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BDSwiss Launches 2020 EoY Affiliate Competition with $20,000 Total Prize Pool

December 1, 2020

BDSwiss is once again rewarding its highest-performing Affiliate Partners with additional cash prizes on top of their monthly payouts. This time we are offering a total prize pool of $20,000 to the top three BDSwiss Affiliates that have generated the highest average trading volume from December 1st, 2020 – January 15th, 2021.

HERE’S HOW IT WORKS

The rules are simple, all you need to do is secure at least 50 new FTDs during the month of December and claim one of the top 3 places on our Leaderboard by generating the highest average trading volume from Dec 1st, 2020 – Jan 15th, 2021. Keep in mind that your average client trading volume needs to be at minimum $1million to qualify for a prize and only new clients registered during December 1st – December 31st count towards your total trading volume.

$20K CASH PRIZES

The total prize pool is $20,000. The first prize is $12K, the 2nd is $5K and the 3rd is $3K. All prizes will be credited directly to partner accounts and will be fully withdrawable. All existing BDSwiss Affiliates will automatically participate in the competition as long as they meet the qualification requirements. View Leaderboard.

READY? SET… GO!

Our 2020 End-of-Year Affiliate Competition has just started and you may already be eligible to join, so don’t miss out on this one-of-a-kind opportunity. Contact your BDSwiss Affiliate Manager to learn more about our affiliate competition.

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BDSwiss Launches Dec 2019 Affiliate Competition with $20,000 Total Prize Pool

December 5, 2019

We are very excited to announce the launch of another BDSwiss Forex Affiliate Competition for December 2019! It’s been a very productive year for the BDSwiss and its Partners and we would like to celebrate by offering our Affiliates $20,000!

HERE’S HOW IT WORKS

Join our December 2019 Grand Affiliate Competition for a chance to earn cash prizes amounting to $20,000. The rules are simple, all you need to do is secure at least 50 new FTDs during the month of December and claim one of the top 3 places on our Leaderboard by generating the highest average closed trading volume from Dec 1st – Jan 15th. Keep in mind that your average closed trading volume needs to be at minimum 1.5M to qualify for a prize.

$20,000 PRIZE POOL

The winners will be the top 3 affiliates that have generated the highest average closed trading volume from Dec 1st – Jan 15th. The total prize pool is $20,000. The first prize is $13k, the 2nd is $5k and the 3rd is $2k. All prizes will be credited directly to partner accounts and will be fully withdrawable.

READY? SET… GO!

Our forex affiliate program contest has just started and you may already be eligible to join, so don’t miss out on this one-of-a-kind opportunity. Contact your BDSwiss Affiliate Manager today to learn more about our December competition or start referring your traffic to BDSwiss today and see your Affiliate ID appear automatically on our Affiliate Competition Leaderboard once you have completed the 50 qualified FTDs and average closed trading volume entry requirements.

BDSwiss Optimises Client & Partner Withdrawals with New Daily Payouts Option

September 17, 2019

Introducing Daily Payouts for Clients & Partners

Always striving to optimise user experience, BDSwiss has recently launched daily credit card withdrawals for all clients and Partners on Revenue Share and Hybrid plans. BDSwiss’ latest innovation enables clients and Partners alike to experience utmost flexibility when it comes to accessing their funds, as they can now withdraw and receive their funds within the same day.

We Make Sure Your Clients Enjoy Absolute Flexibility

At BDSwiss we understand that deposits, transfers and withdrawals need to be quick, intuitive and secure, giving the client the flexibility to complete their transactions via a number of local and international payment methods; which is why we continue to expand our payments arsenal by working with a number of reputable electronic payment systems and providers. We further employ a team of experienced payment professionals, in addition to having 24/5 back office and support teams to help clients with any issue at hand.

Our latest daily payouts initiative has helped us ensure an even greater level of client satisfaction which in turn leads to longer client lifetime value, increased loyalty and better conversion rates for our Partners. BDSwiss clients also enjoy automatic deposits with absolutely no extra cost, which enables them to start trading almost immediately after signing up for an account as well as withdraw funds within a few hours.

We Help Our Partners Grow & Expand

In essence, BDSwiss works on creating exactly the conditions our Affiliate and IB Partners need to attract traders and turn their network into a lucrative business. We make sure that our Partners’ referrals get the best possible level of support and some of the most competitive trading conditions. What is more, we offer our Partners some of the most lucrative customised payout plans and we support their efforts to expand their network by fully funding their forex projects and backing their marketing efforts. Partner payouts on Revenue Share and Hybrid plans are also now fully automated, enabling Partners to withdraw their commissions on a daily basis and have the funds appear in their personal account within less than 24 hours.

