have you heard of affiliate marketing and you've been intrigued by
this side hustle that everyone is talking about and how they've made a fortune out of it
here i'm talking about what affiliate marketing is and will take you through the basic steps
to get you started on affiliate marketing so let's go hey friends welcome back to
my channel if this is your first time here i'm zuma and i've been in the marketing business for
a number of years when i first heard the term affiliate marketing i struggled to understand
what it means it wasn't intuitive to me so here is what the word means affiliate is a person or
an organization that is officially attached to a bigger body but a marketing affiliate is a system
where an affiliate person earns a commission for promoting someone else's products so if you use
the product and you really liked it you can be an affiliate marketer by promoting this product
and getting a portion of the revenue i'm sure this sounds great for some of you
and it's just started to rain okay i'll see you inside
so for example if you use the piece of software that you liked it and you're
happy to promote it or if you bought some vitamin supplements that improved your health
you can be that affiliate marketer that makes money by promoting these products to followers and
friends and the good thing about affiliate marketing is that you can start with no cost
at all so stay tuned as we will discuss how the way affiliate marketing works is that you
promote a product using a link that you get from the seller and you distribute this link on your
social channels on your blog posts on your videos and when people buy through the link that you have
provided then the seller pays you a commission affiliate marketing has grown so much in the past
years that it became a very solid business model it accounts for 16 of all e-commerce purchases in
the u.s and canada now compare this to paid search and email marketing where each account for 20 of
online sales statistics also revealed that affiliate marketing accounts to 15 of all
digital media sales and that 94 of publishers use affiliate marketing networks stats also revealed
that affiliate marketing is estimated to be worth 12 billion us dollars can you imagine that 65
of affiliate marketers generate traffic through blogging this is all strong evidence that
affiliate marketing is such a huge business and that it won't be slowing down anytime soon another
good thing about the affiliate marketing aside to the low cost is that you don't need to worry about
customer service you're actually selling products but you don't have a hands on the product all you
need to do is to get customers through the doors integrity is very important here promoting scammy
products is not right morally and will get your followers to lose trust in you so it is advisable
to promote products that you have tried yourself or at least you have done your due diligence and
you know that they are good products enough talking about affiliate marketing as a business
now let's talk about the steps for you to become an affiliate marketer so here are the basic steps
that you need to follow to build an income stream from affiliate marketing the first step is to find
a niche and to pick some products and by the way the word niche is a french word that means
bird's nest so it's not niche it's niche ch in french is pronounced
sha and the eye is pronounced like a double e like feet or neat and i know this because
french used to be my second language but now english is my second language and french is
third or fourth and the second step is to build an ecosystem where you distribute your
affiliate links the first step is you want to find products that you enjoy working on let's talk
about the types of products that you can promote with affiliate marketing pros can be digital like
ebooks and online courses or it can be products like tangible items like a camera or an earphone
or it can be an online service like canva the design software or sem rush the web analytics
tool and the last one is the form submit when you're getting rewarded for getting people to
sign up or fill a form and you can start by looking at the affiliate programs by companies
that you like for example you can google nike's affiliate program or vans shoes affiliate programs
and go and check the details of their affiliate programs you might like them and you might go
with them there's also bigger affiliate program networks like amazon associates like impact cj
and a whole list of affiliate programs that you can see here on the screen these are affiliate
programs where you can create an account and you can start searching for products that you like
that they're selling and start promoting them so let's have a look at amazon associates for example
amazon has one of the largest affiliate programs called amazon associates it's completely free
to sign up all you have to do is to create an account with them then go to the dashboard to find
products that you intend to sell and get the links from there and those links are tracked through
cookies so amazon would know when you sell a product through your link commissions vary
depending on the product you're selling and the category from one percent to 10 so for example
if you sell a book you get around five percent if you do the math five percent commission on a 20
book is one dollar but remember that it's a numbers game and when you sell
1 000 books then you get 1 000 beauty products give you 10 commission and so on so i highly
recommend starting with amazon associates to get your feed in and it's completely free you can see
on the screen here how you can get an affiliate link to share first you need to create an account
with amazon associates then once you're logged in you can fetch the product you want to promote
then you go here and copy the link and place it on your website you've chosen the products and
got the link and now what focus because the fun part is yet to come getting traffic and here you
need to set up a full ecosystem to get traffic and there's two ways to get traffic there's the free
traffic and there's the paid traffic so paid traffic is when you run paid ads to get traffic
to your affiliate website and this works best for products with a high margin like cameras or camera
lenses and here are some sources of free traffic and yes they're free but you notice that you need
to put some effort and the first one is youtube you can create videos about products and put
affiliate links in the description you might be one of those who don't feel comfortable in front
of the camera and this is my 11th video but as you can see i'm still not very comfortable in front
of the camera so i totally get it and there's a solution for this you simply get someone to film
your videos for you you just find an idea and write down the material and get someone to film
it for you the alternative for this is to start making your own videos no matter how you feel
about it and before you know it you'll get past this stage of struggling with making videos then
you have instagram and with instagram you need to have 10 000 followers to get the swipe feature and
with the swipe feature you get people to click on your products and start converting through your
affiliate links you also have facebook groups simply you create a facebook group put content
and add links to it if you skip this step and go directly to put links in other people's group
your links can be deleted and you might be banned from the group then you have tiktok and with thick
talk you need to create a community of followers and add your links to the buyer there's also email
marketing and here you write a newsletter packed with value and affiliate links email is still a
very strong strategy and you can build a highly engaged community with it when you fill your
newsletter with tips and hints and valuable content then you stand a very high chance of
converting customers through your affiliate links and the best of those techniques is web blogging
as we discussed earlier the majority of affiliate sales come from blogging it's
a very successful and rewarding technique all you need here is to buy a domain for 20 or 30
then use wordpress for free to build your website don't worry if you don't know any coding wordpress
has so many free templates for you to get started and they're all very easy to use then you'll need
to start writing your articles in your niche and add your affiliate links there and here are some
tips for you one thing i want to reiterate here is that don't fall into the trap of thinking that
you can use forums like quora or reddit to put your links there your links can get deleted and
you can get banned by the moderators there it also looks spammy and no one likes this it's not a good
strategy and you cannot build a business around it and if you decided to choose any of the techniques
mentioned here remember to stay consistent with producing content platforms love fresh content
to give you the exposure that you need now go ahead and decide on which techniques to do best
to start your affiliate marketing business i hope you found this video useful please let
me know in the comments below which technique suits you best and if you like the content of
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