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What is affiliate marketing?


Affiliate marketing is the process of promoting the products or services of another person or company in exchange for a commission on the resulting sale. Affiliate marketers join affiliate programs, find trustworthy affiliate products or services to promote, and share them with their audiences.


This is not a new concept. It’s essentially, getting a commission on a sale. Affiliate marketing is a quick way to offer products and services without having to create your own.


An affiliate, also known as the publisher, can be a single individual or a company.

So, what are the 4 Steps to get Started in Affiliate Marketing?


First, let’s cover a few of the technical aspects that run in the background with the merchant’s affiliate program software.


When an affiliate joins the merchant’s program, s/he is given a unique ID and a specific URL to use to promote the product. The affiliate then includes this link in blog posts or other marketing efforts and invites readers to click it for more information.


When someone clicks the link to visit the affiliate partner’s site, a cookie identifying the affiliate is placed on their computer. This cookie confirms the publisher is credited with the referral sale even if it happens days or weeks later.


Whenever a buyer completes the sale process, the merchant checks the sales record for a cookie identifying the source of the referral. If the merchant finds a cookie with an affiliate ID, the affiliate is credited with the sale.


The merchant makes reports available so that the affiliates can see their referrals (clicks) and sales. Then, at the end of each payment period the merchant pays the affiliate commission (i.e. revenue sharing).


This flow works the same for any kind of product you’re promoting and for any affiliate marketer.


Now, the 4 Steps to get Started in Affiliate Marketing.

The number one thing to remember is that you’re getting paid a commission in exchange for offering readers information on products / services they’re already thinking about buying.


By using your blog and the Internet in a systematic process, you are providing valuable advice to thousands of people to help them make a smarter decision.


Following are four steps to help you get started:


Step 1. Choose a Product to Promote as an Affiliate

As a principled blogger you will always face two constraints
when choosing products you want to promote:


a) You’re either limited to products you’ve used and like that have an affiliate program and are a good fit for your audience, or


b) You’re limited to products you can get access to for evaluation by buying them or getting a free sample or free trial.


Of these two options the first one is the most common way to get started with affiliate offers.


Option #1: Promote Products You already Use and Love


You become an affiliate for a product or service you’ve used and tested and feel good about recommending. It could be a course or an ebook or something else.


Make a list of courses, products, and services you have experience with and choose the one you would be excited to promote. Cross off any that are not a good fit.


Then, check to see if the merchant has an affiliate program. Some will not, although many do.


You can do an online search using a search engine such as Google for:


“affiliate program” + [product name], (i.e. “affiliate program” + Pinterest Marketing Course, or other product)


or email the merchant and ask.


Use a check list for your other products that includes the following:


>> You’ve previewed the product so you know its quality.
>> They have a solid refund policy that you trust they’ll honor.
>> They provide good customer support (and you’ve tested it).
>> You have a good story to share about your experience with the product.
>> The offer fits your audience’s needs and won’t abuse the trust you’ve built with them.


The affiliate products that meet all these requirements are your best income opportunities. You can add as many of these products as you like in the future.


Now, you’ve found your first product! Apply using the merchant’s process and start promoting.


This option may be enough to get you started if you’re new to affiliate marketing channels.


However, as a blogger you’ll also want to try option #2.


If you don’t already have a product that you love and is a good fit for your audience and that offers an affiliate program, you’ll have to explore this second option.


Option #2: Find Products through an Affiliate Network


This option requires investing time into research and money into buying products to try, even more than the first option. So, be very careful.


That’s because you have no prior knowledge so there’s less trust. Do your due diligence, to protect your reputation and the trust you’ve built with your readers.


When you work through a network, your business relationship is with that network, and you normally won’t know the merchant ahead of time and won’t build a relationship with them.


Popular and reliable networks include Clickbank, CJ Affiliate (formerly Commission Junction), the eBay Partner Network (EPN), ShareASale, and the Amazon Associates program.


Some networks will assign you an affiliate manager to show you the ropes.


Many new marketers begin by becoming an Amazon affiliate and then scaling to other types of more profitable affiliate offers.


Step 2. Get Set Up as an Affiliate


Whether you work through a network or directly with a merchant you have to apply, be approved, and provide specific information in order to be paid.


At the very least, you’ll need to furnish your personal/business contact information for tax and reporting purposes as well as your bank account where commissions will be deposited.


The merchant will provide you with a trackable affiliate link that you’ll use whenever you post about the product. It will have a long tag at the end with your affiliate ID.


