Money making opportunities with Konga
One of the best ways to make money online
with or without a website of your own is affiliate Marketing. Konga Affiliates
program is an official affiliate program monitored by Konga.com – A Nigerian
Online Store.
This is one of the best ways to make money
online as all you have to do is promote products sold on Konga e-commerce
website and people buy the product you are promoting,
you get paid some amount
of money “Affiliates Commission” .
Getting Started with Konga Affiliate program
There is almost no strict procedure to making
sales with Konga affiliates and getting started all you have to do is sign up
for the program, and enter the required space and submit your request after
which you wait for their approval.
You will need to fill in your
Website/Blog to promote your affiliate products while signing up. Click Here to Sign up for the Konga Affiliates Program.
Note: Konga pays affiliates via Bank Wire Transfer
so ensure to correctly fill in your Bank Details while signing up for the
program. After you might have accept their Terms and Condition, click sign up.
Check your Email Inbox and you will see konga notification telling
you ” Welcome to Konga Affiliates” and after which konga will manually review
your application and choose to approve or decline your request. If you want to
promote Konga Deals on your Social Media accounts like facebook page and
twitter account then you might just enter your Social Media link in the website
space while filling the sign up form, now I assume you have been approved!
On approval you will receive another mail
congratulating you on your approval and this mail will contain your Username
“email” and the Password generated for you by Konga, You can login and edit
your personal profile in your konga dashboard and also change your default
password.
Getting Affiliate Product Links and Promoting
Deals on Konga
This is where some affiliates make mistakes that leads to poor
conversion but in this article I will be making it clear enough.
There are few ways you can promote a Konga
product, for bloggers you can write product reviews or promote via PPC programs
such as Google Adwords, Addynamo or even Social Media PPC campaigns even if you
don’t own a website.
This is yet another way you can make money
online with Social Media.
So let’s get started with how to set up Konga
Affiliate Program, how to create affiliate links for products, how to create or
write a product review that converts and any other useful information on how to
be successful partaking in Konga Affiliate Program.
1. Sign Up: The first step to getting started with Konga Affiliate
Program is to sign up with the program. The sign up process is quite simple,
simply click on the “Becomean Affiliate” and fill the sign up registration form.
Carefully fill the form providing the
accurate information where required. Provide your website/blog URL but if you
do not own a website or blog you can use your social media account and remember
to specify your website/blog type.
Your commission will be paid to you via “Bank
Wire”, so ensure to correctly enter your payout information and accept the
“Terms and Conditions” and click the “Signup” button to complete your sign up.
Usually you will receive an email from Konga
congratulating you for joining the Konga Affiliate Program. Konga will manually
review your application and approve or decline your application. They often
approve registrations if you have a website/blog or a good social media
influence if you are using your social media profile as your site.
On approval another email will be sent to
your with your affiliate login details and login URL from your affiliate
manager.
2. Editing your Profile: The next thing to do is to login to your
Konga Affiliate dashboard and edit your personal information.
You can then change the default
password sent to you here to something you can easily remember.
3. Creating Affiliate Links for Konga Products: This is where most bloggers find it
difficult, but I will teach you an easier way of creating affiliate links for
the Konga products you want to review/promote.
There are several ways you can create
affiliate links for Konga products, either by using the Banner & links or
DirectLink URLs. I prefer the later and I will teach you how to create a
DirectLink URL so you won’t have to create affiliate links every time you want
to promote a Konga product.
So when you go to “Promotion” and
choose “Campaigns”, you will see Banner & Links, DirectlyLinks URLs,
Ad Channels, AffLinkProtector and Reports under the Quick navigation Icons. For
now we will only be interested in Banner & Links and DirectLink URLs for
now.
Banner & Links – When you click on Banner & Links you will see an
already made banner and links ads created by Konga for the various categories
of products they sell. Clicking on the “Get banner code” will reveal the ads
code you can copy and embed on your site. You can switch between normal and
direct link versions though.
You can also create a “Dynamic link”
for specific products by first copying the URL of the product you want to
review. Let’s say you want to review the Infinix Joypad 8S and the URL is http://www.konga.com/infinix-8s-black,
copy the URL and click on Dynamic link under any banner or link campaign you
want and paste the URL on it, click the “Get code” button to generate a script
you can embed on your site to get the banner displayed.
