7 steps to becoming a successful affiliate marketer

What is Affiliate marketing? Affiliate marketing is simply referring people to check out particular products or services and when they make purchases or patronize the services as a result of your referrals, you earn commissions on the products or services.
Many people are interested in Affiliate promotions but do not know how to go about it. Here are the fundamentals of becoming a seasoned Affiliate marketer.
1. Set up your blog/website and identify with a niche you are very passionate about. Setting up a blog takes nothing because there are several free hosting domains such as blogger, wordpress, joomla, drupal e.t.c to get started with. But to be more professional, purchasing a hosted domain isn't a bad idea.

2. Register with an Affiliate program. There are quite a number of them like Amazon, Ebay, Commission junction, Clickbank, Shareasale, Ejunkie e.t.c are foreign Affiliate programs while Jumia, Konga, Dealdey, Kaymu, Jiji e.t.c are Nigerian Affiliate programs.

3. Select your referral products or services. Mind you, products or services must be related to your blog/website niche in order to get rapid result.

4. Generate affiliate banners or links codes for the products or services and paste it on your blog/website life page.

5. Make reviews of the products or services on your blog/website. Give a concise description of the products or services, advantages of purchasing and using the products or patronizing the services as well as your relationship with the companies or manufacturer. That gives would be buyers the confidence to check out the products or services by clicking on the affiliate banners or links.

6. Continue to promote your reviews of the products or services on social media network platforms like facebook, twitter linkedin e.t.c to attract buyers until you make sales or register patronages

7. You earn commissions whenever sales are made on the products or patronages are registered on the services by referring quality visitors to the products or services through the affiliate banners or links. Commissions are strictly base on purchases or patronages made on the products or services by the visitors.
It is worth noting that success with Affiliate marketing depends on the choice of products or services for referrals and the amount of compensations the companies or manufacturers are willing to pay as commissions. It varies from companies to companies and manufacturers to manufacturers. So always select products or services with high market demands from companies or manufacturers with good Affiliate program track record partnership.

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