Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Affiliate Marketing: Do You Provide Customer Services

By Anson Hall

One of the advantages of working as an affiliate marketer is that you do not need to take care about the after sale services. The merchant or the sponsor will be taking care of it. To this end you can concentrate on promoting the products.

However, you should always remember that you still need to provide customer services in a sense that you provide these services for your visitors regarding your own affiliate site. This will certainly help you a lot when you are promoting the affiliate products or services.

One thing which is true is that you will not be doing what the merchant do. You will not provide after sale services. It is the job of the merchant at the end of the day. You will only be providing customer services for your affiliate only.

You may be a bit confused at this point. You may not really know what you should do in order to provide the customer services. Yes it can be quite difficult for you to imagine what you should do. We will try to discuss some of the things you need to know.

It is very important for you to create a contact us page on your website. You may think that you do not really need it. However, it is totally wrong. You will certainly need it so that your visitors have some ways to contact you.

It is also very important for you to check your email box every day. The contact us page will just be useless if you do not check your email box. You will need to do it even if you have just set up your website. You do not want to miss any chance to give a good impression to your visitors.

You are not providing services directly related to the products you are promoting. Instead, you are providing services that is related to your own affiliate site. For example, if someone cannot receive your newsletter, you may need to send to the visitor again.

It will be quite impossible for you to make your affiliate site error free. However, you will try to improve it day by day. When some visitors report an error, you will of course need to fix it. Make sure that you will reply your visitors when you have fixed the issue.

You may wonder why you need to provide such services. This is because you would like to have more loyal visitors. A lot of visitors will not purchase if it is their first visit to your site. Yet, if they visit your site from time to time. The chance is that they will make purchase later on. - 15246

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