10 Affiliate marketing strategy.

What is affiliate marketing? This is the big questions for any blogger, Youtuber or any other who wants to earn money online.

Almost all bloggers or Youtubers want to monetize their website or YouTube channel. Here, there are mainly two ways to monetize their website or channel. They are Google-AdSense or other AdSense or affiliate marketing.

Nowadays many bloggers prefer affiliate marketing rather than Google Ad-Sense to earn money. The only reason for this is because I think, making money through affiliate marketing is in your hands and efforts. But in case of Google Ad-Sense it can stop it at any time, will give you lots of reasons and all your efforts will be valueless, at that point.

So here the question is what is affiliate marketing and how it work? Before going detailed about affiliate marketing let's know

What is Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate marketing is related to marketing, where a person or company promote a product of another person or company. In this process who promote the product of others get a commission when a sales make due to his efforts.

In smart passive income .com it is defined as:-

"Affiliate marketing is the process of earning a commission by promoting another company's product (or service). You find a product, promote it to others, and earn a piece of the profit for each sale that you make."

Let's try to understand this definition.

How do affiliates marketing works?

If you want to earn money from affiliate marketing then you must have to promote a product or service of another person or company.

Then, the question is where you promote their product and how?

There are so many platform to promote other product, they are Blog( web site), YouTube, Facebook. Instagram. e-mail and some other online platform.

For this purpose, you have to create a blogging website or YouTube channel. There you promote the products or services which may actually give some value to your customer or reader.

I think you should use that particular product before promoting that. and thereby you can create a solid content to promote.

After creating a content to promote a product or service in your blog or in your YouTube channel you will again have to promote your website or YouTube channel, on your social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram or LinkedIn to increase traffic and viewers.

Sometimes you have to encourage your customer to buy that product on these platforms.

Here the question is how you will get commission?

Whatever may be the products or services which you want to promote, first of all, you have to join the affiliate program for that product, that have been provided by the producer or seller of that particular product. There are also affiliates marketplace where you will find different affiliate product of different company.

To join any affiliate program you have to provide detailed like your name, email, a password, bank detailed or regarding your Paypal account. In many cases you have to mention your traffic source like website, youtube channel etc.

When they approve your affiliates request they will provide you an affiliates link. This is the link which you have to attach on the appropriate place in your website pages. When someone purchased using this link you will get a commission.

Why affiliates marketing?

Anyone join affiliates marketing to earn money, where I think one can earn huge amount. That totally depends upon your efforts, knowledge, hard work and your passion towards it.

You can have passive income by joining affiliate marketing. There are so many affiliate program that gives you commission recurrently as long as the customer use that product.

Generally, hosting provider company and many software companies give this type of recurring commission.

Some affiliate program offer two tire affiliate commission. Two tire affiliate commission refers to:- When someone join an affiliates program with your reference. In this case, when that person makes a sale you will also get a small commission. This small income known as Sub-affiliate-commission.

The example of companies that offer two tire commission are Share a Sale, Fiverr, Grammarly, WP-Engine, A2 hosting.

I think affiliates are helping people by giving them knowledge about the product and sometime by comparing between two products they show you the best product.

There are many people who earn more than one lakh dollars per months. Some of the best affiliates who earn huge amount are:-

• Pat Flynn
• John chow
• Kulwant Negi
• Ankur Agrawal

There are innumerable person who earn huge amount from affiliates marketing. So you can also earn a huge amount all that depends open your knowledge, efforts and passion towards your goal to achieve that.

You should follow them and you have to do all the things they do. Here the question again arise what they do and how they do?

But before I will describe you about their all secrets and formula what I learn from them we should know the basics of affiliates marketing and terminology used for affiliates marketing.

