subject: Affiliate Marketing: Apply With No Experience Required? [print this page] How many professions do you know where for you can apply with no experience required? Not only that, but you are given the opportunity to develop a six figure income or even more!
The profession I am talking about is affiliate marketing and anyone can join as soon as they finish reading this article. Let's discuss how you go about making money as an affiliate marketer when you do not have a clue what you are doing.
1. As an affiliate marketer you get a website that is provided from the affiliate merchant. Your job is to promote this website on the Internet.
Whenever somebody comes to your site and purchases a product you earn a commission for that sale. The more sales you make the more money you make.
2. Affiliate merchants already have products you can sell. Some websites will contain just one product, while others will have several products. Therefore you don't need any experience creating a product because that part is already done for you.
3. You are given banners and other marketing materials to promote with. Having a website is not going to just be enough.
You need to be able to promote and attract traffic to your website and quality marketing materials will help you with that. Today affiliate merchants use banners, text link ads, email marketing messages, blog articles, video marketing tools, and much more to help you promote their products.
4. Some of the affiliate merchants will offer training to help you get started. This will help you become more successful quicker.
It will also help you develop the experience you need to make more sales. The nice thing is you can learn from veteran affiliate marketers who are already successful.
5. You can seek outside training in the form of Internet marketing. There are many free sources for this including discussion forums, article directories, ezines, and so on.
You can also join a membership site and receive professional training. This is a good way to shorten your learning curve.
If your budget allows you can even hire a personal coach to take you through the process of starting with no experience al the way through to becoming a professional affiliate marketer.
The only way to know if affiliate marketing is for you or not is to give it a try. If you are willing to apply yourself, and learn how to do it correctly, you can make a lot of money.
The nice thing is it doesn't take any experience to get started. It doesn't take any money to get started either. Therefore you have nothing to lose and everything to gain when you join an affiliate marketing program.
