With my MomDot interview, I introduced a few of my blogs. Free Sample Deals is a free sample site that my girlfriend runs and I sort of manage. It has earned about $50 in it’s first month. Some asked the questioned how that was achieved. About $5 was done with one block of Google Adsense, and the rest affiliate programs.
Free Sample Deals Case Study
If you take a look at Free Sample Deals, you will see one block of Adsense, and one small block of affiliates on the sidebar. However, the money wasn’t earned with that block. It was earned with affiliates that are giving away free samples.
The trick is to really make all posts look the same. I don’t treat any post different than the freebies I’m not getting paid for. If you go throughout the blog, it will be hard to tell which ones I earn money for people to sign-up to, and which I don’t.
Let me make it easier for you. Here are a few free samples that we found online and blogged about Kashi, Kotex, and Parents Magazine. Now here are some that I earn a commission for every time someone signs up, Gray, Eco-Living, and Enfamil. Can you tell the difference? Hopefully not.
Whats great about these free samples that pay me, is that they are actually free. You don’t need to complete offers first like some “free samples”. However ,most of these companies are offering this stuff for free because they are looking to build their mailing list, or brand their product.
Free Samples Affiliate
Where I have been able to make most of the money is from Logical Media. Their offers range from free samples, free information kits, and other free offers. Each conversion (when someone signs up) pay ranges from 90 cents to $20+.
Logical Media’s offers range and vary each day which is nice. There is usually fresh new campaigns to promote and run, then in a few days, there are more.
Of course there are more affiliate networks like this, but I have found Logical Media to be the best for what I am trying to accomplish with Free Sample Deals.
How Can I Use This?
Mommy blogs are so dynamic because they can really be about anything and everything, yet still be interesting and appeal to your readers. Mommy blogs that I’ve seen lately really focus on kids and babies, great on and offline finds, coupons, samples, contests, and general mommy related stuff. All can be money makers if you know how to make the money (like with Logical Media).
Incorporating the affiliate offers into your post can be as simple as just throwing up a banner on your blog, or actually giving the affiliate offer a post. The most successful affiliate we ran was a free Obama campaign button from Moveon.org. For every sign-up we generated a dollar, ending up with about 20-30 sign-ups. All it took was a post about it, whether you support Obama or not, your readers might.
I will be following up with other affiliate programs and resources that will be perfect for other mommy bloggers, and all bloggers, for that matter. Any and all questions are welcome!
If you are looking for hands on help, I do blog consulting and am working on my portfolio at MatthewHenrickson.com. I’d be happy to help you monetize your blog or anything else you may need.
I know this is an older post. I dont care. This is great information. I have a few affiliates Im set up with but had to find them on my own. You are top blogger if you ask me. To share with us these details Im finding throughout your site. You are a gem!!!!!
Thanks Jennifer! what a nice comment
Hi,
My question is how do I get products for giveaways?
I see several blogs that are able to give products away and I would be interested in doing that. Thank for your help.
Thanks for sharing this. I might be able to make a little with this even with my small amunt of raeders. I might just go check this one out.
im working on it, i dont know what else to do. I dont see a problem anywhere on my side or in the site. :-[
Matt, I braved trying the link again and again was hit with the virus. Sorry!
wow thanks for letting me know, there was a strip of code in the theme that was obviously hacked in somehow. Ive gone and changed the password.
It should be gone now?
bridget, im going to tell matt now!
So after reading your well done post, I clicked on the Enfamil link to see a sample of how you wrote the advertisements. I was immediately hit with a trojan virus. Macafee fortunately caught it and repaired it, but I thought you should know.
The specific trojan was JS/Tenia.d and was detected at free-sample-of-enfamil-baby-formula.htm