Interested in Learning More About Partnering with BDSwiss?

Explore the opportunities of partnering with a leading broker by visiting our forex Partners’ Portal.

How to Monetize your Instagram Account Traffic

May 31, 2019

With more than 1 billion monthly users, Instagram is getting ready for global domination, threatening to dethrone even its millennial predecessor, Facebook. Instagram is undeniably an immensely powerful channel when it comes to marketing and affiliation. In fact, we’ve seen a wave of self-made influencers who then become very powerful affiliates and even brand ambassadors stemming the social media behemoth! There is no doubt that Instagram holds an immense monetisation potential and it is an extremely powerful platform that continues to grow at an unprecedented rate.

Given the sheer size of the global audience, there’s a niche market out there for all kinds of forex affiliate marketers from the educational websites, to the signal provider or lifestyle trader. Regardless of the kind of content you create, Instagram can help you reach a new, tech-savvy demographic that you can leverage to increase your conversions and returns. But how can you gain an Instagram following in the first place?

1. Establish your Niche with a Perfect Bio

Before anything, you first need to make sure your Instagram bio is attractive. It needs to be able to tell your audience who you are, what you do and what is it that you want them to do, including a clear call-to-action.

2. Engage your Audience with Interesting Content

Instagram is all about content, and not just any content. It’s about sharing high-quality interesting content. Having a sizeable fanbase does, mathematically, increase your chances of appearing in the feeds of more users. But what’s the point of that if people don’t engage with you or your content? The trick to increasing engagement is to create content that solves certain content needs for your audience. When it comes to a forex related profile, you could choose to provide your audience with actionable market information, real-time trading, your personal strategy or EA, trading tips, your set ups, your views on what’s currently happening in the markets or even just some inspirational posts on what CFD trading means to you and how it reflects on your lifestyle.

3. Post regularly

Posting regularly is one of the ingredients of Instagram success, it’s a platform that requires you to be very active. Ideally, you should be posting at least once a day. If you can post more than that, 2-3 times a day, you will get better reach and engagement, enabling you to grow your account. There are a number of tools you can use to automate your posting or distribute your content to a number of social media platforms at peak traffic hours to optimise engagement.

4. Leverage the Right Hashtags

Hashtags are a great way to improve the discoverability and reach of your content. Instagram allows you to use a maximum of 30 hashtags; but you should always remember to use your hashtags wisely. Try using ones that are relevant to your posts and will help you reach out to bigger audiences, but feel free to get creative and witty with your hashtags, as well. You may also use a hashtag manager to keep them organised. You can use it to store all your hashtags separately or in groups, which is really handy if have more than one account to manage.

5. Utilise Instagram Stories

Instagram Stories can be used in various ways. It’s a brilliant feature that should be utilised regularly as it increases engagement and makes your account look more credible and approachable. More importantly, when your account surpasses 10,000 followers, Instagram allows you to start adding hyperlinks within your stories!

You can now also take advantage of Instagram’s recent update which includes the ability to display story highlights on your profile. You may consider creating a few highlights to promote and encourage your audience to follow you on other social networks or even visit your website if you have one.

6. Improve your Content Quality

One of the most important things you need to do to monetize Instagram is to improve your content quality. Standing out in an ocean of content creators will give you the edge you need to truly drive and convert traffic. Always use high-quality images and never repeat your pitches. Additionally, you should strongly consider leveraging video content in the form of Stories or even on IGTV to stand out.

7. Build Relationship with Other Content Creators

An important element of growing your reach and influence is cultivating relationships with other content creators from your niche. You could always get in touch with them and ask them for a shoutout on one of their posts. Or you can actively engage with them and their followers on their posts. Better yet, you can collaborate with them to create content together.

8. Engage with Your Followers and Targeted Audience

Ultimately, being an Instagram success also comes down to how you engage with your followers. If you show that you are an actual human behind that profile picture and actively reply to your audience’s comments and direct messages regularly they will be more likely to engage with your content and convert down the line. This also applies to engaging with your followers content. Leaving a few likes, comments and following back your audience will help build positive healthy relationships encouraging engagement and trust.

Sources:

Hootsuite, Omnicore, Sked Social & Shane Barker as of May 31st 2019, 4:00 PM GMT.

