AFFILIATE MARKETING
If you are looking for a way to work from home and make money online then affiliate marketing is a great way to start.
I know the first question that will be running across your mind now is, what is affiliate marketing?
What is affiliate marketing?
Affiliate marketing is when you promote other people's products and earn a commission for every sale you make. Imagine that a person comes to your website where you have a description of a product. If that visitor likes your information, he or she clicks on a link that you provide and then purchases the item from another website. The beauty of affiliate marketing is that you don’t have to spend time and effort creating and marketing a product of your own, you don’t have to deal with customer service and recruiting people to sell for you and above all you will be given a
hefty commission from this sale
This article on my blog will explain how affiliate marketing for newbies can be made easy. But before then, why not let us consider some PROS and CONS of affiliate marketing.
Foremost do you have the interest or is it right for you ?because interest breeds passion. It's not that you can't be successful at affiliate marketing but it will be much easier when you are personally interested in the business.
Now, let’s know if it is right for you by alighting the PROS and CONS like I said earlier…….
PROS
· You don’t need to deal with customers service and recruiting people to sell for you.
· You don’t need to spend time and effort creating a product.
· You earn a huge commission from any sale.
· The product can be delivered instantly as long as it is a digital product.
· You don’t need a specific location or office for this business.
CONS
· Researching a niche.
· Sourcing for profitable keywords around that niche.
· Developing the website or blog site.
· Writing website, newsletter and blog content.
· Building website traffic .
· Converting these visitors into affiliates.
Did I hear you say that you are very much aware of the PROS and CONS of affiliate marketing? Now that you are pretty much aware of the challenges, now let’s get the ball rolling……
Here is the step by step guide:
Step 1
CHOOSING A PRODUCT TO PROMOTE
The first step is naturally to choose a product to promote. This is firstly a choice between a physical product and an electronic product. With Internet marketing the electronic products has an edge over the physical products due to the great advantage because it is instantly deliverable and does not require much time. No packaging or shipping is required and the customer gets instant satisfaction, plus there are no additional costs involved.
And how can you choose the product to promote?
By now I am sure that you must have heard of the following Platform or markets for affiliate marketing products:
1. Clickbank
2. Moreniche
3. Amazon
4. Informatfastecash
5. E-junkie
6. 2checkout
7. Commission junction
8. Paydotcom
9. Pepperjam.
But to explain to you how to get started in affiliate marketing, I’m going to use Clickbank as an example. Because am an affiliate of some valuable products such as:
Maverick moneymaker
Twitter
Paid surveys
Proactol
Nevertheless, Clickbank can be easily navigated, stress free and above all, their commission is generous.
To sign up as an affiliate at ClickBank, all you have to do is go to Clickbank.com and sign up for an account.
At the top of the page, you will see a link that says “sign up”, and you click on that link to create your affiliate account. When you sign up, you need to give ClickBank your physical address (within their accepted countries), because they will be mailing you a check for your commission. They do not currently have an option to pay via PayPal, but they HAVE just introduced a direct to bank account system, go to their marketplace. There you will find thousands of merchants who are looking for affiliates to promote their products. These products are digital downloads and e-books and they pay a commission of between 50% to 80% for each sale. The products are listed by categories and sub categories so you can choose a product that interests you and check out the sales page.
Another affiliate program or platform i would like to talk about like i said earlier on is Moreniche.
Moreniche is another wonderful online affiliate program that you can make tons of cash from.It is a very lovely affiliate program compare to Clickbank because all countries are very much welcome unlike Clickbank that restrict some countries.
Secondly,they offer a huge commison and a wide range of lovely products to select and promote and above all they offer a great and splendid tools such as the Beginners guide and Forum that will help you make easy money online.Infact,moreniche is like a school of income and online business which i strongly recommend for anyone and i so much love it because of it's great experience and is a lovely place to be.
So for you to becoome an affiliate of Moreniche program all you need do is just visit here http://bit.ly/qVIq1 and register,select a product and you are on your way to flood your bank account.
Step 2
CREATING YOUR AFFILIATE LINK AND WAYS OF PROMOTING YOUR PRODUCTS
When you have decided on a product to promote, create your affiliate link (hop link) as this is a tracking code to use on your web pages in order to receive your commission from Clickbank and it will be send to you as soon as you finish choosing a product to promote.
