The next step in the ‘how to make a blog” series is monetization via Affiliate Marketing.
The reason you should check affiliate products and services to sell in your chosen niche BEFORE you start to build your blog is to ensure there are such products and services available.
If there are not, it could mean the chosen niche does not sell that well on-line.
What is Affiliate Marketing?
As the blog or website owner, you advertise someone else’s products or services and for each sale you make, you receive a commission.
This is the second post in the new blog series called: Successful Corporate Blogs and we talk about a technique that many people do not exploit!
Successful internet marketing can be easy if you can get well-organized, but it’s important to understand the process thoroughly so you can keep to a schedule.
Let’s Dream…
Many people dream about working from home, but when it comes to reality they soon understand that it’s not as easy as they think. They come from structured 8 to 5 jobs and find when they try to start working at home they become too easily distracted.
Jimmy Brown, one of the most successful internet marketers is retiring…his products. He isn’t personally retired from internet marketing but he is retiring ALL his products including membership sites, coaching programs, ebooks, software programs, small reports, etc.
“Why?” I hear you asking because I agree it’s a bit strange to stop selling all your products, isn’t it?
He gives 3 reasons:
1. To free up time for personal interests
He does a lot of work for Christian based companies and he wants to spend more time doing that sort of thing.
In the previous article on selling more of your products, I talked about having an affiliate page for each of your sales pages plus how you’d go about writing to your blogging friends inviting them to sell your product as an affiliate.
That should be the first stage of your affiliate marketing strategy.
In this article we shall cover how we approach strangers!
Writing to strangers hoping they will sell hundreds of your products is EASY.
Writing to strangers hoping they will sell hundreds of your products and getting a great positive response is HARD.
I decided to employ someone and ‘outsource’ some of the administrative and everyday tasks associated with my online business.
I was spending so much time doing all the things you have to do to keep several sites up and running, that I was finding no time to create any more of my own products.
So, this week I have been handing over work to my new employee.
I’ve been creating videos to help her quickly come up to speed and I must say, the early stages in the ‘partnership’ are turning out pretty well.
This is my first full week back after my celebratory holiday and it’s hard to say what’s ‘up’ this week because I feel I’ve been working flat out just to catch up and not got very far.
But let’s talk about the ‘up’ times:
This week I joined the newly formed Problogger.com forum. It’s a great forum where you share your experience and ask for advice from other bloggers, as well.
I have already started collaborating with quite a few people outside of the forum and we’re going to see how we can help each other with traffic, visitors and sales. So watch this space!
Links to previous weeks posts can be found at the bottom of this post.
Week 3 of Jimmy’s Affiliatenaire is all about setting up your autoresponder system, so when people sign-up for their “freebie”, they automatically receive a ‘welcome’ email from you.
I have completed this process numerous times over the years but if you never have then Jimmy provides step-by-step procedures including several videos showing you exactly how.
He also explains the crucial part of the ‘confirmation’ page, which people get directed to, once they sign-up.
Not only do you get pages and pages of great advice from Jimmy, he also provides numerous videos to show you exactly how to set up and tweak your blog.
So this is what happened this week:
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