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“Secrets To Affiliate
Marketing”
Learn The “Secrets” To Becoming A Successful
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Presented By: Douglas Hoover
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Why Affiliate Marketing Is the Best Way to Start an Online Business
If you've educated yourself enough with the information available to us via the internet, then you
should have realized by now that your pursuit of a career in the corporate ladder is futile at best.
Basically, the idea is to start as an intern, then a regular employee, then move up to a supervisory
and/or managerial position and finally up to the executive levels of the corporate business that you're
in. Personally, I have nothing against this kind of aspiration as I too once dreamt of such things myself;
however, the toll it takes to get to EXACTLY where you want to be could at least take 30 years; 20 if
you're exceptionally good at it.
The problem is we all can't be exceptional and aside from the fierce competition in play, you'll also have
to face the insurmountable amount of bureaucracy, racism, favoritism, gender inequalities and other
negative things in order to literally move up the ladder. The trade-off is not an ideal payoff even from an
optimistically assessed standpoint. Therefore I would advocate that you start your own business and the
cheapest way to do it is by building an affiliate marketing blog or website.
Defining Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing is an easy income-generating business method where you take the role of the
promoter and help the manufacturers and sellers connect with the end consumers. It should be clear
that whether you take a passive or active role in this business, you are by no means the originator or
creator of the products/services you promote. But you will get a small portion of the sales as
compensation nevertheless. It's basically a 3-way relationship between you, the seller and the customer.
What Affiliate Marketing is NOT
If you get an unsolicited email inviting you to join an affiliate network and it's asking for an upfront
payment, then you definitely have to scrutinize them and find out whether or not they're scam or legit.
Go to the Better Business Bureau (BBB) and find out about the company, if you can't find any, then go to
affiliate marketing forums and discussion boards. They would know a lot about these scam sites as news
spreads fast in social media and forums. Another thing to look for is if these people are selling you
unrelated products or something that you will never be able to use, like the $350 "Secrets to Affiliate
Marketing Success" book or some other catchy titles; although a few are genuine but they don't charge
you that high.
The truth is you can learn basic affiliate marketing from top ranking websites and blogs. In fact, they can
teach you more useful information than all those specialized books and DVDs that other people are
selling. Becoming an affiliate is free when you sign up to affiliate marketing programs and the only thing
that will really cost you money is web hosting, which is around $70 - $100 a year for your affiliate
marketing blog. A few other expenses may include a unique website/blog logo (optional), your electric
bill; hire a blog writer (optional because you can write the blogs yourself) and probably paid advertising
to promote your website or blog (optional).
Types of Affiliate Marketing
What's interesting about affiliate marketing is that you can earn commissions in more ways than most
people think. Allow me to explain the 3 different types of affiliate marketing and how you can earn
through them.
1. Unattached Affiliate Marketing - This type of affiliate marketing will not require too much work from
you, you don't even have to setup an affiliate marketing blog like those for Amazon Affiliate Programs.
This is more like a PPC marketing (pay-per-click) where you just show affiliate ads on sites that allow this
kind of marketing and then get a commission for each click through that web users make on the ads.
2. Related Affiliate Marketing - This type of marketing is where you are required to have some level of
involvement and this is where you create an affiliate marketing blog or website and always show
affiliate links on almost all of your website/blog pages. You also earn a commission for each time a web
user clicks through the affiliate links.
3. Involved Affiliate Marketing - This kind of marketing may require you to actually use the
products/services before you write a review about them and you should be able to write a more
comprehensive and honest reviews.
You can choose from these 3 types of affiliate marketing methods, but most affiliate marketing
programs uses the Type 2 affiliate marketing, which has some level of involvement and online presence
from your end.
Putting the Cogs and Wheels Together
Now that you have an idea of what affiliate marketing is all about and what its common pitfalls are, you
are ready to start your journey to financial freedom and a wealthy lifestyle! Affiliate marketing is just
like any other type of business and you'll have to plan a strategy months or even years ahead before you
begin, so I will give you the basic strategy of how to become an affiliate marketer, signing up for affiliate
programs, setting up your affiliate marketing blog and all the other important details about it.
