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What is affiliate marketing and how to startup?

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Who is my Audience? 

  • people who search the Internet to startup affiliate marketing
  • people who started building an affiliate marketing blog 
  • people who want success in affiliate market business   
  • people who want to start up an affiliate marketing career
  • people who want to make money with affiliate programs
 

Table of content

  • Introduction to affiliate marketing startup
  • Choose a Suitable Affiliate Marketing Niche. 
  • Select the type of product you want to promote. Find and Sign Up for the Right Affiliate Programs.
  • Create a Website or blog
  • Add Affiliate Links to Your Site
  • Individual affiliate programs
  • The Pros and Cons of Affiliate Marketing
  • Conclusion


Introduction to Affiliate Marketing Start-Up


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Affiliate marketing means selling goods and services from other persons or companies who we call merchants. These merchants provide the products to the customers. Then a commission is credited to you (affiliates) upon your successful deals. It is similar to a front store making a profit by selling products from the merchants.



Step 1: Choose a Suitable Affiliate Niche. 







Before building your website or blog, spend time to find out your niche market. That is an essential step before jumping into any business plan or activity. This step is overlooked by most beginners.


What is a Niche Market?

A niche market is a unique section of the big marketplace. The big companies overlook it as they focus on the big market. Examples for niche markets are organic food, underwater cameras, race bikes, vegan products,  antique cars,  space travel, luxurious cruise, adventurous tours, luxurious life, hybrid vehicles, plugin cars, etc. The list goes on. When using your niche market, people relate to their experience,  learning, gender orientation, passion, health, age, and personality. Here are a few examples of choosing a niche market.  


Examples

  • An energetic young man loves cycling. He cruises on the road every day on his bike for hours as his daily routine. He has fun with that. He simply falls in love with his bicycle. This young man could choose bicycles as a niche market if he startup affiliate marketing. He can go selling bikes online from Amazon or Aliexpress earning a commission.
  • A middle-aged vegan lady can sell vegan food through Amazon. She can also sell vegan digital products such as e-books and e-manuals from Clickbank, making commissions.
  • Here is another example of a niche market, Tubebuddy a tool for Youtube content creators. As we all know, Youtube is a mega-colossal company providing online video sharing and social media platforms. It is the second most visited website, with more than one billion monthly users who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos each day. Youtube focuses on the global market overlooking some niches which can be further enhanced. With unique know-how and technologies, Tubebuddy perfectly fits in this niche. Most YouTubers working on the Youtube dashboard would find the scope of the original dashboard is limited and rigid. That allows a specialist to fill the niche giving video creators more functionalities and better tools to fulfill their dreams as content video creators. Before starting any marketing activity, research is essential. Doing plenty of research would ensure better success. Take your time choosing your niche. Most beginners miss this important part.  Do your research thoroughly rather than a rushed decision.



Step 2: Select the type of product you want to promote and Sign Up for the Right Affiliate Programs.





Which Products to Promote?

There are thousands and thousands of products. You must do some research to find the most potential and suitable matches for your niche market. Before selecting your products to promote, fine-tune your search to information for the top 10  ranking  products with the following free search tools:


  • Google Search
  • Youtube Search
  • Amazon Associate Search
  • Commission Junction Search
  • Shareasale Search


Choose the top sellers related to your niche market 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. 



How to promote ClickBank products?

       

Step 3. Create a Website with Blogger.com





Go to Blogger.com and then sign up with your Google account. After that, 

  • Click the 'Create New Blog ' button. You will be guided; just follow the instructions step by step.  
  • Check the availability for your display name, then create your unique URL. Your blog URL will look like this:  

https://yourdisplayname.blogspot.com


If you choose your own domain, it is upon availability and a fee. Then your URL will be 

https://www.yourdomain.com. 


 Follow the instruction, 


  • setting
  • publishing
  • blog address
  • domain 


You create a blog title, and post title; 

  • check out the left sidebar and scroll down slowly to set up the basics. Once you've done that, your blog will be set up and automatically hosted by Google hosting. It is free too. 
  • Next, you can fine-tune your blog settings, choose and edit your blog theme and layout, 
  • add posts by creating content with text and videos right away. It is user-friendly and straightforward.


How to build your blog with Google Blogger to earn extra income step by step?



Step 4: Add Affiliate Links to Your Site



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The Amazon Associates Program is one of the most extensive affiliate marketing programs globally. It helps content creators, publishers and bloggers monetize their traffic. With millions of products available on Amazon, associates use easy link-building tools to direct their audience to products they recommend and earn from qualifying purchases. You include affiliate links to Amazon products in the content you created for your audience. When your audience clicks on these links, you can earn from the purchases. Income commissions earned depend on the product categories purchased. 


Here go how to get started with Amazon Associate Program.



Amazon Associates Program


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Associates earn commissions through the Amazon Associates Program by promoting Amazon products. You include affiliate links to Amazon products in the content you created for your audience. When your audience clicks on these links, you can earn from your purchases. 



With the Amazon bounty program, you can earn for promoting Amazon services and programs. Instead of commissions on product sales, you earn fixed commissions—"bounties"—on certain actions taken on specific offers, such as activating a free trial or signing up for a program. So basically, the bounty program is an additional way to earn affiliate income by suggesting and driving actions on Amazon services and programs your readers may be interested in. 


Make your existing links more prominent or visible to site visitors, Including links to additional products or product variants. Adding links for trending promotions from the Amazon promotions hub increases traffic to your website. Don't forget to visit the Resource Center on Associates Central to view articles for additional tips to optimize your earnings.


Clickbank



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  • Now let me touch briefly on Clickbank affiliate programs. It has over 100,000 affiliates worldwide who choose ClickBank as their preferred marketplace, and for a good reason: it has paid over $5 billion in commissions on time since 1999. As a beginner, you must zero in on one niche. ClickBank has a lot of high-commission and popular products. Simply sticking to one category with great products is our focus.    Here go:



Step 5. Individual Affiliate Products.

Digital products are my favorites.  Grammarly is one of them.



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After using Grammarly for over one month,  I am pleased to let my readers know what I like and dislike about this content writing tool. It is straightforward to install and user-friendly. It makes writing more fun. I write smoothly, and errors are readily detected and easily amended, eliminating grammar mistakes and wrong spellings. It makes my writing clear and engaging. Using Grammarly for a while, I am thrilled with it. Now I don't have to worry about the grammar mistakes, the wrong spellings. I write more smoothly directly from what the mind thinks and don't bother about typos and grammatical errors. It is so lovely, and I enjoy writing a lot more. It is more fun. One thing essential is that I am sure my article is not an embarrassment. Before publishing a new article, I read it thoroughly one more time and made the necessary corrections if required. It saves me a lot of time.


There are other Affiliate Programs in my favorite list.  They are those essential affiliate tools:


The Pros and Cons of Affiliate Marketing


Pros

1. massive 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 
7. no need for account service and stock inventory
8. you are your own boss with complete independence
9. free marketing support from merchants 
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 against endless failures
7. business crash due to internet hijack
8. too hyper, a lot of spam and scam 



Conclusion

Affiliate marketing requires a lot of dedication and hard work in affiliate market research, learning,  and persistence. It is essential to invest time and money focusing on your chosen niche and work out the action plan towards the goal of achieving affiliate success. With today's technologies,  the internet offers plenty of possibilities. In a nutshell, affiliate marketing needs an active website, the appropriate affiliate programs, and continuous organic traffic.

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