How To Succeed In Affiliate Marketing |
Introduction
Affiliate marketing is one of the most effective ways for anyone to earn money online. This is a quick and passive method to earn cash that is highly scalable, and that is easy to set up. No technical skill is required, and if you choose the right products and connect with the right market, you can stand to make hundreds of even thousands of dollars in a short space of time.
But let’s back up for just a moment. First: What precisely is affiliate marketing? How does it work? And what makes it so much more effective than other money-making strategies for internet entrepreneurs? Strategies for Becoming a Successful Affiliate Marketer, How to Be a Successful Affiliate Marketer-Secret Method
Essentially, affiliate marketing means selling a product that is not yours for a commission. You then get to earn money for each sale you make, meaning that all you need to do is to connect that product with an audience that will appreciate it.
When selling affiliate products such as eBooks, you will often find
that you get to keep 70% or more of the profit! Choose the right
product, and you can earn just as much money as someone who
built a product themselves.
In this blog, you will learn the benefits of affiliate marketing, as well as how to get started quickly and efficiently in order to begin making money. With smart product selection, a primed audience, and just a little bit of good fortune, this could genuinely change your life.
For those that are already selling affiliate products, This blog should serve to provide you with the additional skills and tips you need to really take your business to the next level.
- Why Affiliate Marketing is the
Best Way to Make Money for Beginners.
Affiliate marketing is a concept that eludes many people. How can you make money from selling something you didn’t make?
How can earning money online really be that simple.
The difference is that you aren’t going door to door. The internet is your door and this is a door that gives you access to everyone on the planet. That right away gives you a huge advantage – and especially when you learn how you can get the visitors to come to you.
The
other difference here is that the commission scheme is going to be highly different. Regular salesmen will
normally get a small cut of whatever they sell: perhaps 5-10%. As mentioned,
the difference with affiliate marketing, is that you’re going to get as much as
70-80% of the proceeds. That’s right: often as an affiliate marketer you are
actually going to earn more than the
creator of the product!
This is what makes affiliate marketing so hugely appealing: because it means that you can start earning just as though you were selling your own product, but without having to invest lots of money to create something from scratch.
What’s more, is that because you’ll be selling a product that is already out there, you can choose something that is already selling in big numbers. When you create your own product to sell, there is always a small risk that you’ll build something that no one wants. When you simply market something that is highly popular, that becomes much less likely!
Another huge benefit of affiliate marketing is just how scalable it is. If you create a single web page selling the merits of an affiliate product, then you can start profiting from it within hours. In that case then, what is to stop you from making another page to sell another product? And another page to sell another product?
- How to Find and Sell Affiliate Products.
Something else to keep in mind here though, is that many affiliate products will include marketing materials along with them. Remember: if you are doing well, that means that the creator is doing well. They have every reason to want to see you succeed and as such, they will provide things like emails, a sales page, banner ads and other materials in many cases.
Selling Physical Products and Services
If you look up information on affiliate marketing, then you’ll likely find that the vast majority of it focusses on selling digital products through the likes of JVZOO, Click Bank and Commission Junction.
On Amazon, things are different. Amazon is already splitting the profits with the manufacturer, they have to pay for storage, shipping and postage and generally they can’t afford to offer you more than 4% or maybe 8% at a push.
This means you’ll have to sell a lot more items at much higher prices in order to turn a proper profit.
But does that mean you should rule Amazon Associates out? Not at all.
For starters, selling physical products is often much more profitable than selling digital products. Think about it: are you more likely to spend lots of money on something you can hold in your hands and show to friends, or something you have to read on a computer screen?
Better yet, Amazon is a recognized brand and a company people trust. That means they’re much more likely to buy from them – and they can buy with one click!
Amazon has a massive roster of products you can sell and that means there will be something relevant to go with nearly every article. And finally, if someone clicks on your URL but ends up buying something else from Amazon… you still get paid! This can potentially result in a lot of earnings if someone were to – for example – buy a new computer and you were to get 8% of that.
Even if you didn’t promote the product directly, as long as you sent the buyer to Amazon in the first place, you would earn that commission.
