Affiliate marketing is the easiest as well as cheapest way to start making cash online. There is a proper way it should be done though. You’ll find out what it is in a sec. Let me first tell you it is ten times more difficult to be new to affiliate marketing and make money, than it was a few years back.
Wanna know why?
The reason is only grandma is not online trying to make money nowadays, meaning the competition is massive. And even though most people don’t actually know shit and since you are reading my blog you have to be smarter, which will give you a huge advantage, you still have to consider the competition as a factor.
When more people start promoting, the promoting methods become more complex, Google, Facebook and the rest make it a lot harder for affiliates, SEO changes and basically you need ten times the skill as if it was 2005.
Got your attention?
Good, cause you will find out out what will make your life easier and help you outmarket almost all affiliates the following several paragraphs. Here comes the ultimate guide to affiliate marketing.
1 Choose an awesome product
Most people will tell you to do a research and see who needs this product and I will tell you to choose a product you truly like. You will find people to buy… plenty of folks out there looking to buy. If you don’t like what you sell though, you won’t make too many sales.
Take this very seriously, because most people only get involved with something for the money, which is a huge mistake.
You have to love what you sell, or people will know you only care about the sale… they always do. Your potential customers are not stupid, although people love to buy, they don’t like to be sold.
2 Market that product
You will say: well, duuh… and yeah you probably know marketing is the key to making sales, however plugins, backlinks, WP themes, site structure, HTML, being the best SEO or anything like that has nothing or close to nothing to do with marketing.
That’s something you should not waste time with, cause it’s boring, stupid and doesn’t bring sales. You should concentrate on only one thing – SALES. And to get sales you will have to become good at selling.
Get somebody else to do the boring not money making stuff.
3 Don’t be a wussy
You will not become rich in a week, so don’t quit after you fail a few times like most do. When I redirected my business entirely online I did not make a dime for about 6 months, yet I didn’t care cause I was developing a business system I knew would pay off at the end.
I did not complain or quit, but pushed until I made it. Affiliate marketing is tough and you will have to be tough to really make ti happen.
4 Believe almost nobody
Marketers are storytellers, almost everything they say is made up to make you buy. Stories are the best marketing approach which is why everybody has them in their arsenal. Some are true, yet they are not a lot. Even when you search out those that matter, you should take care of your business only. Buy cool stuff to learn from, but don’t follow every blog that’s said to be good and don’t believe everything you hear.
5 Adsense, CPA’s and the like.
If you don’t want to sell stuff, then you should consider making people take some kind of action in exchange for money. That’s pretty easy. Just build a cool site and then get cheap traffic to it. Most people will click your thing, cause it’s free.
You can start with 7search, as it’s cheap paid traffic and is pretty good for CPA’s. You can get started with 25 bucks and quickly make them 50 or so when you pick the right offer, which will happen after you do some testings.
Then you could move on to FB PPC or Google to get traffic. You don’t have to complicate things too much, but move fast instead. Just do as you read and you will be good to go. I’m telling you – do it.
That’s about everything you need to know to start making money as an affiliate. See, it only takes about 700 words to understand how affiliate marketing works, it’s that simple. This is why I told you to not complicate things reading too much blogs, or following everybody that’s said to be good.
You need to pick the gold, or even better – buy some cool information and then implement. After a while you will have your own way to do things.