Can you Make an Income from Forex Without Trading?

April 25, 2019

What is Forex trading?

Forex or foreign exchange trading refers to the buying and selling of world currencies with CFDs with the intention of making a profit. CFDs essentially enable traders to speculate on the price movement of underlying financial assets which can include currency pairs like the EUR/USD or other types of assets including indices, shares, cryptocurrencies and commodities.

In order to be able to trade CFDs, a trader needs to have an understanding of the underlying financial assets and broader market, as well as be aware of the risks involved. In fact, around 80% of CFD traders lose money, which means that only 2 out of 10 have the knowledge and expertise necessary to profit from Forex trading. That being said, there are other ways to profit from the forex industry without having to be a broker or a market guru.

What is a Forex Affiliate Program?

Most leading Forex brokers will offer forex affiliate programs for individuals with a strong online presence and a market-savvy audience. These forex affiliate programs will essentially reward you for introducing your traffic to their products and services, opening up the door to a possible second income stream.

How Does it Work?

Forex affiliation works just like any other type of affiliation. You essentially refer your audience to a certain broker and then benefit from a commission on your referrals’ deposits or trading activity. If you have ever read a forex affiliate review, you probably know by now that there are 2 types of payouts: RevShare – lifetime commission for each lot traded by a client you referred and forex CPA.

There’s often the misconception that you need to have a website in order to become a forex affiliate affiliate or that the only way to generate forex traffic is by chatting on forums with other traders. Even though these methods undeniably work for some forex affiliates, there is a great number of ways to make money from forex affiliate programs.

How can I Find Forex Traffic?

The truth of the matter is that without a decent following, you’ll struggle to refer anyone to the Forex broker. Not only does this mean you won’t be a particularly attractive partner for brokers, you also won’t be able to make much money as a Forex affiliate. The first thing you need to do is build a solid online following which also comes down to the quality of the content you produce. You need to post content regularly enough to keep people engaged with your site and/or with your social media profiles, not to mention to boost your rankings in search engines like Google.

Think carefully about the topics people interested in forex trading would want to hear about and focus on the problems they want resolved. Pay close attention to your SEO to encourage inbound traffic to your site or blog, and plug your articles extensively through social media channels.

What Channels do I Use?

As a forex affiliate marketer understanding your audience and what they are looking for can help you better determine the channels through which to approach your traffic. There is a vast number of different traffic sources you can tap into.

What you should remember as an affiliate marketer is that dominating a single platform is not enough anymore. Your leads on Facebook are not on YouTube, and those on YouTube are different to those reading the content on your website. As such, the key to your success is to repurpose your content across multiple platforms relevant to your forex audience.

Looking to become a Forex Affiliate?

Explore the opportunities of partnering with a leading broker by visiting BDSwiss’ forex Partners’ Portal . Alternatively, you may choose to complete our Affiliate Registration form directly. One of our Business Developers will contact you at a time of your convenience to strategise and create your own customised remuneration plan.

*Sources: LeadForensics Apr 25 12:30 PM GMT

How Dedicated Support-Centers Can Maximise Your Earnings as a Forex Partner

February 12, 2019

Partnering with a broker that maintains highly organised and efficient support centers can have an immense impact on your monthly earnings and overall success as a forex partner. A successfully managed support center guarantees high conversion rates, an optimal customer experience and a longer customer lifetime value, all of which lead to greater trading volumes. Successful brokers understand that a support center’s main purpose is to gain and retain clients so that they don’t defect to the competition; to do this a support center needs the know-how, organisational structure, training sessions, as well as the proper performance tracking and rewards that will keep the teams motivated. That being said, maintaining productive support centers that keep conversion and retention rates at record highs is no easy task. There are a number of key aspects and characteristics that you as an affiliate marketer or IB should be looking for when trying to assess a broker’s support center.

Sales, Retention and Support
The most successful forex / CFD brokers are those that employ client-centric support teams covering clients’ lifecycle, with sales and retention staff. As BDSwiss Head of Conversion Angelos Christofi notes “It’s critical to strategically run the conversion services function, with overall responsibility for quality and revenue. From the moment a new lead comes in, you need to have a strategy to smoothly onboard it, providing 5 stars support and the best customer experience. Having this in mind, we built our teams accordingly, based on the channels driving the traffic and with appropriate funnels based on each client lifecycle, to drive incremental business and improved ROI.”

