In this beginners tutorial, I will outline all the basics and strategies you can use to promote digistore24 products on Facebook for free without paying for any ads.
Digistore24 is an affiliate network with great quality products compared to those that appear on the ClickBank marketplace.
For this tutorial am going to be explaining how you can promote your Digistore24 affiliate links on Facebook for free even without having your own website, following, and email list.
Signup For A Digistore Affiliate Account
We are not going to waste much time on this as Digistore24 allows people from all over the world to signup and start promoting their products. If you can’t access ClickBank or some Affiliate Networks then you can head over to Digistore24 and create your personal affiliate account.
Ensure you are creating an affiliate account not a Vendor and affiliate account or a vendor account.
Keep in Mind, You will need the following to signup for a Digistore24 account.
- Your Business or Personal Email address.
- Phone Number.
- Postal Code and Personal Information.
- PayPal Account Email.
- Your custom Affiliate Name. You will be required to create this on spot.
After you have created your account go ahead and confirm your email address and you are in. The next important thing you should never forget is that you will need to add your Paypal Email Address which can be different from the one you used to sign up or the same it doesn’t matter.
Choosing the Digistore24 Right Products To Promote.
By now you should know how I find the best products to promote on Digistore24 as an affiliate and if you don’t know about this criteria then I recommend my general tutorial about Digistore24.
Here is a brief summary about the overall criteria;
- Find a product with an average payout of $20+.
- The product needs to have an affiliate page.
- The product should have an average conversion rate of 8%+.
- The Product should have an average cancellation rate of 3% and below.
Sending Facebook Traffic To Your Affiliate Link.
There are a number of ways you can get traffic to your affiliate link from Facebook and in this case, we are going to be using free traffic methods.
Using Your Facebook Profile..
Most people don’t use this method which means you an get started today with this method. How it is simple…
All you need to do is to find a group of new friends that are interested in a certain topic. So how do you find these friends you are wondering…
Easy Facebook groups. Facebook groups gather a lot of people interested in a specific hobby, niche category, sport, or anything these people are passionate about.
This means you can choose a product from the Digistore24 marketplace and then go ahead and look for an audience or gathering that may find that product of use.
This method is called making your way in…
The other place you can find these people is on Facebook Fan pages. You can use the search feature on Facebook and search up keywords related to the product you are looking to promote. You should find an active fan page that posts at least once a day and is getting some decent or better engagement.
Ensure the page has been active in the last 24-48 hours (Not more than that). This means the followers of that fan page are actively engaging with their content and sharing it.
After you have found a couple of pages and Facebook groups you will want to start adding these people as your friends.
Once you add these people as your friends then you will need to make a friend list so that you can separate your business friends or money friends from your lifestyle friends.
Making a friends list is easy all you do is head over to your home newsfeed and you should see the friends list icon in the menu section on the left (If you are using a PC). The idea remains the same on Mobile.
After hitting that you should see an option to create a friends list.
You will add all your money friends or business friends to that list and when you post out content on your feed you can select those specific people who can see your posts. Which means your business friends.
To find content to post simply model what is posted on those pages and groups about the niche those new friends you have got are interested in. You can find these image sover on Facebook itself and repost them, Instagram, Google, Reddit or even create your own.
ProTip: You should find Viral Images or Posts from Subreddits that went Viral and had a lot of engagement and repost them on your profile. These will always do well on Facebook or any other social platform.
Once in a while you could make a promo post that asks people to comment on your post and engage with it as usual. Don’t add a link in your post as Facebook will not promote your post as much when it has a link. This is where you should be smart.
You should ask people to comment on your post and whoever is interested in your product message them a link to your landing page. I said landing page, not an affiliate link. Be careful as you may get banned on Facebook if you keep posting your affiliate links.
You can choose to collect emails but this lowers your CTR to the sales page. People don’t want to opt-in just to see your offer.
So How do get them to your offer willingly?
You can get Free PLR products that are of high quality From IDPLR which you can send to these people.
Once you have your IDPLR products ready to go ahead and create your landing page to add those products and build an email list.
You can send the link to your landing page with the free IDPLR products as the lead magnet via message to these new business friends of yours.
