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With the information overload on the internet, particularly in the area of affiliate marketing, it is easy to see why beginners in this wonderful and lucrative industry cannot find their way, nor get a solid understanding of the concepts to move forward. If you've been looking for good guidance or programs for a few weeks or months, you know exactly what I mean.
What Is Affiliate Marketing?
Affiliate marketing is a marketing system or process by which an affiliate earns a commission from a vendor for each buyer he or she refers to the vendor. In other words, you recommend a product that potential buyers are looking for and tell them where to go to purchase that product. Once they purchase that product, you earn a commission. The person recommending the site is the affiliate and the owner of the site is the vendor.
What Products Should You Promote?
There are many online businesses that offer great affiliate programs. For example, Amazon.com has a great affiliate program where you can earn commissions on almost any product they sell. However, Amazon like most other businesses that sell physical products, offer much lower commission structures compared to digital or downloadable information products. This is because in most cases physical products are more expensive to produce than downloadable products.
Here are the main reasons why downloadable products are the best products to promote for new and experienced affiliate marketers:
Highest commissions paid
The product is delivered instantly
No initial investment in products is required
There are tens of thousands of products available in many niches through a company called ClickBank
ClickBank handles all administrative transactions
A Step By Step Plan
Here is a step by step marketing plan that will pay you great rewards in the form of your own successful online business. There is nothing new under the sun. What I am about to reveal to you is working for every successful online business today. It will work for you if you work the plan. The problem with most beginners is that they try a few steps and then give up because they think that things are taking too long to show results. Don't fall into that group. There is nothing like "overnight success". To succeed in anything we must put in the sacrifice and effort.
Here Are The Steps:
Select a niche market in which you have some knowledge and a passion for.
Using Google Adwords Keyword Tool, research 10 good keyword phrases people are searching for.
Write 10 articles or blogs based on those phrases (you'll learn how easy this is to do).
Re-write another 10 articles with your goal of 100 per niche.
Go to ClickBank and select a product to match the needs of the searches.
Create a simple landing page on a blogging site like Blogger.com.
Submit your articles to the top article directories like Ezinesarticles.com.
Social Bookmark articles for more traffic.
Choose another niche and start the process again for more streams of income.
By following the plan above you can be assured of success in this industry. This is no "push button" magical get rich quick scheme. It's the system or model that successful marketers have used and continue to use daily to build more and more niche markets and in turn increase their income substantially. Persistence is the key to success in any business, whether offline or online. I encourage you to start and stay with the program.
Remember, "All things are difficult before they become easy."
