L
ooking to make an income
online? Got a computer /
laptop and an Internet con-
nection? Then Affiliate Marketing
could be the simplest and quickest
path to fulfilling your dream.
Here, you’ll discover the 6 simple
steps that will take you from complete
beginner to Affiliate Marketer in as little as
48 hours.
WHATIS AFFILIATE
MARKETING?
Affiliate marketing is a performance-
based marketing system where a product
vendor pays an “affiliate” a commission
when someone buys their product. That
“someone” having been referred to the
vendor by the “affiliate.”
And it all happens online: You have a
web presence, usually a website, that you
attract like-minded visitors to, where you
“warm them up” to the idea that the prod-
uct you’re promoting (as an affiliate) is the
perfect answer to their pressing problem or
need.
That “product” could be physical
(books, CDs, DVDs, clothing, jewellery,
natural medicines, etc.) or digital (e-books,
e-reports, software, online courses / train-
ings, etc.).
When your visitor clicks on your affil-
iate link (on your site) they are redirected
to the vendor’s site, where the vendor will
close the sale; a lot easier after you’ve
warmed them up! When your site visitor
buys the vendor’s product you get paid a
commission.
For example, if the product cost $100
and you get, say, 50% commission, you’ll
get paid $50! And all for, basically, intro-
ducing someone with a pressing problem
or need to someone who can fix that prob-
lem.
Affiliate marketing is ideal for begin-
ners starting out online as it has a very low
barrier to entry: it’s a very simple process
that doesn’t need any particular technical
skills, you don’t have to have your own
product, and it doesn’t cost the earth to get
started. In fact, you can get going for less
than $20!
And, you don’t have to do selling, or
fulfilment, or keep stock, or deal with pay-
ment systems, and you don’t have to deal
with customers; the vendor does that.
All YOU need is an Internet connec-
tion and a computer / laptop and you’re
good to go.AFFILIATE NETWORKS
Because affiliate marketing is so prof-
itable for both affiliate and vendor, over
the years many “affiliate networks” have
sprung up to help both affiliates and ven-dors manage their affairs much more effi-
ciently and easily.
Vendors can attract affiliates by adver-
tising their products on these networks and
affiliates can easily find products to pro-
mote. Once an affiliate decides to promote
a certain product the network assigns an
affiliate link / ID so that sales of that prod-
uct can be linked back to the affiliate.
The affiliate network also takes on
responsibility for managing the flow of
money between vendor and affiliate either
by electronic transfer or cheque. It also
charges a small fee to both vendor and
affiliate for the service.
There are many affiliate networks to
choose from, but a beginner to affiliate
marketing can easily get started with
“ClickBank” and / or “Amazon.”GETTINGSTARTEDWITH
AFFILIATE MARKETING- Choose Your Niche and Product.
The first step is to decide which niche
you wish to operate in. A “niche” is a
group of people with very similar interests,
e.g. gout sufferers, broken relationships,
looking for car insurance, how to make
money online, etc. But, of course, it also
has to have proven “buyers” in it in order
to make money.
So how do you find a profitable niche
with lots of profitable products you can
promote?
A very quick way to do this is to search
affiliate networks for niches that have sev-
eral products that their stats tell you are
selling well. If there are lots of products
that are selling well, you now know that
the niche is a profitable one, and, the buy-How Affiliate
Marketing Works
A Step By Step Guide
For Beginners
by John Salter42 • Australian Opportunities Magazine • M/J/J 2017 • http://www.workfromhomemagazine.com.au
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