It has been years since I first started with affiliate marketing. Back then, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Looking back, it has been a great journey so far, as it has let me explore new opportunities and meet many people that have changed my life for the better.
Affiliate marketing is a win-win situation for both the marketer and the business being promoted. The marketer earns money by referring others to the website, and the business gains new customers!
This partnership works because when an online retailer pays commission to you for making sales on their behalf, your external affiliate site can make successful commissions from anywhere with no time constraints! Living a laptop lifestyle is no longer just a dream.
Understand Your Products and Audience
As an affiliate marketer, it is your job to know the ins and outs of the product you are promoting.
Take the time to do some research about your product and audience. What is it that they want from you? How can we create content that will resonate with them on an emotional level? Know your product, who else offers a similar service or good to them – anything you can discover about them that will help you serve better content in an effortless way.
As a result, this will give you credibility with potential customers that may have never heard about or used the products before. Additionally, if they see how much knowledge and passion for these products can come from someone like yourself in comparison to what their initial expectations were when coming across them on social media sites such as Facebook or Twitter (where ads seem more spammy), then there’s also a higher chance of conversion rates – which means more money!
When you have a product that resonates with your audience, you gain their trust and they will come back to purchase it again and again.
Once you’ve got the perfect idea for what value your website can bring to customers in need of such services or products, make sure that these potential clients are fully informed on how best to utilize said product/service. What do people who buy this type of thing generally use them for? How exactly does my service help their lives be better? Why should they choose me over other affiliate marketers out there offering similar items at different price points? These questions might seem like common sense but when thinking about all aspects before pitching something new is key!
Don’t Put All The Eggs In One Basket
The best way to get ahead in affiliate marketing is by taking a diversified approach. Expand your horizons and reach out into different niches with many products, rather than just one company or product that you are limited to promoting on the site.
Being locked in with only one company might seem like an easy streamlined route for success but this actually leaves you at risk of not being able to make any money. Think about it, businesses can shut down anytime without warning, which doesn’t help when trying to build up a sustainable business model from scratch where there’s no safety net if it fails!
I personally find that being exclusive with a brand can be dangerous. In order to maintain my ability to advocate for the brands, I must stay on top of any exclusivity agreements and avoid them if possible.
This is something many people don’t realize about affiliate marketing: you may have agreed not only never mention other product lines in your posts or created content but also include links with all offers from one specific company! This type of agreement isn’t always bad…but it might mean having less control over what products you want to promote, which could leave new customers feeling like they made an uninformed purchase decision since there wasn’t much variety available at checkout
Keep Yourself Abreast With Latest Trend
The internet is ever-changing, and if you want to know how to be successful as a marketer, then it’s up to you to keep pace with all of these changes!
One of the many advantages of keeping up with trending affiliate marketing tactics as they happen is that you’ll be able to keep your current audiences interested and excited about what’s new. Keeping them updated on this information will also help prevent stagnation, which can cause a lacklustre effect for both parties involved in any given collaboration. That way, you won’t have to rely on stale information that may not even still apply when it was published because your audience will always find you fresh and new!
Be Persistent
So you want to be successful in affiliate marketing? Keep trying until you succeed!
Trying new things is always a little scary and gets your heart racing with excitement about what might happen next. It’s so much easier just going through the motions when you know how everything will turn out.
Keep trying and learn from the mistakes that are bound to happen along every step of the way. Remember when people were first learning how to use a computer? They had some serious trouble figuring it out at first! But they didn’t let this discourage them because they knew with persistence anything could be done.
And what to do when you are not making money? One of the most important things is that you must persist. I know it sounds like a cliché but persistence really does pay off, especially in affiliate marketing where people might be skeptical about your products and services because they don’t understand them as well. You want to promote your websites, blogs, or content at least once per day so potential customers can see what’s up with new deals or posts coming out on their favourite social media site every day!
It’s important to keep an eye on your data from the very start and see what is working for you, as well as not. This information will allow us to continue marketing our products in the future! Persistence also leads into how we are successful with affiliate marketing- at least one post per day every single day should be promoted so that it can attract visitors and statistics which then may be studied.
