How To start to be an affiliate marketing

Hey Medinho, you should check out Affilorama.com for free affiliate marketing training for newbies.

Affiliate marketing isn't a complex business (but it requires hard work, like anything else), and you need only focus on 2 main things:

- Getting targeted traffic; for example, if you're promoting a golf training course as an affiliate, you need to get visitors who are actively playing golf

- Converting that traffic; this mean getting those visitors to buy the product (this is where you'll want to consider email marketing)

Regards,
Daniel

Affiliate marketing is one of best methods of making money online.

Quicksprout, Kikolani and Neilpatel blog are great source to succeed your marketing journey.

Can you share what exactly you have tried to make money so far?
Knowing this can help us give you information on the best path for you..

It seems to me that you are a complete newbie. Lets start from scratch...

What does affiliate do? Affiliate is selling other people's products. This means that you need to have:

- a website, a blog or Facebook page or any other social page. To create a website or a blog you need to learn how to use worpress, or blogger or dreamweaver or any tool that you can create website with

- you need to attract people to that page. You need traffic.

- you need to have products to promote. You get them by applying for affiliate account with the company that is selling products you are interested in.

There are so many affiliate programs and affiliate networks around. Best affiliate networks are Amazon and Rakuten Network. In order to get accepted you need to have a decent website.

The hardest part is to get a substantial number of visitors to your site every day and evey month. You can do this through SEO, PPC, Solo ads, social viral content.

Look, there is so much to know in order to be a successful affiliate. It would be best for you to find someone who can show you step by step how to earn money. I'm earning money with Amazon and by coaching. You must focus on the method that you like. If you don't want to pay the coaching then explore 4-5 ways of making money and the one that you like explore further and focus on that! Learn and complete things every day if you want to earn money!

For a useful step-by-step guide you will probably be better off to buy one. Getting a lot of bits and pieces from different people is un-certain at best.

There are some good sites that teach specific methods and can get you where you want to be if you apply what they teach. You will get recommendations but you will have to research each to find the best fit for you.

Here's an interesting article just for information and maybe a little motivation:

You'll find all the information you need on Warrior Forum. Except, possibly, or at least rarely, the most important piece of information:

Think Small. Motivate yourself by keeping things simple and aiming for a small financial return in the short-term.

Most newcomers like yourself aim too big and get disheartened when even a small return on their investment fails to reveal itself, and the typical mind of the newcomer will respond to the situation by thinking, This is a waste of time, and when that happens they hop from shiny object to shiny object, wasting their money on typically useless eBooks, or they give up entirely.

It is vital, then, to avoid all that by proving to yourself that even a simple blog can make money, and furthermore, and far more importantly, that you can make money.

So. My advice? Think small. For now.

Learn how to setup and grow a simple blog and set your first goal at 1 affiliate commission per day, and to make matters even more simple, stick to promoting PPL offers (pay per lead), where you earn an affiliate commission for each of your blog readers that you refer to free email submit forms.

Aim for that PPL commission each day. They pay anywhere from $1 to $12.50 for a simple free join.

Once you get that daily target? Scale up. Whatever you're doing to earn 1 PPL/ day, double, double your efforts, and aim for 2 PPL offers per day.

If you do it this way, Medinho, you'll have more chance of succeeding in IM than the majority of new entrants.

Let those people chase the shiny objects. Let them chase the pipedreams. You, in contrast, stick to Think Small.

Get your simple little blog, your simple Small Blog, making money. Master the methods that help you make that money. Learn more methods. Experiment, in the knowledge that your existing methods are working and bringing home the bacon regardless of your experiments, and expand your awareness of different strategies, and in so doing, grow slowly but surely.

You may be surprised: people who start out thinking small - they often end up being big.

On February 4th, 2004, Facebook was launched on the Harvard campus and membership was restricted to the founding members and other Harvard students.

Small became big.

- Tom

1. Find one niche, one product (solution for your niche)
2. Build your list
3. Showcase
4. Drive targeted TRAFFIC
When you master that
5. Repeat!!!
You need to discover more base on this.
Hope this help!

Use the search bar and type in:

- affiliate marketing

- get started in affiliate marketing

- new affiliate

- make money with affiliate marketing

- etc

You won't learn the whole process in 1 simple forum thread.

Medinho,

I was in your same situation when I first started out online. I struggled to find the step-by-step guide on how to be a true affiliate.

These are the 4 main steps I took to start:

1. Have a clear understanding how to build an effective online business
2. Clearly identify your financial target / goal
3. Clearly identify what you're willing to give in return for it's attainment
4. Mental readiness. Winning state of mind.

If you need a step-by-step guide to walk you through this process I'd highly recommend the training I went through.

Click here to access the training.

Hope it helps!

Basically three steps:

1) Decide a niche

2) Create free content and give them away on your landing page (list building)

3) Drive targeted traffic to your landing page & promote affiliate offers through autoresponder.

Hope it helps.

You can base on ideas in this thread to learn man!

But one thing you should know, you must eager to learn, ready to learn.

A lot of things are waiting for you there.

And the last thing is don't worry, just do it, enjoy it.

