Here are the basic principles you can use to grow your affiliate marketing program and generate more profit.
However, before you ask customers to recommend your services to their family and friends, you need to make sure that they’re actually satisfied with your business. So, the first thing to take care is providing excellent customer service and making your customers happy.
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Don’t worry about that. You don’t have to be sharing your affiliate links with your family and friends!
To give a real-life example, you can see how I promote various affiliate partners in my software review posts:
Making money from an affiliate program is more about the profits than the revenue you’re getting.
They connect the person who needs the service and the person who provides the service.
Second, you have to validate your idea. You could just go ahead and build your idea. But, what if people don’t even want it? An idea is only good if people actually want it to come to life.
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As you can see this business is quite scalable. The more you manage to sell the more money you will get. For this reason, pro affiliates that know exactly what they need to do and how to do it can make millions in no time. They then advertise their wealth and success to others who try to compete with them.
I wrote this complete guide to making money with affiliate marketing because it’s something I love doing and many of my fellow YouTubers continually asked for advice in masterminds. They wanted to know how I earned more in affiliate income than advertising most months during my income reports. Like me, they were inspired by people like Michelle who were making tens of thousands of dollars every month while only working 10 hours a week and traveling the world. They wanted to know how I got started and how I make money with affiliate marketing so this post is my answer.
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On a side note, don’t get too serious with SEO. I mean, you don’t have to be a master of SEO. You need the basic understanding which you can implement in your affiliate promotion. There’s no harm to learn the details though.
Look at their profiles to see if they are promoting any of your competitors through affiliate marketing.
Just have one call to action in your sidebar. Again, it should offer people something in exchange for their email address.
Build relationships. This is a key feature in affiliate marketing. You have found your audience, you know what they want and need, now the only thing to do is to find who they look up to. Who do they share the most, or talk about with others? These are the influencers in your industry and they will have the most impact on the people in which you are trying to place your product in front of.
Apart from blogging, YouTube is probably the next best option – however, creating and editing videos is costlier and more difficult; but, if you like creating videos, it can be just as great an option.
Now it’s time to install the WordPress software. If you signed up with Bluehost as I have, they install WordPress automatically for you during the signup process.