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Affiliate marketing is a great way to generate some additional income. You can become an affiliate marketer and recommend other brands, or you can start an affiliate program to start promoting your own existing brand.

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This complete guide will walk you through how to become an affiliate marketer who promotes other brands. We’ll go over how to start making money in affiliate marketing, online marketing tips to help you succeed, and tricks to help you earn more money.

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Smart entrepreneurs running a thriving business know there’s always more they can do to make that business grow. One way of taking things to the next level is by finding an alternate stream of income.

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What is affiliate marketing?

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Affiliate marketing is a process where publishers earn a commission by using an affiliate link to promote a product or service made by another retailer or advertiser. The affiliate partner is rewarded a payout for providing a specific result to the retailer or advertiser.

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Typically, the result is a sale. But some affiliate marketing programs can reward you for leads, free-trial users, clicks to a website, or getting downloads for an app.

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Most affiliate programs are free to join, so you don’t have to worry about high startup costs. Done right, an effective affiliate marketing strategy can go from side hustle to profitable online business idea by netting you a healthy income.

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How affiliate marketing works

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Affiliate marketing involves referring a product or service, often by sharing it on a blog, social media platform, podcast, or website. The affiliate earns a commission each time someone makes a purchase through the unique affiliate link associated with their recommendation.

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Here’s how it works at a high level:

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Commission rates for affiliate sales vary depending on the company and the offer. On the low end, you’ll earn about 5% of the sale, but with some arrangements, you can earn as much as 50%, usually when promoting a class or event. Some affiliate marketing programs provide a flat rate per sale instead of a percentage.

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Types of affiliate marketing

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Affiliates always carry a bit of mystery—you never know if the person has ever really used the product or if they are just promoting it for the money. Both cases still exist today.

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It wasn’t until 2009 when renowned affiliate marketer Pat Flynn broke down the different types of affiliate marketers into three groups. Understanding these types of affiliate marketing can show you the different ways people make money online in this space, regardless of your moral compass.

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1. Unattached affiliate marketing

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The first type of affiliate marketing is referred to as “unattached,” or when you have no authority in the niche of the product you’re advertising, i.e., There’s no connection between you and the customer. This often involves running pay-per-click (PPC) advertising campaigns with the affiliate link and hoping people will click it, buy the product, and earn a commission.

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Unattached affiliate marketing is attractive because you don’t need to do any legwork. Affiliate marketing businesses rely on reputation and trust with a target audience online. Some affiliate marketers don’t have the time or desire to build those relationships, so this type of marketing is their best option.

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“Unattached affiliate marketing isn’t a genuine business model, it’s for people who just want to generate income,” explains Elise Dopson, founder of Sprocker Lovers. “Our focus for Sprocker Lovers is building community and providing free education around a particular niche first, which in our case is the sprocker spaniel dog breed, and selling second.”

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2. Related affiliate marketing

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Related affiliate marketing is the practice of promoting products and services you don’t use but that are related to your niche. An affiliate marketer in this case has an audience, whether it’s through blogging, YouTube, TikTok, or another channel. A related affiliate marketer also has influence, which makes them a trusted source for recommending products, even if they’ve never used them before.

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While related affiliate marketing can generate more affiliate income, it comes with the risk of promoting something you’ve never tried before. It could be the worst product or service ever, and you wouldn’t even know. It only takes one bad recommendation to lose the trust of your audience. If you don’t have trust and transparency, it’ll be hard to build a sustainable affiliate marketing business.

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3. Involved affiliate marketing

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Involved affiliate marketing refers to only recommending products and services the affiliate marketer has used and truly believes in. “Involved affiliate marketing is the way forward,” says Elise. “It’s rooted in trust and authenticity, which is best for your audience and business.”

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In this type of marketing, an affiliate marketer uses his or her influence to promote products and services that followers may actually need, instead of paying to get clicks on a banner ad. It takes more time to build this type of credibility with an audience, but it’s necessary for building a sustainable business.

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Elise explains that the involved approach makes advertising much easier for affiliate marketing partners: “You don’t have to hide behind expensive PPC ads and hope for clicks and sales. An organic Instagram Story or blog post about your experience with a product will go a long way.” Elise prefers this method because it’s honest and is “the only genuine way to become a trusted source on any topic.”

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Involved affiliate marketing is the only genuine way to become a trusted source on any topic.

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Pros and cons of affiliate marketing

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Yes, affiliate marketing is worth it, given its growth in popularity. Statista estimates the affiliate marketing industry was worth $8.2 billion in 2022, up from $5.4 billion in 2017. It’s also a low- to no-cost business venture you can profit from immensely. But before diving in, consider the pros and cons of entering the affiliate marketing world.

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Pros

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While industry growth is a good indication of success, entrepreneurs also take this referral marketing route for a few other reasons.

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Easy to execute

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Your side of the equation involves simply handling the digital marketing side of building and selling a product. You don’t have to worry about the harder tasks, like developing, supporting, or fulfilling the offer.

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Low risk

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Since there’s no cost to join affiliate programs, you can start making money with an established affiliate product or service without any upfront investment. Affiliate marketing can also generate relatively passive income through commission—the ideal money-making scenario. Though initially you’ll have to invest time creating traffic sources, your affiliate link can continue to deliver a steady paycheck.

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Easy to scale

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Successful affiliate marketing offers the potential to significantly scale your earnings without hiring extra help. You can introduce new products to your current audience and build campaigns for additional products while your existing work continues to generate affiliate revenue in the background.

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Before you get too excited, know that great affiliate marketing is built on trust. While seemingly there are an endless number of products or services to promote, it’s best to only highlight those you personally use or would recommend. Even when a product interests you or fits within an existing hobby, becoming a great affiliate marketer for that product takes a lot of work.

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Read more: The Beginner’s Guide to Setting Up an Affiliate Program for Your Shopify Store

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Cons

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Affiliate marketing also has a few disadvantages compared to other types of marketing campaigns. Before jumping in, let’s look at a few challenges you’ll face on your journey to affiliate marketing success.

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Requires patience

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Affiliate marketing is not a get-rich-quick scheme. It requires time and patience to grow an audience and gain influence.

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You’ll want to test different channels to see which connect best with your audience. Research the most relevant and credible products to promote. Spend time blogging, publishing free content on social media, hosting virtual events, and doing other lead-generating activities on your marketing channels.

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Commission-based

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There’s no boss handing you a weekly paycheck as an affiliate marketer. Affiliate programs work on a commission basis, whether you’re paid by lead, click, or sale.

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Companies use a temporary browser cookie to track people’s actions from your content. When a desired action is taken by someone, you receive the payout.

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No control over program

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Affiliates must obey the rules set by a company for their program. You need to follow their guidelines for what you say and how you present their product or service. Competitors must follow the same recommendations, so you have to get creative to differentiate yourself from the crowd.

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How do affiliate marketers make money?

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Affiliate marketing income spans a large spectrum. There are some affiliate marketers that will make a few hundred bucks per month and others that make six figures a year. The larger your following, the more money you can make as an affiliate marketer.

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Compensation software company Payscale reports that the average annual salary of an affiliate marketer is more than $53,000, based on over 7,000 salary profiles, with many affiliate marketers earning significantly more.

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But how do affiliates actually get paid? When you choose an affiliate program to promote, you’ll notice there are different payment models. Companies also call it a price model, payout model, conversion type, or another variation.

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Regardless of the name, the payment model tells you what goals you will get paid for. If you’re promoting a software product, the action could be a free trial signup. For an affiliate marketer who promotes physical products, the goal will likely be a purchase.

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Many programs run with last-click attribution, which means the affiliate who receives the last click before purchase gets 100% credit. However, this is changing, as programs improve attribution models and reporting. For example, you could share equal credit for a sale if there were multiple affiliates in a buyer’s conversion funnel.

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Five common ways affiliates get paid include:

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  1. Pay per sale, where you earn a commission for each sale you make. It’s a common payout model for ecommerce offers.
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  2. Pay per action, which earns you a commission for a specific action. Many affiliate programs use this payout model because it’s broad and can be applied to different offers: a newsletter signup, a click, contact request, form submission, etc.
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  3. Pay per install, where you are paid for every install generated from your website traffic. The goal of your content would be to promote mobile apps and software so that people download or install them
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  4. Pay per lead, which pays you every time someone signs up for something. It’s a popular payout method because companies use it for sweepstakes, lead generation, and other types of offers. Cost per lead offers are common for beginners because it’s easier to generate leads than to sell products to an audience.
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  5. Pay per click, a rare payout system where you earn commission on every click on your affiliate link. Pay per click programs are used by big merchants with a goal to build brand awareness. Customers don’t need to sign up or buy anything, just to visit the merchant’s website.
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How much you make depends on your affiliate niche. For example, research conducted by Shopify in 2021* found that the highest average commission rate ($70.99) was for business-related programs, while books and media and clothing categories earned just over $6 per commission. The maximum average commission we found was around $289.06 per sale.

