Make Money through Affiliate Marketing, For my WA Family

byJEaston

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3 years ago

Make Money through Affiliate Marketing

I know you have heard several times that you can make money through affiliate marketing. A lot of bloggers earn from promoting affiliate products and, really, you can too. Sometimes, the biggest hurdle facing bloggers with the affiliate marketing business is getting started.

Are you one of those bloggers who wish to get into the affiliate marketing business but don’t know how to go about it? You can learn what to do by following this post.

One interesting thing about affiliate marketing is that once you begin to make money from it, it becomes a revenue stream all the way for you.

You do not need to constantly be online or to do any difficult work before you can earn. In fact, it is true that you can earn affiliate commissions while you sleep.

How?

It is likened to advertising products on your site, making people see what you have to offer, and then motivating them to make a purchase. Since there are tons of visitors who visit your site, having a product on it is just like recommending the products to your visitors or followers.

These visitors now follow the link on your site and get to the page where they can purchase the product.

What You Need to Start

You need 2 important things to start your affiliate marketing business.

First, you need a personal blog. WordPress is the most popular option that you can use to build your website. It’s quite simple to do without the need for any professional knowledge and it won’t take much of your time.

WordPress also has many tools that your website can benefit from. These tools will make your site more functional and give your visitors an interesting time on your site.

After building your website, you need to know the right products to market. Make sure that they are products that are suitable for your niche and your content.

If you join an affiliate marketing network, it will be much easier for you to select the products that are right for you. One interesting thing about affiliate networks is that they have a lot of information about different products. So, you can easily find out the ones that will bring you many sales.

Earn Affiliate Income

With a website and product to sell, it is now time to take the right steps to generating revenue.

Create Content

Your content will go a long way in convincing your audience to buy a product. Sometimes an audience may not be able to tell if a product is right for them. Sometimes too, they may want to know more about the product before they make a commitment.

Through your posts, you should be able to convince the audience about a product and give him the information he wants to have. It will then be much easier to make him go for the product without feeling that he is making a mistake.

There are several ways to help a potential customer know that a product is right for him and help him make a buying decision.

Always target the right keywords in your content and conduct mini-researches to know what the need and expectations of your audience are.

Promoting Products

To do this, work around topics that are suitable for the affiliate products you are marketing. Research your target audience and understand what their needs and problems are, so you will be able to provide the right answers for them.

After you have researched and written on a great product, you can then insert your affiliate links. If you are doing a product review, don’t rush to review so many products at the same time. As you insert links;

• Use only links that fit your content so that your users can get the right experience on your site. User experience contributes in many ways to how much sales you make or lose
• Several visitors may not be patient enough to read your article to the very end. So when you add your affiliate links early enough, you are already making the product visible, whether they get to the end of your post or not
• Maximize your site space by choosing the right method of promoting your products. You may want to use inline banners, sidebar widgets,s or floating bars to promote your products. How you choose to promote your products also contribute to how much sales you make
• Use tools like affiliate management plugins to add links to your site. This will save you a lot of time and sorting as you insert links on your website.

Conversion

Getting high traffic alone is not enough to make a profit from affiliate marketing. All you need to do is potentially convert the one-time visitors into returning buyers.

For every 100 visitors that visit your blog, how many of them have you convinced to make a buying commitment? You can use pop-up campaigns to convert your visitors into customers.

With pop-ups, you get the right campaigns to the right customers and convince them to buy the product. You can also get them to see the product at the time they are contemplating buying one.

Reach Out for More Traffic

The 80%/20% marketing rule puts it that 80% of your profits will come from only 20% of your content. This is why it is important for you to know how your content is performing in your marketing campaigns.

This vital information is readily available for you in Google Analytics. When you identify the articles that your audience relates with more, you can target your campaigns to those URLs.

Email Lists

As you grow your audience, you can create an email list for them. Your email traffic is personal to you and you can easily reach out to them. You have already researched about their needs; so you can personalize your emails to them.

You can attract your audience with targeted pop-ups, welcome mats, floating bars then you get their emails in exchange for your lead magnets. You can then automate your campaigns to their emails.

Conclusion

Affiliate marketing is one source of passive income that you can earn good revenue from. It takes some groundwork to achieve, but you are in for affiliate marketing once you can follow the steps in this post.

That's it! We continue and never stop learning; "our brains continue to absorb new information like a sponge" I love this saying.

These are especially to many newbies like me; oldbies here in WA are already great! I hope you like this post for today, my beloved WA Family.

That's all! Thank you, and I LOVE YOU ALL!

~~~ Joyce :-)