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How To Make Money With Affiliate Marketing
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How would you like to earn a little
extra cash each month? Or even replace your
income, working less to make more money…
Think its a pipe dream? well, think again.
- Most people know that there are millions of
dollars being spent every single day
purchasing products and services online. But
did you know that you could be earning a %
on every sale made by simply referring and
recommending the products that you like to
people.
- It’s one of the best ways to get started
making money online – you don’t need a
website, you don’t need a blog, you don’t
even need any cash to get started, although
these things can help, you can certainly
start without them. By helping consumers
research and choose products they already
want to buy, which could be as simple as
writing a 500 word article (just like this
one) you could be earning a nice little
second income.
- Or if you want to take it a little more
seriously, you can earn a full income, even
more than most “real world” jobs pay.
- I
personally make a full time living through
affiliate marketing, and have been doing it
now for about 5 years. Working from home,
choosing the hours to suit my lifestyle, and
making a lot more than I ever made working
60 hours a week in a job I hated.
- But if you really want to achieve some
success with affiliate marketing you need a
plan that will get you the level of income
you want. A lot of people I speak too love
the “Idea” of making money online, they
usually ask me a million questions, and tell
me how serious they are, how they are going
to go home and get stuck into it, read all
the stuff I recommend and get started asap.
- But then most of them never actually
follow through on any of it. Then 6 months
later I will see them again, some will avoid
the topic completely, while others tell me
again how serious they are, and they are
really going to do it “this time”.
- It’s pretty amusing for me, watching
people make up excuses as to why they havnt
done anything.
- Personally I don’t really care if they do
it or not, it doesn’t effect me at all.
Although it would be nice to have more
friends who arent working all week to play
golf with and take the boat out. But other
than that, it makes no difference to me.
- I don’t really understand it though, I
believe its the perfect business, think
about it, you can make as much money as you
like, your income is a direct result of the
amount of effort you put in. You can work
whatever hours you like. (Which is very few
when you have been doing it for a few years)
Plus you can do it from anywhere you can
plug in a laptop. So if you like to Holiday
or travel around the world, its the perfect
business.
- But how do you get involved?
- The best place to start is by going to a
website that houses a wide range of
affiliate products. This keeps everything
together in one easy to access place and
gives you plenty to explore. You can also
get an idea of which particular areas you
would like to concentrate on. The worst
thing you can do in affiliate marketing is
to use the scattergun approach.
- This is when you try and promote a wide
range of products that aren’t connected with
each other, all from a single website. In
essence it isn’t aimed at anyone – and
you’ll make fewer sales as a result.
- Instead, do some research and come up
with a specific group of people that you can
find a wide range of products for. Or find a
particular problem that people are searching
online for solutions too, and direct them to
the solution. Not only do you stand a much
better chance of making a sale, But people
will actually thank you for helping them
find a solution, and be more than happy that
you got paid to help them.
- But if you don’t have a website, how can
you promote your products?
- There are several ways of doing this. One
of the best is to use article directories
like EzineArticles.com or Web 2.0 sites like
Squidoo.com, which allow you to build web
pages for free on pretty much any subject
you like. Once these get indexed by Google
and you do a little promotion for them, then
you’ll start getting a steady stream of
traffic – if you’ve picked the right topics
and search terms to target.
- At the beginning I mentioned the need to
have a plan to reach the level of income you
want. Not many affiliates actually do this
and it’s one of the main reasons why more
people aren’t making a lot of money with
affiliate marketing. It’s certainly not
because the potential isn’t there – it’s
because they don’t plan to take advantage of
it in the right way.
- You should always look at how much you
will get by way of commission for each
product. Obviously the less the commission,
the more units you will need to sell to
achieve your desired income. You’ll achieve
this through a balance of products
obviously, but it’s worth bearing in mind.
- You also need to think about the type of
people you are marketing to. What kind of
income do they bring in? How much are they
likely to want to spend on the products
you’ll be offering? If you don’t match these
two aspects up properly you will struggle to
make any real sales.
- It’s also helpful to set short, medium
and long term goals to help keep things in
perspective. A short term goal might be to
sell five products a week continually, for
example. A long term goal could be to make
$100,000 a year from affiliate marketing.
Goals will help you to decide where you want
to go with your fledgling affiliate
marketing business.
- Another important point to be aware of is
that it’s wise to protect your income
wherever you can. What I mean by this is
that affiliate links can be rather obvious
at times, and some people will actually
delete your link and go into the site and
buy something while denying you the
commission.
- The easy way to prevent this is to simply
buy a domain for each product you are going
to promote, and redirect it to the affiliate
offer. There are plenty of free tools that
do this for you online, and it’s really the
safest way to protect your interests. It
also changes a long ugly link into a nice
short one – much nicer for the article
directories!