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How to start affiliate marketing in 4 steps

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Just like running your own small business, becoming a successful affiliate takes dedication and discipline. Use the following step-by-step guide to start your affiliate marketing business.

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Pick your platform and method

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The first step is figuring out the platform you want to build your audience around. Every affiliate marketer has a different approach and platform. There are many affiliate marketing ideas you can choose from based on different methods:

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No matter which route you take, authenticity and audience building are the two most crucial elements for affiliate marketing. If you can’t authentically connect with your audience, chances are you won’t have success in converting them into affiliate sales.

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To pick a platform and method, ask yourself:

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Common platforms affiliate marketers use are:

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Starting with a marketing platform you’re comfortable with helps you create high-quality content. This can result in a stronger, more engaged audience you can turn into sales.

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Decide your niche and audience

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When it comes to choosing a niche, aim for something you’re passionate and knowledgeable about. This helps you come across as authentic and as a trusted source of information for potential customers. It also helps you evaluate which products and brands you want to promote.

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Say, for example, you started a blog about dogs. You own a sprocker spaniel and you’re passionate about helping other owners care for their sprockers.

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You create a blog like Sprocker Lovers, and you regularly post and encourage people to subscribe to an email list and share your content. Sprocker spaniels are your niche, and you’re going to invest in content marketing and optimization to grow your audience of owners.

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“The niche you choose for your affiliate site guides how much time or effort you’ll need to put into building it to a point where you begin to see SEO results,” says Elise.

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“SERPs for software, marketing, and health care, for example, are all dominated by huge blogging sites with even bigger marketing budgets. The secret is finding untapped areas where competition isn’t as fierce—and getting in there before other people recognize it.”

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As you post more, you can use affiliate marketing tools like social listening, website analytics, and social media insights to discover who your audience is and what they like.

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It’s important you know your audience so well, that you understand why they follow you in the first place.

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Remember, you’re not paid to post. Affiliate marketing is a performance-based online business. If you know what your audience likes, you can then refer the best products to them and earn more affiliate income.

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Find your products

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To earn revenue as an affiliate marketer, your audience needs to connect with what you’re saying. The items or services you promote need to be products they genuinely want. Getting this wrong can hinder your success and diminish your credibility—as well as your audience.

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If you’re curious where to look for products or brands to work with, don’t worry. There are tons of affiliate marketplaces, including:

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Another option is to visit the websites of the products and services you use and like to see if they have an affiliate program. Large companies often have programs they promote on their site, such as Amazon Associates or the Shopify Affiliate Program.

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You also can take a more direct approach. Reach out to the owner of a great product you come across and see if they offer an affiliate marketing program. If they don’t, they might be happy to set up an arrangement with you, such as offering you a special coupon code to share with your followers.

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The best deals often are found when you’re the first to inquire and have a relevant distribution channel, such as approaching the seller of a new fitness product if you’re a health and wellness blogger.

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Affiliate marketing programs will have terms of service you need to follow, so read the fine print. For example, your affiliate link usually will have a cookie with a specified timeframe, and some programs don’t allow you to purchase pay-per-click ads using the product or company’s name.

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Choose your first affiliate program

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As you brainstorm products or browse through affiliate platforms, the most important criteria to keep in mind is that the product should be aligned with your audience, or the audience you hope to build. Ask yourself, is it something your target audience would find valuable? Does it fit with your area of expertise?

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A food blogger probably wouldn’t promote beauty products, for example. A wide range of other products, such as cookware, meal kits, gourmet ingredients, or even aprons would make more sense.

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Also make sure the product or service you’re promoting is a fit for the platform you’re promoting it on. For example, home décor and clothing are well suited to image-heavy platforms like Instagram. However, if you’re promoting more in-depth purchases, like software, your conversion rates may be higher on longer-form platforms, like a blog or YouTube.

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Tips for affiliate marketing success

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As we mentioned earlier, affiliate marketing revenue can eventually become a form of passive income, but you still have to do some heavy lifting upfront. The success of your program will depend on the quality of your review.

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To create a good review, it’s best to get personal. Share your experience in your blog, social media post, Instagram Story, or YouTube video. If you’re writing a personal review, give a candid opinion based on your experience with and knowledge of the product. The more open you are, the more authentic you will be. People will be more comfortable following your advice if they feel they can trust you.

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Trust is a key factor in your affiliate marketing efforts, because people need to trust you enough to act on your recommendations. The level of trust you’ll need to make affiliate sales depends on your industry and the products you’re recommending—for example, it takes more trust to be an effective affiliate for a $1,000 course than it does for a $20 t-shirt.

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“Beyond just sharing your experiences, you can build trust by limiting the number of affiliates you promote, or by only becoming an affiliate for products you personally use and sticking to your area of expertise,” says Desirae Odjick, founder of Half Banked. “For example, people trust my recommendations for Canadian financial apps, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to have much luck as a Sephora affiliate.”

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Talk to a product expert

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Another option is interviewing others who use the product or service, or even interviewing the person who makes or sells it. This can give your review more depth, creating a narrative for the reader.

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Create a product tutorial

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While your success with affiliate marketing can depend on the overall size of your following, another way to drive traffic is by providing a tutorial on the offer.

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People often perform “how to” Google searches, such as “how to save money for college” or “how to decorate a laundry room.” If you offer a tutorial that solves a searcher’s problem and clearly showcases the value of the product, your referrals will make more sense in context, and you’ll provide the customer with a stronger incentive to purchase the product you’re recommending.

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Build an email list

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An email list is a list of contacts you’ve gathered who would like to receive information from you. It’s important to build a contact list because it’s one of the best ways to connect with people outside of social media. When it comes to purchases made as a result of receiving a marketing message, email has the highest conversion rate (66%) compared to social and other marketing channels.

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Gather emails from your content and send a newsletter weekly or biweekly to subscribers. Affiliate marketers can send many different things to subscribers on their list:

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Use your email list as an opportunity to show value to subscribers. If they send you an email back, respond. Be consistent with your newsletter cadence and quality. Then, every once in a while, promote an affiliate product or two to subscribers.

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There’s no hard rule on how many times to send promotional emails. Just don’t send them every time you have a promo or you’ll come off as spammy and untrustworthy. If you’re promoting good products once a month, you’re only providing value to subscribers who need them.

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Find relevant search terms

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If you’re promoting an offer through a blog post, research which keywords someone might use in a search engine to find an answer to a related problem. Google Ads Keyword Planner is a great tool that can help. (It’s free to use, but you’ll need to create an account.)

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Read more: What is SEO Marketing and How Does It Work?

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Consider your angle

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Depending on your offer, figure out how much energy you should invest in instructional or tutorial content, which is often a natural lead-in to someone trying a product for themselves.

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For example, you could record a video of yourself using and getting the most out of a physical product or showing off the benefits of a digital product, like software. Unboxing posts are popular, so if you receive the product in the mail, document your experience opening it up.

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Set your distribution strategy

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Once you’ve written your promotional content, share it on your website or social media platforms. If you have a subscriber list, you can create an email marketing campaign. And be sure to have an affiliate marketing hub on your website with a resources page where you share a quick list of all of the tools you use and love.

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Try offering a bonus

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Sometimes marketers promote their affiliate programs by offering bonuses to anyone who purchases the offer. For example, you could give a free ebook you wrote to any follower who makes a purchase.

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Promotions like this encourage customers to buy by sweetening the deal. They’re especially persuasive if the bonus you offer is something you normally sell, because then shoppers can see its actual dollar value right on your site.

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You can find several examples of affiliate bonuses in action when business coach Marie Forleo opens her popular B-School for entrepreneurs each year. To encourage sign-ups through her affiliate link, Laura Belgray, Forleo’s own copywriter, offers a one-on-one copywriting session as a bonus.

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Keep things legal and above board

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Don’t forget to disclose to followers that your post contains affiliate links. For one thing, it’s required by the FTC. But explaining the reason for your affiliation also can help you connect with your audience.

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For example, the financial independence bloggers at Frugalwoods offer this disclosure:

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“Frugalwoods sometimes publishes affiliate endorsements and advertisements, which means that if you click on a link and buy something, Frugalwoods might receive a percentage of the sale, at no extra cost to you. We only write about and promote products that we believe in. We promise not to tell you about stuff that’s dumb.”

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If you need help figuring out what language to use in a disclaimer, it’s worth taking time to consult a lawyer.

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Read more: 16 Affiliate Marketing Tips & Strategies to Earn More Money

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Affiliate marketing program examples

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Looking at some of the companies that participate in affiliate marketing will provide you with inspiration—as well as proof that this is a legit and high-paying revenue stream.

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Shopify

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Shopify’s Affiliate Program is a network of entrepreneurs, educators, influencers, and creators who send referrals to Shopify. It’s free to sign up for the program, you only need to apply.

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Once approved, affiliate partners get a unique affiliate link to share with their audience. They earn affiliate income each time someone signs up using their link.

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On average, Shopify Affiliates earn $58 for each referral who signs up for a paid Shopify plan. Affiliates can earn as much or as little as they want, it all depends on how much time they spend on their affiliate marketing strategy.

