Affiliates receive $250 for every referred customer who qualifies for the loan, and get an additional $50 when the referral gets approved. Each small business you refer will also receive one $50 gift card once they're approved by Kabbage. There is no limit to the number of referrals you can make, or the amount you can receive.
They can also promote their content to get transactions by putting up ads, capturing search traffic from SEO, or building an email list.
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40% of marketing professionals quote affiliate marketing as the most desired digital skill.
There’s a number of email marketing tools out there, and you’ve probably heard of the big ones like Mailchimp, but one tool I recommend you investigate is Aweber.
That’s the link that you’ll use in your email promotions, so make sure to keep it safe. Whenever, where ever you want to promote the affiliate product, you’ll use that link.
So, if you want to see traffic almost instantly, you want to learn how Pinterest works.
But I was determined to learn as much as possible about affiliate marketing for dummies (read: beginners!) and bloggers and take my income to the next level.
Keep in mind that your affiliate program needs to be attractive in order to garner attention from the top affiliates. If it’s too difficult to generate conversions, it’ll be more challenging to find marketers that want to promote your products.
The very first step to getting started with affiliate marketing is to choose a niche (or "vertical" if you want to sound super knowledgeable). This niche is what you're going to "stock your store" with. And we're not going for a general store vibe here. As an affiliate marketer, you want to be known for something.
I wouldn’t say it’s hard either. You need to figure out how it is working for you and once you have found it then all you can expect is growth. Check out Carly’s course on Affiliate Marketing.
Infolinks is another popular ad network that a publisher can join to monetize their sites by displaying ads.
I wanted to share a few of my favorites so that you can get a sense of what an affiliate program entails, and start to get a feel for what might work on your site.
One of the best parts about becoming an Amazon affiliate is that the user doesn’t even have to buy the product you referred them to. If they buy anything during that visit, you earn a commission.
You are so welcome, Diana! I’m thrilled that you are finding some gems to help you in your blog journey. Cheers! 🙂
Use Social Media, Forums, and Other Platform: I've done a detailed article on NicheHacks that shows you exactly how you can drive tons of traffic to your site from completely free sources.
Affiliate Networks act as a middleman between companies and their affiliates. They manage the relationship and providing third-party checks and balances.
Let’s look at an example. Say I sign up for and get accepted into the Pit Boss Affiliate Program. I go to the Pit Boss affiliate portal and they give me unique links (for grills, pellets, etc) that I can use on my blog. I post a recipe using my Pit Boss on my blog and include an affiliate link to the grill I used in various places on my post. Thank link goes to the product page of the grill I used. Someone reads my blog post and decides they want the same grill I have so they click my affiliate link and it takes them to that grill on the Pit Boss site. They purchase that grill. I get a commission on that sale because I assisted in that sale. I have a full time job that I’m not ready to leave. So I use affiliate marketing as a supplement to my income. It’s my side hustle. Sometimes it’ll take care of my gas money for the month and sometimes it’ll take care of the mortgage and my car note too. I’m not at the point where I’m making six (or even five) figures yet. But a LOT of people use affiliate marketing as their full time job and sole source of income and I believe it. Maybe one day I’ll be at that point but until then, it’ll remain a fun side hustle.