They are:-

• Affiliates Program:- Affiliates Program is a marketing strategy to increase sales by giving some commission to affiliates. Generally affiliates program is run by Manufacturer, seller, and sometimes it is third parties company who generally give a marketplace for affiliate marketing.
• Affiliates market place:- Generally Affiliates marketplace are run by third parties company to run affiliates program of different niches and different company. These are work as a central database of different affiliates programme. Some example are CJ affiliates, Click bank, Shareasale, JV Zoo, Max Bounty, Rakuten etc.
• Affiliates:- Affiliates are person or company those who joining affiliates programme and promote product of others and encourage customer to buy through his affiliates link.
• Affiliate link:- Affiliate link is a special URL link provided by affiliate program to affiliates. Through this link, they track sales, that made through affiliates efforts.
• Two-tire-Affiliates-Marketing:- When someone join an affiliates program with your reference. In this case, when that person makes a sale you will also get a small commission. This small income known as Sub-affiliate-commission.
• Affiliate commission:- This is a commission that you get from your affiliate sales. Amazon give an affiliate commission of up to 10% whereas some software company give an affiliate commission of around 50%.
• custom commission:- Not like fixed affiliate commission, that some affiliate program given custom commission to those affiliates who make most sale for them.
• Affiliate manager:- Many companies have dedicated affiliate managers. They help the publisher by giving tips to increase their income.
• Link Clocking:- Some companies provide a long ugly affiliates link that are not understandable for human. Link clocking is a method where you can change an ugly link into a pretty human-readable link.
• Landing page:- A landing page on a website refers to a page where you want to direct your reader to land there. This page design in such a way that you can easily convert them into your subscriber or it may generate leads for your desired product. Sometimes it is designed to collect there information like name and email so that you can encourage your reader to buy your product or service or to buy through your affiliates link, through email marketing.
• Payment mode:- There are so many payment mode for payment of affiliate commission or payment to be made for purchase any online product. they are mainly, wire transfer, cheque and Paypal etc.

These are the main thermology that are used in affiliate marketing. So now let's try to understand, what is affiliate marketing?

As we discuss earlier that affiliates marketing related to promoting other product and when affiliates make a sale through affiliate link he get a commission.

If we observe the activity of an affiliating marketing, mainly we find four persons or you may say four parties involved in these activities.

They are:-

1. The merchant (creator or seller of the product)
2. Affiliates program( the network involve in Affiliates marketing)
3. The promoter or publisher (Affiliates)
4. Consumer (Readers, Viewers, Followers etc.)

So the affiliate marketing directly or indirectly revolves around these parties and any affiliate program affect with their activities.

In this topic, I will describe, all about their(four parties) role and how you will become a success as an affiliate and how you can earn a decent amount to fulfil all your dream. You will also get some basic knowledge if you have any dream to be a producer or a seller and to run an affiliates program for your product.

The merchant:-

Here the merchant refers to the owner of the product. They may be a creator or manufacturer, seller. A creator may be a huge company like Apple, Samsung or maybe a one person like Sorav Jain ( run digital marketing course on teachable.com). A seller may be also a big company like Amazon or they may be a single person or a vendor or a retailer.

How we get Product idea?

If you want to be a creator or manufacturer then you can't produce anything to become success. You have to produce or create the thing that actually meet the need of the consumer. Your product may be innovative or traditional but the important thing is that the product must give some value to your customer.

To know which product you should have to make you will have to make a survey. You should know your targeted customer, their behaviour, sentiment and the region from where they belongs to. All this make you easy to find your product that can sale easily.

We should thank to the internet world which makes all the things very easy. For all this, you have to do a single research that is Keyword research.

There are so many tools like SEMrush, Google Ads, Google keyword planner. Ubersuggest etc available for Keyword research. They help you to know your competitor, search volume etc of your product.

You also go through Buzzsumo to know-how a product and content related to that particular product get viral on social platforms like Facebook, Instagram Youtube etc. What people like or what they don't like.

You should create a things or product that is more searchable on the internet and most people like that so that your product can sale easily. More search volume means many people want that product.

At the same time knowing your competitor helps you to increase your product quality and help in making marketing strategy.

You can further increase the quality and you can customize a product according to known comments from social media platforms.

Which product should we create?

As I try to teach how you will earn online without any investment or with some little investment. Here I do not advise you to make a physical product which needs much more investment and efforts.

You should start with a digital product, like an online course which needs knowledge and your time to invest. You can launch your online course on online platform like Udemy. teachable etc.

You can launch a website of your own to sale your course with some little investment.

If you know coding and Java you can launch software or game and can sell this product. There are example of so many entrepreneurs or peoples who lunch software and earn a million dollars. Among them Neil Patel- Ubersuggest, Sourabh Bhatnagar- MarketPresso, Russell Brunson-Clickfunnel etc.

