One of the easiest ways to start making money online is to begin affiliate marketing. You don’t need a product or a service and you don’t even need a web presence, at least not yet. With the proper steps that come straight from the affiliate marketing pros, you can go from nothing to results in record time. Here are a few of those tips from the pros right now.
How to Begin Affiliate Marketing the Fastest
The affiliate marketing pros are going to recommend sticking with a reputable network that people know and trust. The first one that comes to mind is Amazon.com. With Amazon, you can search for today’s hottest products, books and even food and you can research those products to find out which ones would be the best fits for your affiliate marketing campaigns. You then scoop up your link, slap it on your website or blog and hope that someone clicks-through to make a purchase; or ten purchases, for that matter.
Start a Website or Blog
Purchase a cheap domain name, some inexpensive hosting service and get a free WordPress site put together. Or use WordPress.com to set up a free blog that you can use as the home to your purchased domain. Or you can go to a service like Squarespace that allows you to make websites in minutes for a nominal fee per month, no hosting service required.
Once your new web presence is established, start writing informative articles and blogs about the products you hope to promote. For example, if you have a new range of Ginsu knives that you want to promote from the Amazon affiliate marketing platform, you might present to your audience videos that depict people slicing tin cans in half with Ginsu knives. Or you might write a blog about how Ginsu knives could be left in the rain for thirty days and no rust would ever form.
The trick is to find out what your customers might want to read, view and watch; and then you’ll want to deliver that content on your new website and/or blog.
Start an Opt-In List
The affiliate marketing pros will tell you that building a highly-targeted email list is by far the best way to sell affiliate marketing products and services. With a subscriber list, you practically have your very own captive audience. You’ll be able to send communications to that audience anytime you have something to say. Just make sure you treat your subscribers’ information with respect if you hope to make affiliate marketing history.
Attract Subscribers
The affiliate marketing pros will recommend that you offer a free gift in order to attract the most amount of email subscribers possible. The gift may be a report, a series of videos, an invite to your upcoming webinar or anything else. Even if you tell subscribers to sign up for your monthly newsletter, at least you will be offering those who do sign up something of value in exchange for their personal details.
For example, if you are offering inflatable pools for the backyard that kids can splash around in, you might offer a Top Ten guide that instructs parents how to keep their kids the safest while they swim. You might call it, “Ten Tips for Keeping Kids Safe in an Inflatable Pool’ or ‘The Parents’ Guide to Inflatable Pool Safety’.
Design a nice cover for your report, or have someone design it for you, put it up for free on your website and blog and wait for people to visit, subscribe and download. Make sure that the newsletters you deliver, and the individual emails, provide even more value than your websites and blog already are. Write down the best tips and tricks and tell your subscribers the biggest mistakes people in their shoes tend to make and how they can conduct themselves differently; and finally, the affiliate marketing pros recommend that you try to teach your subscribers at least a single lesson with every email you send.
Blogs and Paid Ads
While you are waiting for affiliate marketing sales to come in, start publishing quality blogs and get a paid advertising strategy established. You can get paid ads going on Google Adwords, Facebook and LinkedIn, as well as on Twitter. It all depends on how much of an advertising budget you want to use to promote your Amazon affiliate marketing products. It is recommended that you start off slow, set a low daily budget on each network and keep monitoring your numbers daily, weekly and monthly. Then use that information to tweak and improve over time.
Keep in mind that Amazon is only one affiliate marketing network. There is also ClickBank, Commission Junction and a team of others. If you construct a web presence, start a blog and if you start beefing up your website and blog – and you start building up an email subscriber list – mostly with the help of paid online marketing, your affiliate marketing results are sure to speak for themselves.
Now that you know how to sell affiliate marketing products, the affiliate marketing pros recommend that you look for the most popular products that offer the highest commission percentages. Do this for every network and every product and/or service you promote and you will soon be earning just like the affiliate marketing pros; and that’s just a fact that can’t be disputed.
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