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A quick Google search of "affiliate marketing" brings up about 678 million hits. Even if you narrow that down to "how to get started with affiliate marketing," you're still going to find 88.5 million results. That's a lot of content to wade through, especially since most of it is outdated, and a lot of what isn't outdated starts in the middle of the process. We're going to start this affiliate marketing how-to from the beginning so you can get started even if you don't already know what a "cookie lifetime" is or why it's important (don't worry, we'll tell you). Let's dive in!
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With this in mind, the ideal situation for affiliate marketing would only be a supportive income stream rather than your main source of revenue. To minimize this risk, don’t focus all of your efforts onto just one affiliate network – diversify your risk across affiliate networks so that if one of them suddenly decides to be an asshole, you could just leave and not worry about your income stream so much.
Before even setting up your blog, you should define your blogging niche according to your expertise, your passion, and interest for the topic, the profitability of the niche, whether there are many bloggers and affiliates in your niche.
Find ways to share your content online. Build social networks on social media like Facebook and Instagram. Offer value so that your social media followers will be attracted to your content, eventually land on your blog and buy products through your content links.
In addition, they offer opportunities to expand your knowledge through their sections dedicated to affiliate newbies. You can find plenty of valuable tips on how to start affiliate business, find your niche, conduct market research, find marketing ideas, etc.
Jamorama I’ve made a bunch of money on, Long Tail Pro, this one. These have been around for a long time and you can actually go and search for different products that you can promote, so Fast Track Coaching, Niche, Sherpa, whatever. There’s video marketing, SCM.
Note: You can create a free account with any other website as well but these are one of the most reliable and recommended websites.
How much money you can make with affiliate marketing depends on a few different factors. Such as your experience level with SEO/PPC and online marketing, what niche you are in, how much money you can invest and how lucky you are.
Growing an email list, too, can be done in numerous ways. My favorite is through a combination of guest blogging and offering an enticing freebie. Here’s the simple formula:
The advantages of affiliate marketing for beginners and advanced affiliate marketers are numerous. Some of them include:
While those are questions you'll have to consider for yourself, let's take a look at some general types of affiliate programs so you can begin brainstorming potential avenues for your own marketing efforts:
Click on the "Settings" option on the left navigation bar then select "Permalinks" on the submenu that appears. Another menu labeled "Common Settings," will pop up. You want to choose the option that reads "Post Name," then click on "Save Changes" to finish the process.
Whether you work directly with affiliate merchants or through a network, you’ll have to apply, be approved, and provide certain information so that you can be paid. Your personal/business contact information for tax and reporting purposes. Your bank account where commissions will be sent. An affiliate link. Whenever you post about the product, you’ll use this trackable link. It will have a long tag at the end of each link that includes your affiliate ID.
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.
Shareasale has also been in the business for the past 20 years and it is free to join. They have established a partnership with some big brands like NBA and Lulu’s.
Pro tip: Can you get your merchant to give you a special deal for your audience? If you promise to get their product in front of a couple hundred people, they’ll often happily give you a discount or special bundle to further incentivize people to buy.