Affiliate Marketing for Beginners

Table of Content
  • Affiliate marketing for beginners?
  • What is affiliate marketing?
  • How to get commissions as a affiliate?
  • What is affiliate networks?
  • How to create affiliate account?
  • How to find good affiliate products?
  • How to promote affiliate products?
  • How to sell affiliate products?
  • What is digital marketing?
  • Conclusion

affiliate marketing for beginners
Affiliate Marketing for Beginners

Affiliate Marketing for Beginners

Nowadays, earning money online is a passion for people; many of the people are earning money and engaging in affiliate marketing in their free time. The main thing about this program is that anyone can start from home without any investment.

Beginners can easily work and get started if they have a computer with an internet connection or an Android mobile device.

There are different types of affiliate programs and affiliate networks available today. Here I am going to show you some of the best companies with which you can easily earn up to $1,000 per day using them.


What's affiliates marketing? 

Affiliate marketing is a part of digital marketing and is an online advertising program. In this program, we need to promote and sell other products or companies products to earn a commission.
First of all, we must choose an affiliate network (company). In these networks there are millions of products and services available. We need to find a good product or service to promote our products and sell them online.

This affiliate platform provides affiliate tools with which we can promote products and create a free account to get started and earn commissions.


How to get commission as a affiliate?

We earn a fixed percentage of commission for a product when we sell by sharing and advertising a product online using online marketing platforms and social media. It means that when we share a product link online and anytime someone buys a product using your affiliate link, we earn a commission for the particular product.

When someone clicks on the link and buys the product, the company will track the sales and give the commission to the affiliate ID owner. The company can identify that sale by tracking the affiliate ID with the help of cookies. 

The cookie is a small file; when a person clicks on the affiliate product link, the file will be stored on that person's computer for up to 24 hours. During that time, if you purchase that product and also purchased other products within 24 hours using your link, you will also earn a percentage of the total purchase you made.


What are affiliate networks?

 The affiliate network is a marketplace and a platform (company) where we can earn income as affiliates. It is a company that provides work from home to its advertisers. There are many different affiliate networks (companies) available online to work with. Here I am going to share the best 5 companies below.

Amazon

Amazon is the world's largest e-commerce store. Amazon generates millions of sales per day, in the first quarter of the year 2021; it generates net sales worth up to $108.56 billion US dollars. In the same previous year, they achieved net sales of $75,260 million dollars; that is, they increased sales by more than 30% in 2021.

Amazon has millions of products and services and they allow affiliate marketing with many tools for advertisers. To get started with the step-by step method of Amazon affiliate marketing, watch this comprehensive video tutorial to get started.


eBay

eBay is also an affiliate marketing network and is the leading e-commerce site in the world today. eBay offers an affiliate marketing program to its advertisers to earn passive income online. You also like Amazon, if you are interested in working with both companies then you should visit the website of the same country in which you are willing to promote products. It means if you are staying in India and you are willing to sell in USA then you have to visit usa store website

Aliexpress

Aliexpress is the leading e-commerce site in the world. Aliexpress is not just an e-commerce store, but it is also a business to business (B2B) platform; they also supply bulk wholesale products all over the world. They offer a worldwide affiliate marketing program and have a one-stop website for everyone.

Digistore24

Digistore24 is a US-based company and has many stores in foreign countries. This e-commerce site offers a wide variety of products from all over the world. The e-commerce company Digistore24 also offers an affiliate marketing program for its advertisers.

But their commission is not like other sites; they offer 10% to 90% commission for products from different categories. You can also watch this video to know more about digistore24. By watching this training video you will learn how to earn $100 per day with digistore24.

Clickbank

Clickbank is also like digistore24 in terms of commission and this eCommerce site also offers a wide variety of promoted products. Their affiliate marketing program is also different from other eCommerce sites.

Clickbank payment method that offers only a check. Here I suggest the free training video where you can learn how to sign up and how to start making money with Clickbank.

How to create a affiliate account?

Choose one of the best affiliate marketplaces to start your affiliate business journey. To create an account with a company, after visiting the site, you must click on the affiliate registration button. Complete the form with your information, including your name. Address, mobile number and bank details, etc.

After creating an affiliate account, you will get a unique affiliate id code; the company will use this id to track your sales. You can see the identification code and the commission earned on the dashboard. On the dashboard you can find products and tools for marketing.

Use your tools to find products, there is a search tab you can see on the dashboard, there, enter the product names which you want to promote online.

How to find good affiliate product?

To create a product link in the affiliate panel before that, we want to find a good and demanded product to promote. There are many online marketing tools to find a demanded product. Use free tools like google trends, keyword planner, and google alerts etc.

For advanced research we can use Moz and Ahref, etc. After finding the demanded product, search for the product name in the search tab in the affiliate panel. In simple words, choose a product from the affiliate link dashboard, for example, a fabric like a t-shirt or anything else you want to promote, when the product is displayed on the tab, you want to copy the affiliate link of the product, and then share in any online marketing media.

How to create a affiliate links?

An affiliate link is a product link that we can create in more than two ways. The first way is to directly search for the product name in the affiliate panel and click on the 'get link' button. The second way is to find a product on the normal site and copy the link and paste it into the link builder tab on the dashboard and then click the Create button.

Another way is ads section or html links section, you can see banners and product photos in this section, choose a banner or product photos and click 'get link' button. How to promote a product on the Internet? There are many ways that we can promote our products online. One of the best ways is social media marketing; this way we can easily promote products online.

First of all, we need to increase traffic to our product links. Use social networks like Facebook pages, and groups, Pinterest business accounts, Twitter, Linkedin, etc. Another great way is to market via email, WhatsApp, Telegram, text messages, etc. The second major online marketing platform is blogging or creating an affiliate website.

Create an impressive blog or website to promote products. The main thing is that we need to create content for the product. Let's read reviews and resources to create amazing content for your product. To create a website or blog, you can visit the site of website builders, such as bluehost, Goddy, Hostinger, Wix, etc.

To learn the step-by step method to create a website in 5 minutes, watch this video tutorial. Another way to promote a product is to start an advertising campaign. Ads like Google ads, other ad campaigns on social networks like Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc. And they can also do ads on other third party websites, but they are all paid promotion sites. For free worldwide advertising you can use this site.

How to sell affiliate products online?

Before sharing or promoting a product, you want to give a good title and description so that the product sells quickly. Always upload great product images to increase traffic to that post, include reviews, and write about the benefits and uses of the product to get more leads.

What is digital marketing?

Digital marketing work using digital computer and internet technologies. It is also an online marketing and it is a promotion of brands to connect with their customers.
It uses online marketing channels, not only social media, emails and other advertising media, but also uses animation videos and multimedia messages and includes SEO, SEM, etc. for marketing.

Digital marketing also enables the branding and promotion of company products and services. If you are willing to learn digital marketing, please watch this training video to learn how to be a digital marketer.

Conclusion

 This 'Affiliate Marketing for Beginners' post could help people who are willing to make an income in their spare time. Students and housewives can do it from home in their spare time. I recommend some video links above which you can easily learn affiliate marketing method step by step by watching the free training videos.

I'm thinking... It could help all readers to earn income online and start an affiliate journey with this program. Best of luck!!!

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