our cool products in FRONT OF YOUR FANS TO SEE is the key, so, consider as an alternative to flat out showing off your bong or accessory to your viewers by holding it in your hands, (which is certainly one good way to do it!), you could also try placing it in the background of your scene, and when people ask or make comments about it, you can tell them what it is and where they can get it! (A smooth and effective alternative to a hard sale.)
- Also, if you have different “stores” or channels for things you enjoy selling (or multiple affiliate accounts with other companies), but no website, we suggest the https://linktr.ee/ MOBILE PLATFORM as a handy "internet landing page" to SHOWCASE and organize your affiliate links to our Smokerolla.com listings and all the rest of the online goodies you sell or market!)
4) Rewards, Incentives & Options:
- Regarding the coupons: After you make a sale or two, we give the choice to you to determine how you want to split the total allotted 30% discount percentage using the COUPON CODES. To illustrate the flexibility of choice, some examples of alternative commission splits to the default are:
- Offering the entire 30% discount off of the orders made by your referred fans and followers for a special event, featured sale, or holiday season. (in which case, the affiliate would earn 0% commission.)
- Or you could offer only 5% off the orders made by your fans and followers and keep the the remaining 25% as your sales commission! (not recommended because it lessens the incentive for using them, but possible.) You get the point. Its up to you to decide but there's a reason we set the default split the way we do.)
5) Social Networking Tips & Other Ideas:
- USING THE INSTAGRAM PLATFORM:
- Many (the MAJORITY) of Smokerolla's affiliates are INSTAGRAM users and want to know how to optimize the app to drive affiliate traffic. Basically, we recommend a combination of 2 things:
- using our affiliate COUPON CODES in your posts, (more on that below), and...
- 2) Because the user profile of an Instagram account allows only one outlinking url, we recommend using href in your bio to give your followers a customized "landing page" for your multiple affiliate LINKs and other stores you want to showcase them from. (For those of you with websites, you could also use that sole link in your bio to take them to your site for the same purpose.)
- A simple example of this combination of tools and codes in action would be:
- Create a post on your feed showing the Smokerolla item you want to sell.
- Describe it, add hashtags, etc, as you normally do, GIVE THEM YOUR AFFILIATE COUPON CODE IN THE POST, and then add "SEE LINK IN BIO" to refer your potential customers to your linktr.ee page or website link.
When they visit your linktr.ee bio, they'll be able to access whatever linking urls with your aff codes in them that you want your visitors to go! (including other sales channels, websites, affiliate programs, etc, that you want.)
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REMINDER ABOUT HOW YOUR AFF COUPON CODES & AFF LINKS WORK WITH EACH OTHER:When entered on checout, the AFF COUPON CODES GIVE THE ALLOTTED DISCOUNTS TO YOUR CUSTOMERS and WILL OVERWRITE YOUR AFFILIATE LINKS IF USED IN TANDEM ON CHECKOUT, but if the COUPON CODE doesn't get input into the system for whatever reason, your customers won't get any discounts off their orders however you WILL still earn your 15% commission from the sale.
- IG Hashtags Note:
This is a subject many people want to know about: Can they use hashtags in their IG postings to drive affiliate traffic? And the simple answer is yes, but you'll need to do a little research on best practices, expert advice and IG rules and recommendations. The Google machine has TONS of info about this subject.
