What is Affiliate Marketing?
Simply put, Affiliate Marketing is involves you promoting other people’s products and earning a commission on every sale that results from your referral.
These products you promote are usually through images or links get from an affiliate network.
How much money can you make as an affiliate marketer?
An affiliate marketer can make anything from a few dollars in commissions to millions of dollars a month.
There’s really no limit, it’s all about how many sales you can achieve.
Benefits of Affiliate Marketing
1. You can work from home; all you need is your mobile phone, tablet or laptop and internet connection. It is convenient and flexible.
You are your own boss so you can decide what products to promote them and how. You can also decide when to work without having to deal with office rules and regulations.
2. It’s a great source of passive income; this is one proven method to make money while you sleep.
Even when you are offline you will reap the fruit of your well together put marketing strategy.
3. Little to no start up costs needed;
It costs nothing to sign up to most affiliate networks.
When it comes to internet connection, you may even have access to free WiFi.
To sign up and put up content on Clipkulture is also free.
To promote your articles or product reviews you can start by sharing on various social media. In future you can think of paying for advertising.
How to become an Affiliate Marketer; What do you need to have?
1. Choose a Niche
Your success as an affiliate marketer lies in you being able to choose the right niche for you.
What is right for another may not be right for you because we all have different interests, skills and situations.
What are you passionate about or what do you find interesting?
What can you talk or write about without getting bored or feeling burdened?
Do people search for products or services in this area you have chosen as my niche?
Are there affiliate programs that work within your chosen niche?
Don’t just think “passion” also think “profitability” when looking for an area to specialize in.
If you are interested in writing beauty articles or reviews then you should be looking out for beauty products and not food spices, for example.
Popular Niches for Affiliate Marketing
1. Health and wellness
2. Hair and beauty
3. Sports
4. Education
5. Travel
6. Entertainment
7. Jobs and Careers
2. Find and join an affiliate program or Network to get products.
Affiliate marketing Networks are websites that act as middlemen between merchants, who are the actual producers or sellers, and you the affiliate.
You can do this in 3 ways:
1. Joining one of the numerous affiliate networks out there.
2. Checking websites of products you use or know to see if there are affiliate programs available.
3. Reach out to manufacturers or producers of products you like and set up an agreement, if they don’t already have an Affiliate program.
Popular Affiliate Marketing programs
Awin
Affiliate.co.za
Clickbank
Amazon Associates
Commission Junction
3. Set up Your Platform
After you’ve made up your mind about your niche, products and affiliate program, you need to decide what platform you will use to run your affiliate business.
The two common ways people carry out affiliate marketing activities are:
Building websites or blogs
OR
Running Advertisements
If you choose to set up a website then we at Clipkulture can help you set up one with your own domain.
However clipkulture.com is a ready made free platform for you to run your affiliate business.
You can add photos of your products, write reviews and articles, add your affiliate tracking links and share to social media all for free.
If you choose the advertising route for your affiliate business, there are advertising slots on Clipkulture that you can take advantage of to reach your audience.
What Kind of Information can you put up to attract people to your products?
Creating the right content is crucial to the success of your affiliate marketing efforts because people will come to you because of your content. That’s simply how the internet works.
Types of Content you can create are:
1. Blog posts like “how tos” and “answers to why” questions to educate readers and prospective customers.
Let your blog posts help solve someone’s problems.
2. Guides and guidelines
3. Product reviews
Your product reviews can be written from your own experience or from interviewing others to get their experiences.
Researching large website reviews like Amazon can also give you material to write a well balanced review.
Some affiliate networks are strict about you having a website, but if you deal with companies directly you may still be able to sign up for a program.
Please contact us if you need more clarity or want us to help you set up your affiliate business.
