Last week I published a post on what affiliate marketing is. This week, let’s talk about getting started as an affiliate marketer.
Affiliate marketing is a great way to earn a passive income. Someone else creates the product, you pimp it, and you make a cut of all sales. It’s like being a retailer.
Top Affiliate Programs
The mother of them all is Amazon. But there are others.
- e-junkie has info products like e-books and programs
- Commission Junction you will find higher-end vendors like Apple, Audible and more
- Clickbank digital products like e-books, video programs and more
Pretty much any online site where payment is taken provides an opportunity for affiliates. If your readers are into online poker, there are plenty of online poker sites that offer affiliate programs. Just google “your niche + affiliate programs” and you’re sure to find something that will provide value to your readers and cash to your pocket.
Start Marketing
Once you have chosen a product or service to represent, write about it. Tell your readers what they stand to gain from buying/joining. Be sincere. Don’t make absurd promises, but talk about how the product or service can help the buyer in their own lives. Maybe that help is in the form of learning; maybe it’s entertainment.
If you find a great product that is far outside the niche of the website you already run, build a mini-site for that product! A URL and a simple landing page with keyword-dense copy will attract search engine traffic. Any other sites you own can also direct traffic over to your mini-site/landing page.
Earning Money
When a product or service is sold through your affiliate link, you can earn between 25-75% of the sale, usually to your PayPal account. If you sell one, a hundred, or a thousand copies of an e-book that someone else wrote, you receive that money. That’s why it’s considered a passive income: someone else does the work, you make the money. Whee!
Next week, I’ll post Affiliate Marketing: Beyond the Basics
To learn more about affiliate marketing and how to make a full-time passive income, check out Rosalind Gardner’s Super Affiliate Handbook.
Once you finish reading the ‘Super Affiliate Handbook,’ you will have all the information you need to start your own profitable affiliate marketing business quickly, easily and inexpensively.
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