Create An Affiliate Marketing Online Business: 4 Easy Steps

Are you ready to dive into affiliate marketing head first?  I hope you’re ready for what I’m going to show you today which is 4 easy steps to creating a successful affiliate marking online business.

Starting any business is challenging, tricky, and at times, tiresome. Whether things take place on the web or in a conventional storefront setting, the owner can be successful, but he or she must also be willing to put forth the effort.

Of course, this notion can be applied to any endeavor though, including an affiliate marketing online business.

Don’t fret if you find yourself confused by the terminology as you are likely not the only one. Plus, I am here to explain things so get comfy and check out the following sections:

• Why An Affiliate Marketing Online Business?
• The 4 Easy Steps To Creating An Affiliate Marketing Online Business
• The Complete Affiliate Marketing Training You Need

 

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WHY AN AFFILIATE MARKETING ONLINE BUSINESS?

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First of all, I want to go over what an affiliate marketing online business is and why this could be a great vehicle for you to use to make money online.

The venture is usually a work-from-home position that everyone craves and that involves blogging. If the owner of the blog website decides the site needs to be monetized, one way to accomplish the feat is by signing up to sell another company’s goods or services.

 

 

They do so by adding affiliate links to the products they want to promote to a particular page. Then, once a visitor clicks on these links to go buy something from the merchant website, the owner of the blog gets paid. It is notable to mention that the amount will vary by partnership and agreement.

More benefits of using the affiliate marketing business model:

• No headaches about creating any products.
• Affiliate programs are free to join.
• You can get an affiliate link these days on just about any product or service that’s online so your options are vast.
• Don’t have to deal with customer service, payment processing, and all the shop owner headaches.
• You’re not tied down to a location like an online store or brick & mortar shop would.
• Very low cost of entry.

The benefits of having an affiliate marketing online business is long and I have been able to enjoy this kind of lifestyle in over 2 years now.

I have done many things online to try to make money and nothing has worked like the way affiliate marketing has given me.

 

Know What You Are Getting Into

An affiliate marketing online business is not a get rich quick scheme, nor is it easy work.  The concept of affiliate marketing is easy and blogging seems easy, a misconception really, because there’s more to it than just writing a few paragraphs.

Don’t get me wrong, the experience can be fun, extremely lucrative, and rewarding. However, these more “fun” things of affiliate marketing usually do not occur until after the site has been established for awhile.

In the beginning, a novice blogger should expect to learn all that there is to learn about the process of blogging and how to get traffic. Additionally, he or she will spend what feels like an eternity waiting for stuff to take off.

You will likely feel as if you are working for months on end with nothing to show for it. But, when the you stick at it and gets help as needed such as training, things will start to turn around in the blink of an eye.

It is highly probable that you will not earn anything in the first three months. By 3 to 6 months, a minimal amount of earnings will come trickling in though. I didn’t start making three figures until after a year had passed.

Then, at a year and a half, 4-digits started rolling in and it hasn’t stopped since and this is all because I had learned how to blog properly and use strategies that will get me thousands of visitors without having to pay for any of it.

My niche is very competitive as well so if you had a less competitive one, you can see results much faster.

 

 

THE 4 EASY STEPS TO CREATING AN AFFILIATE MARKETING ONLINE BUSINESS

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There are basically 4 steps to creating an affiliate marketing online business but there’s a step that must be repeated and ongoing so that step 4 can continue far into the future.

The four easy steps are:

Step 1: Choose a Niche

Your online business should be about something that interests you. If information gets shared that is not credible, most readers will not believe the writer is an expert in their chosen industry.

Plus, a person can quickly become bored with the topics if they choose an unappealing niche. When this happens, the material will become bland and boring, which once again, will lead to guests not reading the posts or you’ll stop working on it.

So, pick a category that you love and ensure that people keep coming back for more.

You also want to check the products and services that are available for your niche and ensure you’re going to get your money’s worth for your time.