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I have worked with dozens of companies over my 11 years online, and I have to say that Shopify has been one of the best to work with! Their affiliate managers and program have made it easy for me to promote their product, make money, and provide value to my community.”

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Amazon

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One of the most common examples is Amazon’s affiliate marketing program, known as Amazon Affiliates. In fact, Amazon Affiliates currently has the biggest market share of affiliate networks (45.81%), followed by CJ Affiliate (8.14%), and Rakuten Affiliate Network (7.85%).

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Amazon Affiliates offers different products across many different categories. It’s a great way to get into affiliate marketing as a beginner. Creators, publishers, and bloggers can use an Amazon affiliate link to direct their audience to product recommendations. From the link referral, you can earn money on qualifying purchases.

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Take Sprocker Lovers, for example. Site owner Elise Dopson wrote a blog post titled Are Spaniels Good Running Partners? & 6 Tips for Safe Running. In the article, she recommends a tip about how spaniels should wear a high-vis dog jacket when running at night.

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If a reader wants to buy a high-vis dog jacket, they can click the link and head to Amazon to complete the purchase.

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Healthish

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Water bottle retailer Healthish used affiliate marketing to build a million-dollar brand. Rather than take the traditional affiliate route, it used Instagram influencers to build awareness for the launch of its keystone product, the WB-1 bottle.

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Healthlish affiliate program website
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The brand continues to work with influencer accounts, ranging from those with 100,000 followers and up. It works with around 300 creators per month to create content that markets and sells the bottle at scale.

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Learn more by reading The Pre-Launch Strategies of a Million-Dollar Brand.

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Frankies Bikinis

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Swimwear brand Frankies Bikinis refers to its affiliates as ambassadors, hashtagged #Frankiesgirls. It uses ShareASale, RewardStyle, and Skimlinks to manage its program. The brand encourages active women with strong social presences to apply. Commissions are paid in cash, and the brand offers an updated list of active promos for ambassadors to use.

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Juice Beauty

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Juice Beauty is a skin care brand based in California that offers an affiliate program via Rakuten. Affiliates earn 6% commission on all sales, and have access to special deals and discounts. Juice Beauty doesn’t charge any application or membership fees to its affiliates.

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Urikar

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Retailer Urikar offers a high-ticket affiliate program with average commissions of $1,460, according to data from ShareASale. It sells fitness and wellness products like massage guns, indoor and outdoor workout equipment, and accessories.

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Urikar affiliate program website
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Urikar offers a 10% commission on all sales, which can add up quickly if you are a fitness influencer with a big following. Its most popular product, an AI-powered muscle massager, retails for $139.99, which means you’ll earn $13.99 for each sale. Urikar’s program also provides your own dedicated account manager and affiliate dashboard to track conversions and sales.

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Start your affiliate marketing business today

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Earning money with affiliate marketing programs can be a rewarding way to add a new revenue stream for little or no money in upfront investment. Affiliate marketing takes time, but by putting in the hours to find the right affiliate network and dial in your strategy, you can build an affiliate system that generates passive income for years to come.

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Click here to apply to the Shopify Affiliate Program.

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Affiliate marketing FAQ

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What does affiliate marketing mean?

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Affiliate marketing means you earn a monetary commission by promoting a company’s product or service. An affiliate partner, which is you, is rewarded a commission for providing a specific result to a merchant or advertiser, be it sales, leads, downloads, etc. Start your affiliate marketing with Shopify!
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How do I start affiliate marketing?

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Get started with Shopify

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Is affiliate marketing worth it?

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Yes, affiliate marketing is worth it. The affiliate marketing industry is estimated to grow from $5.4 billion in 2017 to $8.2 billion by 2023, according to Statista. Affiliate marketing is inexpensive to start and carries low risk compared to other online business models.

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What are the top affiliate networks?

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What is an example of affiliate marketing?

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Shopify offers an affiliate program where entrepreneurs can refer merchants to the platform. It’s free to sign up. After a partner applies and gets approved, they receive a referral link. The partner goes and shares that link with their audiences. When someone signs up through the link for a paid Shopify plan, the affiliate partner earns a commission.
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Affiliate marketing FAQ

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What does affiliate marketing mean?

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Affiliate marketing means you earn a monetary commission by promoting a company’s product or service. An affiliate partner, which is you, is rewarded a commission for providing a specific result to a merchant or advertiser, be it sales, leads, downloads, etc. Start your affiliate marketing with Shopify!
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How do I start affiliate marketing?

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  3. Find relevant affiliate marketing programs.
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  4. Create valuable content.
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  5. Build an audience.
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Get started with Shopify

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Is affiliate marketing worth it?

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Yes, affiliate marketing is worth it. The affiliate marketing industry is estimated to grow from $5.4 billion in 2017 to $8.2 billion by 2023, according to Statista. Affiliate marketing is inexpensive to start and carries low risk compared to other online business models.

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What are the top affiliate networks?

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  • CJ Affiliate
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  • FlexOffers
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  • LinkConnector
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What is an example of affiliate marketing?

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Shopify offers an affiliate program where entrepreneurs can refer merchants to the platform. It’s free to sign up. After a partner applies and gets approved, they receive a referral link. The partner goes and shares that link with their audiences. When someone signs up through the link for a paid Shopify plan, the affiliate partner earns a commission.

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Despite only launching internationally in 2017, TikTok has become the authority on what’s hot in culture, politics, fashion, and beyond. TikTok is a force, growing rapidly year over year, and is expected to reach two billion users by 2024. The short form video app has attracted a sizable Gen Z user base, and for entrepreneurs, that’s a lot of marketing potential.

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If you want to leverage TikTok’s massive user base in building your audience, here’s a look at the strategies of some of the social media platform’s top creators and marketers. Get tips on how to make money on TikTok, from fan merch sales to paid subscriptions.

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How to make money on TikTok

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Deciding how to monetize TikTok users becomes easier once you’ve gained a deeper understanding of your target audience. There’s no single approach to monetization, but the highest earners usually maintain a number of complementary income streams. From sponsored content to organic marketing, the opportunities with TikTok are virtually endless.

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Let’s go over some of the most common ways users earn money on TikTok:

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  4. Partner with TikTok influencers or other brands
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Connect with shoppers on TikTok

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Shopify comes with powerful tools to help you tell your brand story and create TikTok in-feed ads in minutes. Make sales on TikTok and manage all your orders, returns, and payments from Shopify.

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Start selling on TikTok

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1. Join the TikTok Creativity Program (formerly TikTok Creator Fund)

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Users who’ve built up a substantial following might consider making money through the TikTok Creativity Program. Announced in February 2023 and launched in May, this program replaces the TikTok Creator Fund.

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US-based creators with at least 10,000 followers and 100,000 authentic video views within the past 30 days are eligible to join this program, which, as of May 2023, is still in beta. The program should be available to more users in the coming months.

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Eligibility:

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2. Sell merch and other products to your fans

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Selling your own products on TikTok is great for monetizing nearly any type of content. Creators⁠—whether they’re a dancer, a singer, or a comedian⁠—can make and sell merch to their most loyal fans.

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And with a wide variety of print-on-demand companies on the market, there’s a ton of merchandise to choose from. You might sell t-shirts, tote bags, pillow cases, hats, coffee mugs, stickers, notebooks⁠⁠—or any combination of products.

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Selling print-on-demand products even has benefits beyond revenue. Owning branded merch gives your fans a deeper connection to your personal brand, and every follower who wears your merch spreads the word about your business.

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💡 Learn more: TikTok Merch: How To Make and Sell It on TikTok

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3. Go live and collect virtual gifts

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LIVE Gifting is one of TikTok’s most useful features for creators looking to monetize their content through livestreaming.

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Most social networks have a livestreaming feature, but what makes TikTok unique is that it allows followers to show their appreciation in real time by sending virtual gifts, which can be redeemed for payment.

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Engaging with users in real time is great for building valuable relationships with your fans. Audiences that have a strong connection to a creator tend to develop a personal stake in their success, which means going live can help to boost other monetization streams as well.

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4. Partner with TikTok influencers or other brands

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One of the most innovative ways TikTok allows its creators to make money is through its Creator Marketplace.

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The Creator Marketplace helps connect the right brands to the right influencers, facilitating partnerships in a way that’s fast and easy for both parties. TikTok makes it incredibly easy to create valuable sponsored content.

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Brands looking to run an affiliate marketing campaign can browse the marketplace and quickly shuffle through content made by creators they know are open to collaborations with brands.

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The Creator Marketplace acts as an influencer agency, letting both sides indicate their willingness to work with one another, relieving some of the awkwardness of approaching influencers that marketers might experience with influencer marketing on other platforms.

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If you’re looking for an easy way to find brands to partner with, generate affiliate links, and manage your brand partnerships all in one place, try Shopify Collabs.

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Find influencers to drive sales with Shopify Collabs

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Shopify Collabs makes it easy to partner with creators, promote your products, reach new customers, grow your sales, and track affiliate campaign performance all from Shopify admin.

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Discover Shopify Collabs

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Like so many great businesses, skin care brand Peace Out Skincare was created when its founder encountered a problem that didn’t have a solution⁠—until he created one.

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After struggling with acne and hyperpigmentation, among other skin issues, Enrico Frezza started researching the skin care product development process and building his own brand of skin care products. The brand found early traction partnering with TikTok influencers to build authenticity—and make more sales. The creators involved also monetized their accounts by being paid for content.

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🎧 Learn more: On this episode of the Shopify Masters podcast, hear how founder Enrico Frezza found success on TikTok through influencer marketing.

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5. Create in-feed ads with the TikTok ads manager

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TikTok has a ton of great organic marketing opportunities, but if you’re willing to spend a little to expand the reach of your content, you might consider creating your own in-feed ads with the TikTok ads manager.

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TikTok ads appear in users’ “For you” feeds and auto-play like any other TikTok video. With paid ads, you can make sure your videos are reaching audiences that are most interested in your products.

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But the best part? TikTok’s ad manager seamlessly integrates with Shopify. That means you can create TikTok ads, select a target audience, and track your ad’s performance⁠—all from your Shopify store. TikTok really can be one of the best online marketing tools at your disposal.

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6. Crowdfund projects by collecting donations from fans

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Crowdfunding is one of the most accessible money-making avenues for creators. You put a lot of time and effort into creating content for your fans⁠, so offering an easy, no-pressure way for them to give back is great for securing a regular income stream.

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Crowdfunding can take many forms, depending on what type of funding you’re looking for. If you’re looking for startup funds for a specific project, you could rally your followers by setting up a funding goal and hosting live fundraising events.

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If you’re looking to fund a specific project, here are some crowdfunding sites to explore:

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💡 Get more ideas: 10 Top Crowdfunding Sites: Fund Your Vision in 2023

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7. Collect “tips” from your audience

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8. Use Patreon to offer fan subscriptions

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Crowdfunding works for big projects, and tipping is the simplest way to collect funds quickly. But what if you’re looking to secure a more regular passive income stream? Try a creator-based subscription platform, like Patreon.

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Subscription-based models of income work great for content creators, because you can keep individual subscription costs low and focus on growing your number of subscribers.

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A low-cost subscription of, say, one dollar a month is an easy sell to a single dedicated fan. If you have a lot of dedicated fans, those dollars start to add up.

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Patreon was the first large platform built to let creators and influencers generate revenue through paid memberships from their most loyal fans⁠. On Patreon, you can set up membership tiers that allow you to offer exclusive content to your biggest supporters.

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Alternatives exist (most notably Ko-fi, which also includes a tipping feature), but Patreon has the added benefit of brand awareness, which adds a level of trust from prospective supporters.

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If you’re thinking a subscription service might be the best way of monetizing your TikTok account, here are some best practices to keep in mind:

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Understanding TikTok users—and your audience

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\"AOn TikTok, your audience is likely to skew younger. A majority of users (62%) are under 30, and a whopping 32.5% of active users are under 20. Many people think of TikTok’s popularity with Gen Z as its defining characteristic, but this could change quickly.

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One survey shows a growing number of millennials joining the platform, and social networks tend to be most popular with teens at their inception⁠—so a head start on catering to TikTok’s older users could give you a big advantage in a few years.

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There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to TikTok, but having a solid understanding of your audience will put you in a better position to find the best ways to monetize your following.

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💡 Learn more: TikTok Trends: The Ones To Watch in 2023

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How to sell without annoying your audience

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The tricky part of using social media to sell products is not overdoing the amount of promotional material. Your fans understand that you need funding to keep creating the content they love, but no one wants to follow an account that just feels like it’s advertising constantly.

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This is especially true with TikTok, since the platform itself is so geared toward forming personal connections with your audience.

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Users appreciate good content, so it might help to take a “content-first” approach. Rather than starting with your sales pitch and building content around it⁠, create the content first and let it inspire the best ways to monetize your account. Your TikTok posts should offer value to your audience—not just sell to them.

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Partly Sunny Projects is an online plant brand shipping stunning California greenery across the country. Founder Sonja Detrinidad started the business as a distraction from the stress of her day job and took to TikTok to capture the process.

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It didn’t take long for TikTok audiences to fall in love with Sonja’s captivating personality. Her authentic TikTok videos align with her audience’s interests.

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What makes Sonja’s use of TikTok for her business so successful is that she is focused on creating content she knows her viewers enjoy. Sonja covers topics related to gardening, effectively capturing the attention of the exact type of follower that can be turned into a customer.

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🪴 Learn more: Read how Sonja turned her viral TikTok success into a blooming business.

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Join the TikTok creator economy

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Creators aren’t just artists anymore. They’re artists, entrepreneurs, marketers, salespeople, accountants, founders, CEOs⁠—and everything in between. In the creator economy, stars are self-made⁠ out of their own creativity, passion, and desire to build something unique.

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Time is money for artists⁠—and making more money from your art grants you more time to create. If the money itself isn’t rewarding enough, the extra time it buys will be. TikTok is one of many platforms offering creators the ability to make money online. Do what you already do best—and get paid doing it.

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💡 Learn more: If you enjoyed this guide to making money on TikTok, check out our tips for how to make money on YouTube and how to make money on Instagram.

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How to make money on TikTok FAQ

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Can I make money on TikTok?

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Yes! Anyone can make money on TikTok with the right tools and an effective strategy. If you’re looking to make money on TikTok, take a look at the tips above and start considering which strategies are best for you.

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How do creators make money on TikTok?

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The most successful TikTok users make money through a combination of revenue streams that can include sponsorships, fundraising drives, product sales, and accepting tips. TikTok users can also promote products through an affiliate link to get paid directly from brands. Making money on TikTok is also possible for larger accounts through programs like creator funds.

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Do you get paid for uploading videos on TikTok?

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TikTok does not directly pay creators to produce and upload videos. TikTok does offer funding for creators in the form of the TikTok Creativity Program. Still, payment varies based on factors like the number of video views, engagement rates, and the authenticity of users engaging with the post.

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In some cases, brands might pay a popular micro-influencer to create videos, but TikTok’s highest-paid users usually monetize their accounts through multiple income streams⁠. Multiple income streams provide greater security, but your audience is the biggest factor when deciding how to make real money on TikTok.

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Who makes the most money on TikTok?

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According to Hopper HQ, these were the highest earners on TikTok in 2022:

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  • Bella Poarch, $66,829 per post (91.1 million followers)
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  • Addison Rae, $65,194 per post (88.7 million followers)
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  • Will Smith, $53,741 per post (72.1 million followers)
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How do I get paid on my TikTok account?

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How you get paid depends on the method you choose to monetize your TikTok content. Usually, you will get paid through whichever app you use for monetization, whether that’s a tipping platform, TikTok’s own Creativity Program (formerly Creator Fund), a crowdfunding site, or your own online store platform (in the case of selling merch or your own products to your fans).

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Today, beauty influencers are everywhere, sharing secret hacks and their latest go-to products. But in 2010, Luxy Hair was one of the first companies to use its YouTube channel as a platform for organically growing its brand.

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After its founders, Alex and Mimi Ikonn, launched on YouTube, Luxy Hair took off, gaining more than 250,000 customers and three million subscribers before being acquired by a leader in the hair extension and lash enhancement industry.

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Now, Alex and Mimi have set their sights on a new business, Intelligent Change. Ahead, learn how their approach helped them build multiple successful businesses and communities, and get tips for building your own.

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3 expert tips for building an authentic brand

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Alex and Mimi know how to strategize, market, and create community around their products, all while injecting meaningful stories into their messaging. These are their top takeaways from their experience with both brands.

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1. Find an itch that needs scratching

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Mimi wasn’t able to find the hair extensions she wanted for her wedding, and she assumed she wasn’t the only one experiencing this problem. She was right. “I’m a big believer in scratching your own itch,” Alex says.

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The couple took the same approach when launching Intelligent Chance, a brand offering mindfulness tools, including The Five Minute Journal, a product born from Alex’s own quest to find a short-form way to practice intentional living.

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With the help of Mimi’s sister, Luxy Hair’s founders created YouTube videos based on the women’s genuine experience and love of hair extensions. “Here are these two young women with beautiful hair,” Alex says “They can create all this content [that excites them] that gives people real value.”

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Alex finds the simplest way to convey the purpose behind your brand is to represent it yourself and be a part of the target audience. Approaching the brand and content development with passion and desire will help a business attract customers to the vision.

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3. Develop evergreen content for your channel

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“YouTube is probably one of the largest search engines in the world, and since it’s owned by Google, Google will feed search traffic into it,” Alex says. Basic content that answers popular search terms like how to braid hair or style Luxy Hair extensions became evergreen content for the brand. This type of content can also withstand trends and headlines, making it perfect to come back to.

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Today, Alex is creating authentic, evergreen content with his new brand, Intelligent Change, focusing on affirmations and mental health topics anyone can relate to.

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For the growth of any brand, Alex suggests leaning in to your authentic self and the needs you can fill, and continuing to promote content that delivers true value.

