The key here is how you are approaching the whole process. Are you using a blog or using PPC to market affiliate products. The one that I have been using from the past 10 years, is via blogging. This has been the most effective one so far.
If you want to join them, this article welcomes you. To make a success with this industry, the thing that can best help you is knowledge (and experience, but that will definitely grow over time once you jump into the work).
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Place ads in print industry publications that publish news about your industry on a regular base, as well as magazines devoted to people who work from home or are interested in extra income opportunities. This type of publications has an audience that is very similar to your customer base. Statistics say that affiliate marketing represents over 20% of the printing publications’ revenue.
Making your site mobile-friendly will guarantee that those visitors can consume your content and click on the affiliate marketing links.
I am not an influencer according to today’s meaning. I have less than 4000 followers on Instagram. I think Tiktok is annoying and ruining the meaning of good, quality content. But I have a blog and I thoroughly enjoy Pinteresting. And I like teaching people things I’ve learned and sharing about products I love. Yes, I would probably make more money if I had tens of thousands of followers or more traffic to my website and I’m sure I’ll get there one day but, baby steps. A lot of companies have programs. This is certainly not limited to the outdoor and hunting industries. Think beyond that if you want to open more doors to making money. Virtually every industry has brands that have affiliate programs. Outdoor, beauty, cooking, home & garden, travel, fitness, CBD, fashion, parenting/kid stuff, photography, etc. This is important. Not all individual brands host their own affiliate programs on their site. Many go through third parties to handle all the technical stuff like commissions. Some of those third parties include AvantLink, Commission Junction, Share-A-Sale, VigLink, Impact and many more. For example, you can go to the Bass Pro/Cabelas website to sign up for their program but it’ll direct you to sign up through Impact (a third party). Same with Sitka and Yeti. They’ll direct you to sign up through AvantLink. GoPro uses Ascend.
For YouTube, what you need to do is create a YouTube channel. Then upload relevant videos, and optimize your videos for visibility by SEO and add your affiliate links in your video description.
As a beginner, you need to evaluate certain factors before choosing an affiliate program.
So while most newbies jump straight into bed with Amazon (not a bad decision) very few pause to give the eBay affiliate program a second look.
Work from the comfort of home: You don’t need to have any special degree or skill set to do affiliate marketing, so you can work from anywhere. All you need is a laptop and the Internet.
Great article Daniel! You have covered almost everything that an affiliate marketer needs to look into. Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us.
The idea is not to spam your affiliate link, but to actively participate in the forum, sharing valuable content.
Affiliate programs use this combination of cookies and affiliate ids to track referrals and credit them to the right affiliate accounts.
Affiliate marketing is the process of earning money (commissions) every time you promote a company’s products or services and drive a sale. You only get paid every time you drive a sale, just like a commission-only sales representative.
If you’ve read some of my earlier articles, you know I’m a huge fan of Pinterest. I’ve developed a proven Pinterest marketing strategy that doubled my blog traffic (and affiliate income!) in a matter of weeks.
Thanks for the tips! I think it is very easy to side track these days with so much marketing noise about Affiliate Marketing especially if there’s too much focus on selling the product instead of promoting a second opinion or solid content.
There are two ways in which you can start. You can start as a merchant and have affiliates promoting your products or you can start as an affiliate and promote products.
We need to get a little psychological for a second here – people tend to search for things online for one of two main reasons: