Why Not Try Affiliate Marketing? 5 Jun 2010 10:35 AM (14 years ago)
Affiliate marketing is a method of doing business online where you try and get potential customers to view websites of online merchants. This is done by building a website that advertises a certain product. Usually this is done by making a deal with the merchant and you will get a website with a unique link or banner. If a customer goes to your link or banner and makes a purchase of the product, then the merchant you have tied up with will pay you a commission or flat fee.
To becoming an affiliate marketer is not difficult. All that you need is some self confidence and then find a company or website that offers affiliate marketing programs. Finding a marketing company these days is not difficult. Just look around for reputable affiliate networks. There are many advantages that come with affiliate marketing and some of them will be discussed below.
The number one advantage of affiliate marketing is that you will be able to work from anywhere in the world or your home. It is an internet based business, so as long as you have access to a computer and internet connection, you will be able to do it. Number 2, it will not require a large start up cost to get started. If one takes into account the potential income that can be generated, it takes almost nothing to get started. In fact the income potential is huge. With full time affiliate marketing, monthly incomes as much as 20,000 dollars a month are not unusual. Another great advantage of affiliate marketing is that it does not require product inventory, because it is internet based you are selling strictly through the internet which means you will not have to stock up on goods.
Another tool that is being widely used to develop an affiliate marketing business is blogging. Some examples of blogging income sources used by affiliate marketers are, Google AdSense, Yahoo publisher network, Adbrite, commission junction and click bank. Out of these, Google AdSense is the number 1 site and is the most widely used site used by affiliate marketers. It is considered to be the most user friendly and you can get help if there are any problems with setting things up. Yahoo publisher network is also a large group. The advantage of yahoo publishers is that you can customize the appearance of the site.
Adbrite ads work by using text and banner advertisements. Bloggers have the choice of using a full page ad also. Adbrite is in direct competition with Google AdSense. Many bloggers prefer it over AdSense, because it pays better and is supposed to be even more user friendly. Commission junction is owned by Value click and it is usually affiliated with Amazon. Click bank is a popular and well known affiliate marketing program. This one is considered to be one of the best if you want an e-book for your blog. The commission is one of the highest and you will get paid fortnightly.
What do you think? Do you have any to share feel free to drop a comment.
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Is Affiliate Marketing Your Key To Success? 1 Sep 2009 1:28 PM (15 years ago)
Are you just getting started with your Internet marketing career? If you are, then affiliate marketing is one of the best ways to go. But, how do you get started making money with this method?
If you are totally new to Internet marketing, then it can be quite confusing trying to figure out which method will get you up and running the fastest without emptying your bank account. The good news is that as long as you have a connection to the Internet, you have everything you need.
People choose to get started with affiliate marketing for many reasons -- to make extra payments on bills, to take a dream vacation, to augment their retirement or to quit their day job. Your reasons may be unique to you, but you can use some of the same methods as every one else to get started. In fact, it will work to your advantage to follow a proven plan.
So, let's get back to the question of how to get started making money. My advice: start with the Bum Marketing Method.
What's that you say? It's a way to sell products based on a marketing method popularized by Travis Sago, a very successful Internet marketer. Travis says that anyone, even a flat-broke bum, can sit down in front of a computer and start making money in a matter of days.
I know. It sounds too good to be true but, believe it or not, it really does work!
Following the bum's way to get started really just means that you learn how to make money without it costing you anything. In other words, use free methods to market your products. This is an excellent way to get your feet wet, especially if you're not sure that affiliate marketing is for you or you're just not willing to risk a lot of money.
Affiliate Marketing Program - What Affiliate Program Should I Join? 18 Aug 2009 11:56 AM (15 years ago)
What is the best affiliate program in the world? Another way to coin that would be what is the best affiliate program for you to join.
Based on the failure rate in affiliate marketing it makes you wonder how important the program really is. Usually the lack of success is more a fault of the affiliate marketer than it is the affiliate program. Affiliate marketers need to take responsibility for their success and understand a couple of basic points.