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Tune in to the full Shopify Masters episode to hear about the process behind Luxy Hair’s acquisition, and how Alex is building Intelligent Change.

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Many video creators, whether professional YouTubers or brands on YouTube, regard the YouTube algorithm as a complete mystery—a higher power that rules over their view counts, completely outside of their control.

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Much of the discussion about getting views on YouTube focuses on YouTube SEO, social media promotion, and getting subscribers.

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While these contribute to the discovery of your videos, alone they don’t unlock the lion’s share of views you stand to gain from YouTube’s recommendation engine (via YouTube’s homepage and “Recommended for you” suggestions).

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Here’s everything you need to know about the YouTube algorithm in order to get your videos trending on the platform.

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What is the YouTube algorithm?

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The YouTube algorithm is a set of computer instructions designed to process videos and associated content such as comments, description, engagements, etc., in order to rank and recommend videos based on relevance and viewer satisfaction.

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How does the YouTube algorithm work in 2023?

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YouTube’s algorithm is all about helping its users find the most relevant content as easily as possible. YouTube’s entire goal is to increase customer retention and keep its users watching videos for as long as they can.

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Since 2015, YouTube has optimized for viewer satisfaction. This is done by actually surveying users as they watch content, to see how they’re really feeling about it, helping the algorithm recommend the most satisfactory content.

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But how does YouTube determine satisfaction?

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This research paper, published by Google engineers Paul Covington, Jay Adams, and Emre Sargin, breaks down additional signals YouTube uses to rank videos for recommendations:

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  4. How recently the user watched a video about the same topic
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  6. The user’s previously watched videos
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  7. The user’s demographic information and location
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The first three signals are the only ones you can influence directly. The rest depend on factors outside of your channel in order to personalize the recommendation.

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These Google engineers even state that their final ranking objective is “generally a simple function of expected watch time per impression. Ranking by click-through rate often promotes deceptive videos that the user does not complete (’clickbait’) whereas watch time better captures engagement.”

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There are two main places YouTube users will see suggested videos: on the homepage and while watching other videos. These recommendations are made using YouTube’s algorithm, but the algorithm works differently for each of these spaces.

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Homepage

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When you head to the YouTube website or open the mobile app, you immediately land on the homepage. Here, YouTube aims to provide the most relevant and personalized video suggestions for each user, pulling them in and trying to keep them on the app for as long as possible.

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Homepage videos are based on two criteria:

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At this point in the process, YouTube doesn’t have information on a viewer’s intent for heading to the video platform. So it has to rely on what it does know, which is based on the types of videos a viewer has enjoyed in the past.

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Suggested video

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The suggested videos section appears in the right-hand sidebar next to the video you’re currently watching (or below the video you’re currently watching if you’re accessing the mobile app).

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These videos are based on your viewing history during this session and are recommended based on what the algorithm thinks you’re most likely to watch next. Criteria includes:

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Because YouTube now has some understanding of why you’re accessing its platform at this time, these videos tend to be more tailored to your current session, rather than a general selection of what it thinks you might like.

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Read more: Your Starter Guide to YouTube Marketing: Tips, Strategies, and Tools

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9 ways to improve your reach on YouTube

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1. Stick to a consistent premise or format for your YouTube videos

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Most great YouTube channels or series can be summed up in five seconds:

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On the flipside, many YouTube channels and content creators struggle to gain traction, because they treat their YouTube channel as a place to upload all their video content, rather than as a home for a consistent video series.

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Consistency is the foundation for success on YouTube—without it, you might be able to capture attention, but you won’t be able to keep it.

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YouTube creators that find their consistency are able to sustainably grow their subscriptions and viewership because it makes it easier for people to decide to watch more of their content and subscribe to their channel.

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The First We Feast channel embodies the kind of consistency we’re talking about—celebrities eating food—with multiple series that are essentially variations of the same premise.

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Below, you can see how this consistency feeds its subscriber growth over time. Whenever a video is lucky enough to go viral, it actually has a better shot at converting each fleeting viewer into a lasting subscriber, because of the stickiness of the premise and the consistency they can find across the rest of the channel’s content.

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If you want to deviate from your core premise, it’s best to do it on a separate YouTube channel to avoid undermining your own efforts. First We Feast, for example, is owned by Complex, which has a very different focus and target audience. The channels are connected under the Featured Channels tab, but otherwise, they don’t really intersect.

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To make posting easier, you can find free video editing software that uploads videos to your channel with one click. You won’t have to waste time uploading and downloading files, and can publish videos quickly and consistently.

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2. Feed the recommendation engine with other sources

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Newer YouTube channels can’t rely on the recommendation engine to drive all their views.

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Recommendations, after all, are mostly based on how viewers have viewed and interacted with your videos in the past. YouTube needs data to base the recommendations on, and there’s no data without people watching your videos. So exercise all the usual efforts to promote your videos, such as:

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But above all, focus on YouTube SEO and getting more subscribers, not only to garner video views over the long term, but also because what a user repeatedly consumes on-platform and what a user subscribes to are key signals that the YouTube algorithm uses to make personalized recommendations.

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In the paper, the engineers note that “the most important signals are those that describe a user’s previous interaction with the item itself and other similar items. As an example, consider the user’s past history with the channel that uploaded the video being scored—how many videos has the user watched from this channel? When was the last time the user watched a video on this topic?”

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If you can get a new user to continue watching more content after clicking through to one of your videos, you can increase the chances of your videos getting recommended to them the next time they open YouTube.

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3. Create thumbnails that get clicked

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We’ve established that click-through rate is still important and that YouTube prioritizing watch time is simply a countermeasure against low-quality clickbait.

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So now let’s talk about the elephant in the room—improving your click-through rate—using two great sources of inspiration for clickable thumbnails: YouTube’s trending videos tab and Netflix.

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Have closeups of emotive faces or action shots

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Look around YouTube and you’ll see no shortage of highly expressive faces on video thumbnails.

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According to a landmark study by Netflix about the performance of artwork on the platform, “emotions are an efficient way of conveying complex nuances. It’s well known that humans are hardwired to respond to faces—we have seen this to be consistent across all mediums. But it is important to note that faces with complex emotions outperform stoic or benign expressions.”

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One of the earliest trends also noted by Netflix, which is worth carrying forward to your own thumbnails, is that an image’s tendency to win against others dropped when it contained more than three people.

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You can optimize your thumbnails for click-throughs by including one to three faces, wearing expressions that speak louder than words.

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If you don’t have emotive faces in your videos, you can also use thumbnails that convey action to elicit an emotional response, like The Slow Mo Guys.

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Follow the “rule of thirds” to compose your thumbnail image

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The rule of thirds is a simplified way of achieving the “golden ratio,” which studies have shown minimizes the amount of time it takes for our brains to process an image.

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This image composition guideline suggests that you position your point of interest not in the center of the image, but in the first or last third of the frame.

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While it’s more of a guideline than a hard-and-fast rule, designing your thumbnail in this manner lets you draw the viewer’s eye to the most important “message” in your image.

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Add text to your thumbnails

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Some 63% of YouTube viewing time worldwide happens on a mobile device.

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This is what the YouTube homepage looks like to them:

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The prominence of your thumbnail relative to the title makes it almost guaranteed that the user’s eyes will be drawn to the thumbnail of your video first. If they find the image compelling enough, they likely will read the title and click to your video.

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So why not add some text to the thumbnail to help viewers make up their minds?

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The text can be the title of your video or even just a handful of words that are related to its hook. Whatever you choose, if over a third of your viewers are used to “reading” thumbnails on mobile, make sure your own thumbnails can communicate what your video’s about, even without the title.

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Brand your thumbnails

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If you look at the trending tab on YouTube, you’ll notice many of the trending videos have optimized their “first impression” by using the tactics we’ve outlined above.

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YouTube thumbnails can be very similar, aesthetically, so making it easy for viewers to spot your videos at a glance increases the chances that they’ll be clicked on by people who are already familiar with your content.

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If you have a consistent format for your YouTube channel, consider branding your thumbnails to differentiate them from other recommended videos.

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4. Encourage viewers to stay after they click

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Getting people to view your videos is one thing. Getting them to actually watch a video all the way through is another.

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Luckily, you can improve your video completion rate (and earn more watch time) by building this objective into your video creation process:

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5. Encourage binge watching on your channel

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You can also optimize for watch time at the channel level by employing strategies involving video consumption and consistency.

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Beyond having a focused premise for your YouTube channel—which is arguably the most important factor—some other ways you can make it easier for viewers to watch more of your content include:

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Cards can be used to lead viewers further down the rabbit hole of your YouTube channel. Another good idea is to turn on subtitles for all of your videos so people can continue to watch even if they can’t have their sound on.

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6. Optimize your video for a focus keyword

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Because YouTube is also a search engine, optimizing your videos around a focus keyword and a few secondary keywords can help your videos pop up more in YouTube search and give the algorithm a better idea of what your content is about, so they know when to recommend it.

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First, you’ll want to do keyword research on the platform to figure out which keyword and video topics are popular and might resonate with your audience. Using a Chrome extension like TubeBuddy can help you pinpoint the best keywords to use.

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All you’ll need to do is type your potential keyword into the search bar and check out TubeBuddy’s stats in the sidebar. Try a few other parallel keywords until you find the best one.

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Try to find a keyword with an overall “Very Good” or “Excellent” score. However, if your content typically ranks well on YouTube, you can tend to ignore the “Competition” option, as your channel has proven to be a good competitor in itself.

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Then you’ll want to make sure you include the keyword within the video’s title, description, and tags. You can also add a couple of hashtags to the bottom of your video description that help to categorize your video content.

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Read more: YouTube Ads for Beginners: How to Successfully Advertise on YouTube

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7. Keep an eye on your competitors

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Are any of your competitors active on YouTube? If so, keep an eye on the types of content they’re publishing. After all, the last thing you want is one of their videos to be recommended instead of yours.

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Pay attention to things like:

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Having a better understanding of what your competition is publishing can help to direct your own strategy and make sure that you also cover all of the same topics so your audience can better rely on your YouTube channel.

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8. Track metrics

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YouTube penalizes bait-and-switch tactics—overpromising before the click and delivering disappointing content after it. Click-through rate is still as important as ever. You can’t generate a lot of watch time for YouTube without getting clicks first, after all.

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You can even see these priorities reflected in YouTube Studio by checking out your YouTube analytics dashboard.

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You can see the following metrics related to organic reach, which together illustrate YouTube’s new emphasis on click-through rate and watch time:

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9. Create YouTube shorts

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YouTube Shorts are a short-form video format introduced by YouTube to compete with TikTok and Instagram Reels.

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Shorts are vertical videos designed for mobile viewing and quick consumption. They provide content creators with a new way to connect with their audiences and share concise, entertaining videos.

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The YouTube Shorts algorithm relies on various factors to determine which Shorts to recommend to viewers.

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Some of them include:

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Use YouTube’s algorithm to grow your business

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YouTube’s algorithm has changed a lot over the years, each time leaving creators and brands scrambling, wondering why the methods they once relied on aren’t working anymore.

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But even as the YouTube algorithm evolves, keep in mind that the platform’s goal remains the same: getting more people watching and engaging with more videos on YouTube. And that goal isn’t all that different from yours.

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At the end of the day, create videos that connect with your YouTube audience. The more engaging videos you make, the more the algorithm will suggest your videos to users.

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YouTube algorithm FAQ

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What is the algorithm of YouTube?

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The YouTube algorithm works as a recommendation system designed to increase user engagement. It’s built to help you find similar content to what you watch and maximize your satisfaction. The algorithm is a real-time feedback loop that tailors videos to match your interest.

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What triggers the YouTube algorithm?

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The YouTube algorithm changes often. It’s triggered by factors such as video watch time, engagement (likes, comments, and shares), relevance, and user history.

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Who programs the YouTube algorithm?

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The YouTube algorithm is programmed by a team of engineers and developers at YouTube, a subsidiary of Google, who constantly update and refine the system. It follows a complex set of rules that determines the discovery system for viewers.

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How can I increase my YouTube video views?

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To increase your YouTube video views, create high-quality, engaging content that resonates with your target audience, use strategic and relevant keywords in titles and descriptions, and promote your videos on social media platforms. Maintaining a consistent posting schedule and interacting with your viewers can also help boost views.

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Imagine you could focus more of your efforts on product design and innovation, beautifying your brand, or streamlining operations instead of finding customers and worrying about sales.

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Marketing doesn’t come naturally for all entrepreneurs, which can make sustaining and growing a business a struggle. Luckily, you can pass on some—or even all—of that responsibility to other retail businesses, by using business to business (B2B) as a new sales channel.

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This guide walks you through how to sell wholesale and, how to tap into the $12.3 trillion wholesale industry, with tips for sourcing wholesale items to sell and setting up your store today.

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Table of Contents

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What is wholesale in business?

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Wholesaling is the act of selling your products in bulk to another retailer, usually at a discount, who then sells the product to its customers at a higher price. It’s important to note that creating a B2B sector for your online business does still allow you to sell your product to the end consumer.

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Understanding wholesale

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As a wholesaler, you can sell to both consumers and other retailers. You don’t have to choose one or the other.

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The first example of a wholesale business model that might come to mind are probably large brick-and-mortar department stores, like Walmart or Target. Wholesale is, after all, often thought of as an old-fashioned business model that’s being disrupted by newer direct-to-consumer ecommerce businesses.

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:One of the myths about wholesale ecommerce is that you need loads of cash to get started. While you do need some startup money to break into the wholesale market, there are ways to scale your growth, says Simon Slade, founder of SaleHoo

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“For example, reorganize your existing space to make room for your bulk products rather than renting a new storage space right off the bat. And don’t forget to negotiate with your suppliers—they tend to be more flexible when you’re making a large order.”

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With the rise of B2B marketplaces like Alibaba, Faire, and Handshake, the wholesale landscape has undergone a significant transformation for large and small businesses.

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While ecommerce continues to empower direct-to-consumer brands by reducing barriers to entry, wholesale is adapting to changing buyer expectations, offering a streamlined and convenient shopping experience.

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Today’s wholesale market allows buyers to find a diverse range of products in one location, catering to their growing desire for efficiency and variety.

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Popular wholesale business examples

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Finding profitable items to resell not already on Amazon or eBay is challenging. Here is a round-up of the top marketplaces to find high-demand bestsellers from worldwide brands.

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Handshake

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Handshake is a B2B marketplace powered by Shopify that connects wholesale suppliers and retailers. You can find handpicked wholesale items to sell from established and emerging suppliers, spanning categories like beauty and wellness, stationary, pets, and more.

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Handshake integrates directly with the Shopify ecosystem, and curates a selection of unique products from a thriving community of trusted brands.

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Faire

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Faire is a wholesale marketplace operating in Europe and North America. Based in San Francisco, it ships to more than 15,000 cities in 15 European countries, the United States, and Canada, and offers over 60,000 independent brands. It’s free to join Faire, and you only pay a commission if Faire connects you with a new retailer through its marketplace.

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Alibaba and AliExpress

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The Ali family of sites is China’s most dominant online marketplace and app. Alibaba is for B2B buyers purchasing wholesale items to sell, while AliExpress is for business to consumer (B2C) products.

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Alibaba and AliExpress are good for finding:

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Salehoo

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Salehoo is a New Zealand–based wholesale marketplace with more than 8,000 suppliers. In order to use the network, it’ll cost you a $67 per year membership fee. That will get you access to suppliers and providers in New Zealand, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia.

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Tundra

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Tundra is a zero-fee wholesale marketplace with over 10,000 brands as suppliers. It’s a wholesaler for people just starting out, and is free to use—it doesn’t even take a commission from your sales. Tundra also ships wholesale products to over 100 countries.

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TradeGala

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TradeGala is a London-based wholesale marketplace focused on fashion brands. It offers a three-tier membership, yet none of them requires a membership fee. If you’re a wholesaler looking to break into the fashion market, know that TradeGala only takes commissions off of sales made through its site.

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IndiaMART

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IndiaMART is a free wholesale marketplace for both sellers and buyers. Based in India, it has a massive network of seven million suppliers in 40 categories at your disposal. It stocks everything from consumer goods to medical and industrial supplies, and even agricultural supplies.

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eWorldTrade

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eWorldTrade is a US wholesale marketplace with thousands of suppliers providing items in 39 categories. Know that eWorldTrade is on the pricey side: it has five major selling plans, and the cheapest begins at $399 per year.

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Read more: How to Find the Right Wholesale Supplier for Your Business

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How to start a wholesale business online

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1. Decide what wholesale items to sell

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There are many wholesale items to sell as a B2B business online. Whether you’re a veteran or a beginner, you can expand your product line with the ideas below.

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Education

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There is a large annual market for education supplies. In the United States alone, there were more than 56.5 million K–12 students enrolled and more than four million teachers employed in 2022.

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Below are some education products to consider wholesaling:

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Home décor

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According to Statista, home improvement sales globally amounted to around $830 billion in 2022. By 2027, this amount is expected to reach over $1 trillion. Home décor is a solid market for the wholesaling business.

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Some home décor products to consider wholesaling are:

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Clothing and accessories

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Whether it’s clothes for work, day-to-day, or special occasions, everyone needs to wear something.

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That’s why fashion is a large and ever-growing market. In 2022, the revenue of this market was approximately $1.53 trillion. According to the Consumer Market Outlook, this value will increase to almost $2 trillion by 2027.

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Every human on this planet needs food, and will continue to need food for the rest of their lives. So this is an obvious category to wholesale, as the demand will always be there.

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Below are some wholesale food products to consider selling:

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Purses and handbags

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The global handbag market reached $38.5 billion in 2022. Below are some types of purses and handbags to consider selling wholesale:

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The kitchenware segment is expected to reach $17.3 billion worldwide in 2023. The market is expected to grow annually by 3.83% until 2027.

