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Does anyone have any advice for a newbie to affiliate marketing,

by old gringo
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Hi Guys,

Is there any advice that you could for a newbie like myself starting out on the road of affiliate marketing, I am thinking of giving it a try, but I am overwhelmed by the amount of books and online courses on offer, is there any courses or books in your opinion that cut to the chase and provides you with the information to get started and stand a realistic chance of success that does not cost an arm and a leg.
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  • Profile picture of the author Enfusia
    The best advice I can give you is;

    1. Create a site that allows you to make many types of affiliate offers. Maybe call it Best of the net or something (that's taken obviously).
    Make categories and put offers under them.

    Or, make one site per niche. Such as: stick em knives for a knife affiliate site or We Be Buds for a new weed site etc.

    2. Find offers that you think your audience will really like.

    3. Test those offers with a few videos pointed to it to see if it converts.

    4. Once you find something that's converting, max that thing out.

    That's an easy strategy that you don't even need to buy a course for.
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  • Profile picture of the author DIABL0
    I've been promoting affiliate / CPA offers for over 17 years.

    I heavily promote PPL (pay per lead...lead generation) offers. This is because there is no credit card / purchase required to complete an offer. All a user has to do is fill out a form, so conversion rates are typically much higher compared to offers that require a sale to be made.

    I favor offers that have a make, get or save money benefit to them, as they have overall worked the best. They also tend to have the greatest mass appeal (will be of interest to a large general audience), so the potential exists to produce high volume and they are fairly easy to cross promote on the back-end.

    Some of the verticals (niches) I have done extremely well with are: education, insurance, loans, debt, credit, mortgage, assistance, discount offers, homeowner offers, etc...

    The bulk of the PPL offers that I promote pay $20-$40 per lead, but I also promote offers that pay more and less. You don't want to get too caught up on what an offer pays because how well it converts is just as important. For example, if you have an offer that pays $9, but if it converts at 2X or more of a $20 offer, then it will perform about the same or possibly better. At the same time, if you have an offer that pays $90 and it converts poorly, it may not even be worth promoting.

    I have also done just as good with dating website sign-ups and pretty good with free trial + S/H offers. I also promote a very limited number of offers that are straight sales. However, mass appeal needs to exist and I also look for one of the following...

    1) The product is new and/or novel-unique and you can't purchase it locally or even something similar. I don't waste my time with it once something similar shows up in Walmart.

    2) The buyer can truly get what is being offered at a decent discount.

    3) Solves a house is on fire type problem.

    However, I mainly promote non-PPL offers on the backend.

    Bottom line, it's far easier to get someone fill out a short form than to get them to pull out their credit card and make a purchase. So why struggle with trying to sell this or that, when you can provide free information that users want/need and get paid well doing it.

    Something to think about.
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    • Profile picture of the author JeffDC89
      Originally Posted by DIABL0 View Post

      I've been promoting affiliate / CPA offers for over 17 years.

      I heavily promote PPL (pay per lead...lead generation) offers. This is because there is no credit card / purchase required to complete an offer. All a user has to do is fill out a form, so conversion rates are typically much higher compared to offers that require a sale to be made.

      I favor offers that have a make, get or save money benefit to them, as they have overall worked the best. They also tend to have the greatest mass appeal (will be of interest to a large general audience), so the potential exists to produce high volume and they are fairly easy to cross promote on the back-end.

      Some of the verticals (niches) I have done extremely well with are: education, insurance, loans, debt, credit, mortgage, assistance, discount offers, homeowner offers, etc...

      The bulk of the PPL offers that I promote pay $20-$40 per lead, but I also promote offers that pay more and less. You don't want to get too caught up on what an offer pays because how well it converts is just as important. For example, if you have an offer that pays $9, but if it converts at 2X or more of a $20 offer, then it will perform about the same or possibly better. At the same time, if you have an offer that pays $90 and it converts poorly, it may not even be worth promoting.

      I have also done just as good with dating website sign-ups and pretty good with free trial + S/H offers. I also promote a very limited number of offers that are straight sales. However, mass appeal needs to exist and I also look for one of the following...

      1) The product is new and/or novel-unique and you can't purchase it locally or even something similar. I don't waste my time with it once something similar shows up in Walmart.

      2) The buyer can truly get what is being offered at a decent discount.

      3) Solves a house is on fire type problem.

      However, I mainly promote non-PPL offers on the backend.

