If you're looking to begin your journey into the world of affiliate marketing but unsure where to start, or if you've already started an affiliate marketing business in the past but it failed. To take off then this is the only tutorial you'll ever need to read. Because today I'm gonna walk you through five different marketing channels that you can use to achieve success with your affiliate marketing effort.
First and foremost i wanted to share two exciting facts with you. 81 percent of brands choose affiliate marketers to boost their online sales. The affiliate marketing industry is worth a whopping 12 billion today.
Now you may ask why did i bring these stats to the table. Simple i just wanted to show you that even if you have failed in affiliate marketing previously, don't give up as this is the perfect time to
step back into the booming world of affiliate marketing. Without a doubt it's one of the quickest t and cheapest ways to make real dough, without the hassle of actually creating and selling your own
product.
Now that I've hopefully motivated you. I'm going to help you
kick-start your affiliate marketing journey by taking you through not one but five possible affiliate marketing channels, which are certainly going to help you hit some home runs.
#1: Email
Are you someone who can't afford a lot of money to invest in affiliate marketing? Then you should certainly use email as your go to channel. It's one of the few affiliate marketing channels that's mostly free to use.
So how do you do email marketing to propel your affiliate marketing strategy? Simple first join an affiliate program
or platform like distort 24 to get access to offers and products you can promote. Next, create an email list. You'll be surprised to realize that there are so many easy ways to create an email list. No I'm not talking about purchasing email addresses or other spammy ways to get your hands on email data.
There are several legitimate ways to build an email list. And I'm going to take you through one fast and time tested way to do it.
The opt-in funnel
Step one: create a blog section on your website if you don't have one already. Step two is to start creating simple articles on trending topics to draw visitors. Step three embed a personalized
form for your visitors to submit their email addresses to get more engaging content in their inboxes. You can even use pop-ups and overlays to do this. Step four upon submission, set up an automatic email reply to welcome them to your newsletter. And voila, you'll have hundreds of verified email addresses on your list before you even know it, so that you can promote affiliate offers too. Apart from this you can also try conducting a survey on social media with email addresses as one of the input fields. Starting a subscriber's only facebook page with email addresses as one of the input fields, while placing a request to join. Hosting a webinar with mandatory registration. Creating a quiz where visitors have to enter their email address to see the results. Offering special deals for those subscribing to your newsletter creating an opt-in page
where you give away a free gift such as an ebook, having people provide their email addresses to receive the gift.
build a following on social media, and then create an email list of your own for your followers.
Once you have more than a thousand email addresses, start promoting affiliate offers or offers based on their interests by sending affiliate promo email campaigns. don't forget to add the affiliate link of the product you're promoting in the email.
you're bound to get at least a few clicks every day, if you have an
intriguing subject line and a compelling body copy. Interestingly many affiliate programs make this much simpler. They give you the email content you need to actually use in your emails right from the subject line to the content of the first email. even the content for follow-up emails, for those that didn't click and purchase.
#2: blogs
Here's a question for you. where would you search if you were looking for a detailed review of a product or service? Did I hear you say blogs? you're bang on my friend. blogs are an absolute no-brainer right? Then go ahead and use this channel for your affiliate marketing efforts. This process is also pretty easy.
Start by creating a blogging website for yourself. Many websites like blogger, wordpress and medium let you create blogs for free.
Now start posting content about the products that you plan to promote. Most importantly add the link to the product
at the end of the blog, or even within the article body through hyperlinks. If you've provided informative content, it will automatically build trust in your reader's mind. And when that happens the chances of them clicking on the link shoot up. Also a good percentage of visitors will end up purchasing the
product. And in the end you'll earn a commission for every sale you refer.
#3 social media
Did you know there are 4.48 billion people on social media? That's roughly 57% of the total world population. clearly social media has penetrated every nook and cranny of this world. The best part about social media is that it's free for everyone to post content.
In other words, a perfect recipe to succeed in affiliate marketing.
You can start by posting engaging posts about the product in your feed to your current followers. It would be best if you could use multiple social media platforms simultaneously, to promote your
products, like facebook and instagram. Apart from posting in your own feed and stories you can also use groups on these platforms covering similar topics or niches to the products you are promoting.
Join a group that's relevant to your product that has at least a thousand members. Example if you're promoting keto
products join a keto or weight loss group. By doing so you'll be reaching out to an audience who actually cares about
the products you're promoting. This directly improves the chances of clicks and subsequent purchases.
#4: native ads
Here is a harsh truth, growing your affiliate marketing business by starting a blog or sending emails or posting on social media organically is not an easy task, and takes time. It will take a lot of
time and effort to start getting initial traction. Also there might be a stage where you could get stuck with no improvements and clicks. Now if you're ready to pump in some money you can
effortlessly improve your earnings through a channel called native ads.
These are the sponsored ads you see on popular sites which have a very similar appearance as the remaining content on that webpage. So how do you create one? Just approach the editorial team of these websites and ask whether they can post an ad for your content piece. This way you can utilize the organic traffic
coming to their website and redirecting them to an affiliate products sales page. There's also many native ad platforms you can use.
However you need to invest regularly on these platforms, if you expect consistent results. More importantly you need to understand that the results from native ads are not a one-hit wonder. It takes its sweet little time to generate results and see which ads or traffic conver best for you. But once you Get the hang of it you'll find that native ads often have arguably the highest ROI for any affiliate marketing channel.
#5: facebook ads
Earlier we spoke about the power of social media. But imagine if you could multiply the power and generate results much faster. Well that's what facebook ads can do for you. Facebook is
the most powerful and influential social media platform in the world. It has an audience base of 2.85 billion active users every month. What if i said you could reach these audiences in no time,
and target them based on their demographics, behaviors and interests. Yes it's totally possible with facebook ads. Again investment is key here, the more you invest and test the larger the
audience you can tap into through facebook ads.
Since you can narrow down your audience your ad will only reach
those who are actually interested or in need of the product you're promoting.
That are the top five affiliate marketing channels available for you to use and cash in with your affiliate marketing efforts. So, what are you waiting for? Pick a channel and start making affiliate
commissions through affiliate marketing and keep us posted on your progress.
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