Thursday, 17 October 2013

Affiliate Marketing - Make Money

By Brenda J. Morris


The ugly truth is that almost tens of thousands of people who get involved in a business opportunity become part of a huge market segment that's being misled, manipulated, and exploited.There seems to be no shortage of opportunities out there these days. Within the home business industry, you'll find all kinds of different 'flavors' of money-making opportunities, but generally speaking, there are 3 primary business models that most people are familiar with within the home business arena. I want to tell you about one of them: affiliate marketing business.

To begin you will need to have a website, blog or some other place to place advertisements. There are many affiliate marketing programs online and you need to pick the best ones for your website or blog. The best approach is to choose programs that match your website content and to have that content work to enhance your website. There are many providers online that have multiple programs you can join or you can join individual programs online.Make sure your site is somewhat established before you join one of them, as you need the traffic coming in to make money with them. Don't make the mistake of joining dozens of affiliates, find a few that match your content and pick the best ones.

Work From Home - With unemployment at record highs and most people unhappy with their jobs, people are turning to other resources for extra monthly income.Start up Cost Are Minimal - An Affiliate Marketing Business is very cost efficient. On average, you can get started for under $100. Most professional marketers will have their own domain name, hosting package and autoresponder. All fairly inexpensive business necessities when starting an online internet business.No products to create - When joining an affiliate program, you choose the products you want to promote without all the hassles of actually having to create the product. As the affiliate you also do not have to handle the shipping and customer service issues.

If you're going to try affiliate marketing for beginners you need to avoid some mistakes. The first mistake is that you can't just plaster your website with advertisements and expect people to click and buy through your links. You must create great content on your website or blog so people have an incentive to click. You must give visitors valuable information that they can.Having an affiliate marketing blog is a very effective way to offer products while also building both your credibility and a following! The problem many affiliates encounter however is that to build a successful blog much of your focus needs to be placed on your readers! The typical affiliate mindset is to generate traffic, make product offers and earn commissions but when blogging this is NOT a good approach! Here are 5 common errors made by affiliates that prevent them from developing a successful blog that will help them earn an income!

Affiliate marketing is selling someone else's service or product for which you receive a commission. What makes it so attractive to marketers is that you don't have to worry about producing, updating and supporting the product or service. That is all completed by the product or service owner.As an affiliate, your job is to try to push as much converting traffic as you can to the sales page of the product or service. This way you benefit as you get your commission and the owner benefits as they make money too without having to worry about traffic etc.The majority of the big online stores have affiliate programs (such as Amazon) and the built-in affiliate tracking is why so many digital product creators use services like Clickbank or Digiresults. Anything you can buy on the internet probably has an affiliate program.The commission structures are different for all products and services. For example, Amazon only pay a small percentage for select items. Clickbank products tend to pay out between 50% and 75% of the total cost.This does not mean that promoting Clickbank products is necessarily more profitable though. We will discuss this further later on.

With a commitment to the process of building yourself a platform visitors will enjoy you'll need to be patient as to when you should make product offers! People must first feel comfortable returning to your site and you must encourage them to do so by posting great information! Once you're able to build up a sizable following you'll find it much easier to promote affiliate products to them! At this point trust and loyalty exist with your readers so they'll be more receptive to your product offers!

Links will pay you for all purchases on that site up until a set number of days after the initial click of the link. This number of days is called cookie length and it varies for each affiliate program. Some can be 60 days, some only 24 hours.Some systems, such as Digiresults or JVZoo, require that you apply to become an affiliate and must explain how you plan to promote a product. Others, such as Clickbank, allow you to be an affiliate for all products or services once you have joined up.Once you have joined an affiliate program, often the product owner will supply the affiliate with banner ads to use and emails to send out to lists. For the beginner this takes some of the work out of promoting the product.




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