An Affiliate Marketing Summary for Beginners

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I have often heard people say that becoming an affiliate marketer is incredibly difficult, but this is just an untrue assumption. Which is not to say that it’s a piece of cake! Of course, it takes time, sweat, and investment.

The problem is that many beginners want to make millions of dollars in just a few days of venturing into the business, without learning the basics. 

It doesn’t work this way. There is no magic in affiliate marketing.

As a beginner, you must develop a clear understanding of what affiliate marketing is all about. You must learn the basics, and the first basic is generating traffic to your affiliate product offers.

In this guide, I have summarized some of the basics, and provided references to existing blog posts that provide quite a bit more detail, in order to flesh out the most important things you need to know about Affiliate marketing. Read on!

Traffic

Traffic is the life blood of any business, whether it be a brick-and-mortar busines, or an online affiliate marketing business. In the online world of affiliate marketing, there are two basic and very different ways in which traffic can be generated. You can choose to pay for it by purchasing pay-per-click ads from various sources. Or you can build it organically, over a longer period of time, in a way that allows you to get to know your potential buyers. 

Paid Traffic

Pay-per-click advertising, as it’s called, involves purchasing Solo Ads, Google Ads, Facebook Ads, Bing Ads, and the like. The advantage is that it’s a faster way to capture leads, and build an email list that is your most valuable long-term asset in affiliate marketing. Talking about email lists, do you know that tailoring email content to suit your customers’ needs is one of the best ways to foster relationships? Click here to find out more on how email marketing could be of help to your business.

Organically Generated Traffic

Building your traffic organically is a longer-term proposition that involves creating digital content on Blogs, YouTube Channels, and Social media outlets such as a Facebook Group. All of these become long-term digital real estate assets. The advantage of this approach is that it allows you to attract viewers and get to know them. Then you advertise directly to them. In this case, your primary cost is the time and effort it takes to generate high quality written and video content on a regular basis. It takes more time, but eventually can become a source of very high-quality leads who are more inclined to buy, because they’ve gotten to know you. To learn more about digital real estate assets, click here. 

Sales Funnels

It is not enough to attract the right traffic to your business; the traffic must be drawn directly to your sales funnel. Always remember that your primary goal is to capture leads and build your email list, your most valuable long-term asset. 

Profit in Affiliate Marketing

Do not let anyone tell you something different. Affiliate marketing is still a stellar and profitable business. You can make a lot of money, and it involves a much lower startup cost than being a product vendor. Click here to find out more on why affiliate marketing is still profitable after so many years of being in existence.

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