If you have Passion on writing you can create an E-book. Then you can publish and sale on Amazon Kindle book which is completely free.

A seller has to follow the same strategy. He or she should sale a product that have a more search volume. So that the product can easily salable.

In affiliate marketing, The merchant may not have to involve in manufacturing or directly on selling but he (she, company or companies )must have a product to sale.

Affiliates

Many person want to be an affiliate because it help you to be economically independent. Secondly it is so easy where neither you have to invest any money nor you have to create any product. But one thing you need is knowledge, passion and dedication towards your work. Things that to be invested is your time.

After having all the things you need a thing which is very important and that is your patience. After acquiring knowledge and doing hard work in affiliate marketing you have to still wait for a time to receive your first affiliate commission.

So again, I want to warn you If you want to succeed in a overnight then I think affiliate marketing is not for you. There isn't any magical formula to get success very quickly in affiliate marketing like other business.

Honestly, here I will describe you detailly all the things that is necessary to be success in affiliate marketing.

As we know, You have to promote the products or services of other person or companies to be an affiliates.

So, the question is what product or service we should promote to earn. This is the most important to select a profitable niche to be success in affiliate marketing.

You should work on a niche that you like and have a passion on it. So that you can't getting tired when you writing a review on it.

You should have plenty of knowledge on that product to answer the question of your audience to win their trust. Later which increase your conversion rate.

You should promote a product that actually work for your customer. You can't sale a comb to a Bald person.

There is no restriction on the number of product to promote as a affiliates marketer. You can promote as many as product or service that you want.

Tactic to promote a product

Once you choose a product to promote the second important thing is how you can promote that product.

If we simply paste our affiliate link on our social media platform then there is very less chance of someone clicking on that link to buy the product.

Then, how we can promote? The answer to the question is not possible to give in one line. As there are so many platforms and there are many ways to promote an affiliate product in each platform.

Here I will tell you all the method that really works. You can promote your affiliate product on website, social media platform like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Quora, Reddit etc. through E-mail marketing, Using different funnel, Webinar and you can promote through an Advertising.

How to promote on Website and YouTube

If you really want to be a affiliate marketer than you can review a product on a website or through a you tube channel.

If you are a newbie you should follow- How to start a website on WordPress.

You should know how to write a blog post and basic of SEO.

SEO plays a vital role for any blogger. You can't earn more money in affiliates marketing with out SEO. This help your website to show on SERP.

All these help you to create a blog for your specific products or services. The fast way to promote a product is to make a review of the product.

Tell your audience all about the product. How they work. There durability as company says and Guarantee, warranty, etc of a physical product.

There you give acceptable Affiliate link .

How you review a product? That is totally depend open you and your knowledge regarding that product. But I think you may visit your competitor sites for reference. Here your competitor site means first top ten website of Google SERP regarding that product.

Forgiving a genuine review it will be better to use that particular product. You may read the review of an expert relating to that product.

You may start as Affiliates joining Amazon associates. Where You get your Affiliates link to earn money promoting a product which is easy as well work for newbie.

You can create a content comparing two product. Many affiliates like to comparing two same product. This help the customer to choose a right product that fit for him. There by increase the conversion rate. Finally the chance to buy a product from your Affiliate link will increase.

Here is a snip shot from hostingadvice.com where they compare between two hosting provider.

Promoting on YouTube

You can also review a product on YouTube. You can compare between products, give information about an up-coming product. You should search on YouTube how people do all this.

If you Interested in making video you may click on- How to earn money from YouTube.

As many people nowadays prefer YouTube to Website as YouTube is much easier to understand with less attention.

So more people engage in YouTube.

Here is a screen shot of Youtube affiliate marketing.

At the same time, Google also rank YouTube on its SERP( Search Engine Result Page ). For example, I search typing Samsung vs Redmi and on SERP I get YouTube at the top.

Only after this I get the result of different website like this:-

E-mail marketing for Affiliates

E-mail marketing works. Oh! yes it really work.

Some one not only promotes own product but also his affiliates product through E-mail marketing.

Perhaps now you think, where I will get email list?. Are you really interest?

