FREE TRAINING:
"How to Earn a 6-Figure Side-Income Online"
Why Affiliate Marketing Is the Best Way
to Start an Online Business
If you've educated yourself enough with the information
available to us via the internet, then you should have realized
by now that your pursuit of a career in the corporate ladder is
futile at best. Basically, the idea is to start as an intern, then a
regular employee, then move up to a supervisory and/or
managerial position and finally up to the executive levels of the
a corporate business that you're in. Personally, I have nothing
against this kind of aspiration as I too once dreamt of such
things myself; however, the toll it takes to get to EXACTLY where
you want to be could at least take 30 years; 20 if you're
exceptionally good at it.
The problem is we all can't be exceptional and aside from the
fierce competition in play, you'll also have to face the
an insurmountable amount of bureaucracy, racism, favoritism,
gender inequalities and other negative things in order to
literally, move up the ladder. The trade-off is not an ideal payoff
even from an optimistically assessed standpoint. Therefore I
would advocate that you start your own business and the
the cheapest way to do it is by building an affiliate marketing blog
or website.
Defining Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing is an easy income-generating business
method where you take the role of the promoter and help the
manufacturers and sellers connect with the end consumers. It
should be clear that whether you take a passive or active role in
this business, you are by no means the originator or creator of
the products/services you promote. But you will get a small
portion of the sales as compensation nevertheless. It's basically
a 3-way relationship between you, the seller, and the customer.
What Affiliate Marketing is NOT
If you get an unsolicited email inviting you to join an affiliate
network and it's asking for an upfront payment, then you
definitely have to scrutinize them and find out whether or not
they're scam or legit. Go to the Better Business Bureau (BBB)
and find out about the company, if you can't find any, then go
to affiliate marketing forums and discussion boards. They
would know a lot about these scam sites as news spreads fast in
social media and forums. Another thing to look for is if these
people are selling you unrelated products or something that
you will never be able to use, like the $350 "Secrets to Affiliate
Marketing Success" book or some other catchy titles; although
a few are genuine but they don't charge you that high.
The truth is you can learn basic affiliate marketing from top
ranking websites and blogs. In fact, they can teach you more
useful information than all those specialized books and DVDs
that other people are selling. Becoming an affiliate is free when
you sign up to affiliate marketing programs and the only thing
that will really cost you money is web hosting, which is around
$70 - $100 a year for your affiliate marketing blog. A few other
expenses may include a unique website/blog logo (optional),
your electric bill; hire a blog writer (optional because you can
write the blogs yourself) and probably paid to advertise to
promote your website or blog (optional).
Types of Affiliate Marketing
What's interesting about affiliate marketing is that you can earn
commissions in more ways than most people think. Allow me to
explain the 3 different types of affiliate marketing and how you
can earn through them.
1. Unattached Affiliate Marketing - This type of affiliate
marketing will not require too much work from you, you don't
even have to set up an affiliate marketing blog like those for
Amazon Affiliate Programs. This is more like a PPC marketing
(pay-per-click) where you just show affiliate ads on sites that
allow this kind of marketing and then get a commission for each
click through that web users make on the ads.
2. Related Affiliate Marketing - This type of marketing is where
you are required to have some level of involvement and this is
where you create an affiliate marketing blog or website and
always show affiliate links on almost all of your website/blog
pages. You also earn a commission for each time a web user
clicks through the affiliate links.
3. Involved Affiliate Marketing - This kind of marketing may
require you to actually use the products/services before you
write a review about them and you should be able to write a
more comprehensive and honest reviews.
You can choose from these 3 types of affiliate marketing
methods, but most affiliate marketing programs uses the Type 2
affiliate marketing, which has some level of involvement and
online presence from your end.
Putting the Cogs and Wheels Together
Now that you have an idea of what affiliate marketing is all
about and what its common pitfalls are, you are ready to start
your journey to financial freedom and a wealthy lifestyle!
Affiliate marketing is just like any other type of business and
you'll have to plan a strategy months or even years ahead
before you begin, so I will give you the basic strategy of how to
become an affiliate marketer, signing up for affiliate programs,
setting up your affiliate marketing blog and all the other
important details about it.
Steps to become an affiliate marketer:
1. Decide what niche topic you want to use for your blog or
website. It's better to write reviews or general information about
products/services that you're passionate about because you
will write better articles for them compared to those that you
don't like. For instance, if you're mad about crochet or kids'
bicycles, then that is the niche you should pick for your blog!