Information products sell at a higher commission rate because they not too expensive to produce. Once they have been created there is no ongoing expense to manufacture them so it is not unusual to see commission rates as high as 75%. Another advantage to information products is they allow instant access. This means you can sell them anywhere in the world and your customer can be reading them a couple of minutes after the payment is processed.
You do not have to ship the product and instant access feeds on the customers hunger for wanting something right now. They look after all transactions procedures and ensure you get paid so that you do not have to worry about postage, packaging and having to have a merchant account. You will also find that many ClickBank e-books also contain promotional materials. The really smart writers know that to get affiliates to promote their product they not only have to pay them well, they must also provide quality advertising materials.
As you can see a case could be made that the best affiliate program in the world is ClickBank.com. This should be an affiliate newbie's first port of call if they want to earn money marketing information products on the Internet. They certainly have thousands of people earning checks with them every month.
Are Sales Page Opt Ins Decreasing Your Affiliate Commission? 4 Aug 2009 12:00 PM (15 years ago)
There are over a hundred affiliate marketing businesses running actively nowadays with people striving to earn a stable income online. One of the most popular trends is to become an affiliate of Clickbank products and to sell these to interested customers through a sales page. But of course, with such a strong competition and lack of knowledge on how to effectively sell these digital products, a lot of internet marketers tend to lose the will and the resources to continue selling as they encounter problems and issues regarding the products they sell, the links being used, and the like. For this article, the issue whether sales page opt ins are a factor of decreasing commissions will be discussed to provide insight and understanding as to how this internet marketing tool works and how one can actually benefit from it.
As we all know, the role of the affiliate is to sell the product through a sales page to customers online. The sales page would normally contain the content introducing the product, the link that will lead them back to the main website where they can purchase the product, and of course an opt-in list for the customer to receive mails and updates with regards to the product. These opt ins are usually paired with freebies and bonuses that the customer can avail of, so by entering their email addresses in the opt in box they are not only signing up for the bonuses and email updates but crediting your page for commission. But the issue raised here is whether or not the affiliate still has a role in the business if the customer simply opts in without actually purchasing the product. Will that decrease one’s chances of earning commission?
The truth is affiliate marketing systems as well as Clickbank websites track the referrals of their affiliates through cookies and the IP address used, in which the former would normally be saved into the computer not less than 60 days at the most. So most likely if the customer decides to opt in to the mailing list of the vendor, the ID of the affiliate will be identified and the sales will be credited to his or her account. Though there is no assurance that the customer will buy the product, the fact that he or she found his or her way to the mailing list through the affiliate’s sales page will already indicate that the commission will still go to him or her and that he or she will still be paid months from now.
But of course, there are certain possibilities that you as the Internet marketer would lose commissions if there are opt ins on the sales page. Supposing the customer decides to opt in into the mailing list but decides to check out the product a little later. If he or she erases all cookies in the PC or decides to use a different browser to buy the product, then most likely the commissions won’t go to you.
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Affiliate Marketing Tips Part 2: Your Must-Know Guide To Making Money With Your Websites Or Blogs. 22 Jan 2009 8:57 AM (16 years ago)
Just as I promised, today we are going to be looking at ways to do proper keyword research which will enable us to find profitable niche market where we can make a killing. a niche can be define as a group of people looking for a particular information but are unable to find a solution to their problems, these is where the marketer makes a killing by providing the solution to their needs either through promoting affiliate products or creating a digital product to solve their problem. These are ways a marketer takes advantage and make lot of money from the internet affiliate marketing industry.
