Ready to make your first affiliate marketing sale?
Posted on January 12, 2010
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One of my goals this year is to help as many people as I can start making money via affiliate marketing. I love affiliate marketing because it doesn’t involve product creation, customer service, inventory or anything like that. In a nutshell, your only job as an affiliate is to drive traffic to the merchants site. When a sale is made, you get paid. I personally think affiliate marketing is one of the best ways for a complete newbie to start making money online.
Over the next couple of days I am going to take you through the process of making your first affiliate sale so make sure you subscribe to my feed so you will know when new information is added.
Ok, lets get going. Today I will talk to you about clickbank and how I pick products to promote. If you are a complete newbie to the affiliate marketing world I suggest you start with clickbank. The reason I say clickbank is because there is no approval process. Once you sign up you can start promoting the products in the marketplace. Some affiliate networks require you speak with a rep before you can start promoting with them. They will ask you various questions about how you will be promoting etc… etc… Since you are new, you probably won’t really know how to answer these questions so just start with clickbank and once you understand affiliate marketing a little more you can venture out to other networks.
Now, once you have signed up with clickbank its time to find a product you want to promote. Being that its January, the weight loss products are super hot right now. You can either pick one of those or pick a product in the relationship category or the money category. 3 categories that will always make money are the health, wealth and love categories.
Once you find a product you want to promote there are 2 things that I always look at. One is the salespage. ALWAYS and I mean ALWAYS, take the time to read over the salespage. If it doesn’t sell you then it probably won’t sell anyone else. Another thing I always look at is the merchants affiliate page. I like to see what they have to offer their affiliates. I am basically looking for articles. I use article marketing to generate traffic so if the merchant offers articles I can use it makes my job alot easier.
So here is your homework assignment for today. First, go sign up for clickbank if you haven’t already. Second, browse around the marketplace to find a product you would want to promote. Remember, products in health, wealth and love category tend to sell very well.
Ok, thats all for today. Make sure you do your homework cause tomorrow we are going to talk about setting up a simple blog to promote your product and we will touch a little bit on article marketing and how it can help you generate traffic and make sales.
Don’t forget to subscribe to my feed and if you have any questions please leave them in the comment section.
LET’S WIN IN 2010!!!!!
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