If you love to teach, then you’ll love this strategy. Promote a free webinar on how you use a certain tool, product, or service. Spend 90% of the webinar on just showing how you use the tool. The other 10% of the webinar share your affiliate link as an easy way to get started.
Emails are a personal communication medium. It’s a great way to engage with people one-on-one and introduce the products you are promoting. It’s good to keep regular contact with your subscribers so start sending a monthly (or even weekly/fortnightly) email newsletter. One very effective way to attract subscribers is to offer something in exchange for their email.
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Finding the right products to promote as an affiliate is crucial for your business because it not only has an impact on your earnings but also on your brand image.
With the basic terms clarified, let’s get an overview of how you can best get started with building your affiliate marketing business.
Being aware of these negative behaviors is half the battle. After all, you want to ensure you’re paying for quality traffic you wouldn’t otherwise be able to attract.
Even though I’d like to talk more about blogging in this post, I’d like to focus more on affiliate marketing so I’ll leave it at that. If you want to learn how to do this, read this post on How To Start A WordPress Blog In Under 30 Minutes.
Story by Res Marty. Marty has always dreamed of working from home and making money online. He talks about how you can achieve the dream through affiliate marketing on his blog, Affiliate Academy.
On your website, make use of the many sharing tools and plugins that are available. Many of these come in free and premium versions, and often the free ones will be enough for what you need.
After signing up with an affiliate program, you’ll get an affiliate link, a special URL that contains your affiliate username or ID. You use this link whenever you mention the advertiser’s product on your website or in other marketing efforts, such as on social media.
As you can see, coupon sites have their pros and cons for brands, but they make an excellent source to drive traffic and revenue to your site at the end of the day.
Some people confuse affiliate marketing with referral marketing. Referral marketing is “a method of promoting products or services to new customers through referrals, usually word of mouth.” So, instead of working with marketers, you’re working with existing customers.
Here's a screenshot from Offervault, a platform that lists CPA offers from different companies. Note that each offer also mentions the payout amount per lead.
Great post. There’s so much information out there that it’s nice to find an easy to follow and easy-to-understand breakdown.
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Quick side note here, do not be discouraged if you see some big players in your niche selling your product.
Probably one of the biggest affiliates in the world, MoneySuperMarket has seen numerous success since its launch in the early 2000s. Today, the company has a revenue of over £300 million and its founder, Simon Justin Nixon, is a certified billionaire.
Affiliate marketing requires dedication and commitment, and though it may seem impossible at first, the rewards will change your life.