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Below are some kitchen products to get your wholesaling business off the ground:

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The health and wellness industry is set to make well over $7 trillion a year by 2025. Research shows that the pandemic has driven people to care more about their health.

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US homes spend an average of $703 on each pet annually. It’s clear that getting into the pet supplies wholesale business is profitable. Here are some wholesale pet items to sell:

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The party planning market reached $4 billion in 2022. Wholesaling party supplies not only gives you a variety of products to sell, it gives you volume as well. Plus, the market doesn’t seem to be going anywhere.

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Here are some products to consider in this category:

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Pricing strategies are one—if not the most—crucial component to creating a successful wholesale business. When selling directly to customers on your website or in your retail store, you get to keep whatever profit margin you set for yourself, which often can be north of 50%.

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Here is an example of a healthy pricing strategy, where a wholesale business would retain a 50% profit margin on wholesale orders and a 75% profit margin on direct-to-consumer sales:

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A profitable pricing strategy for wholesale requires a business to be able to maintain a profit margin while offering retailers 50% off the manufacturer’s suggested retail price (MSRP).

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Luckily, there are ways to price your product wholesale to mitigate the risk of not being profitable. One way is to offer a discount based on purchase order quantities.

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This way, retailers are encouraged to place larger orders for a better margin upon resale of your product. Many wholesale businesses even set minimum order quantities (MOQs) that retailers must buy in order to carry their product.

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When you decide to wholesale your product and have it carried by multiple stores, you can sometimes run into issues with competing retailers undercutting each other when it comes to price. This is why creating an MSRP is an important element of your wholesale pricing strategy.

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An MSRP is often part of a contract that a business will give a retailer that wants to sell its products. It guarantees the retailer will stick to the suggested retail price so the product pricing will be the same wherever it is found, in stores or online. Usually, the MSRP is found alongside individual products on a wholesale storefront, or on a sales sheet or product brochure sent to prospective retailers who wish to carry your product.

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One thing to consider when setting up an MSRP agreement is whether you want to allow discounting around holidays like Black Friday and Cyber Monday, or specify certain times you might want to discount the product to customers on your own website.

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As the wholesale supplier, you get to set the rules that your retailers have to comply with, but maintaining a fair pricing balance is essential to making your retailers successful. If your retailers are able to make a profit selling your product, they’ll continue to come back and place larger orders.

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When it comes to selling wholesale, you can sell B2B and direct to consumer (DTC) in a single store, or choose to have a separate, dedicated B2B store but still through one single admin.

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If you are considering only selling your product wholesale through other retailers, you can set them up with a customer account in your store.

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B2B customers can use a password-less process to log in. When a B2B customer logs into your store, they’ll receive a six-digit verification code to their email address.

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After entering the code, they can place B2B orders, access price lists reflected in the online store, and access company and location information in their account.

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You can manage these in your Shopify admin under Settings > Customer accounts.

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There are a few ways B2B customers can access new customer accounts:

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CASE STUDY: Brooklinen Scales Their Wholesale Business to New Heights with B2B on Shopify

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Payment terms let you set how long that company has to pay. You can set payment terms for any company that you sell to with B2B.

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After you set payment terms for a B2B buyer, any representative can enter payment information for the order.

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Credit card vaulting is a functionality available to merchants that use Shopify Payments. It allows secure storage of credit card information for convenient future transactions.

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B2B customers can save their card details during checkout or through their customer account. Vaulted cards are linked to a specific company and can be used by all customers associated with that company.

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Customers can manage vaulted cards in their account, and you can manually charge cards, change cards for pending payments, or delete vaulted cards for a customer.

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Now that you have your wholesale pricing strategy figured out and a wholesale channel set up in your store, it’s time to search for prospective wholesale customers. But where do you find these retailers, and how can you increase sales?

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Use your direct-to-consumer website

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Oftentimes, a retail customer will actually find you first. If you’ve had success with direct-to-consumer advertising, you’ve possibly already received messages from distributors who want to carry your product online or in their physical stores.

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When you are advertising to consumers online, you are also reaching other business owners who might be interested in carrying your wholesale items to sell on their sites. This is why it’s important to keep a link in your website footer for wholesale inquiries: so resellers browsing your website can easily contact you about potential opportunities.

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Rockwell Razors keeps an easily accessible link to a wholesale inquiry form on its website footer.

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Retailers today can find and order products from wholesale marketplaces. Aside from selling wholesale to retailers in your own ecommerce store, you can also join a popular marketplace to build brand awareness and reach new buyers.

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Do research on prospective marketplaces to make sure they’re the right fit. You want the marketplace to easily integrate with your store.

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Attend trade shows

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Trade shows are traditionally where a wholesale business goes to make connections and find retail partners. There are specialty trade shows for nearly every category of retail, from baby apparel and athletic leisure clothing to furniture and home décor. There are even trade show directories that list top trade shows according to categories.

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Trade shows, however, can be expensive. They often require travel and a substantial booth fee, if you want to exhibit there. It’s worth attending first and walking the floor to make sure it will be worthwhile to exhibit.

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Reach out to complementary brands

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One added benefit of a wholesale channel is that, unlike direct to consumer, you don’t always need a large volume of customers in order to grow. If you have a handful of high-quality retailers who are successful at selling your product, they can come back and continue to place larger orders again and again.

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To find these select partners, reach out personally over social media, phone, or email to a company you believe would be a great fit. A business that sells complementary products is a good place to start.

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One example of a wholesale collaboration between two complementary brands can be found with Pehr and Stokke:

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Pehr and Stokke formed a partnership and now sell each other’s complementary products on their respective websites: Stokke creates and sells a line of cribs and baby furniture for design-minded families. Pehr created a line of 100% organic sheets that are now sold on the Stokke website, while Pehr carries Stokke’s cribs on its site.

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Some of the best wholesale partnerships are made through personal contact and establishing trust and rapport in real life. So if you see a brand you admire, reach out if you believe working together would benefit both sides.

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Use incentives to motivate buyers

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Incentives work for wholesale buyers just like everyday consumers do. Some online retailers selling wholesale will offer discounts to buyers based on the amount of products they buy. A common offer is a percentage off for a customer’s first order. Other incentives could include offering:

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You could also offer dropshipping services as a wholesaler. When a company sells a product on its website, you deliver it to the end customer versus a wholesale distributor, which could be cheaper for the company.

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Is a wholesale business profitable?

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This newer version of wholesaling, which often takes place in online marketplaces or through smaller boutiques, has advantages that attract direct-to-consumer brands, too. Here are three reasons why opening up a wholesale channel might benefit your business.

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1. Increase sales without increasing marketing spend

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As a direct-to-consumer brand, a large amount of your budget needs to be allocated to marketing in order to grow. For every new customer acquired, there is often a cost, after all.

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“The most common myth is that B2B customers won’t shop online, so there’s limited growth potential,” says Shane Barker, digital marketing consultant. “In truth, B2B ecommerce is experiencing massive growth and drives much higher revenue than B2C ecommerce.

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By selling your products wholesale, another business shoulders the cost of customer acquisition and inventory management, while you reinvest your time and money into other areas of your business.

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2. Leverage other brands’ audiences to sell your product

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Just as acquiring new customers costs money, building a loyal audience of fans and customers is not an easy feat. By creating a wholesale partnership with an established brand that has already made a name for itself within your niche, you can leverage the company’s goodwill to get your product into customers’ hands.

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3. Enter new markets with less risk

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Expanding your business to a new country or territory comes with a series of associated costs, like warehousing and logistics. You might also have to start from scratch, marketing to a population that hasn’t heard of you.

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Finding another retailer with an existing presence and supply chain in a new market can reduce the risk of international expansion by cutting your setup costs.

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Ultimately, a wholesale distribution business model benefits both the retailer and the wholesaler by creating efficiencies. The retailer gets a new—often complementary—product to sell without investing in research and development, and the wholesaler saves money on marketing by gaining direct access to an existing customer base.

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Start selling B2B with Shopify today

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The rise of ecommerce has allowed direct-to-consumer brands to launch faster and grow digitally. As a result, many had written off selling wholesale items as a fading retail trend. However, a new wave of wholesale startups are actually thriving in the era of ecommerce by rethinking the way wholesale works.

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Both direct-to-consumer brands looking for new sales channels and entrepreneurs who want to save on marketing spend are opening wholesale businesses. With the right pricing strategy and a little know-how, you can start opening your business up to new revenue-generating partnerships and see your product flourish among complementary brands.

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Wholesale business FAQ

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What are some benefits of wholesaling?

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The benefits of wholesale include low costs due to bulk purchases, simplified logistics due to large quantities, and the opportunity to focus on B2B relationships rather than end-user relationships.
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What kinds of businesses can be wholesaled?

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What is the difference between wholesale and retail?

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Retail and wholesale differ primarily in their target customers and sales methods. Wholesalers sell products in bulk to other businesses at a lower price, while retailers sell individual items to consumers at higher prices. As a result, wholesalers can provide a cost-effective supply chain for retailers, who in turn serve consumers.

