Get Started With Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing is for everyone, in fact every person who has an online presence be it just an email address should incorporate some form of affiliate marketing otherwise you could be losing potential earnings (more on this later).
Here are some of benefits of affiliate marketing.
- Excellent way to build passive income from via the internet.
- Becoming an affiliate is easy and simple.
- You can start earning immediately.
- Zero or minimal costs.
- You don’t need to have your own products.
- You don’t need to be a technical geek. Basic computer skill and ability to follow simple instructions is all you need.
- You don’t need to have your own website (although I highly recommend you having one for your opt-in page).
What is Affiliate Marketing?
Affiliate marketing is simply promoting other peoples products/services by driving traffic to their website via your unique affiliate link.
How does it work?
Once you have decided to promote a particular website which has an affiliate program and register as an affiliate, you get a unique affiliate link.
Your aim is then to get people to click on your unique affiliate link which will take them (the visitor) to the website you are promoting. You will then get paid a commission if the visitor takes the necessary actions such as purchasing a product (paid per sale) or registering as a member (paid per lead).
How can people click on your affiliate link?
There are many sources for you to promote your unique affiliate links. You should not limit yourself to one source but instead should utilize a combination of the following sources. The more links you have out there the more clicks you are bound to get and the more commission you will make (provided they were placed in the right target market).
Places where you can place your links:-
- Your website (if you have one)
- In your email signature
- In articles, ebooks, ezines and reports you write
- Forums and blogs you participate in
- When you join groups or networking websites
- Advertisement such as Google Adwords (pay per click), freeadforum.com (free advertising), related websites (paid advertising) and with companies that have a huge list (your target market)
- Email marketing – buy a list and send out an email promoting your affiliate link/website
How to join affiliate program?
Affiliate marketing has become increasingly popular in recent years. Most internet marketers and even some large corporate companies and small businesses have an affiliate program in place to promote their products/services.
The majority of affiliate programs promote digital products (ebooks, videos, software programs etc) and membership websites (privilege access to information, monthly reports/downloads).
You can visit any website and look to see if they have an affiliate program in place or Google the keywords “affiliate program” along with the keywords representing the market you are interested in.
The best way is to visit sites that manage affiliate programs such as Clickbank and Commission Junction.
If you are selling or promoting downloadable information products, I highly recommend Clickbank.
Clickbank is the marketplace where thousands of people sell their digital information products and it is the number one website where people join as an affiliate. You can find any niche products to promote. The best part is that you can promote as many websites you want through Clickbank with one registration and get paid commission for all your sales (from all the sites you promote) by Clickbank. This certainly makes managing your account and tracking your commissions and payments so much easier.
Registering with Clickbank
To get started, register with Clickbank (click here), select the “Marketplace” menu. Here you will find thousands of affiliate programs which you can join. Enter the category or keywords relating to your interest. Before making a decision to join a particular affiliate program, make sure you check out their sales page, the commission and conversion rate. If you are happy with your choice, click the “Create my Hoplink” button, copy the url generated. This url is your unique affiliate link for promoting this particular program.
Take action and get started now.
Focus, achieve and succeed!
Kham Lee Tran
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