Experience Matters

The forex industry is highly competitive, making the initial inbound call by a prospect possibly the only chance the broker has at winning the client. Due to the specialized nature of the forex industry, experienced support staff is a key ingredient to a successful support center. The retail forex industry has a steep learning curve and similar to any niche business sector, the forex industry has its own vernacular. Hiring experienced professionals that have a thorough understanding of CFD trading, forex trading platforms and how key market events can affect price direction is therefore crucial to a support center’s overall success, as they indeed add value for the customers. Especially for new traders, who require greater guidance, an experienced account manager is super important.

Training, Training, Training
In such a highly competitive arena such as the forex industry, complacency is not an option! A broker needs to not only hire the right talents for the job but also spend time, money and resources to introduce them to the company’s internal processes and procedures, update them on all running campaigns and promotions, ensure that they understand the dos and don’ts with regards to regulation, as well as educate them on the company’s conversion and retention objectives, best practices and strategies for building client rapport. What is more, a successful broker needs to build a culture of continuous learning and ensure that its sales agents, account managers, support staff, retention officers and anyone maintaining direct contact with clients and therefore contributing to acquisition and retention, have the right guidance, support and specialised training so that they constantly improve their performance.

Multilingual Equals Multicultural

The global appeal of the forex industry has created the need for multilingual and multicultural support centers that can truly cater to a varied and culturally diverse client-base. Forex brokers therefore need to ensure that their acquisition, support and retention teams not only cover a multitude of languages on a 24 hour basis but also that their agents come from varied background and have the right cultural sensitivity to truly understand the client’s perspective and accommodate his or her needs.

Tracking and Rewarding Performance
Applying accurate support center metrics that measure the performance of a broker’s agents is also a key component to optimising conversions. Proper tracking allows for efficient monitoring of conversions, upselling, support and retention efforts, while it also enables a broker to properly reward and encourage agents to meet business goals. What is more, incentives help keep support center teams motivated can create an environment of healthy competition that increases productivity.

How BDSwiss’ Optimised Support centers Reflect On Partner Revenue:

BDSwiss multilingual support centers cover more than 20 languages and operate on a 24 hour basis to ensure that our partners’ referrals receive timely and efficient support. Maintaining a strong organisational structure, we further ensure that our global support centers from Berlin to Kuala Lumpur have the knowledge and expertise necessary to best cater for the needs of our ever growing client base. Having a deep understanding of our CFD products also enables our agents to give traders thorough information and ensure that clients have a clear understanding of the benefits and risks involved in trading forex and CFDs. Our support centers can provide added services that educate the client such as one-on-one sessions, platform walkthroughs, strategy assessment and assist with any issue at hand.

As Angelos notes, “At the end of the day everything from our company’s revenue to its market reputation, boils down to customer satisfaction and long term loyalty. We therefore optimise our support centers by mentoring, monitoring, training and motivating our teams, in order to ensure that our partner’s referrals get the best possible trading experience. At BDSwiss we make sure our support centers are 100% aligned to our partners goals, we give their referrals the best possible service which translates to longer lifetime value, higher trading volumes and greater returns.”

Affiliate Marketing Through Social Media – Tips from Top Affiliates

January 14, 2019

Using social media for affiliate marketing can be very effective in expanding your reach as a marketer. However, it’s important to make sure your social media posts are not created for the sole purpose of spreading your affiliate or website link. Posts without value are posts that will eventually cause your audience to lose interest, rendering your efforts of using social media for affiliate marketing useless. Intrusive advertising methods and spamming are some of the worst practices when it comes to affiliate marketing and social media.

1. The 80-20 Rule
Rogers Michael Stevens, the author of Affiliate Marketer Training blog notes that when using social media, it is important to make sure you provide actual value to your followers. An easy method to ensure that you are not spamming your audience in your social media is using Stevens’ 80-20 rule: “On my social media platforms I like to have 80% of my posts as entertainment or education purposes only and only 20% of my posts have anything to do with promotions.”

You can’t just put up hundreds of posts every day that are essentially advertisements. It gets old fast and most people view it just as bad as spam. It’s ok to throw in some relevant ads once in a while, but the majority of your posts and updates on social media should not contain affiliate links or links to sales pages on your website. This is especially true for new affiliate marketers who have only recently established a following, they need to ensure that they build trust first and monetize later. That being said, it is also important to make sure you are also addressing the right audience with your promotions or product. Even if your promotional posts are restricted to 20% of your posted content, your audience can still lose interest, if your advertised products or services have nothing to do with what your audience is looking for.

