Affiliate Marketing

 
Affiliate Marketing is one of the greatest methods to make money online.

What is Affiliate Marketing?

“Affiliate marketing is the process of earning a commission by promoting other people’s (or company’s) products. You find a product you like, promote it to others and earn a piece of the profit for each sale that you make.” - Pat Flynn’s Smart Passive Income

Affiliate Marketing is one category in Online Digital Marketing.

Advantages of Affiliate Marketing

• 70% passive income
• You don’t need a store, or products
• You don’t need sales staff, deliver staff
• You don’t need to handle return products or complains
• Easy to start
• More Freedom

Disadvantages of Affiliate Marketing

• Not a quick income – Affiliate Marketing takes time and patience
• No control over the products – Even if you want to improve the products and gain more customers you have no access to the manufacturing
• Competition with other affiliates – If the product is giving good commissions there are more affiliates and more competition
• Link high jacking – link high jackers may change your affiliate id
• Offer fatigue – if you promote more and more products through your content the audience get offer fatigue and get discouraged.

How you going to promote the product?   

Affiliate Marketing is a good choice for online entrepreneurs, bloggers, and anyone who has a website or social media channels.

• Through your own website 
• Through your own social media channels (YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook)
• Social media groups
• Forums
• Podcasts
• Other types of platforms as Quora, Medium
  

Best Products For Affiliate Marketing Beginners

• Domain and Web Hosing
• Software
• Trending Courses
• Consumer Products
• Financial Products

Doing the Affiliate Marketing The Right Way

• First point is being genuine to the audience.
• Second point is giving value through your content to the audience.
• Third point is content.
• To do AM you need good, genuine, attractive content which gives value to the reader.
• You have to get content, you have to hire a n article writer or you have learn how to write articles, either way you have to get content.
• You have to get valuable and attractive content unless you will lose the audience.
• You have to be genuine and give some value to the reader to increase your audience and make the current audience come back again.

So as in nutshell for Affiliate Marketing, to start Affiliate Marketing you need a presence in online, and you should give valuable content to the reader. Then you can start promoting your affiliate products.