How do I get started in Affiliate Marketing?

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1. strong58us says:

   March 18, 2010 at 12:27 am

   You can start with a free blog at blogspot or WordPress if you like, although later on you’ll probably want to get a hosting account of your own (I recommend Hostgator — it’s like $4.95 a month for the most basic option).

   If you’re just itching to get some money coming on, there are a number of products you can promote that are set up to deposit your commissions directly into your PayPal account at the time of sale. (If you don’t have a PayPal account yet, I urge you to set one up ASAP.)

   Check out the link in the box below, I have a list of 200 products you can start selling immediately and get paid in your PayPal. While you shouldn’tuse something like this as a long-term cornerstone of your online business, it is a great way to get some extra money coming in quickly while you work on your long-term goals.
2. web4u says:

   March 18, 2010 at 12:27 am

   1) Decide who you want to host your web site or blog. Are you going to use a FREE host like Google or MSN Live or will you pay a provider?

   2) Decide what your domain name will be and register it with a provider like Yahoo or Domains.com.

   3) What type of information will your site offer…business, products, news or event information? This will determine what type of affiliate program you select. As an example if your site provides information on fishing, then you may want to place an ad for Urban Outfitters or Erehwon stores on your site.

   4) Register with Commission Junction or Linkshare as a Publisher to begin selecting affiliate programs.

   Any other questions, feel free to contact me.
3. Chris G says:

   March 18, 2010 at 12:27 am

   First things first, you should decide on the first product you want to promote. Don’t be too worried if it’s not the best thing since sliced bread, for your first site, you’re going to be learning and you’ll probably make a lot of mistakes. That’s ok, it’s all part of the process. A lot of our members have a lot of success promoting Clickbank products. You want to find a niche that has three or four different products in it with at least one of those products (all if possible) having a ‘gravity’ over 30. The gravity is like the success score which tells you, among other things, how many different affiliates have made a sale in the last week (although single affiliates could make multiple sales). By picking a product that has a solid gravity you know there is money to be made there – which means you can go in a take your piece of the pie.

   Pick a niche with more than one product so you can make multiple sales to the same customers. It also increases the level of credibility of your site.

   It doesn’t matter too much whether you use a traditional website or blog so long as you put a decent amount of content up there (at least 30 pages) to make sure the search engines actually take notice and your site looks legit. This can be articles and reviews, and if you don’t want to write them yourself, you can use services like elance to find someone to do it for you for a pretty reasonable price.

   If you don’t have any web design knowledge, start out with a WordPress blog. It’s super easy to use and you can get lots of great themes an plugins. There are some themes that are built specifically for affiliate marketing sites too.

   You might want to check out our site Affilorama. We’re an affiliate marketing training portal and we offer lots of free lessons and blog posts on new ideas and industry news.

   Check it out at http://www.affilorama.com

   The number one most important rule is to keep persevering. It can be a little hard when your first starting out but you seem really motivated so you should do really well.

   Best of luck to you!
4. ClickMe! says:

   March 18, 2010 at 12:27 am

   ok, ummm… like, first you have to, like, you know, find out what kind of product you are like adverting. Depending on the like, ummm…, oh, product, you can either like build a site or like just like, you know, get like a blog. What ever you like. You know.

   If you like, you know, want to use a site. Just like, register a domain and use some wordpress, like.

   I like, also dont forget to like, get a leads page. Like, oh, ummmm…, get peoples email address, like build a relationship, and like sell them some, uhh, like stuff, like later on, like when they know you. They would like that and they would like also like you.