How to Make Money with Affiliate Marketing.

How to Make Money with Affiliate Marketing.

A lot of people are skeptical of becoming involved with “affiliate marketing.” Most of those people are the people who are new to this online world of sales. Affiliate marketing is actually one of a couple ways bloggers and website owners are able to make money with their websites. And some bloggers and website owners build complete websites just for the purpose of making money online with affiliate marketing programs. So you ask, is affiliate marketing legitimate? Well, two of the largest companies (Amazon and Walmart) thinks affiliate marking is legit. And, is very willing to share a commission with you on a sale of a product.

What is affiliate marketing?

In a whole, affiliate marketing is having someone (blogger or website owner) advertise, recommend or direction customers to someone else’s business ( amazon, Walmart or other companies website) or services to make a commission. And over time this commission can add up to a nice income. Let’s take the amazon affiliate programs commission payout. Amazon will pay a 4% to 10% commission on products that a blogger or website owner refers or guides a customer to that product on their wedsite. They are trying to essentially sell someone’s product to get a percentage of the pay. This is able to be done in many different ways. Bloggers and website owners may:

• Post ads throughout their site.
• Review or write about a product or service they have used throughout their site in different posts.
• Tweet to their twitter community about the company they have been affiliated with.
• Share on a facebook post or page.
• Share special promotions, sales, and discounts.

How do you find affiliates?

There are so many different affiliate options out there but below are a few of the most well-known and popular affiliate marketing programs offered by these companies below or just scroll down to the button of the page of any website and see if there is an affiliate program link. Trust me you will find most websites have an affiliate program link.

• Share a sale
• Clickbank
• PaydotCom
• Commission Junkie
• And listed above Amazon affiliate program and Walmart affiliate program

When looking for affiliate marketing website you should look at the websites you already use, see what kind of products they sell, and then play detective and check out the income platforms they have within that organization for that said site. Make sure you are focusing on your audience and what they initially want. Honestly, I have learned it is better to find a product or two that you like and trust than to use a bunch of random junk you don’t know about or even really care about.

Affiliate Marketing in a nut shell

Affiliate Marketing is basically unintended sponsorship. The company may not know that you will be crazy about them and go all out for them but if you are able to perform a lot of the same things over and over and present a similar loyalty to another brand with your readers they may be more interested. By linking your blog or website to their website to create a custom link. This custom link creates a connection with their website and now you are there virtual salesperson ready to make a commission.

Is affiliate marketing profitable?

Think about it, that is the big question. Have you ever visited a website and people have mentioned making a lot of money from their blog every month? Am I talking thousands? Well, do some research with on open mind and I think you will find that many do make a very good income from affiliate marking. If they weren’t, then they wouldn’t be investing all their time and money into it. Take the Amazon commission payout 10% for a $200 product on a 20 products monthly order, well I let you do the math on that one. Now let’s add two and three blogs or website. You can see the picture, it equals a nice income. So, If you make a good salesperson and believe in the product you are selling then you could make some serious cash. Trust me on this MANY DO as I also do.

Affiliate marketing does need the right audience though, a decent amount of traffic to your blog or website and you need to have dedication and time put into your blog or website. You do need to have some practice and find the right product that fits you and the perfect way to really sell it to others and not all of the people who try this will be successful. Why because those people haven’t received the correct training to do so. If you have an interest in affiliate marketing then go to the GET STARTED NOW page on this website to get started with the correct training.

A note to Beginners.

Do not put all of your eggs in one basket. You may love Product XYZ and want to sell it for the rest of your life but you never know if that company may end up broke and shut down. Make sure you leave your options open and find other products that relate to the ones you are in, meaning in the same niche market and build a great campaign that way. Most successful affiliate marketers have more than just one niche website. If you are interested in affiliate marketing I would recommend you checking out Wealthy Affiliate Program to learn more about the process.