Create a Holiday Gift Guide in 5 mins

using Recomonk

….and super-charge your blog’s affiliate income!

Created by Recomonk.com

We’ll show you how to build this in 5 minutes

Why create a Gift-Guide ?

Holiday season = Shopping season

Help your readers buy that perfect gift and get paid when people click and buy things.

Plus, you also bring in additional readers when people search for gift guides

Fun fact about Affiliate income

Say you add an affiliate link on your blog pointing to a camera on Amazon. One of your readers clicks on

it and goes to Amazon.. but ends up buying a TV

You will be paid a commission on that TV purchase!

Ain’t that AWESOME !

And what is Recomonk?

Recomonk makes it very easy for your readers to find and shop the products recommended by you..andsuper-charges blog’s affiliate income

It also automatically adds affiliate links OR you can also use your own affiliate links and you keep 100% of the commissions (AND Recomonk is FTC compliant)

Learn more here: http://recomonk.com/pages/faq

Recomonk provides bloggers with awesome widgets to:

- Create beautiful product showcases in blog- Allow product discovery in blog’s images and text- Add Facebook stores for recommended products

Ok, but how?

More on this later… lets create a gift guide first!

FOUR steps to creating a gift guide:

STEP 1: Signup and login to Recomonk (easy-peasy)

STEP 2: Create collections and add items

STEP 3: Install on your blog

STEP 4: Customize the design

Step 1: Signup!

http://recomonk.com/users/login

Signup using Facebook or Google or request an invite

Step 2: Add items and collections

1. Add a collection (which is like a category)

2. Add items to your collections

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEwT4SoSoTMWatch this 2 minute video and learn how to add items:

Step 3: Install on your blog

1. Under “Get Widgets”, select “Showcase items”2. Click on “Click to copy code”

3. Paste the code in your blog where you want the Holiday Gift Guide to appear

And that’s it ! Your Gift Guide will appear in your blog !

WordPress users: Please make sure you are in “Text” mode

Step 4: Customize your Gift Guide

Now that your Gift Guide has been installed, its time to customize the look and feel to match your blog’s style

Recomonk gives you a LOT of customization options, allowing you to pick from 3 different store styles, change colors, image sizes, icon size etc etc etc…

To customize the style, click on “Customize”

Advanced: You can also create “themes” which are different styles of your gift guide. Just select a theme and paste the corresponding code

During customization, you can:

- Pick the collections you want to show- Animate the widget- Pick the widget style (Image only or Image and text)- Change the size, number of items, image size.- Change the colors of text, background

And a lot more

Once you are done customizing, just click Save

You don’t have to copy the code again and your Gift Guide will be automatically updated!

That’s it! In just 5 minutes you will have your Gift Guide ready on your blog!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgIcYTJsnT8

For more questions, reach out to us at:support@recomonk.com

Watch this to learn more about Recomonk’s awesome widgets and boost your blog’s income!