Affiliate marketing is one of the best ways to make money online, and in this article, we will talk about
affiliate marketing and how you can get started. Believe it or not, there are many people making millions of
dollars each year from affiliate marketing. We are not saying that you will achieve the same success; however, if you work hard, then you might get there.
What is affiliate marketing?
Affiliate marketing is a way for people to sell someone else’s product and earn a commission. Your revenue will be dependant on how many sales you get the specific seller, which means the more you can get, the more money you will make. You will have to sign up for an affiliate program on a selected platform. Read my post on the best platforms to use.
Once you have done that, you will get a special link that will be unique to your account. All you have to do
now is get customers to purchase your products from that specific link, and you will make money.
What makes affiliate marketing such a great business model, would be the ability to not worry about any
product creation or back-end customer service. If you are selling someone else’s product, all you have to do is promote someone else’s product to the people who need that specific product, and you will be making money guaranteed. This is one of the reasons why many people nowadays tend to stick with affiliate
marketing instead of running a shop.
What to sell, and How?
The beautiful thing about affiliate marketing would be that you can sell anything and can earn a commission.
For example, if you are into beauty products, you can go on Amazon and sign up for an affiliate account.
From there, you can start promoting a makeup product that you like, and when people buy that product, you
earn a commission.
Amazon is one of the top affiliate marketing platforms, the only downside is the payout would not be as big as some of the other affiliate marketing platforms, but you have endless options of products to promote.
Another great affiliate marketing option be Clickbank. You can earn a lot more money with Clickbank as the products are going to be digital, and your commission is going to be higher. Sometimes, your commission can be as high as 90% of the total sale.
This is why you need to consider which affiliate marketing platforms are going to be using, always promote a product you like and know. You can find a list of my top affiliate marketing options, besides the obvious Google Adsense by signing up for the newsletter below.
Once you’ve decided which products are going to be selling, it will be time to promote the product to “get the sale”. I really hate the term get the sale, but ultimately that’s exactly what it is. You’re promoting someone else’s product to drive traffic to their website in hopes to make a “sale”.
Many people use blogs to drive traffic, and it does work very well. However, you can always use YouTube as a way to promote your products. Do a full review on the product, and link the product in the bio that way people can buy from your link.
Final verdict
You can make a lot of money from affiliate marketing or very little. Ultimately it is up to you on how much work you want to put into promoting products. I personally prefer to make things more automated rather then wasting precious time link building. It is although one of the best ways to make money online. As long as you are promoting a product that you like, you should have no problem getting the results you have been hoping to get.