Have you ever purchase a product from a particular websites or some famous blog, if yes then you have ever go to a new product website after clicking on buy now or purchase now button, these buttons contains affiliate links that redirect you to that specific product websites.
Whenever someone purchase from that link, the author or the publisher get some amount of commission it may be in percentage form or some fixed amount on a particular category of product.
So, today we have started our learning blog in which you learn something new. Our today’s topic is how to start affiliate marketing without any prior knowledge.
What is Affiliate Marketing?
Affiliate Marketing is a process of marketing someone else product or service in your website blog, YouTube video, in your social media platforms or any medium in which you can your review about the product.
The concept of affiliate marketing involves promoting another company’s product or service in exchange for a commission for the sales you generate. An agent’s commission is typically a percentage of the sale price, however, an agent can occasionally receive a fixed commission.
Why you choose to do Affiliate Marketing?
So there are some of the reason behind to start affiliate marketing, Some of them are :
Low Cost
You know that some vendor does’s not charge any amount to promote their product and that’s give advantage to the affiliate marketer. You don’t need any high amount of investment in order to start the affiliate marketing.
You Gain Professional Independence
You know what professional independence as this business is easy to start and you don’t have to listen someone other in order to work.
In affiliate marketing, you are the only one or you are your own Boss. You can do your work from home, beaches, cafes. You just need a good internet connection.
The business will eventually generate passive income for you after a while. There is nothing sweeter than having fun while knowing that money trickles down like a constant waterfall!
Sell What You Want
In affiliate marketing, you have to sell something which you can choose yourself without someone’s advice or orders as in case of direct selling in offline marketing.
In this, you will just sign up on the different affiliate marketing sites and choose the product you want to promote and voila, you do it.
High ROI
Affiliate marketing is one of the most cost-effective forms of digital advertising. It allows you to pay only for the clicks and impressions that actually convert into sales, meaning you don’t waste money on ads that don’t work. Additionally, it can be scaled up or down, depending on your budget, making it an ideal choice for businesses of any size.
This impressive return on investment is why so many ecommerce brands have started to invest in affiliate marketing and are seeing the positive results. Affiliate marketing can help to drive more traffic to their websites and increase sales, making it a worthwhile investment for any business.
Calculating ROI can help you determine the profitability of your affiliate marketing campaign, giving you the insight you need to make informed decisions about your marketing efforts.
How to start affiliate marketing with no money?
There is no way to start affiliate marketing with no money. You need a small investment to start your affiliate marketing journey.
If someone ever told you that affiliate marketing can also be done without having money in your pocket then this is completely not right.
I will tell you how much you need to start affiliate marketing with no money.
After choosing a product niche, you must buy a domain name or hosting account in order to increase your online visibility.
If you really want to start affiliate marketing without money, then the last option is to create a YouTube channel. In this channel, you will make videos for that particular product that you want to promote.
There is nothing free in this world, you have to put in your time and energy to accomplish anything.
How Affiliate Marketing Work?
When ever you want to promote someone product, they generate a unique affiliate link to promote their product so that they can track from where and from whose link the sale will happen.
To track who is responsible for a sale, the merchant provides each affiliate with a unique link.
In the event that an individual clicks on that link, a small file known as a cookie is placed on their computer.
How to start with affiliate marketing?
Follow the simple steps below to become successful in affiliate marketing.
- Choose a Platform
- Select Your Niche
- Choose Affiliate Programs that you want to join
- Create Content
- Generate Traffic / Drive Traffic
- Get Clicks
- Conversions
# 1 Choose a Platform
So first step is to choose the platform in which you want to promote. The platform can include any digital platform like Website, Instagram, Facebook, Email Marketing, YouTube Channel. These are the most popular channels in which you can promote or share content.
There are lot of tutorials available in the YouTube regarding how to start your own website from purchasing domain to driving traffic to your website.
Once your site become visible to search engines then it will easy for you to check the traffic.
But how can you do this.
The answer is proper doing the Search Engine Optimization of your website or blog. For better ranking you must optimize your website according to user and search engine and must follow the search engine guidlines.
In the content, you must add your unique affiliate link so that you will get the commission of the product which you promote.
# Choose Your Niche
Now second step is to choose which niche you should choose your niche ( category ).
The niche refer to selection of category in which you want to promote the vendor’s product.
The category can be health, business, software, learning, education, cryptocurrency and many more.
Its your choice to choose the niche. It may be possible that you are interested in technology blog, or health blog, its all depend on ourself. So choose wisely as changing the niche may result in starting the work from zero to one.
Continue changing the niche means you are not passionate you just start affiliate marketing to earn some handsome money.
# Choose Affiliate Programs that you want to join
Now the third step is to select the affiliate programs which you want to join.
By the way, there are many affiliate programs available in the market, but I will tell you about the best affiliate program only.
Lets start
- Amazon Associate
- JVZoo
- Clickbank
- eBay Partner Network
- CJ
- Impact
#Amazon Associate
Amazon is one of the biggest Commerce marketplace in the world. But you don’t know that Amazon also started the affiliate programs so that people promote the amazon product.
The percentage of the amazon commission is different for different products.
Generally, payments are made 60 days after the end of the current month. As an Amazon Associate, Amazon will hold your payment until you have earned a minimum of $10.