Steps to become an affiliate marketer:
1. Decide what niche topic you want to use for your blog or website. It's better to write reviews or
general information about products/services that you're passionate about, because you will write better
articles for them compared to those that you don't like. For instance, if you're mad about crochet or kids
bicycles, then that is the niche you should pick for your blog! Affiliate programs have a huge inventory of
items for sale and they do include crochets and bicycles for a fact. If you're more of the business-minded
individual and you think you can write just about on anything, then by all means pick the niche that's
most profitable among the lot.
2. Create your website and purchase a cheap but reliable web hosting. You don't need a web designer to
build a website or a blog. You can use WordPress, Weebly, Web.com, Blogger, eHost and others to do
that. Using their user-friendly "click & drag" features you can create your blog/website in 5 - 10 minutes!
3. Learn basic SEO and use it on your blog or website. Search engine optimization or SEO is a very good
marketing strategy to allow your website to be known throughout the entire internet or at least the
majority of it. If your website is easier to find in search engines, then it is more convenient for people to
visit it, and more visitors means more money for you.
4. Learn social media marketing to extend your presence online. In reality social media marketing or
SMM is also a part of the grand scheme of SEO and without it, your SEO campaign would not be as
successful as you'd expect it to be. There are literally billions of people hanging around the web on a
daily basis and much of them are in social media sites. It would be a logical choice to get visitors there
for your website and increase your income potential.
5. Learn about paid advertising and consider it deeply on whether you need to use it or not. Paid ads
help because they target the right kind of people who are already looking for products that you
promote. Meaning there is a good chance that they will buy. Wouldn't you want them to buy products
through your affiliate links? I would!
6. Start filling up your website with content. In case you plan to write boring and unimpressive blogs and
articles, then I'd advise you to no longer continue in your pursuit of creating an affiliate marketing blog,
because I promise you people will not want to read your blogs or visit your site. Write articles that will
impress you first. This will let you know whether or not people will want to read about what you have to
say. If you can find an extremely critical person to judge your writing, then that would be better as it will
help you greatly improve on your writing style. Reader engagement is absolute in affiliate marketing. It
will determine your income capacity, so do your best in writing content for your site above all else.
How you earn in affiliate marketing:
• The manufacturer/seller signs a partnership deal with the affiliate network or program and in turn,
when you sign up with the affiliate network as an affiliate, the partner affiliate network will give you a
small percentage share on every item you helped sold.
• You'll need to embed or display affiliate links on your website or affiliate marketing blog about the
products you're promoting. The purpose of these links is to guide your blog readers to the seller's
webpage (which is usually in the affiliate network's site) so that they can make purchases of the items
they like.
• The percentage commission on each sale range from 1% - 10% (some give more than 10% but rarely)
and this is how you generate income. For example, a web user happens by your blog about coffee
machines and he/she read your blog review or informative article. The reader was impressed by your
blog and decided to click on the affiliate link, then make a purchase of 1 coffee machine worth $350. If
the affiliate network allowed 7% of that amount to be your commission, therefore your income for that
sale alone will be $24.50.
• You may notice that $24.50 is a small amount and not enough to convince you to become an affiliate;
however, if you were able to bring 10,000 visitors to your blog in the span of 30 days and about 4,382
people bought coffee machines for themselves, then your income for that particular month should be
$107,359! If you're able to bring as much visitors to your website on a regular basis, then you can bet
that your monthly income should be around these numbers. Now you can appreciate the value that SEO
and SMM can do for your affiliate marketing business.
How much can you make?