You work effort is the same whether you promote a $5 product or a $100 product so go for the higher end products.

 

Step 2: Build A Website

If you want to build this affiliate marketing business properly, it is essential to have a website so that you could provide people a home on the internet for them to come find you.

With all the one-click site builders out there, this will not be a huge mountain to climb anymore and it’s easier than ever to start building a blog website.

A blog format is the most popular and best for affiliate marketing because of the ability to create new content for your audience to consume.

By providing high quality and useful information to your readers in your niche, you’ll be able to build trust between you and your audience.

When you can build trust, they will then be more willing to listen to your recommendations and click on your affiliate links to go check out whatever product or service you’ll be promoting.

Where Do You Build Your Website At?  Before doing anything else, you’ll need to pick a web host to provide storage space, access to the website, and have it live on the internet so others can visit.

I have been using HostGator for years now and I recommend them because they have been really good to me over the years, but don’t just take my word for it, check out their site here and see what they have to offer for yourself.

Or you can host your website at an one-stop shop kind of affiliate marketing training platform that I have been using as well to learn how to blog properly and learn all the SEO stuff that is required to get visitors on your blog website.

 

Step 3: Attract Visitors

Post frequently and often, blog posts or articles should be written well, thought-out, and informative. They should help the reader in one way or another.

Attracting visitors will take place when your posts or articles starts ranking on search engines.  The more you write, the more chances of your posts being ranked on first page of Google.

You must know your SEO stuff here for sure, you’ll need to know how to:

• external & internet link
• research keywords
• use keywords
• use Search Console
• off page SEO
• on page SEO
• add alt text to images
• use a SEO plugin
• etc

This is the “stuff” that will make your content, your work, get seen by people who are searching for the information you are writing about.

They are hungry for it and if you can provide them with useful, valuable information, you’ll be able to make a great online business for yourself using affiliate marketing.

This is also the step that you will be repeating have to continue to do until your blog website is earning at the level you want it to earn.

 

Step 4: Making Money

In order to make money with your blog website, you will need to sign up with affiliate programs with companies of your choosing  and add affiliate links to your pages.

Choosing which affiliate program to work with needs researching for your niche because they are all diverse and varied in how they pay.

You can earn as little as a few cents at a time to make $100+ commissions per sale, it all depends on what you are promoting for your niche.  How they pay you could be another factor that you will consider in choosing which company to go with.

You may also not want to sign up to individual companies when you can sign up to affiliate networks instead where you can find tons of companies offering affiliate programs at.

It all depends on the company or brand you want to work with and how they have set up their affiliate program.  Sometimes they do it on their own or they have an affiliate network manage it for them.

Once you have all the elements in place and your blog website starts to get traffic, you will start making money!

 

How To Succeed With the Four Steps

All the elements must be primal for all the moving parts to work and in order to make them all work, you’ll need massive amounts of PATIENTS.

In this blogging game, nothing moves fast and earning online is not a get-rich-quick scheme either, nor is affiliate marketing.

Just to show you how long it took me to reach my 4 digit online income:

 

 

This graph is my 2 year results (Sep 16 – Aug 18) so far for this website you’re on, Work Anywhere Now, which is in a very competitive niche.

The red line represents my work effort and the blue line is my income, as you can see it took awhile before my site really started earning and when it did, it goes exponential!

Building such a business will take time and there’s a lot of learning involved as well so take your time with your new business.

If you’re ever stuck on what to write, it’s best to check in on your competitors in your niche and see what they are posting and what works for them. Don’t copy their material as plagiarism is a big no-no, but they are a great place for getting ideas though.

It is easy to give up on something when no profit can be seen. In fact, most people throw in the towel on their affiliate marketing online business within the first six months.

As you can see from my example above, remaining determined and staying the course can pay off in the long run. So, don’t admit defeat before your online business has a chance to blossom.

One way to increase your chances of succeeding in affiliate marketing is getting the right training for it so I will talk about that next!