Through this article I would like to present you a basic information about the affiliate marketing. This will give you a fundamental understanding of this real business, further encourage you to take action to involve in.
What Is Affiliate Marketing?
Affilate marketing also known as resselling. In this business you need to promote or sell other people’s product and get comission of each successful selling. The commission rate is depending on the products or items which is usually defined by the producs’ owners.
How to choose the affiliate?
This might be a good news for some one who are going to star an affiliate business. There are hundreds even thousands type of affiliate business out there that can be applied with no charge. The followings are the most well known affiliate business that I recommend for you.
ClickBank
This is my first recommendation. Clickbank has been exist for years with a hundred thousand of registered affiliate members. This company has a good reputation with its high rate comission up to 70 % per sell. Joining clickbank you should promote your choosen products wich is mostly information products , elecronic books, online courses, and the like. There is no tangible products here but digital products. Joining clickbank is also very simple.
Amazon Associates
This company has been getting success in affiliation business for many years. This is one of the oldest similar business. If clickbank allows you promote non physical products, but with amazon you could sell the varied of physical products. Landing page is a crucial condition of amazon, so you have own a website. The percentage commission is much smaller that those with clickbank. However, the revenue you might be earn could be the same, depends the products’ price you sell succesfully.
Commission Junction
As amazon’s products, most of commisiion junction’s products are physical so you have a bit more choice in what you can make a commission on. To promote the proucts we our own website as landing page
Google Affiliate Network
The Google Affiliate Network is very similar to Commission Junction. In fact, the entire setup and process is almost exactly the same as above.
What Items You Should Choose
Choosing the products might be the most important things in our business. In this steps we should consider many aspects including our target’s perspecttive toward certain products. We must promote the products that’s needed by our targert. In addition, the price also should be considered in conjunction with the commision we receive for successful promotion.
How You Can Do It
Once you have decided of which products you will promote make sure that you have put correct url in your website. As a publisher you will be given a special url by your affiliate company that indicated each of successful sell you made, so please pay more attention to its accuracy.
Using ad banners as media promotion could attaract more visitors to click your products. Make sure that in the banner you have put the link url of your products
The smartest way of promotion is write the review of the products in your websie. Comprehensive explanation of certain product would more convencing rather than a short bombastic promotional sentence. By doing this you will encourage the visitors to buy your products. Furhermore, this selling method seems much more professional than other mehods.