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“Secrets To Affiliate

Marketing”

Learn The “Secrets” To Becoming A Successful

Affiliate Marketer!

Presented By: Douglas Hoover

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Why Affiliate Marketing Is the Best Way to Start an Online Business

If you've educated yourself enough with the information available to us via the internet, then you

should have realized by now that your pursuit of a career in the corporate ladder is futile at best.

Basically, the idea is to start as an intern, then a regular employee, then move up to a supervisory

and/or managerial position and finally up to the executive levels of the corporate business that you're

in. Personally, I have nothing against this kind of aspiration as I too once dreamt of such things myself;

however, the toll it takes to get to EXACTLY where you want to be could at least take 30 years; 20 if

you're exceptionally good at it.

The problem is we all can't be exceptional and aside from the fierce competition in play, you'll also have

to face the insurmountable amount of bureaucracy, racism, favoritism, gender inequalities and other

negative things in order to literally move up the ladder. The trade-off is not an ideal payoff even from an

optimistically assessed standpoint. Therefore I would advocate that you start your own business and the

cheapest way to do it is by building an affiliate marketing blog or website.

Defining Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is an easy income-generating business method where you take the role of the

promoter and help the manufacturers and sellers connect with the end consumers. It should be clear

that whether you take a passive or active role in this business, you are by no means the originator or

creator of the products/services you promote. But you will get a small portion of the sales as

compensation nevertheless. It's basically a 3-way relationship between you, the seller and the customer.

What Affiliate Marketing is NOT

If you get an unsolicited email inviting you to join an affiliate network and it's asking for an upfront

payment, then you definitely have to scrutinize them and find out whether or not they're scam or legit.

Go to the Better Business Bureau (BBB) and find out about the company, if you can't find any, then go to

affiliate marketing forums and discussion boards. They would know a lot about these scam sites as news

spreads fast in social media and forums. Another thing to look for is if these people are selling you

unrelated products or something that you will never be able to use, like the $350 "Secrets to Affiliate

Marketing Success" book or some other catchy titles; although a few are genuine but they don't charge

you that high.

The truth is you can learn basic affiliate marketing from top ranking websites and blogs. In fact, they can

teach you more useful information than all those specialized books and DVDs that other people are

selling. Becoming an affiliate is free when you sign up to affiliate marketing programs and the only thing

that will really cost you money is web hosting, which is around $70 - $100 a year for your affiliate

marketing blog. A few other expenses may include a unique website/blog logo (optional), your electric

bill; hire a blog writer (optional because you can write the blogs yourself) and probably paid advertising

to promote your website or blog (optional).

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Types of Affiliate Marketing

What's interesting about affiliate marketing is that you can earn commissions in more ways than most

people think. Allow me to explain the 3 different types of affiliate marketing and how you can earn

through them.

1. Unattached Affiliate Marketing - This type of affiliate marketing will not require too much work from

you, you don't even have to setup an affiliate marketing blog like those for Amazon Affiliate Programs.

This is more like a PPC marketing (pay-per-click) where you just show affiliate ads on sites that allow this

kind of marketing and then get a commission for each click through that web users make on the ads.

2. Related Affiliate Marketing - This type of marketing is where you are required to have some level of

involvement and this is where you create an affiliate marketing blog or website and always show

affiliate links on almost all of your website/blog pages. You also earn a commission for each time a web

user clicks through the affiliate links.

3. Involved Affiliate Marketing - This kind of marketing may require you to actually use the

products/services before you write a review about them and you should be able to write a more

comprehensive and honest reviews.

You can choose from these 3 types of affiliate marketing methods, but most affiliate marketing

programs uses the Type 2 affiliate marketing, which has some level of involvement and online presence

from your end.

Putting the Cogs and Wheels Together

Now that you have an idea of what affiliate marketing is all about and what its common pitfalls are, you

are ready to start your journey to financial freedom and a wealthy lifestyle! Affiliate marketing is just

like any other type of business and you'll have to plan a strategy months or even years ahead before you

begin, so I will give you the basic strategy of how to become an affiliate marketer, signing up for affiliate

programs, setting up your affiliate marketing blog and all the other important details about it.