Finding A Niche
The key to becoming a successful affiliate is not in the number of products you offer, but in how targeted and focused your content will be. Focus on one niche market at a time, finding an audience that resonates with what they are passionate about can maximize their leads as well as bring them back again for more valuable information on other topics.
An effective way to build traffic through affiliates is by helping potential customers find exactly what they want while also building relationships with those who share similar interests or goals such as education-based websites that cater towards teachers looking for online lessons, or blogs designed around fitness programs geared at specific groups like pregnant women (etc).
An affiliate marketing website or blog that is a one-stop-shop for all your shopping needs will leave you with no room to grow. There are too many products and categories, so potential leads won’t be able to find what they want on the site without guesswork because there isn’t any direction as far as which product goes where in terms of category/subcategory. This lack of focus means we can’t truly target our desired audience if it’s not already obvious who wants us most!
Let’s Get Started…
You’ve made it this far and now you’re just a few clicks away from becoming the owner of your own website. Here is the exciting part, because I am going to show you how easy it can be. to put your website together in under 30 seconds!
You hear it right, 30 seconds!
Well to be honest I spent few hours on it. But that’s because I was trying out all the different templates, fine-tuning details like font colour and size, but those are fun so go ahead with them if you want a little more work done on this project before launching for real.
Here is a video to guide you through the process:
What Made This Possible?
So what makes setting up a website this easy?
Wealthy Affiliate is the perfect platform for those looking to start a blog without being overwhelmed by technical mumbo jumbo. I can’t tell you how much this site has helped me, so here I am going to show it to you and hope that it helps as much for you!
Wealthy Affiliate offers you all the following in a single platform:
– Training
– Domain registration*
– Web hosting
– SSL certificates
– Create your website – from choosing a theme, setting up an SEO-optimised site, use the done-for-you Privacy Policy and Disclosure
template to easily create yours, to composing your content and have it
checked for duplicate content before publishing.
– Get to install All in One SEO plugin (yes, that’s the one that is supposed to cost you $25/month in WordPress which is included in Wealthy Affiliate membership ).
– Access to Jaaxy keyword research tool.
– Get comments for your posts (very important for beginners, it is
really difficult to get organic comments for your site when you are
still new, and having comments encourage more interaction between you
and your future audience).
– Access to an affiliate program network where you can find various affiliate deals.
– Networking with other affiliate marketers in the Wealthy Affiliate community.
– A PM away from the Wealthy Affiliate founders.
* While you can do domain registration at Wealthy Affiliate
platform, just like domain registration done in anywhere else, you will
be charged separately for it.
As you can see, Wealthy Affiliate has a lot to offer. They offer two types of membership:-
1. Free Starter Membership
2. Paid Membership
If I could give one piece of advice, it would be to become a free starter member first and see how much you like it before investing in your site’s future.
Free Starter members get to enjoy almost full access to Wealthy Affiliate for the first 7 days, and limited access thereafter. Be a premium member of WA and you can enjoy all the features.
For those on budget, fret not. I literally created a fully functional website (I have to admit the theme wasn’t that great though) hosted for free under .siterubix subdomain, performed keyword research, installed All In One SEO plugin, by just being a free starter member.
After deciding that it would cost less than $1/day, I upgraded during one of the Black Friday sales which is a huge saving for me.
Once I upgraded to a premium member, I immediately switched to a better theme and moved my site to full .com domain within a push of a button, as easy as that.
Now let’s take a look at the comparison of the 2 membership options here:
If you’re unsure about paying $49/month for a website builder, there are other ways to get it at a cheaper price! We understand that money doesn’t grow on trees so we want to make sure everyone has access to this amazing tool no matter what their budget may be.
How To Get Started?
Whether you just want some free training or feel like setting up your own site, come and see what we have on the inside. It’s completely hassle-free anyway – no credit card (or any other payment detail) required.
See you on the inside!
