January 19, 2007
Doing Product Reviews To Make Affiliate Sales
The first thing to realize and understand is that most people are afraid of getting ripped off buying products online. I’m sure that you’ve been to a review site or two and have read the supposed unbiased opinion of the website reviewer. The website will have reviews of products to stay away from and the ones that are the safest to buy.
These review sites are far from being unbiased. This is a marketing strategy that the review site owner uses to sell his or her affiliate products. Generally you will get a rating of the good products and the most expensive is the one that almost always wins out because the more expensive the product, the more money that the review affiliate will make in commission when he or she makes a sale. Many times, but not always, the reviewer will be an affiliate of all of the good products reviewed. Some review sites, will throw in products that he or she is not involved in appear unbiased.
I know that you may think that this type of strategy is unethical, but I disagree. To me, if the reviewer truly believes that the product he or she is selling is of high quality and does what it claims it does, I see nothing wrong with it. Keep in mind the visitor came to the review site to get a second opinion. The final decision to buy is still solely on the visitor. On the other hand, if the reviewer has never used the product or has no idea if the product does anything that it claims it does, then it is unethical to even have an opinion about the product one way or the other let alone, review it.
I think that this is a great strategy for an affiliate marketer to use because he or she is telling the visitor about the product without having to resort to using a lot of hype. The affiliate gives the visitor an opinion, which is what he or she came for in the first place and hopefully have made their visitor more comfortable and more importantly has helped the visitor make a positive decision to buy.
If you are having trouble selling your affiliate products, you may want to try selling using the review strategy to help you convert your affiliate products. Don’t make false claims. Be a true authority of the products that you review by using, and knowing them well. Give this a try and I think that you will find that it will be a lot easier to convert your affiliate products to sales.
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