How to Leverage Your Trading Knowledge with BDSwiss

How to Leverage Your Trading Knowledge with BDSwiss
May 7, 2021

With global lockdowns and rising unemployment, more and more people were looking for alternative income streams last year. Forex and CFD brokers were seeing record numbers of new traders, many of them trading for the first time. Inexperienced traders, or those without the time to trade for themselves, were looking for viable solutions. Copy trading has been around for many years, but 2020 was the year it came into the spotlight.
 
Copy trading allows new traders the opportunity to leverage someone else’s market experience and knowledge in trading and risk management. Copy trading also allows experienced traders to guide others in portfolio diversification. Instead of putting all their capital into a single position, strategy or asset, traders can learn to deploy multiple trading strategies in different markets.
 
If you’re an experienced trader, BDSwiss can provide you the opportunity to leverage your knowledge through copy trading (available only to clients residing outside the EU) and earn impressive commissions. By becoming a partner, you can share your trading strategies with a huge community of traders, spread across more than 180 countries. Along with competitive commissions, you also earn through performance fees on your clients’ trading outcomes.

Become a Master Trader through the Affiliate and IB Partner Program

The BDSwiss Affiliate program enables anyone with a strong online presence in the financial markets to benefit from its competitive remuneration plans by referring clients to the site. Whereas the IB partnership program allows you to partner with one of the most trusted names in the industry to offer clients a state-of-the-art trading platform and comprehensive learning materials.
 
If you are a successful trader with a proven track record, you can start offering your strategies on the company’s intuitive and feature-rich MT4 platform. The BDSwiss mobile app is a multi-award winning and user-friendly trading interface, which allows you to manage your positions and monitor the markets on the go. Simply activate copy trading under Settings and you are good to go. Your clients will be able to see your trading activities on their dashboards and choose whether they would like to copy your strategies. Once they start copying your trades you will earn performance fees based on their trading outcomes.
 
As a Master Trader and a partner, you will receive your primary commissions and performance fees for referring clients to the company each month. The performance fees are based on the previous month’s winning trades, paid out at the beginning of the next month.
 

Advantages of the BDSwiss Partner Program

 
With an average 37% conversion rate, automated and optimised marketing funnels, timely pay-outs and dedicated call centres, you get to be part of an award-winning partnership program. Copy-trading further provides you opportunities to maximise client engagement, especially beginner traders who might prefer to follow and learn from an expert like you.
 
Not only can this boost your earnings, but it can also help you create a stellar market reputation. Setting up the platform is easy, with 24/5 multi-lingual call centres to help you with any support you might need.
 
BDSwiss has over 17,500+ registered partners worldwide with pay-outs totalling over €7,000,000 per month. When you choose to partner with this well-established programme, you stand to gain several benefits. Take a look:
 

1. All the Tools You Need to Monetise Your Traffic

 
When you refer clients to BDSwiss, you bring them to a world-class, award-winning platform to enhance their trading experiences. This includes sophisticated trading platforms, access to 1000+ forex pairs and multi-asset CFDs, daily market analysis and news, high liquidity, and tailored account types, catering to the varied needs of your clients. With transparent fees, tight spreads and ultra-fast execution, traders can maximise their trading potential.
 
Plus, you gain access to efficient tools to manage and monetise your traffic.
 

2. Easy Client Onboarding and Support

 
An easy onboarding process enables you to maximise conversion rates. Clients appreciate the 24/5 dedicated and multilingual customer support, along with multiple local and international payment methods.
 

3. Wide Variety of Marketing Materials

 
Enhance your online presence and reach out to traders through varied marketing materials, including landing pages, displayed banners, branded merchandise and sponsored educational events for traders and local business development seminars.
 

4. A 360° Tracking Solution

 
Track all your client activities and conversions through a single platform, specially designed for affiliate partners. BDSwiss provides complete control of your earnings with a transparent and personalised commission structure that can be tracked in real-time. You can also track mobile traffic independently.
 
For IB partners, BDSwiss offers a dashboard to monitor your clients’ trades effectively and in a transparent manner. You can also access statements of your clients’ trades via your IB portal.
 

5. High Quality Educational Materials and Videos

 
Clients of both IB and affiliate partners have access to a rich resource of educational material and videos, to improve their trading skills and stay up-to-date with market happenings.
 