The straight answer to this question is... there is NO LIMIT to how much you can earn. The website
called Pickmyshaver.com around October or November 2013 and then 8 months later its regular
monthly income became $8,446! If it had continued as is it would earn over $50,000 a month by now,
except that it was purchased in Flippa by an anonymous buyer for $60,100 around June 2014. That's just
1 website and I'm pretty sure on your best day you can manage 2 - 3 sites for affiliate marketing.
At this point I will let you use your imagination as to how much you can earn; or is it how hard you
desire to earn. It's entirely up to you. I am confident that this article should help you get started in
creating your own affiliate marketing blog and earn not just money, but your freedom from the
everyday worries of life. Once you start earning over $8,000 a month, then you can buy more time to
spend it with the people that matters to you most - your family. I wish you all the best and don't forget
to drop a comment below and tell me how affiliate marketing has changed your life like it has changed
mine.
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Key Benefits Of Affiliate Marketing
Since I decided to take the plunge 5 years ago and start working for myself as an online marketer,
affiliate marketing has been the best thing I ever got involved in and is now part of my daily schedule.
It is without doubt something that all people who are interested in starting an online business or those
who already have an online business, should investigate and take up.
If you are undecided or have little knowledge about affiliate marketing then I hope that you find the
below information helpful and that it will clear up any doubts that you have over what the key benefits
of affiliate marketing are.
1. Commission basis
For the affiliate marketer this is a key advantage as every time that somebody makes a purchase, the
affiliate receives a set commission of the profit.
For the affiliate merchant this is an advantage as they only pay the marketer when they make a sale, so
no money is wasted on marketing spend.
2. Huge audience
For the affiliate marketer - having built up various marketing lists or websites, they can make use of their
huge audience base and ensure that the traffic they send over to the merchant is qualified and that sales
are made, making the affiliate more money.
For the affiliate merchant - they receive access to a wider audience base than they may have had before,
creating more interest in their products, resulting in more sales and all without investing any more
money or time.
3. Ease
For the affiliate marketer - once they have set up their additional sites and links across to the merchant,
it is very simple to manage and often affiliates will continue to make money from sales without having
done anything for months.
For the affiliate merchant - they do not have to invest time and money writing content or creating
expensive images in order to promote their services/ products. Instead affiliates will apply to be a part
of their program and all the merchant need do is have many affiliates all working towards promoting
their products/ services and wait for the sales to flood in.
4. Steady cost
For the affiliate marketer - building on the last point, an affiliate can keep receiving commission from
sales of a product or service for years, despite not doing a lot of work to promote it. You do need to
invest time at the start but then you have a regular source of income coming in for the market life of the
service/ product.
For the affiliate merchant - they set up all the costs so the chance to make a huge profit on sales without
having spent much on marketing, is very likely. They do not have to pay their affiliates much per sale to
make the business relationship worthwhile, as it tends to work best on a quantity basis so everyone is
happy with the set amounts.
5. Brand Visibility
For the affiliate - there is a lot to be gained reputation wise from working with a range of brands and you
will find that you get a lot more work should you be able to prove that you have succeeded with others
in the past.
For the affiliate merchant - they receive free brand exposure on a continual basis, which is never a bad
thing. If you have many affiliates working on promoting your brand, you'll soon see a boost in search
engine rankings and online sales; Amazon.com is an excellent example of where this has worked in the
past.
6. Outsourced expertise
For the affiliate marketer - they get the continued experience to improve and work on their methods of
online marketing, investing only their time, not money.
For the affiliate merchant - they will be able to utilize all kinds of affiliates who are experts in SEM
(search engine marketing) and SEO (search engine optimization) without investing a lot of money, yet
still manage to get to the top of Google rankings.
7. Transparency
For the affiliate marketer - through the various affiliate programs, it is possible to see exactly when sales
are made and payment is automatic, so you do not have to worry about chasing merchants for
payments.
For the affiliate merchant - they can see and manage their R.O.I (return on investment) extremely easily
and do not have to worry about tracking the origin of each sale.
