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How To Get Started in Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing.. you either get it, or it gets you. Here's some helpful tips from an affiliate marketer who got it the hard way.
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I got involved in affiliate marketing, without knowing what it was. Like many , I was looking for a way to make money from home. I was contacted with an incredible offer. I could earn up to $300 over and over, without doing anything! Wow! I paid my $200 without thinking to ask exactly what the product was. Turns out, the idea was to sucker more people like me into paying their own money out.. Next thing I knew, the company wanted me to spend thousands for them to advertise for me. There was no way I could do that. I started trying to find a way to do it myself. I managed to make back what I had put in, and that was it for me. I had found my way into the make money from home crowd via a scam. The worst part? I earned $200, and the sale that it came from was well over $4000. I felt a terrible sense of guilt.
However, I learned a lot while trying to earn my money back. I learned something about how to sell online. I went from making a whopping $8.73 in May to making over $1000 in June. I have been making money at it since, although I am constantly searching for a way to earn more.
The most important things I have learned to date:
Stick to what you know. Yes , you can market with an ad about something you know nothing about, and you will likely get a few sales on pay per click. However, if you stick to what you know, you can write articles about it.. Teach others about it and have a link to something that can help them learn even more. That ‘something’ can be an affiliate product directly related to what you are trying to teach. Assuring potential customers that you know what your talking about can lead to more sales than in your face advertising.
Don’t turn up your nose at little pay per lead programs. Often free to join, or use, you can rack up some pretty good money with minimal effort. Free is a popular price.
Don’t just pull a set of keywords off an affiliate resource page and throw them all on pay per click. Merchants aren’t worried about what it costs you, they want to make money. Think long and hard. Look your product over. Who would want it? Categorize these people into groups. For example, say you were promoting recipe books. You could target people in general, guys who want to impress their ladies and women who want to shush up their mother in law. Then you find keywords appropriate to people searching for things like that. Don’t be afraid to be specific. It’s better for you to get one sale on 5 clicks over three days than to get one sale on 175 clicks in one day. I have learned to be patient. Find more than one product in the same niche and promote it differently and you’ll still get sales daily.
The negative keyword -free is your best friend. If you aren’t giving it away, don’t let the freebie seekers click on it!
Unless you have a degree in marketing, I would highly recommend staying away from the work at home niche while you are getting started, or at the very least, keep it out of pay per click until you are more experienced. The costs are high and so are the refunds.
Seek the wisdom of others. There are online forums full of affiliates. Pose your questions and others will give you their views and share their experience. I almost always have a window open for my favorite forum and regularly check for new posts. There is a wealth of helpful information to be found.
Selling advertising to those who are trying to promote something can be profitable, but choose your programs wisely . Bear in mind that your are advertising these products to affiliates. Look for sites that don’t loudly advertise their affiliate programs or don’t allow affiliates to purchase through their own links. Otherwise you stand to lose commissions to people who sign up themselves and get paid commissions on their own purchase. Truly, this applies to almost any affiliate product.
Cloak your link. There are dozens of good products for link cloaking. By cloaking your link it could read something like advertising.com instead of advertisinggurus.com/?affiliate=555. It makes for a tidier link, and no one would know it was an affiliate link.
It is not really difficult to make money online if you avoid the hype, think hard and plan out what and how you are going to market.
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