How to Start an Affiliate Marketing Campaign that Profits

Affiliate Marketing is one way how you can start making money campaign and maximizing those profits online. Affiliate marketing is a marketing program type where advertisers pay publishers on commission basis if only a sale is made. Many people have signed up for affiliate programs but hey it looks like it is not working out as expected. Here I share strategies on how to start an affiliate marketing campaign that works and profits that the same time.

i)  Identify your niche industry and products

Affiliate marketing is not all about marketing to everyone but to a desired niche audience. You must understand that your niche industry that is a small portion of the entire market. If you are to start a profitable affiliate marketing campaign, you must focus on a certain niche and if it is broad you must find a way on how to narrow it down for profit maximization. For example SEO is a broad niche but you can concentrate your affiliate marketing campaign on promoting keywords/keyword phrases services and products hence narrowing it down. You can read more about NicheMarketing Theory to get in depth analysis of niche markets and products.

ii)  Research about the Affiliate Programs

After you have narrowed down your niche market then it’s time to find out which products are popular from different affiliate programs. You must take into considerations things like how regularly does affiliate program issue checks, Click or Hit per Sale Ratio, Hits and Impressions Payments, Amount of Commission Paid Conversion Rate.

iii)  Join the Affiliate Marketing Program

After having research thoroughly, you can now think of joining the best affiliate program for profit from your finding. If you feel like you want to market on interested in promoting physical products, you can set up an affiliate account on CJ or online web stores like Amazon and EBay. For you who feel like virtual products are compatible and flexible with your affiliate marketing campaign you are stating, you can sign up as a publisher on Click bank and Link share.

iv)  Create a Website or install a Blog

Develop a website or a blog that will be used to promote products from the affiliate you have joined. You must make your content on your website more compelling and causes receptiveness by writing reviews on the affiliate products you have started to market on your website or blog. You can include a video in your website showing people how they can use a certain product you are promoting.

v)  Build an Email List

This one way on how you can unlock the hidden income potentials from any affiliate program.  For you to profit from your affiliate marketing campaign you are starting, you must have or build a list (group of subscribers). Building a list involves providing offers in exchange of contact information like email addresses and first names from visitors. You can also place a capture form on your blog or website for people to opt-in for future newsletters that can be informative, product launches, promotional or all the 3. The bigger the list of subscribers, the more money you are capable of making.

vi)  Drive Targeted Traffic

To gain a profit or commission from the affiliate marketing campaign you have started, you must drive targeted traffic to either your website or blog or sales page. Having targeted traffic is one way how you can generate leads which later on turn into sales from your affiliate campaign. Targeted traffic can be achieved through submitting niche articles to article directories, creating web 2.0 properties like Squidoo lens and Hubpages for niche topics, joining forums and discussion boards with a back link inclusion to your website.

PPC(pay per click) advertising campaigns that enable you to bid for a certain keyword if it is to be searched for and also for rankings in the search engines. PPC involves you to pay for each click you get to your website from searched results for a certain keyword you bided for.

How to start an affiliate marketing campaign is all about knowing what you are interested in no matter what the niche may look to be then aim for targeted traffic for lead generation which later turns to sales.

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How to Market Affiliate Products

Affiliate marketing is one of the major business models of internet marketing But

How to market affiliate products has been simplified as shown below;

 1. Identify and understand your niche industry
For one to succeed in affiliate marketing one must understand her or his niche industry’s products and services. The niche is a subset of a market where a certain product is looking at and can be regarded as your area of research interest. Find more about niche marketing in my post .

 2. Create and build a list
This is the best way to make money online as stated by Matthew Bacak of the powerful promoter you need to have a huge list of hungry buyers. It helps to reach number of people, inform subscribers of the new products you have. This is more effective than banner ads where you get few people clicking on it (banner).

 3. Create sales pages and host them
If you are a publisher, you need to create sales pages that show your product walk through, testimonials, and sets of implementation and usage of the product. Sales pages are web pages that need domain registration and hosting. It would be better if you used the same domain for every product but one product at a promotion or marketing time.

 4.Carry out an email marketing campaign
From your list (subscribers) you have created, send out newsletters that may contain some personalized headings like this one “SAMI, AN OFFER FOR UGANDA “with a summarized message and a link to the sales page. This would make your affiliate marketing strategy for your campaign, products and product easier and smoother.

 5.Articles and press leases
Write articles about the product and services from your affiliate marketing program and at least submit the articles twice a week. Also submit to press leases about your affiliate marketing campaigns, programs and products. It will help in generating visitors to your products and hence marketing and promotion.

 6. Carry out PPC (pay per click) campaigns
This helps in getting traffic for your affiliate marketing products you are marketing. This is done by paying search engines for each click one makes on any form of ad that brings one to the sales page website or blog.

 7. Create squeeze pages
These almost look like sales pages though they have lead capture forms that prompt one to submit in his details in exchange of a service, newsletter or product. This helps in building your list that would be used to promote, market affiliate marketing products through email marketing campaigns.

The above describes how one can easily lay out strategies for a successful affiliate marketing campaign.

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