Welcome to the interviews with super affiliates series where we post our chats with affiliates that are doing really well and making a good living using affiliate marketing. These interviews are part inspirational, part educational and totally interesting! Enjoy today’s interview… In this post we’re interviewing Hesham Zebida.
Hesham ha estado trabajando en la escena del marketing de afiliación de WordPress durante más de 10 años y es bien conocido por varios de sus grandes proyectos de sitios web y temas y plugins de WordPress.
He’s the owner of a number of large multi-user blogs in the WordPress and internet marketing space and has also developed some really great WordPress plugins (such as WP Reviews/Autor hReview).
1. For those that don’t know, can you tell us about yourself and what you do?
I am Hesham Zebida, a blogger who turned to be a web developer and internet marketer. I’ve been working with WordPress since more than 10 years now. In this long journey; I’ve developed a couple of products towards WordPress, which mainly helps internet marketers in several ways.
2. ¿Cómo utiliza el marketing de afiliación en su negocio y en sus sitios web?
I depend on affiliate marketing big time as part of my online business and I’ve got a decent share of my income coming from different affiliate networks that is dedicated to WordPress related premium products, thus I built a few sites to review and promote those products.
3. What is one thing you can point to that you’ve done in the past that really had a really positive and lasting effect on your affiliate marketing and made your income take off?
I’ve got some success in the past with affiliate marketing, I used to do a lot of product reviews, mostly WordPress designs, plugins and other related products, hence I’ve developed my own reviews and ratings plugin for WordPress which includes markups for rich snippets to make it easy for me to add these snippets to all my reviews and enhance its performance and conversion, and it really worked very well.
4. ¿Cuánto tiempo invierte ahora en su estrategia de marketing de afiliación en comparación con cuando empezó?
Affiliate marketing was getting around 50% of my time, but after one year of releasing a premium paid version of my plugin, it started to take off, and turned to be one of the top reviews plugins being featured on a few popular sites and by members recommendations, it’s now serving several WordPress powered sites and doing great job.
Ahora, en lugar de continuar con hacer marketing de afiliación en sí, mi modelo de negocio ha cambiado un poco, me mudé a ayudar a los vendedores de afiliados. con su SEO y la conversión.
Por lo tanto, se puede decir que ahora estoy trabajando a tiempo completo en este proyecto.
5. ¿Cuál es su consejo número 1 para los nuevos vendedores afiliados?
El marketing de afiliación puede ser una forma estupenda de ganarse la vida, hay mucho dinero en este negocio, de verdad. Trate de ofrecer algo único, y siempre ser honesto acerca de lo que haces en tu negocio, esto te mantendrá durante más tiempo de lo que esperas.
6. If you had to start again tomorrow, what would be the first thing you’d do to rebuild your affiliate marketing empire?
Like many other affiliate marketers, I’ve taken a lot of time testing several products and trying to discover what works best. It took me so long to develop my own strategy, and wow.. If I could go back in time, I would do things in a different way, let’s say the right way!
As for today, I still have a lot of challenges to deal with, especially increase my affiliate program’s members.
7. Dónde puede la gente encontrar más información sobre ti? Enchufa tu web 🙂 .
Puede ponerse en contacto conmigo a través de mi blog personal en zebida.com o en Twitter @hishaman