Using Affiliate Marketing to Make a Lot of Money Online

When I started affiliate marketing, I did not succeed in the beginning. When I had no sales for 6 months, I removed all affiliate links and products from my website and started focusing on network ads, as I was making a few cents from network ads every day. I also added my own products to my website and managed to make some sales. I returned to affiliate marketing again, after 1 month, this time with a different strategy. I started making money. I do not have a long experience with print-on-demand business, however, I have tried a couple of print-on-demand shops and marketplaces and I have managed to drive sales. I don't think anyone can choose between affiliate marketing and print-on-demand as the best way to make money online, which one is best depends on person to person and what kind of products you are selling, what platforms you are selling, and your marketing and SEO skills.

Three Common Traits of Successful Affiliate Marketers

You don’t need to join an affiliate marketing course offered by any individual or company in order to learn affiliate marketing. However, it is also true that a lot of people think Affiliate marketing is all about sharing links on social media and your products will start selling and money will pour into your bank account. If you are one of those who believe affiliate marketing is really easy, you need to wake up. I bet you cannot even sell $2 product in six months. Even when you have a website and you promote affiliate products thorough your website, I bet you will be unable to generate affiliate sales even for the entire year.

Affiliate marketing is one of the best ways to make money online, sadly, becoming successful in affiliate marketing is very difficult. Here are three common traits of successful affiliate marketers that you can follow to become successful.

Create content on consistent basis

You can’t just drop the link to a product and expect your audience to go ahead and buy the product. You need to create content around the product. Your content can be blog post, video, graphics, etc. You need to create and share content on consistent basis.

Promote hot offers that get you high commission

You need to promote products that everyone is buying, you need to promote products that get you high commission.

Build your own process

Instead of copying someone’s strategies to generate sales, you need to create your own unique process. Something has worked for some people do not mean you will also be successful with the same strategy.

What is the Best Affiliate Network to Make Money From a Blog

Affiliate marketing remains one of the most popular methods to make money from your blog. There are numerous affiliate networks that you can use on your blog, however the main question is which one is the best.

In my opinion, Amazon happens to be the best affiliate network to monetize your blog. That’s because Amazon is a well known ecommerce marketplace and people are confident to buy from Amazon instead of any random website. You will make money from affiliate ads only when customers buy product, therefore, you will have to choose a platform that always has a lot of buyers.

Another reason why Amazon is the best is because there are numerous products available and you can promote any product you want. Instead of specific product, you can even promote the entire Amazon marketplace.

You can also create content around the amazon products and instead of promoting prducts, you can promote content and try t generate sales when people reading your content end  buying the products you are reviewing.

Do you know there is an easy way to make money from Amazon? It is called affiliate marketing and there is a simple way to do it.

First of all register on Amazon as an associate. Once your registration is complete, go on a product hunt on Amazon, find something that people might be interested on. Not a common product, but something unique, something that will solve people’s problem, something that will add value to people’s life. Once you find that product, order from Amazon.

Use your own referral link to buy that product, you will earn some commissions. Tell about the product to your friends and family and send them your referral link. You might be able to generate some sales.

Also make a short video of the product, share on tiktok, youtube, facebook reels, and instagram, reels, and share your link. People might be interested in buying the product.

In order to generate sales, you need followers on your accounts.

ShareASale Vs ClickBank

ShareASale is one of the oldest affiliate marketing companies. It was established in 2000. The platform can be used by merchants to promote their products and drive sales, and marketers to sell products and generate income.

ClickBank is ecommerce platform and affiliate marketplace. Just like on ShareASale, you can the ecommerce marketplace to promote your products, or make money by using its affiliate marketplace.

On ClickBank you can find digital products as well as physical products. Some of the common products are books, cosmetics, DVDs, food items, supplements, fitness equipments, etc. However, the trick to sell a lot of products is to sell trending products, you will have to check wht products are trending and try to promote the same products.

ShareASale offers from fashion accessories to clothing, electronic items to food and drinks for merchants and affiliates. The market is so huge that the previous year affiliates earned $1.3 billion. They offer more than 21 thousands brands

Don’t rely on one affiliate network, try to use multiple networks and make money.

I have used Clickbank. Clickbank is an affiliate network that you can use even when you do not have a website. You can also use Shareasale without a website, however, they require you a social media page with a huge following before being accepted for the program. Rakuten Affiliate Marketing Network is another popular affiliate network, however, you need a website to use this service. If you want to promote Commission Junction products, you need a website. So, generally speaking, there are affiliate networks that require you to have a website and there are affiliate networks that do not require you to have a website. A landing page is a gateway page on a website that takes visitors directly to the offer page. Using a landing page for promoting affiliate products can be a good method but absolutely not necessary.

Generating Affiliate Sales

You don't need a website for affiliate marketing (unless the affiliate network you are joining has this rule). Before you can generate sales, you also have to build an audience. You might have to spend a lot of money to build followers (by running ads). If you want to generate sales through social media, you will have to promote your products through content, and video content seems to have better engagement compared to other kinds of content. Therefore, you need video making skills if you want to use social media to generate sales.

Just because you sign up with affiliate networks like Amazon or Clickbank and start sharing your links on social sites does not mean you will be making money through affiliate marketing. Even when you are promoting affiliate products through your website or blog, it is difficult to generate sales. You need a proper marketing channel and proper marketing tactics to generate sales. One of the most effective ways to market affiliate products and generate sales is through content marketing, you need to market affiliate products through a blog post, newsletters, or video content. Your blog posts need a lot of organic traffic, your newsletters need a lot of subscribers, and your videos need a lot of views in order to generate sales. You also need to promote the right product. The right product means the product that your audience is interested in buying. If you don’t have an audience, consider building audience first.