Affiliate marketing basically is a system where a person (affiliate) promotes/sells a merchant's product, using his/her own affiliate link given by the merchant. Then the affiliate will get paid everytime a person will buy the product of the merchant through his/her affiliate link. Although we can also consider Adsense ads as also a way of affiliate marketing, where the person don't have to buy any product, but the affiliate will get paid per click of the ads.
Why Affiliate marketing?
Affiliate marketing is a very big business nowadays, almost every major business in the market is using affiliate marketing to make sales on the internet. A affiliate marketers earn so much that it became their major source of income (that's why you will see a lot of ads that says they are making more than $3,000.00 a week). This business model is a very profitable, since it will almost cost you nothing but everything to gain, you don't have to worry about any product, delivery and payment, just get the sale and that's it, just wait for the merchant to pay your commissions.
How to start in Affiliate marketing?
With the limitless amount of money you can earn with affiliate marketing, it may surprise you that you don't have to pay to be an affiliate. Yes, it is completely free to be one. To start as an affiliate, you will need a product to promote, so the popular place to go is www.clickbank.com. It is free to signup and just go to their marketplace and choose the product you would want to promote. Just click "create hoplink" and you will be given your own Affiliate link that you will promote, and from time to time you can check your stats in clickbank.
So once you have a product, you can then get banners, email, and other affiliate marketing tool that you can send to your list, paste on your websites or post on free ads websites (craiglist, US free ads).
Things to remember as an affiliate:
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Mark Wilson
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So once you have a product, you can then get banners, email, and other affiliate marketing tool that you can send to your list, paste on your websites or post on free ads websites (craiglist, US free ads).
Things to remember as an affiliate:
- Don't spam, yes it may be tempting to spam just like others do, but you are not building trust and long term customers, you may make a few sales but you may get banned in the future.
- You don't have to make your own product to make money, although you may do so in the future, but as an affiliate, all you have to do is to promote the product of others (less pressure and work)
- You are not bound or in contract with just one product, if you feel that the product you're promoting is not selling, you are free to promote as many products as you want, (although it may take a lot of work promoting each one of them)
- You don't have to spend for anything, but if you want to see some earnings faster, you may want to purchase some products like keyword research tools to help you find profitable keywords and help you get on the 1st page of google (you will want to be in google's first page so you can have people see your websites/affiliate products), one very good keyword research tool is keyword elite 2.0, this is used by most of the top marketers. You may want to invest too in getting your own domain name and web hosting, (although you may use free sites like blogger and wordpress)
To your success;
Mark Wilson
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