Affiliate programs have a huge inventory of items for sale and
they do include crochets and bicycles for a fact. If you're more
of the business-minded individual and you think you can write
just about on anything, then by all means pick the niche that's
most profitable among the lot.
2. Create your website and purchase a cheap but reliable web
hosting. You don't need a web designer to build a website or a
blog. You can use WordPress, Weebly, Web.com, Blogger, eHost
and others to do that. Using their user-friendly "click & drag"
features you can create your blog/website in 5 - 10 minutes!
3. Learn basic SEO and use it on your blog or website. Search
engine optimization or SEO is a very good marketing strategy
to allow your website to be known throughout the entire
internet or at least the majority of it. If your website is easier to
find in search engines, then it is more convenient for people to
visit it, and more visitors means more money for you.
4. Learn social media marketing to extend your presence online.
In reality, social media marketing or SMM is also a part of the
grand scheme of SEO and without it, your SEO campaign would
not be as successful as you'd expect it to be. There are literally
billions of people hanging around the web on a daily basis and
many of them are on social media sites. It would be a logical
choice to get visitors there for your website and increase your
income potential.
5. Learn about paid advertising and consider it deeply on
whether you need to use it or not. Paid ads help because they
target the right kind of people who are already looking for
products that you promote. Meaning there is a good chance
that they will buy. Wouldn't you want them to buy products
through your affiliate links? I would!
6. Start filling up your website with content. In case you plan to
write boring and unimpressive blogs and articles, then I'd
advise you to no longer continue in your pursuit of creating an
affiliate marketing blog because I promise you people will not
want to read your blogs or visit your site. Write articles that will
impress you first. This will let you know whether or not people
will want to read about what you have to say. If you can find an
extremely critical person to judge your writing, then that would
be better as it will help you greatly improve your writing
style. Reader engagement is absolute in affiliate marketing. It
will determine your income capacity, so do your best in writing
content for your site above all else.
How you earn in affiliate marketing:
• The manufacturer/seller signs a partnership deal with the
affiliate network or program and in turn, when you sign up with
the affiliate network as an affiliate, the partner affiliate network
will give you a small percentage share on every item you helped
sold.
• You'll need to embed or display affiliate links on your website
or affiliate marketing blog about the products you're
promoting. The purpose of these links is to guide your blog
readers to the seller's webpage (which is usually in the affiliate
network's site) so that they can make purchases of the items
they like.
• The percentage commission on each sale range from 1% - 10%
(some give more than 10% but rarely) and this is how you
generate income. For example, a web user happens by your
blog about coffee machines and he/she read your blog review
or an informative article. The reader was impressed by your blog
and decided to click on the affiliate link, then make a purchase
of 1 coffee machine worth $350. If the affiliate network allowed
7% of that amount to be your commission, therefore your
income for that sale alone will be $24.50.
• You may notice that $24.50 is a small amount and not enough
to convince you to become an affiliate; however, if you were
able to bring 10,000 visitors to your blog in the span of 30 days
and about 4,382 people bought coffee machines for themselves,
then your income for that particular month should be $107,359!
If you're able to bring as much visitors to your website on a
regular basis, then you can bet that your monthly income
should be around these numbers. Now you can appreciate the
the value that SEO and SMM can do for your affiliate marketing
business.
How Much can you Make?
The straight answer to this question is... there is NO LIMIT to
how much you can earn. The website called Pickmyshaver.com
around October or November 2013 and then 8 months later its
regular monthly income became $8,446! If it had continued as is
it would earn over $50,000 a month by now, except that it was
purchased in Flippa by an anonymous buyer for $60,100 around
June 2014. That's just 1 website and I'm pretty sure on your best
day you can manage 2 - 3 sites for affiliate marketing.
At this point I will let you use your imagination as to how much
you can earn; or is it how hard you desire to earn. It's entirely up
to you. I am confident that this article should help you get
started in creating your own affiliate marketing blog and earn
not just money, but your freedom from the everyday worries of
life. Once you start earning over $8,000 a month, then you can
buy more time to spend it with the people that matter to you
most - you're family. I wish you all the best and don't forget to
drop a comment below and tell me how affiliate marketing has
changed your life like it has changed mine.
The kit has been a student journalist since she was in junior high
and while she took up an associate's degree in computer
science back in college, she was still active in her writing career.
After many years working in several corporate offices, she
found freelance online jobs [http://davedeib.com] on different
websites back in January 2011 and she has been doing this ever
since. Today she has made her own voice on the web by helping
business owners set up their blogs and engages customers. The kit is
also an affiliate marketer and she plans to share her knowledge
and experience with others as well.
