subject: How To Make Money With Affiliate Marketing [print this page] Author: Fabio Jesus Author: Fabio Jesus
Would you like to earn extra money every month? Or maybe even replace your income working less, but earning more money.
Every day people spend millions of dollars buying products or services online. You probably already knew this, but did you knew that you could make a percentage on every sale just by referring the product to other people?
Its a great way to start making money online, because you dont need money to start and dont have to create your own blog or website. Having some money to invest and/or a website or blog will make you money faster, but its not a "must". You can start with nothing.
You can help a costumer by answering his/her questions in form of an article (like this one). You can make some money just by using this method. Just think what might be their problems and come up with solutions for it.
If you want to take this seriously, you can earn more money than most "real world" jobs. I have been doing this for a while and one of the things i love most, (apart of having more time to spend with family) is that i can make my own schedule and work as many hours as i want. I hated my job, and if you are like me, then working from home and making money online is a possibility that you should consider.
In my opinion this is a perfect business since you can have a pretty good income, and your efforts are directly related to the amount of your income. Also, you can make a good amount of money just by working some hours a day, when you know what you are doing.
But how does this works?
First of all you need to find an affiliate website. Its important to find a good one with some thousands of product to choose from. Click Bank is the website that i recommend you to start with, since they have been around for over 10 years and are a good company. Also you need to know the basics: you choose a product to promote and will get the affiliate link for it. Every time someone buy the product through your affiliate link, you get a commission.
Go through forums or social networks and see what problems people face. There must be a product that will help them. They will thank you for the help, and you will get a commission for the sale.
How can you promote a product without having a website?
There are tens of ways to do this. One of the best ways is to write articles (like this one) and post them on article directories like Ezine Articles or sites like squidoo.com that will allow to build web pages about anything you want. After you have wrote some articles or create some web pages, all you need to do is a little promotion through forums, blogs or social networks and you will get a lot of traffic through your affiliate link.
You should look how much you will earn for each product you sale. Lower earning per sale will require you to make more sales in order to achieve the desired income.
Also you need to match 2 major factors: how much does your potential costumer earns? How much would he/she spend on a product? Obviously someone with a lower income wont buy expensive products. Think carefully about your market and if your potential costumers have the money to pay for your product.
In order to keep you motivated, is important to set short/long term goals. For example, a short term goal could be to make 5-10 sales every week, while a long term goal could be to make $80k per year.
Another very important aspect is that you need to protect you affiliate link. If you ever seen an affiliate link, its usually long and ugly. Someone that sees a link like that will know that is an affiliate one, and might just go to the companys website, instead of clicking on your link. This means you wont get the commission. You need to "hide" you affiliate link. This is easy to do, and all you have to do is by a domain name and use the "domain forwarding" tool. This will allow you to have a pretty domain that will be directed to an affiliate link with people realising it.
Also like any other business, you should spend a portion of your profits to expand the business.
It is normal if these seemed a bit confusing to you. With just one article i cant explain everything about affiliate marketing, but you can look for information on forums, articles like this one, or following any program.
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