Boost Your Income With Affiliate Marketing

Do you want to make some passive income? I think everybody wants to!

If you have traffic and followers, affiliate marketing will help you make money while you sleep by promoting someone else’s products on your website or social media account. You will receive a commission of the sales that are created by your marketing efforts.

Here's a straightforward concept of affiliate marketing, according to digital marketing expert Pat Flynn: "Affiliate marketing is the process of earning a commission by promoting other people’s (or company’s) products. You find a product you like, promote it to others, and make a profit with every sale you make."

But first, you need to know about the business secrets of affiliate marketing: the parties involved in the process, the types of affiliate marketing platforms, how to get paid and the tips for success.

How Does Affiliate Marketing Work?

Affiliate marketing works by separating parts of the digital marketing process. By sharing the responsibilities of creation and product marketing, it enables a successful marketing plan where partners share in the profits.

This starts with three people: the seller or product owner/the brand, the affiliate/promoter, the customer. These three parties have an interconnected relationship with one another when developing affiliate marketing. Each party shares the responsibility for success.

The seller provides a product or service to the affiliate, who promotes the product or service to their own existing audience. Once consumers purchase the products, the affiliate gets a commission. I find that affiliates usually have a niche audience that narrows the target market.

Collecting payment from affiliated marketing is automated. Once you set up the parameters, your work is done until it’s time to check the deposits at your bank. You can be paid by every sale, every lead or every click, depending on what’s agreed on between you and the seller or the owner of the product. 

Types Of Affiliate Marketing Channels

Sellers and affiliates have a common interest in catching the attention of the audience. Affiliates have a range of advertising choices to widen their reach while narrowing down their target audience. Here are five different channels to experiment with:

• Reviews Or Content On Blogs: Offer your products to bloggers to sample and post a review for their followers on their site. This channel can get your product listed high in search engine rankings with little effort.

• Influencer Site Owners Or Individuals Who Own Famous Sites: These site owners have a long track record of loyal followers who often strive to be more like the influencer. Once the product is sold, the influencer takes a share of the income.

• Paid Advertising On Micro-sites: It involves placing a sponsored ad on a search engine page or paying for an ad on a partner site. It is a clear, straightforward call to action for a particular audience.

• Email Marketing Lists: Affiliates promote the seller’s products through email lists, newsletters and digital marketing campaigns.

• Large Media Websites: These are websites that specialize in a full array of marketing services. These sites use banner advertising and affiliate links to draw large audiences

Becoming An Affiliate Marketer

In my view, getting a passive income is the main reason for being an affiliate marketer. Make money online when you’re running errands, watching TV or setting up even more affiliate marketing campaigns. But there are other reasons to pursue affiliate marketing.

As an affiliate marketer, your job is to link up the seller and the customer -- the seller takes care of the post-sale activity, not you. It is a low-cost/no-cost startup, and you don’t need to have a stash of cash or a business loan. At the end of the day, you decide your own paycheck based on how much or how little you want to work, so you can work independently from home.

If you already have a strong following on social media and on your website, all you have to do is find affiliates to partner with who have products that are related to your content and set up the promotion and payment.

Here are my tips for success: 

• Cultivate a niche. Choose products and services within your niche and promote them with sincerity. Tailor your campaign to that niche

• Think quality over quantity. A few quality campaigns are better than numerous products that are poorly promoted.

• Generate traffic from multiple sources. Utilize your website, Google Adwords, social media, etc. Stay current on new affiliate marketing strategies and don’t be afraid to try something new.

• Track and analyze. Do split testing, change the positioning of your ads, and find your sweet spot. Check the marketing tactics regularly, and don't get lazy.  

• Research product demand. Products with low demand won’t sell even if the marketing effort is strong.

• The credibility of your seller affects yours. Choose your suppliers carefully and work with products that you believe in with reliable reputations. Unhappy customers aren't going to revisit your site. 

• Don’t be stagnant. Stay current on new affiliate marketing tactics and don’t be afraid to try something new.

Marketing is all about generating as much money as you can with the effort you put in. Affiliate marketing helps you to invest in a limited amount of time without any capital cost in exchange for a steady flow of passive income. It's not going to get any better than that.


Winnie Chan
Co-Founder
Nugget Global
https://www.nuggetglobal.com