Why Affiliate Marketing Is My First Choice
As I have made mention of in earlier posts, I favor affiliate marketing as place to begin to recommend to the fledgling business owner because their ability to get hurt is confined to incidental expenses. You can go out and forge eight affiliate relationships in under an hour and start recommending those affiliate brands immediately for zero cash outlay.
If your writing is adequately intriguing and motivating you might even make a sale your first day in business. It has happened before.
What Is Affiliate Marketing
Let's examine the last movie you saw that really got you riled up and about which you could not stop flapping your gob. Mine was 'Annabelle'. Awesome movie.
You should go see it.
IF I were to get 25% of the ticket you will buy when you go see it ...and I am certain you will because, yes, it really is that good... then that would be affiliate marketing.
In general, affiliate marketing can be summed up as you advertising a product or service in exchange for a reward, said reward either being products, discounts or cash overrides.
From a moral and ethical standpoint, I think if you are going to advertise something, you should either own it or want to own it. Some affiliate programs feel it necessary for you be an owner; others do not require it. I am involved in affiliate marketing relationships that subscribe to both positions. If your budget is limited, start with the latter.
How To Be Successful In Affiliate Marketing
There are a number of ways to promote your affiliate relationship.
- write about it on your blog
- post about it on other's blogs
- write about your link on Facebook
- Tweet your affiliate link on a regular basis.
- Make a YouTube video and make rapturous comments on how absolutely fabulous what you are promoting is.
- Include your link as part of the signature on all your messages.
- Include your link as part of your profile signature on the blogs and forums of which you are a member.
There are lots of other means as well a number of considerations to be kept in mind for each channel.
The issue of how to be successful in this endeavor is really the question of how to make money in affiliate marketing. Like anything else, there is a three step process to profits:
- Keyword research.
- Create content based on that research.
- Promote that content to rank.
The goal of this process is to create traffic to your link.
How To Get Started In Affiliate Marketing
Reading this article was a good place to start, seriously.
Constantly devoting resources to my own training and research as I do and having a business background in the brick and mortar business world, affiliates who work with me are going to benefit, too. I firmly believe that what this country needs is more independently employed folks who have time to participate in society rather than just being told about it on the 5 o'clock news.
In my mind, that means working from home. To reiterate earlier points, I believe that if you want to work from home affiliate marketing has:
- the lowest cost
- the least downside
- the shortest learning curve
- the highest, short term potential for profit.
- which means you the shortest path to replacing your paycheck.
Trying to find the best affiliate marketing program is the wrong tack to take. There is no 'best' program. Look for one whose products and services you like and will use.
ClickBank, for instance, is a great place to start as it has thousands of products in every channel conceivable. Go over to ClickBank and create a free account, knock around for a bit and, as you learn about affiliate marketing, you will learn about what you want to market.
Best Regards,
Tim Singleton
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