Remain Compliant with Swift Response to Regulatory Changes

 
In a dynamic regulatory landscape, partnership with a transparent and regulated broker that swiftly responds to changes in laws and guidelines can be a major differentiator. BDSwiss considers client fund safety as its utmost priority. When the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced a ban on the sale of cryptocurrency derivatives to retail traders in January 2021, the company promptly enforced the new rule for all clients permanently residing in the UK. The decision was also enforced for clients trading with BDSwiss Holding Ltd, which is authorised and regulated by the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC).
 
This included sending timely emails to clients in late 2020, informing them of the upcoming ban and ensuring that all open positions were closed. Even before the ban, BDSwiss offered the prescribed leverage limits on all cryptocurrency derivatives and invested extensively in traders’ education, risk disclosures, and Know Your Customer (KYC) controls.
 
You gain an edge over the competition when your clients know they are trading with a responsible broker, invested in their long-term success.
 
The support of a reputed broker partner, together with your trading experience, provides the perfect combination to build your clientele and market reputation.

The Value of Partnership at the Most Opportune Time

The Value of Partnership at the Most Opportune Time
November 10, 2020

BDSwiss is offering market participants two distinct partnership programs, at the most opportune time.

BDSwiss offers two distinct methods of partnership to both individuals and businesses. Partnership can involve becoming an affiliate – someone who refers clients to BDSwiss via online campaigns and channels, or, becoming an introducing broker (IB) – a company that introduces new clients to BDSwiss with a view of supporting the client themselves.

 

The BDSwiss IB partnership program is a means for partners to earn competitive remuneration while partnering with one of the most trusted brands in the FX industry. We currently service IBs from various regions by empowering them to support their clients including state-of-the-art trading tools and effective educational content.

 

Meanwhile, BDSwiss’ Affiliate program enables anyone with a strong online presence in the financial services field to benefit from our competitive remuneration plans by introducing our products and services to their audience. Affiliates can take advantage of professional marketing materials and tracking tools to help them monetise their marketing activity.

 

To date, we have worked with over 17,000 of affiliates and IBs, providing the necessary support for them to engage with their target audience.

 

 

What’s the difference between an IB and an Affiliate?

The main difference between IBs and affiliates is the nature and scope of their operations.  Affiliates tend to target and refer audiences largely via online activity, while IBs will often hold offline events and maintain a network which involves in person communication, as well as sometimes even operate on a whitelabel brokerage level. 

 

 

Who can become an IB?

Every broker will have slightly different criteria that determine who they will accept as IBs. For BDSwiss, this is no different. Our IB program specifies precise conditions that we expect these individuals or companies to meet, in order to be welcomed into the BDSwiss family as an IB.

 

Moreover, regulators specify IB criteria and then the brokers are obligated to align their operations and partners agreements accordingly.  

 

 

The BDSwiss advantage

Partnering with BDSwiss provides IB with multiple advantages and benefits:

  •       Industry-leading commission rates 
  •       Remuneration on sub-IB earnings
  •       Customised IB links and expert support
  •       Dedicated IB portal with advanced performance tracking and reporting tools
  •       Customised promotional banners available directly through a centralised online hub
  •       Specialised IB events including coordination and sponsorship initiatives

 

 

Latin American and Asian IBs

For partners operating in Latin American and Asia, BDSwiss provides a full Partners Support Kit including localised marketing materials, 24/5 dedicated support, local events and seminars, and innovative products and promotions to increase conversion and client engagement.

 

 

High growth areas

Territories that are currently very attractive for new IB partners and affiliates are Asia and Latin America. Whereas US and European markets have become highly saturated over the past decade – Asian and Latin American operators are experiencing a trading boom.

 

Relatively slower to develop countries with less capitalised financial markets has left Latin America and Asia trailing other territories, but this gap is rapidly closing as new FX companies break new ground in developing countries.

 

Potential affiliates and IBs can take advantage of these regions by applying to become an IB or an affiliate. If their application is successful, individuals and businesses can monetise the surge in trading activity worldwide.

 

Demographic catalyst

Latin America is gradually increasing the size of its middle class, which, when combined with stronger regulation, is encouraging greater numbers of people to try trading for the first time.

