Understanding Affiliate Marketing In Easy Way (2022)

Intro

Affiliate marketing is a type of digital marketing in which you have to give a few hours every day and you can earn up to 20$ to 25$ per day easily. The best thing about digital marketing is you don't have to worry about inventory management or list creation neither you have to spend any money. All you need is one laptop and you can start.

Understanding Affiliate Marketing

In very simple words I will try to explain. 

Step 1: You have to select a product ( Product selection is explained also in this article)

Step 2:  The product is selected, now it's time to promote the product (also explained in this article)

Step 3: From your promotion, if any of the products is sold you will get a commission. That's it this is complete affiliate marketing.

Now let's Understand each step in little detail.

Step 1: 

In order to select the product, you have to do market research. you can do your research from online selling platforms like amazon. When you will go to the amazon page you have to select a product that has not too many reviews (which means less competition)  and the product should be not too complex (electronics, fragile) 

It's not necessary that the product that you chose must be a physical product. You can also select some online services that other companies are providing. Check the following affiliate platforms from where you can pick the product of your liking.

1. http://affiliatefuture.com/
2. https://www.cj.com/
3. https://www.clickbank.com/
4. https://www.flexoffers.com/
5. https://www.shareasale.com/info/

Basically selecting a product is an easy part of affiliate marketing. You just have to do some research about the product and check how many people are selling it. If there are too many people who are selling an affiliate product avoid that. Select a product that does not have too much competition.

Step 2:

This step is the essence of affiliate marketing 90% of the whole work is in this step. Let's discuss how you can promote the affiliate link (that will be provided by the companies to you). There many ways in which you can do the promotion of the link some of them are as follow.

Email marketing  

The easiest way to promote your product is through email marketing. Simply you have to select your audience and then make an attractive newsletter and start sending emails from this you can convert and start earning. If want to read more about email marketing and its types click here.

Website or blogging

Create an affiliate website using word press or create a blog using blogger.com. Don't worry creating a blog or website is very easy it hardly takes 15 minutes to create blog (Check out this video on how to create a blog). Once your blog is created, write articles about the affiliate product that you are promoting.

Your article must cover all the aspects of your product. Write a comparison article like how this product is better than other products that are present in the market. Take a high-quality picture of your product and add it to your article. Don't forget to put affiliate links in your article.

After writing the article publish it on your blog now whenever someone is visiting your blog and reads this article there is a chance that you may get a conversion.

You can also promote this article on different Social Media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Tumbler, and many more. Try to promote 4 to 5 products at one time. This will give you more chances to get a conversion.

Youtube

Make a video of your affiliate product and publish it on your youtube channel. This will give the viewer a better experience of the product and there is a high possibility that people will make there mind to purchase the product.

Make a comparison video of your product. Inform your viewers why your product is better than others and why should anyone buy this.

Mention your affiliate link in the description box and in your video inform your viewers that if they want to buy this product they can click the link that is in the description box.

Pay Per Click - PPC

As an affiliate marketer, you can use PPC to drive traffic to your affiliate links. When someone clicks on your affiliate link, they will be redirected to the advertiser’s website and you will earn a commission if they purchase something from the advertiser.

PPC can be a great way to drive traffic to your affiliate links because it allows you to target a specific audience. For example, if you are an affiliate for a beauty product, you can use PPC to target people who are searching for beauty products.

PPC can be a very effective way to drive traffic to your affiliate links, but it is important to remember that you will need to pay for each click. Therefore, it is important to track your results so that you can determine whether or not PPC is a worthwhile investment for your affiliate marketing business.

Search Engine Marketing - SEM

Advertising your affiliate links on search engine result pages is Search Engine Marketing. In this type of marketing, the user will get to see your ad only when he/she wants to see it. 

Let's suppose a buyer wants to purchase something online. For the sake of understanding, we will take the example of mobile headphones. The first step that buyers will do is to go on google or any other search engine and type headphone and press enter. After that, the buyer will be shown a ton of different options on the google page as shown in the picture below.

Example from google

The top four links that buyers will see are the ones for which companies are paying Google. The reason why Google is getting paid is that these top four links will get maximum traffic and alternatively more sales. You as a seller only have to pay when someone clicks on your link which is why sometimes SEM is also called Paid Per Click (PPC). This is how online businesses are doing marketing on search engines and the whole process is known as Search Engine Marketing.

Click Here to read more about SEM.

Step 3:

This is the last step in affiliate marketing and basically in this step affiliate marketer has to sit back and wait with patience. When someone purchases the affiliate product via your promotion, you will get a commission. How much commission you will get it depends upon what kind of product you are promoting.

On average you can get 15$ to 80$ per sale as a commission from one product.

Conclusion

First, you have to select a product from a platform that is offering an affiliate program. After selecting the product you have to promote it and once someone purchases this product through your promotion you will get a commission.

Affiliate Marketing is not a get-rich scheme overnight. Hard word with patience is required. Once the result starts coming again invest in affiliate marketing to scale up your side hustle to a proper business. 

Thank You..!!

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