One of the best ways to earn a second income online is to make a money as affiliate marketer online. But the idea of having an online business as an affiliate marketer almost for every beginner is quite intimidating.
Today online you will find many experts who are claiming to have the real formula of making money from comfort of your home doing almost nothing.
The biggest mistakes for the most beginners are:
- the lack of knowledge
- the idea to become rich fast
- not having a business plan
- and of course not having a desire for success
I don’t doubt we all know that affiliate marketing is the most popular way to earn money online. In this blog post I am going to explain how to start affiliate marketing business and the ways how to get the first successful results.
First of all let’s see what actually affiliate marketing business is.
What is Affiliate Marketing?
Simply said affiliate marketing is a business where you are helping with your own efforts to sell products of any company online and for every sale that you will make you will receive a certain amount of commission.
The best things about affiliate marketing are:
- you don’t need to own or create a product to sell online
- to join any of the affiliate programs is FREE
- you have 100% control of your business
- you can work from any place and any time you want only you need internet connection, laptop and your desire for success
- you can reach any customer around the world any time
Also affiliate marketing is classified in different types of categories and if you want to know more about them you can read here.
Where Can I Find Products to Promote Online?
As I said before to become affiliate marketer you don’t need to posses your own product, all what you need to do is to join one of the hundreds affiliate marketing programs online.
Today most popular online companies with affiliate marketing program among affiliate marketers are:
- Amazon
- Clickbank
- Commission Junction
- Shareasale
When choosing affiliate marketing program you have to make sure to be within your chosen business interest.
Simple Blueprint for All Beginners in Affiliate Marketing Need to Follow
- You business interest – Your niche
One of the first things you should do as a beginner in affiliate marketer is to determine your interest for your business, something that you are familiar with or something that you are eager to learn
- Find out where your online audience is hanging out
After determining your business interest, you already know what your online audience is. So the next step is to find out which browser they are using, on which social media they are, on which forum they are interacting.
- learn about their main problems and needs
Find out what are their problems, what they are looking for or what are their needs.
- Communicate with them
On a daily basis visit the forums where your online audience is, talk with them and offer them your solutions for their problems. It is a good way to gain a trust among them.
- Choose a product or service for their problems
When you already know about their problems and needs know is time to determine what products you are going to offer for their needs or services to help them with solving their problems.
- Build a website to promote the products
Know you already made a decision what you are going to offer to your online audience and the next step is to build your own website, a place where you will start to promote your products.
- Share your blogs in the social media channels
To increase your chances for success you need to start using the social media networks where you can interact with your online audience and share your posts with affiliate links of your products.
Don’t Ignore the Power of the Social Media Networks
This is also one of the biggest mistakes for almost all beginners in this business, not sharing their content into the social media channels. You have to know that using social media to promote your products is the fastest way for you to start with make money online.
After building your website the first thing you should do is to create accounts into the social media like Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, Instagram or Google+.
Through those social media networks you can connect and interact with your online audience and also you can post your affiliate links to increase the chances for your business success.
Create an Ebook
Creating an Ebook and to give it for free is an excellent way to boost your affiliate marketing business. Who doesn’t like free staff? If you write an Ebook with a great content with included your affiliate links within the content and your online audiences love it and you give them permission to share it for free to their friends.
Affiliate Marketing a Right Way of Making Money Online
These are the only few basic steps to follow when you are starting as an affiliate marketer online, but there are a lot of other staff should be done on the way until you see the first real successful results from your online business.
As I said before in this blog post affiliate marketing is not for people who just want to get money quickly by setting up a business website and just wait for receiving high commissions into their accounts.
Affiliate marketing is a nice way if you want to start a business for passive income in a long term. But if you ask me how long you need until you get the first results from your business, I cannot give you a concrete answer.
Your success is going to depend of how much effort and energy you will give to this business, what kind of methods you are going to implement and you need to be persistent with a great desire for success, because is going to pass a long time until you start make a money as affiliate marketer and you reach the point of success of developing a full time job form your home.
Best Regards!!!