On our last post we talk about finding profitable markets through online market place such as Clickbank, commission junction, the 2nd tier etc. which reveal to us some certain products that are widely accepted in the market, finding such products is a stepping stone which will lead us into doing keyword research on such products or industry you find that is profitable.
here is how you research a niche, using any of the following free keyword research tools to research and settle for your money making site: Google Adwords keyword tools, wordtracker free keyword tool, wordpot.com, nichebotclassic.com. Let’s say you decided to settle for the chocolate industry and you want to find a profitable niche in that industry, into Google Adwords keyword tool for instance, type in the word chocolate, it will show many related keywords to chocolate, including the numbers of searches done on each of them and how many people are bidding on them.
Remember the higher the number of searches done on any of them, the greater the competition will be on Google. To check the possible level of competition , take the keyword of your interest to Google search engine and see the number of websites that comes up for the keyword. Check the first five to ten sites to see their page ranking and how sophisticated they are.
If they are not so many [not in millions], not so sophisticated, and not so high in page ranking [not above 5], then it means competition is not stiff and you can settle for the keyword. Otherwise you have to dig further.
Take the keyword back into Google keyword tool and see the new related keywords to it that come up. From these, you can choose any as ling as it shows a good number of searches made on it. to confirm how competitive it is, again go to Google search engines and see the number of websites that come up, the sophistication and page ranking of the first five to ten sites.
The information you get from such kinds of keyword research is profound and worth thousands of dollars online [actually what the gurus don’t want you to know]. This process is extremely needed to be done first if you will ever be able to make real money online.
Its time to take action, practice what you've just discovered. It’s a fallacy to think that keyword research is complex, it’s not and it all boils down to targeting a niche market then drill it down to find a keyword that has lot of searches but little competition on Google. Keep your fingers cross am going to reveal ways your can make truck load of money with the research techniques outline, I will keep you posted don’t forget to leave a comment or questions you may have.
Affiliate Marketing Tips: Your Must-Know Guide To Making Money With Your Websites Or Blogs. 6 Jan 2009 4:25 AM (16 years ago)
It is obvious that a great number of people worldwide, especially beginners to the internet don’t ever make money with their sites and the reason is simple: picking topics that nobody is interested in.
At the beginning of our internet journey, we are excited about the fact that the internet provides us the opportunity to do so many things, including writing or blogging about different topics and be able to make money. Even to the extent of choosing any topic to address our websites on, but that is not true of the way the money makers are making their money online – not all topics make money online!
The fact is that however way you will want to monetize your site, people have to visit it before you will be able to make money from their visit. And for them to come it means there is something about your site that they are interested in, something valuable, which has to do with the topic your site is addressing.
Therefore, to be on the right way to make money online, you will need to ask yourself this question before registering a domain or promote a product:
What topics are profitable?
yes, that’s an important question you have to first find an answer to before committing yourself into months of serious work building your site only to discover nobody really cares about visiting it, let alone spending any money there. It can really be painful, and many newbies and intermediates to the internet usually fall into this pit.
To avoid such pains, and put yourself in the path of making money with your site, you have to carry out a little research to find out which topics can make money online and which ones to run away from.
One great way to do such research is to visit some online market places, like Clickbank marketplace, paydotcom, commission junction, the 2nd tier etc. these are websites where companies register their products for affiliates to promote.
You will find some statistics revealing how the products are being accepted in the market place. For instance data showing percentage commission payable to affiliates, degree of affiliates promoting a given product, percentage or ratio of returns, and average monthly sales can give you a strong insight into how lucrative an industry could be and such research is worth thousands online, I will keep you posted watch out for the remaining tips about how to do proper keyword research to uncover niche markets.
3 Easy Steps in Getting Started in Affiliate Marketing 6 Oct 2008 6:57 AM (16 years ago)
By Emmanuel Ajesin
Affiliate marketing is said to be the agreement between an online business and an affiliate, in which the affiliate gets a payment for making sales, guides and clicks to the merchants' website.
Affiliate marketing functions out conditions, which is beneficial to both the merchant and the affiliate. The merchant gets chances to promote his products without charge to a bigger market, which will improve the sales of his business.
The more reliable affiliates he find, the more sales he can anticipate to come. By looking for affiliates to promote his products and services, he is already reducing his time, attempts and money in searching for potential markets and clients.