8. Online market
For the affiliate marketer - there are an endless number of affiliate programs out there and the demand
for online shopping is not going to decrease, so the earning potential for affiliates is huge. You can
access any number of markets with your affiliate work, whether you choose jewelry, hygiene, pet
insurance or food.
Use long tail pro to find targeted long tail keywords with low competition, ensuring maximum affiliate
sale for you.
For the affiliate merchant - as previously mentioned, online demand is not going away any time soon,
therefore merchants are able to continue to expand product ranges to meet a range of online markets
with the knowledge that they have a number of affiliates on hand to promote quickly and at a low cost.
9. Home-based work (aimed at affiliate marketer)
If you become successful in the world of affiliate marketing then it is entirely possible to create a long
term Passive Income from it and a huge bonus to this is that you can work cheaply from home and be
your own boss. You don't have to pay to sign up to affiliate programs and there are a huge number to
choose from, all from the comfort of your own home.
10. Overcoming tradition (aimed at affiliate merchant)
Using affiliates to promote your products and services will guarantee that you receive a lot more
exposure than you would by using more pricey traditional marketing methods. Having a number of
affiliates promoting what you are selling and only being paid when a sale is made, is one of the most
cost effective marketing methods ever as well as being incredibly successful.
How To Start Making Money Online As An Affiliate Marketer
The field of affiliate marketing is probably the quickest developing way to make money online. After all,
billions of ordinary people use internet every day. Affiliate marketing gives you the opportunity to target
potential customers regardless of their location in the world.
For this reason, it isn't surprising that a huge number of people make a considerable amount of money
through affiliate advertising and marketing. Many skilled affiliate marketers end up making more money
in this field than they did in their previous job, and hence some of them even resign their normal 9-5 job
and pursue affiliate marketing full-time.
A Quick Overview On Affiliate Marketing
Now that we have a little idea about the capacity of affiliate marketing, Let's dig in and discuss what it
truly includes.
The easiest way to describe affiliate marketing is when you help another company sell their products
online, and then you get paid a commission for each sale you bring to them.
If you are promoting a product priced at $200, and the company pays you 10 percentage commission of
the sale, you would make $10 for each sale.
However how do you refer sales? You can begin promoting your seller's products on your website,
which receives targeted site visitors in the same niche as the product you are advertising. For example, if
you have a website that sells makeup you would not advertise health insurance, but instead you could
promote makeup related products. Every time one of your website's visitors clicks on your affiliate link
which was supplied to you by the seller, you will be paid a commission.
How To Choose A Good Affiliate Network
One of the largest errors new affiliate marketers make is becoming a member of nearly each affiliate
network they encounter. This is without a doubt considered to be a totally incorrect technique. That is
due to quite some reasons.
Firstly, being an affiliate marketer is an undertaking which calls for a lot of awareness. So, if you try and
work with many affiliate networks at the same time, chances are that none of your initiatives might go
as planned and consequently, none of them might end up being very successful.
Secondly, focusing on just one or a few products without a doubt will let you research them thoroughly
before you start to promote them. This method also helps you refine your strategies, making the
required adjustments, and thus making your marketing a whole lot more powerful. An effective
approach will yield better outcomes, and reward you for your efforts and time.
Thirdly, make sure you do some research on the affiliate network as there are some networks that will
only pay you once a month which might not work for you or worse they could not pay you at all. I am
not telling this to discourage you from being an affiliate marketer, but instead I want you to succeed in
finding the correct network and products to market and make your commission.
There are affiliate networks that resort to "shaving", a very common exercise in affiliate marketing
where the networks display a discounted number of sales than what you referred, consequently paying
you drastically less in commissions.
Hence, to avoid been a victim to this action I would suggest that you stick to known and trusted affiliate
networks. In any case, they only way you will succeed with a network is if you are comfortable with
them and the products you are promoting.
How To Start Getting Sales As An Affiliate Marketer
Getting instantly to the point, some affiliate marketers use social media web sites including Facebook,
Twitter, YouTube, and more, for doing associate marketing, other decide to build out their own site.
