Easy Affiliate + Member: Plug Into the Growing power of Referral Marketing WordPress Membership Plugin - Membership Websites

Mar 7, 2024

The Easy Affiliate + Member: Connect to the Increasing Potential of Referral Marketing

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It's never been easier to set up and run an affiliate program for the Member website with Easy Affiliate. We give you the lowdown and some tips for getting the most out of this powerful growth combo.

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It's difficult to quantify the extent to which affiliate marketing is a major factor in the e-commerce marketing scene. The affiliate marketing industry was estimated at more than $20 billion which is expected to almost double by 2030.

This is especially impressive when you consider that for the most part affiliate marketers are only paid commissions after they've made a sale. This is millions of dollars worth of revenues and salesgenerated through this particular marketing strategy.

If you're a business that hasn't utilized affiliate marketing or you're planning to pivot away from costly affiliate programs to increase the number of members on your site, this latest addition will be a great benefit to your business and your pocket.

Presenting Easy AffiliateAll-in-one Affiliate program plugin for WordPress which is now integrated with Member.

Follow this article for a comprehensive overview of the primary features of this plugin complete with suggestions on how you can make the most of its profits-boosting potential for your own business.

Affiliate Marketing 101

First, just in case you're completely new to affiliate marketing, here's an easy explanation to bring you up to level:

Affiliate marketing is a commonly utilized strategy in which individuals are paid for the promotion of a company's products or products or. In essence, whenever a purchase happens through a unique referral link an person who is an affiliate (or more commonly, the affiliate) receives a fee from the selling.

This marketing technique offers a range of advantages for members and websites that sell e-commerce:

  • When you use affiliate marketing, you only pay out once a sale has been completed. It is an extremely economical and low-risk method to grow your member base without having any upfront cost associated by traditional methods of advertising.
           
  • The fact that it is based on performance also means it's easily scalable and is suitable for membership-based websites regardless of the stage they are in expansion. When your membership base expands rapidly, you don't need to cope with the growth in marketing efforts or cost.
           
  • Affiliates, especially those who have a good alignment with the site's purpose, will be able to reach certain, specific groups. Have a soccer fanzine or even a vegan cooking class? The niche affiliates you have are best ideal individuals to help spread the word. When they are on your side the marketing campaigns will be extremely focused, attracting members who are more likely to engage with your content and the community.
           
  • Contrary to single-day ad campaigns affiliate marketing is an continuous promotion of your membership site. The constant exposure keeps your site in the forefront and also attracts new members over time.

Now you're all caught up about affiliate marketing and the potential it has to benefit your business is obvious now is the time to look at what the Easy Affiliate integration can mean for your site's membership.

What is Easy Affiliate?

Easy Affiliate Hompage

Easy Affiliate lets you run a an entirely self-hosted affiliate marketing program straight out of your WordPress dashboard.

If you run a self-hosted affiliate plan, you can have more say over your affiliate application process and are in direct control over the payouts and commissions and get rid of the transaction fee charged by third-party platforms.

And as the name suggests this makes the entire process of setting up and operating your software easy - with no prior knowledge required, virtually anybodycan create this program for their business.

This is because Easy Affiliate comes packed with all the tools and tools you'll require to make your program successful and each one is designed for ease of setting up and use.

Then let the walkthrough of major features get underway!

Easy Affiliate Features and Strategies for Success

Connect effortlessly to your eCommerce Plugins

With the press of one button, Easy Affiliate can detect and link to the top e-commerce platforms like yours truly ( Member), PayPal and WooCommerce..

You can enable your integrations either during Easy Affiliate's setup wizard or simply by going to Easy Affiliate Settings > Settings > eCommerce tab.

Screenshot of the ecommerce settings in Easy Affiliate highlighting the  Member Integration


       It's very simpleto join your affiliate program to the products and services you sell through your site.

Screens for high quality and a valuable affiliate

Opening your affiliate program to everyone might seem like a good idea, but in affiliate marketing, quantity doesn't always equal the quality.

Studies show research shows that less than 1% of affiliates account for more than 90 percentage of total conversions and sales. This underscores the importance of focusing on the top performers and collaborating with them. best performers.

The simple act of accepting everyone's application can take time and energy away from nurturing valuable relationships with high-quality affiliates. It is possible to be overloaded with support and questions concerns from a lot of affiliates, instead of paying attention to the people who create the results.

For a greater return on investment, it's advisable to manually review and approve the new affiliates and ensure that their audience aligns with the market you want to target.

Easy Affiliate streamlines this process by integrating an application into the an approval process. How to install it:

Go to Easy Affiliate > Settings > Affiliates tab, and select"Application" for the registration type.

Screenshot of the Easy Affiliate Application Process

In this section, you may opt to send emails to notify applicants they have been accepted and approved.

When you've picked the type of registration the Easy Affiliate software automatically generates an account page. Potential affiliates will have to fill out an application form, and wait for the approval of your company before they can begin promoting your product.

The form asks for essential details that includes:

  • First name
  • Name of last name
  • Email
  • Websites they plan to use to promote their products
  • Their marketing strategy
  • Links to social media profiles/profiles

The detailed data allows users to assess each candidate's fit with your business. Through requiring applicants to list their websites for promotional purposes, this enable Easy Affiliate to monitor and identify fraudulent actions through flagging illegal site-related promotions and more details on that later.

Enhance Conversions through Compelling campaigns

For the greatest rewards from an affiliate programme, make sure you get your affiliates involved in each of your marketing efforts

You've got a brand newly launched product or feature or sale you want to advertise This is a great chance for your associates to talk about the brand you represent.

Affiliates are continuously on the lookout for fresh concepts for content and ways to give their followers something new. Engage them in the latest announcements and features and you'll get an positive symbiosis in the engagement of your customers.