As a customer clicks on the link in the affiliate site and buys the product, he or she suggests it to other customers who are on the course of searching for the similar item or purchases it again, this way the merchants influences his opportunity of profiting. Then again, the affiliate marketer gains from every client who clicks on the link in his site and who eventually buys the product or gets the service offered by the merchant.
Normally, the affiliates acquire payments per sale made, which can be settled on a percentage or definite amount. The nice thing is that it's free to join an affiliate program.
If you are thinking of becoming an affiliate marketer and make a living online, you can follow the three most essential steps to begin your efficient affiliate marketing campaign.
The first thing you should do is to recognize a specific area you are interested with or passionate about so you will not be jaded and required to improve your affiliate site afterwards. Focus on a particular area you are familiar with, this will help you show your finest efforts and expertise. There are different places you can research on, so feel free to select a particular area you can learn more.
The second thing is to search for a well compensating Affiliate program and high quality products. Create a list of well compensating and high quality affiliate programs for your selected area and make a site. In selecting a product, you should think of the assistance that they are willing to give you. This includes the promotional materials such as articles, links, banner advertisements, classified ads and so on.
The third step is of course learning how to get the proper linking programs in your websites program. Also, develop your own strategies and methods to market the products and services.
There are many affiliate groups and affiliate result providers that can offer you information on the most money making products and well compensating affiliate program available. Therefore, be clever enough to select the accurate affiliate program fit for you.
Once you are sure about which products to market and the business to support and have made your own site with an area name and dependable hosting provider, you are prepared to do the promotion. This is the hardest part, since by mean of this you should be capable of enhancing traffic to the merchant website, sales and certainly, earnings.
In affiliate marketing, it is possible to make huge amount of money in the least period of time if you utilize the accurate techniques and ways.
Promoting a product would mean a different topic. You should be consistent in informing yourself by reading books, course or important articles on the internet about the effective and proven promoting strategies.
Keep in mind, there is no fast way to success. Affiliate marketing may appear very appealing because of the number of encouraging statements of both the business and affiliate marketers who have gained from it. However, it still includes an excellent part of an effort and determination. You are also required to be resourceful and elastic.
There are affiliate marketers that do not realized this, so when they do not get sales, they give up, search for other affiliate programs and keep on doing the same mistakes. Then after a while, you will hear them saying affiliate marketing is only one of the rip offs existing online. You can surely taste the excellence of success if you use the proper techniques in affiliate marketing. You can earn more money as an affiliate marketer if you are determined to do the right thing that's needed to work.
Above all, keep your intelligence and stay wise as you get started with affiliate marketing. Follow the three steps and it will surely lead you to the success you are longing for.
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SureFire Tactics To Build A Successful Affiliate Website 3 Sep 2008 8:10 AM (16 years ago)
By Ajesin Emmanuel
Affiliate marketing is the easiest way to make money online but you most be equipped with the right information and tools to go about it, which am here to share with you right about now.
Tactics #1: Start by Finding a Niche Market
Do NOT get started by choosing the affiliate program you want to join!
Most people who start affiliate sites make the mistake of picking the products they want to promote first, because:
* They look fun to sell
* They think people will want them
* They offer the highest commissions
* They assume the products must be profitable, because so many other people are promoting them.
Trust me, you won't be doing yourself any favors.
You'll end up working Hard to drive qualified traffic to the site, and failing miserably (and you'll likely drop a hefty chunk of change on pay-per-click ads in the process)!
First and Foremost do your niche market research first...
* What are your interests?
* What kinds of problems are people going online to search for, within your areas of interest?
* Which of these problems seem to be neglected by most of the sites out there?
Identify a group of people who are desperately trying to find something online without success -- and then offer them that something. They’ll be glad!
Tactics #2: Make Sure Your Products Are Relevant and Related
Otherwise, you'll struggle to find qualified traffic for your site, and you'll have a heck of a time writing copy that directly relates to your visitors' needs.
