Affiliate Marketing for the Complete Beginner
Have you been wanting to get involved in Internet Marketing
as an Affiliate but just didn’t know where to begin? Well
read on and I will take you by the hand and show you how to
get started. But first let me give you a little background
on what it means to be an Affiliate Marketer. Becoming an
Affiliate Marketer basically means you are a salesman for
other peoples products just like a salesperson in a store or
a Avon distributor, the only difference is you are not
meeting people face to face but are selling other peoples
products online.
So now that you know what an Affiliate Marketer is let me
tell you how to get started.
The first thing you want to do is sign up to be an
Affiliate. The most popular companies at this time are
Commission Junction and Clickbank. Now there are small
differences in the two companies, Commission Junction has
merchants that sell hard products where Clickbank is more
along the line of digital products, like E-Books and
Software. They both are totally Free to signup with.
So your first decision will be what type of product do you
want to try an promote. I would recommend starting off with
a product in a field that you are somewhat familiar with.
Now to get started on promoting a product you can go about
it 2 different ways. The first way I want to discuss is if
you have a no money to get started and want to go the free
route. Don’t fret because most of you will be in this
category.
No Money to get Started
After you have signed up with Commission Junction or
Clickbank or both for that matter, choose a product to
promote. Again I would choose something that I am familiar
with or have some type of interest in. If you are starting
out with Clickbank then usually there is no approval
process, you simply type your username in the space provided
and your affiliate link will be generated for you, for the
product you have decided to promote.
Now that you have your affiliate link, you can start
promoting it, and if someone clicks on it and buys the
product you make money. Different Merchants will offer you
different percentage commissions. Most common is 50-75%, so
if you send someone through your link to a site that sells a
product for $97.00 you are going to get 50-75% of that minus
the clickbank or commission junction fees which are not
much. Sounds easy enough? The concept is beyond easy,
promoting the products can be tricky. To make the process
easy I will cover some different ways to do that with no
money to start.
1. Write Reviews – Write a review of the product that you
are promoting and submit your review to Free article
directories. Have I lost you? It is best to write an honest
review, you want to build your character as being honest and
giving fair treatment, if the product is good then write
about what you liked about it, and if it was bad or had some
things or features you didn’t like then write that too.
People will catch on quick if you only write good things and
praise all of the products that you review and will figure
out your just trying to make a commission. Now you are
probably wondering how can you review a product that you
have never tried. Well now that you are a member of for
example Clickbank and you want to review a product that
costs $30.00. Buy that product using your affiliate link and
it will cost you $15.00 and then you can give a review of
it. Is this cheating? I don’t think so, because the merchant
is still receiving the same amount of money whether you sent
someone to his site through your affiliate link and
purchased it or if you purchased it yourself. If you have no
money at all to purchase a product to review, then try and
send an email to the merchant explaining that you are an
affiliate marketer and that you would like to request a Free
copy of their product to review, and that you plan on
generating a lot of business for him and provide a detailed
plan of how you are going to do just that. You will be
amazed at how many complimentary copies you will get. Once
you review the product and write an article about it, post
it at the Free article directories and include your
affiliate link in the article. Most of the article
directories will not allow you to put affiliate links in the
articles themselves, but will allow you to put it in your
author bio. Some article directories that do allow affiliate
links are Go Articles, Article Alley and Search Warp.
2. Become members at some of the marketing Forums and put
your affiliate links in your signature. Then every-time you
make a post in the forums, your short little add with your
affiliate link will appear beneath your name. You can also
put your affiliate link in your signature through whatever
email program you are using. Then every email you send out
will have your add and affiliate link in it.
If you have a little money to invest in your new Affiliate
Marketing business, I suggest you get your own website. Now
there will need to be some thought put in to this before you
take this step. Choose a product that you are very
interested in, because you are going to build a website
around that product. Find out the companies rules as an
affiliate, for instance some don’t allow their name in your
domain name, so do your homework. Then you will choose your
domain name, such as www.widgets.com. Domain names cost
about 10.00 a year for your own www. name. Then a hosting
company charges anywhere from $7.95 – $12.95 per month to
host the domain name and give you the space to put your site
on. If you know something about HTML then you will be able
to build your own site. There are also many software
packages out there that makes this an easy step such as
Microsoft Frontpage, or Adobe Dreamweaver. Once you get your
site up with your affiliate link all over it, start
promoting your site. Now you will not have to worry about
the article directories that do not allow affiliate links
because now you will send them to your website that has your
affiliate link, which most don’t mind.
So this is the beginner steps on how you can get started as
an Affiliate Marketer and start carving yourself out a
living on the Internet. Internet commerce is breaking new
records every year and continues to grow. Don’t miss out on
your piece of the pie. Get started as an affiliate and start
making that extra spending cash to help pay off some bills,
pay the rent or if your really good at it quit your job.
Charles Hamel
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