online affiliate marketing?
Has anyone ever tried conducting online affiliate marketing business? Im about to give it a try just for fun but wondering if this kind of stuff really works. I;m planning on spending the coming months traveling, so if this works than at least i’d still have money flowing in while traveling.
I am just starting affiliate marketing myself! I signed up for this website: http://www.wealthyaffiliate.com/?a_aid=0LvRdDU4 (yes, that is an affiliate link). If you wish not to use my affiliate link, just go to http://www.wealthyaffiliate.com. It is $30 a month, but it is well worth it. They offer you a 8 week program to teach you the basic stuff and the tricks of the trade. Wealthy Affiliate also has an incredible forum with many affiliate marketing experts to answer your questions. They also have many free marketing tools, ebooks, a very simple to use website builder (siterubix), website templates, and more. The owners of the website, Kyle and Carson, will personally answer any question you ask them and will even review you campeigns!
Its good that you want to get into affiliate marketing. I have been involved for a little over 2 years now… and I love it!
However, I must warn you that it can be a bit frustrating at the start if you don’t know what to do…. I remember when I first started out, I just couldn’t seem to settle down and follow a system.
Here is a bit of advice that I hope will give you some guidance:
Step 1 – Develop the right mindset. To succeed online, having the right mindset is very important. You have to think of affiliate marketing as a real business and not just something that you do by the side.
Step 2 – Learn Affiliate Marketing. Educate yourself about the basics of affiliate marketing… and then build up to the more advanced techniques. Educating yourself is the building block to success. Start by gathering the best information you can find about affiliate marketing and absorbing it.
I have read a lot of affiliate marketing courses and I have found these to be two of the better ones – Affiliate Of The Month (http://www.affiliatemarketinglessons.com/affiliateofthemonth.html) and Affiliate Cash Secrets (http://affiliatemarketinglessons.com/affiliate_cash_secrets_review.html).
Step 3 – Pick your target market or niche. As a beginner, it is preferable that you enter into a niche for which you have a personal interest in or passion for… This makes creating unique content much easier.
Step 4 – Do some keyword research. Keyword research is important because you want to first see what is the level of demand for your chosen niche and what are the particular keywords that people in your niche are using to find information.
Step 5 – Create an offer and build a list. Create an offer for your particular niche, perhaps by offering a free report and ask your visitors for their names and email addresses to gain access to the report. It is important to build a list and more importantly to build a relationship with the people on your list.
Step 6 – Drive traffic to your offer. In this step, you will want to market your site. There are numerous ways that you can market your site… Pay Per Click (not the best for beginners), article marketing, forum marketing, blogging, Q&A Sites, etc.
Step 7 – Expand. You can expand in a number of ways. One example of expanding is entering or marketing cross-linked sub-niches. If you are in the dog training niche, you can do cross-linked marketing for dog toys or pet care, etc.
Important – It is critical that you take action Mary. Once you have educated yourself with the various marketing techniques… take action like there is no tomorrow. Use one technique, say article marketing… get comfortable with it, then go on to another technique. Don’t sit back and wait to things to happen.
I hope this helps…
I heard from people who have done it that they said it does work. but you need some kind of credibility, trustworthy and one more thing the way how you promote your services as affiliate marketer. I’m still learning to be one and the more I know about it the closure I believe I could become one. l learn a lot of affiliate marketing thru below resources especially thru their affiliate private forum. it is all free. but tons of knowledge of free knowledge sometime can make you drowned. but it is better yo learn from one place instead of going here and there without clear direction. so if you want my recommendation how to learn affiliate marketing I suggest you check out below resources. hope that helps a bit.
http://www.clickaudit.com/goto/?89349 (Collection of FREE ebooks)
http://www.clickaudit.com/goto/?89891 (Free Affiliate)
Don’t spend any money on it, unnless you are pretty sure about them. Don’t forget, read their disclaimer first.
I have created some affiliate product reviews and Articles which may helps you to start your online affiliate marketing and pick the righ products to start with…
The first rule you need to know about affiliate marketing is: how much money in percentage commissions Im going to receive for every sale? Much higher percentage = better affiliate program. The rest is about niche market and advertising tools you going to use like blogs, email campaigns, pay per click..
A good example of a niche can be UK medicine affiliate programs. Read more about that here:
http://www.bestprofitaffiliate.com/
Starting an online business is not at all a great deal!!! However making it profitable is the real challenge for any online marketer.If you want to make money online, that’s great, but you need a system. You need to follow the strategies which are aleready tried n tested & are used by the champions who could make their fortune on the internet. Don’t re-invent the wheel – don’t make the mistake of wasting time and money in developing a product.Because you know nothing (I believe so) at the moment about internet marketing. So you must work with someone who can prove their system – be cautious and careful. You need to crawl first before you can walk or run – the best way to learn is to become an Affiliate Marketer. The main advantage with affiliate marketing is that -suppose the product you are promoting is not selling well due to some reason, you can drop that product & chose something else to sell.In short as an affiliate you are essentially a free-lance marketer – not bound by long-term contracts having a freedom to review / revise / remould your plans as per the demand in the market .
There are lots of people out there there — people just like you — who are enjoying the financial freedom that comes with successful affiliate marketing.