Affiliate marketing is easy…is this fact or fiction?
If your goal is to become an affiliate marketer, one thing you need to remember is that it is a business. Starting a business involves planning, strategizing and reviewing results. To be successful as an affiliate marketer, you need to determine and define you niche. This is the niche of your business so that you can effectively build your business and affiliate with products and services your clients and audience will love.
Affiliate marketing best works with great content creation. It’s important to have an editorial calendar and breakdown of how you will use and monitor your affiliate links.
You’ll need an email list to grow your audience, which makes an email capture system in place is very important. Then you want to create your email marketing series offering information, free products, tools and/or services and sales funnel. All of these systems take some time to plan, but once in place will make it easier for you to stay connected.
As you can see there is planning and work involved in affiliate marketing. You now know that it’s not a get-rich-quick process. You will build relationships with the brands you represent and your audience. It’s important to make sure these are well aligned in order for you to achieve best results.
Does your niche need to be popular?
Your niche does not need to be popular. Your niche should be something you are passionate about and it should work for your business and align with your goals, mission and vision.
How do I market affiliate programs?
- Optimizing SEO (search engine optimization) is important in your business affiliate marketing success.
- Create keyword rich content for your articles and blog posts
- Review products and services that will be helpful for your audience
- Use banners and links strategically
- Use social media that are good for your audience (You don’t need to be on all social media channels, but it is helpful to be on the channels your audience can be found).
- Add share links to your articles and blog posts
- Use testimonials about the products and services
- Create comparison videos
- Create how-to-tutorials
- Create first impression – box opening videos and images
- Promote deals and discounts
- Engage with your audience with emails, webinars, videos, and social media
How do I sign up for affiliate programs?
There are thousands of affiliate programs out there. The first thing you want to do is research affiliate programs in order to determine the ones that will work best for your business and audience.
A great way to find programs is via Google: your niche + affiliate programs
Here are a few more examples of how to Google:
makeup + affilate programs
books + affiliate programs
cooking + affiliate programs
About affiliate programs
- Not all affiliate programs will accept you right away – If you don’t have any traffic, some of them may deny you. This happened to me when I started myweightgoal.com I applied to be an affiliate with Weight Watchers because I thought it would be perfect, and I’m a member. Unfortunately, my request was denied at the time, but lucky for me, I was accepted by other great affiliate programs that I am very happy with. In the meantime, I’m working on building traffic.
- Affiliate programs should cost you nothing to join. Do not pay for any affiliate marketing program.
- The commission or earnings will vary greatly by every affiliate program. You need to decide what’s important to you, is it the money you’ll make per customer or the program that excites you about joining.
- Affiliate programs will offer you links, banners, product descriptions and possibly testimonials. Take a deeper look into the programs that interest you so you can best determine how you will use the tools to market your business.
Do you have questions about affiliate marketing programs? I’d love to help. Ask you question in the comments below and I will either answer directly here or create a post with details that will help you with your business.