How to start affiliate marketing for beginners with no money is a question I’m frequently asked. How do you get started at affiliate marketing without a website or any money or investment at all?
The answer is it’s surprisingly easy, when you know what you’re doing! There are 7 main benefits to starting affiliate marketing online:
- You can honestly get started as an affiliate 100% FREE
- You don’t have to carry any stock or inventory of any goods
- You don’t have to handle payments, money or process anything
- You are not responsible for processing any refunds to customers
- You don’t have to answer any customer support questions or queries
- Complaints will never be considered your responsibility. Merchants or vendors run their own support desk systems to answer the customers.
- You promote a product, then you can sit back and collect 20% to 75% commission rates on the retail value of the product or service you sell!
Start Affiliate Marketing Step by Step
There is a clear set of steps for starting affiliate marketing online. Here is your brief but effective Affiliate Marketing Tutorial:
- Select your niche topic or area of interest. What are you passionate about? What do you love spending time learning about? Think of this area carefully. This is what you will be most successful at preselling and recommending to others. Most affiliates work in three specific areas: i) Health and fitness, or ii) Relationships, or iii) Make money online. (Note that these 3 areas of your likely success as an affiliate, are quite similar to the social issues that people care most about when voting in an election!) Select your niche subject or topic you’ll love working in …
- Find, by searching Google, the companies, vendors or merchants that are operating an affiliate program in your selected niche area. An easier way to do this is to go to Clickbank com, Warriorplus com, JVZoo com, ShareASale com, Commission Junction, Amazon affiliate program, or to my favourite affiliate program: Entre Institute, that is featured on this web page. Clickbank’s marketplace is a great source of affiliate programs in a large range of niche areas. Commission rates are usually 50 to 75% although special deals for high volume sales can reach 90% commission. If you are searching the CB marketplace for a good product to sell, choose one with a ‘gravity score’ of 50 or more. That proves to you that the product or service is actually selling well.
- Read everything you can about the affiliate program and search YouTube for product reviews. These will be biased towards making a sale, but you’ll learn a lot on YouTube. The product vendor usually also has a JV page that is packed with info and sales materials like banners, links, email swipe copy and even whole review articles and blog posts for affiliates to use. You’ll find a welcome video and maybe even some useful training videos on the JV page. Watch them all.
- Think of building your own affiliate preselling blog or Website. This is really useful when it comes to promoting your offers on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Linked-In, Instagram, Mix and YouTube. They don’t accept raw, ugly, stretched out affiliate links on their social media sites. It always looks better, and is more professional, to have your affiliate banners and links on your own blog or Web site. You can check out WordPress com, Tumblr, Groove Pages, or Blogger to get a free web site. I’d strongly recommend Groove Pages, because of their funnel-making abilities. (And it’s free.)
- Generating targeted Web traffic means getting lots of visitors to your blog or Website. These visitors need to be interested buyers, rather than just random surfers or browsers, looking for entertainment. Here is a useful video I made to help guide you in how to get more visitors or Web traffic to your site:
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I trust this information is useful to you, for answering the question, how to start affiliate marketing for beginners. Get started, even if you have no money, no investment sources, and no Website. You can build a great Web site for free at Groove pages. I’ve included one link and a banner to get you there.
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