In affiliate marketing, you don't need to have a product.
You don't need a website.
You don't need a sales page.
You don't need to sell anything.
You don't need to spend a cent! Then, what do you need to do? Everything you need to do is available for you free of charge - yes, absolutely free of charge! First of all, you need a ClickBank account.
The account is free; you just sign up as an affiliate and ClickBank will give you an affiliate ID automatically.
The next thing you have to do is to choose the products that you will promote.
I recommend that you choose the products that you would like to buy if given a chance.
Don't promote a product you don't like.
Also, choose products based on hot trend.
For instance, the whole world is facing economic crisis at the moment which makes any product that offers solution to economic recession a hot one.
Weight loss products are hot products any day, anytime because global obesity problem is increasing as if nothing is done about it.
Another niche or area that is begging for a solution is dating and relationship issues.
Millions of people around the world surf the internet everyday in search of solutions to heart breaks and divorce.
If you go to Google, Yahoo and MSN, you will find out what I'm talking about.
The competition is high, no doubt, but you can beat the competition if you do your work very well.
Now, you have a ClickBank account and you have chosen about 10 products that you would like to promote.
Then, look at the sales or pitch page of these products so that you will find out whether the sales copy can really appeal to a potential buyer.
Find out if the website has an opt-in form because that will show that the product owner has a list which makes him or her a serious business person.
Also, find out whether the product owner really runs an affiliate program because if he or she runs an affiliate program then there must be some affiliate tools and resources on the website provided for affiliates in order to help them promote the product.
After looking at the pitch page of each of the products and considering these very important points I just stated above, select the best 5 out of the 10 products you earlier selected.
These 5 products are the products you are 100% excited and ready to promote like crazy.
Some of the product owners pay as much as 75% commission per sale.
How do they know that the sale was made through you? You will use your affiliate ID to create hoplinks; your hoplinks are those links from you or on your landing page that direct the potential buyer to the website or sales page of the product owner.
Your hoplinks ensure that you get credit for the sales made through you.
It is advisable that you cloak your links because commission theft is all over the internet.
I'm not trying to scare you but to tell you that just like we have armed robbers in our physical community who can hijack offline businesses, there are internet criminals who want to reap what they didn't sow - they want to prove the law of karma wrong.
What next? It's time to do a keyword research on those products you want to promote.
Keyword research helps you to make good landing pages, write good articles, beat competition and generate targeted traffic which brings in the money you've always wanted.
The keywords you choose should be long tail keywords which have less competition but high daily search results.
There are free keyword tools on the internet such as SEO Book Tool which you can use to get profitable keywords.
You can succeed in affiliate marketing if you do the right thing such as optimizing your landing pages by simply using the keywords you choose to build the pages in order to get targeted traffic.
You don't need a website.
You don't need a sales page.
You don't need to sell anything.
You don't need to spend a cent! Then, what do you need to do? Everything you need to do is available for you free of charge - yes, absolutely free of charge! First of all, you need a ClickBank account.
The account is free; you just sign up as an affiliate and ClickBank will give you an affiliate ID automatically.
The next thing you have to do is to choose the products that you will promote.
I recommend that you choose the products that you would like to buy if given a chance.
Don't promote a product you don't like.
Also, choose products based on hot trend.
For instance, the whole world is facing economic crisis at the moment which makes any product that offers solution to economic recession a hot one.
Weight loss products are hot products any day, anytime because global obesity problem is increasing as if nothing is done about it.
Another niche or area that is begging for a solution is dating and relationship issues.
Millions of people around the world surf the internet everyday in search of solutions to heart breaks and divorce.
If you go to Google, Yahoo and MSN, you will find out what I'm talking about.
The competition is high, no doubt, but you can beat the competition if you do your work very well.
Now, you have a ClickBank account and you have chosen about 10 products that you would like to promote.
Then, look at the sales or pitch page of these products so that you will find out whether the sales copy can really appeal to a potential buyer.
Find out if the website has an opt-in form because that will show that the product owner has a list which makes him or her a serious business person.
Also, find out whether the product owner really runs an affiliate program because if he or she runs an affiliate program then there must be some affiliate tools and resources on the website provided for affiliates in order to help them promote the product.
After looking at the pitch page of each of the products and considering these very important points I just stated above, select the best 5 out of the 10 products you earlier selected.
These 5 products are the products you are 100% excited and ready to promote like crazy.
Some of the product owners pay as much as 75% commission per sale.
How do they know that the sale was made through you? You will use your affiliate ID to create hoplinks; your hoplinks are those links from you or on your landing page that direct the potential buyer to the website or sales page of the product owner.
Your hoplinks ensure that you get credit for the sales made through you.
It is advisable that you cloak your links because commission theft is all over the internet.
I'm not trying to scare you but to tell you that just like we have armed robbers in our physical community who can hijack offline businesses, there are internet criminals who want to reap what they didn't sow - they want to prove the law of karma wrong.
What next? It's time to do a keyword research on those products you want to promote.
Keyword research helps you to make good landing pages, write good articles, beat competition and generate targeted traffic which brings in the money you've always wanted.
The keywords you choose should be long tail keywords which have less competition but high daily search results.
There are free keyword tools on the internet such as SEO Book Tool which you can use to get profitable keywords.
You can succeed in affiliate marketing if you do the right thing such as optimizing your landing pages by simply using the keywords you choose to build the pages in order to get targeted traffic.
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