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So you've heard about affiliate marketing, but have no clue what it is or
how it works? Well, let me try to help you out!
An affiliate
someone who promotes a
product or service for another company and in return earns a commission on what
they sold.
An affiliate program: you (the affiliate)
would join with a company to promote their products and you would be paid a
commission on the products you sell for that company.
Affiliate marketing is the actual process of promoting the products for
companies!
OK, for example. Let's just say that I am an affiliate of a book
store. This means that I have signed up with their affiliate program to
sell their products. Now, for every book that I sell I would make a
commission on that sale. What a great deal! Most affiliate programs
are FREE to join so all you have to do is sign up with them and start selling
their products. This is also an excellent way to sell products without
having to ever touch a product! They company you are promoting will be
doing all of the handling of the products and the sales, you just have to get
their name out there.
So, now you can set up a website (choose a free website builder or pay to
host your own) and start promoting all of your affiliate programs! One
good rule of thumb, is to stick to one main category. If you're promoting
beauty products, stick to products that are related to this. Your visitors
are coming to your site because they're looking for beauty products and you
don't want to bombard them with tons of affiliate links or they'll find a new
website for beauty products.
A great place to go first,
is Google AdSense. It's basically like making free money! It's
100% free to join. You place their ads on your site and every time
one of your visitors clicks on those ads - you get paid. Most of the
time it's a few cents to a $1 or so per click, but if you grab Joel Comm's
book - you can easily start making a $50 - $500+ a day from AdSense.
Check
out his book here!
Ok, let's get started on your
affiliate marketing career!
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