 

Meanwhile, with a population of almost 650 million people, Southeast Asia is possibly the world’s largest retail trading market given the surging levels of population growth, combined with greater disposable incomes in all parts of society. Asia is proving its long-held promise of being a sleeping giant in a region that is one of the last to offer online services. The rapid economic expansion of different nations in Southeast Asia has brought about an increasing interest in online investments and trading Forex and CFD products.

 

Linguistic allure

Much like Asia, Latin America also has a superb demographic background. The continent’s population is estimated to be 630 million and if non-Spanish speakers are excluded, that still leaves over 400 million potential clients. Latin America has historically been let down by low levels of internet connectivity – as an example, in Mexico, only 45% of the population has internet access. However, the rate of internet adoption is growing exponentially year-on-year which makes Latin America one of the most opportune regions for marketing FX/CFD services in the world.

 

 

On the issue of regulation

Market regulation is a key issue. It is quite common to see unregulated FX brokers setting up operations in Southeast Asia, or other regions with lower regulatory standards, to avoid costly capital adequacy requirements but still take on clients.

 

The result has been an overly competitive market with dozens of brokers using questionable sales practises to win new business. 

 

For IBs, it is therefore essential to operate under the wing of a broker that is fully regulated in non-EU jurisdictions while offering multilingual 24-hour support to all clients.

 

 

COVID-19 impact

This year’s COVID pandemic has been a hammer blow to the world economy, reducing incomes, spending and economic activity in every country. However, coronavirus has also served to boost market volatility and trading volumes in the financial markets.

 

Short-term traders crave volatility which has meant an explosion in the number of people trying trading for the first time, and trading volumes amongst existing traders. For IBs and affiliates, COVID-19 has been an opportunity in disguise: an opportunity to introduce FX trading to new audiences and encourage higher trading activity by marketing engaging market research content.

 

In the medium-long term, we are likely to see a greater focus on online productivity tools such as Zoom – yet another opportunity for IBs and affiliates to launch collaborative online initiatives to educate traders. At BDSwiss, we intend to harness online productivity tools to build rapport and to work more closely with our clients, IBs and affiliates. We encourage our partners to do the same!

 

Higher trading activity leads to higher remuneration for IBs, while higher volatility continues to be interpreted by novice traders as an avenue to higher returns and always spurs more volume – it is essential for IBs to educate their clients that volatility is a double-edged sword, even though most clients continue to see volatility as a vehicle to riches.

 

 

Final Word

Despite being undeveloped for generations, Latin America and Asia are two regions that are rapidly catching up to their Western counterparts. Greater internet connectivity, higher disposable incomes and a greater sense of entrepreneurship are all factors contributing to the growth of trading in Latin America and Asia.

 

For IBs and affiliates, these two regions offer the most spare capacity and most long-term potential compared to any other region globally.

 

However, several challenges must be overcome. Firstly, partners should understand that working with Latin American and Asian clients can be difficult because of cultural or economic factors – which is why partnering with an appropriate broker that has an already established market presence and a true understanding of the local culture as well as the market, is key.

 

Check out BDSwiss’ IB and Affiliate programs to see how they can help you to become an IB or an affiliate.

Top 5 Affiliate Marketing Trends to Prepare for in 2021

Top 5 Affiliate Marketing Trends to Prepare for in 2021
October 21, 2020

Affiliate marketing has become a key source of online income for thousands of tech-savvy entrepreneurs. BDSwiss’ Affiliate Program empowers entrepreneurial individuals to earn a supplementary income by introducing our products and services to their respective audiences. By referring clients to BDSwiss, a company or an individual can become an affiliate and generate returns via commissions on client trading activity.

Our affiliate program includes 16,000 existing affiliates in over 180 countries who generate a total of 2.5 million leads per month. Importantly for our affiliates, our client conversion rate is 37% – one of the highest conversation rates in the entire FX/CFD industry.

 

Influencer marketing continues to thrive

In recent years, social media influencers have taken the Internet by storm, helping to boost sales and client acquisition for thousands of affiliates in both the FX industry and beyond. This trend is set to continue as a growing number of consumers turn to the financial markets, as both traders and investors.