- Affiliate marketing is like any other
business, once you start generating some
income, then you can start to invest some of
that money back into your business to ensure
you enjoy ongoing growth.
- In short, start slowly and keep those
visions of a huge income in perspective to
begin with. You’ll soon get to know your way
around the business and with each new
experience you can build your knowledge and
earn even more in the months and years to
come.
- When I was first starting out, I learnt
the basics by purchasing a few books and
e-books on the topic, but mostly it was left
to trial and error. I had to make a lot of
mistakes in order to find a few good ideas
that worked and made money.
- Fortunately these days there are some
really good resources available for people
looking to learn this business. So if you’re
serious about becoming an affiliate
marketer, check out some of the resources on
this page.
- The most important thing to do though, is
to just get started, do something right now,
then follow it up tomorrow with something
else… Try and do something every day towards
your goal, don’t put it off for a single
day, and before you know it, you will have a
nice steady stream of profits coming in.
- Too many of the people I talk to, put
things off until they have more time, but
then they forget, and never end up getting
started at all. So commit to yourself, take
some action and get started today.
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5 Tips to Increase Your
Affiliate Earnings
- Affiliate marketing is probably the most common
monetizing method that about every webmasters use to
make money online. How to better emphasize on increasing
those profits? Read on to learn more.
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- Picking Affiliates that Matches Your
Theme: Picking affiliates that best matches
your site’s theme may sound like the obvious thing
to do, but you’d be surprised at how many webmasters
are displaying affiliate banners that aren’t
somewhat even correlated to their site’s content.
Although promoting another affiliate may pay more,
in the long run your most likely losing money
because your target audience is possibly on money
making, and your displaying banners on weight loss
products, that wouldn’t make sense no? Targeted
banners are the way to go. Although payout may be a
little bit lower, it can really add up to being
massive once you have a large audience of readers
who sign up. Stick with promoting affiliates that
are somewhat related to your content. You’ll see the
most success that way.
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- Experiment With Different Affiliates:
When I say experiment with different affiliates, I
mean try a variety of payment methods, such as…
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- CPM (Cost per Impression)
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- CPA (Cost per Action)
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- PPS (Pay per Sale)
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- PPC (Pay per Sale)
- Every site is unique, and there is no definite
answer as to which is the best method of payment. It
all varies site to site, you just have to experiment
with the different networks your self and emphasize
on those that bring you the most success.
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- Try Different Styles & Tones:
Try blending in ads or mixing banners together to
overall have a better look to your web page. Better
incorporating ads into your website is very
important in terms of generating more clicks,
curiosity, and focus to the ads to help generate
more income. I cannot emphasize how important this
process is.
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- Polish Up Your Articles: Your
articles lacking power or enthusiasm on affiliates
your promoting? If they seem dull to you, then they
are probably to your readers as well. Polishing up
your articles to better emphasize on what your
promoting can be the difference between getting 5
leads per day to 15. I have had many clients who
asked me before why they weren’t getting much leads,
and the moment I read their first paragraph, I
already knew why. This is probably the most
important tip of them all, for content is key to
making a successful income with affiliates.
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- Cleaning Out External Links: If
you have too many links that simply link out to
sites other than yours, then that can be a really
bad thing. You are losing valuable customers who
could be making you more money online. Try losing
those long blogrolls and sum it up to 3-5 links max.
Lowering your external links is important to keeping
your visitors alert and alive when reading from your
website.
Affiliate marketing and online
money
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Any
one who wants to make
money online in an easy
way must learn how to make money
through affiliate marketing.
This is in general a basic type
of internet marketing. This is
also good for the new entrants
in this stream because as a
beginner you do not have to
squander your time and money for
your own product.
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Being an affiliate marketer, you
are not required to sell or
resell your affiliate products.
This does not involve making
your direct involvement. In fact
your affiliate marketing
website, blog concentrate on
those problems what have
specialization in your market
experience. Generally most
products, mainly the information
products are sold to only those
people who want solutions to
their problems.
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While selling other’s product
you do not have to worry for
paying any one for writing a
sales letter as it is already
done for you. Again you do not
have to worry regarding. Test
different versions of sales
letter to see which works
better. Generally product
owners follow this practice all
the time because even something
small as a new headline or
special bullet points can add
thousands of dollars value to
divert enough of traffic. The
main benefit of this is that you
are able to use the sales letter
which has already been written
to locate not only the problem
but also the emotional aspects
associated with it. Then in your
blog or web pages online, you
are able to speak about those
problems from the point of view
of consumer.
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