Folks Selling Phones - Don't Throw Money Away!

Looking at the incredible range of phones - branded and unbranded - it seems to me that people are missing out on a key part of the phone business.

Every phone needs a sim card and some sort of agreement with a network provider, be it a contract or top-up agreement. If I told you there was big money in the affiliate industry, would you be enticed into marketing the sim-only packages trade in phone singapore for bigger network providers?

Each network has partnered with an affiliate company (most with Buy.at - T-Mobile, Orange, O2) whereby they pay commissions on each new connection. Depending on the goods being sold, commissions can roll into around £40-80 for most new contracts.

Commissions are much higher on contracts - and network providers advertise these extensively. How often do you see ads for O2 simplicity tariffs? You can leverage this massive range of online and offline marketing to your advantage.

Now if you simply put an option during your checkout process where each visitor had to look at a banner for say, 4 FREE SIMS on O2 or get an automatically updated banner with the latest offers just before/after they checkout (when they're credit card happy..) you have in front of you, your target audience who is in a willing to buy state.

There are so many different applications of this - you could create your own bundles (check the T&Cs though), massively subsidize the cost of the phone, use the commission to offer incentives (subject to extra T&Cs) and generally have a creative time marketing unbranded phones.

Remember, some of these unbranded phones come with dual-sim abilities which you could easily push the FREE SIM promotions offered by literally every network provider. Promote the strengths of a couple of networks - not in a salesy kinda way, but as a recommendation - "Why not try this for free?"

Affiliate Companies applications can take a few days, and then you need to apply for each program individually. They review your site and you then get approved. You can literally copy and paste javascript or html into your page featuring appropriote banners/text/flash/shop windows etc.

With affiliate marketing, you are trying to create a WIN-WIN-WIN situation. The visitor/buyer benefits and achieves his or her goal - they have been made happy. The network provider has got a new client which will spend £X on their products. You benefit from additional revenue with little extra effort - in fact, it probably improves the value of your site to the visitor since you're providing a useful solution to them.

I'm not sure about some of these "trade your phone in for cash" companies whether they offer affiliate/referral programmes but you could always Google it. Trying to offer different services to your clients and improving the services already on offer is only a good thing - especially if it's earning you money!

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