subject: Affiliate Marketing In A Nutshell [print this page] I believe that affiliate marketing is the easiest route to an online income in regard to the learning curve to master this field, as well as the many business aspects that don't have to be dealt with due to the nature of this business model.
Fortunes have been made and are still being made in affiliate marketing today!
There are basically two options to make money as an affiliate.
To build your own Website or blog, and sign up with affiliate programs related to your Website to advertise their products, or -
To send traffic / visitors directly to an affiliate product.
To build your own Website may not be for you, but is not nearly as hard to do as you might believe.
Just sending traffic to the product does work, but you really miss out a lot of opportunities to optimize your sales.
A really easy way to set up your own Website is to use a WordPress blog. WordPress is easy to run, has a lot of free themes and plugin's to meet almost any needs.
There is no perfect sure-win get-rich-quick scheme or formula in affiliate marketing; but using tried and tested ways to promote your affiliate products can be of great help. With your own Website or blog, you are able to "catch" your visitors email addresses to your own mailing list. As the visitor signs up, he is directed to the business site, while you increase your highly targeted mailing list.
One thing to keep in mind when getting started: Start with one product.
Affiliate marketing is an easy way to earn money, but if you do it wrong, you may never make more than enough to just cover your Internet connection and telephone bill each month.
Most affiliate marketers today are facing the problem of not knowing which particular affiliate products to promote due to the fact that there are lots of niche affiliate programs to choose from.
There are lot of companies to sign up with offering affiliate programs. Some of the most popular is Commission Junction, TradeDoubler, PayDotCom and ClickBank. As a beginner I would prefer ClickBank as they are very easy to understand and use.
As an affiliate marketer, it is absolutely important for you to really get into the mind of your niche. You need to know what they talk about, how they talk about it, what they are most concerned about, what type of products they want to buy.
ClickBank has a marketplace and you should easily be able to find a category and product of your interest. The best-selling ClickBank products usually have a high gravity reading. Naturally, many people think that the higher the popularity rating, the better the product.
When you refer a first-time visitor to the merchant's site, you will always be credited to the sale, no matter how others are also promoting the same merchant to the same prospect. Please notice that there is a 90-day refund rule for each product.
Just because you are marketing ClickBank or any other affiliate products, it does not necessarily mean that they will sell and you will rake in the money. Whilst this maybe true, it could be that the product you have chosen to market, do not provide decent value or the niche you are targeting is not really profitable.
Over the years, I have perfected my affiliate marketing technique, allowing me to find hundreds of profitable products to promote in a matter of a few minutes. Today I am a high earning super affiliate and you could become one too.