So, the best thing to do? Use both types of affiliate marketing! But just don’t leave Amazon out of the equation or you’ll be missing out! In future chapters, you’ll discover how to promote Amazon products slightly differently, in order to get the most from them.
- How to Choose Affiliate
Products Wisely.
A lot of your success then will ride on
your ability to choose the right product.Here’s what you need to know.
What Not to Sell
- Building an Audience and Marketing the Products.
The good news, is that if you choose a topic that you find interesting, you will essentially be earning large amounts of money for doing something you enjoy.
But in order to get to this point, you first need to build that audience and gain their trust as an influencer.
Are there other ways to sell affiliate products? Of course! And we’ll explore those in this chapter too.
But, I still highly recommend that you build that audience and make sure that people are interested in your brand.
How to Create a Brand That Sells
Gaining this kind of influence of course is not easy. In order to get to the point where people will buy things just because you recommend them means putting in a lot of time, and making an honest attempt to provide real value over time.
This starts by creating a website along with a strong social media presence. Don’t try and sell right away, but instead spend time building up that trust and loyalty through a campaign of delivering excellent quality content consistently.
The most important thing? Have a clear, strong brand, with a great mission statement, and a concrete “buyer persona.” (The buyer persona is the portrait of your “ideal customer.”)
The biggest mistake to make is to try and create a very general website with as broad an appeal as possible. As with the digital product you buy in the first place, this can be a mistaken strategy. The reason for that, is that when you go extremely broad, you also necessarily create a brand that is dull and uninteresting.
A “fitness” website for instance is too generic and too done to death to be popular. It means competing with the entire internet pretty much. How do you stand out in such a saturated market?
Consider instead then having a website that is about Fitness for Over 40s. Or how about Paleo Fitness. Or CrossFit. Or Outdoor Fitness. Or Hardcore Bodybuilding.
All of these options have a much clearer target audience, a much clearer mission statement, and a more interesting hook. They will each appeal to fewer people, but the people that they do appeal to, will be FAR more likely to engage and be excited that there is something out there specifically for them.
The brand should then be born out of this clear and passionate goal. That means that when someone looks at your logo or your website design, they should know instantly whether it will appeal to them or not. Your brand should strongly communicate who it is for and what it is about: and your content should then back this up.
The hardcore bodybuilding site will likely be red and black with lots of dark images of extremely strong guys, and articles about “boosting testosterone with compound lifts.”
Meanwhile, the paleo fitness site will likely be green and white with images of people running outside in nature. From here, all your advertising, all your social posts, and EVERYTHING should be congruent with this image.
And then, when you choose your affiliate product, it should ideally speak to that exact same audience. And you will market it in that way, and sell it with that value proposition.
What’s ALSO crucial is that you provide unique and new content that demonstrates real expertise. Here’s a shock: if you hire a writer who doesn’t know about the topic, then you will NEVER sell the affiliate product. Why?
Because all that hired writer CAN do, is to research the topic and regurgitate it in their own words.
That means that none of the content is going to be new or insightful, and might well be out of date or incorrect (because they won’t know the topic well enough to identify when this is the case).
You should write yourself or find a writer who is genuinely passionate about the topic. Why? Because then they will have something NEW and exciting to say! This is how you become a thought leader, and get people to listen and to sign up: because they want a new perspective.
Be bold. Be different. Be passionate. Then choose a product that speaks to the very same audience.
Placing Your Link
As an affiliate marketer, selling couldn’t be easier. You’re given one link, which is a link to promote a product and you can then make sales and cash from anywhere you place that link.
So the question is: where do you put
it?
Most of us will place our link on a landing page/sales page, but this is only one option. In this section, we’ll look at how that works, as well as several more options.
- Create a Sales Page
- Build a Store
- Place Link on Sales Page
- Send Traffic to Sales Page Both From Your own Website, and Through Marketing.
- Direct Selling Through Facebook and Other Platforms.
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Find digital product and get an affiliate link
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Create a sales page
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Place link on sales page
• Send traffic to sales page both from your own website, and through marketing.
Whatever you do, you can now enjoy earning money
while you sleep – and the more you experiment, the more efficient your sales
technique will become!
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