Here’s what some typical affiliate text links look like:


LINK THAT DIRECT’S TO THE MERCHANT’S HOME PAGE


https://merchantsite.com/dap/a/?a=1199



LINK TO ANOTHER PAGE ON THE MERCHANT’S SITE


https://merchantsite.com/dap/a/?a=1199&p=merchantsite.com/page.html


You’ll usually get some tips and useful marketing resources that could include:


a) An affiliate guide as well as instructions on how to use the platform and summary of policies such as payouts.

b) Online marketing tools like banners and sidebar graphics.

c) Sample email/webpage swipe copy.

d) Ongoing communications from the merchant about promotions, new products, etc.


You’ll get a link for each product you promote, if you use a network like Amazon.


Do check your specific network’s help and support pages for more information.


For your global audience you can check out geniuslink for tracking overseas sales through Amazon, iTunes, and Microsoft Store.


No matter which method you use, expect to invest money and time into researching the best products for your audience.


Step 3. Start Promoting Your Affiliate Offers


In the end, your hard work of finding and evaluating products only pays off when someone takes your advice and makes a purchase.


So, you need to place your recommendation in front of your audience in a trustworthy manner.


Don’t make the affiliate-marketer mistake of haphazardly slapping some banners on your blog that link to affiliate products and think that’s all you have to do.


Your recommendations should line up with your blog categories and topics, not some random products that are probably of no use to your readers.


Example:


If your blog’s focus is travel related, don’t use affiliate links advertising educational products or some other unrelated merchandise.


Here are a couple of options:


Option #1: Create a Resource Page on Your Blog


You can create your own resource page on which you can promote lots of different products, and they’ll all be organized in one place for easy reference for different readers according to their needs. It can also contain explanations regarding the usefulness of the products.


The page is not just a sales pitch but educational, with quality content. It should be well optimized for SEO so it will also rank well in Google search results and get organic traffic that also leads to good conversion rates.


Option #2: Create and Promote Custom Content


The following strategies are for those who are already sending traffic to your latest content by emailing your list regularly (at least two to four times per month) about what’s new.


A) Write Reviews


You can write in depth reviews of products, books, courses, or software products you promote as an affiliate.


Your reviews can focus on one product or comparisons between two products side by side.


Comparing two products in this way builds more trust, but is distracting due to multiple recommendations.


For multiple product reviews you can set up a “one-stop shop” for your niche by creating a site containing only reviews and affiliate offers.


B) Write Authoritative Content on a Related Topic


Write an authoritative comprehensive post that educates your audience and do a “soft sell” for your products.


For example, set up a guide for writing blog posts and include your affiliate links to your hosting providers.


Make sure your topic, whatever it is, is evergreen content – information that will be useful for years.


Create blog posts, infographics, videos, and more. Just do not create a sales page. You want to focus on building trust and authority.


Pay particular attention to SEO. Be sure to optimize for the right keywords and build links to your content to get a constant flow of traffic from Google.


C) Create Valuable Bonus Content


Check your affiliate agreement to see if you’re allowed to create bonus content. If so, create content, especially for your readers, to help them get even more value from the affiliate product.


People love bonuses! Creating them is fairly quick and easy, and they will help you stand out from other bloggers promoting the same product.


Some example bonuses are:


Step-by-step checklists.
Quick-start guides.
Video overviews or demos.
Complementary or discounted services (e.g., coaching calls).


Step 4. Follow Legal Requirements and Best Practice


In the U.S., the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requires that you let people know you’ll earn a commission.


But even if it isn’t required by law where you’re located, it is recommended. It’s just good business.


People will appreciate your transparency and honesty and want to support you and help you for improving their lives.


So, wherever you share a link – in blog posts, on web pages or in emails – let readers know you may make a small commission if they make a purchase through you.


Also, create a disclaimer page on your website.


There, you have it, the bottom line on affiliate marketing.


Your dream of making passive income is a completely achievable reality, although it’s not as simple as pushing a magic button. With a little knowledge and persistence you can do it and eventually turn it into an online business.


Affiliate marketing is one of the best business models for making an income from home, once you’ve gained a respectable following.


It’s very easy to get started. Just follow the steps covered in this post.


Find the one big thing everyone in your audience needs to reach their goals and start there.


Choose a great product you believe in. Share your success with it.


Deliver plenty of valuable content to educate your audience, without being too salesy.


Nurture the trust your audience places in you.


Be upfront, honest, transparent, and most of all, patient.



