Wondering how to do affiliate marketing without showing your face? Often when someone works for an employer, they don’t want their employer to know they are working on a side hustle. So they don’t want to risk showing up on a YouTube video, for example. Or, they’re just shy about showing up in person online. There are some downsides to not showing your face of course. Trust is a big factor in the online world and people buy from people. So showing your face can be a contributing factor to your success online.
However, if you’re determined not to show you face, there are of course ways to do it. Blogging is a strategy I’ve used for years and I do have my face on this site on my about me page. But writing online is one of the best ways to show up without actually showing up!
How To Do Affiliate Marketing Without Showing Your Face
Here’s a picture of me on YouTube. Before I ran a YouTube campaign, I was massively shy about getting on camera and uploading my videos. If it’s only shyness that stops you from showing your face online, it’s well worth overcoming this fear. Sure you might get the odd troll on your videos but video has been shown to be one of the most effective ways to sell online as an affiliate.
A short video can convey a lot more information quickly than a long blog post too. You can build trust and connect with people much more easily through video.
But if you’re still not up for it, you can pay other people to show up for you. Fiverr.com lets you pay someone to shoot a video advert on your behalf. You can even pay actors to shoot a monologue.
There’s even a great software called doodly which allows you to create awesome videos using animation software.
How To Do Affiliate Marketing Without Showing Your Face – Blogging
I’ve always been a blogger and when I didn’t want to show my face online I stuck to blog platforms. Initially I used Hubpages.com and Blogger.com before buying my own domain names and hosting my own websites.
Blogging is a great way to build an affiliate business if you can find products which you can align with an interest or passion. It does take some time and you should expect to put in some work before those sales start dropping into your inbox! But blogging allows you to show up without. showing your face. It’s a great way to get started with affiliate marketing if you’re a beginner.
Email Marketing
Email marketing is another “ace” up the affiliate marketers sleeve. Plus you can do it without showing your face! Send paid traffic to a landing page and collect subscribers. Here’s an example of a landing page:
Some affiliate programs will offer you landing pages which are already built. Simply send paid traffic to them and build an email list. No need to show your face and your email messages are only text.
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PPC – Paid Advertising
There’s lot of paid advertising platforms you can use without showing up personally. Google Adwords, for example, lets you create text based advertising which show up for specific online searches which you decide. Send traffic to a landing page and collect emails to build a marketing list.
Paid marketing has an advantage over blogging, which is much slower. With blogging, you can spend months or years building content without knowing how it will turn out.
With paid marketing, you get instant traffic and instant feedback. Once you understand which ads work and which don’t, you can increase budget on the relevant adverts to grow your sales.
Summary
So if you don’t want to show your face, you can still do affiliate marketing. However, you’re definitely placing a limit on your ability to connect with your audience; so if you can it’s worth getting over this fear.
If you don’t want your employer seeing your face online, that’s totally understandable. Many employers will feel threatened if they see you building your way out of your job with an online business!
You can use paid advertising, blogging, email marketing and many other ways to get your products in front of people without showing your face.
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