Steps to become an affiliate marketer:

1. Decide what niche topic you want to use for your blog or website. It's better to write reviews or

general information about products/services that you're passionate about, because you will write better

articles for them compared to those that you don't like. For instance, if you're mad about crochet or kids

bicycles, then that is the niche you should pick for your blog! Affiliate programs have a huge inventory of

items for sale and they do include crochets and bicycles for a fact. If you're more of the business-minded

individual and you think you can write just about on anything, then by all means pick the niche that's

most profitable among the lot.

2. Create your website and purchase a cheap but reliable web hosting. You don't need a web designer to

build a website or a blog. You can use WordPress, Weebly, Web.com, Blogger, eHost and others to do

that. Using their user-friendly "click & drag" features you can create your blog/website in 5 - 10 minutes!

3. Learn basic SEO and use it on your blog or website. Search engine optimization or SEO is a very good

marketing strategy to allow your website to be known throughout the entire internet or at least the

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majority of it. If your website is easier to find in search engines, then it is more convenient for people to

visit it, and more visitors means more money for you.

4. Learn social media marketing to extend your presence online. In reality social media marketing or

SMM is also a part of the grand scheme of SEO and without it, your SEO campaign would not be as

successful as you'd expect it to be. There are literally billions of people hanging around the web on a

daily basis and much of them are in social media sites. It would be a logical choice to get visitors there

for your website and increase your income potential.

5. Learn about paid advertising and consider it deeply on whether you need to use it or not. Paid ads

help because they target the right kind of people who are already looking for products that you

promote. Meaning there is a good chance that they will buy. Wouldn't you want them to buy products

through your affiliate links? I would!

6. Start filling up your website with content. In case you plan to write boring and unimpressive blogs and

articles, then I'd advise you to no longer continue in your pursuit of creating an affiliate marketing blog,

because I promise you people will not want to read your blogs or visit your site. Write articles that will

impress you first. This will let you know whether or not people will want to read about what you have to

say. If you can find an extremely critical person to judge your writing, then that would be better as it will

help you greatly improve on your writing style. Reader engagement is absolute in affiliate marketing. It

will determine your income capacity, so do your best in writing content for your site above all else.

How you earn in affiliate marketing:

• The manufacturer/seller signs a partnership deal with the affiliate network or program and in turn,

when you sign up with the affiliate network as an affiliate, the partner affiliate network will give you a

small percentage share on every item you helped sold.

• You'll need to embed or display affiliate links on your website or affiliate marketing blog about the

products you're promoting. The purpose of these links is to guide your blog readers to the seller's

webpage (which is usually in the affiliate network's site) so that they can make purchases of the items

they like.

• The percentage commission on each sale range from 1% - 10% (some give more than 10% but rarely)

and this is how you generate income. For example, a web user happens by your blog about coffee

machines and he/she read your blog review or informative article. The reader was impressed by your

blog and decided to click on the affiliate link, then make a purchase of 1 coffee machine worth $350. If

the affiliate network allowed 7% of that amount to be your commission, therefore your income for that

sale alone will be $24.50.

• You may notice that $24.50 is a small amount and not enough to convince you to become an affiliate;

however, if you were able to bring 10,000 visitors to your blog in the span of 30 days and about 4,382

people bought coffee machines for themselves, then your income for that particular month should be

$107,359! If you're able to bring as much visitors to your website on a regular basis, then you can bet

that your monthly income should be around these numbers. Now you can appreciate the value that SEO

and SMM can do for your affiliate marketing business.

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How much can you make?

