Promoting affiliate products can be financially rewarding.
And it can be win-win: your site visitors get a relevant link, you get a commission.
In a nutshell, that’s why it’s often a good idea to promote affiliate products.
There’s lot of internet marketing advice around.
After all, everyone has an opinion!
Some advice is evergreen, other advice is untested and other advice is out of date. The advice below is as close to evergreen as I can make it and as easy as I can make it as well.
Follow it and you should keep yourself on track.
It’s a weird question. But if you’re flailing around, not knowing what direction to take your internet marketing, you’re not alone.
You’re probably in the majority.
But if you’ve got the courage to admit that you’re flailing around, thrashing about, hoping you’ll find a way that works, let’s take a closer look at why that might be the case and what you can do about it.
Affiliate marketing can short-cut a lot of things especially product creation (it’s done for you by the people running the affiliate programs).
But obviously there are still lots of pieces left in the internet marketing jigsaw and you need to get as many of those as possible put in place sooner rather than later.
It’s natural to spend time analysing and worrying whether or not you’ve chosen the right affiliate marketing niche, But you need to start somewhere. Otherwise you’ll be in a perpetual state of overwhelm and “haven’t started yet”.
Choosing a niche for your affiliate marketing can be daunting at first.
In one of the forums I’m a member of, someone was asking whether there would be enough content to write about because they were in the internet marketing niche.
Hmm.
Where to start answering that?
Promoting affiliate products can be a good idea:
And if you wanted the executive summary, that’s all you need to know. Go off and find some products to promote!
But if you’re the kind of person who wants a little bit more information – and I’m the first to admit that list is sparse – then read on…
Which is better?
Affiliate marketing (selling products created by other people) or making your own product?
Or should you do like I do and have maybe the best of both worlds by selling affiliate products and your own products?
There’s so much conflicting advice in internet marketing, who can you believe?
Surely it can’t all be true so how can you figure out what works and what doesn’t work without testing every single theory yourself?
Choosing the right affiliate product to promote can make a big difference to sales.
Get it right and the sales come in almost automatically.
Get it wrong and you either get no sales or the refunds start appearing and your list begins to lose confidence in you.
Sure, money is one of the reasons we’re in internet marketing. Even non-profits pay salaries and expenses.
But are you just in it for the money?
Or should there be more to your internet marketing and, if so, what should it be?