Affiliate Marketing Step By Step Guide
Affiliate marketing is the simple process of earning commissions for promoting other peoples or other companies products. Find a product you like, one that fits in with your brand or products you like or use and promote them to an audience. Then receive a share of the revenue that the owner of the product makes. The beauty of affiliate marketing is that you do not require to hold any stock or oversee any product support as the owner will take care of all this and more. Your only concern is getting the product seen by people that will buy it. Depending on the product you can earn as much as up to 100% of the product price as a commission, so it's worth looking for not only the best products but ones with great affiliate programs. A successful affiliate marketing campaign requires you to undertake a few simple steps and below we outline them for you.
Build an Email list
'The money is in the list' is often mentioned when discussing affiliate marketing. This is because it is the most direct and effective form of communication a marketer can utilise. The reason being it has been proven that people are more likely to read emails than any other form of modern communication. So if you can form a great relationship with people that join your list the potential for sales is incredibly high. Typically it is thought that on average each email subscriber should generate approximately $1 per month on a well maintained list. We use Aweber for our lists due to the simplicity of the interface. It allows us to create lists and integrate them with any of our pages so that new subscribers are automatically added. It then allows us to automatically send out pre written emails to any new subscribers. Also as you would expect we can send emails any time we feel the need to communicate with audience for other promotions.
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Following on from the last entry we have to talk about sound. Its the number one thing people forget when creating content. The quality of the sound. But it is the easiest to improve. A good mic takes you from annoying amateur to border line profession sound expert in one slick move. The best thing is that they are well priced. We all use the Blue Yeti microphones. They connect to the computer via USB and record amazing audio. They can be used with a stand or a bracket. Whilst we use them to improve our video ten fold we also use then to create podcasts as they can comfortably record the sound from an in person conversation of multiple people.
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A lot of the time we need or want to create original video content without staring in the video ourselves. We just want great looking professional video whether its for YouTube, explanatory video or sales video. Content Samurai allows us to create video using copyright and royalty free stock footage along with a variety of transitions and overlays as well as the introduction of music or voiceovers.
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Affiliate marketing has long been put on the pedestal as one of the best ways to make money online and there are good reasons why. This is because you earn money by essentially recommending products and services. What's more, there are hundreds of programs to join to earn affiliate commissions, so regardless of what you want to promote you are more than likely to find some sort of product that fits the bill. Whether it's a digital product, a course, a piece of software or even a physical product. Amazon have an affiliate program which covers everything they sell so the options truly are endless. One of the very best ways to get started with affiliate marketing is by starting a YouTube channel, whether you are doing reviews, tutorials or anything else there is no barrier to entry and you can start recommending products that you link in the description of your videos. YouTube is free to join and is easy to get video ranking (within reason). In order to make eye catching videos we use Content Samurai with gives us so many royalty free video clips and overlays that make the video 10x better meaning people watch for longer and come back which leads to higher rankings and therefore more waters and more chances for our links to be clicked by willing buyers.
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