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Affiliated marketing suggestions

https://textita.com

I am wondering if anyone in the IH community has had success getting sales for their products using affiliate marketing . I am looking to promote our twilio alternative.

I open to all suggestions.

submitted this linkon June 24, 2019
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    I've had success both running affiliate programs as well as being an affiliate. I personally think you're way too early to be thinking about this, outside of a less formal referral system for your existing users.

    Would think for something like your service, doing a "tell your friends on Twitter to receive 100 extra credits" would be an easy way to start building some social proof and won't cost you an arm and a leg. Could even do a give / get offering allowing folks to give a few credits to a friend and receive credit in return when they sign up.

    If you really wanted to go big on getting larger affiliates talking about you, the pay out would need to be lucrative. Compensation to affiliates usually exceeds the price of a month / block of service because the folks running the programs know what their customer LTV is and are willing to pay way more to get the sale knowing the potential.

    Going to be hard to get anybody excited unless you're giving out 20$+ per sale.

    The real talk is that your site needs a major overhaul if you're expecting anybody to take it seriously and be willing to share you out. There's nothing wrong with simple and sparse, but it needs to be well put together.

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      great answer, I would add that talking about your competitor (especially if it is well established and valued almost $ 20 billion) is not a good marketing strategy. It seems popular nowadays but it's still not a good strategy.