what is Affiliate marketing?

 Affiliate marketing is you would work as a broker in some company. you recommend and sell products of some company to customers and earn a commission is called affiliate marketing. when you do affiliate marketing, you would work as a separate person from that company. Then you can work independently.

 

How to do Affiliate Marketing?

 If you want to start affiliate marketing then you can start in different ways. such as influencers, blogs, niche websites and YouTube channels. Actually, can start affiliate marketing without money. see below mention explanations of ways to start affiliate marketing.

 

1. social media influencer

an influencer is an individual famous person on social media platforms for a specific niche and broad niches. an influencer is in a great position to get benefits from affiliate marketing. They have a lot of followers on their social media platforms. If so, they earn a huge income from affiliate marketing.

especially, popular platforms are Instagram and Facebook for influencer's marketing campaigns. then you can make product review videos, live videos, unboxing videos and share your personal choices with followers. you can do affiliate marketing using these ways as influencers.

 

2. blogging

if you are interested in some field or anything, you have the ability to start a blog and write articles regarding your interested category. WordPress.com and Blogger.com are the best platforms to create your own blog for free.

For example- if you are most interested in cricket, then you can start a blog about biographies of top-level cricketers. while you writing a blog post you can add some affiliate product links related to cricket in the blog post.

if you don't have any idea about starting a blog, you can search on google as "top 10 blogging ideas for interesting category".

 

 3.niche websites

Actually, make a website for only some special category is called a niche website. this is especially focusing on only one category. For example, as you can make a website about tech products. then your niche is technology products and writes articles regarding only tech products. so, if you write an article about some products, you can recommend purchasing this product to your users through an affiliate link and after someone purchased that product can earn an affiliate commission.

 

4. YouTube channels

if you are like to be a youtube, is a good way to do affiliate marketing. A lot of YouTubers earn a huge income from affiliate marketing. can start affiliate marketing in these ways through your youtube channel. such as unboxing videos, product review videos, recommend products of your personal choices and etc.

For example, If you have a travelling youtube channel, you can recommend some travelling equipment, cameras, hotels, clothes and other products through your affiliate product link and earn a commission.

 

How to get paid to affiliate commissions?

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 In a lot of affiliate programmes, they paid commissions to affiliates using fast online payment methods. But that methods are changing and depend on affiliate marketing programmes.

The affiliate commission paid in various ways-

 

•  Pay per sale

Is the standard method for pay commission in affiliate programmes. According to this method, if you sell a product to a customer and receiving the customer the product then you can receive your affiliate commission. That commission calculates as a percentage of the sale price of the product.

 

• Pay per lead

In this method paid affiliate commission method depending on the conversion of leads. This type of commission is pay from services websites and digital products selling websites. They pay commissions for these types of acceptances. Such as filling & submit the contact form, signing up for a trial version of a product, subscribe and join with their service and download software & files.

 

• Pay per click

This type of affiliate programme pays a commission from users clicks and visits to the merchant's website. These programmes focus to increase their website traffic.

 

 
How increase my affiliate income?

When it comes to affiliate income is dependent on the behaviour of traffic on your website/blog or any platform. You have many ways to increase your affiliate income. Actually, you can create ad campaigns as methods and can use some free methods to increase your income.

If you have a blog/website and have good traffic, then you can increase your affiliate income through increase product sales. See below some free sources and paid methods to increase your traffic.

Paid methods

Facebook ads

Instagram ads

Google ads

 Free methods

Facebook groups

WhatsApp groups

Facebook profile

Email lists

SEO

 

 

Benefits of affiliate marketing-

When you are an affiliate marketer, you have a lot of benefits from affiliate marketing.

 

1-  can earn a passive income. This mean is when you work some days and while you are sleeping you have the ability to make money from affiliate marketing. If you can invest some money for ad campaigns after you can spend few days leisurely because you have the ability to generate your affiliate income automatically through your ad campaigns.

 

2- you should only spend only small investment on this. If you have already a good website/blog or youtube channel you can earn an affiliate income without even a small investment.

 

3- you can work independently without any influence. In affiliate marketing, you can decide your working time with your own flexible time. You can do this as a part-time business to earn an extra income. Because no need to work a lot of time for this per day.

 

4- you can work without any risk. because you do not have any responsibility or no need to control this process, that process control by that company.

5- the ability to increase your income depend on your performance.