Want to start an ecommerce home business and make money online through internet marketing? There’s plenty of money to be made online without even selling anything!
This is great because you don’t have the hassles of:
Doing product research Finding a niche Making a product Selling the product Pricing Decisions Dealing with customers etc etc
What you actually get paid for is ADVERTISING the products. These products are not yours at all - you may not even know exactly what they are. But you are advertising them for the person who is selling them. Similar to how TV stations get paid by department stores for advertising their products.
So, the 4 fundamental steps of internet, or affiliate marketing are:
1. Become AFFILIATED with sellers, who will pay you commission when you give them a sales lead. Sounds hard, but its dead easy - there’s sites that do it for you! Without going into the details, affiliates can get advertising text, banners, pictures, etc from sellers, all of which link to the sellers sales page for their product. Every time a person uses one of these links, and continues on to buy the product, the affiliate (YOU) gets paid a commission for the sales lead. (There are many affiliate marketing sites that automatically and reliably provide and track these links for you)
2. Decide on your ADVERTISING MEDIUM - this is where you will place the affiliated advertisements in the hope of getting people to see them, click on them, and buy the product. There are so many different ways to do internet marketing its not funny - I’ll leave that to another post, but basically, provide some information that people want to find in this medium. Informal, personal experiences are often the best and easiest information to come up with. These are often presented in blogs, emails and articles.
3. Get this information (and advertisements) in front of as much TRAFFIC (people) as possible - the more people viewing the ads, the more people will click on them, and the more people will buy the product, making you more money!
4. Focus on INTERESTED traffic - eg traffic (people) that are interested in the product or product family. For example, dont start blogs about cars while affiliate marketing a hair-care product - even if some of the traffic click the link, chances are the car nuts wont buy the product. Make sure you’re advertising products that match the content of your advertising medium. Blogs on one of your hobbies would be a great place to advertise a product to do with that hobby!
Remember, the aim of internet marketing, or affiliate marketing, is to advertise the seller’s products with the intention of getting as many sales as possible for the seller.
Anyway, that’s it - it’s that simple! Get AFFILIATED with sellers, decide on your ADVERTISING MEDIUM, then work on getting the ads in front of as much INTERESTED TRAFFIC as possible. Good luck!
Further Resources
An excellent way to get affiliate links in front of dedicated customers is blogging.
For a proven strategy with high-traffic exposure, see http://www.spare-time-money.com
About the Author
Andy Co has been trialling ways to Make Money Online since 2009, and shares his findings here, for all to learn. Written from a beginners perspective, these articles are to help anyone Make Money Online.
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