What is affiliate program ?
It is a partnership business that is using the partner’s products. You find partners ( merchants ) who have an affiliate program. and you join their reseller program . They will give you your own website link URL.
You advertise their website using your own affiliate link that was given by them. you get paid for the commission fee from them when you sell their products.
That’s it !
Advantages of affiliate business.
You can start it without carrying any products.
You can start it with lowest budget compared with other internet business methods.
You have a choice to find great merchant who sells popular products with high commision fees.
You don’t need to set up a merchant account and shopping cart.
You don’t need employees.
You can sell anything you want.
You don’t have to ship the products.
You don’t have to deal with customer complaints.
Low risk. if your merchant fails with their business because of some problems, you can just change your merchant to another easily .
Many people get paid high income with this affiliate program business. This is not MLM, or any other weird ” Get Rich Quick ” method business opportunity.
However there are also many people who failed with their affiliate program business.
What’s the difference between successful people and failed people ?
Successful people know how to run their merchant websites, and they are making it their own way. They all are researching how it works before they get started.
What do we need to do to start affiliate business ?
The basic affiliate program business is below,
- Find merchants (partners).
- Join their affiliate program and get your own link URL from them.
- Advertise their website using your own link URL.
First, you need to make a plan how you will advertise your affiliate links. There are two good ways to advertise their website.
- Use pay per click search engine such as Google ad words without making your own website.
- Make a website ( or blog ) and put your affiliate link on your website.
- Affiliate business, Find merchants ( partners ) who set up affiliate program with their business.
Reseach your topic and keywords
Before you find your merchant, you need to research market places to find what kind of products are popular now and have high demand and low supply.
How to advertise their website ?
This is the point and the most important key to do affiliate program business.
Use pay per click ads such as Google Ad words, Overture etc..
I don’t use this way , but many people who are in a hurry to get cash use this way and it seems like it’s possible to get big profits once you get the key and technique.
Pay per click ads are listed in the right side of the page in google.When you put a keyword in google search box, you can see the small ads in the right side of the page and there are the words ” Sponsored Link ” above the top of the ad.
This is Google ad words pay per click . Every time someone click one of the ads, the advertiser is paying for the clicks.
Google Adwords
There are many advantages to use the Google ad words.But if you want to use this way, you must know how it works clearly and get a technique before you use it because every time someone clicks your google ads, you have to pay for it.
Build your own website and place your affiliate links on it.
I am using this way, because it’s more stable and once you get high rank in major search engines, you can get free search engine.
Also you can place many affiliate links on your website based on the topic you choose.
But this way, it will take at least 2 months to get paid from your merchants . Also you can try both ways. While you are making the website, you can use pay per clicks to get paid fast.