FREE TRAINING:
"How to Earn a 6-Figure Side-Income Online"
Why Affiliate Marketing Is the Best Way
to Start an Online Business
If you've educated yourself enough with the information
available to us via the internet, then you should have realized
by now that your pursuit of a career in the corporate ladder is
futile at best. Basically, the idea is to start as an intern, then a
regular employee, then move up to a supervisory and/or
managerial position and finally up to the executive levels of the
a corporate business that you're in. Personally, I have nothing
against this kind of aspiration as I too once dreamt of such
things myself; however, the toll it takes to get to EXACTLY where
you want to be could at least take 30 years; 20 if you're
exceptionally good at it.
The problem is we all can't be exceptional and aside from the
fierce competition in play, you'll also have to face the
an insurmountable amount of bureaucracy, racism, favoritism,
gender inequalities and other negative things in order to
literally, move up the ladder. The trade-off is not an ideal payoff
even from an optimistically assessed standpoint. Therefore I
would advocate that you start your own business and the
the cheapest way to do it is by building an affiliate marketing blog
or website.
Defining Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing is an easy income-generating business
method where you take the role of the promoter and help the
manufacturers and sellers connect with the end consumers. It
should be clear that whether you take a passive or active role in
this business, you are by no means the originator or creator of
the products/services you promote. But you will get a small
portion of the sales as compensation nevertheless. It's basically
a 3-way relationship between you, the seller, and the customer.
What Affiliate Marketing is NOT
If you get an unsolicited email inviting you to join an affiliate
network and it's asking for an upfront payment, then you
definitely have to scrutinize them and find out whether or not
they're scam or legit. Go to the Better Business Bureau (BBB)
and find out about the company, if you can't find any, then go
to affiliate marketing forums and discussion boards. They
would know a lot about these scam sites as news spreads fast in
social media and forums. Another thing to look for is if these
people are selling you unrelated products or something that
you will never be able to use, like the $350 "Secrets to Affiliate
Marketing Success" book or some other catchy titles; although
a few are genuine but they don't charge you that high.
The truth is you can learn basic affiliate marketing from top
ranking websites and blogs. In fact, they can teach you more
useful information than all those specialized books and DVDs
that other people are selling. Becoming an affiliate is free when
you sign up to affiliate marketing programs and the only thing
that will really cost you money is web hosting, which is around
$70 - $100 a year for your affiliate marketing blog. A few other
expenses may include a unique website/blog logo (optional),
your electric bill; hire a blog writer (optional because you can
write the blogs yourself) and probably paid to advertise to
promote your website or blog (optional).
Types of Affiliate Marketing
What's interesting about affiliate marketing is that you can earn
commissions in more ways than most people think. Allow me to
explain the 3 different types of affiliate marketing and how you
can earn through them.
1. Unattached Affiliate Marketing - This type of affiliate
marketing will not require too much work from you, you don't
even have to set up an affiliate marketing blog like those for
Amazon Affiliate Programs. This is more like a PPC marketing
(pay-per-click) where you just show affiliate ads on sites that
allow this kind of marketing and then get a commission for each
click through that web users make on the ads.
2. Related Affiliate Marketing - This type of marketing is where
you are required to have some level of involvement and this is
where you create an affiliate marketing blog or website and
always show affiliate links on almost all of your website/blog
pages. You also earn a commission for each time a web user
clicks through the affiliate links.
3. Involved Affiliate Marketing - This kind of marketing may
require you to actually use the products/services before you
write a review about them and you should be able to write a
more comprehensive and honest reviews.
You can choose from these 3 types of affiliate marketing
methods, but most affiliate marketing programs uses the Type 2
affiliate marketing, which has some level of involvement and
online presence from your end.
Putting the Cogs and Wheels Together
Now that you have an idea of what affiliate marketing is all
about and what its common pitfalls are, you are ready to start
your journey to financial freedom and a wealthy lifestyle!
Affiliate marketing is just like any other type of business and
you'll have to plan a strategy months or even years ahead
before you begin, so I will give you the basic strategy of how to
become an affiliate marketer, signing up for affiliate programs,
setting up your affiliate marketing blog and all the other
important details about it.
Steps to become an affiliate marketer:
1. Decide what niche topic you want to use for your blog or
website. It's better to write reviews or general information about
products/services that you're passionate about because you
will write better articles for them compared to those that you
don't like. For instance, if you're mad about crochet or kids'
bicycles, then that is the niche you should pick for your blog!