As affiliate program host, you are able to increase the impact of your affiliate program and further encourage affiliates by equipping them with the tools to make each campaign an absolute success.

Easy Affiliate simplifies it to make unique links to certain websites.

Say you have a landing page with everything you need to know about the new feature you've just released. If you distribute a specific link for the landing page you'll be able to direct your customers' visitors into the center of the matter, and bypass your homepage to take a strategically crafted plunge into your funnel of sales.

Screenshot of Easy Affiliate Add New Creative feature

Easy Affiliate allows easy distribution of campaign images and banners.

Your affiliates will be armed with attractive and branded content that's not just easy to use but increases the visibility of your campaign. It's a win-win: effortless material for them as well as increased visibility to you. Transform your affiliate program into an effective factor that pushes your business forward one campaign at a at a time.

Follow Affiliate Performance through Google Analytics

It's not just that Easy Affiliate features it's own live reports as well as tracking clicks and sales, but unlike other affiliate program plugins, it also makes it super easy to monitor other key KPIs in Google Analytics.

It's due to its UTM Affiliate Link Tracking feature.

UTM Affiliate Tracking EA

By simply enabling this option, Easy Affiliate will automatically incorporate UTM parameters to affiliate links so you can get in-depth insights on things such as...

  • Top performing affiliates
  • Highest converting campaigns
  • What websites do your affiliates' partners publish their content on?
  • What type of content works optimally?

...right right now in Google Analytics.

This allows you to maximize your affiliate marketing program and strategies to ensure maximum return.

Motivate Marketers to Sell More by offering Special Commission Rates

Encourage affiliates to pull out every stop for your affiliate program, by rewarding the those who excel with a specific commission rates.

With the software's Custom Rules add-on, you can create customized affiliate commission rates to reward high achievers and specific behaviors. You can, for instance, create a higher commission rate for affiliates that exceed a specific amount and offer an exclusive rate for the most recent product you've launched to help promote the popularity of your latest launch. This is all feasible and simple with Custom Rules.

Screenshot of Easy Affiliate's custom rules setting for special commission rates
Customize your affiliate rate basing on the total value of sales by using Easy Affiliates. Custom Rules that you can add to

Protect Profits with Fraud Prevention

Through Easy Affiliate's Fraud Prevention extension, it's easier than ever to block or flag commissions that are suspected of fraud before you pay the cent.

Choose whether to let the flagging or automatic block of commissions from:

  • Own referrals - if an affiliate makes a purchase through their affiliate link.
  • Sites that are not approved to refer clicks - the website that made to the click does not belong to one of the listed sites on the affiliate's application.
  • Affiliates with a suspicious conversion rate - Address anomalous conversion rates that significantly deviate from the norm, suggesting that there may be a fraudulent strategy.
Screeshot of Easy Affiliate fraud settings

This proactive approach safeguards your affiliate earnings as well as ensuring the integrity of your affiliate program creating a solid foundation of confidence and trust.

Reward Affiliates Quickly and Simply with One-Click Payouts

Through Easy Affiliate's one-click payouts making payouts is as straightforward as it sounds and makes the payment process simple and quick.

Instantly rewarded Just one mouse click is all you need to pay your affiliates. It eliminates the need for any delays or complications.

Boost affiliate morale Fast payments ensure that affiliates are happy, motivated and engaged your business.

Streamline the operationsForget about the hassle of manually processing payments. One-Click Payouts make your life easier and frees up your time to focus on growth and strategy.

Screenshot showing Easy Affiliate one-click payout.

Once your affiliate has reached the minimum payout amount (which you can easily adjust in your preferences) You're only one click away from paying your affiliate's profits. Easy Affiliate works with PayPal's 1-Click Payouts providing a quick and secure way to pay affiliates.

How to Integrate Member With Easy Affiliate

Member has now been integrated natively with Easy Affiliate - meaning that they're made for each other joining them in a cinch.

Easy Affiliate currently supports the above integrations of the following payment processors for members.

  • PayPal Legacy,
  • Stripe,

Here's how to set Easy Affiliate set up and connected to Member:

  • Buy an Easy Affiliate license.
  • Visit your Easy Affiliate account downloads page, and then download your plugin .zip file to your personal computer.
  • Login on Your WordPress Dashboard.
  • Visit Plugins and then Add New Plugin. Upload the plugin
  • Click Browse Select the .zip file and click Install Now
  • Once download is complete After download is complete, click Activate.
  • From your WordPress Dashboard head to Member > Setup > Integrations Other Services and click on the Easy Affiliateicon.
Screenshot of  Member integrations with Easy Affiliate selected
  • You should see Easy Affiliate within the right-hand corner of your dashboard. Click on it and then settings.
  • Visit the "E-Commerce" tab
  • Membershould be detected by default and switched on.
  • Click to Update Options

And you're done! This is as easy as that.

The next step is to promote the message of your program, and begin accepting applications.

In no time the site will see revenue increase and your site's membership growth.

Conclusion

With Easy Affiliate and Member with Easy Affiliate, you can have everything you need to create an effective affiliate program for your site that is a member.

Easy Affiliate provides everything the tools you'll need to build and maintain a seamless, streamlined affiliate program. It will increase your reach and bring in new members who are more active in your community.

Be sure to keep your affiliates motivated through clear communication, prompt payment and also by sharing best practices for promotion. Use the data insights obtained from Easy Affiliate and Google Analytics to refine your strategy and concentrate your efforts in transforming your affiliates into real brand ambassadors.

The success of your site is their success. Together, you can achieve remarkable increase in membership for your website.

It all starts with this one integration!

Have any queries or would you like to share some of your own experiences in affiliate marketing? Send us your thoughts by leaving a comment below.

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