2. Focus on high quality products

If you’re promoting lower quality products and services, regardless of your post quality, the look of your link, or the visual or video use, you’re most likely not going to have much success. It is important to remember that just like the digital space; online audiences are ever evolving and have become very sensitive to product quality as well as ponzi schemes, scams and false claims. When it comes to forex affiliate marketing therefore, it is important that you choose to partner with a transparent, regulated broker with long standing market reputation.

What is more, you will have an easier time praising the merits of a broker with a solid market presence and you will be more motivated to back a trading service that you really believe in. Ultimately, if you manage to impress your audiences with a quality broker, they’re more like to do the word of mouth marketing for you, sending other interested parties your way. While focusing on as many brokers as you can, regardless of quality, may seem like the way to get more from social media for affiliate marketing, you are doing yourself a disservice in the long run, as your audiences will soon come to distrust your recommendations.

3. Stay Active

It is simple, the more active you are on social media, the more exposure you will get and the more followers you will acquire over time. Also be sure to stay active in the comment sections. If someone replies to a tweet or an image on Facebook, be sure to respond. This helps build a rapport with your followers and establish a loyal community that trusts and follows you. This will not only help you increase your earnings but it will also allow you to get inside the minds of your target audience.

4. Deliver Excellent Quality Content

CEO of MobileMonkey, Larry Kim underlines that when it comes to affiliate marketing and social media, context is Queen and content is King. Producing quality content, be it for entertainment, educational or promotional purposes is key to your success in social media. Instead of constantly promoting products and services, start by creating and sharing great content that your audience will enjoy.

5. Using ads

When it comes to forex affiliate marketing and social media, the truth of the matter is that the use of paid ads is essential to your success. Selectively promoting your top content on social media and building your remarketing audience by tagging site visitors with a cookie is one of the simplest and most widely used strategies when it comes to affiliate marketing. Applying behavioral and demographic filters on your audience and remarketing lists for search ads can also help you decrease your cost per click. Facebook’s “Relevancy Score” also influences your cost per click and it is a crucial metric. You can increase your quality score for Twitter and Facebook by increasing your post engagement rates. A high quality score is great because you’ll get a higher ad impression share for the same budget at a lower cost per engagement.

6. Use Helpful Applications

Growth editor at Buffer, Alfred Lua, suggests experimenting with different multi-platform applications such as Hootsuite and Buffer to save time and money, if you are new to affiliate marketing. Both offer advice as to when the best time is to post, or let you decide for yourself. Most of the biggest social networks are covered by both, although as they are freemium, which means that you’ll need to decide what core features you need in order to better promote your site or channel on social media. For a small-scale affiliate with a few stories per week and two or three social channels, the free versions of Buffer and Hootsuite are probably sufficient.

Sources: wordstream, socialmediaweek, onlineaffiliateworld, affiliatemarketertraining as of 8:30 GMT, Jan 10, 2019

How I’ve Seen Forex Affiliate Marketing Change Over the Years: An Interview with Raphaël Coffin

December 17, 2018

The marketing affiliation scene has changed dramatically over the years, with a great number of businesses now relying almost solely on affiliate marketing for expanding their presence and scaling the reach of their products and services. When it comes to the forex / CFD trading industry, it is no secret that affiliate marketing has been an integral part of the marketing strategy of the majority of brokers. In fact, we’ve witnessed an aggressive broker race to on board the most talented affiliate marketers in an effort to expand their online presence and build a robust partner network. BDSwiss Senior Affiliate Manager Raphaël Coffin, counting more than 5 years industry expertise and currently leading our company’s affiliate team in the Berlin office, comments that the affiliation landscape is extremely dynamic and will continue to evolve as an industry in the foreseeable future.

– How has affiliate marketing changed over the years in your experience Raphaël?
Over the years affiliate marketing has proven itself a viable customer acquisition channel, however the affiliate marketing industry had quite humble beginnings. In fact, the concept of affiliate marketing existed long before the internet was around. If you think about it, any referral program in which the referrer receives a commission for driving new business, is an example of affiliate or performance-based marketing. The internet simply revolutionised the industry. In its early digital era, affiliate marketing was mostly associated with retail corporations. Amazon was one of the first companies to launch its partner program in 1996 and by 1998 the first two affiliate networks emerged. So we are talking about an immense industry built in a very short time span. In fact, by 2012, in the UK, affiliate marketing represented 6% of the country’s online economy according to the national Internet Advertising Bureau. During the early years of affiliation, there were a lot of issues; many brands with affiliate programs couldn’t determine if their affiliate traffic was incrementally lifting sales for example and affiliate remunerations were not very competitive or transparent. Today, the picture has changed dramatically and affiliate programs now offer more value than ever before, especially when it comes to the forex trading industry.