Affiliate programs have a huge inventory of items for sale and
they do include crochets and bicycles for a fact. If you're more
of the business-minded individual and you think you can write
just about on anything, then by all means pick the niche that's
most profitable among the lot.
2. Create your website and purchase a cheap but reliable web
hosting. You don't need a web designer to build a website or a
blog. You can use WordPress, Weebly, Web.com, Blogger, eHost
and others to do that. Using their user-friendly "click & drag"
features you can create your blog/website in 5 - 10 minutes!
3. Learn basic SEO and use it on your blog or website. Search
engine optimization or SEO is a very good marketing strategy
to allow your website to be known throughout the entire
internet or at least the majority of it. If your website is easier to
find in search engines, then it is more convenient for people to
visit it, and more visitors means more money for you.
4. Learn social media marketing to extend your presence online.
In reality, social media marketing or SMM is also a part of the
grand scheme of SEO and without it, your SEO campaign would
not be as successful as you'd expect it to be. There are literally
billions of people hanging around the web on a daily basis and
many of them are on social media sites. It would be a logical
choice to get visitors there for your website and increase your
income potential.
5. Learn about paid advertising and consider it deeply on
whether you need to use it or not. Paid ads help because they
target the right kind of people who are already looking for
products that you promote. Meaning there is a good chance
that they will buy. Wouldn't you want them to buy products
through your affiliate links? I would!
6. Start filling up your website with content. In case you plan to
write boring and unimpressive blogs and articles, then I'd
advise you to no longer continue in your pursuit of creating an
affiliate marketing blog because I promise you people will not
want to read your blogs or visit your site. Write articles that will
impress you first. This will let you know whether or not people
will want to read about what you have to say. If you can find an
extremely critical person to judge your writing, then that would
be better as it will help you greatly improve your writing
style. Reader engagement is absolute in affiliate marketing. It
will determine your income capacity, so do your best in writing
content for your site above all else.
How you earn in affiliate marketing:
• The manufacturer/seller signs a partnership deal with the
affiliate network or program and in turn, when you sign up with
the affiliate network as an affiliate, the partner affiliate network
will give you a small percentage share on every item you helped
sold.
• You'll need to embed or display affiliate links on your website
or affiliate marketing blog about the products you're
promoting. The purpose of these links is to guide your blog
readers to the seller's webpage (which is usually in the affiliate
network's site) so that they can make purchases of the items
they like.
• The percentage commission on each sale range from 1% - 10%
(some give more than 10% but rarely) and this is how you
generate income. For example, a web user happens by your
blog about coffee machines and he/she read your blog review
or an informative article. The reader was impressed by your blog
and decided to click on the affiliate link, then make a purchase
of 1 coffee machine worth $350. If the affiliate network allowed
7% of that amount to be your commission, therefore your
income for that sale alone will be $24.50.
• You may notice that $24.50 is a small amount and not enough
to convince you to become an affiliate; however, if you were
able to bring 10,000 visitors to your blog in the span of 30 days
and about 4,382 people bought coffee machines for themselves,
then your income for that particular month should be $107,359!
If you're able to bring as much visitors to your website on a
regular basis, then you can bet that your monthly income
should be around these numbers. Now you can appreciate the
the value that SEO and SMM can do for your affiliate marketing
business.
How Much can you Make?
The straight answer to this question is... there is NO LIMIT to
how much you can earn. The website called Pickmyshaver.com
around October or November 2013 and then 8 months later its
regular monthly income became $8,446! If it had continued as is
it would earn over $50,000 a month by now, except that it was
purchased in Flippa by an anonymous buyer for $60,100 around
June 2014. That's just 1 website and I'm pretty sure on your best
day you can manage 2 - 3 sites for affiliate marketing.
At this point I will let you use your imagination as to how much
you can earn; or is it how hard you desire to earn. It's entirely up
to you. I am confident that this article should help you get
started in creating your own affiliate marketing blog and earn
not just money, but your freedom from the everyday worries of
life. Once you start earning over $8,000 a month, then you can
buy more time to spend it with the people that matter to you
most - you're family. I wish you all the best and don't forget to
drop a comment below and tell me how affiliate marketing has
changed your life like it has changed mine.
The kit has been a student journalist since she was in junior high
and while she took up an associate's degree in computer
science back in college, she was still active in her writing career.
After many years working in several corporate offices, she
found freelance online jobs [http://davedeib.com] on different
websites back in January 2011 and she has been doing this ever
since. Today she has made her own voice on the web by helping
business owners set up their blogs and engages customers. The kit is
also an affiliate marketer and she plans to share her knowledge
and experience with others as well.
FREE TRAINING:
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