Can you make money with affiliate marketing?

By Matthew Insardi


What is affiliate marketing? Broken down it is simply selling other companies products and in return you get a commission. But can you actually make a successful business out of selling other peoples products?

Where do you find things to sell? The top two I recommend for beginners is Clickbank and Amazon. Clickbank is packed full of information products in every niche. It is easy to sign up and track your progress. Amazon is amazing if you want to sell physical products. Lets say your passionate about health and fitness and want to sell p90x. Bam find the product on amazon and take that link and promote it. Is it really that easy? Keep reading and find out.

Now you found what you want to sell it is time to start selling. How do you sell the product you chose. You were given a link, affiliate link. Now you need to get that link in front of people who would want to buy the product. There are a number of ways to sell. One way is to share it on all your social media sites. Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube are the major one's. Just say something about the product and include your link.

A blog should be your command center. With a blog you can write a review with your links to buy. Then send traffic to your blog. The more traffic you send the more sales you make. With a little SEO you can get ranked on google and start generating endless targeted traffic. The beauty of this is you do the work once and reap the benefits for years. I still make money from blog posts that I did years ago, and they weren't even that good. If you get in front of the right people it doesn't matter what your blog looks like as longs as they can read it and easily find the link to buy.

Paid advertising includes buying ad space on Google, Bing, and Facebook. There are tons of paid advertising networks but these are the most popular. You can also buy banner ads on other peoples websites that generate a lot of traffic targeted to your niche. Before you start any paid advertising do your research or you can quickly lose a lot of money. But the flip side. Paid advertising is hands down the best way to scale your business and make tremendous amounts of money.

Keys to success with affiliate marketing is generating lots of traffic and having a good converting product will lead you to more sales. Consistency is very important if you want long term success. You need to do something everyday to grow your business. If you treat it like a business it will act like a business.

Doing what I just taught you can help you make money online. It is up to you where your business goes in the future. The best marketers in the world are continually learning new ways to market and how human behavior affects marketing. You are your most valuable resource and to reach your goals you will need to invest in your skills. Learn something everyday to help grow your business and remember if you treat this like a business it will act like a business.




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