Most new internet entrepreneurs start their first online business with an affiliate marketing website. It’s a website where you sell products and services that have been created by somebody else. When you make a sale, the product owner pays you a commission.
With an affiliate marketing website, you don’t have to create your own products, arrange payment systems, organize product delivery or sort out customer queries. The product owner does all of that.
Here are the 7 steps to starting an affiliate marketing website.
1. Pick Your Niche
A niche is the industry that you want to work in. There are affiliate products in just about every niche you can think of, from health and fitness to relationships to making money. Start off by picking a niche where you already have some knowledge or interest. This will help you to understand the needs and wants of your prospective customers.
2. Set Up Your Website
There are many software programs available that make the whole process easy. The WordPress website building platform is an easy to use and affordable way to get a professional affiliate marketing website online quickly and easily in only a few clicks!
3. Find Some Products
There are many different affiliate programs that pay commissions to people who sell their products. You can find a huge number of products to sell at top affiliate sites like Amazon, CJAffiliate, ClickBank and JVZoo. The top affiliate marketing companies will provide you with marketing materials and range of different products for up-sells and down-sells.
4. Build A List Of Prospects
It’s unlikely that a prospect will buy from you the first time visit your website. So you need to start building a relationship with them so that they can get to know, like and trust you. The most effective way to do this is via email. Put an email capture form on the front page of your affiliate marketing website with the offer of a free report or eBook in exchange for an email address. This ‘opt-in’ offer is normally provided by the product vendor for you to give away to your prospects.
5. Set Up Your Autoresponder
An autoresponder will send it automatically send out your free offer to anybody that submits their email to you. Once you have sent it, you can set your autoresponder to send a series of follow-up messages to help to build a relationship with your prospect.
6. Upload Content To Your Website
Your affiliate marketing website will need some content in the form of articles, blog posts, images, videos, photos and graphics. Your content demonstrates to your website visitors that you understand your niche and it will help get your website ranked in Google.
7. Drive Traffic To Your Website
You may have the best affiliate marketing website on the internet but if nobody is visiting it, you’ll not sell any products. Pick one or two traffic strategies. There are free and paid techniques that you can use. It’s better to do one or two effectively, rather than try to manage too many at once.
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