After graduating I started an affiliate marketing blog. Advice on plan?

Learn how to use Clickfunnels and promote affiliate programs thru your blog.

Sounds OK plan wise but ask yourself: what is my intent?

It is OK to want to make money but devote a little bit of your energy to outcomes aka money and most of your energy to service. Make your blog about helping people in your affiliate niche of choice, and focus on building bonds with top folks in your niche. 2 surefire ways to lay the foundation for a successful, prospering venture.

If you do what others do, you will have to face a lot of competition. Try to do the same thing differently. Otherwise, you will end like a lot of commoners who were no different from others.


But doing what others do is a risk-free business. That way it is safe to venture into it

Since you are currently learning about affiliate marketing why not promote products in a targeted niche that is not related to "make money online"

Keep high quality content, then you will have brand, then affiliate will works.

Very good advice from others - pick a niche market - something in health/fitness, relationships, gaming, technology, or a hobby and build up a following + some affiliate sales in that industry...that way you get align your lifestyle with a business - then if you choose at that time, you can target others who want to follow in your footsteps and know how to launch and grow their own affiliate business.

"Great content" should help you make inroads.What niches with in "affiliate marketing" will you specialize in ? And how does book reviews relate to your business.

Hi Champ,

The advice given about holding off on the MMO niche is a good one.

However, don't be discouraged. You don't have to have massive success or be a guru to do well in the MMO niche...while having integrity at the same time.

What I suggest you do is pick a solid method...such as learning how to create a funnel promoting a product and driving some traffic to it via FB or some other paid method(always start at a low budget $5-$10 per day)...

And then when you have success you can create a report here on the Warrior Forum on how I Did X(whatever you accomplished).

And success could only be something like making a few hundred dollars. A lot of people would like to know how you did that as well as some mistakes you made along the way.

That is how I got started. I was making some niche sites back in 2009 and had some success and made some videos about it and sold it for $7. That one product made all the difference in the world for me because it allowed me to build a buyers list(as well as paid my rent for August 2009 and basically saved me from getting evicted)

I never looked back after that.

So lets say you find a course called Traffic Gorilla(just making this up) as it has a good reputation. You would then follow it to a T. Learn some things on your own. And you could make a course on how I drove X amt of visitors to my site in X amt of days...then contact the owner of the course and ask him to promote it for you!

That's one of the reasons I did so well. I used a piece of software in my course and told the software creator about it. He promoted it for me and I sold 1,000 copies of that $7 course in 7 days. And that is not counting profits from my email list which is where the real money is.

Now, I made the suggestion about creating a funnel and driving some cheap, paid traffic to it because you will get results much quicker than with SEO or blogging.

I hope this helps.

-Mark

The simplest advice i can give regarding affiliate marketing is doing one of 2 things (or maybe even both):

1) Promote an affiliate offer where you get paid monthly commissions for as long as the customer stays in the program

or

2) Promote a high ticket affiliate product so you can profit easily - and immediately

With affiliate marketing in general, you dont get the customer name, so you cant do any backend marketing to them. Some affiliates like to add bonuses for ordering through their expensive link and etc.... but if you're just promoting something where you make $10 commissions and you cant setup a backend system that will eventually land you bigger profits... then i just dont see the point in all of the efforts.

...unless every single sale you get is from free advertising/marketing.

Thanks for the advice!!