– How would you describe the current situation in the forex / CFD affiliate marketing industry?
The forex affiliation has evolved into a highly dynamic industry with immense potential. Forex affiliate marketing is now considered a vital part of the marketing strategy of forex brokers. In the last few years, the forex affiliate industry has become highly competitive, with brokers offering great rewards, high remuneration, advanced tools and dedicated support to their partners. Brokers today invest heavily in affiliation; in fact the broker-partner relationship has changed drastically in the last decade as both parties have become more demanding of their partnership. Partners demand constant communication, better marketing and tracking tools and more competitive remuneration, while brokers expect high quality traffic and quality branding that presents their brokerage in a fair light.

– Which is the biggest forex affiliate marketing trend in 2018?
For me personally, 2018 was the most innovative and exciting year for forex affiliate marketing. To be honest, in all the years I’ve worked in affiliate marketing, there’s never a boring day, there’s always some new angle to explore, an exciting campaign, a bright idea or new approach, and of course, fresh, out of the box trends to be explored in the broader affiliation market. When it comes to 2018, we’ve seen some major shifts in the broader affiliation industry, brought upon primarily by millennials’ need to explore new concepts, traffic sources and channels. With the rise of self-publishing tools and social media marketing, the global population of affiliates has grown substantially. We’ve seen niche influencers entering the arena, along with crypto-trading educators and forex vloggers. These new types of forex affiliate marketers often have very targeted audiences, which helps drive warm leads to their brokers.

– What are some of the challenges that forex affiliates are facing today?
From a partner’s perspective, forex affiliate marketing comes with its own set of challenges. With the rise of social media, audiences have become savvier and more skeptical of traditional affiliate marketing methods. Trading audiences in particular now demand quality content with a strong, original voice. They want honest opinions and reviews of the brokers’ services and products. Above all else, audiences demand authentic interactions and authentic messaging. Moving into 2019, the affiliation industry will become even more competitive with brokers and affiliates having to work even harder to meet the demands of their audience and clients. As audiences get more tech savvy and demanding, affiliate marketers will have to find new innovative ways to promote their endorsed brokers.

– How does BDSwiss help its forex affiliate marketers?
At BDSwiss we make sure all our partners receive first rate support. Our Marketing and Affiliates teams align their efforts 100% with our partners and work closely together to achieve their common goals. We further maintain constant communication with our partners, offering regular updates on our latest marketing campaigns, branding efforts, best practices, regulatory changes and overall business strategy. What is more, we have established automated marketing funnels, based on each client’s current lifecycle stage, which has allowed us to optimise our partners’ conversion rates. In 2018, BDSwiss doubled its partner program budget and on boarded a great number of industry affiliates experts to offer high-level support. The launch of our brand new partners’ portal and blog also adds to our efforts to support our partners’ community.

– What does the future of forex affiliation look like?
I think it is now clear that forex Affiliate marketing has a very promising future, it has withstood the test of time and has managed to become an integral part of the overall marketing strategy of brokers on a global scale. The future for forex affiliate marketing is clearly very promising. Looking ahead to 2019, BDSwiss also plans to continue to invest in its partner programs and affiliate marketing with increased budget, bigger teams, more events and refined campaigns.

Making It Big In Affiliate Marketing Without A Website! 5 Key Forex Affiliate Trends To Watch in 2019

December 5, 2018

Affiliate marketing has become a key source of online income for many tech-oriented millennials and marketers. Today forex CPA marketing offers some of the highest type of compensation and now, more than ever, it’s easier to meet a sustained income solely through affiliate marketing. As a forex affiliate marketer you need to be able to promote CPA offers on the right channels such as social media, forums and blogs, as well as multiple ad networks and other traffic sources. As a forex affiliate, it is also important to keep up with the latest affiliate marketing trends in order to be able to make the most out of your target audience and increase your commissions. So what are the hottest forex affiliate marketing trends for 2019?

