How To Make Money Online Doing Affiliate Marketing

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Affiliate marketing is a type of business model done online where one promotes offers and products like website signups, weight loss supplements, etc, that he doesn’t own, just for a commission. The products and offers are for other people or websites or companies.
Imagine like your friend selling hiss stuff, you come and ask him to promote them for a commission.
Cost Per Action (CPA) Affiliate marketing involves not only physical products but also other things like website sgnups, app installs, downloads, etc.
Advantages of doing affiliate marketing:
  1. You don’t have to take/fulfil any orders since the products are not yours. Your role is just to promote for commission.
  2. You can do it anywhere, provided you have an internet connection. It’s just using websites like facebook to promote the products.
  3. You don’t need any special computer skills, just the basics everyone has.
  4. No office to visit, you don’t need to meet your boss or customers, everything goes on online, you may not even speak a word. You can stay anonymous.
Disadvantage of doing affiliate marketing;
It also requires doing some work, submission and effort. The money won’t come on a silver plate, you may have to invest in some money aswell.  The bigger the work done and money invested, the bigger the benefit.

How To Become An Affiliate
We get products from websites. Some networks exist that have a collection of vast products and offers and you can as well go to individual websites and signup for their affiliate programs.
One of the top affiliate networks, among the very many, include peerfly and maxbounty. You can easily sign up for Maxbounty as an affiliate, here.
Or follow link below (Click or copy and paste link in your browser url/address bar):
Sign up as publisher(affiliate), not advertiser and Just by a phone call you are accepted into the system. You’ll be asked how you are planning on promoting their offers and products and this guide will help you on that.
Maxbounty is not the only place where you can find products to promote as an affiliate.  I previously mentioned eBay and Amazon as companies that have affiliate offers.  Also, there are other affiliate networks like Maxbounty, such as Peerfly and many others. I recommend those two because they have good commissions and value their affiliates’ effort.
You’ll always come across these terms while you are selecting what offers or products to promote.
CPC – Cost Per Click
EPC – Earnings per click
Payout – That’s the overall sum you get per successful conversion.
After you choose your suitable product to promote, a unique affiliate link is always presented to you that will enable the network track your earnings.
See my guide on how to select the best products and offers to promote.
 How to promote or where to find buyers and converters.
In this step we connect offers or products to converters or buyers. We do it by online advertising, it’s termed as driving traffic. Traffic are the people who visit your website or landing pages.
Many ways of promoting your unique affiliate links exist which are free and paid. Like you could just decide to put your links on your social media if you have some good followers. You could draw into the paid ones like running a Facebook ad or advertising with Google adwords and others.
CAUTION
Driving traffic/website visitors is the last and most important step in the process. It’s where many, even big businesses fail or lose money. It goes big to what is called digital marketing.
No website or online business can make money without visitors. So it’s the most vital step in the process, it’s the last peak towards making money out of any online business. Just as a local business will need to get customers, you also drive visitors to your landing pages.
For that case, to be more perfect and efficient, I’ve prepared an endless email series all about getting traffic to your opt-in pages.
It includes both free and paid traffic sources tackled in deep consideration one by one so that you understand how to deal with each. Starting with facebook ads, and more.
So fill in the form below to signup for your free traffic/digital marketing training.

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