mardi 9 juillet 2013

Affiliate Marketing For Beginners

By Terrance V. Cruz


Are you interested in affiliate marketing for beginners? This is a term that's often difficult for beginners to understand but it's actually easy to learn and utilize. Affiliate marketing is simply the process of displaying advertisements for someone's products or services on your website and making a commission from those advertisements. Before you sign up with any affiliate you need to understand the entire process. Let's see how this process works and how you can use it.

Affiliate Marketing Business - Yes it is a business and a very large one at that. This is one of the simplest ways to make money with affiliate marketing because there are hundreds, if not thousands of affiliate programs that you can sign-up with and begin making money immediately. Most of them are free to join. As an affiliate marketer, you market a particular company's product or service, and when you send them a customer (make a sale), you're paid a commission.Here's a quick example to make money with affiliate marketing... ever notice how many websites promote books from Amazon.com? Well, most of these websites are actually Amazon.com affiliates... and when someone clicks on one of their links from their site and buys a book on Amazon, the website owner automatically receives a commission directly from Amazon.

Work From Home - With unemployment at record highs and most people unhappy with their jobs, people are turning to other resources for extra monthly income.Start up Cost Are Minimal - An Affiliate Marketing Business is very cost efficient. On average, you can get started for under $100. Most professional marketers will have their own domain name, hosting package and autoresponder. All fairly inexpensive business necessities when starting an online internet business.No products to create - When joining an affiliate program, you choose the products you want to promote without all the hassles of actually having to create the product. As the affiliate you also do not have to handle the shipping and customer service issues.

The power of the internet - It works for you 24/7. You place ads on various marketing platforms, some paid some free and generate a sale which leads to a commission any time of the day or evening. This is the beauty of making money with affiliate marketing!There are thousands of great affiliate programs you can join and earn a resale commission when one of your customers buys their product. In most cases commissions can range from 25% - 50%. Some commissions are a one time deal (selling a book on Amazon) and some are monthly residual incomes. You might suggest an autoresponder to a customer/web visitor and they purchase from your link and you'll receive commission every month as long as they remain a customer.

Affiliate marketing is selling someone else's service or product for which you receive a commission. What makes it so attractive to marketers is that you don't have to worry about producing, updating and supporting the product or service. That is all completed by the product or service owner.As an affiliate, your job is to try to push as much converting traffic as you can to the sales page of the product or service. This way you benefit as you get your commission and the owner benefits as they make money too without having to worry about traffic etc.The majority of the big online stores have affiliate programs (such as Amazon) and the built-in affiliate tracking is why so many digital product creators use services like Clickbank or Digiresults. Anything you can buy on the internet probably has an affiliate program.The commission structures are different for all products and services. For example, Amazon only pay a small percentage for select items. Clickbank products tend to pay out between 50% and 75% of the total cost.This does not mean that promoting Clickbank products is necessarily more profitable though. We will discuss this further later on.

Optimization is a necessary part of your blogging strategy but too much of it can make your updates difficult to read! Using keywords 'correctly' can and will bring you search engine traffic but on the other hand, by placing too much focus in this area can make your updates difficult to read! Here again affiliates are accustomed to doing what they can to generate traffic, just don't compromise your content in doing so!

Your affiliate marketing blog can be a great way to make a living online provided you do NOT ignore the needs of your readers! Many affiliates fall 'victim' to the same errors however when trying to build a successful blog.Their primary focus tends to be on making products offers which leads them to commit the 5 errors discussed here today! For this approach to be more effective you MUST embrace the need to first establish a successful blog, which is one that has many loyal followers, and this takes time! On the other hand having a loyal following like this makes it much easier to present product offers that convert to sales which is what every affiliate ultimately wants!




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