Affiliate marketing is an awesome tool for any company to use and take
advantage of.
The commissions for each product and each company will vary. Usually, where
the
commission is lower the affiliate can generate more sales due to the
product popularity, cost,
and brand awareness. Many digital products found on sites like
ClickBank.com pay up to 75%
commissions on sales and the affiliate can also generate a recurring
commission as well.
It's important when learning about the simple affiliate marketing for
beginners process, not to
feel overwhelmed, as there are a number of "things to do" from start to
finish.
This is not a get-rich-quick plan but an online career that can generate
10,000's per month
indefinitely. Many affiliates have multiple sites, some earning little and
others earning a lot of
revenue.
It's not hard to become an affiliate and normally there's no charge to
join. Many companies will require that you have an active
website and some, like Amazon, will cancel your affiliate account if no
sales are made within 6 months of joining. You can re-apply
at a later date and be sure to have enough site traffic to make some sales.

5 Steps To Start The Process of Affiliate Marketing For Beginners......

1. Choose a topic or niche
Make a list of things that really interest you and see if there's something
that you are really passionate about. Make another list of
products that you could promote for each interest on the list. I would
start with about 5-10 interests and products and trim that
down to one topic or niche and the product(s) relevant to that choice. Now
forget about the others and focus completely on your
chosen topic.
Let's say, for example, I have a passion for football or camping. I could
do some research and discover that there is a strong market
interest in one or both. Then I would choose my niche camping or football
and decide what products to promote on my new
(camping or football) website.
There are thousands of companies that have affiliate programs online, for
example, Amazon, eBay, and ClickBank to name just a
few. There are many affiliate networks with thousands of programs to take
part of but choosing doesn't have to be difficult once
you have your niche selected.

2. Build Your Own Website
This is easy when you follow a step by step plan. WordPress and some other
sites make it really easy, however, there is a very real
learning curve that needs to take place for our own growth and development.
Take the time to learn everything as you go and don't
be in a rush to make money. This is more of a long haul opportunity where
it's very easy, over time, to have 3-4 websites earning
revenue each and every month.

3. Fill Your Site With Quality Content
Now it's time to add continuous relevant, quality content by writing or
producing articles to post at least a couple of times per week
or more, if possible. It's better to have as the length of the articles
1000+ words each. The search engines like to show their viewers
quality well-written articles.
Check out some other articles that are written by others on the same topics
and compare yours to theirs and maybe you'll see that
you are just as good a writer as they are. You might see a few things in
their writing style, type, images, and site layout that you like
All of the pages and posts on the website should have useful topics and
information written especially for those interested and
searching within the niche. Place a few links on each page and post so that
the readers can click on the link and go to your website
to see what it has to offer them. When someone makes a purchase you get a
commission.

4. Draw Targeted Traffic
Promote your site when you feel it's ready for traffic, similar to opening
a store. Now another phase of the successful journey is to
attract like-minded, targeted viewers to the site to benefit from your
offer with some making purchases earning commissions for
you even while you're sleeping or on vacation.
There are a lot of marketing strategies to choose from which include
article marketing, email, social media - Facebook, Twitter,
Pinterest, Instagram, forums, commenting and leaving links and more. Your
focus now is on getting accounts with the social media
and posting comments with links back to your site.
Everything can be outsourced and something most probably will be as one
person can only do so much. It's best to work with a
partner if possible, someone who you work well with and that will make for
much less outsourcing.
You'll need to keep producing fresh articles for your website to maintain a
good ranking with the search engines.

5. Collect Commissions
This is the best part and if one can do the previous steps well and be
persistent and overcome all obstacles, that person will do
very well with affiliate marketing and collect monthly commissions.

I do recommend a couple of more things:
1. Find an affiliate network that has personal mentoring set up to help you
every step of the way. When someone first starts out
there is a real learning curve and you'll have questions to ask along the
way.
2. Be part of a great community of active, like-minded individuals, all
with the same purposes. A nice community like this can be a
fantastic tool to be used whenever a situation arises that you need help
with. Here one can get feedback on their articles, ideas and much
more.........