You can sort the type of ads you want to
embed on your site on the Banner type section by un-checking the ones you don’t
want and clicking the apply button to filter.
This process is a little bit complicated for
people; I struggled with it for awhile until I discovered even an easier way of
creating my Konga products affiliate links.
DirectLink URLs – The DirectLink URLs is a way of using the product URL
as your affiliate link throughout your website. You don’t need to generate any
dynamic links, just choose any product you want to promote from Konga website,
copy the URL and link to on your site. It’s that simple; in a case where you
still want to promote the Infinix Joypad 8S, all you need is to link to the URL http://www.konga.com/infinix-8s-black directly on your site.
But to be able to do this, you must apply for
a DirectLink URLs on Konga affiliate Program, if your site is approved you can
now use product URLs as their affiliate links.
From the Quick navigation Icons mentioned
above under Promotions, click on the DirectLink URLs. Click on the “Add URL”
and enter your URL using the star convention pattern *yoursite.com*, for example if your site is
netmediablog.com, enter *netmediablog.com* on the URL field and save.
Once your site is approved, you can then use
product URLs as your affiliate link. Using the DirectLink URLs has several
advantages. Visitors won’t know they are clicking on an affiliate link and they
won’t have to damage or remove your affiliate parameters from a link before
making a purchase so you will lose your commission.
When this is done, the next will be how to
review products to make a sale. In this article I will be concentrating more on
writing product reviews and driving sales.
4. Promoting Konga Affiliate Products: Apart from using PPC campaigns to promote
Konga affiliate products, one can simply write reviews to drive sales.
A well written review can drive hundreds of
sales but the problem is that many people do not know how to convince someone
to buy their products.
Your reviews must have a good and convincing
sales pitch to it. You have to inspire/provoke someone to buy a product after
reading your product reviews.
Here are some of the tips you must apply on
your product reviews to inspire someone to buy the product so you can earn your
commission.
a. Use large/clear images that best describe
the product
b. Write a sales review and not just a product review
c. Show the buy now button at least in two places within the review preferably after the first or second paragraph and on or before the last paragraph. Style it to stand out from the normal text, if possible use a subheading on it.
d. Specify/highlight the necessary part or specifications of the product and tell people why it is the best to buy.
c. Show the buy now button at least in two places within the review preferably after the first or second paragraph and on or before the last paragraph. Style it to stand out from the normal text, if possible use a subheading on it.
d. Specify/highlight the necessary part or specifications of the product and tell people why it is the best to buy.
5. Commissions and Payouts: Konga pay different commission percentages
for different categories of products.
9% commission on sale of Fashion products
5% commission on sale of Toys/Kids products
3% commission on sale of Home & Kitchen
3% commission on sale of Electronics products
So depending on the category of products you
promote you can earn different percentages of commission. Fashion products earn
9% while Electronics and Home & Kitchen products earn just 3%.
This shouldn’t be your criteria for choosing
a product to promote. Ensure whatever products you promote matches your niche.
You can’t be a tech blogger and be promoting fashion products, I am not saying
you can’t I am only saying you shouldn’t.
Ensure to promote products that naturally
match your site niche, that way you won’t provoke your audience. If you are a
tech blogger you can conveniently integrate tech products promotion such as
mobiles, computers and other electronics with your blogging without making it
obvious to your audience you are trying to sell them a product.
Konga Payout threshold is in 10k, 15k, 20k,
25k and 30k. You may want to choose the 10k payout threshold for a start so you
won’t have to miss payment even when you have made over 10k on your commission
pause.
Konga affiliate payments are made on the
second Friday of the new month after you have met your payout threshold. So if
you chose 10k payment threshold and you made 10k commission for the month, you
should be expecting your payment on the second Friday of the next month.
Remember to enter your bank account details
on your profile page to receive your commissions when it is due.
Conclusion:
I hope I have made Konga Affiliate Program easy to understand and
follow.
Now you can start making money from your blog other than from adsense alone.
While others are writing product reviews, you should be writing why you
should buy this or that product and earn money convincing people to buy Konga
products.
If you are not promoting Konga Products then you have been missing a
lot.
If you have any challenge or questions you may want to ask me about
Konga Affiliate, please use the comment section below.
Your contributions are also welcomed.