Newbie..help!

What have you done?
What worked?
What didn't?
How were you selling - or trying to sell - affiliate products?


If I 'mess around with' something for years - and still feel like a newbie - I should probably be doing something else.


Why 'affiliate marketing'?

Because you need to learn and educate yourself as
you would with any other business, just like everybody
else who is in the industry had to do.

I recommend you read the forum for threads on your
EXACT SAME topic, read books, etc. although it is
really not that complicated.

The most important thing is that it involves WORK,
it's not manna from Heaven passive income, where
you lay around all day and money is magically
deposited into your bank account.

I have been working in digital marketing for years and every day I learn how inexperienced I am. This is how this industry is, unfortunately.

No matter how much experience we have there's is always something for us to learn. Thanks for sharing and being relatable .

Thanks Jamel, I really appreciate the kind words☺️
To answer Kay King 's question, I did some things on Clickworker where you have to sign up for paid offers and share them on social media. I chickened out because I had a private account and was beginning to find work at the time.
I figured that I can try again at this affiliate marketing thing again, and learn how to do some copywriting, I signed up for RPM and a website where you get can sign people up for cheaper hotel stays. I'm not that active on social media (my FB and IG are private, lol) and I'm in debt and trying to find another job at the same time.

This might help...


https://www.warriorforum.com/beginne...entorship.html


Sounds to me that you are in dept and want to make more money online?

I tried AF years ago and ditched it after realizing that l would have to spend a few hundred per campaign keyword test, so figured that it costed too much and had too much risk.

And have spent the last 6 years doing online trading since it has no restrictions with budget and earning potential. But it is still very hard to master, or it typically takes 5 to 10 years to master it.

But anyway the link above or just scroll down a bit should help a lot l cover a lot of options that will probably translate to your situation.

Good luck.

Furbaby -

What you refer to as affiliate marketing is not what most internet marketers are referring to.

Considering your location - and if you need money - I would READ the thread linked below.

https://www.warriorforum.com/warrior...days-ebay.html

Does it work? Oh yeah - if you FOLLOW the blueprint laid out for you. The person who wrote and then expanded on that 'path' thread is making GREAT money from it. My younger son in Atlanta has done VERY well with it selling specialized items.

It doesn't take much money to start - there is enough in THAT ONE THREAD to not only get you started - but put you in GOOD profit. You are in an area where obtaining products should be a no brainer.

Every step savidge4 lists in that 'blueprint' has been tested and used successfully. Don't second guess the steps or skip steps or think you know better than what is given in that thread. What he gives you is a REAL LIFE ay to make money that doesn't require a lot of training or experimenting or cash in hand. Along the way following that blueprint - you will learn a LOT about marketing online.

Take a little time to learn to navigate this forum by just poking around - read posts by Gordonj, max5ty, monetize, savidge4, and so many others. Read through enough posts on this forum to find a few members who give the best advice for YOU - and follow their posts.

Good luck - keep us posted on what you try - what works, and what works better.

its about finding the correct affilaite marketing program it should start for free, look for ones that offer training how to learn and find one that offers a online community that will really help you

I disagree with that - there many such 'communities' where 'we teach you' and you are 'part of the group', etc....AND YOU PAY A MONTHLY FEE or buy products or whatever.


I know people who have been paying for those memberships for years and never earned a dime online. If YOU are paying, YOU are the customer. If you NEED money, spending it is not a great idea unless there is some expectation of a financial return in the near future.


Every bit of information a newbie needs to start making money online can be found on this forum....or with various online searches to find the loads of free help/info available.

I been in marketing like 20 years now. Today I leverage a graph chart to earn income.

This is really not that hard. The work is hard, but what you're lacking is a concept. As far as I can see, what you think affiliate marketing is ... is the platform, like Clickbank.

Nope.

That's one part of it. Just one.

You need:

1. A traffic source (preferably strongly pre-qualified)

2. A lead capture method

3. A marketing process

4. An offer to send qualified leads to.


Here's what lousy, broke, and ineffective affiliate marketers do:

Sign up as an affiliate for anyone who will take them (hint: the experienced people won't take a newb, for reasons explained below) ... and send whatever traffic they can scrounge up directly to the offer page.

This Is Wrong.

It takes effort to get that lead, however qualified or unqualified it may be.

Why would you give it away in one shot, one Convert Now Or Be Gone Forever attempt?

Can you see how dumb that is?

Sure, go to Clickbank, find the highly converting offers that you feel good about, and see who will approve you as an affiliate.

The experienced ones who won't approve you know the following:

- you'll send crap traffic
- that unqualified traffic will hurt their statistics (eg. EPCs, and if you don't know what that means, you'd probably better go look up an affiliate marketing glossary)
- orders you DO generate are more likely to turn into chargebacks/refunds.

It's OK to go get approved for an offer, though, if you can.

But where I would start is this:

Where the heck are you going to get the traffic to send to this offer from???

Affiliate marketing requires hops...people you send from somewhere else on over to that landing page the offer owner has put up and knows works on the right--qualified--people.

If you have no idea where you'll get/generate/pay for this traffic from, you do not belong in the affiliate marketing world. This is absolutely necessary, a requirement, part of the needed steps to succeed, and without it you are guaranteed to fail.

Nearly all affiliate marketing pays you to SORT...essentially, to find where people are already congregating online to talk about the offer topic, and bring them on over to the offer page.

But, as discussed above, if all you do is send them over immediately, you have screwed up. In that case, all you get is the one chance that they could be a buyer.

Instead, what you want to do is have your own landing page / facebook group / somewhere that is YOUR TURF to capture the lead. This allows you to continue to market to them...and send them over to the sales page, which is THEIR TURF, several times. Can you see what this gives you? The ability to have several chances to convert into the sale.

So be thinking:

How will I find my traffic, which is almost surely on SOMEONE ELSE'S TURF?

How will I capture the leads, so I can remarket to them, and have the chance to send them to the sales page several times instead of just once?

In the autoresponder series or facebook group, what can you do? Tell stories. Talk up the offer. Make them want it more. Get rid of people who don't react positively.

THEN you give them the opportunity to go over to the sales page, by link in either email or fb post.

And if they don't hop, this time, or don't turn into a buyer, this time, you can continue to market to them. They may not be ready yet. They may be interrupted in the buying process. They may need more warming up.

And later, you can send them another email or post with the hop link again.

Remove people who don't take action after say 90 days or 120 days or maybe a year: they're not going to become buyers and they're just making your stats look bad and the quality of your list go down.

Later on, when you have 250, 500, 1000+ of these people, you have a qualified list. This is an ASSET. You can rent it. You can sell it. It often has more value than the offer did to you.

After awhile, maybe you generate so many sales that the offer owner takes notice of you. Hey, this person has a 1/3 conversion rate! Maybe they ought to raise your commission since you're doing such a good job at BRINGING THEM QUALIFIED LEADS. This is your job. This is the function of the affiliate marketer. Understand this, and take action to protect it if you actually do it.

Now you can't complain that nobody has shown you the ropes.