Black Fridays, Cyber Mondays, Christmas, Easter, and whatnot. For most of these holidays, vendors tend to launch special time-limited deals and discounts.
Third parties like Commission Junction, for example, manage thousands of brand’s affiliate programs that you can potentially sign up for. So, when I made a Commission Junction account, I browsed the different brands and came across Sportsman’s Guide, BruMate, Columbia, Academy, MooseJaw, and tons more. They even have brands like Angel Soft (yes, the TP), Walgreens, Sonos, TJ Maxx, Ray-Ban, Tire Rack, etc. SO MANY brands have affiliate programs!! You just have to take the time to look for them.
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Yup, ever since I started focusing affiliate programs for beginners, I started making an additional $1-2k a month, which doesn’t sound like too much, but on average, that’s an extra $18,000 a year!
To set up an email course, the process is very similar to setting up the welcome email series: all you need is an email marketing tool like ConvertKit to set up a sequence. Since you’re sending them a course on the same topic, it’s a good idea to send an email every day – each email can be anywhere from a few hundred words to a few thousand.
Affiliate marketing programs are different because they are special partnerships that not everyone has access to. Many have special requirements like a certain number of followers or website traffic and some even require a certain number of signups per month.
I’ll only give you resources for starting digital products, because I don’t want you to waste precious time and money on creating a physical product on your first try 🙂 How to launch an online course and make $220,750 in 10 daysHow To Create & Sell Your Online Course The Right WaySPI 136: How to Build an Online Course that Sells with David Siteman Garland The Ultimate Guide to Publishing Your eBook on Amazon’s Kindle PlatformHow to (Really) Make $1,000,000 Selling E-Books – Real-World Case StudiesHow to Start to Write an eBook and Actually Finish it in 30 Days Podcasting for Beginners: The Complete Guide to Getting Started With PodcastsHow to Start a Podcast – Pat’s Complete Step-By-Step Podcasting TutorialHow To Podcast: The Ultimate Guide to Podcasting
Once you can access analytics data you can monitor the performance of specific posts and view statistics like engagement rates, likes, and clicks through to your website. Some platforms will show how many times your profile has been viewed and the number of clicks on any of the links included there.
Then, you need to embed the affiliate links in the content, and that’s about it. When people read your book and like what they are reading, they are going to eventually click on the links, and who knows, they might convert? One of the best things that you can do is to make use of Google Trends in order to figure out the latest trending topics, and then create an ebook accordingly.
Prepping your content for YouTube is actually a pretty similar process to blogging. That’s because people often use YouTube just like they use Google – they search for long-tail keywords (most of the time) to find relevant videos.
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Moral of the story, don’t get discouraged. There will be some brands who will be happy to take you even if you don’t have a track record and then there will be some you have to work much harder for. It’s totally possible for you to make money through a blog or social media using affiliate marketing. While this was just an overview, I hope it gave you a better understanding of what this tactic is and what’s possible. You absolutely have to put in the work, especially if you want this to replace the income you receive from a 9 to 5. Or maybe you want to keep a part time side hustle. Either way, you have to start somewhere and learn along the way. and if you’re still thinking about starting your own blog, go here. 2 thoughts on “Affiliate Marketing for Beginners”
As an affiliate, you get access to various creative assets, ranging from banners to search boxes and travel widgets, that allow your visitors to conduct a search on your site and display flights results on Cheapflights' page. This is their most popular travel affiliate tool and generates the highest revenue per visit.
There are literally thousands of websites about affiliate marketing and how to get involved.
Some programs, like Google AdSense, are Pay-Per-Click (PPC), meaning that it will pay you money for each advertisement or link click. Each affiliate program is different, but the advertiser will let you know the amount you can make from each lead, conversion, or sale when you sign up.
Most major affiliate programs for physical products or services will have an affiliate manager, whose sole job is to help you generate more sales.
This is one of the most in depth videos I’ve shot on how to start affiliate marketing, so tune in while you read this post:
You’ll want to make sure you’re entering into an affiliate partnership with end-to-end visibility. Are they upfront about the terms and conditions of their referral program? Are they trustworthy, and can you count on the fact that they’ll be consistent and honest with the way they calculate your affiliate commissions?