How to Do Affiliate Marketing
How do you get started with Affiliate Marketing as a newbie?
Affiliate marketing is an online process to drive sales and receive commissions for it. Basically when you do affiliate marketing, you are promoting other companies products through affiliate links. You become a salesman so that every time the company sales a product due to your work, they reward you. Now, I will explain how to start affiliate marketing in three simple steps.
How to choose a niche
There are already millions of blogs, YouTube channels and other platforms that are sharing really good content. So, how do you compete with this? Easy, choose a good niche.
The starting point to decide the perfect niche is to focus on something you are passionate about and that has interest.
You like food. Don’t choose just food, this category is too big! Better go for something like Mediterranean food or Mexican food, or maybe just paella or tacos. Now, it is time to pay attention to your audiences needs. Try to detect what are the problems your audiences might have and look for a solution to offer. Always make sure that a product will satisfy your public needs before you recommend it. Finally, if you are a beginner, be careful when choosing the products. A brand-new unproven product may be a waste of time, because there is no market for it yet.
How to select an offer to promote
First, you will have to choose between expensive products and selling fewer units or cheap products and selling more units. Check the commissions for each product and decide which one suit you best.
Second, choose offers that allows you to write a lot of content, for this purpose you can make a quick Google search and see what others are writing about it.
Third, research what products are already selling well. An easy way to see this is by going to Amazon, then All department and finally click on Todays Deals.
Also, you can visit ClickBank and check which are the top selling products. Finally check the keywords that are more relevant to your niche using tools like Ubersuggest to make sure they have enough search volume to make it worth your while.
How to post the offer on a blog or free web and get traffic to it
In this last step I will mention some ways to make more people visit your blog. The first option is using PPC, in other words, paying for getting traffic to your blog or website.
The advantage is that as soon as you start paying for ads, your traffic increases. The disadvantage, is that it is much more difficult to learn, can be expensive, and is not advisable for beginners.
A better option is learning about search engine optimization (SEO), a practice that make your website to appear higher in the search engines like Google. SEO is about knowing what your audience is looking for, create content about those and get organic traffic coming to your site naturally.
Finally, you can build an email list which helps to communicate your audience what’s new on the website. But before, you need to convince them to subscribe, a possibility is offering something that may like them, like an e-book or an online course.
Over time you can send any promotional items you wish and build a relationship for future sales.