When I started trying to make money from the internet in the early days of 2007. Affiliate marketing was one of the prospective business models I tried using.
During the early days of internet marketing now popularly referred to as digital marketing, “Affiliating” – Affiliate marketing was in fact among the top 5 ways of making money online and fortunately it still is. I didn’t succeed much in it. But it still remains one of the best ways to Making Money From Affiliate Marketing in Nigeria and I have met affiliate millionaires. Yes! Its a possible to be an affiliate millionaire.
First What is affiliate marketing?
Affiliate marketing is a marketing strategy whereby you sell goods and services on behalf a company or a person and get commissions from the sale. With affiliate marketing, you can earn a profits (commissions) on marketing, without having a product of your own. You just set up a blog or website or email list and join affiliate programs that are applicable to your audience.
How To Start Affiliate Marketing
There are 2 things needed for one to start an affiliate marketing business;
+ Create a blog or website
+ Choose affiliate goods to promote
+ Create a blog or website: To earn income with affiliate marketing, the first thing one needs is a website. When building a website, I recommend the use of wordpress. If you’re concerned in making money with affiliate marketing, WordPress is absolutely your way to go.
When your website is finally built, you’ll need to figure out which products you want to promote.
If you don’t have funds for a website you can use a free subdomain like wordpress.org or can also request for an affiliate website from the vendor, whose products you are trying to sell. Most affiliate vendors give you your own affiliate website or link to use in promoting.
+ Choose quality affiliate products or goods to promote: This follows up after your website is created. All you need to do is to choose products that relate to your content (as explained above), and this can be done smoothly by joining an affiliate network.
Some popular affiliate networks out there are Clickbank Commissionjunction.com and even Expertnaire. If you are based in Africa, Nigeria in particular Expertnaire will definitely interest you very much as you get paid in local currency. It’s easier to not only withdraw but also to promote.
How To earn Money With Affiliate Marketing
After creating a website, determining the product to promote and joining affiliate network the next thing you should do is to promote products using any traffic source you know or are comfortable with. If your site has abundant traffic, you can run a brief online survey to request feedback from visitors.
Take note, you must make sure that the particular product has strong demand so you can profit from it. For you to make a sale, its based on the demand of such product. Take the time to learn about the market’s wants and needs and look for products that will earn you enough sales.
Affiliate marketing is easier to earn money from Compared to other forms of digital marketing. If you want to get your hands dirty making some though then try affiliate marketing. Expertnaire is one of such platforms. Sometime in future I will write fully and even invite other experts to talk about Expertnaire and also talk about offline affiliate marketing and how you can earn from it.
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