#JVZoo
The JVZoo affiliate network is an online platform where affiliates and vendors can connect with each other. Like ShareASale, Amazon, and ClickBank, you can sell items through JVZoo, market them, and distribute them automatically. Merchants earn revenue from JVZoo only. Additionally, it facilitates vendors’ sales by connecting them with customers.
JVZOs is one of my favourite affiliate marketing programs as it don’t require any charges to become member for JVZO. Second is that the payout is in Foreign currency i.e USD Dollar. You can use Stripe, Payoneer to make your JVs account money into your indian currency. I recommend you to use the Payoneer as its charges are very nominal.
#Clickbank
With affiliate programs that appeal to all kinds of marketers, ClickBank is among the top companies with affiliate programs. This affiliate platform’s affiliate information is open to anyone, which makes it a valuable affiliate platform.
As a start-up business, ClickBank started in a garage in 1998 and quickly grew into one of the world’s leading affiliate and retail sites in the retail field. There are currently hundreds of affiliates who are promoting ClickBank products and have earned billions of dollars in commissions promoting the products as a result.
It is a great option for just getting started because of its success and 20-year history, no matter where you are in your journey. It’s hard to pass up the opportunity to promote a wide range of products & companies.
Some of the categories included are :
- Travel
- Sports
- Business
- Investing
- Arts
- Entertainment
- Green products
- Home
- Garden
For becoming a clickbank affiliate, you just need to open/create an account by giving some personal details like email, name, username and also by adding your payment information and voila your account has been created. Now you will be able to promote the produts.
The commission rate ranges from 50% to 70%, on average. You can withdraw your commission weekly or bi-weekly. And the payment methods by which you will receive your payouts are : Payoneer, wire transfer, direct deposit and cheque.
#eBay Partner Network
Affiliates at eBay earn the highest commissions. Become an eBay affiliate on the eBay Partner Network. Commissions range from 50% to 70%.
In order to promote eBay’s products effectively, eBay offers affiliates several tools. You can take advantage of eBay’s affiliate program no matter how you market.
eBay affiliate programs work directly with eBay and its products, unlike other affiliate marketing programs. The primary relationship is with eBay, although you will help sellers to a small extent.
In a similar fashion to Amazon, you will be working with a platform on which businesses are interested in selling their products. There are numerous opportunities for growth, including eBay dropshipping.
Furthermore, eBay does not require you to exclusively use its services. You can still make money with eBay affiliate programs while working with other merchants.
It takes about five minutes to join its affiliate program. The application process is one of the easiest.
The commission rate in eBay Affiliate Program are 50 to 70%, depending on the product, you will choose.
The payment cycle for this affiliate program is 10th of each month to only those accounts having made sale for more than 10 units of country’s currency.
The payout methods are Paypal and direct deposits.
#Commission Junction (CJ)
Since its inception, CJ has helped affiliates and merchants.
A report on the company’s website claims it works with twice as many Internet Retailer 500 companies as any other affiliate program.
Take a closer look at what the site offers, and you’ll see that it offers quite a lot. Here’s an example of the wide variety of niches you can find on the site.
When considering which affiliate program to choose, it should be high on your list, especially with a reputation like that.
#Impact
Known for its automation tools, Impact is a business partnership that connects people with Airbnb, Uber, Adidas and other brands.
Many categories are covered, including beauty, travel, shopping, fitness, and more.
With Impact, you can access the most popular affiliate managers right in your store.
You are paid by Impact via CPA (cost per action) when your visitors click on your link.
The commission rate in this affiliate programs depends on the various brands.
Th payment cycle is very flexible as you can decide the any date of month to withdraw your affiliate earnings. The payout methods are BACS, Paypal, or direct transfer.
You will have officially begun your affiliate marketing journey with your chosen affiliate marketing program. This may lead to you reaching new heights one day.
What is your approach to affiliate marketing? Tell us about it in the comments.
#Choose the Platform to Promote the Product / Service
Now is the time to promote the product, so that you will receive a handsome amount of commission after the product is purchased by someone in your audience while promoting.
There is also another how to promote that product.
So, there are two ways to promote particular product : one is Organic and another is Inorganic/ Paid
Organic Method
In organic method, there are some of the methods includes like Search Engine Optimization, Social Media.
Now both these methods have their own benefits and features, we will discuss both one by one.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) : SEO is a technique by which you can rank you website or make your online presence in the different search engines and that can increase the number of traffic in your website and also generate leads for your website. In affiliate marketing, SEO is a most powerful tool by which you can promote your product.
But I recommend you to use SEO only if have skill of R&D, so that you can write a long descriptive articles for any particular product. It is very powerful and free technique which live you article on the top and you can earn a huge amount of profit if someone purchase from your affiliate link.
Social Media : The expected social media user in 2023 is 4.89 billion worldwide. And this create a big opportunity for you to promote the vendors product on them.
But how can you do it with social media?
Well you simply need an account and just start posting and connecting with the particular audience, pitching them. You can join group, create pages and share your product images and can also create articles .
Also the SEO and Social Media, both work in the best way to promote the product. Let me introduce how?
First you create a review article with placing affiliate link in the post and then post it in varries group in Facebook.
InOrganic Method / Paid Method
The paid method includes various sub methods like Google Ads, Facebook Ads, Instagram ads, Quora ads, Pinterest ads, Email Marketing. All the paid methods require money to run the ads. You have to invest some amount in the ads to run them.
The main benefits of paid marketing over organic marketing is that you don’t have to wait for months for your website ranking, you just need an ad account and some handsome money.
