You are new in this kind of business and you want to run your own affiliate marketing business online, but you don’t know how to start in affiliate marketing.
You know already that affiliate marketing is the best way to make some extra money online and is the easiest way. In this post I am going to give you some tips and ideas on how you can do it.
What is Affiliate Marketing
First of all let’s explain simple what is affiliate marketing?
Affiliate marketing is a way where everyone as an affiliate marketer earns commission for recommending products or services to a specific online audiences.
But How the Whole Process works?
There are 6 simple steps how the whole process works:
- You choose your interest for your affiliate marketing business
- You choose a product you want to promote for your business
- Build a website to promote your products
- You find and you sign up for affiliate program for that kind of product
- Then you will get a special link for the product that you promote and that link allows your merchant to tract the customers who are buying trough that link
- When the customer buys a product, then you will get a commission
As you see it looks very simple.
Your Hobby or Interest
The first thing that you should do before starting with your business is to decide what will be your business about, what will be your interest or what kind of customers you are going to target.
Product For Your Affiliate Business
You decided what will be your affiliate business about and now is time to choose what kind of product you are going to promote to your online targeted customers.
How Can You Promote a Chosen Product or Service?
You already have chosen you product to promote for your business, but you ask yourself which is the best way to promote the product.
The best and easiest way to promote your products or services is to build your own website. Your website will be your place where you can promote your products or services by writing reviews about them.
Your website should be relevant to your chosen interest.
Find and Join an Affiliate program
The next step in your affiliate marketing business is to choose an affiliate program that offers products for your chosen interest.
The most popular affiliate programs are Amazon, Commission Junction, Clickbank and Ebay.
The most of the companies before you join their affiliate programs, will ask you to check your website, so they can ensure that you are not scammer. If everything is alright with your website you will get permission to join their affiliate program.
After joining one of the affiliate programs regarding your interest, you will be provided with affiliate links and other promotional staff.
What Kind of Product to Promote For Your Business
As an affiliate marketer you can choose any kind of product online with affiliate program and start promoting.
But when you decide which product to promote you have to make sure that chosen product is relevant to your online audiences.
Before you decide which product to promote always you ask yourself these questions:
- Are you using the product that you promote?
- Will your online audiences benefit if they buy the product you promote?
- It’s easy to buy the product you promote?
- Is the commission that you will receive for that product satisfying you?
Different Types of Products
When you are looking online which product to promote to your online audiences you have to decide what type of product you will choose. So there three types of product that you can promote as an affiliate marketer.
- Digital products
- Physical Products
- Services
Before choosing which type of product you are going to promote, you have to consider that each type of the product has negative and positive things.
Digital Products
If you decide to promote digital products the best place to start for every beginner in affiliate marketing business is Clickbank.
The Clickbank is the biggest and most popular place for digital products online among affiliate marketers.
The commission of the digital products is going from 10% to 75%.
Physical Products
If you want to promote physical products for your online affiliate business one of the best and most popular place to visit is Amazon.
The average commission of the physical products on Amazon is between 4% and 10%.
Services
Beside digital and physical products you can also choose to promote services. Promoting services is a good way to earn some money online.
But remember the service you promote should be regarding your online audiences. It can be online training for affiliate marketing, hosting company for your website, company who is selling domain names, antivirus for your laptop or any other kind of service that your customers is going to benefit.
Different Strategies to Promote Your Products Online
As an affiliate marketer you can use different strategies to promote your products online.
There are many strategies online, but in this post I am going to mention the most popular and the most successful ways for promoting products online.
- Writing reviews for your products
- Writing comparison posts about two or more different products
- Resource Page
- Making tutorials for the products
- Sharing the post for your products on the social media
- Email marketing
Writing Reviews
Writing reviews for your products is an excellent way to generate sell. This type of strategy you can use to promote for all three types of products.
Very important thing when you are writing reviews is to be honest. Always in your reviews you have to number positive and negative things about the product, we all know there is no perfect product or service.
In your post reviews you have to include links where your online customers can buy the products you promote.
Write your positive experience about the product and reasons why you are recommending it.
Comparing Products in Your Posts
This is also fantastic strategy of making sales.
Write comparison reviews about two or more similar products. Also as I mention before in this post always you have to include pros and cons for every product you are comparing.
Resource Page
This is one of the easiest strategies that every beginner in affiliate marketing can do, when starting to build a website for promoting products.
Depends for what kind of business is your website, you can create one page where you can put together all links for all tools, products and services that you are using for running your website regarding your business. It is a great way to make some sales.
Tutorials
What is tutorial?
Tutorial is a post where you are explaining simply step by step, how your online customers can successfully use the product or service you promote.
So creating tutorials is going to take you a little bit more time, but is one of the most effective ways to make sales.
Social Marketing
Another way of generating sales is promoting your post about your products you promote through your social media like a Pinterest, Facebook, Google+ and Twitter.
I hope that after reading this post you have better understanding about how to start in affiliate marketing and if you have any questions regarding this topic please write them below in the comment box and I will answer you immediately.
Best Regards !!!
