In today’s digital landscape, referral and affiliate marketing have emerged as powerful strategies that allow individuals to earn money by promoting products or services they believe in. This article will provide a brief overview of these marketing approaches and highlight the exciting opportunity for customers, content creators, and influencers to generate income by becoming affiliates for our B2B platform 888Lots.com
Referral Marketing: Referral marketing is a simple yet effective way to spread the word about a product or service. It involves existing customers recommending a business to their friends, family, or colleagues. When someone referred by an existing customer makes a purchase or signs up, the referrer receives a reward or incentive. Referral marketing harnesses the power of word-of-mouth recommendations, leveraging personal connections and trust.
Affiliate Marketing: Affiliate marketing takes referral marketing to the next level by expanding the network of promoters beyond existing customers. Content creators, influencers, can join as affiliates to promote products on behalf of our platform. Affiliates earn a commission for each successful sale generated through their unique affiliate links. This performance-based model ensures that affiliates are rewarded based on their contribution to driving sales or conversions.
Benefits of Affiliate Marketing
Earn Passive Income: Affiliate marketing offers the opportunity to generate passive income. Once you’ve set up your promotions and attracted an audience, you can earn money while you sleep as referrals convert into sales.
Flexibility and Freedom: As an affiliate, you have the flexibility to work on your own terms. You can choose when and how to promote the products, allowing you to fit affiliate marketing into your existing schedule.
No Product Creation or Inventory Management: When you become an affiliate for 888 Lots, you can focus purely on promotion without the burden of creating or managing products. With us, you can sell hundreds of items and dozens of pallets while we handle the inventory management and shipment. Leave the product creation and inventory hassles to us and maximize your earning potential through effective promotion.
Scalability and Income Potential: With the right strategies and audience, affiliate marketing offers significant income potential. As your audience and promotional efforts grow, so does your earning potential.
Opportunity with Our B2B Platform: Our B2B platform presents an exciting opportunity for customers, content creators, and influencers to become affiliates. By joining our affiliate program, you can promote our platform’s wholesale offerings to businesses. Whether you’re a satisfied customer or an industry expert, you can earn commissions for referring businesses to our platform and driving successful conversions.
Why Become an Affiliate?
At 888 Lots, we offer a one-of-a-kind opportunity to become affiliates to a global B2B Wholesale Liquidation Platform and unlock a world of earning potential. Here’s why joining our affiliate program is a smart choice:
Unique Features and Benefits
Our B2B platform stands out from the competition with many exceptional features designed to help you customers find the best deals. Here’s what sets us apart:
Extensive Product Range: We offer a diverse range of 80+ categories of Individual Items and Lots tailored specifically for resellers and online shops. This means you have a wide selection of offerings to promote and cater to various industry needs.
Cutting-Edge Technology: 888 Lots is implementing the proven affiliate platform Refersion. The platform is providing seamless user experience, advanced analytics, and robust tracking capabilities. You can easily monitor your performance, and maximize your earning potential. And you can always be sure that you get all that you have earned.
Dedicated Affiliate Support: We believe in the success of our affiliates, which is why we provide dedicated support to ensure your journey as an affiliate is smooth and rewarding. Our team is available to assist you with any questions or concerns you may have via Email marketing@888digital.com and via WhatsApp +359 879 147 158 or in the WhatsApp group chat “888 Affiliates”
Special Deals and Offers: We have plenty of different options to advertise as the platform is designed to cater many needs:
With Individual Items, you can take advantage of promoting exclusive opportunities such as negotiation, trending products, recently reduced prices, and specialized sections like the Eight Cents Store, Dollar Store, Five Dollar Store. We have an exclusive service of One Dollar Shipping per item.
We have also plenty of Lotsbargains. Fixed price lots, Dollar Store lots, and Five Dollar Store lots, allowing you to tap big resellers market and offer great deals.
With Manufacturers direct, we connect directly with manufacturers, ensuring competitive pricing and a seamless supply chain with Master Cartons for your audience.
Profit-Sharing Partnership: By partnering with our B2B wholesale platform 888 Lots, you’ll be part of a profit-sharing model that opens up incredible earning potential. Unlike retail orders, our average wholesale order value is significantly higher, meaning your commissions have the opportunity to soar. With our base affiliate program offering a competitive 1% commission, your efforts will be handsomely rewarded.
Getting Started as an Affiliate
Becoming an affiliate with our platform is a straightforward process that can be completed in a few simple steps. Here’s how to get started:
Via link from email, post or chat you can find a link to our affiliate application form. Please fill out the form, providing your first name, last name, email, password, PayPal email, phone number, company, address, city, state, country, and zip/postal code. We value your privacy and protect your information according to our Privacy Policy. Sharing with us your advertising channels for example will give us an idea who is in your audience. While pet owners is nice, it is not really a target. Shops for pet supplies on the other hand is 100% match. Of course we acknowledge that audience more often is a mixture and it is not solely represented by SMB owners.
We will review your application and if we also think that your business is a good match to ours we will approve the application. This is manual process and time for approval may vary due to holidays, workload etc., generally we will do it within 1 work day.