Yes! If you want to promote your affiliate product using blogger website, then you have so many option to get e-mail list.

If you ask for any comment regarding your blog post then don't forget to use a contact form. For this you may use plugin like WP form, Sendinblue, etc.

You may ask your reader to subscribe to your blog just by giving their name and e-mail. So that they will receive an e-mail regarding the new post publish every time.

Try to give your reader, a free gift like E-book or a discount coupon on your product just by asking them to filling up of a form with there E-mail and name.

You can use pup-up to collect name and e-mail. You may create a landing page to collect email.

Poptin will be best for you if you are a newbie for making a pup-up. Which offer free service for limited customer. It is one of the best plugin for WordPress site.

A give-up will help you to get more emails. A give up maybe free e-book or a free course or it may be free software. All these help you to collect more email.

What and How to email?

These above are some method to get email list for affiliate marketing.

After getting E-mail list try to encourage them to buy the product for which you promote as a affiliates. Don't try to say them directly to purchase your affiliate product. Rather than, try to say why the product is important for them.

Teach them how they will benefit from that product. Not forget to encourage them to go to your landing page where you promote that product and makes review for that product.

Give them update about your new blog post. Give them reason with example how the product will help them.

You may create a story for your affiliates product.

Sometimes email the testimonial of the consumer of your product.

It might not work the first time with your first email. You should email them constantly. Then one day you will find that they will be your customers.
If not all of them, there will definitely be some of them.

Even with a small number of email lists, you will be able to increase your sales. There is no doubt that conversion rate in email marketing is much higher than your followers.

For increasing your sales or conversion rate you may start an Email Marketing Funnel.

There are some free as well as paid Plugins and Tools that help you to send email automatedly. They are Mailchimp, Aweber, Customer.io, Constant contact, Sandinblue etc.

Webinar

Live Webinar is another method to promote your affiliate product. There a lots of chance to convert your followers to customer, streaming live webinar.

Many affiliates follow this you can also do this.

If you are a new one you can start your free webinar using Facebook live or YouTube.

There are so many paid platform like Demio, Webinar Ninja, Click Meeting, Jet Webinar, Zoom etc. to live a Webinar.

Before start a Webinar

But before you go live you must have full knowledge and experience on the product that you promote. That how its work, how benefits your customer etc.

Share a link of your Webinar to your audience through E-mails, Face-book, Instagram.

You may send them to your lending page to register for your webinar giving their all detailed like name, email mobile number etc.

How to promote on Webinar

On a live webinar you can engage your audience by showing them how the product will help them or solve their burning need.

Educate your audience explaining product detailed.

You can tell them about-

• How the product will help them
• Tell them about the feature of your product
• Your experience with the product
• The benefits and drawback of the product
• You can encourage your audience to ask question and try to answer these question regarding your product

At the end you can share your affiliates link that help you to increase your sales.

In the live webinar telling your customer about the scarcity of a physical product help you to sell a product quickly.

Paid Advertisement

if you are starting to earn through affiliate marketing then I think Paid advertisement will really help you to increase your affiliate income.

You can use Google Ads or Facebook Ads for this purpose.

You can show your landing page or website on SERP through Google Ads.

Google itself do this Ads to promotes it's product. I just type Google Ads on Goole search and I get this result.

Google itself promote for this keyword. Like this, you can also promote keyword related to your Affiliates product and topic related to that product.

So you can also promote your Affiliates website through PPC to get more traffic.

By doing this you can do the following :-

• Get more traffic which you can convert them to your customer
• Send directly to your landing page to collect their name and Email
• You can share them your Webinar link
• Getting their Email you can encourage them to buy your product through email

You can use Facebook Ads for all this. Through Facebook Ads you can reached your targeted customer.

What is Affiliate marketing?

As we know, Affiliate marketing means promoting the product of others and by doing this you will get a commission with each sale that you make through your own efforts.

And people do affiliate marketing to get income. You can make money as affiliates or as a merchant.

Here we know that as a merchant we must have a product to earn money.

But as an affiliates we have to promote a product of others to make a sale through our Affiliate link.

If you really want to earn through affiliate marketing you must know the 10 best affiliates program.

Comment how you earn money through affiliate marketing as a merchant or as affiliates.