Behind Every Great Retailer Online is a FLeet of Affiliates
Hey folks, Just a few thoughts before bed given it is 2:16 AM my time, beware I am on full typo watch.
The way affiliate marketing works for a business is simple. If you sell a product online through your own hosted platform or one that allows integrations like WooCommerce or OS-Commerce etc... You should have an affiliate plugin or script like iDev Affiliates working for you.
By adding affiliates who are independent contractors hopefully experienced in your niche with existing traffic and personal brand awareness you can take a majority of your advertising and marketing budgets and convert them to guaranteed sales.
Why it makes sense and how guaranteed sales happen.
Affiliate Marketing is a huge boost to sales because you are attracting a following in niches related to your business. Many of them are bloggers or social media influencers with hundreds of thousands of viewers. Not just viewers but a captive audience that they have a report with who depend heavily on their reviews for buying choices. Because of these coveted relationships conversions on raw traffic are much higher than advertising.
I said sales are guaranteed and here is the beauty. You pay affiliate like the old door to door sales man by commission not salary and the affiliate will do both advertising and marketing services for you. Top affiliates will be able to get AMAZING ROI on advertising campaigns just by knowing their niche and leveraging content they custom build for their readers.
I am looking to become and affiliate, what is in it for me?
As a affiliate you can sign up for training here at Wealthy Affiliate and learn to tap into your passion niches, and get commissions from companies with affiliate programs. If your budget is small focus on building content and creating social media channels around your content. As your following grows which will happen as you learn and as you work on your website you can build list of readers and social followers who all trust you because you help them solve daily problems in a niche they are interested in.
The traffic through search and social in this manner is FREE meaning the only cost you have for doing business are your blog hosting which is included in WA Membership, your training system which is the core of our Business Centers currently called HUBS. You will also need to check about licensing in your location though most places affiliate marketing requires no license.
For me, this part of my business costs me well under $100 per month and has potential for returns of 99% or more if I only do FREE Traffic Tactics.
Affiliate marketing is hassle free for the most part.
Imagine a business with no direct customer dealings. No complaints, chargebacks are handled by the company, and all the ground work that can take up to 5 years for a company to get established is DONE. All you need is to follow easy video and text trainings that show you how to craft a voice that resonates and scale your business from first blog post to 500,000 visitors a month.
SUMMARY of thoughts
If you are a company selling physical or digital good online you need affiliates to be competitive. Amazon would likely be a small to medium sized business if it were not for the millions of affiliates they have paid through the decades. Guaranteed Sales come from [paying commissions on each sale instead of up front costs with no guarantee such as when you run a paid advertisement.
As an Affiliate you are trading your time for potentially unlimited profits instead of a salary that is decided by someone who has never even tried to get the most value out of you. You trade a boss and a schedule for potential and freedom and you can start for a few minutes a day while you still have your JOB or Just Over Broke.
Looking to become and affiliate click on the Join Button above and join us at Wealthy Affiliate. You can take the FREE Starter Membership and learn to build a website that can change your life even before you choose a training filled, AI-Driven, and Tool-Laden membership plan.
My name is Andy and I have been in Wealthy Affiliate for over a decade now and I am sure you will love it too.
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Hey 👋 Andy
Thanks for sharing your affiliate knowledge.
I agree, and believe that the Affiliate model is going to grow rapidly as it is becoming a trusted income source for average people.
What are your thoughts on promoting “local” products and services as an affiliate.
Services like home services like landscaping, windows, siding painting etc. Or retail stores like mom and pop coffee shops and restaurants.
The affiliate will need to be savvy about targeting local consumers.
Please share your thoughts and suggestions. 😊
There are a couple working models in SEO for this. The first is Pay Per Call services, or Pay Per Lead, and the second model is content leasing. I had a platform at one time that did local reviews and charged the reviewed businesses for links to their websites, for addition of their coupons etc... The systems took a lot more leg work and if your community size is too small you need to really work to retain existing businesses.
What I think will really help is for successful members to drop in and tell us a bit about why you love Wealthy Affiliate.
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As incisive as inspiring, Andy.
Cheers.