New here. Want to start Affiliate marketing

Cap360,

To clarify -- Do you want to be a merchant / vendor and find affiliates who'll help you sell your own products, or do you want to be an affiliate and sell the products of merchants / vendors so you can earn commissions?

If you want to be an affiliate, then here are some things that you could test:

First, start out by thinking of a specific group of people in a particular set of areas / countries with a certain list of needs and problems about a specific group of topics / sub topics that can be resolved by a particular set of products and services from developers and service providers with their own affiliate programs, and/ or by a specific set of products / services in certain affiliate networks like Amazon and so on;

Second, verify your ideas by going to heavily trafficked blogs, Web forums, sites and social networks where this specific group of people participate in relevant discussions, and by checking out the affiliate products / services that guarantee to resolve the particular set of problems and needs of those people;

Third, find out the exact match keywords those people use in Google and Bing to search for possible solutions to their specific needs and problems;

Fourth, create a professional-looking site and an attention-grabbing, enticing and compelling opt-in offer that can help those people satisfy their related needs and solve their relevant problems;

Fifth, post top quality content (about controversial news stories, topics that are relevant to your exact match keywords and market research data, trending videos, viral social network posts, etc.) in your site, which can show your target viewers your niche expertise and can establish your reputation among your target viewrs as a friendly niche expert;

Sixth, sign up as an affiliate of developers / service providers / networks with products / services that can indeed help your target audience in resolving their related problems and in satisfying their relevant needs;

Seventh, provide your subscribers with content through follow-up emails that can supplement the benefits they get from your opt-in offer and onsite content, and also promote your affiliate products / services as recommendations / suggestions to your subscribers;

Eighth, integrate Bing remarketing and Facebook retargeting code into your site's pages, so you can promote in Bing and Facebook your opt-in offer to people who have visited your site but have yet to get your opt-in offer;

Ninth, build your presence in relevant social communities and content repositories like Facebook Fan pages, Facebook groups, Twitter, LinkedIn, blog networks, Web forums, Youtube and so on by frequently participating in relevant discussions on those online places and by regularly sharing or posting beneficial content in those online places, in order to establish your reputation across those online places as a friendly niche expert; and

Tenth, reach out to the admins / owners / Webmasters of those online places for possible guest posting arrangements, content syndication deals, advert and ad banner and mailing list ad placement agreements, JV deals and so on. They'd most likely be receptive of your offers because you'd be a familiar name to them due to your frequent participation in their online properties. Try out other promotional methods as soon as you learn basics / fundamentals about these, such as PR distribution, PPC / PPM via Google and Bing Search and Display networks / Facebook / etc., private ad placements and so on...

You can start off as an affiliate and promote other people's products first. Less risk than what you just experienced with your soccer product.

Build a list and then when you are ready, go ahead and make your own product.

No sales because no traffic? Or no sales with traffic but just "because nobody bought"? (The reason I'm asking is that if it was "no traffic", that's something you'll need to address for affiliate marketing, too ).

Not much. You need a domain, some kind of hosting and an autoresponder subscription. I set my whole affiliate marketing business up for about $60, when I started. And there was never a time at which "having more investment available" would have made my income any faster, better, bigger or more secure at all.

You need to attract targeted traffic to an opt-in page of some kind (not necessarily a "squeeze" page) where you incentivize them to offer you their email address.

These two links explain more ...

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post6123982

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post7647187

I thought you wanted to become an affiliate, not to find them?

Or do you mean "affiliate products"?

If so, ClickBank and Amazon are the two commonest places to look. You can even use both, but they're rather different business-types, and you might not want to start them both off at the same time?

This post/thread gives the basics of "how to sell ClickBank products": http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post7110523

And this does the same for Amazon: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post6608638

Plenty of reading there, to get you started. Be aware that success or failure is determined mostly not by "taking action" (as some people here will wrongly tell you ) but by "learning first what action to take" so that you can set off in the right direction: if you don't get that right, first, then it doesn't matter how much action you take.

Good luck!


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Earlier this year means 2 weeks ago. Are you sure you properly validated your product is a no-go?

I think to start the affiliate marketing you need to have quality e-mail list which can help you to build your business. If you want to create that list fast, then you need to invest in good amount in Solo Ads. The cost depends upon you.

You can get started - and well - for less than $100.

Specific costs that I incur to get an affiliate site making 2/ 3 figures a day within a month:

- Theme $58
- Domain 99 cents
- Plugin $22
- Hosting (I have it)
- Get Response (free for the first month).

Tom

Why do you think that you made no sales...

More towards your offer wasn't presented well enough...

Or more towards you couldn't get traffic to the offer?

The reason I ask is because if you had trouble getting traffic to your offer...

Then there's a good chance that will only roll-over when you dive into affiliate marketing.