What do we already know about affiliate marketing?
There’s plenty of information on the super highway on how to make money online, how to make money BLOGGING, and how to make money while sitting on your ass and hitting the refresh button.
The truth of the matter is there’s no easy way to get a turn-key product and make money on the web. There’s hard work, patience, concentration, attention to detail, and most of all, patience (as previously stated.)
Firstly, if you think you just bought a domain name and applied to a couple affiliate programs and got approved doesn’t mean you’re going to start making money right away. There are so many more steps involved before you start making your first dollar as an affiliate.
The first thing I suggest to do is make sure this is something you’re willing to commit to. This isn’t just something that you can work on for 20 minutes and come back to later; it’ll take you YEARS to make money rather than months. With that said, make sure what you’re going to promote is something you have a good amount of knowledge about. Look at your hobbies, something you might have excelled in school, or even something you’re simply surrounded by on a daily basis. The primary and most useful tool for making money on the internet is your personal knowledge about a specific product or niche; trust me, you’re going to need every ounce for your content.
My second suggestion as a beginning affiliate is to LEARN CODE. The more HTML, PHP, XML etc. code you know will only help make the entire process easier. Once you’ve crammed as much <?gibberish?> as possible, take it to the streets. Practice layouts, links, iframes, pops (enter and exit), tags. Tags are going to be something you’ll want to focus on very closely.
Now with those two initial steps into how to make money online, figure the rest out. If you have any roadblocks, feel free to visit any helpful resources you’re available to, including MYSELF.
Over 5 years of affiliate management and marketing including but never limited to SEO, PPC, SEM, Email marketing, Social Media, Media buys, Contextual marketing, and anything in between. My number one objective is to make my affiliates the most money possible and creating the strongest relationships in the industry.