The straight answer to this question is... there is NO LIMIT to how much you can earn. The website

called Pickmyshaver.com around October or November 2013 and then 8 months later its regular

monthly income became $8,446! If it had continued as is it would earn over $50,000 a month by now,

except that it was purchased in Flippa by an anonymous buyer for $60,100 around June 2014. That's just

1 website and I'm pretty sure on your best day you can manage 2 - 3 sites for affiliate marketing.

At this point I will let you use your imagination as to how much you can earn; or is it how hard you

desire to earn. It's entirely up to you. I am confident that this article should help you get started in

creating your own affiliate marketing blog and earn not just money, but your freedom from the

everyday worries of life. Once you start earning over $8,000 a month, then you can buy more time to

spend it with the people that matters to you most - your family. I wish you all the best and don't forget

to drop a comment below and tell me how affiliate marketing has changed your life like it has changed

mine.

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Key Benefits Of Affiliate Marketing

Since I decided to take the plunge 5 years ago and start working for myself as an online marketer,

affiliate marketing has been the best thing I ever got involved in and is now part of my daily schedule.

It is without doubt something that all people who are interested in starting an online business or those

who already have an online business, should investigate and take up.

If you are undecided or have little knowledge about affiliate marketing then I hope that you find the

below information helpful and that it will clear up any doubts that you have over what the key benefits

of affiliate marketing are.

1. Commission basis

For the affiliate marketer this is a key advantage as every time that somebody makes a purchase, the

affiliate receives a set commission of the profit.

For the affiliate merchant this is an advantage as they only pay the marketer when they make a sale, so

no money is wasted on marketing spend.

2. Huge audience

For the affiliate marketer - having built up various marketing lists or websites, they can make use of their

huge audience base and ensure that the traffic they send over to the merchant is qualified and that sales

are made, making the affiliate more money.

For the affiliate merchant - they receive access to a wider audience base than they may have had before,

creating more interest in their products, resulting in more sales and all without investing any more

money or time.

3. Ease

For the affiliate marketer - once they have set up their additional sites and links across to the merchant,

it is very simple to manage and often affiliates will continue to make money from sales without having

done anything for months.

For the affiliate merchant - they do not have to invest time and money writing content or creating

expensive images in order to promote their services/ products. Instead affiliates will apply to be a part

of their program and all the merchant need do is have many affiliates all working towards promoting

their products/ services and wait for the sales to flood in.

4. Steady cost

For the affiliate marketer - building on the last point, an affiliate can keep receiving commission from

sales of a product or service for years, despite not doing a lot of work to promote it. You do need to

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invest time at the start but then you have a regular source of income coming in for the market life of the

service/ product.

For the affiliate merchant - they set up all the costs so the chance to make a huge profit on sales without

having spent much on marketing, is very likely. They do not have to pay their affiliates much per sale to

make the business relationship worthwhile, as it tends to work best on a quantity basis so everyone is

happy with the set amounts.

5. Brand Visibility

For the affiliate - there is a lot to be gained reputation wise from working with a range of brands and you

will find that you get a lot more work should you be able to prove that you have succeeded with others

in the past.

For the affiliate merchant - they receive free brand exposure on a continual basis, which is never a bad

thing. If you have many affiliates working on promoting your brand, you'll soon see a boost in search

engine rankings and online sales; Amazon.com is an excellent example of where this has worked in the

past.

6. Outsourced expertise

For the affiliate marketer - they get the continued experience to improve and work on their methods of

online marketing, investing only their time, not money.

For the affiliate merchant - they will be able to utilize all kinds of affiliates who are experts in SEM

(search engine marketing) and SEO (search engine optimization) without investing a lot of money, yet

still manage to get to the top of Google rankings.

7. Transparency

For the affiliate marketer - through the various affiliate programs, it is possible to see exactly when sales

are made and payment is automatic, so you do not have to worry about chasing merchants for

payments.

For the affiliate merchant - they can see and manage their R.O.I (return on investment) extremely easily

and do not have to worry about tracking the origin of each sale.