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I’m sure that when you join affiliate programs your primary goal is to make lots of commissions by recommending products.


There are affiliate programs in many categories like web hosting, website builders, fitness, sports, music and many more.


If you don’t have a website, you can set up one with WordPress.


In his article, 105 Best Affiliate Programs of 2020, Adam Enfroy covers the best high-paying affiliate programs of 2020 for beginners.



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Affiliate marketing is a type of marketing partnership as are influencer and affinity marketing.

The world of commerce is competitive. As a business owner, you often find yourself competing against other business owners — for exposure, for customers, and for money.

While competition will always be a part of business, you can partner with others to promote your product or service. With partnerships you can grow your audience and boost sales.

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Most people know the definition of affiliate marketing which is selling something for a company or someone and receiving a commission for that sale. You’re independent and on your own, not just a salesperson working for a company. Although there are no limits that need to be met, the more you sell the more you earn.

You can effectively earn passive income with affiliate marketing by promoting for many companies at the same time. There are no limitations and you don’t need to create your own products or services to earn money selling anything in this format. Check out Pat Flynn’s Smart Passive Income for the definition of affiliate marketing.

Basically, there are two sides to affiliate marketing. You can become a merchant and have others promote your product or service, in exchange for giving them a commission from the sales that they make or you can be the affiliate marketer for one or several products or services that you’d like to promote and market those to consumers in order to make money.

In this article I shall cover only the affiliate side.

Most people start by taking the affiliate route which is easier, although building enough traffic to make a significant income just from affiliate sales isn’t quick or easy.

Sometimes to even be able to promote a product or service, affiliates have to go through an affiliate network, because the merchant only manages their affiliate program on that particular network.

Many times a network such as Clickbank or Amazon serves as an intermediary between the affiliate and the merchant. Then the affiliate network also serves as a database of lots of products from which you, the affiliate marketer, can choose to promote.



BECOMING AN ONLINE AFFILIATE MARKETER INVOLVES 4 STEPS

You can become an affiliate marketer by taking the following steps.



Step 1: Review products in your niche

Since you probably already use and like several products, all you have to do to begin is publicly speak about them. It can be any product, although it needs to be something with which you have first-hand experience.

Do you love to read? If so, you can do book reviews. If you use online marketing products and tools that you like, become an affiliate and promote them. You can become an affiliate for hair products, clothing, beauty products, travel companies, internet hosting, online courses, toys, and on and on and on. There are endless numbers of things for which you can become an affiliate marketer.



Step 2: Build an email list with your prospects

Here are three options you can use to collect email addresses from your website visitors:

Number 1: Hello Bar

Hello Bar puts a call to action on top of your website. Whenever someone visits your website, they’ll see this bar at the top. You can use it to offer visitors something for free for their email information.

Number 2: Exit Gate

You can also use Hello Bar to create an exit gate. This is a popup that will overlay the screen when visitors are about to leave your website. It is triggered by their mouse moving to the top area of the browser.

You can also redirect people to your lead magnet to get their email address.

Number 3: Sidebar Widget

Have only one call to action in your sidebar offering people something in exchange for their email address. If you have too many things for people to do, they will probably do nothing.

Once you have a few contacts on your email list, be sure to keep them engaged by sending regular updates with more information about your products or services. Once in a while, send them a specific call to action to purchase something, but don’t overdue the selling by offering a paid product every time you send an email.



Step 3: Educate your audience with live webinars

When you have a lot more contacts on your email list, you can host a live webinar and demonstrate a particular product. You can tell people your experience with the product, show them how it works, tell them the pros and cons of using it, etc.

If you can promise to get the product in front of a couple hundred people, you can probably get a deal from your merchant for a discount or a bundle to get people to buy.

You can point to your affiliate link at the end of the webinar as a soft sell which seems only natural since you just talked about the product for an hour.



Step 4: Grow your business with PPC advertising

Once you have a way of making back your money, you can start thinking about paid advertising. You can use PPC (pay-per-click) on Facebook and Google to get people to sign up for your webinar, grow your email list, and make more sales.

You can use keywords in ads related to your product or service. It’s best to improve your SEO (search engine optimization) and promote sign-ups to your email list.

Once people are on your email list you can contact them again, by setting up an autoresponder email sequence encouraging them to attend your webinar or encouraging them to buy.



In conclusion, affiliate marketing is based on revenue sharing. You can become a merchant and have others promote your product or service in exchange for giving them a commission from the sales they make or you can be the affiliate marketer.

