Ideas On Affiliate Marketing Business Basics

How To Start Affiliate Marketing

The number of sites with whom you can begin is a large number. I am personally involved with several programs to one degree or another and they are all profitable if you promote them correctly. They range from the household names like Amazon all the way down to your local flower shop who might offer a discount on future sales for referring customers to them.

You need to structure your Internet site such that you can profit from them all over time.

How Does Affiliate Marketing Work?

You refer folks to your unique affiliate link. When folks decide to buy through your link, the company sees it and pays you a commission ranging anywhere from 4% to 100%.

It is fairly straightforward, although the successful execution does have some amount of artistry to it:

Decide whose affiliate programs you want to sign up with

Decide how you are going to promote that program

Create unique content that is relevant to that method or channel

Drive traffic or customers to that content, which is to say let folks know about that content

Decide What Affiliate Programs You Want To Join

In order to determine what Internet affiliate marketing program you want to start your affiliate business with you have to know what your goals are. Making money is so undefined that I am afraid it will not motivate you to get up and walk away from the boob tube after you get home from a hard day at the place you trade your life an hour at a time for an hourly wage.

You need written goals to motivate you

For instance, if you just want to get paid a couple of extra bucks occasionally, you really don’t have to spend a lot of prep time. If you want a serious affiliate marketing business that will cover your car payment this month, your car payment and utilities next month, and these plus your rent or mortgage in 3 to 6 months, you are going to need to invest a little more thinking and planning.

I want to strongly encourage you to consider regularly promoting subscription affiliate products, too. Why?

Subscription affiliate products pay you every month. In addition to getting paid for what you produced this month, you will get paid… again… for what you produced last month.

I hope this is starting to set some bells off in your mind because if you get with and promote the correct, high quality subscription affiliate product or service you can be looking at a lifestyle change.

Decide How You Are Going to Promote

There is a ton of ways to market your affiliate link. They include:

Blogging about the services and products on your blog

Talking about it on other blogs or including it in your signature when you post on other blogs

Creating unique articles for posting on the article directories

Making videos about what you are promoting

…and this is just the tip of the iceberg on ways to promote your content.

Create Content Relevant to the Channel

Blog posts, especially those you post on your own blog, have a lot more leeway in the content you create and post. For instance, what you post on your own blog is really only subject to approval by you while that which you post on the article sites has an entirely different set of rules. Don’t get frustrated when they refuse what you wanted to post, just go edit it and follow their rules and you will get posted.

Likewise, you don’t create a blog post and post it to YouTube. You create a video of yourself discussing or instructing on the benefits of visiting your link. (Although that line is getting blurred by software that will create a video from your blog text and read it to your viewers like the lead in to the original Star Wars movies.)

Drive Traffic to that Content

Remember, the goal of articles and videos is to get people to view your original content on the products and services which you are promoting. Many, if not most, article services do not allow you to post links directly to your affiliate link. Some will let you slip by, but it is just frustrating your efforts when you have to edit an article so that it gets posted. Even in the affiliate marketing business time is money.

For an exceptionally effective primer on starting an affiliate internet marketing business and reaching profitability within 30 days, go here and watch this free instructional video.

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