5 Tips to Earn Money Easily Using Affiliate Schemes
New to affiliate schemes? Are you totally confused? Take heart– everyone starts in the same place… at zero! You have some new skills to acquire, and some new terminology to master, but it need not be hard. I urge you to get started in your new business without delay. You will only learn by doing! Here I will lay out for you some basic pointers to help you earn money easily in affiliate marketing.
1. Pay per Click: To get started in affiliate marketing, it’s important to get comfortable with PPC or “Pay per Click” marketing.
You know those ads you see lined up on the right hand of every Google search results page? Those are paid ads where the advertiser has to pay Google a fee– anywhere from a few cents to US$50.00– each time someone clicks on one of those ads.
Your Google Adwords account includes a keyword tool. Open it up and play with it a bit. See how it works, and get used to the layout.
For your PPC campaigns, you will need a lot of low volume search terms. So, note the “Global Monthly Search Volume” column in your keyword tool. This is where you will find those magic low search, low cost keywords.
2. Start off with the actual affiliate website. Because you are a beginner, you should use the affiliate site given to you by the vendor.
There are a couple of reasons for doing this. The guy who created the affiliate scheme in the first place will have taken the trouble to build a good sales page– after all they want to earn money easily and with minimal hassle, don’t they?– so take advantage of that fact.
Minimize the number of new tasks you have to learn. As a newbie, you need to avoid “information overwhelm”.
3. Learn to advertise widely and cheaply. There are a ton of places where you can put up a small ad with a link to your affiliate site, such as Craigslist, US Small Ads, and sites related to your niche. Check these out– they often will bring you good, targeted traffic, which is what you want starting out.
4. Get subscribers. With some experience, you should think about building your own site, or outsourcing this job. The idea here is to continue selling through your affiliate links, but, crucially, having a sign up box where people can leave you their name and email. This will the basis of a subscribers’ list for a newsletter. (You can outsource a lot of that, as well.)
An email subscription list is very, very valuable to you. It has been said that affiliate marketing may make you six figures a year, but email marketing may make you a million!
4. Viral reports. Giving away viral reports on your site is a time tested way of helping you build your subscriber list. Offer folks a free report and give them permission to just give it away for you– making sure that each page of each report has a link to your subscriber sign up page!
5. Write great articles. Sorry to say, but there is a lot of trash published on the net. If you are a half-way decent writer, that is an opportunity for you— webmasters are eager for good content.
I do not claim to be Tolstoy, but I do like to think that I bring a bit of myself to articles I write, and that’s what makes for good connections with readers.
It goes without saying… have a link to your site after every piece you publish.
(Word of warning— All article directories have restrictions on what types of links are acceptable within the body and resource box of your article. Respect their rules so your articles don’t get rejected, or worse, you find yourself banned from a good directory.)
To summarize: Success comes to those who are prepared to make mistakes! Affiliate schemes are new to you, so be ready for a learning process. You will not make money easily overnight, but you will eventually, and perhaps quite quickly, if you are prepared to give yourself a break and take things step by step. Affiliate marketing is a very forgiving business; our errors usually don’t cost us too much, except a little time and some hurt pride!
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