The 4 steps you can employ are:

1. Reviewing products in your niche
2. Building an email list
3. Educating your audience and making sales by using live webinars
4. Using PPC advertising to grow your business


If you want to get started with online marketing, affiliate marketing is a good way.


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Affiliate marketing is an income strategy that involves promoting products or companies in exchange for a commission for each sale. There are certain techniques you need to use in order to outrank your competition in the search engines.


You also have to do research, believe in the product you’re marketing, use low-cost tools for your campaigns, and avoid common pitfalls of affiliate marketing.


Anna Dizon covers these and other steps you need to take to be successful, in her article titled 35 Actionable Affiliate Marketing Tips & Strategies for 2019.

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The definition of affiliate marketing is getting paid a commission from an online retailer for traffic or sales generated from your referrals.



If you are new to online marketing, the following should help you to generate passive income with successful affiliate marketing.



The three-step process required is:

1. You recommending a product or service to your followers
2. Your followers purchasing the product or service using your affiliate link
3. You getting paid a commission for the sales made using your affiliate link


Some advertising would have you believe that you can make lots of money for doing nothing. But the truth is more complicated than that.


There are seven steps you must take to avoid becoming overwhelmed and overloaded.


Now, let’s cover the first four initial steps that need to be taken.



Find Your Niche (or neesh)

The first thing you need to do is choose a niche to give focus to your business, help you with content, and help make it easier to  create targeted marketing campaigns.


When choosing a niche consider:

1. What you’re passionate about and already have knowledge of
2. Whether your knowledge on the topic is enough to write at least 100 blog posts
    (for search engine optimization or asserting your authority)
3. Oversaturation in the niche
4. Whether or not there is money in the niche



Build a Website

Then you need a website and a blog with the blog being the main focus of your site. Your website should also include several pages:

1. About to inform people a little about you and your business
2. Contact for sharing all the information you want to share with your readers, advertisers and
    potential partners
3. Disclaimer if your site is monetized
4. Privacy Policy to let users know if you collect information and how you use it
5. Terms of Service limiting your liability in case of misuse of information or services provided
    on your site and detailing user responsibilities regarding copyrights and trademarks
6. Custom 404 Page
7. Advertise if you plan on selling on-site ads, include a page for advertisers with information
    about available spots, monthly views, audience demographics, and a contact form


These pages are important to build trust with your audience.


Now that you have your website, it’s time to create good-quality content.



Create Quality Content

There are different requirements for joining affiliate programs. Some networks and programs want you to have already established content, site traffic, and monthly views at a certain level before accepting you as an affiliate.


Be sure to read the eligibility requirements for the specific networks and programs you’re considering before you apply.


You should have at least 5 strong posts already on your site with future posts scheduled.



Grow Your Email List

Email is still the #1 communication channel for marketing. An easy way to grow your email list is by adding a popup to your site for signups.


Now that you’ve taken care of the first four steps, it’s time for step 5, choosing your affiliate products / services.



Choose Affiliate Products to Promote

Now that you’ve chosen your niche you need affiliate products that fit and relate to your content.


You need to join an affiliate program and choose the product and / or services you want to promote. Then move on to step six which is joining an affiliate marketing network.


Join an Affiliate Marketing Network

If there is something that you already use you can promote that. If not you can make a list of things and do a Google search for related affiliate products and programs.


You can promote products that fill a need, those that your audience wants to know about, and products from others in your niche.


Before signing up, thoroughly research everything. Do not promote products you don’t use or know nothing about.


Lastly, you need to track the performance of your affiliate producers.



Track Your Results

Track your affiliate links to help you understand which products perform better with your audience. This allows you to provide better products to them in the future, and you can also use this knowledge to provide them with better content. When you do your audience will keep returning.


You will want to disguise your affiliate links so readers will click on them.

Click here and check out Pretty Links.com for shortening and disguising your affiliate links.


And there you have it; how to Generate Passive Income With Successful Affiliate Marketing.



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by Rahimah Sultan

Affiliate marketing is still alive and well. Even if you’re just finding out about this business model in 2019, there’s still a lot of money to be made.


Although becoming a successful affiliate marketer is getting tougher with so much competition, there are things you can do to give yourself an edge and a fighting chance.


Too many people quit too quickly. (This is to your advantage.) Now, let’s discuss four affiliate marketing tips for success in 2019.



PICKING THE RIGHT NICHE

You may not even know what a niche is or how to pronounce it. In marketing, it’s what you choose to focus on or your area of interest. If you pick the wrong one or too many, it will cause you to lose a lot of time, energy and money.


