Ways you can make money online with affiliate marketing
If you are on the Internet to make some money,
then there is no way you should skip the concept of Affiliate Marketing. In
2008, I started my career as an Affiliate Marketer for Amazon just before
Christmas.
During those days, I did not have the luxury
of getting a mentor or the pleasure of learning affiliate marketing
through training videos and courses. But, with some luck and hard work, I was
able to get a taste of my first dollar from the web. Christmas passed, and I
had sold over $10,000 worth products from Amazon, from which I got a commission
of around $997. I was blown!
The concept of Affiliate Marketing might sound
too difficult to you, but let me give you a few tips that I have embraced over
the past years that have given me the freedom to quit my 9to5 boring job and
earn a full-time income selling other people's products.
Learn To Be an Affiliate Marketer, Not a Corner Variety Store
You know what I mean right? Instead of just
trying to sell whatever comes your way to your audience, try to sell them
something that resonates with them. For example, you have a home and lifestyle
blog. If you try to sell Website Development or Hosting Related things to your
audience, it might come off as a hard on and repel people from your website.
People hate being sold to. They are on your website or blog for information, so
you should stick to a particular niche. In my case, I already had a Home and Gardening
Blog.
Remember, any product that you choose to
endorse on your website, you are indirectly putting your reputation at stake.
So do not just try and sell things that you have never tried or know don’t
work. The first product that I affiliated was an eBook on Home and Gardening.
My audience was already interested in Home and Gardening, and they were ready
to buy things that I vouched for.
INSIDER SECRET: There is an Affiliate Marketing Training Membership Website that I have started to help fellow marketers get started as affiliate marketers, teaching you all the tricks I personally use to earn from affiliate marketing.
There are tons of
Affiliate Marketing Video courses at IME - See samples here.
To Website or not
to Website!
If
you ever come across a product that does not naturally fit into your website
content strategy. For example, my website was completely devoted to Home and Gardening,
but outdoor toys for kids did not fit into my content strategy at all. How
would I still be able to affiliate it?
Selling
from your website is not the only option available…
Yes,
I still managed to endorse the cute outdoor toys for kids from Amazon, by
putting them up on my Pinterest Page.
I
did not forcefully write a review of the toys on my website because it would
look out of context with all the Gardening equipment and other tips, tricks and
reviews.
This
way, I was not only able to sell the products but also spread the toy love
amongst my visitors, because 67% of the crowd that my blog received was married
women.
Want to be an Affiliate Marketer? Stick To What I am About To Tell You..
Look
for "Affiliate Marketing Video Courses Online" or "Affiliate
Marketing Video Training" or use the source that I have tried myself. The
reason I will not give you a bunch of websites is because I did not have a hard
time growing my affiliate business after I joined the website that I told you
about before. Help yourself with all the courses and training material on the
website and do not tell everyone, because eventually you will be increasing
your competition that way. Good Luck.
