subject: How to Sign Up to Become An Affiliate Marketer [print this page] How to Sign Up to Become An Affiliate Marketer
Unfortunately, there are too many people these days who are unemployed due to the economy and many of them are looking into different career fields. Since the recession, many people have turned to the Internet in order to make a part time or even a full time income from home. One of the fields that have exploded over the last few years is affiliate marketing, which is due in part to this type of marketing being low cost to get into an easy to start doing.
If you are thinking about becoming an affiliate marketer, you may be wondering how to sign up. Here are some simple steps that you can take to make the process quick and simple:
The first thing you need to do is pick a product or products that you want to market. It should be something that you are passionate about or interested in. This step comes first because you are going to need to know the general idea before picking out a website domain name.
The next step to becoming an affiliate marketer is setting up the domain name and setting up hosting for the website. You want to self host, but it is not hard at all and most hosting companies provide simple instructions that anyone can follow.
After you do the steps above, you can then get your website in order. If you are new to websites, it might help to start off with a blog that you self host. Once you have the graphics and content done, you can then fill out affiliate applications for the product or products that you want to market. All you need to do is go to the company's website who owns the products or services and fill out the affiliate form.
The company will then typically have to view your website to make sure that it meets their standards, but the guidelines usually aren't too strict. Once they approve it, you will get an email from them typically with further instructions.
After the step above is done, you can start placing banners, ads or text links into your website to start promoting the product or service.
Believe it or not, that is all you need to do to get started in affiliate marketing. The total cost is under a hundred dollars if you go with a simple, shared hosting plan and a ten dollar domain. It should also only take a couple of days to get your affiliate account approved so you can start marketing.
