One of the easiest ways to earn an income is from Affiliate Marketing. Basically, affiliate marketing is earning a commission by promoting and selling products that are created by other people or another company.
How does it work? Well, you choose a product or a line of products that you would like to promote and from the sale of each item you then earn a profit . So why is this great, you ask? As an affiliate marketer you benefit from earning a commission, the company benefits from the sale of the product and in turn the customer is pleased because they found the product. It’s a win, win!
One of the joys of affiliate marketing is that you don’t need to put a huge investment of your time to create a product to sell. As soon as you find a product or line that you’re interested in selling you can begin. All you need is a platform to sell it on.
You’ll want to find a reputable company or product that you know will be useful and wanted. Trying to promote a product that you don’t believe in will be seen as fake and people won’t feel that you are trustworthy to do business with. It is better to recommend products from a company that you’ve purchased yourself and allow you to speak from experience. Honesty is always the best policy!
To be successful at affiliate marketing you’ll need these essential elements to get started.
1) A Domain Name
2) A Landing Page
3) Targeted Traffic
4) Quality Products to Promote
Generating traffic is a big factor here as without targeted traffic coming to your landing page and clicking through you’ll be hard pressed to get any sales. There are fabulous websites, selling products on the internet but they are not getting the traffic to keep them alive. You’ll want a website that is easy to navigate, nothing complicated or cluttered as you’ll turn potential customers away. These steps should help you on your journey to become a successful affiliate marketer!
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I don't think it's quite that simply. I agree it's the wave of the future, but once you have directed someone to a site like Amazon, they are Amazon's customer. Amazon, and Zazzle, too, will begin to send their own marketing materials to those customers with special coupon codes and you will no longer get a cut if they click on a link from one of those emails.
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ReplyDeleteThis is where having a ton of targeted traffic will keep the customers coming to you! Hopefully the customers that purchase from you will also bookmark your site and return for future purchases! I don't claim to know all the ins and outs of affiliate marketing, still learning as I go but I know that many people have great success with this. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Barbara! :-)
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