As a digital marketing agency, it is important to always offer quality solutions to its clients, whether in the process of creating websites, advertising material, or developing the marketing strategy to be employed by the end customer.
With that in mind, your agency can benefit from platform affiliate programs that add value to your offers and help complement them, aiming to offer a complete service of absolute quality. Understand better how this can benefit you and still bring gains to your agency.
How Does an Affiliate Program Work?
Before we can present the benefits your agency can achieve by becoming a partner, it is important to better understand the dynamics of affiliate marketing.
Affiliate programs can be described as an agreement made between a company that wants to promote its product, and an agent – an individual or legal entity – willing to bring results.
The biggest differentiator of these programs is that they present a very low risk for both sides of the partnership, in addition to being entirely performance-based.
This means that the company only pays the affiliate on the results generated, such as clicks on a link, and registered customers, among others.
There are several models of affiliate programs, among them the most popular are:
CPI (Cost per Installation): In the CPI model, the affiliate receives a commission whenever an application or tool is installed by the customer.
CPC (Cost per Click): In this model, you will receive commissions whenever your visitors click on any advertisement or banner of the partner company;
CPA (Cost per Action): Here, it is not enough to just click on the ad or install some application. The affiliate receives when the customer performs a certain action, such as purchasing a product from the partner company.
In addition to these models, you will also find companies that offer recurring commissions that last as long as a customer is active.
This model is commonly used when the customer must maintain an active subscription (monthly, for example) to continue receiving the product.
Advantages for Digital Marketing Agencies
Now that you understand the concept behind affiliate programs, we can identify the many benefits your digital marketing agency can gain from partnering and presenting different solutions to your own clients.
Without further ado, let’s get to the benefits of affiliate programs for digital marketing agencies and how you can profit from them.
Add Value to your Services
One of the biggest advantages acquired by affiliating with companies that offer services and solutions that reach the same audience as the digital marketing agency is the opportunity to add value and quality to the services already offered.
Consider, for example, the website building service or e-commerce platform offered by your agency. If you partner with a company that offers an online chat solution, you can offer it to your customer as part of the service.
This allows your company to make use of these partnerships to deliver an even more complete service to your customers, positively impacting their satisfaction and the perception of the quality of the services offered by your agency.
Develop and Strengthen Partnerships
Affiliate programs are an excellent opportunity to develop partnerships with other companies that work in the same niche as your digital marketing agency.
With this, it becomes possible to take advantage of this communication bridge to work on other projects together, such as exchanging content for your blog.
From there, your agency will be able to work together with your new partners so that they can grow together through co-marketing strategies.
For example. This also brings the opportunity to delve into a niche market worked by your partners, which can be turned into content for your page.
Increase your Brand’s Visibility
This is another great benefit of developing and strengthening your partnerships. Leverage your affiliate position to increase your brand’s visibility and reach.
Based on the strategies developed together with your partners, take your services, products, and offers to a common target audience.
Also look for opportunities to offer direct benefits to your customers, such as discount coupons or special promotions when purchasing your services or products integrated with those of your partners.
Passive and Recurring Income Source
We cannot fail to mention the financial advantages achieved by doing a good job of affiliate marketing.
By incorporating your partners’ solutions into your offers and promoting your affiliate link, you are also building a new source of income.
Affiliate program income is passive, as it does not require any customer maintenance work on the part of the affiliate after the commission is generated. With this, the affiliate can focus his efforts on finding new customers and increasing his income.