But worse, you'll also risk hurting your credibility.
That's because, rather than look like someone who has the interests of your visitors in mind, and really wants to help; you'll look like someone who is out to sell anything to make some bucks!
Tactics #3: Build a Strong Opt-In List, and then Establish Long Lasting Relationships with Your Subscribers
When you're an affiliate marketer, email plays a BIG role in your on going promotion efforts.To use this tactics an Autoresponder is needed, I use http://www.getresponse.com I recommend it, its great.
The more you PROVE to your opt-in list that you're a reliable source of useful information... the more you can train your subscribers to look forward to hearing from you... the more successful you'll be!
Tactics #4: Personally Recommend Your Products for Maximum Conversions
You'd likely go with the recommendation, right?
And most people would...
Which is why plunking down a bunch of affiliate banners or links in a website, and then hoping that someone -- anyone -- will decide to click on them, is NOT going to make sales.
Remember, you've been building relationships with your customers through email marketing... they trust you... they view you as an expert... so now they're open to your opinion.
Take advantage of that to TELL them about the products they should consider purchasing... and why they should own them.
They'll actually appreciate the recommendations, and as a result, your conversion rates will soar!
While affiliate marketing isn't the "magic bullet" that will let you enjoy instant success online, it IS possible to earn substantial profits promoting other peoples' products...
... If you do this:
Start by clearly defining your market, and then build an information-rich website that your audience will WANT to visit. Be sure ONLY to include products that are relevant, and take advantage of your site to build your credibility and establish yourself as an expert.
At the same time, be sure to build a large list of qualified subscribers, and take advantage of email marketing to both build lasting relationships, and promote your products.
With the right planning and research -- and a reasonable amount of effort -- you'll be well on your way to a successful website recommending affiliate products.
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Affiliate Marketing - How to Pick a Winning Product to Promote 21 Jun 2008 8:40 AM (16 years ago)
By John Oszajca
If you are going to be a successful affiliate marketer you are going to need to become an authority on your niche. Subscribers are after value, and how valuable are you if you know less than they do? Not to mention that passion for a topic speaks volumes. This means that you should pick a niche that you have a personal affinity for, and ideally you should start with a niche with which you already have some level of experience.
That being said, you should also be sure that there is a demand for your niche. You might love pumpernickel ice cream, you might have the best recipes for pumpernickel ice cream on the planet, but if no one is searching for pumpernickel ice cream, you will have no potential traffic and no potential income. It will be the equivalent of opening a retail store in the middle of the Sahara desert.
As for which PRODUCTS to promote, you have two basic choices; your own or someone else's. Creating your own product is somewhat self explanatory. The amount of work is greater but so to can be the reward. If you choose to sell someone else's product as an affiliate than you have an infinite number of options. If you are just starting out than I recommend you look within the Clickbank network, the worlds largest affiliate network of digital goods. Whatever you choose to promote, be sure that it is a quality product, with a good sales page, and a good conversion rate, and most importantly, that the niche is large enough that you will have many other quality products to promote to your list down the line.
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Affiliate Marketing For Beginners - Easy Steps For Newbie 21 Jun 2008 8:33 AM (16 years ago)
By Hardi Raweet
Many beginners in online confuse and get lost when they do the business. This is make sense because there are thousands of e-books and products online at the merchants' sites that give promise of immediate success.
Maybe you have bought many e-books about the online strategies to support your business, but no money rolling in to your pocket. Finally, you are now starting to frustrate and you then have conclusion that all the affiliate marketing for beginners tips did not working.
I said to you that affiliate marketing for beginners tips posted at all websites is working. Because there are thousand of people making full time big income working from their personal computer at home. This is nice to hear, but very hard to do. In order to do that, in this article let me share with you about the tips for beginners.
Easy Steps on the Subject of Affiliate Marketing for Beginners
Open your mind and have a big dream that internet can give you residual income. This is the most important foundation to all newbie start online .
