HOW TO START AFFILIATE MARKETING (A Step By Step Guide)

Have you been thinking of starting Affiliate Marketing? But do not know how to start. I will be breaking down everything you need to get started.

All you need is commitment and hard work, and the very first commitment is you reading through this article.

 

What is Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate Marketing is simply marketing another person’s product and getting a commission on each sale. You can get a commission of up to 50% or more on the sale of a product facilitated by you.

If a product costs $100, you can get a commission of $50 for every purchase made through you if the commission percentage is 50%.

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What do you need to start Affiliate Marketing?

What do you need to start? You need $0 or above to start this against the common belief that you need a huge capital to start Affiliate Marketing.

There is no barrier to starting Affiliate marketing, as long as, you have access to the internet, you are eligible or fit to be an affiliate marketer.

Tips and Secrets to being successful at Affiliate Marketing

One of the advantages of affiliate marketing is that you do not need to deal with customers directly nor provide customer service, however, always promote quality products. Products can be purchased using your affiliate link but complaints and inquiries are directed to the host site.

For instance, if someone buys a book on amazon using your referral link and has a complaint, the complaint is directed to amazon directly and not you, the marketer.

Wakanow helps in the booking of flights and other things associated with travels, if someone purchases their services through your affiliate link, you will get your commission, and all complaints or needed clarifications are made to Wakanow directly and not you. You don’t relate with customers.

It is very essential to always promote a product or service of high quality because it helps the customer make the right decision and always come back to you when they need to buy similar products.

A bad or inferior product or service can lead to a lack of trust from the buyer because the customer did not get value from your previous referral.

How To Choose A Niche For Affiliate Marketing

It is important you choose a specific niche that you can focus on, consider choosing a niche that you are passionate about. There are several niches that can be focused on such as; finance, mini importation, digital marketing, making money online, health, education, tourism, security, etc.

Not focusing on a niche can lead to a lack of trust from the customers. It will affect your ranking and people will consider you as disorganized. Also, you cannot be passionate about every niche. Try to avoid flooded niche, it won’t help you as a beginner. You may find it difficult to thrive when venturing into a niche that is overexplored.

Some promising niches are health and making money online, though a lot of people are into both niches, it hardly ever get saturated. You can make it from these niches but you need to be really passionate about it and put in the extra effort.

Your passion and understanding matter in the choice of a niche. If what you are conversant with or know a lot about is agriculture, the best niche to go for might be agriculture and not health because you will either be uninformed or under-informed about health and may likely not give the needed value or not perform well like those who major in that field. You can build a blog around agriculture and give value to your subscribers.

Also Read: How To Choose The Perfect Niche For Your Online Business

Driving Traffic to your Affiliate Links

The more the click on your affiliate link, the more likely people are going to buy. You have to drive as much as possible traffic to your affiliate link.

Traffic can either be free or paid, depending on your financial strength and how good you are with paid advertising. You can get people to know about and engage your posts through traffic and this can be achieved either freely or by paying for it through advertising.

For instance, if you have Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or YouTube handle, you can record videos and post them on your social media handles. Your consistency and quality of content in your videos will attract traffic to your post.

You can make a video on the product or service you want to market, then post your affiliate link under the post for viewers to click on them. This link will direct them to the sales page and whenever a purchase is made with your link, you will get paid in form of a commission. You can reach out to more audiences with paid traffic depending on your financial strength.

Affiliate Marketing Platforms

Affiliate Programs: we have notable companies, eCommerce platforms (Konga, Jumia, etc), affiliate platforms such as afriliate.com, amazon associate, clickbank.com, etc. you can go to their websites, register as an affiliate marketer, advertise their products/ services, and get paid whenever a purchase is made with your affiliate link.

For instance, you can go to amazon and register as an associate, select the book you want to promote and get paid whenever the book is purchased with your affiliate link. You can also go to afriliate.com or clickbank.com register as an affiliate marketer, advertise their products, and earn commission on sales.

Do you need a website for Affiliate Marketing?

Do you need a website? You may not necessarily need a website. If you are required to input any website, you can input your Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube profile link.

But if you must own a blog, you will need a website. There are free blog websites such as Blogspot but it is advisable to go for a paid blog if you have the financial strength. Blogs work perfectly and are one of the most reliable ways to make money through affiliate marketing.

You’d likely get sales from people who read the articles on your blog more than any other platform. You can embed your affiliate link to the article and purchases made will be linked to you.

One other advantage of these sites is that they use cookies, so, if the person didn’t purchase immediately but comes back a few days later to make a purchase, it will still be linked to you and you will get your commission.

If you can afford to purchase hosting and domain names, it is better to have a website and run a blog because blogs are very effective to promote whatever you do and be successful as an affiliate marketer.

Affiliate marketing is one of the best and easiest ways to achieve financial freedom through the internet. All you need to do is to be passionate about it, resilient, and hardworking.

Conclusion

Affiliate Marketing is one of the best ways to attain financial freedom, all you need is the will to succeed with consistent hard work.

Just like me, you can be destined for success if you make a decision today.

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