      Bottom line, it's far easier to get someone fill out a short form than to get them to pull out their credit card and make a purchase. So why struggle with trying to sell this or that, when you can provide free information that users want/need and get paid well doing it.

      Something to think about.
      Hey Diablo if you have a movie download website for Cpa lead for example, how you start email marketing list, like what freebie do you give away?
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      • Profile picture of the author DIABL0
        Originally Posted by JeffDC89 View Post

        Hey Diablo if you have a movie download website for Cpa lead for example, how you start email marketing list, like what freebie do you give away?

        I drive traffic and build responsive email lists using fresh / targeted 3rd party email data and generating real-time, co-reg leads.

        3rd party data is email leads of users that have shown an interest in a specific PPL niche or offer and have given permission to receive messages from third parties. You get the opt-in record of each user and it's 100% can-spam compliant.

        Co-reg is simply where I place an ad for a specific PPL offer on a co-registration network and their publishers display it at the time a user is signing up with them and can request more info about my offer. When a user requests more info their contact info is then automatically imported into my ESP account and they are sent a message regarding the offer. Which I pay on a per lead basis.

        So with the above, I am getting fresh / targeted leads specifically for the PPL offers I'm promoting. However, they are not typically as responsive as a high-quality opt-in list that you build yourself. So to compensate for this you need to work with higher volume. This is not a big deal since the cost is much cheaper and highly scalable compared to traditional list building methods.

        When mailing, you want to skim off the top any fast-track conversions and then for long-term success, you want to always be collecting your opens / clickers, segmenting and removing unresponsive users...converting the leads from quantity to quality and into responsive lists. Which you can then also cross-promote other offers on the back-end.

        So basically I promote PPL offers because they provide the path of least resistance to generating conversions/$$$ and converting the data into cash producing assets.

        There's actually more to it than it sounds, but done right it can be extremely profitable. Everyone that I know that is in the business and knows what they are doing, for the most part, does 6-7 figures. While that's a huge range, much comes down to one's ability to scale and effectively build / manage the infrastructure needed to scale.

        Hope that helps.
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        • Profile picture of the author DripRevenue
          Adding onto this, people doing scale in this space are hitting even higher than 7 figures. I know 8 figure pubs (affiliates/publishers). Focus on getting that first consistent $X or $XX per day campaign. While there are differences between $XX per day and $XX,XXX per day, it might shock you to learn that it's easier than you think to scale between the two.

          I would also recommend attending Mailer Meetup if possible. That will give you a ton of unfair advantage as a beginner. You'll make great relationships and learn a lot of insider tricks to the mailing space. A lot of the huuuuuge email affiliates attend.
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  • Profile picture of the author rafiqul94
    If you are newbie and want to start the affiliate marketing then I only say first you should select your niche. Your niche would better if it has less competitor..
    Also you should select high quality domain and hosting..
    After these step you should make some high quality strong and active backlink which help to alive your website or business.
    Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author Brent Stangel
    Is there any advice that you could for a newbie like myself starting out on the road of affiliate marketing
    The part that most people fail on is niche/product selection.

    I suggest looking for new or underserved products. Small niches that are easily dominated. Rising products with few affiliates promoting them. Oddball products that most people will shy away from.

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  • Profile picture of the author YourGoToWriter
    Here are my tips for you:
    1. Choose your niche wisely. Don't choose a niche just because it is popular right now. Choose a niche that you are comfortable and knowledgeable enough.
    2. Since you are already knowledgeable on your niche, generate that your viewers/followers will be interested in.
    3. Increase your exposure by promoting on different channels.
    4. Know about the rules that are surrounding your online business and don't violate it.
    5. In order for you to be efficient in affiliate marketing, you must use the tools for you to easily manage your accounts with ease.

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  • Profile picture of the author ChrisBa
    Originally Posted by old gringo View Post

    Hi Guys,

    Is there any advice that you could for a newbie like myself starting out on the road of affiliate marketing, I am thinking of giving it a try, but I am overwhelmed by the amount of books and online courses on offer, is there any courses or books in your opinion that cut to the chase and provides you with the information to get started and stand a realistic chance of success that does not cost an arm and a leg.
    It sounds like you are suffering from "information overload" which is very normal.

    I would start by deciding on 1 traffic source (such as ppc, or ppv, etc) and focus on learning that very well. Resist the urge to jump around between different areas, stay focused as much as possible.
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