ProTip: Be friendly, and always give people more than they expect. If you promised to give them a free copy of a course as your IDPLR product then give them extra. You can tell them via message if they sign up they get an extra free product from you.
If you give them free products very often they will be more willing to buy whatever you recommend. This is a sneaky way of building trust. This will increase your conversion rates trust me.
Using Facebook Groups.
For this method, you can use a little bit different than usual. You will create a Facebook group and it is through this group that you will do all the promotions.
You can create a Facebook group in under 5 minutes and customize it easily. The procedure remains the same for Facebook groups as you literally just join other groups and add people as friends then invite them to join your group.
This can take a while to build up and if you really do want fast results you can use cross-group promotion. This is a strategy whereby you share your Facebook group posts in other groups and other group posts in yours.
You can also message the Admins and moderators of huge groups for a shout-out or pinned announcement in these large groups. If they decide to charge you a price you could negotiate or ask if they could promote you out for free in exchange for a service, product.
You can give them free stuff you own such as courses or products they could sell to their group members. You can still get these on IDPLR as well.
Sneaky and smart right!.
You can offer then a service to build them high converting landing pages which you can create in minutes.by watching the videos attached below.
You can invite some of your personal friends to join the group if at all they are interested in the niche or makes sense.
Using Facebook Fan Pages.
Of course, Facebook fan pages are still a thing and you can use them to your advantage. You can grow them easily without paying for any ads. If you decide to pay for ads then target mobile only because that is how you get the cheapest Facebook fan page likes.
But you can grow these with free Facebook group traffic. How it is simple simply look for Facebook groups in your niche and see if you can join these groups with a fan page. When you hover over the join group button you should see if you could join with your personal profile.
If you see an option to join with a group then go ahead and join. This can help you get your first couple of likes and fans quickly.
All you do is share your page posts in the group, regularly and then go ahead and invite all the people who like your posts to like your page. You can do this each time you share a post.
You should always post a normal post in the group as a page and not only share your content as the admins will pick you up as a spammer.
With this method you can start promoting each and every week once you hit your first 1000-10k page likes.
That is it for free traffic what if you want to scale up…
Scaling Up.
With free traffic, you should be able to make your first couple of sales. Free traffic is good when you are still figuring out things. The big money is in paid traffic. You should therefore learn how you can invest your profits from Free traffic into paid and cheap traffic.
You can consider these Paid traffic sources as they are beginner friendly and require less experince
- Quora ads. These are good for e-commerce type businesses and products. You can get cheap website clicks for pennies. They require less testing and have can get started with a low budget.
- Pinterest ads. These are the cheapest so far as you can get a ton of impressions for a few bucks. Ensure you create pins that stand out, create video pins as the platform is really pushing video Pins. Ensure you read the advertising policies always because they can reject some ads Facebook or any other ad platform may approve.
- Twitter ads. These are best for beginners who have a low budget and can be very effective with Clickbank products, eCommerce sites, or products.
- Youtube ads. These are highly profitable but require you to test a lot of the video or ad to see which is more profitable.
- Blog/banner ads. For these, you can message website owners and negotiate a banner placement you pay for monthly. This a good way because you can ask them to place the banner on their most visited pages. High traffic pages. Ensure that you build an email list from your Banner ads. You can create a custom banner and send the website owner a link to your opt-in page to hyperlink it as well. Some bloggers will charge you more and some new bloggers who have no idea of monetization may charge you less.
- Reddit ads. These are also super cheap and you can make a lot of money as Reddit gets a huge sum of traffic daily. People can see your banners or text ads on the homepage of Reddit and even in specific subreddits related to your product or niche.
Ensure before you advertise, that you read the ad policies of each network and always stay compliant.
Note I haven’t talked about Facebook ads because they are expensive, need a lot more testing than Youtube ads, and can lead to ad account shutdowns which are annoying and frustrating
Final Quote
By the end of this guide you should have learnt How To Promote Digistore24 Products On Facebook without a website, following, and an email list.
That is it for this tutorial I will see you in the next one…I know I will.
You can watch this video on how you can also promote affiliate products on Medium.