Have you ever wished you could be in charge of your own life? Or have you ever thought that you could make money by putting a link to a brand-name or niche product on your website or in an email? If so, you might be interested in affiliate marketing.
Affiliate marketing is mostly a network of websites. It is a modern version of the way businesses used to pay people who brought them new customers. Affiliate marketing is mostly done online these days, since more and more people look for what they want on the Internet. It is a common way to promote online businesses. An affiliate gets paid for sending traffic (visitors, subscribers, or customers) to a merchant's website. Commissions can be made based on the number of people who sign up (pay per lead), the number of sales (pay per sale), or any combination of the two. To put it simply, it's about giving money to people who help merchants sell things.
Let's say you made a website to reach out to people who might be interested in your computer repair services or consulting. Even though your service is mostly about fixing PC problems, you notice that your customers also need registry cleaner programmes to keep their computers in good shape. In this case, you could use affiliate marketing by getting in touch with software developers who sell registry fix or repair products, putting links to their sites on your website, and getting a cut of each sale they make. In the long run, you can trade links with the companies you are connected to or sign contracts with them. When someone looking for computer maintenance or repair services on their website clicks the link to your website and then decides to contact you for a consultation, the website that sent the business your way will get a commission.
In fact, if you want to do affiliate marketing, you don't even need your own business. You can make a living by selling anything, and you don't even have to take orders or keep track of your stock.
How do you do this? Make a website to sell the things you're interested in. Make sure to include articles about the products that are interesting. Once your website is up and running, you can set up affiliate agreements with online stores that sell similar products. People who go to your site and keep coming back will be interested in ordering the products you advertise there. If a visitor to your site clicks on an ad link and then buys something, you will get a commission.
Even if you don't have a website, you can still make money through affiliate marketing by sending targeted traffic to the websites you're affiliated with. The most important Pay-Per-Click (PPC) advertising system on the Internet is Google Adwords. It lets you put your affiliate links directly in the search results on Google and on their partner networks.
To be successful at affiliate marketing, you just need to keep sending people to your site. The more people who visit your website, the more likely it is that you will make money from sales made through your links. Advertising your website in eZines and Banner ads and sending free newsletters to people who sign up for them would be good ways to get people to visit your website. Once your site consistently gets a lower ranking in Alexa toolbar, which means it is popular, other website owners or companies will be more likely to sign an affiliate agreement with you.