1. Influencer Marketing Continues To Rise
Influencer marketing has become a vital digital discipline and has a big influence on any kind of affiliate marketing, but that’s especially true when it comes to forex and CFD trading. Because of the nature of online trading, influencers such as independent traders, market analysts, trading educators etc, can have an immense appeal and can attract quality traffic looking to learn more about online trading. If you don’t want to have the public exposure, you can always work with a number of influencers who can help you reach new audiences with your marketing efforts.

What’s important to remember when it comes to this relatively new marketing source is that authenticity always wins. As prospective clients are increasingly becoming distrusting of advertising and marketing, the great majority states that transparency is an important factor when deciding which broker to support. This number is even higher among millennials. Since people place more trust in humans than in brands, influencer marketing has been, and still is, trending up. Authentic content, generated voluntarily by fellow traders, is always a safe bet for forex affiliate marketers.

2. The Wealth Niche Is Still Strong
Wealth and Money was and probably always will be amid the 8 most profitable niche for affiliates. In 2019, millennials will be looking to invest. So the topic of online trading and its profit making potential are concepts that attract audiences. The more informational your website or online presence is on the risks and opportunities involved in online trading and the more thorough and unique your content is, the more traffic it will attract. What is more, if your content is supported by experts and professionals in their respective fields, your reviews, articles, videos or tutorials can be visited by thousands of prospective traders every day.

3. Social Media & Live Streaming
With an average of 3.2 billion global social media users, amounting to 42% of the global population, there’s no denying that social media holds immense potential. With numbers like that, social medias’ significance to online marketing cannot be ignored. Social media has become embedded in almost everyone’s daily life. Understanding the changes implemented in the social networks is therefore essential for affiliate marketers. And these can change a lot. The most popular social trends in 2019 and onwards are video, automation, live streaming and, as we already mentioned, influencers.

Live Streaming in particular, presents a dynamic and highly effective new communication tool used by a great number of influencers and marketers. Live Streaming is expected to dominate in 2019 and beyond. According to Go-Globe, currently live streaming accounts for two-thirds of all internet traffic. By 2020, it’s expected to account for 82 percent of all internet traffic!

What you should remember as an affiliate marketer is that dominating a single platform is not enough anymore. Your leads on Facebook are not on YouTube, and those on YouTube are different to those reading the content on your website. As such, the key to your success is to repurpose your content across multiple platforms relevant to your forex audience.

4. Quick Answers
Originally launched in 2014, Quick Answers are snippet-style listings of questions and answers in Google’s search results. When you search for a how-to question on Google, you’ll typically find them between the first sponsored and first organic listing. Savvy marketers, however, are now generating web content with the goal of appearing in Google’s Quick Answers. As forex affiliate marketers, what’s important to remember is that there are a lot of specific trading related questions that have not yet been defined in quick answers. This means that Google’s Quick Answers could be a great way to attract highly targeted organic traffic.

5. Micro-Moments Are Taking Over A Consumer Journey
Today’s consumers are bombarded by content, ads, offers, emails, push notifications and everything else. As the information load continues to grow on the web, users look for quick ways to find easy, concise and clear answers to their questions. It’s all about fast info consumption through brief videos, audio and key points. As an average individual already spends more than three and a half hours per day on their smartphone, brands and marketers have an increasingly harder time attracting the attention of their audience. That’s where micro-moment marketing steps in. The micro-moment is a new type of consumer behavior, which occurs when people reflexively turn to a device, usually a smartphone, to act on a need to learn something, do something, get to know something or buy something.

There are a lot of different types of micro-moments such as I-want-to-know moment, I-want-to-go-moment, I-want-to-do moment or I-want-to-buy moment. According to Google’s content marketing team, on average, Think with Google, users experience “micro-moments” 150 times a day. Why are micro-moments so important? Because people, in general, make instant decisions on what to buy, where to invest or what to learn more about during these very brief moments; which in turn gives you a window of opportunity of only a few seconds to catch their attention! Micro-moments work, because they provide consumers with the right information exactly when they need it. Ultimately, the whole consumer decision journey is a combination of these micro-moments across all channels and devices. The successful forex marketers of tomorrow will be those who are able to meet their audience’s needs in these micro-moments.

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Sources: Finance Magnates, The Balance, Think with Google 30/11/2018 9:00 AM GMT

Best Traffic Sources for Affiliate Marketing Pros & Market Trends for 2019

November 23, 2018

As a forex affiliate marketer understanding your audience and what they are looking for can help you better determine the channels through which to approach your traffic. There is a vast number of different traffic sources you can tap into. The question is which are the best traffic sources to use when it comes to targeting potential Forex and CFD traders and how can you best use these channels to attract quality leads.

