Help!!! Where do I start in becoming an Affiliate Marketer!!

Hello Fazal, Thank you very much for your advice.

Are affiliate sites the same as full websites?

Thanks again!!

Thank you Wealthyseven

Yes! i did read that i shouldnt spend money on a coach or a program because the world wide web has lots of free information. Then some say to buy a program or a coach. Talk about confusing!!

If buying a program is worth the investment then i will look into it. Thanks again for your advice

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then i'd recommend following :-
- get a domain name (this will be your web's real estate eventually)
- start a blog (recommended but not necessary)
- prepare a simple report (10-12 pages should suffice to give-away for list building)
- build a opt-in funnel to collect subscribers
- start building a relationship with your subscribers through email follow-ups
- start recommending products

other methods for building your community and
- join forum groups that in your target niche and start participating
- join facebook groups that in your target niche and start participating
- join google+ communities that in your target niche and start participating
*** you have to remember that for the above is only to interact and provide meaningful value and not as a platform for self-promotion. have links to you blog or squeeze page here (in your about section or as a signature link)***

Hey Chris

Thank you for you step by step guide. I will be sure to follow it. Greatly appreciated!

Thank you for the advice Joey!

Do you recommend me using my name as my domain name? Will that be a bad idea?

Thanks xxx

What a great idea!! I havent taught of that. I started a business plan to help keep me on track but the day to day planning and check list is actually a great idea and i will try it tomorrow.

Today i spent a lot of hours online researching and reading and taking notes but i was ALL over the place lol and before you know it i have a lot of information that arent relevant RIGHT NOW!

Thank you again

There are a lot of very educated and experienced people on this forum and most of the advice you are getting right now is gold.

While I dont want you to get stuck in information overload status like I did for two years, I DO recommend that you read quite a bit before you start spending money. Most course offered by "gurus" contain information that can be found for free in several PLR ebooks, forums like this one, and simply by doing your homework by googling different aspect of the type of marketing you are wanting to get into.

I agree 100% that just getting an affiliate link and spamming it is not the way to go. For one it is unethical and two, it will get you zero results. Trust me, Ive tried going that route for MONTHS when I first started out and I just got nothing in return but a lot of lost time and spam complaints.

The best way to sell stuff that you have an affiliate link to in my opinion, is to get them back to your own website where you talk about the product in a review type fashion and then have them click on a banner below to go to the corporate website to find out more information.

This is one option that has worked fairly well for me and converts a million times better than just sending them to your affiliate link. It took me a while to realize why this is but once I put two and two together, I realized it was because I was doing a presell, or softselling them on the product. I was informing them about it without pushing it. I let the manufactures website push it if and only if they decide to click on the banner below my review. This technique has worked well for me in the past but I have been combining it with another technique that multiplies the effectiveness...

The other technique I want to talk about is building a list. Instead of spamming your affiliate link in traffic exchanges, safelist mailers and such. Send traffic to a squeeze/capture page to get their first name and email. Nothing else.

The more information you ask for, the less efficient your squeeze page will be. I still cant believe when I see capture pages asking for your first name, last name, email, phone number, best time to call, mothers name, bowling average ect ect. It just get rediculous. I for one HATE getting calls from marketers as much as I hate making calls to leads/prospects. This is the age of the internet and email. Now dont get me wrong. Some people have great results using hte phone to add that personal touch. Its just not for me. I don't suggest asking for their phone number on a squeeze page.

Once you get them to opt into you squeeze page, you can send them to your website where you can soft sell them on an item or service in the area that that are curious about. But the beauty is, if they finish reading your article and click away regardless of if they go to the maufactures website or not, you still have a way to follow up with them. Your autoresponder takes over from there and will do any kind of followup you wish it to do at any frequency you want it to. After you have set up your capture page, review article, and autoresponder series, all you have to do from that point on is worry about sending traffic!

Hope this helps. As mentioned before, there are a lot of people on this forum who are much smarter and more experienced than myself. Listen to what they say. I can only speak of what has worked for myself.

Best of luck to you!
Dan Watson

I was actually thinking about it. Where do I find one? Do they charge?