What is affiliate marketing?
Affiliate marketing is a business model in which you promote other people's (or company's) products and services for pay. You send interested customers to the other company's website, and if they buy something from them, you get a portion of the sale.
If you reach about 500-1000 unique visitors on your websites daily and have a solid following on social media or elsewhere, affiliate marketing is a good option.
You can place ads and links on your website, blog, YouTube channel, and much more to promote other company's products and services.
You just need to research well which companies pay the highest commissions for each type of traffic you send. Then you'll be able to earn a good living from affiliate marketing.
Why is it helpful?
Affiliate marketing can be a great way to supplement your income. If you have an audience on the internet that you can reach, then there are probably products or services that your followers would like to buy.
You just need to research well into what these products and services are and find out which companies will pay you the highest commissions for each type of traffic you send.
What to remember:
Affiliate marketing is a long-term business, unlike many quick money-making schemes that pop up online (most of them are scams). You'll need lots of targeted traffic if you're going to make good money from affiliate marketing. You can buy or rent that traffic, but you'll be paying for it either way.
To keep your costs low and your profits high, try promoting affiliate offers to people who are already interested in the niche/topic of your website or blog.
You can't make a living from affiliate marketing alone unless you have a huge audience/following. You'll need to supplement it with other methods of earning money online and offline, such as freelancing or consulting.
Don't spend more than you can afford on advertising and marketing. To keep your costs low and your profits high, try promoting affiliate offers to people who are already interested in the niche/topic of your website or blog.
If you want to make a living from affiliate marketing, consider getting your own website or blog. All the successful affiliates we know of have their own site and plenty of unique content on it that they've either written themselves or outsourced. Having your own site is also great for branding, and will help with conversions (sales) in the long run.
So keep in mind these tips:
- Create a unique and genuine website that is attractive to potential customers
- Find an online course or ebook that can help you learn more about affiliate marketing (YouTube is the free source)
- Learn all the ins and outs of how it works: what changes will occur on your site, what this means for your visitors, and so on
- Get started with commissions by working as an affiliate. Join programs such as Amazon's associate's program or ClickBank Affiliate Program
- Continue by getting your own products to sell through the website you created and start earning commission on those sales too
- Create social media accounts for your affiliate website
- Create the content on your social media (Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest, or LinkedIn)
- Engage with your audience
- Create a newsletter and gather your visitor's email address
- Provide value to your visitors through content
- Start growing your audience.
As we said, affiliate marketing is a long-term business - you won't see any immediate success or results. After all, if it was easy and fast to make money online, everyone would be doing it and making a living from it!
Affiliate marketing takes time and effort before you can start earning substantial profits; but when done correctly, it can be a great way to make money online.