What's the number one myth about the affiliate industry? Here it is: the myth that there are some super-secret, underground, sure-fire affiliate marketing strategies that will make you rich overnight, and that if you pay enough money, some guru will "reveal" them to you.
That's just marketing talk! Anyone can earn money working from home as a product affiliate provided he or she is willing to master the fundamentals, and then...
work! Here are three very simple pointers to help anyone get their first affiliate venture off the ground.
1.
The first thing...
you don't even have to do! Whether you are selling hotdogs, Lexus automobiles, or online digital products, the beginning of every sale is...
a demand for some product or service.
Someone will always sell hotdogs (or luxury Japanese cars) because there seems to be a never ending demand for those two things.
Historically, if you wanted to sell something for which there was a demand, you probably had to to make that product yourself.
So, back in the days when we lit our homes with candles, the candlestick maker (if he wanted to make a steady living) spent most of his time...
making candles.
So the first thing you and I need to do as affiliate marketers is to have a product for which there is a demand.
Eventually, when you are a lot more successful at this than you might be right now, you will make your own product for others to sell, thereby fattening your perhaps already healthy bank balance.
But for now, the beauty of this business is that you do not need to have a product.
Someone else does it for you! If you are not a member of ClickBank, join up now.
I mean it.
Get to know them well.
Yes, they are the world's largest online affiliate vendor, but more importantly for our purpose right now is that they will tell you what products are in demand.
Half of all those high priced ebooks and programs on affiliate marketing strategies are devoted to helping you find profitable niches and products.
Why not let ClickBank do it for you for nothing? If you want to earn money working from home, ClickBank is about to become your new best friend.
So you don't need a product, nor do you need to do market research.
Just log in to ClickBank and start joining up the dots.
Find products for which there is a demand, and decide you are going to sell them! 2.
The second thing...
well, you don't have to do this either! The old candlestick maker had to have some way of getting the word out.
Maybe it was word of mouth.
If he was a high-tech kind of guy, maybe he had a sign over his shop.
:) Somehow or other, he had to let people know that here would be found candlesticks for sale.
Online, you need a salespage.
You need banner ads.
You need emails to send out to potential buyers.
You need a whole range of marketing materials.
Except that many times, the digital product vendor provides you with that too! Not only that, but the really experienced vendors will have tested their sales materials to the point where you can be pretty confident they will do the selling for you.
3.
This is the only thing you have to do.
In affiliate marketing, someone else provides the product and the sales material.
Your sole job is to provide the traffic.
Without traffic, sales do not happen, and no one makes any money.
So, the key to your success in affiliate marketing boils down to one thing: How good are you at getting traffic? If you can get a little traffic, you'll have a little success.
If you can get more traffic, you'll enjoy more success.
Can you add 1 + 1? To sum up: There are no extraordinary secrets to affiliate marketing.
All the affiliate marketing strategies in the world will add up to zero if you cannot do the one thing needful- get traffic.
To earn money working from home as an affiliate reseller, all you need to be really good at is getting traffic.
Someone else develops the product and the sales material-- and takes on all the risk! So...
get good at getting traffic.
It beats making candles.
:)