In the most simplest of terms, Affiliate Marketing is when you promote and recommend a particular product or service online, and if someone happens to buy that particular product or service that you recommended online, then you receive a commission for the sale.
In other words, as an Affiliate Marketer, your ‘job’ is to ‘talk about’ or ‘write about’ popular products and/or services online, and if someone happens to make a purchase online for that particular product or service, based on your recommendation, then you receive a commission.
It is really that simple.
Affiliate Marketing is a business model that is performed online through a blog, a website, or through several social media channels, and because your work is performed online, this business model is an incredible way to make money because of the potential to reach millions of people around the globe.
Affiliate Marketing has the potential to be such an explosive business model because without having to invest any of your own money on physical inventory, and by not having to pay any money for storage space, you still have access to literally millions of products that you can promote from Major Brands such as Walmart, Best Buy, Amazon, Home Depot, and many many others.
Affiliate Marketing is a ‘performance-based-business-model’, which simply means that your potential to earn money is completely correlated to the amount of time and effort that you personally invest in the affiliate marketing process and your marketing strategy.
To be sure, making money through affiliate marketing does take time, patience, perseverance, consistency, and lots of in depth research, but if you are willing to do the work, affiliate marketing has the potential to make you lots of money.
At the very least, Affiliate Marketing has the potential to make you enough money to pay the mortgage every month, and at best, has the potential to replace your yearly income, and far beyond that.
On top of all this, Affiliate Marketing allows you the ability to recommend products and services that YOU LOVE, trust, and believe in, while at the same time, helping others to make informed decisions and spend their money wisely.
The most successful Affiliate Marketers make use of Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, InstaGram, and many other social media channels, as these tools can help accelerate financial success by increasing online exposure.
If you are considering making money online through Affiliate Marketing it is strongly recommended that you create and build your very own blog or website, preferably both.
The reasons for building your own blog and/or website are:
- gives you ownership of your own Digital Real Estate
- offers you the ability to capture critical online data
- you can build your very own targeted email list
- develop a personal relationship with your audience
- create and build trust with your followers
Without a blog or a website your chances of success through affiliate marketing are not very good, because if you choose to rely on ONLY social media platforms, you do not ‘own the space’ and you run the risk of being suspended, throttled, or banned for unintentionally violating the social media platform’s Terms Of Service and/or User Policies, which can change overnight.
It’s the difference between renting an apartment and owning your house:
- When you ‘rent an apartment’ you have to abide by someone else’s rules, like it or not
- When you ‘own your house’ you can build and add-on as you wish
Thankfully, starting your very own blog or your very own website is not as expensive as buying a house nor is it as difficult.
All you need to do is to sign up with a paid hosting provider.
Build Your Very Own Blog/Website
It is not recommended for you to build your affiliate marketing business using a ‘free hosting provider’ as you may be limited and restricted through their Terms Of Service and User Policies, and since you will be building a blog or a website ‘for profit’ on their ‘FREE’ platform, YOU run the risk of being suspended or terminated if you violate any of their Terms Of Service or User Policies.
Fortunately, the cost of hosting a blog or a website, including a domain name, is very low (approximately $20 dollars per month) and when you take advantage of promotional offers, the cost can be so much less.
Free Web Hosting vs Paid Hosting
By developing a social media presence, the earning potential is incredible for anyone engaging in Affiliate Marketing.
There are hundreds of thousands of in-demand-products-and-services available for Affiliate Marketers to promote, and as a SKILLED AFFILIATE MARKETER, you can discover plenty of opportunity, but, as with anything worthwhile, you must be willing to put in the work.
We will cover how to choose a product or a service that is in high demand so that you can invest your time and your affiliate marketing efforts creating content that will deliver the most reward.
You will also learn how to research and use keywords that can generate targeted traffic (otherwise known as motivated buyers) to your blog and/or website in an effort to increase your chances of getting clicks and sales.
You will learn the ‘psychology of why people buy’, which is invaluable when creating targeted content.
Walmart, Best Buy, Target, eBay, Etsy, Amazon, and many other major corporations, invest millions of dollars in marketing research and marketing strategies, and as an Affiliate Marketer, you need to become a Digital Marketing Expert to create online success.
There are also countless of LOCAL Small Business Owners with brick and mortar stores which can present affiliate marketing opportunities for you to make money as you prove, grow and expand your affiliate marketing business.
As an Affiliate Marketer, you are in total control of your online business, and as such, you decide on which products and services you will promote and recommend.
Affiliate Marketing presents a world of financial opportunity to make money as you will discover in this FREE Affiliate Marketing Course.