How Can I Give Value to My Affiliates Without Being Biased?

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Pat Flynn

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4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2017

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Today’s question comes from Aaron, whose site is https://pickakit.com. How can he provide value to his site’s affiliates without being biased in his recommendations? Do you have a question about affiliate marketing? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/. Today's sponsor is DesignCrowd: A website that helps businesses crowdsource designs from over 500,000 designers worldwide. AskPat listeners can receive a free download and $100 off their next design by visiting https://designcrowd.com/askpat and entering the promo code "AskPat". See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	AskPath.
0:04.6	AskPack.com
0:06.2	Dot com.
0:08.3	Askpats.com.
0:08.6	Askpats.
0:10.0	Hey, what's up, everybody?
0:11.4	Patlin here and welcome to episode 974 of Ask Pat.
0:15.1	Thank you so much for joining me.
0:16.5	As always, I'm here to help you by answer your online business questions five days a week here.
0:21.4	All right, thanks so much.
0:22.3	And here's today's question from Aaron.
0:24.2	Hey, Pat.
0:25.0	This is Aaron from picka kit.com.
0:27.2	First of all, thank you for all the amazing information that you share.
0:30.1	And for the way that you share it, I really do absorbing your advice about affiliate marketing, like treating the products as if they're your own and referring your audience to the one product that they need to move forward.
0:41.9	I'm wondering how this advice applies to sites like mine, where the value we provide is in helping users compare similar options.
0:48.7	Currently, we give affiliates better positioning in our list of service providers and priority as we create new pages for the
0:54.6	site. My question is, how else can we provide value to our affiliates without being biased in our
0:59.9	recommendations? Thanks again.
1:02.0	Hey, Aaron. Thank you so much for this question. So what other value could you provide affiliates
1:06.0	that would help? Well, one thing that I talk about that you didn't mention was showing people how
1:11.7	the product is used and giving them more information about what that experience is like before they
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