4. Where you can start

Affiliate Marketing

In case you’ve never heard of affiliate marketing or have little experience with it, here you have some of its basic characteristics:

1) It is a way to make online marketing where a vendor offers you a commission every time you get someone to buy one of their products through a campaign that you’ve done.

 

2) Usually you do not need to spend absolutely nothing in the process of affiliation, nor buy, store, distribute, etc., any product on your own

 

3) The products that you can join to create a campaign are as diverse as commercial companies are

 

4) You can join any number and type of products on which you want to build a campaign

 

5) In general, commissions generated each time a vendor sells some of their products through one of your campaigns are paid relatively quick and easy on a weekly, biweekly or monthly basis.

For affiliate marketing be a successful business there are a number of skills that you must consider.

After getting a key by the seller to identify all those buyers who have found their product through your campaign, which you can easily do on sites like Clickbank, you must have your own site whereby a buyer can be directed toward the product to which you are affiliated. This means you have to have a strategy by which a person feels attracted to your site first and there generate sufficient interest in the product to eventually buy it and you generate a commission after the sale.

Arguably, this is the art of affiliate marketing, which is to attract, motivate and convince a potential buyer

To Attract.- There are several ways to attract but perhaps one of the most important is placing you in the eyes of potential buyers when they make their search through search engines like Google. This among other things you achieve by making a search engine optimization (SEO) where your keywords are the ones you put in the best place in the listings.

 

To Motivate.- This is achieved by a careful account of the specific product you promote, where you make relevant to the potential buyer why the product in question is needed for them, what they would lose if they do not have it and how much they could win if they get it. To do this you generally need a website where you can lure them after a little more quiet, let them explore the issue more in depth, where you have all this information.

To convince.- Once you’ve managed to capture the attention of the prospective buyer, you must meet the key points of your presentation in order to move these buttons on their mind that make them decide to buy. You also must learn how to lead the way through the right links for potential buyers get the right place where they finally materialize the purchase

 

It may seem overwhelming to have to contend with concepts such as search engine optimization, keywords, websites, links, etc., and search each of these concepts on the Internet and learn how to do it without proper guidance can be terribly cumbersome and annoying. However there are several tools that have been organized in planned strategies to be learned and used step by step according to the degree of knowledge of everyone, whether beginner or advanced in the affiliate marketing business.
By far the best place to learn everything about affiliate marketing is Wealthy Affiliate University, a site in which you have:

Forums where you can expose your doubts and many other traders like you and experts in the field will give an opinion that will help answer your questions

Training Center at your disposal to learn on each and every one of the concepts you need to develop your business

Tools to carry out tasks that otherwise would involve to buy countless software programs out there.

 

Education. – You will have access to continuing and updated education and with the experts in the field that will give you the skills needed to get your business up

Hosting. – You can learn how to create a website, host it and manage it for free while you are a member of Wealthy Affiliate University

Affiliate marketing is a great opportunity to develop a supplemental income to that you have now from your current job, or even make your main great income, exceeding by far any you can get on a regular job, based on the effort you put on it, because the commissions that offers a vendor on sites like Clickbank generally range between 50 and 75% of the purchase price, in addition you can start this business with no investment at all and stay that way unless you decide to explore strategies to multiply the income you will make at the beginning. The best time to do this is now and the best site you can find to it is Wealthy Affiliate University.

6 thoughts on “4. Where you can start”

  1. Hey great post again affiliate marketing is a great way to earn a good stream of income. Affiliate marketing is not your get rich scheme because it takes work and dedication. Also another thing that I wanted to add is that it is probably the cheaper way of starting a business than most business out there that have high stat up cost.

    1. You are right, you can start an online business based on affiliate marketing without even spend a dime just by organic traffic!

  2. Affiliate marketing is an attractive business opportunity for many individuals for a number of reasons. Startup costs are cheap, there’s no need to hold inventory, and you don’t need to develop your own products – you simply promote the products and services of others. And there are so many opportunities out there to sell all types of different products in any niche imaginable.

  3. I’ve been looking to make some money off my hobby – fishing, for quite some time now. A good freind of mine actually mentioned affiliate marketing as an option…although I don’t know anything about blogging!
    Is clickbank easy to sign up for – I mean, do you need past experience before they take you on?

    1. I think the most important thing to blog about any niche is knowing well about the topic and have enough passion in communicating your ideas, the technical stuff can be thought in many places from scratch. Now Affiliate Marketing is just one way to monetize your niche, there are several more and profitable ways. Clickbank isan excellent option to look at but if you allow me the advice, the best place to start is Wealthy Affiliate because is the most comprehensive community where you can find from the very basic training as a newbie to the most advanced tools at your disposal to grow your own business, even if you don’t know anyting about online marketing, blogging, affiliate marketing, etc.

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