More specifically, 2021 is set to become the year in which live streaming explodes onto the screens of most retail traders. Streaming services from the likes of YouTube, Twitch and Facebook have catalysed a variety of market sectors, namely consumer goods, entertainment and the rise of “YouTubing” as a verb and a profession. Live streaming is an engaging method for novice traders to connect with established online personalities on a global scale.

According to digital market research company 99Firms, around 80% of consumers prefer watching live videos rather than reading a blog. Also, video streaming already accounts for 82% of all internet traffic. Another factor that is sure to attract affiliates is the fact that consumers are 39% more likely to share video content, compared to text and audio. In 2021, affiliates that turn to video as their prime form of media, are likely to outperform those that remain text and audio focused.

The ramifications are clear: the insatiable growth of internet connectivity, online services and innovative technology has created a world of opportunity for affiliates. Another supplementary factor is the growth of Mobile – smartphones have rapidly become the tool of choice for the vast majority of clients consuming affiliate marketing content.

 

Social media sprawl

Social media is one of the most powerful tools in an affiliate marketer’s toolkit. According to market research, there are now more than 4 billion social media users globally, with annual growth somewhere in the region of 10%. In other words, around 400 million users flock to using social media every year, and many of them have the means and capability to become traders. Moreover, there are now more than 5 billion people using internet-ready mobile phones which yet again highlights the social media’s market reach.

The message to affiliates is rather simple: Dominating a single platform is not enough anymore.

Generating leads from just one social media channel is suboptimal because users have a wide variety of preferred platforms. Some users will only use one vendor, while others will use multiple.

As such, the key to an affiliates’ success is their ability to repurpose their original content across multiple platforms relevant to their target audiences. That means knowing and understanding the market, as well as cultural themes and traditions that transcend the FX industry.

KEY FACT: Social media users are now spending an average of almost 2.5 hours per day, networking across an average of 8 social networks and messaging apps.

 

Regulatory headwinds

In addition to factors that spell opportunity, affiliates have also been buffeted by less palatable trends such as regulatory activity. The past few years have brought persistently tougher regulation, especially in the most liquid markets such as the US, Europe and Japan.

Brokers, clients and affiliates alike have all felt the squeeze of tougher market regulation in the form of higher capital requirements, greater KYC checks and lower leverage, especially for novice traders. As a result, affiliates are facing steeper market standards which means a higher need for more attention to detail and offering value add services to fend off competition.

In 2021, we are likely to see further regulatory tweaks aimed at protecting consumers and the wider market, which effectively sets a higher bar for affiliates to reach.

The good news is that despite the strict regulatory environment, BDSwiss is always fully cognizant of global regulatory changes and ensures both company and affiliate activity is always compliant with existing regulation. Our commitment to operational security and mitigating the effect of tough regulation on clients, lets our affiliates know that they are building their respective businesses partnered with a dependable broker they can trust.

Only time will tell what kind of regulatory hurdles 2021 will bring, but affiliates are advised to keep a watchful eye on regulators next year. We certainly are – and we intend to mitigate any draconian measures by making appropriate operational decisions and always communicating impending market changes to our partners, as soon as possible. 

 

Paying the pied piper

The rampant growth of payments solutions, amidst the broader development of financial technology (fintech), remains a huge factor for affiliate marketers. In 2020, brokers that offered a wide range of payment options were able to secure more clients, from a wider range of geographies compared to brokers offering simple bank transfers and card payments.

The harsh reality is that around 2 billion people in the world remain “unbanked” and without access to financial services – a key requirement for affiliates seeking to incentivise new clients to open a trading account. The problem doesn’t only affect developing countries either. According to the US Federal Reserve, there are were as many as 55 million unbanked adult Americans in 2018, around 22% of US households.

For BDSwiss affiliates, their ability to attract new clients was significantly boosted after we added PayPal to our payment options arsenal in August 2020. The milestone made BDSwiss the first offshore broker to add PayPal as a payment method for its clients and affiliates. As the preferred payment option for more than 300 million consumers worldwide, PayPal simplifies transactions by allowing users to register their credit/debit card or bank account and make secure online transactions without having to share their financial information with third-party vendors or platforms.

The ultimate result is that utilising additional payment options such as PayPal tends to improve conversion rates, extends average customer lifetime value and raises client satisfaction – a factor that is likely to drive affiliate performance well into 2021 and beyond.