You need to create an authority site or blog based on what is right for you. Pick something you love, so there will be less chance of you running out of topics to discuss or getting bored.


Don’t even think about making easy money as a reason for focusing on certain niche products to promote, as no such thing exists. You’ll have to put in the work in order to reap the benefits.


Patience is a must. If after say, six to nine months you see no progress, it may be time to get out and cut your losses and try again. If that happens, don’t give up on your goals if one blog or site fails. Keep learning and moving forward.


That’s why it’s so important to choose the right niche.


Usually the starting point for earning is just over $1.00 during the first six months.


You should work on increasing any amount you make each month. Have a good understanding of what it means to become an affiliate marketer, and keep working at it until you’re making the money you want.



PICKING THE RIGHT AFFILIATE PRODUCTS

As an affiliate marketer, you don’t have to develop your own products. Affiliate marketing allows you to sell other people’s products on your site and make commissions, if they have an affiliate program. So, your business will be selling other people’s products and making money.


Before deciding to promote a product, you should know if the product is selling well and if it is new. Amazon will let you know by ratings and reviews.


If a product has just launched, and you know what you’re doing, you can write a review of it. If the review is ranked on the first page of Google as soon as possible, then you may have struck gold.


If you’re a beginner and want to monetize your website, using one of the following three programs is a good place to start:

Amazon
Amazon is a global brand that is recognized by everyone, and people trust it. There are thousands of products to promote. You make money on anything you sell, although they don’t have a Paypal option to get paid.

ShareASale
Share-a-sale is a network so there are many companies that use it to sell products. They have a search feature for finding something related to your niche. Once you find what you are looking for, you can join as an affiliate for that one specific product/item/service. They also do not have a Paypal option to get paid.

ClickBank
Clickbank is one of the more popular networks and has been around for quite some time. It has recently cleaned up and stopped accepting junk products for promotion.


The programs mentioned above are 100% Free to join, easy to use and have great commission payouts when done correctly.



A few things to be aware of in affiliate marketing:

a) Use independent affiliate programs. You can do a Google search.
Type in “your blog topic+ affiliate program” to find programs or networks for which you can apply.

b) Have a site up and running

c) Never pay to join an affiliate program



HOW TO PROMOTE YOUR PRODUCTS

1) The first thing you need to do is set up a website (blog).

2) Get traffic to your blog. Getting traffic is key so learn how to craft content that gets you ranked in search engines and also use at least 1 social media platform to get even more traffic.

3) You need to find products to promote, which has already been discussed.

4) Learn how to properly build your blog’s authority & search engine rankings by using quality content that you’ll create for your site.


Your content marketing strategy is your “why.” Why are you creating content, who you are helping, and how can you help them in a way that no one else can.



YOUR BACKUP PLAN

What if one day the company you are affiliating for disappeared along with your unpaid commissions in an hour? It has happened.


Such is the nature of affiliate marketing. You do not own the product or the rights to it nor do you have any say in the matter.


That is why it is very important for you to have a backup plan.


Although this rarely happens, don’t build your whole business around 1 product or one company.


That’s why it is vital you take the time to pick a good product to promote and not just what’s “hot” for a week.


Make sure you include a whole range of products that you review and promote so that your business will always be safe.


There are many ways to make income to finance your business. Make sure to learn all the ways you can to have multiple streams of income.


So, you need to pick your niche, choose the right affiliate products to promote that fit that niche, promote your products, and have a backup plan in case of unforeseen circumstances.

These Four Affiliate Marketing Tips For Success In 2019 will help you in your online business enterprises.



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You can start a business or boost your current business using the internet and various platforms. A good place to begin is with affiliate marketing.

Affiliate marketing is not easy. It requires a substantial investment of money and/or time.

With affiliate marketing you have the freedom to work from anyplace in the world with a computer and an internet connection, or just from home, without a set schedule.

In order to be successful, you need the proper affiliate marketing tools. If you’re just starting out and using a WordPress.org blog or website, there are many WordPress plugins you can use.

These affiliate marketing tools include Flippa, CJ Affiliate, SEMRush, Duplichecker, Google Adsense, and more.

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If you’re a marketer looking for opportunities in affiliate marketing (Read ) you need to continually improve your strategies if you want success and profits.

Learn how to outrank your competition, select a profitable affiliate program, use low-cost tools for your campaigns, and stay away from bad links among other things.

There is constant demand for consumers’ attention so it’s important that marketers remain creative in order to set yourselves above your competitors.

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