Affiliate marketing is a very hot topic on the internet nowadays.
Internet not only provides tremendous information to the public, it is also a great tool to earn a good living.
Affiliate marketing is one of best and easy method people try to earn money from.
However, not all affiliate marketers are able to earn money from it.
There are still a lot of successful stories but which is the best for us? We don't want to lose our hard earn money and waste our precious time.
We receive a lot of emails inviting us to buy affiliate marketing courses and affiliate products.
I join some of these courses and bought some products.
However, most of them are not helpful in teaching us to earn a good living.
They are, of course, some free information around teaching us affiliate marketing, and in return, promote their products.
Unless you are an experienced affiliate marketer, you can hardly start your business using their information.
Find a good training course If you are a novice and just a beginner, I suggest you to buy a training course from a guru.
The course should not be expensive.
In fact, some good training courses are relatively cheap and are good for you to earn good income.
Find a niche product to promote Find a hot product from the market you are interested.
There are a lot of affiliate companies which have these kinds of products for your promotion.
ClickBank is one of the popular one and easy to sign up.
Let's say, you search for the product at ClickBank.
There are a few criteria for choosing products from ClickBank, such as, you can earn at least $20 commission on each sale with at least 70% commission rate, and the product rated with high gravity (a lot of people are promoting this product).
Take a look at the product sale page.
Make sure that it attracts you to buy it.
If the sale page doesn't attract you, it means that it doesn't attract your potential clients as well.
Prepare your website Why do you need a website? A good website attracts free traffic.
This means that you don't have to pay for promotion and you will have automatic income.
Some people may be scared to build their own websites because they are not an expert in website design.
Have your own presentable website is a definite advantage to earn good affiliate profits.
You may outsource the website design to someone else.
There are some websites which offer this kind of service at reasonable prices which you can afford.
A good website must also be accomplished with good contents.
If you are not a good writer, you may outsource it as well.
Promote your website You need to optimize your website for the search engines.
If your website ranks well, you will have a lot of free traffic.
This will speed up your sales with no expenses at all.
A good affiliate training course will teach you how to optimize your website for the search engines.
There are a lot of sources to attract visitors to your website.
You may advertise in search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing.
There are some free traffic sources as well such as EzineArticles, Squidoo, social media, blogs, etc.
Pay for search engines advertisement give you instant traffic but it can be very expensive.
Optimize you website is your long term goal for free traffic.
This is to maximize your profit!