Familiarize yourself with the platform’s features and resources
Once approved, you’ll gain access to a comprehensive dashboard where you can monitor all your affiliate activities. Take some time to explore the dashboard. There are several tabs that you will use in your regular activities.
Dashboard: This is the main page of your affiliate dashboard where you can view an overview of your affiliate activities. It includes information such as your referral code, unique referral link, and options to share the link on social media platforms. You can also access financial details like your next estimated payment, commission in approval, previous payments received, and commission reward.
Creatives: In this tab, you’ll find a variety of marketing materials categorized by size such as banners, rectangles, leaderboards, squares, etc. These creatives can be used to promote our platform on your websites, channels, and social media platforms. Copy and paste this code into your website to show the creative. Have in mind that dynamic creatives will auto-update when we change the image. We can also downwload the creatives so you can attach or publish them on your own terms. Don’t forget that links needs to be with your affiliate ID.
Conversions: The conversions tab allows you to search for and track the conversions made through your referral link. You can specify the date range and approval status to filter the results and monitor your successful referrals.
Payment History: Here, you can view a record of your payment history, including payment IDs, date and time processed, total conversions, and the estimated total paid. Have in mind earned commissions are payed in about 30 days to sure that however rare it is, there is no refund or other issue with the purchase.
Messages: The messages tab serves as a centralized location for all your communication with the 888 Lots. You can find and manage your conversations here. You can ask for additional information, submit ideas or even request creatives to boost your conversions.
Reporting: In the reporting tab, you can generate new reports based on different criteria such as account, creative, SKU, and conversions. You can set up recurring reports and customize the report settings according to your preferences.
Settings: The settings tab allows you to manage your general account information, including your name, address, payment settings and password. You can update and modify these details as needed. We expect PayPal to be filled initially in the application form and if change is necessary please inform us.
Promoting 888 Lots
When creating content to promote our platform you basically have to create content to promote profit. Lets look at some examples of profitable products, such as the “Williams Men’s Gardner Leather Chelsea Boots” consider the following strategies:
Highlight Profit Potential: Showcase the product’s profitability by providing key information like the selling price on popular platforms like Amazon. These boots for example without any promotions are $300.00 in 888 Lots and Amazon price or MSRP (Manufacturer Suggested Price) is $539.00. This is more than 40% difference.
Sell Individual Products from Wholesale Lots: Educate resellers about the opportunity to purchase wholesale lots and sell the individual products separately for a profit. Highlight the potential of buying lots like the “Lawn and Garden 3 Boxes” with LOT 47795 as an example. Explain that by purchasing this lot, customers receive 24 units of various products within the lawn and garden category. Each unit has an average price of $8.67, making the total cost of the lot $208.00 instead of Amazon price of all items $572.69. Emphasize that your visitors can then sell these individual items at their desired price point, potentially earning a higher profit margin. Provide specific examples of the products included in the lot. Mention the estimated selling prices on Amazon for each product, highlighting the potential profit opportunity.
Use Profit Calculators: Introduce profit calculators as valuable tools for resellers. These calculators can help potential customers estimate their potential earnings when reselling the product, taking into account factors like shipping costs and fees. Emphasize how these calculators can assist customers in making informed decisions and maximizing their profits.
Incorporate Social Proof: Mention the high Google Business rating of our B2B platform to build trust and credibility. This rating serves as a strong indication of the platform’s reliability and customer satisfaction. Share testimonials or positive feedback from previous customers to further validate the quality of our products and services.
Maximizing Earnings
To increase earnings and increase conversion rates, focus can be on versatility and the uniqueness of 888 Lots:
First Order Discount: Highlight the exclusive advantage of our platform, which offers a 60% discount on the first order. This unique proposition sets us apart from our B2B competitors and provides a strong incentive for potential customers to make their initial purchase and your first conversion from them.
Variety and Stock Availability: Emphasize the vast range of products available on our platform. With over 50,000 items across diverse categories, including Automotive & Industrial, Clothing & Fashion, Electronics & Appliances, Home & Garden, and more, there’s something for everyone. The extensive stock ensures that affiliates have a wide selection to promote which will match their visitors and audience preferences.
Good Profit Margins: Showcase the attractive profit margins achievable through our platform. By promoting products with competitive prices and favorable wholesale rates, affiliates can tap into the potential for higher earnings.
Top Brands and New Products: Highlight that our platform features products from top brands, offering customers trusted and recognized options. Additionally, emphasize that we provide brand new merchandise, ensuring the highest quality and desirability for customers. This combination of top brands and new products enhances the appeal and marketability of the offerings.
Fresh Merchandise at Affordable Prices: Position our platform as an exceptional source for fresh merchandise at competitive prices. Highlight the advantage of accessing a wide range of high-quality products at wholesale rates, allowing customers to stay ahead of market trends and offer their own customers desirable items.
Thousands of Satisfied Customers: Showcase the credibility and popularity of our platform by mentioning the thousands of resellers, shops, online stores, brick-and-mortar retailers, gas stations, car washes, hotels, restaurants, and more who already work with us. This establishes social proof and demonstrates the trust that existing customers have placed in our platform.
By becoming affiliate and incorporating these helpful tips into your promotions, you can effectively communicate the benefits of our platform, attract potential customers, and maximize your earnings.
