Earning Extra Money With Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing, the process of promoting products and services online in exchange for a percentage of any sales that are made, is an excellent way to start earning extra money, with only a small initial investment.
So how do you get started as an affiliate marketer? There are lots of ways to promote affiliate products.
The "traditional" way is to choose a "niche" and build a website around that niche.
You'll then promote related products and services to the visitors that come to your site.
Using the Niche Marketing model can be extremely effective as simply owning a website gives you a certain authority within that niche.
When you recommend a particular product or service, your visitors will be more "open" to purchasing it, as they "know" someone who has already used and likes it (you).
This type of marketing is less about hyping the product and more about reviewing the product.
Your visitors want to know what's good (and not so good) about the product you're reviewing.
They typically realize that no one product can be "all things to all people" so a few flaws can be fine so long as the product properly addresses the problem they're trying to solve.
Your review should list both the positives and the negatives of the product.
When I do product reviews, I usually do a written review of 400 to 800 words, within that review I include bullet points (of the pros and cons) along with plenty of bolding and highlighting of important points.
I do this because many people don't really like to read a lot of text on the web - they tend to skim.
By highlighting the most important aspects in this way, I help to ensure that my visitors see the key issues of the review.
I also make sure I give my visitors plenty of opportunities to get to the products sales page.
I always include links to the product within the text, I also add stand-alone links between paragraphs and all images are linked to the product page as well.
I also always link directly to the product itself.
One of the worst things you can do is to get your visitor all set to purchase a product then send them to a landing page that will require them to search for the item they're looking for.
This simply leads to frustration and zero sales.
So how do you get started as an affiliate marketer? There are lots of ways to promote affiliate products.
The "traditional" way is to choose a "niche" and build a website around that niche.
You'll then promote related products and services to the visitors that come to your site.
Using the Niche Marketing model can be extremely effective as simply owning a website gives you a certain authority within that niche.
When you recommend a particular product or service, your visitors will be more "open" to purchasing it, as they "know" someone who has already used and likes it (you).
This type of marketing is less about hyping the product and more about reviewing the product.
Your visitors want to know what's good (and not so good) about the product you're reviewing.
They typically realize that no one product can be "all things to all people" so a few flaws can be fine so long as the product properly addresses the problem they're trying to solve.
Your review should list both the positives and the negatives of the product.
When I do product reviews, I usually do a written review of 400 to 800 words, within that review I include bullet points (of the pros and cons) along with plenty of bolding and highlighting of important points.
I do this because many people don't really like to read a lot of text on the web - they tend to skim.
By highlighting the most important aspects in this way, I help to ensure that my visitors see the key issues of the review.
I also make sure I give my visitors plenty of opportunities to get to the products sales page.
I always include links to the product within the text, I also add stand-alone links between paragraphs and all images are linked to the product page as well.
I also always link directly to the product itself.
One of the worst things you can do is to get your visitor all set to purchase a product then send them to a landing page that will require them to search for the item they're looking for.
This simply leads to frustration and zero sales.
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