8. Online market

For the affiliate marketer - there are an endless number of affiliate programs out there and the demand

for online shopping is not going to decrease, so the earning potential for affiliates is huge. You can

access any number of markets with your affiliate work, whether you choose jewelry, hygiene, pet

insurance or food.

Use long tail pro to find targeted long tail keywords with low competition, ensuring maximum affiliate

sale for you.

For the affiliate merchant - as previously mentioned, online demand is not going away any time soon,

therefore merchants are able to continue to expand product ranges to meet a range of online markets

with the knowledge that they have a number of affiliates on hand to promote quickly and at a low cost.

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9. Home-based work (aimed at affiliate marketer)

If you become successful in the world of affiliate marketing then it is entirely possible to create a long

term Passive Income from it and a huge bonus to this is that you can work cheaply from home and be

your own boss. You don't have to pay to sign up to affiliate programs and there are a huge number to

choose from, all from the comfort of your own home.

10. Overcoming tradition (aimed at affiliate merchant)

Using affiliates to promote your products and services will guarantee that you receive a lot more

exposure than you would by using more pricey traditional marketing methods. Having a number of

affiliates promoting what you are selling and only being paid when a sale is made, is one of the most

cost effective marketing methods ever as well as being incredibly successful.

How To Start Making Money Online As An Affiliate Marketer

The field of affiliate marketing is probably the quickest developing way to make money online. After all,

billions of ordinary people use internet every day. Affiliate marketing gives you the opportunity to target

potential customers regardless of their location in the world.

For this reason, it isn't surprising that a huge number of people make a considerable amount of money

through affiliate advertising and marketing. Many skilled affiliate marketers end up making more money

in this field than they did in their previous job, and hence some of them even resign their normal 9-5 job

and pursue affiliate marketing full-time.

A Quick Overview On Affiliate Marketing

Now that we have a little idea about the capacity of affiliate marketing, Let's dig in and discuss what it

truly includes.

The easiest way to describe affiliate marketing is when you help another company sell their products

online, and then you get paid a commission for each sale you bring to them.

If you are promoting a product priced at $200, and the company pays you 10 percentage commission of

the sale, you would make $10 for each sale.

However how do you refer sales? You can begin promoting your seller's products on your website,

which receives targeted site visitors in the same niche as the product you are advertising. For example, if

you have a website that sells makeup you would not advertise health insurance, but instead you could

promote makeup related products. Every time one of your website's visitors clicks on your affiliate link

which was supplied to you by the seller, you will be paid a commission.

How To Choose A Good Affiliate Network

One of the largest errors new affiliate marketers make is becoming a member of nearly each affiliate

network they encounter. This is without a doubt considered to be a totally incorrect technique. That is

due to quite some reasons.

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Firstly, being an affiliate marketer is an undertaking which calls for a lot of awareness. So, if you try and

work with many affiliate networks at the same time, chances are that none of your initiatives might go

as planned and consequently, none of them might end up being very successful.

Secondly, focusing on just one or a few products without a doubt will let you research them thoroughly

before you start to promote them. This method also helps you refine your strategies, making the

required adjustments, and thus making your marketing a whole lot more powerful. An effective

approach will yield better outcomes, and reward you for your efforts and time.

Thirdly, make sure you do some research on the affiliate network as there are some networks that will

only pay you once a month which might not work for you or worse they could not pay you at all. I am

not telling this to discourage you from being an affiliate marketer, but instead I want you to succeed in

finding the correct network and products to market and make your commission.

There are affiliate networks that resort to "shaving", a very common exercise in affiliate marketing

where the networks display a discounted number of sales than what you referred, consequently paying

you drastically less in commissions.

Hence, to avoid been a victim to this action I would suggest that you stick to known and trusted affiliate

networks. In any case, they only way you will succeed with a network is if you are comfortable with

them and the products you are promoting.

How To Start Getting Sales As An Affiliate Marketer

Getting instantly to the point, some affiliate marketers use social media web sites including Facebook,

Twitter, YouTube, and more, for doing associate marketing, other decide to build out their own site.