Next you need to find a way to promote the product. The best way for newbie affiliates to promote products is by article marketing as this method is free. Go to Google and type in "Google keyword tool" and click on Google Adwords Keyword Tool. This is a free keyword tool by Google and is a great way to find some good keywords to use in your articles.
The next thing to do is to write some articles based around your keywords. The articles should be around 250 to 500 words using good grammar and correct spelling. Let me hint you a secret that so many successful affiliate marketers use to make much sales and drive much traffic to their sites.
Here is the secret- ensure you write and submit articles about your products three times a week.
There are some many places to submit your articles such as:
Ezinearticles.com
Articlesbase.com
Buzzle.com
Hubpages.com
Squidoo.com
But the best place to submit your articles is EzineArticles.com. They are a high authority article site and will help get your articles listed high in the search engines. But the little challenge with this site is that: Affiliate links are not allowed so you will need a landing page to send your readers to.
A free site you can use to make a landing page is Squidoo.com. At Squidoo you can make a web page (called a lens) and they do allow affiliate links. A lens consists of modules that you can use to add text, graphics and videos plus much more. Check it out for yourself. Squidoo lenses are great fun to make.
Another free site you can use is Blogger.com. Blogger is a free publishing tool from Google where you can set up your own blog and use it to promote your affiliate products just like my blogsite you are reading from now.
Having selected a product the next step is to decide whether to direct customers straight to the merchant's sales page or to set up your own website or blog where you could review the product and then relay your customer on to the merchant. There are points in favour of both methods.
Sending the potential customer directly to the vendor's site involves less work for the Marketer, but reduces their opportunities for earning income.
But I strongly recommend setting up a website or blog that allows the marketer the option of collecting the customer's name and email address with the chance to then make further offers to the customer and this method is also recommended by experienced and successful marketers.
Just like I said earlier on that am promoting few products on clickbank. Let me comment a bit on the few products am promoting. if that will give you an idea of the products or product to promote as well.
Twitter- is a social networking that enables its users to send and read other users’ updates known as tweets. Twitter is quite splendid and it has tremendous opportunities for generating a decent or sizeable income. One of the tremendous opportunities of this great site is that: it helps you generate pretty much traffic with less effort and time which implies the more traffic you generate for your site or product the more money you earn. The great thing about this product is that is quite cheap and is worth going for.
Maverickmoneymaker program - is a system developed by millionaires and it has been proven and tasted by many internet marketers or online entrepreneurs. The beauty of this program is the less time you invest, effort and above all a RECURRING PAYOUT, infact they also have a video tutorial that will give you an idea of what the product or program entails.
Paid survey, this is another way of earning a decent income from the comfort of your home with a little time. I’m pretty sure that when surfing the internet you might have come across advert or statement like “GET PAID FOR YOUR OPINION”. The truth is that many people online are earning a sizeable income completing surveys and a good example of such person is ME. .
Proactol is a tablet that is 100% natural nd totally organic with no known negative side effects with also the backing of a 4 clinical studies and endorsements from top health professionals from around the world.For more information about Proactol product you can visit here http://bit.ly/iz8Fs
Step 3
EARNING YOUR INCOME
This is the stage I love the most, because it won’t be ideal for someone to work hard without getting the rewards for the work.
After doing all these, you can now sit back and relax to watch your account flooded with money and been send to you.
Conclusion:
I’m pretty sure it might sound intimidating to you but it can be easily understand and implemented. The only thing is the ability to learn.
Affiliate marketing does take a lot of work and it's not going to make you rich overnight, but it is a great way for newbie affiliates to start their own online business for free. The only thing it will cost is your time and the method for earning money with affiliate marketing is Boundless,all you need is some imagination and proper guidance.
P.S
You need to always take your time to update the contents of your newsletters, websites, blog sites submitting your articles to Articles directories and visit forums periodically as these are your powerful tools to becoming successful in affiliate marketing and it will also make you be ahead or trendy in your affiliate marketing business.
CURIOUS TO KNOW ME?
I am OLABODE AYOOLA a self determined Nigerian, an Internet marketer and an Entrepreneur who have passion for online business and believes so much in carving a niche for himself online and also helping a lot of people out there to also do the same by using what they have and learn to the Glory of god and for the betterment of humanity.
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