Affiliate marketing is one of the best ways you can make a passive stream of income.
Affiliate Marketing Beginners Guide (How To Get Started)
You don’t need to have a website or even be a social media influencer – you only need to be a creative marketer.
Affiliate Marketing Beginners Guide (How To Get Started)
One of my favorite examples from a conference about 12 or so years ago was someone who used affiliate links for dating programs by setting up road signs in heavy rush-hour traffic areas.
Affiliate Marketing Beginners Guide (How To Get Started)
As people drove home from work and sat in traffic, they saw the signs and visited the URLs, which were landing pages or redirects through the affiliate links.
Affiliate Marketing Beginners Guide (How To Get Started)
But that’s not a very sustainable strategy – just a unique way to make money as an affiliate marketer.
Affiliate Marketing Beginners Guide (How To Get Started)
As you can see, there is no shortage of ways to make money with affiliate marketing, and this guide will help you devise a strategy and start your journey.
Affiliate Marketing Beginners Guide (How To Get Started)
It is based on my 20+/- years of experience being an affiliate managing programs – and for a short time, managing an affiliate network.
Even if you’re already an expert, there are likely ideas you haven’t tried yet.
The strategies in this guide apply to individual people like bloggers and social media stars, businesses and non-profit organizations, and media outlets or publications looking to make money with affiliate marketing.
There’s a ton of information below, including statistics on what affiliates actually earn from some of the largest affiliate networks, so get ready to dive in.
We’ll start with defining what affiliate marketing is, go into the truth about what you should expect earnings-wise, and then ways you can become an affiliate, including unique ideas I’ve had but haven’t implemented or tried yet. That one is in the how to get started section.
Tip four in the “tips for beginners” section is more of an advanced affiliate marketing strategy as it is commonly overlooked and a missed…
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