How to Earn Money as an Affiliate

An affiliate marketer makes money by just referring potential customers to the website of the merchant. If the customers buy as a result of an affiliate marketer’s directing them to the website, they earn a commission. To make money as an affiliate marketer, you need to know what you are selling. The mistake many affiliate marketers make is they send their lists offers just to earn some money without even trying out the products they are recommending to their customers. So, to make money as an affiliate marketer:

1. Know all about the products and services you are referring to people. It won’t take you much. You can pick up the product. Most times, all the hype we hear and see online telling about the effectiveness of a product is just a marketing strategy. There have been products that have been highly touted as being high quality when in essence, they are all high cost programs. For instance, an affiliate refers a customer to a merchant who has promised to give him 50% commissions. If the product the affiliate wants to sell is $197 each, he’ll be getting $98.5 after each sale.

2. Create a website for the purpose of selling the products. It is popularly known as a landing page. It is the page where visitors will arrive at first before they go ahead to the merchants’ website. The beautiful thing about this method is you can also create an opt-in list from this page. Anyone who visits the website obviously has an interest in products that you might have to offer. Selling affiliate products can be done as an aside to your main business and can help you profit very well. So, instead of just selling your own products, you get to sell other peoples’ products to make money.

3. On the website or blog, presell the customer. Preselling simply means building up your customers up to the level that they want to pick up the products and services you recommend. Preselling does not mean writing a sales pitch. Most new affiliate marketers make this mistake a lot. The truth is people are looking to buy something they think they are not being coined into. Unfortunately, not many people can write salescopy that is not only informative, but compelling. To make this approach profitable for instance, you could write an article around the product you want to sell.