Search the tips and learning resources at the best online learning centre. This will guide you at the correct path.
Follow the learning material until you fully understand the subject. Be active to participate in forums that talk about internet. There are a number of forums out there with people who have succeeded online who will be very happy to help you out. Catch all input from senior about the tips
Be discipline to yourself if you would like to succeed at the learning process of affiliate marketing for beginners.
Have the time frame and target when you will get the financial freedom.The five steps or requirements above mostly about yourself - your inner courage to become a success online marketer. "Nothing to high for you to reach, but you must climb with care and confidence"
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Five Tips to Being an Affiliate Marketing Success 21 Jun 2008 8:20 AM (16 years ago)
By Steve Tallamy
More often than not someone who is new to affiliate marketing thinks that by signing up to an affiliate program, grabbing a whole load of pretty banners and sending out some emails will guarantee their success.
Of course this just will not work, there is more than that to being a successful affiliate marketer otherwise we would all be lazing on a sun kissed beach enjoying the good life.
There are more ways of being a success at affiliate marketing than I will be mentioning here but by following these five tips you will be heading in the right direction.
Tip one is to find the right program. I know it seems obvious but I have been lured to web sites by a promise of one thing and when I have got there I am offered something completely unrelated, and what do I do? I click away from the site and go somewhere else. So make sure that the affiliate programs you are promoting are related to your web site and the rest of your advertising and promotions.
Tip two is to over deliver by which I mean do not be like every other affiliate, stand out from the crowd and offer something special to your visitors. Give them a free gift or a trial offer to entice them to signing up for your list rather than someone other affiliate marketer. Do some research and check out other affiliates web sites and see how they are promoting the same or similar affiliate products or services and go at least one step further than them.
Tip three can take a bit of time and effort on your part but if you really want to be a successful affiliate marketer then that should be no hardship to you and you will reap the rewards of success later. Create and affiliate newsletter or blog, even better do both. There is no point in getting people to sign up for your list and then ignoring them, believe me they will forget you quicker than you think.
Keep in communication with your affiliate audience; they are your lifeline to being a successful affiliate marketer. By having a newsletter or blog you can still give them bits of information to keep them aware of who you are and how you can help them even at times when you have nothing new to sell to them.
Tip four again may seem obvious but many affiliate marketers forget or cannot be bothered to do it. Research, research and more research is the key to staying a successful affiliate marketer. Keep checking for new and better products and services to become an affiliate of, keep checking on what other affiliates are up to and keep checking for untapped niche markets that are related to what you are already promoting.
Stay ahead of your competition, do not be the last to jump onto the latest new hot thing.
Tip five is simple, keep doing tips one, two, three and four and you will become and stay a successful affiliate marketer. Us e these tips as the foundation stone to your affiliate business and you will be amazed at the rewards.
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"AFFILIATE MARKETING" NEWBIE CASH MACHINE 13 Jun 2008 10:55 AM (16 years ago)
"Affiliate Marketing for Beginners" should be a mandatory class that is taught to everyone before they jump into the Internet marketing game with their eyes wide shut. Today, there are easily more than a million individuals trying their hand at affiliate marketing.
Affiliate marketing can best by described as selling products or services for a company over the Internet. The company pays you a commission for every sale you make for them. There are thousands of companies that have affiliate programs that you can join for free.
Pursue Your Passion
Most affiliate programs do not have a section that covers affiliate marketing for beginners. It will be up to you to learn how to do this through other resources of your own device. Before you decide to affiliate with a company marketing anything at all, find an affiliate program to join that markets products or services that you can get passionate about. Also, it helps to sell to a niche market. Finding your audience first before looking for the product is a great approach. The market means everything.
One of the keys for successful affiliate marketing for beginners is to find products to sell to a niche audience. This is to distill a general theme. As an example, there is an over-saturated market for people wanting to lose weight. This would not be a great idea to affiliate with a company selling general weight loss products because you would be competing against many thousands of other affiliate marketers for this same market. If you distilled this down to men that wanted to lose love handles, then this might be a niche market opportunity to look into.