Getting your own site is an exceptional approach to affiliate marketing, because it gives you control over

everything.

So we will focusing on affiliate marketing using your own site moving forward. First matters first, as

mentioned earlier, you will want to find an affiliate network you're comfortable with. This includes being

knowledgeable about the products you are promoting, so that you don't come to be selling products

you don't know anything about.

Amazon's Associate Program

That being said, many marketers look at Amazon's associate marketing program as one of the best. It's

possibly the most trustworthy network, and has a large inventory of products to promote and get your

commissions.

This offers you a possibility to promote nearly any product in the market, or pick a niche with low

competition and you could be earning commissions in less than a week.

Finding A Good Keyword

That is considered to be one of the hardest parts of marketing. You simply cannot blindly choose any

keyword and expect to start making sales quickly. One of the reasons why many affiliate marketers fail is

due to using a wrong keyword.

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If you are new to the affiliate marketing, you are going to want keywords that have low competition.

Start your keyword research by finding long tail keywords with a low search volume, that means much

less money, but not really with the ones that have large competition.

You may test the top 10 and 20 results and do a few studies to discover if you may outrank them.

Review keywords being used by the competition to determine if they are using identical key phrases you

are looking to target. If they are, and they have a high authority website in that niche, I would

recommend that you keep away from that niche, and opt for a brand new, less competitive.

Quality Content

This is significant. If you think you will make a lot of money creating items that doesn't help the visitors

in anyway, you are very wrong. Although your goal is to earn cash by means of referring visitors to the

offer, you will have to offer one thing of importance to them. Merely posting your hyperlinks along with

lame sales pitches like "this is a wonderful solution, purchase this product via my personal hyperlink and

get a discount", and so on, you might be only heading to disaster.

If you decide to join Amazon's associate program, you could write an informative article on your

homepage and include your primary keywords and some secondary keywords throughout the article.

You could have the purchasing guidebook, and write your brief opinion of each product you are

marketing. Remember that the greater the cost of the product you market, the greater the commission.

Backlinks

We realize it's probably the trickiest method to accomplish, unless you are an SEO guru. Contacting site

with high authority and guest posting on these sites is a really well-known means of getting great

backlinks. These great backlinks, along with guest posting in related sites in your niche will get you

ranked on the first page of the search engines as long as the keyword you chose has really low

competition.

However, even when your site doesn't reach page one, as long as you have guest posted on a number of

sites in your niche, you will be bringing substantial amount of targeted traffic coming from these sites.

So that it is a great tactic anyway.

Mistakes To Avoid

Now you are aware of the process to becoming a great affiliate marketer with your own website, I want

you to also keep in mind some of the most common errors brand new affiliate marketers make.

Not Providing Any Good Value

Though we've got covered this item, it's certainly important to remind you if you try to be extreme with

your words to pressure the visitors to click on your affiliate link, it's likely being deemed as junk or spam

by many websites.

Rather, it's suggested to help these individuals select the right solution determined by their particular

wants. This method makes these individuals feel more, which in return will check out the products you

are marketing based on the value in your article.

Product Research

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Numerous online marketers will not do proper product research to gain knowledge on the product they

are promoting, instead they are only worried about the amount of commission they will earn per sale

regardless whether it will provide value to their visitors. This is an oversight, and will at some point lead

to your readers not relying on anything you tell them.

Tracking Your Links

When you begin advertising on Amazon or even some other affiliate network, it will be beneficial to

track your affiliate links. It can help you find out which website is doing more sales and then you can

make your other websites have the same kind of setup.

Final Thoughts

I would like to say that despite the fact that affiliate marketing can be very fulfilling, it has a steep

learning curve to it. You might face disappointment on numerous occasions prior to making a nice

amount of money online.

That said, affiliate marketing it's suited simply for individuals who are likely to deal with several failures,

but will come back with a positive attitude and willing to learn from their mistakes.

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