Ever since I mentioned in one of the videos that I made over $12,000 with just
one affiliate promotion that took me about 2 weeks, I keep getting questions like what
is affiliate marketing, where do you find the products to promote, which networks to join,
and how I was able to make so much money with just affiliate marketing as one of my income streams.
The great part about affiliate marketing is that it's totally free to start it, it works worldwide,
so you don't have to leave only in a particular country to become an affiliate marketer even if
the products that you promote or the audiences you target are in other parts of the world.
So today I will share with you how you can get started with affiliate marketing and will show you
right on my computer the process of getting accepted to one of the affiliate networks,
I'll share my screen and walk you through the different types of products you can promote,
and you'll see what kind of a commission you can get in different categories.
We'll get into the numbers and specifics, so keep on watching!
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So what is Affiliate marketing?
Affiliate marketing is the process of selling other people’s products
in return for a small commission for each sale. This can take place in any industry and is in
no way limited to just the internet but it is easier to do affiliate marketing online
with so many platforms that allow you to post your affiliate links.
The person who is promoting the product may be called the affiliate or affiliate marketer.
You can promote products on your own website or blog. If you don't have one,
you can use social media networks like Tiktok, and Instagram,
post your links on Pinterest or create Youtube videos to promote affiliate
products in the video description. You probably heard you need to join
some affiliate networks but you have no idea why and how? So what are the affiliate networks?
An affiliate network is a company that is in charge of connecting an affiliate
with a merchant and provides you with the tools you need to succeed.
Usually, affiliate networks also handle the payment process.
When you start looking for affiliate programs in your niche, you'll most probably find that
a lot of products work exclusively through a specific affiliate network. So to become
an affiliate for that product, you will have to join that particular affiliate network.
A lot of beginners think that since Amazon is so big and the most known affiliate network,
to be successful in affiliate marketing, they have to become Amazon partners.
But this is a rookie mistake because the truth is Amazon is as a rule of thumb,
Amazon's commission rates are much lower than in most of the
other affiliate networks and for most of the product categories.
I'd like to show you another network that happens to be the sponsor of today's
video - AlgoAffiliates - is the network that we will use to follow the process of
joining a network and researching the products for your niche.
AlgoAffiliates is the leading performance marketing affiliate
network with over 1,500+ offers. Once you join, you will find a huge
selection of top-quality merchants in various niches, including Finance, Insurance, Home
improvement, dating, eCommerce, Health & Beauty, Sweepstakes, NFT, Loans & Mortgages, and more.
First to join this network, go use the link that I gave you in the description below this video, and
here you need to choose Publisher Sign up. Go through the steps to submit your information.
On this step here you'll be asked all about the categories or niches in which you can promote
some products, you will also need to specify where the majority of your audience lives,
and in which countries. They also want to know where you get most of your traffic from, it
could be Google or Pinterest, or even Youtube. And then you'll also need to submit your Skype,
Telegram, and phone number. If you don't use one of these platforms,
I think you could just say here that you don't have it. The reason why they ask for your contacts
is that on the next step they will ask you to have a quick chat with your future account manager.
When I joined the network, I provided my Skype ID and one of the team members from
Algo Affiliates shortly added me on skype and we exchanged a few messages. I needed to answer some
questions like where my traffic comes from, is it paid traffic or free organic traffic,
how much traffic I could send to them monthly, and so on. So they will personally communicate
with you once you join the network, to make sure that they will send quality traffic
to the offers and to their advertisers. Once you are inside the network, you will see
all the different categories they have and you can filter by the niche and see what kind of offers
are available. You just need to use this Filter and I recommend you to select a specific vertical,
which is your niche. You can also try to search for products using
a keyword here in the search filed. Let's check Health and
beauty - you'll see here lots of products with a commission of about $35 per sale.
As for me, I actually have a lot of Keto-related recipe posts on my blog,
so I am promoting here a product that has a $75 CPA - cost per action meaning in this case
$75 for each paying customer that I sent through my affiliate link.
And I had to do on my blog was adding an image of the product
and a short description with my affiliate link. And I added this to most of my keto blog posts.
You see this product only works for US-based traffic but you'll find a lot of products that
will also work for traffic from other countries, including many European countries. So even if you
have a website in French or German for example, you will find some good offers for you here too.
Algo Affiliates offer many payment options including PayPal
and Wire Transfer. And you will also have a dedicated account manager and amazing support.
Now you have joined an affiliate network, you know how to find
products in your niche. What is your next step? You need to show this product to the world!
How you will do it really depends on which online platforms and types
of content you enjoy creating more. If you have your website with helpful information,
you could add the affiliate links in your content and attract organic search traffic from Google.
Or you could use social media networks and video content!
If you don't see yourself spending a whole working day to create a long video kind of
like what you typically watch on Youtube, then you could use platforms where people
enjoy short videos or even images. For short videos, you now have Tiktok, Instagram,
even on Youtube a lot of people are now watching shorts - which are videos below 60 seconds.
Now, you probably know that on this channel I talk a lot about Pinterest marketing. So great news
for you! On Pinterest you can create either short videos or even just image pins and attach links to
your affiliate products directly to your posts. Let me show you real quick how you can promote
your affiliate products from this network on Pinterest even if you don't have your website.
When I said you can start affiliate marketing for free, I really meant it because you can
create a Pinterest account for free. Then use a free graphic design tool called
Canva - it's on Canva.com to create your pins. Here on Canva you'll get lots of templates - just
search for the word "pinterest" here and it will suggest you pin image templates, as well as the
templates for creating pin videos. Then you can take use a huge library of stock images as a
background, and add a text overalay on your pin to help you describe the product you are promoting.
Now you can even publish your pin directly from Canva. Click share on Social, choose Pinterest.
Here you need to add a short title using the focus keyword related to the product
you want to promote, add a description which can be up to 500 characters.
At the end of the description don't forget to add a disclosure - just add some word like
sponsored, promotion, affiliate. And here you need to add your affiliate link. Click
save and here you go in a few seconds you can see your new pin on your Pinterest profile. Every time
someone finds your pin on Pinterest and clicks on the pin title, they will be instantly sent
to the promoted product and if they complete a purchase, you will get your commission.
I have a more detailed video on my channel dedicated to affiliate marketing on Pinterest,
I'll give you a link up there. If you found this video helpful, give me a link,
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