After doing some research, you have found that there is an affiliate program you can join marketing an ebook for men called "How to Lose Those Love Handles in 2 Weeks". This is a perfect niche market just waiting for someone. Before you jump on this, find out first if you have a big enough audience to market.
Find Your Profitable Niche
Affiliate marketing for beginners is about starting off on the right foot. Finding the right niche market for you that you can become passionate about marketing. Create a website around your general theme, then go out and find affiliate programs that will be perfect for blending into your site's theme.
If you choose a market that is over saturated or start trying to market a product you don't really believe in, you will only be wasting a lot of your valuable time. Within a few short months or sooner, you will give it up and quit. Trying to work a highly competitive market will probably not generate the traffic you need to realize a good income. Marketing something you don't believe in will eventually take it's toll and not be emotionally rewarding.
Generating Specific and Targeted Traffic
One of the toughest rules that all affiliate marketing for beginners needs to do is create a clear plan of attack for generating a lot of traffic to their websites. But this can't be accomplished until you know enough about the different affiliate marketing techniques that are available for you to use. Also, depending on budget constraints, you might find yourself limited to certain methods to generate traffic to your site until you have some sales coming in.
Once you are aware of the methods and tools you can use to generate target traffic, then it's time to start looking around at what all of your competition is doing. What are affiliate marketers doing successfully? What methods are they using to get good traffic? You can easily use the search engines to type in keywords and see who your competition will be.
In the beginning, affiliate marketing for beginners is about learning the ropes, brainstorming and being creative with your marketing strategies. Many of the techniques you will be using to generate traffic have been done before, but this does not mean you can't find your own creative approaches to generate streams of traffic for yourself. It's important to write your ideas down so you don't forget about them later on when you get sidetracked.
Join a Forum Related To Your Niche
available in marketing forums and at social sites. There are many successful affiliate veterans that are members of these groups and love to give tips about affiliate marketing for beginners. Most of the successful affiliates are more than happy to lend a helping hand and dole out sagely advice. These marketing forums are invaluable for making friends and contacts that will help bring beginner affiliates up to speed in no time.
WHAT IS AFFILIATE MARKETING? 13 Jun 2008 10:33 AM (16 years ago)
Most people are aware of online marketing, but what is affiliate marketing? Essentially, it is an Internet marketing practice where a business rewards an affiliate for sending customers to the company's website to make a purchase. The affiliate is given a commission for each sale made.
Today, there are more affiliate marketers doing business online then any other type of marketing. This practice takes a load off the businesses when other independent contractors can do the marketing of their products for them. It is a win-win situation for the affiliate and for the business.
Q. What is affiliate marketing, in terms of a program?
A. There are several different affiliate programs that businesses will use, depending on the type of products or services that they might offer the public. Some of the compensation plans that are offered within affiliate programs are straight commission for each sale made. This type of affiliate program is most popularly used. Other affiliate programs will offer commission structures for sales and bonus commissions for customer referrals to the company's sites. Multi-level businesses will offer compensation plans that are much more detailed in nature. MLM compensation plans should be looked over carefully.
Q. What are the affiliate marketing commission plans for referrals?
A. Often times, certain businesses will offer affiliate programs that pay for referring target traffic to their websites. They are looking for qualified customers to sell high-end products or services. Some of these companies would be, but are not limited to, Insurance companies, Brokerage companies, the auto industry, the airplane industry, travel resorts, mobile home companies, etc. Affiliate referral programs can be extremely lucrative. As a rule, these types of programs are not available for just anyone to affiliate with. Quite often, these companies want experienced affiliate marketers that have a previous background in their industries.
Q. What is affiliate marketing doing in the multi-level marketing business?
A. There are many MLM companies doing business online that offer affiliate marketing programs that are open for almost anyone to join. Remember, affiliate marketing is to affiliate with a company and sell their products for a commission. This is exactly what many independent distributors do with multi-level businesses. The network marketer usually falls under the term "affiliate marketer", also.
