Introduction
I enjoy surfing the Internet exploring something new and exciting from Youtube videos. My eyes were caught by those thumbnails with big headings "Money online," "Make $100/day," "Affiliate Marketing cash." Nowadays, money comes and goes electronically. I asked myself: 'Are they true? Why not give it a try?' During this pandemic already two years now, I have read and watched affiliate marketing stuff repeatedly, trying to figure out what is going on in the affiliate market. Can grandpa in the retirement years make some affiliate money?
Who is my audience?
Well, this blog is created for:
- people who search to learn more about digital marketing
- people who have just started building a blog for interest
- people who want to develop an online store for their products
- people who want to learn to make money online
Tables of content
- what are affiliate programs
- which affiliate programs to promote
- where to find affiliate programs
- how to make money with affiliate programs
- pros and cons of affiliate marketing
- conclusion
What are affiliate programs?
Now let us touch on the business model that may make an income. That is affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing means selling products from other persons or companies we call merchants. These merchants provide the products and commission to affiliates upon successful deals. It is similar to a front store making a profit by selling products from the merchants. Unlike the front stores, affiliates don't have to keep any stocks and deliveries. Their main job is recommending products to people.
Which affiliate programs to promote?
There are thousands of products. You must find the most potential and suitable matches for your niche before selecting your products to promote. Search relevant information for the top 10 ranking products with these free tools:
- Google Search
- Youtube Search
- Amazon Associate Search
- Commission Junction Search
- Shareasale Search (only available to affiliates)
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Choose the top sellers related to your niche and promote them. It would save a lot of your time, and it works much better than just choosing randomly from the top of your mind. Below is an example:
I like a quality life. O help me live this quality life, I need to make extra money on my retirement pension; I like the concept of making money online. I joined Clickbank and became her affiliate selling digital products as an affiliate member; I accessed the Clickbank affiliate dashboard to choose my product among hundreds of products. I set the following filters at the dashboard: language, countries, physical book & upsell, recurring, and e-business. Here go the shortlist of products from which you can choose to promote. Each product has two links. One is the product landing page link for the prospect, and the other is the affiliate link for the affiliate information. Selected the landing page link and then promoted the link in my blogs and videos. What Programs have Recurring Income?
Before we go to the crucial part of promoting the product, we must find where they are.
Where to find affiliate programs
We can find affiliate programs from the Platforms such as Amazon Shareasale, Impact, Clickbank, etc.
Amazon
Amazon is a massive platform with 200 million visitors per month. She has 2.5 million sellers. The product ranges cover lots of well-known commercial brands and digital brands. Here, access more information regarding marketing the Amazon products with your website.
Commission Junction
Commission Junction is also known as CJ. She has 70,000 publishers selling big-name commercial brands as well digital brands. She carries thousands of brands.
Shareasale is fast growing with 16,500+ merchants, 225,000 publishers, and 182 million sales in 2020. Join and sign up with Shareasale.
Clickbank
Clickbank sells primarily digital products such as training e-books and manuals. Clickbank empowers entrepreneurs like you.
There are plenty of merchants from the above platforms. Hey, these are reputable multinational platforms. Therefore sourcing suitable merchants is not a problem at all. Choose the names you know and are a family with. Make use of these tools:
- Google search,
- Youtube search,
- Amazon search.
They help as they give more insight for us to make a better decision.
How to Start a Promotion to make money online?
The merchants provide affiliates with good tools for their product promotion. As an affiliate, you can have other free resources for promoting traffic to your product-related blog or website. They are the social media, and they are:
When promoting your product, you need to have the "product title" and "product description." Use keywords in the title and description. Search engines need such keywords to find your websites, and these keywords should be targeted and relevant to your selected topic.
Here to more details regarding keywords in h1, h2, h3.
Actually, you can check out the top-ranking keywords by going to some popular sites and right-click your mouse there. You can see from the source code the keywords used by them. Now, you can borrow their ideas. Find your relevant keywords from this free tool. Another tool handy for writing your advertisements is the swipe file. It is beneficial if you need some examples to help you write your own advertising and call to action messages.
Youtube
Go to Youtube.com and signup for an account. It is easy to join, and it is free. You can upload your videos and other people's videos with this account. Put a name under the title for each video and brief information under the description. You can include a link to promote your product in this area. For example, this link to "TubeBuddy - Youtube SEO tool "is a digital product helping people get more views and subscribers on Youtube, and when people buy through this link, I get some commission.
Discover, buy and sell goods with Facebook Marketplace. The marketplace is an e-commerce platform that connects sellers and buyers through meaningful interactions and unique interests. People can post their affiliate links to Facebook, the enormous social media where friends connect. you are welcome to visit me via Facebook
People can automatically upload videos from their cellphones to Instagram and post to Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. This is cool. It helps boost traffic to your vlogs, blogs, and websites. You are welcome to visit me on Instagram.
Blogger
With Blogger, I have created several blogs. Some for Fun, some for Google Adsense, and some to promote my affiliate programs. It is straightforward to use, and it is free. come and visit me at:
The Pros and Cons of Affiliate Marketing
Pros
1. massive market with billion-dollar business worldwide
2. startup cost is minimum
3. no need for academic qualification.
4. maintenance cost is minimum
5. excellent passive income
6. work on the go as you like and free from 9 to 5 routine
7. no need for after-sale account service and stock inventory
8. you are your own boss with complete independence
9. marketing support from merchants is free and readily online
10. earn income 24/7 throughout the year
Cons
1. no control of Affiliate Marketing Programs
2. no control of Competition
3. no established income
4. business is not secured
5. needs a lot of self-discipline
6. needs a lot of perseverance and survive endless failures
7. business crash due to internet hijack
8. too hyper, a lot of spam and scam
Conclusion
With today's technologies, the Internet offers plenty of possibilities for making money online. People can make money at home and even on holiday in the resort. However, it is not making money overnight. It requires a lot of dedication and hard work in the affiliate's research, learning, and persistent actions. You invest time, effort, and money focusing on your chosen niche and work out the action plan towards your goal of achieving affiliate success.
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