Affiliate Marketing – A Beginners Guide

Affiliate marketing allows people to sell a variety of products online
through their blogs or website. If you are looking for an easy way to
monetize your website, you can easily implement affiliate marketing into
your site.

The basic concept is signing up for an affiliate
marketing network and finding products that are within your niche. Once
you find the product that is within your niche, you click on the hop
link to add your affiliate ID to the product link. When a reader clicks
on your hop link and buys the item, you get a commission for the sale.
Although this sounds simple, there are a few things that you need to
know before you get started.

Here is a simple guide for affiliate marketing beginners.

Choosing Your Affiliate Network

The affiliate network that you choose will have a lot to do with the type
of products that you are selling. Different affiliate networks will
focus on different items. Some affiliate networks like Commission Junction mainly focus on selling website subscriptions and services
while Clickbank will focus on digital products like eBooks and software
packages.

Determine what affiliate network is going to fit best into your niche. For instance, if you’re running a website that offers advice on insurance, you can use a lead based affiliate network to promote insurance quotes. Some affiliate networks are known for late payments and other bad business practices so do your research before hand.

Choosing Products

When you’re first starting out you’re going to be inundated with different products for marketing. There first thing that you need to do is research on the products that you’re going to promote. Unlike your niche where you are focusing on a small market, you can expand your product base and offer a wide variety of products or lead generating links when you’re marketing to readers. We’ve researched many of the best products and business opportunities for you. Visit our site, http://www.your-daily-income.com/affiliate_programs.htm.

Don’t go overboard, but have a couple of items that are relevant to your niche. Whether these are eBooks or software packages, your readers have broad based needs within your niche so you should appeal to every aspect of their need. Click on the “Gravity” or “Network Earnings” options on the affiliate network for stats on what products are selling the best.

Buy The Product

How are you going to give real information about a product if you have
never used it? When somebody comes to your website they are looking for information on the product. If you don’t give them detailed information then they are going to leave the site and probably never come back.

Buy the item so you know the ins and outs of what you’re trying to sell.
Never give broad information about a product. You will be glad that you
bought the product instead of just trying to fake your way through a
review to do online marketing for it.

Be Honest

Affiliate marketing is all about being honest with a product. If there are things that you don’t like about the product, tell your reader. This will
differentiate you from the other marketers trying to sell them a product
based on the features.

When you explain what you don’t like about the item you show that you actually know what it does and what it doesn’t do. You can easily build rapport with your readers and establish online trust. This will bring them back to your website when they need a new product or are wondering about different websites that you’ve tried
out.

Cloaking

Almost everybody knows what a hoplink looks like. When you put hoplinks on your website, a reader is going to know that you’re trying to sell them something. These links are not only telltale signs of a sale; they are not aesthetically appealing to your websites. Cloaking your links is the best way to keep the website looking professional while not coming off as a hard sell.

You can use cloaking tools or you can use an anchor text link. This allows you to embed a link within a certain phrase. For instance, if you’re trying to sell an eBook on acne you can add your hoplink to “Acne Ebook” so that when the phrase is clicked the reader is taken to the product page.

Viral Media

Viral media is an easy way to drum up traffic to your site or blog. If you
are going with a hosting plan then you will be able to easily host videos on your site. If you don’t have a hosting plan, head over to HostGator and buy one.

This is very cheap and will give you the freedom to upload and house your videos per your website or blog. Record yourself going over the product or take screenshots of the product to show the different features. Also talk about what you don’t like about the item to keep your readers informed. Video marketing is a great way to generate traffic

 

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Regards and Blessings to you,

Jack McLaughlin

P.S.

A wealth of information is available here to assist you in your attraction marketing, online home based business and business opportunity efforts. Visit us today!

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Think Like A Marketer

Successful Internet Marketers can teach you how to make money online and that very same information that means tens of thousands of dollars for them may be nothing more than confusion and frustration for you. Why do we see the same information in a different way? The reason that it does is something that I had to find out for myself before I could make the how to make money systems work for me… It was going through my “marketing filter” in my mind without being processed the same as it would for those that were thinking like marketers.

I had a problem with selling to people. I had problems of seeing things as opportunities instead I looked at the things I was doing as something everyone else would criticize me for.

Thinking like a marketer is crucial to your success. I have covered this slightly before but want to re-visit this subject again as it is crucial to your success as a marketer.

You will find that everywhere you look that everyone teaches you the systems, or the how to “make money online”, but very seldom will you find anyone that teaches you that you also need to know how to think like a marketer. This is the missing piece.

Do you honestly want to be a successful internet marketer? If so then you need to be a marketer.

How can you possibly go about trying to build an internet marketing business without BEING a marketer? It is like trying to build a house with no foundation. What happens to the house not built upon a good solid foundation? No wonder so many people fail!

Being a marketer would mean you have to sell something and who wants to be a “sales person”? It doesn’t sound very exciting does it? Our minds think of the car salesman and who wants to be seen as the person following you around constantly pitching to you. I have to tell you though that selling is part of the game and is very essential if you are going to be a marketer “NOBODY” makes money until they sell something.

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Regards and Blessings to you,

Jack McLaughlin

P.S.

A wealth of information is available here to assist you in your attraction marketing, online home based business and business opportunity efforts. Visit us today!

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