 

An affiliate’s best friend: market volatility

Market volatility has yet again proved to be a significant catalyst for all market participants in the FX industry. More so than for any other group, affiliates have discovered 2020 to be an opportunistic year in which the COVID-19 pandemic directly affected market volatility, especially in the first half of 2020. Greater volatility incentivises more potential clients to open their first accounts while also boosting trading volumes amongst existing clients. Huge tilts in equity markets in Q1 and Q2 led to a sharp rise in trading activity and presented an excellent market environment for all affiliates.

As a result of heightened volatility in all asset classes throughout 2020, brokers and affiliates have enjoyed extremely lucrative trading conditions and higher trading volumes. Moving forward into 2021, the factors that directly influenced market prices (COVID, political issues and risk-aversion) are likely to linger at least until the COVID pandemic has been priced into the market. For the time being, volatility is here to stay, which means favourable conditions for affiliate marketers in 2021.

As a means of maximising on the available opportunities to attract new clientele, affiliates are strongly advised to support their content with expert opinion and professional-grade content that addresses issues clients are actively thinking about.

Better quality content leads to higher engagement rates, which means affiliates are likely to undergo a quality litmus test in 2021. Affiliates that do not, or cannot, produce original content that adds value to the consumer, will likely struggle to obtain unique or repeat visits, or to generate significant engagement in their affiliate marketing activities.

 

The Final Word

Affiliate marketers must remember that both paid and free traffic can be effective in delivering a return on investment (ROI). There is a substitute for paid ads, but there are no substitutes for content novelty and quality. Retail FX and CFD clients are becoming more product savvy and are far more aware of various industry changes than they like to admit. Therefore, simplistic volume-based incentives, expensive trading terms without perceivable added value and generic analyst content will not be sufficient to drive strong client growth in 2021.

For affiliates, the challenge is to deliver quality content and attractive offers without breaking the bank. To do this adequately, affiliates must remember to do the following:

  •       constantly track all social media posts and interactions,
  •       actively manage (and tweak) their active advertising campaigns,
  •       use real-time data to actively optimise all marketing activity,

·        obtain regular feedback from their ad networks and implement changes as soon as new trends are identified.

$20,000 Affiliate Competition: Winners Announced

$20,000 Affiliate Competition: Winners Announced
May 21, 2020

BDSwiss’ $20,000 Affiliate Competition is officially over and we are very pleased to announce that we have our three winners. All prizes will be paid out as direct credit to our winning partners’ accounts and can be fully withdrawn at any time. 

 

THE RULES

The competition was held from April 1st to May 15th and gave all BDSwiss Affiliate partners the opportunity to claim added cash prizes on top of their existing commissions by securing the highest total trading volume and climbing to one of the top 3 places on our Leaderboard. All BDSwiss Affiliates were automatically entered into the competition but had to secure at least 50 new FTDs while the competition was running in order to qualify for a prize. 

 

WINNERS & PRIZES

Our highest-ranking affiliate has managed to climb to the top of our leaderboard by achieving an astonishing total trading volume of $5,6 million and will be claiming our first prize of $13,000 as a direct deposit to their account. The second prize of $5,000 will be claimed by the Affiliate who managed to reach a total trading volume of $4.1million on our leaderboard, while our third winner reached a $2.4 million in client trading volume and will be receiving a $2,000 cash reward!  

 

MORE COMPETITIONS COMING UP 

We would like to thank all our affiliate partners for taking part in our latest competition. We’ve seen astonishing volumes and we hope that our partners have enjoyed healthy revenue streams. We have been receiving some very encouraging feedback on our competitions and promotions so we plan to continue offering added motivation and rewards to BDSwiss IBs and Affiliates. Stay tuned for more exciting competitions ahead!

 

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BDSwiss Optimises Client & Partner Withdrawals with New Daily Payouts Option

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.  

Forex Project Funding Program for BDSwiss Partners

Forex Project Funding Program for BDSwiss Partners
August 13, 2019

Investing in long-term, mutually beneficial and highly lucrative business relationships, BDSwiss’ partnership program looks to offer its partners more.  At BDSwiss, we focus on working closely with our partners, building two-way collaborations that help our partners grow and expand, which is why we have created the BDSwiss Forex Project Funding program. 