Getting your own site is an exceptional approach to affiliate marketing, because it gives you control over
everything.
So we will focusing on affiliate marketing using your own site moving forward. First matters first, as
mentioned earlier, you will want to find an affiliate network you're comfortable with. This includes being
knowledgeable about the products you are promoting, so that you don't come to be selling products
you don't know anything about.
Amazon's Associate Program
That being said, many marketers look at Amazon's associate marketing program as one of the best. It's
possibly the most trustworthy network, and has a large inventory of products to promote and get your
commissions.
This offers you a possibility to promote nearly any product in the market, or pick a niche with low
competition and you could be earning commissions in less than a week.
Finding A Good Keyword
That is considered to be one of the hardest parts of marketing. You simply cannot blindly choose any
keyword and expect to start making sales quickly. One of the reasons why many affiliate marketers fail is
due to using a wrong keyword.
If you are new to the affiliate marketing, you are going to want keywords that have low competition.
Start your keyword research by finding long tail keywords with a low search volume, that means much
less money, but not really with the ones that have large competition.
You may test the top 10 and 20 results and do a few studies to discover if you may outrank them.
Review keywords being used by the competition to determine if they are using identical key phrases you
are looking to target. If they are, and they have a high authority website in that niche, I would
recommend that you keep away from that niche, and opt for a brand new, less competitive.
Quality Content
This is significant. If you think you will make a lot of money creating items that doesn't help the visitors
in anyway, you are very wrong. Although your goal is to earn cash by means of referring visitors to the
offer, you will have to offer one thing of importance to them. Merely posting your hyperlinks along with
lame sales pitches like "this is a wonderful solution, purchase this product via my personal hyperlink and
get a discount", and so on, you might be only heading to disaster.
If you decide to join Amazon's associate program, you could write an informative article on your
homepage and include your primary keywords and some secondary keywords throughout the article.
You could have the purchasing guidebook, and write your brief opinion of each product you are
marketing. Remember that the greater the cost of the product you market, the greater the commission.
Backlinks
We realize it's probably the trickiest method to accomplish, unless you are an SEO guru. Contacting site
with high authority and guest posting on these sites is a really well-known means of getting great
backlinks. These great backlinks, along with guest posting in related sites in your niche will get you
ranked on the first page of the search engines as long as the keyword you chose has really low
competition.
However, even when your site doesn't reach page one, as long as you have guest posted on a number of
sites in your niche, you will be bringing substantial amount of targeted traffic coming from these sites.
So that it is a great tactic anyway.
Mistakes To Avoid
Now you are aware of the process to becoming a great affiliate marketer with your own website, I want
you to also keep in mind some of the most common errors brand new affiliate marketers make.
Not Providing Any Good Value
Though we've got covered this item, it's certainly important to remind you if you try to be extreme with
your words to pressure the visitors to click on your affiliate link, it's likely being deemed as junk or spam
by many websites.
Rather, it's suggested to help these individuals select the right solution determined by their particular
wants. This method makes these individuals feel more, which in return will check out the products you
are marketing based on the value in your article.
Product Research
Numerous online marketers will not do proper product research to gain knowledge on the product they
are promoting, instead they are only worried about the amount of commission they will earn per sale
regardless whether it will provide value to their visitors. This is an oversight, and will at some point lead
to your readers not relying on anything you tell them.
Tracking Your Links
When you begin advertising on Amazon or even some other affiliate network, it will be beneficial to
track your affiliate links. It can help you find out which website is doing more sales and then you can
make your other websites have the same kind of setup.
Final Thoughts
I would like to say that despite the fact that affiliate marketing can be very fulfilling, it has a steep
learning curve to it. You might face disappointment on numerous occasions prior to making a nice
amount of money online.
That said, affiliate marketing it's suited simply for individuals who are likely to deal with several failures,
but will come back with a positive attitude and willing to learn from their mistakes.
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