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Creating a TikTok strategy for a brand takes legwork. Aside from figuring out the best type of content to post, you’ll also need to find the best time to post on TikTok to maximize engagement.

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Luckily, data can help make sense of this, so you can reach the right audience at the right time.

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Below, learn the best times to post for each day of the week. We’ll also walk through how to analyze your own TikTok data to discover the optimal posting schedule for your target audience.

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Best times to post on TikTok in 2023 (in EST)

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\"AAccording to a study by Influencer Marketing Hub, the best time to post on TikTok overall is on Tuesday at 9 a.m., Thursday at 12 a.m., and Friday at 5 a.m. These are additional high-engagement times to post content on the platform:

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To determine the best times to post listed above, Influencer Marketing Hub analyzed more than 100,000 TikTok posts and looked for engagement trends. Below, take a look at the best times to post on TikTok, broken out by day.

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Best time to post on TikTok on Monday

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The best time to post on TikTok on Monday is at 6 a.m., 10 a.m., or 10 p.m. This suggests people are looking at TikTok videos before school or work, before lunch, and right before bed.

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Best time to post on TikTok on Tuesday

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The best time to post on TikTok on Tuesday is at 2 a.m., 4 a.m., and 9 p.m. This suggests people are checking social media platforms in the early morning, when they wake up in the middle of the night, and right before bed.

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Best time to post on TikTok on Wednesday

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The best time to post on TikTok on Wednesday is at 7 a.m., 8 a.m., or 11 p.m. If you post video content on TikTok during these times, you can catch people on the platform before work or school and then right before bed.

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Best time to post on TikTok on Thursday

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The best times to post on TikTok on Thursday are 9 a.m., 12 p.m., and 7 p.m. Thursdays are the best days to post TikTok content right around the lunch hour. If you have a restaurant business, for example, Thursdays could be a great day to post dinner specials at noon to let your customers plan ahead.

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Best time to post on TikTok on Friday

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The best times to post on TikTok on Friday are 5 a.m., 1 p.m., and 3 p.m. Share content early for the before-work and -school crowd, then after lunch and mid-afternoon. More engagement in the early evening suggests viewership reduces at night, when people are out on the town. Post on TikTok earlier in the day when more of your audience is likely checking social media platforms.

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Best time to post on TikTok on Saturday

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The best time to post on TikTok on Saturday is at 11 a.m., 7 p.m., or 8 p.m. There are fewer early risers on Saturday as people recover from the night before or choose to sleep in after a busy week. If you post on TikTok in the late morning and later in the evening, you can draw the most eyeballs to your TikTok content.

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Best time to post on TikTok on Sunday

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The best time to post on TikTok on Sunday is at 7 a.m., 8 a.m., or 4 p.m. Schedule video content to go out early on Sundays to capture people who wake up early for a morning workout, jump on social media before grabbing breakfast with friends, or scroll while still in bed.

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This data is certainly interesting and not a bad place to start when first crafting your content strategy and understanding the best time to post on TikTok. However, it won’t be long before you can get personalized analytics, and that’s when you’ll find out what’s truly the best time to post on TikTok for your specific target audience.

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You should also note that the best time to post on TikTok may not be the same for other platforms. As the audiences and content types differ, check your analytics across each social media platform to find the optimal times to post content.

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💡 Learn more: Uncover the Best Time To Post on Instagram

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The best time to post on TikTok by location

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The huge caveat to the data above is that, to make these numbers useful for you, you need to consider your own time zone and location of your viewers. If you have a global audience, you’ll want to pay special attention to posting when people are online across multiple time zones.

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Calculate the time difference to get the optimal times to post for your audience’s location. If Tuesday at 9 a.m. is the best time to post, and your audience is primarily located in London and you’re located in Toronto, Canada, the best time for you to post is Tuesday at 2 p.m.

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Connect with shoppers on TikTok

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Shopify comes with powerful tools to help you tell your brand story and create TikTok in-feed ads in minutes. Make sales on TikTok and manage all your orders, returns, and payments from Shopify.

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Start selling on TikTok

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How to find the best time to post on TikTok for your business

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\"AThere’s a reason TikTok posting times matter. Like on other social media platforms, you’ll get the most engagement with your TikTok posts if you share content when your target audience is online.

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There’s a method right in the TikTok app for finding when your audience is the most active, and we’ll walk you through the steps to get there.

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1. Make a TikTok business account

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First, you need to make sure you have a Pro account or Business account on the app. It’s free and simple to switch. Just go to Settings and Privacy, then Manage Account, and tap Switch to Business Account. This will give you access to analytics, as well as other features.

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2. Open your TikTok analytics dashboard

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Next, you’ll want to take a look at your TikTok analytics. You can get there by clicking the menu at the top right of your profile screen, clicking Creator Tools, then Analytics. That opens TikTok’s analytics dashboard, which offers all kinds of insight into your account and your followers.

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3. Find your follower activity

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If you’re looking to find the best time to post on TikTok, you’ll want to find the Followers tab at the top. From there, scroll down and you’ll see a pane called “Follower activity.”

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This is what it looks like on mobile.

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This TikTok analytics pane will show when your personal followers are most active.

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As you can see above, the data shows that the activity of the followers of this account ramp up through the day and peak at 10 p.m. UTC. TikTok always displays these times in UTC, so you’ll need to convert to your local time zone. For this account, for example, 10 p.m. UTC converts to 5 p.m. ET. From that, we can determine that this account should aim to post around that time for the best chance at maximum engagement.

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You can also find this information on a desktop by logging into your account and selecting “View analytics” under your profile. This gives a more detailed view, like below. You can also download your data from the desktop dashboard.

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This is invaluable information because it shows not just when TikTok users are generally active, but when your own followers are active. This can help you figure out the best posting schedule for your brand.

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This matters because your followers and your customers may have different peak activity times compared to others. If your target audience and customer base is parents, for example, their activity might peak in the evening when they have more free time. If your target is students, their activity might peak after school hours.

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📈 Learn more: How To Market Your Business on TikTok

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This is the method Shopify’s TikTok team uses to determine the best time to post. Our community of entrepreneurs are most active in the late afternoon but, again, this might be different for you.

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The dashboard will also show where your followers are located. If, for example, you’re based in the US but notice you have a lot of followers in the UK, you may want to split your posts to target different time zones.

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4. Crosscheck your activity on individual TikTok posts

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Seeing when your followers are most active gives you a good idea of when they’re most likely to engage with your content in the form of likes, comments, and watch time. To drill down further, navigate to the Content tab in your analytics dashboard.

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From here, you can see data on individual posts from the past seven days, including total play time, average watch time, how many people were reached, and whether they found the video via your profile or the For You page.

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This also includes information on the exact time and date you posted your video. By combining your follower analytics with this data, you can figure out if your strategy for when you post TikTok videos is working. You may even find that certain content does best at a particular time of day compared to others. Again, it’s all highly individual, so digging into your personal dashboard is key to finding the best TikTok posting times for your business.

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💡 Get inspired: How to Make and Sell Merch on TikTok

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As you can see, the analytics dashboard is much more helpful than external data can ever be in terms of establishing the best time to post on TikTok for your brand.

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The downside here is that this information doesn’t start to get detailed until you’ve reached 100 followers and, of course, you have to post content to get any analytics at all. The information in this post will help you start off with some insights, but building your audience is key for getting the best analytics, especially since the TikTok algorithm will likely keep changing over time.

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That means if you’re just starting a TikTok account for your business, the most important thing is simply to start posting.

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TikTok recommends that businesses post one to four times per day and focus on authentic, engaging content. You can check out our guide on TikTok marketing for tips on how to create the best content for TikTok.

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The more you post on TikTok, the more data, feedback, and followers you’ll gain, and the more you’ll be able to pinpoint the best time to post on TikTok for your business.

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Best times to post on TikTok FAQ

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Does posting time matter on TikTok?

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Yes, posting time does matter on TikTok. TikTok’s algorithm prioritizes recent and relevant content, so it’s best to post when your audience is most active and engaged. This will increase the chances of your content being seen and engaged with by more people. It’s recommended to experiment with different posting times and analyze the performance of your videos to find the optimal posting time for your specific audience. The best time to post on TikTok will differ for each audience.

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Is Sunday the best time to post on TikTok?

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In terms of engagement, there is no specific day that is considered the best for posting on TikTok. The best time to post on TikTok depends on your target audience and their time zone. You can experiment with posting at different times and analyze when your videos get the most engagement. Additionally, some research shows that weekdays may generally have higher engagement rates, as people are often busy with other things on weekends. Ultimately, consistency and quality content are more important than the specific day or time of your TikTok posts.

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Why does my TikTok get no views?

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There are several reasons why your TikTok videos may not be getting any views. Here are a few possible reasons:

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Is it better to post TikTok videos at night or in the day?

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There isn’t one simple answer to this question. The best time to post on TikTok—night or day—depends on a number of factors, including your audience’s location, your time zone, and the most popular times to post on TikTok, according to data.

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