Is Affiliate Marketing
Difficult?
If you’ve ever tried to start a Home Based Business such as an Affiliate Marketing Business then you know how difficult it can be to grow your business.
I’m here to tell you that it is neither hard or difficult…However without the proper coaching and training Affiliate Marketing can be difficult.
Getting the basic infrastructure – a website, a blog, a good affiliate program membership is easy. The harder part of a successful home affiliate marketing business is establishing a mailing list.
You will hear it a million times…”The Money Is In The List.”
Getting people to come to your website or blog and then make a purchase is the harder part of your affiliate business.
The pioneers in the world of affiliate marketing were forced to figure things out on their own through an expensive and time consuming process of trial and error, but the good news for the rest of us is that there is now a clear and simple affiliate marketing blueprint out there for new affiliates to follow.
You can learn from the mistakes of your predecessors and take a simpler path to success. Again, CLICK THE BUTTON FOR MORE INFORMATION.
Affiliate Marketing Business Blueprint
You do not need to spend a lot of time or money to get started in affiliate marketing; all you need is two things:
• A website or blog, ideally with your own domain
• Membership to an affiliate marketing program
If you have the two things, your Blueprint is starting to form. With these two things in place and a good Affiliate Company, you can start earning commissions.
Some additional items that will help you increase your chances of success are:
• A Google Analytics account
• A Google AdWords account
• An autoresponder to capture and begin a mailing list – I use GetResponse
• Social media accounts…I use HootSuite or a similar social media tool
Building A Successful Affiliate Marketing Business
Building a successful affiliate marketing business can take time. How long? That depend on you.
I’ll talk about Focus and Persistence later. Without these two qualities, your home business of affiliate marketing will take a lot longer if at all. If you want to achieve success as an expert, your best option is to start by building up just one content-rich website or blog and then to monetize it once you have a good user base.
Alternatively, you can try to build a profitable home business by using Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social network media sites. Just pick one that is of interest and master that media before moving on to another.
The button will take you to more information on using various social media with a quick introduction video.
Building Trust and Traffic
To build a successful affiliate marketing business, you need traffic, and that traffic needs to come from people who are interested in what you have to offer.
Another part of the success equation, is your potential customer or affiliate member must trust you. You simply cannot expect to be successful if your traffic is untargeted and of low quality and lack of trust in you.
You must also allow your visitor feel that you are there to help them and sell. Yes selling is how you will make money, but if you don’t have there interest and trust, they will move on to someone who does. And believe me there are others who will.
Your job is not to SELL…your job is to HELP. With helping .. your visitor will purchase.
It is easier to offer something of value to people to get them to trust you while building yourself as a person of “knowledge.” if they trust you and even easier if they think that their desire for the product you are selling is something that has come from their own minds. You can harness this by using something known as “attraction marketing”.
Instead of opening with a sales pitch, start with something of value. Offer a how-to, a video, content or even a product or company review. Then gradually create a scenario where the product you are promoting fulfills a needed.
Provide your readers with content that educates and informs them or solves a problem that they have. Of course this is offered at no cost to themselves. Then, once you have a trusted relationship with the customer, you can introduce the product you are selling.
The best thing about this kind of marketing is that you can do it in a semi-passive fashion by taking advantage of evergreen content on your blog, and using pre-scheduled mailing lists. Of course, there is no substitute for real-time networking, and you should devote a little bit of time each day to nurturing leads yourself and meeting new customers.
Focus and Persistence
The final part of Building A Successful Affiliate Marketing Business is Focus and Persistence. There are so many testimonials and success stories out there that it is easy to get the impression that affiliate marketing is a recipe for fast, Income, this is simply not true. Again it take Focus and Persistence to make your affiliate marketing business successful.
All too often, I see affiliate marketers give up after a few months. Why is this? Most affiliate companies will say/show that all you have to do is….lead with “you can make money even while you sleep.” By the way, this is true but not at the beginning.
Remember Focus and Persistence?
Give your new home based business at least 6 months to a year. In the span of business life this is a short time to become successful.
Was this Building A Successful Affiliate Marketing Business Blueprint helpful? You will not learn all there is about Affiliate Marketing and Home Based Business from a few articles. These articles are here to give you some tip and advice on how to make money with Affiliate Marketing and How To Make Money Blogging. By learning more and putting all the pieces together you can make money.
To increase your chances of success, find a good Affiliate Company such as Elite Marketing Pro. Follow the training and coaching out lined in the back office. Promote the high demand products and have Elite Marketing Pro sell more product for you. All you have to do is following the coaching, promote and make money. Easy? Yes
Building A Successful Affiliate Marketing Business Blueprint is only the beginning.
Other Articles:
- Failure is No Longer An Option
- The Secret Of Attraction Marketing
- Can I Make Money With Affiliate Marketing?
- What Is Elite Marketing Pro and Why Should I Give It A Look
PS: If you are having little success in your Affiliate Marketing or looking for a great Affiliate Program, this is a great Affiliate Company and Program that will allow you to start making money. CLICK HERE FOR MOR INFORMATION.
About Bill Fletcher
Bill Fletcher is a marketing expert and coach in the use of Social Media Marketing, Network Marketing and Affiliate Marketing. Based in the MidWest, he is the CEO and founder of Planning-4-Success, Master Marketing University and RiteBusiness. Bill main focus is helping home based business owners understand trends in marketing.
