Friday, May 24, 2019

Affiliate Marketing for Beginners - A Step by Step Guide to Making Money on the Internet


Affiliate marketing, I strongly believe, is the fastest way beginners can start an internet business and make money online. This affiliate marketing for beginners guide will walk you through the steps to follow. As an affiliate marketer, you don't have to worry about creating a product or service to sell right from the start. All what you will be concerned with to succeed is pre-selling and marketing the merchant's product to your target audience by simply highlighting the products benefits.

But your first investment should be to register a domain name and sign up with a web hosting service provider. You will do better online by promoting other merchants products and services by having your own domain name and signing up for a web hosting account. It will greatly help you to reach your target audience with ease.

This will not cost you more than $20 in your first month of starting an online business. With consistent action taking by you on a daily basis, you will be able to make profits at the close of your first month in business after taking care of your internet business expenses/costs.

However, many beginners who are working within a tight budget can also go through the free route of using free blogs and web 2.0 properties to start an affiliate marketing business. Unfortunately, this will not offer you enough flexibility as much as having your own domain name and website for a number of reasons.

Your question now will be, "What are the requirements of becoming a super affiliate marketer?" It is as simple as you can imagine! Simply learn and master how to pre-sell and promote the merchant's product benefits to your target prospective buyers without giving away all the information.

If you ask me, it is simple to learn how to pre-sell by reading experts articles on specific topics from related blogs and article directories and adapt it to your business without plagiarizing someone else's work.

Here are the steps you should always follow when you want to choose a product to promote in order to earn affiliate sales commission.

First, research and choose a niche market with hungry buyers. That is to select a highly targeted niche market with burning problem to solve. It doesn't necessarily have to be an internet marketing niche when you are joining an affiliate program to promote products and services. Lots of beginners make the mistake of starting out with "make money online" niche which is keenly dominated by internet marketing gurus.

Secondly, select an affiliate product that will solve the problem you have identified in the niche market above. And the best way to know if a product will be able to solve a specific problem, want or need is to use it yourself or get other real users experience with the product.

There are popular affiliate networks like ClickBank.com, CJ.com, Amazon.com, etc, where you can choose lots of products to start with.

The next step is for you to conduct keyword research to determine the market demand for a solution to the problem you have identified above. This exercise is critical to your success because you don't want to dissipate your time, energy and money on a market that will not be responsive.

Good enough, there are free and paid keyword research tools anyone can use to confirm the demand in any market. While the free keyword tool is good to start with as a beginner, it could be time consuming when you want to analyze the market competition as fast as possible for each keyword phrase you find.

Next, determine the market competition for each keyword phrase you decide to go with from your research. If you don't want to be eaten up by "internet marketing sharks," it is important you hand-pick only long tail keyword phrases with low or weak competition.

With a handful of carefully selected long tail keyword phrases you can start writing quality articles which you are going to use to promote the affiliate product on your blog, website or article directories.

Publishing and marketing affiliate products using quality and unique articles work great but there are also other methods of promoting affiliate products and services. As you can see, making money online involves a lot of hard work and smart work but it is, by far, better than day job hassles.


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