In many cases, they do not own any of the product lines that they sell to others. The network marketer is an affiliate marketer that makes most of his or her income by recruiting other independent distributors into their downline operations.
Q. In terms of Internet marketing techniques, what is affiliate marketing using to create sales?
A. Sales are the end result where the affiliate makes commissions. Before that goal is realized, affiliates must generate a lot of target traffic to either their own promotional website or to the company's promotional page. Generating traffic is where Internet marketing methods get a work out.
Many affiliate marketers will use a variety of marketing techniques to generate streams of quality traffic to the promo site. Article marketing, Pay-per-click programs, forum marketing and social site marketing at places like MySpace and Facebook. There is no single method that successful affiliate marketers will use to get traffic.
Q. What are the affiliate marketing budget constraints on a new affiliate who has never marketed before?
A. The beautiful thing about affiliate marketing is that you can actually join an affiliate program with a company for free. You can even begin generating traffic to the company's promo site for free by using article marketing techniques and other "bum" marketing methods.
These free methods of generating traffic are easy enough to learn how to do, but they do require a lot of dedication and work. You are basically learning about affiliate marketing as you go. There are many free resources online about affiliate marketing. Many individuals start marketing part-time until they begin making some hard cash.
Q. What is affiliate marketing url coding all about?
A. As an example, you join a company's affiliate program to sell their ebook called "How To Date Beautiful Women in 10 Days". You read this ebook and found that it worked for you. So now you are very motivated to make a lot of sales.
After you have read the company's training manual "What Is Affiliate Marketing Really All About?", they give you a unique piece of code that is part of the company's promo page's url. Every time that someone clicks on this linking code and arrives at the promo site to buy the ebook, you get a commission from the company. They track your hits with this coded url. The code is specific to you.
This should cover a few important points and help to answer your question: "what is affiliate marketing?". It can be a very competitive but lucrative business to get into. The successful affiliates are the ones that create a business plan of attack, then stay on course.
Selling affiliate products is a great way to make a ton of money! A lot of internet marketers do nothing but sell affiliate products, and get rich doing it. You can to. It's not all that hard. It just takes a willingness to learn the ropes and experiment.
Affiliate marketing is basically commission based selling. You create a website, drive traffic to it, and when someone clicks through it to an affiliate merchant's site and actually buys something, you get paid!
What a deal!
Where do you find affiliate products?
From affiliate networks like Commission Junction, Kolimbo, Hydranet, Clickbank and others. There are literally hundreds of these out there.
My main goal with affiliate marketing is to create what I call online, automated money machines. I do this buy building websites, using what I know about internet marketing to build up traffic, and then monetizing the site with affiliate products.
It takes some work to get this going, but the beauty of the system is once you do, you can just forget these sites and they just keep churning out money month after month-with virtually no upkeep.
In order to understand this more, let's talk about how to use your website to sell.
Why would someone come to your site and click through it to an affiliate merchant's page and buy something? Well, you might just be at the right place at the right time, and just get lucky. But we're not going to depend on that. What you really want the content on your site to do is to be of real value to your visitor in their buying decision.
Let's say you have a niche website about organic dog foods. In addition to having page after page of product descriptions, you would want to have more in depth discussions of the various dog foods offered--their pros and cons. This way you help your visitor make sense out of a potentially confusing marketplace. You become a trusted ally, instead of just a funnel to the merchant's site.
This is called pre-selling, and this is what a lot of content on the Internet is all about.
Your pre-selling does two things. One, it gets your visitors to get comfortable enough with you to follow your recommendations-i. e. buy your affiliate products. Two, it creates content that attracts Google searches.
This type of content, the kind that ranks well for Google searches is what search engine optimization (SEO, for short) is all about. Create enough pages of this stuff and you have a built in source of traffic for life!