How do you “DO” Affiliate Marketing

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When I first googled “Affiliate Marketing” there are seriously thousands of sites with helpful advice. Which I hope to find again someday, when I actually learn How to do Affiliate Marketing. I can see how all of this fits together in making a good living doing affiliate marketing, from home I might add, but in my case the advice did not tell me how to get started.

That’s when I came across Wealthy Affiliates. I get it, part of being an affiliate is the reviews you give a product. You type review on anything, and it is 9.7 times out of 10, from an affiliate, promoting a product. So, when you type review in for Wealthy Affiliate (or any site like theirs) you are getting a bias opinion. Learning from a program like WA, is strictly up to the person going through the course. If you don’t progress and profit from WA, chances are you won’t from any of the other ones out there either. There are no miracle websites that you just put your name in there and poof, you are an affiliate marketer making hundreds or thousands of dollars a week. Like any other 9 to 5 job, you have to work, its up to you whether you love your job or dread it.

As for me, I love working on the computer. I am within a couple of years of retirement, and I want something to do to fill my free time and make extra money. I love looking at other people’s affiliate selling sites, so it just seems natural to me, to want to do the same thing and sell cool stuff on line. I’m not looking to get rich quick (and there is nothing wrong with that) but for me, I want a steady constant stream of income. I want to be able to work on these a couple hours a day, because I want to enjoy my retirement. If I start now, by the time I retire, my goal is to be able to do just that.

I want to show you some of the findings when searching for Affiliate Marketing:

Definition of Affiliate Marketing: A way for a company to sell its products by signing up individuals or companies ("affiliates") who market the company's products for a commission. There are two ways to approach affiliate marketing: You can offer an affiliate program to others or you can sign up to be another business's affiliate

Essentially affiliate marketing involves a merchant paying a commission to other online entities, known as affiliates, for referring new business to the merchant's website. Affiliate marketing is performance-based, which means affiliates only get paid when their promotional efforts actually result in a transaction.

Now some sound advice on how to start you Affiliate Business:

1. Only Choose a Handful of Good Products. ...

2. Use Several Traffic Sources to Promote Products. ...

3. Test, Measure and Track Your Affiliate Campaign. ...

4. Research the Demand of the Product. ...

5. Stay Current with New Methods and Technique

6. Choose your niche

7. Research different affiliate programs and products.

8. Build a site.

9. Produce excellent content.

10. Build an audience.

11. Promote your affiliate product(s).

This should be on a plaque hanging on your wall, above your desk. Very good advice. But it does not tell you how to get started in creating your own website, or your building your own business. My experience with Wealthy Affiliates has been very positive. It teaches you step by step, from the very first thing you need to do, to how to start making money. And you can repeat this process over and over. You can access the training over and over. You can ask questions over and over... So, when I was reviewing the different Affiliate Marketing courses, what I was looking for was an honest vibe, sincerity on helping their clients or students. If you feel the need to bash your competition, you are probably teaching that somewhere in your course. As I said earlier, you can learn from any of the courses out there, choose the one that works for you.

You can check out a more detailed description of WA Here…..

In my conclusion, I spent a lot of time online, searching for a way to learn how to “do Affiliate Marketing”. I ordered a lot of books, watched a lot of YouTube, read a lot of reviews. I recommend you do the same. And when you are ready to lean how to get started, Wealthy Affiliate is a great place to start. Check it out here.

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Great information Kelly thanks for posting it.

Bob

A really great post-Kelly and you have shared some great specifics needed to be successful online
Working steadily toward your goals and achieving great results is a process of learning and continuous learning as we go along this awesome online path
Keep up the great work
Vicki

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