How can I start affiliate marketing?

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To start an affiliate marketing, you can perform the following 4 steps:

1. You search for a product you want to promote

• Do research on the type of affiliate program you want to market with, for example, digistore24, and then promote it. You need to be able to educate the potential customers on the products and how to use them effectively in order to increase their revenue income.
• In order to do that, you first have to select the niche. If you pick a niche where there are insufficient traffics, you will be unable to be compensated lucratively as compared to the efforts you have put in including the amount of money you have invested to set up the business, for example, you have engaged paid advertising as a means of driving traffic.
• In addition, you also have to have passion in that niche you have chosen because with that in mind, you will be able to pursue the marketing campaigns with great enthusiasm. Your customers will be able to tell from your descriptions or presentations whether you are an expert in that products or services you are promoting. If you have done a slobby job in your blogs or marketing campaigns, then your customers are unlikely to be persuaded and purchase the products or services you are promoting and let you earn the affiliate commission.
• Here are some guidelines for the most popular, profitable and common niche that generate the most incomes and wide attention from the customers. The 3 most popular and profitable niches are as follows:

1. Wealth: for example, financial investment (Crypto currency)
2. Health: Weight loss program, for instance.
3. Relationship: Dating advice, just one of the many examples.

• After you have selected your niche, you would like to validate your niche by find out how many people actually search for the niche you are promoting.
• To do this, you can seek the help of Google trends and Semrush to help you to discover whether or not the niche you have chosen have consistently upward trend in customers searched, how much traffics you niche has gathered.
• If you have found out, on the contrary, your niche is experiencing downward movements, then you should not select that niche and try some other alternatives niches.

2. Sign up for their affiliate program.

3. Next, you will obtain an affiliate link so that the merchant can track the people who clicked your link and award you with a commission upon successful completion of the purchase from the customers.

• You need to develop the website, such as the following ,
• a) wealthy affiliate

• A summary of review on the weathy affiliate website builder:
• Wealthy Affiliate is a course and community that promises to teach you how to make money online with affiliate marketing. It was founded in 2005 by Kyle and Carson, who are from Canada.
• Wealthy Affiliate offers an all-in-one solution that includes training, hosting, website builder, keyword research tool, and support. However, some reviews claim that the training is outdated, misleading, and full of bad advice.
• Wealthy Affiliate is one of the many affiliate programs that pay commissions to their members for promoting their products or services. Affiliate marketing is a popular way to monetize your blog or website by partnering up with other companies.
• Wealthy Affiliate claims to have over 2 million members from 195 countries. They also say that they have helped over 1.5 million people start their own online businesses.

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• b) CLDY (From Singapore)
• c) interserver
• or create landing page(s) or a blog within an existing site. Employ excellent, state of the art on-page SEO. Use the best pleasing to the eye of your ideal visitor content and graphics. Produce the best layout scheme as you can.
• Alternatively, you can use social medias, such as, Facebook, YouTube channel, Tumblr, Pinterest, the forums and various other channels to promote your products through the affiliate links provided by the companies concerned.

3. Get Paid

• There are various ways in which you can be paid the affiliate commissions. I highly recommend using Paypal as the most prefer mode of payments that you receive from the merchant that you help to promote their products and services because it is one of the most popular and convenient way of receiving your affiliate commissions. On the other hand, some affiliate companies do send payment cheque or postal order through post to you.

How Does Affiliate Marketing Work?

There are various ways to traced affiliates these days, but nearly all of them are based on someone clicking your affiliate links.

The most popular and elementary type of tracking is via a cookie.

When an affiliate link is clicked, a small file called a cookie is stored on the user’s computer. Then they buy a product, the merchant can see that they were referred by you. There are also more advanced methods based on the email used or IP address.

Conclusion

You only need little amount of investment and time commitment to start the affiliate marketing business.