Good luck

Hi Medinho,


Note:- here I am talking in the context of we not you. I can feel for how it feels like a newbie. I don't consider my self as a Guru or expert.I will try to share or help whatever I know.

First of all before starting affiliate marketing we need to understand these things first.

1. Always have positive mindset, this is very important. We need to believe from our core that affiliate marketing works and we have to make it happen. Say big NO to Negativity.

2 Always have business mindset (not free). Every business needs investment. Whether its small or big, it depends on our size of business and our goal. Investment requires for our own education to learn about the business or affiliate marketing or this investment requires for our business or affiliate marketing to make it run. (I am here talking in the context of affiliate marketing)

3. Always take action. We don't take action and waste our time thinking whether this will work or not. Stop thinking and start taking action. There are so many articles on blogs and training on you tube that we can learn about affiliate marketing but finally it is we have to take action. No body will come and take action own our behalf. Right.

In affiliate marketing there are some other points to consider.

1. Know our Why. Why we want to do affiliate marketing. Everybody knows what to do and how to do but no body knows Why we are doing?.

2. Choose a Profitable Niche. Choose a niche which is profitable. There are four evergreen niche we can choose 1. Health it can be anything related to health but weight loss is very lucrative 2. Dating 3. Make Money Online 4. Insurance. There are so many profitable niches or filed or sub-niches out there in which we can go according to our taste, interest and passion. It is up-to to us. But above four are broad niches. We can drill-down them. And here mine is make money online.

3. When we have chosen our niche then we choose a product that solves the problem of people. Choose a product that something we really believe from our core that it will solve the problem. Product must have customer support. Product must have great commission. Product must have big competition too, mean to say losts of people selling it. But before promoting any product It would be better to purchase the product first and then come to the conclusion about it. And for that we can go to ClickBank | A Global Internet Retailer, JVZoo.com - Instant Commission Platform for Sellers and Affiliates, CJ Affiliate by Conversant (formerly Commission Junction), www.warriorplus.com and ShareASale. For a product to promote we have to go one network out of above said affiliate network and we have to create account. Its a simple process to fill up the form.

4. After choosing product we need strategic funnel/selling system. We need a true system that works. We need strategy that works. It must have zero resistance point of entry. It must engage visitor. It must have multiple streams of income in a strategic way. System must sell without selling. What comes in strategic funnel/selling system or what we need for this?

1. Great Product. It must be great product as described in detail above.

2. Lead magnet. Lead magnet is something valuable related to interest of visitor that we can give away for free in respect of getting name and email or only email of visitor when he lands on our landing page). Lead magnet can be in the shape of ebook, cd, dvd, video training etc. It can be our own or we can outsource it from www.fiverr.com

3. Landing page or squeeze page. A landing page when a visitor first time lands on our web page. For professional landing page we can go to https://www.leadpages.net/, https://www.megaphoneapp.com/, OptimizePress - Create Landing Pages, Sales Pages & Membership Portals — OptimizePress etc. It can be webinar page too.

Note We also need Thank you page, bonus page or download page. But it depends.

4. Tracking tool. There are so many out there but I will mention only that I use and that is ClickMagick - Track And Optimize All Your Marketing, All In One Place. Through this tracking tools we can track all over visitors, sale, conversion etc.

5. Autoresponder. We need autoresponder for automated email follow up sequence and to make a further relation with our customer, lead, client etc. Some of best autoresponders are Email Marketing Software & Autoresponder from GetResponse and Email Marketing | AWeber.

6. Targeted Traffic. When we create our landing page then we need targeted traffic that converts. We can divide it into two part.

1.Paid Traffic. This include PPC (pay per click) such as google adwords, yahoo gamini, bing ppc, facebook ppc (social platform), media buying such as https://www.buysellads.com/, BidVertiser - Pay Per Click Advertising On Sites Of Your Choice., twitter advertising platform, Instagram advertising, youtube video marketing it can be free too. Solo ad such as Safe-Swaps - email ad swaps
and Buy Solo Ads | Udimi

2. Free Traffic. This include SEO (Search Engine Optimization) but it takes time and requires patience. Forum Posting such as warriorforum.com which I am doing, https://forums.digitalpoint.com/ etc. Facebook posting, guest blogging, blogging, article marketing. Youtube videos by creating your own.

Thats it. Always provide immense value to customer, visitor or client, whatever the case. Always keep providing value column first in making strategy to promote product or services. Don't just go and pitch for sale. Help as much as we can. Always be authentic marketer. I hope this will somewhere help us if you still need any help or have any questions feel free to ask, I would be so happy to reply

You need patience to follow this path, unless you are a pro in learning where you can attract people to purchase the product you are affiliated with then that's a go for you.

You need a landing page, social media accounts (FB espcially for ads) and other strategies to drive people in and decide to purchase your product.

I agree Affilorama is also a popular choice especially if you want a ready site with landing pages made for you.

Research first what niche you want to get into and look for a good product that is good to promote

Build your list (get a lead magnet that you can give away in exchange for their email. you can purchase a PLR and modify it or you can create your own. and once people subcribe to your list, thats the time you promote offers related to your niche)