Get Paid To Promote Other People's Products
The best way to make money on the internet is to become an affiliate, which means you promote someone else’s products and get commissions out of the sales made through your affiliate links.
Why is this the best way? Because you do not bother with finding a niche, creating a product, creating a sales pitch, order processing, customer support…etc. Your job is to let people know about that product, to promote it and cash in the commissions.
Don’t get me wrong here! Promoting isn’t the easiest task, not even close! If things would be that simple every affiliate marketer should have built fortunes by now, but that is not the reality. In fact a very small percentage (hardly 10%) of the affiliate marketers get the desired lifestyle from this activity. The rest of them lose time, money and become frustrated.
There is one way to get pass through the trial and error process in affiliate marketing and that is: look for successful affiliate marketers and copy everything they do. Doing the same things they do, sooner or later will bring you the same kinds of results (think of a cookie recipe – if you use the same ingredients and the same techniques as a specialist you will get the same results, even if that is after a few trials).
First of all – to make money with affiliate marketing you will have to join at least one of the big affiliate networks such as Clickbank, Commission Junction…etc.
After joining these networks you have to search for products to promote. Many affiliates make the mistake of choosing products with low demand or with a not so good converting sales letter. You have to pay very close attention to the products you choose to promote.
There are some things you should consider when choosing a product,
things like:
- First thing – check for the demand of that product (if there is little you’ll have no profits)
- Analyze the sales letter and see if there are spelling mistakes, testimonials, proofs. Be the client for a moment and think about how that sales letter would satisfy your needs. Is it compelling? Would you buy it? If not what exactly holds you back… Note that down for it will help make the decision;
- Search in forums and blogs for reviews of that product, what are people saying about it? Are there any complaints? Are there refund requests?
- At Clickbank at least, you get some statistics for the product before deciding to promote it. There you’ll find the conversion rate for the product, meaning how many persons from 100 visitors buy that product. Now this is for reference only. The conversion rates have to be tested. You can do this by driving and tracking targeted traffic to the sales letter. The fastest way to do this is using pay per click advertising (if you are not familiar with it search for a specialist that can help you with this);
Ok. After the tests, if the results show that the product is a profitable one you can really start promoting meaning drive more traffic to it (free or paid), write reviews about it, write articles about it.
Another thing you should consider is link protection. People are not comfortable when they see affiliate links, and most importantly people will steal your commission by replacing your link with their own.
That is why you should protect it. There are many ways of doing that, but the easiest way is to use tinyurl.com and oark.com
This article is a very, very brief description of the whole process of affiliate marketing. The subject is very wide and there are a lot of products and systems out there that teach you how to make it work.
I suggest you search for a complete guide about it and start making money out of it.
Don't forget to join the affiliate networks:
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