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 travaille dans le domaine du marketing d'affiliation WordPress depuis plus de 10 ans et est bien connu pour un certain nombre de ses grands projets de sites Web, de thèmes et de plugins 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/Author 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. Comment utilisez-vous le marketing d'affiliation dans votre entreprise et sur vos sites ?
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. Combien de temps investissez-vous dans votre stratégie de marketing d'affiliation aujourd'hui par rapport à vos débuts ?
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.
Maintenant, au lieu de continuer à faire du marketing d'affiliation, mon modèle d'affaires a changé un peu, j'ai décidé d'aider les spécialistes du marketing d'affiliation avec leur référencement et leur conversion.
On peut donc dire que je travaille à plein temps sur ce projet en ce moment.
5. Quel est le conseil numéro 1 que vous donnez aux nouveaux spécialistes du marketing d'affiliation ?
Le marketing d'affiliation peut être un excellent moyen de gagner sa vie, il y a beaucoup d'argent dans ce secteur, vraiment. Essayez d'offrir quelque chose d'unique et soyez toujours honnête sur ce que vous faites dans votre entreprise, cela vous permettra de durer plus longtemps que vous ne l'espérez.
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. Où les gens peuvent-ils en savoir plus sur vous ? Branchez votre site 🙂
Vous pouvez me contacter via mon blog personnel à l'adresse suivante zebida.com ou sur Twitter @hishaman