What are your existing traffic sources?
Tracing the origin of each visit or session to your website is the first step to take when it comes to determining the most effective traffic sources. By understanding what your key website traffic sources are and which traffic sources are converting the most, you’ll be able to truly optimise your overall monetization strategy. That being said, there a number of major traffic sources that are rising in popularity in 2018 and onwards, and if used correctly they can help you attract high quality Forex, CFD traffic that will translate to a healthy number of FTDs and increase your commissions as an affiliate.

Search Traffic
When it comes to search traffic, Paid Ads or PPC and Organic Search Traffic should be your two constant concerns as a forex affiliate marketer. The key to attracting high forex converting traffic with search ads like Google Ads is really pinning down what your audience is likely to be googling for.

As far as Adwords is concerned, your Cost Per Click (CPC) is determined by the keyword you’re bidding for, and just how relevant your website and ad are to that specific keyword. The forex trading sphere can virtually cover almost any term related to finance and investing which means you may be able to find targeted keywords that are aligned with your websites niches and offer a healthy return on investment. It is also important to keep mind that while Google is the most visited website on earth, there are other online traffic sources for search engines out there like Yahoo, Bing, Baidu and many more

When it comes to Organic Traffic or traffic which comes directly from the search engine; the chances of conversion are 7 times higher. Having your website rank on the first page of Google for any online trading related search requires carefully curated content, consistency and good SEO skills but it definitely pays off! Google’s organic search listing is immensely powerful and can bring you a completely free source of quality forex trading traffic!

Social Traffic

There are tons of social networks available to buy trading related traffic, but as a Forex partner you definitely need to consider which are the best ones to run your ads or publish your content on. The social media platforms that you choose to use need to have a pre-existing audience interested in online forex and CFD trading. Channels like Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin are used by a healthy number of people interested in forex, finance and overall investing.

Once you find your key channels, it is crucial to set up your account and profiles correctly as social media channels can be a source of both organic and paid traffic. Targeting your audience is also key, so you will need to take into consideration what would be the key demographics, interests, age, etc. of your potential forex traffic. This will enable you to tailor ads around a specific user base.

A geo with a great deal of untapped potential when it comes to Forex and CFD products is South East Asia. Tailoring your social channels and ads to target these regions can help you tap into a fresh, tech-savvy audience that is increasingly growing interested in forex and CFD trading products and platforms…

For forex affiliate marketers seeking to target Southeast Asia traffic, educational forums and well-established social media platforms such as Facebook are the strongest traffic sources. In fact, Facebook is a key driver of growth across the region with Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam boasting more than 250 million users combined!

Mobile Traffic
Mobile traffic is currently the fastest-growing traffic source on earth. 5 years ago we couldn’t imagine advertising in developing countries! Now these countries love smart phones, which makes them an untapped audience with immense conversion potential. Mobile as a forex trading traffic source allows advertising in such untapped markets globally, allowing for cheap advertising spend with high ROIs. It is also important to remember that in developing geos access to a mobile phone is far easier than to a computer.

Remember that plenty of traffic sources like Facebook and Google have both desktop and mobile traffic. Ensuring that your website or ad is being displayed properly on all cell phones or how fast it’s loading can be a challenge to optimize for many affiliates. But the ROI potential is huge!

When it comes to mobile advertising, you can opt for:
– Popunders
– Redirects (users land on a specific URL and are instantly redirected to your lander)
– Push Notifications
– Banner/Display

Global Mobile Advertising Spending Forecast, 2013-2019

Source: eMarketer

Unsurprisingly, an increasing number of forex affiliate marketers are opting for mobile ads over web ads as the mobile realm allow for cheaper ad spends with higher revenues. Some of the most popular mobile advertising platforms include Millennial Media, iAd from Apple and AdMob from Google and they are very easy to use. Contrary to popular belief mobile media really isn’t really that complex, it actually works just like social media or paid web ads with the only difference being that the delivery mechanism is a smartphone or a tablet computer instead of a PC.

Final Thoughts
When it comes to forex affiliate marketing, paid traffic is very effective and can have a huge ROI potential if you do it right. It is always important to remember to constantly track your advertising campaign and to continuously optimize it based on the data you receive from your ad network. The key to making profit with paid advertising is proper strategy, tracking everything and continuously optimizing your ad campaigns to ensure best possible performance!

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