Affiliate marketing

Affiliate Marketing For Beginners A Step by Step Guide To Making Money On The Internet

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About The Author

Edward Aigbokhae has over a decade in experience designing, developing and marketing websites and products. He help website owners create money online, by helping with education and resources.

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Introduction

Affiliate marketing, I strongly believe, is the fastest way beginners can start an internet

business and make money online. This affiliate marketing for beginners guide will walk

you through the steps to follow. As an affiliate marketer, you don't have to worry about

creating a product or service to sell right from the start. All what you will be concerned

with to succeed is pre-selling and marketing the merchant's product to your target

audience by simply highlighting the product's benefits.

But your first investment should be to register a domain name and sign up with a web

hosting service provider. You will do better online by promoting other merchants

products and services by having your own domain name and signing up for a web

hosting account. It will greatly help you to reach your target audience with ease.

This will not cost you more than $20 in your first month of starting an online business.

With consistent action taken by you on a daily basis, you will be able to make profits at

the close of your first month in business after taking care of your internet business

expenses/costs.

However, many beginners who are working within a tight budget can also go through the

free route of using free blogs and web 2.0 properties to start an affiliate marketing

business. Unfortunately, this will not offer you enough flexibility as much as having your

own domain name and website for a number of reasons.

Your question now will be, "What are the requirements of becoming a super affiliate

marketer?" It is as simple as you can imagine! Simply learn and master how to pre-sell

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and promote the merchant's product benefits to your target prospective buyers without

giving away all the information.

If you ask me, it is simple to learn how to pre-sell by reading experts articles on specific

topics from related blogs and article directories and adapt it to your business without

plagiarizing someone else's work.

Here are the steps you should always follow when you want to choose a product to

promote in order to earn affiliate sales commission.

First, research and choose a niche market with hungry buyers. That is to select a highly

targeted niche market with burning problem to solve. It doesn't necessarily have to be an

internet marketing niche when you are joining an affiliate program to promote products

and services. Lots of beginners make the mistake of starting out with "make money

online" niche which is keenly dominated by internet marketing gurus.

Secondly, select an affiliate product that will solve the problem you have identified in the

niche market above. And the best way to know if a product will be able to solve a specific

problem, want or need is to use it yourself or get other real users experience with the

product.

There are popular affiliate networks like ClickBank.com, CJ.com, Amazon.com, etc, where

you can choose lots of products to start with.

The next step is for you to conduct keyword research to determine the market demand

for a solution to the problem you have identified above. This exercise is critical to your

success because you don't want to dissipate your time, energy and money on a market

that will not be responsive.

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Good enough, there are free and paid keyword research tools anyone can use to confirm

the demand in any market. While the free keyword tool is good to start with as a

beginner, it could be time consuming when you want to analyze the market competition

as fast as possible for each keyword phrase you find.

Next, determine the market competition for each keyword phrase you decide to go with

from your research. If you don't want to be eaten up by "internet marketing sharks," it is

important you hand-pick only long tail keyword phrases with low or weak competition.

With a handful of carefully selected long tail keyword phrases you can start writing

quality articles which you are going to use to promote the affiliate product on your blog,

website or article directories.

Publishing and marketing affiliate products using quality and unique articles work great

but there are also other methods of promoting affiliate products and services. As you can

see, making money online involves a lot of hard work and smart work but it is, by far,

better than day job hassles.

When it comes to understanding affiliate marketing, whether you're a beginner or

veteran, you either get it or you don't.

I don't mean that you necessarily understand all the methods and techniques; that takes

a long time to master. I'm talking about understanding the power of being an affiliate as

a true business model.

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I got into web marketing for my small business. I needed clients, so I turned to the web.

In the process, I discovered affiliate marketing. Until then, I naively believed the only way

websites made money was by selling banner ads or AdSense.

The affiliate marketing concept hit me in the gut; I was blindsided by a concept so simple:

yet I immediately understood the potential.

In fact, there really is no limit to how big of a business you can build as an affiliate, even if

you're just a beginner.

Like I said, I ran a small offline business which entailed a lot of customer service. As an

affiliate, on the other hand, you gain access to tens of thousands of products to sell and

you don't have to worry about customer service, shipping, returns, support, etc. The fact

is you can focus 100 percent of your time and energy on selling.

The best 2 aspects of affiliate marketing is it's scalable and presents a passive income

opportunity.

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Affiliate marketing for beginners.

There are only 2 requirements to succeed and make money as an affiliate - whether

you're a beginner or veteran. Those two requirements are:

Traffic; and

Pre-selling copywriting.

That's it. If you can get traffic to your affiliate offer and can pre-sell it, you can make

money.

Affiliate marketing for beginners is the same as it is for veterans. Don't complicate it.

Don't think it requires all kinds of fancy set up. All you need, at the foundational level is

traffic and pre-selling copy.

Now that the abstract is take care of, I'll discuss a few concrete methods so that affiliate

marketing for beginners. There are many methods and techniques for being an affiliate

marketer. This is good. But it also helps to latch onto one method and run with it.

Affiliate marketing for beginners - 3 methods:

1. List building

Yes, you've probably heard this before. List building is a technique that has generated

millions of dollars in profits.

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Again, for list building to succeed, you need traffic to your page where you attract

subscribers and copy that converts visitors to subscribers.

How do you attract subscribers? Offer something valuable to your targeted readers. In

any niche there's some question or series of questions you can answer. Create a report

or guide giving the information sought and give it away in exchange for an email address.

You can give away videos, free stuff, run contests, give away access to software... the sky

is the limit. Be creative and put yourself in the shoes of your target market and ask: what

would I want to know?

This model can take a little while to generate an income unless you buy some traffic to

your opt in page. However, once you build a list of subscribers and you treat them well,

you have a ready audience for your affiliate promotions.

2. Build a loyal audience and recommend products

If you can build a loyal audience with a blog or an e-newsletter, then you can recommend

products that some of your audience will buy. This model includes building a blog. You

can then recommend products in your blog posts and/or in an e-newsletter your run.

This method takes time to establish because it takes time to build up a loyal audience of

readers.

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3. Create a review website

This is probably one of faster methods to earn money in affiliate marketing. The concept

is exceedingly simple and when done right, effective.

A review site is an excellent affiliate marketing model for beginners. It's as simple as

writing about a product you use and like. Write about every aspect of it... your likes,

dislikes, how it helped you, why you bought it, and of course, where to buy it. You then

provide an affiliate link to where it's sold online.

There's no reason to stop at one product (although the single product review website is a

viable and effective review website mode). You can also create affiliate review websites

that promote an entire product line. This format is more informational than a personal

recommendation. This too, can be effective.

Is real income possible, even for beginner affiliate marketers?

Yes. I'm no veteran by any stretch. However, I earn a decent monthly income from

affiliate marketing using the 3 techniques above (the review site accounts for the bulk of

my affiliate marketing income). Most importantly, using concrete models, I focus like a

laser on traffic and pre-selling copy.

Next, discover how to build profitable affiliate review sites and start earning an online

income relatively quickly.

So, you can get on the train now and start an online business of your own as you have

read this affiliate marketing for beginners' article.

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