Creating an online business using affiliate programs is possible and there are thousands of affiliates making up to $10,000 each month from affiliate programs. There are also a few affiliates who generate up to million dollars per year only from affiliate programs . Some will tell you that affiliate programs do not work, it’s their way to say I don’t want to work in the affiliate marketing business, or I cannot do so, either way it’s you who will determine if affiliate marketing can work for you or not.
Here are some affiliate marketing tips that could help you understand the process better and effectively make money with affiliate marketing.
1. Having your own content pages on the web. It can be your own website which is the better choice, or you can build content pages on other websites like social networks (squidoo, hubpages and stumbleupon) but it’s very important to write your own content as reviews and information about the affiliate products.
2. Writing and distributing articles. This way you establish your own identity on the internet, and people can find out how skilled you are. With article marketing you can generate traffic to your website or web pages and you can increase your webpage popularity. In either case, using your links in the articles and in the resource box of the articles is easy and you can invite your reader to click on your links to learn more useful information from you.
3. Choose the best affiliate programs in your niche market. If you are willing to put forth effort promoting affiliate products, it will be easier and more profitable for you to promote the best affiliate products.
4. Use pay per click marketing to generate traffic to your review site. With some products you can directly send traffic to your affiliate links from PPC search engines but it’s also recommended to send the traffic first to your review pages to help your customers make up their mind about your products.
5. In most cases people love to compare products and compare its features before purchasing, you can do so for them in your page and buy giving them more products and information about those products and compare a few products and point out the best product.
6. One huge mistake affiliates make is trying to hide. they don’t want their visitors to know that they are affiliates and they earn commission from the products. People do not care if you are earning a commission or not. They know that they will pay the same price for the product no matter how they got there, even if they went directly to owners website. But people care if you are trying to help them or help yourself. So think about helping your customers and the money will come.
7. Learn affiliate marketing. Knowledge separates us in the affiliate marketing business and any other online business. To be successful you need to learn. The best example is the Arabian-affiliate. When he decided to join the affiliate and network marketing business, he started learning the English language first, then he learned everything about internet marketing. I know him personally and I know he spent thousands of dollars in the process, and he told me once investing in education is investing in myself, and it’s the best investment you can make. And he is now one of the most successful affiliates on the net, and he now has his own team working for him.
So invest in your knowledge, learn everything about your business and be updated of every new technology on the internet. Signing up for newsletters can help you get some of the information.
8. Build a relationship with some successful affiliates. Get to know them and contact them. most of them hate being contacted by phone, but you can use the e-mail to contact them. You will be amazed of how they can help you, however they will invite you to join their programs but they can be very helpful. At first when I started working with the Arabian affiliate I thought to myself he is an idiot and I am a lot better than him and I know better, but with the time I learned that he knows how to lead, how to think small and get down to the lowest level of knowledge just to grab your hand and take you up step at a time to help you go up and reach a point of success where you can be left alone and be creative.
9. Another tip I learned from him is: to be a salesman you can duplicate. You can learn exactly what other affiliates are doing like him and thousands of other affiliate; but to be a supper affiliate you need to think different. You need to separate yourself from others by being creative, and develop your own ideas and strategies.
10. Use pen and paper. Write everything down, i.e. your thoughts, ideas and strategies; no matter how small, irrelevant or impossible it can appear to you at first. Sometimes when you go to sleep you will think of something. Write it down before you lose it. And save all of your writing and check it frequently. An idea that you thought of 3 months ago can now make you thousands of dollars, because then it seemed impossible to convert into action but now it’s more than possible and can be easily done.
People have no idea what kind of treasure is hidden in their mind and they have no access to that treasure.
Affiliate marketing is one of the few businesses that could not be affected with the bad economy. It’s true that every business and any individual will be affected from a bad economy, but with the time affiliate marketing business has proven to be successful. People will keep buying and keep trading no matter what happens. They can decrease and limit these actions and buying through the internet had proved to be easier and cheaper.
To be successful in business you need to think as a businessman and treat your business with the respect it requires.
