Affiliate Marketing For Newbies Part 1

Most online successes today have something to do with affiliate marketing. It's basically selling someone else's product and earning commissions for it. Some earn a decent extra income. But a few who know the ins and outs earn as much as $100,000 a month. Two guys who recently introduced their system to so-called marketing gurus claim they are earning $100,000 a day!

I'll be making a series of articles about affiliate marketing so you guys will know what to watch out for and how you can earn a decent income from them. I will only pass the info along. I will never claim I've earned so and so dollars from any program I'll be mentioning here. However, if i decide to join or purchase a method, I'll be more than happy to share a review.

So off we go. Here are the first things to take note of when you decide to become an affiliate marketer.

1. Set a goal

Like most endeavors, it's always best to know what your target is. Like any soldier who goes off to battle, you should always be aware of your mission. The means to carry it out is up to you. For example, to earn extra income to pay for the mortgage could be a goal. It's short-term but a goal nonetheless. Once you've set the goal, you'll get a definite idea of the amount you want to raise and the time frame you want to achieve it in. That will also help narrow down the choices of what program/method to use.

2. Choosing a product

There are literally so many products and programs you can sell as an affiliate. Choosing one depends on the following factors:

a. Compensation - find a program that will pay you the most for the least amount of work. That's the bottom line. You don't want to work your butt off for something that pays you $2 for every sale. Luckily for you, most affiliate programs and products pay handsomely. Some pay as much as 75%!

b. Marketability - make sure the product you're selling has significant demand for it. How do you find out? Research. Products in Clickbank for example are tracked on every sale, enabling affiliates to know what the best sellers are. But be careful. You don't want to market something everybody is selling (unless you have a method to beat everybody to the punch). You might just get disappointed. Best products to sell are the ones that just got released and have had great pre-launch marketing. In other words, products that people are itching to buy prior to release. If you get a jump on everyone, you'll get a windfall of sales.

c. Familiarity - great marketers often perform well regardless of the product. But if you're just starting out, try to go with something that you're familiar with. If you're a musician, maybe you can be an affiliate for concert tickets or maybe musical instruments. If you're a big NBA fan, sell NBA merchandise. These are often hot all-year round. The trick is to stand out from the crowd especially if the product is popular.

Next time, I'll be listing down the sites where you can find products to market and how you can market them to achieve the best results.

Easiest Way to Generate $500 A Week!

This is a great way to earn big without spending a penny. Follow the steps and you'll be on your way to earning $500 weekly!

So what will you be doing exactly? You'll be offering hosting services to webmasters/website owners and get $100 when they sign up. Here's how:

1. First, sign up for a thinkhost.com affiliate account here. This site pays $100 per signup even if they only stay for a month!

2. Once you receive your affiliate link, it's time to find your victims er...i mean buyers.

1st method - Go to webhosting/website design forums and join. Cloak your affiliate link in your signature with "Cheap Webhosting here." But a more efective way is to create a post with the title "Why is this hosting service so cheap?" List down thinkhost.com features (i.e. unlimited disk space, unlimited bandwidth etc.) and the price. You'll get around 1-2 signups per 100 views with this. Keep an eye out for posts such as "What hosting service do I use?" or "What is the best webhosting service?" and feel free to recommend thinkhost.com using your affiliate link.

2nd method - Make a search for webmasters email addresses on Google. This is easy since most webmasters freely show their contact details. Again, cloak your affiliate link with a shortening url device (i.e. tiyurl, hotshorturl) and offer thinkhost as a hosting option.

3rd method - Offer free giveaways such as free templates or free articles or anything that might need webhosting. Then include a line "you can host your website at (your cloaked thinkhost affiliate link). This for me is the most effective way to score 5 or more signups in a few days. That's an easy $500!

You can get creative and find other ways to entice people to sign up with thinkhost.com. It really is a good hosting service but most of all, they pay well!

THE $1K PROJECT

Can you use an extra $1,000 a month?

I'm presently an employee who works long hours but don't get paid enough. I'm sure a lot of you guys can relate, especially a lot of my fellow pinoys. So I scoured the internet to secure extra income and found this 21-year old's amazing strategy in earning 100K a month. (see proof of his earnings below)



Here are my earnings in less than a month:



I didn't remove my name so you can see it's really my paypal account.

You wouldn't believe how easy this is. It only involves a few steps. Just follow them and you'll be earning very quickly.

Step 1

Click here. Scroll down and click AFFILIATE PROGRAM then sign up. Anyone from anywhere in the world can join. Once you sign up, make sure you indicate how you want to get paid whether through paypal or check. I recommend paypal because it's quicker and can be directly linked to your bank account where you can withdraw your earnings via atm. (Don't have a paypal account? Sign up here)

This program pays you $.05 everytime your link gets clicked. Now you might ask, "How am I going to earn $1000 let alone $100,000 with just $.05 per click?"

$1,000 / $.05 = 20,000 clicks

$100,000 / $.05 = 2,000,000 clicks

Well, that's where step 2 comes in!

Step 2

Sign up for the two programs below. This might be a little tedious but bear with it. I assure you it will all be worth it. These programs will be driving massive traffic to your site all for free! They will make 2,000,000 clicks possible!

Website 1
Website 2

IMPORTANT: Once you sign up on these two websites, they will ask for your website URL. You must put your AFFILIATE REVIEW link emailed to you. This is the link of the first porgram you signed up for (it looks like this: http://www.productreview.com.au?a_aid=youraffiliateid). Make sure you do this so you'll get clicks and earn.

When people sign up on the two websites in step two, they have to click/view your AFFILIATE REVIEWS site to join which EARNS YOU $.05! Now all you have to do is get 10 people to do the same to net 2,000,000 clicks and earn $100,000 a month. Even if you just get a tenth of 2M clicks, you still earn $10K! Not bad, huh?

Remember, all you have to do is make others do the same to make $1000 a month or more! You can promote this in any way you want but emphasize that this is a free method to earn online.

If you have any questions, email me at paul@freemediasearch.com and I'll be glad to help you out. Good luck!