Affiliate Marketing

If you are still not ready or you need some time to offer your clients your own products, you can always consider starting out with affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing if done right, can help you generate massive commissions. Not only that, you are also able to build and expand your list through affiliate marketing.

What Is Affiliate Marketing?

The concept of affiliate marketing is simple: we are selling products or services for others. And of course, we are doing the marketing campaign for other vendors’ products to be sold to the public. In other words, it gives us the avenue to earn commissions through promoting other peoples or companies’ products.

You start out by choosing a product you find valuable in the market. You then promote it in the most efficient way you can and make a sizable profit for your efforts. But at the end of the day, the most important and truly rewarding part of affiliating is when a sale is made!

Essentially, it is performance-based marketing. I’m sure you agree with me on this one; ‘how much you earn as an affiliate to the vendor corresponds to your sales’. If you were to make a lot of sales, then you’ll earn a big amount ofcommission. If not, however, you won’t earn as much.

But I know what you are thinking, you’ve done all that and yet it’s not enough, isn’t it? You would probably be wondering about the extra commission you can earn that will double, no, triple your commission!

Truth about maximizing your commission is that, it’s not as simple as it sounds, but it’s also not as difficult as you’d think.

Why Affiliate Marketing?

Through affiliate marketing, you are able to accomplish three things for three different parties.

First, you are earning commissions for yourself. Second, you’re helping a company or other people to generate leads and prospects. Finally, you are making a new satisfying experience to your customers. They would discover a product from you that can really be helpful and valuable to them.

The thing about affiliate marketing is, how we don’t have to create our own products for this business to run. Yes, you know that you don’t have to go through the trouble of actually coming up with ideas and the labor of

producing something. Instead, you’ll be selling other people’s products. You don’t need for a big email list to drive traffic to the offer and a huge budget.

You are, in short, an online sales agent. Your main task is to make sales but to do so, you have to be creative with your approach to your potentials. That is why on further chapters, I will break down the steps you need, to scout for the potential killer products!

The Common Mistakes Of Rookie Affiliate Marketers

Most of us tend to neglect even the very basics of affiliate skills when we first start out. So, what are the potential mistakes you might be doing all or the ones you are unaware of?

The thing that you could’ve been doing unknowingly is not building your own mailing list. This is an exceptional no! Your buyers’ list is the very foundation of your affiliate marketing endeavor and most importantly, your online business. It is the very basic of it all and you should always regard it with the highest importance.

Another folly of a common affiliate marketer does not know how to generate traffic at its fullest. You have your own way of doing this, of course, but are you truly maximizing the number of potential that you should have been generating?

Facebook, Google AdWords, Solo Ads and many others are only some example of the methods of generating traffic. Even I must admit, traffic generating methods is far more intricate than what it is thought to be.

But fret not. If you stay towards the end of this book, I will show you some of my free and paid traffic hacks for you to increase the number of traffic and eventually your commission!