 

What Type of Projects do we Fund?

BDSwiss’ forex project funding program was created to assist new and existing forex Affiliates and Introducing Brokers optimise their performance by funding or sponsoring any promising forex project ideas including trading seminars, workshops, online webinars and any other forex-related project with potential. BDSwiss’ forex project funding initiative gives all partners, no matter their financial status equal opportunities to organise innovative forex projects. This means that we are also ready to support young entrepreneurs and small start-up affiliate businesses that may lack the capital but have the creative drive to host fresh and engaging forex events that will help promote BDSwiss’ award-winning trading conditions and platforms to new audiences. 

 

We Give our Partners More

BDSwiss forex project funding program goes beyond providing financial support to our partners; our partner and marketing teams are ready to support our IBs and Affiliates with planning, promoting and organising their event. Our aim is to go above the traditional broker offering and provide our partners with added benefits that help them take their business to the next level, such as personal support, dedicated call centres, competitive and transparent remuneration options and timely and secure pay-outs.

 

Have a Great FX Project Idea? 

We can fund your next forex project! Share with us your idea, from a forex seminar to a trading gathering or online webinar, we are ready to sponsor any promising project. Just pitch your idea to our Partners’ team by filling in the Forex Project funding application form.

 

How to Use Social Data to Launch a Successful Forex Affiliate Campaign

How to Use Social Data to Launch a Successful Forex Affiliate Campaign
April 11, 2019

Any forex affiliate marketer who uses social media campaigns will know that social networks have a great deal of issues when it comes to forex marketing. To begin with, determining social media ROI in forex affiliate marketing is next to impossible. There’s also the myriads of obvious — but not so obvious, social media pitfalls that you need to avoid.

 

Yet the money spent on social media advertising is on the rise, especially when it comes to online products like forex trading. So it’s pretty fair to say that social media seems to be working well for forex affiliate marketers, and even though there are definitely major migrations to new social media channels, audiences are increasingly active on social media.

 

So the question we should really be asking here is: How can you use social media to your advantage as a forex affiliate marketer?

 

Choosing the Right Channel

There are tons of social networks available to target 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. Instagram and Telegram are also increasing in popularity, especially when it comes to forex affiliates who work as signal providers. 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.

 

Choosing the Right Offer

A huge part of your success lies in your ability to avoid wasting time on campaigns that will not generate valuable leads.This means that you need to promote your offering in a unique and engaging manner. It’s also always useful to check what’s trending in the social media world at the moment. It’s also wise to keep an eye on the competition. What are other forex affiliates doing at the moment to attract potential clients on behalf of their broker? Are they offering trading alerts, educational courses or unique tools that alert traders to market opportunities?

 

Choosing the Right Audience

Targeting your audience is also a crucial part of your campaign-setting process, 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. Looking at the competition will also help you target the right audience segments.

 

Using Social Data to Determine Copy Strategy and LP Content

It’s a common saying that there’s no way to have an online marketing campaign without a brand-new landing page. Most forex affiliate marketers would agree, but few would hang the success of a whole marketing campaign on a single landing page. There’s probably going to be a whole host of content, optimized websites, and paid ads.

 

Creating Campaign Materials and Assets

Social data can help forex affiliate marketers make all the choices that matter to the creation and performance of marketing materials and assets. With something as simple as an Instagram post, social data can determine the theme, the setting, the filter, the time of day when the content is released, and probably the piece of content that gets released before that post, and the one after.

 

Fine Tuning and Split Testing

Even if you’re new to forex affiliate marketing, you’re probably aware that you have to test your ads to see how well they are performing and more importantly, how they can be improved. At the very least, you need to see the weak points of your ad campaign and get ideas what to do about them. When you go back to analyze your campaigns, it’s precisely social data that’s going to give you the feedback you need to pack more punch into your social ads!

 

Conclusion

Social data can do a lot to ensure a successful launch of a marketing campaign. However, it’s only useful if the marketer knows how and where to look for data, which data is useful, and how to analyze it. At the end of the day, you can use social media for your affiliate campaign as much or as little as you want to, but the truth is that it’s impossible to disregard social networks completely.

 

Sources:  Mobidea, linkfluence, nopcommerce April 10, 2019, 16:30 GMT.

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

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

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!