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This blog post is going to be extremely informative so I highly suggest you take the time to read every word in it’s entirety.
If your new to affiliate marketing ( selling other people’s products or services online in exchange for a commission. ) Or maybe you even have a few years under your belt in the internet marketing field, and your still struggling to make your first dollar online.
Then this blog post will be very beneficial for you also.
This blog post is going to cover the methods I use to make money with clickbank pretty much on autopilot, and any other affiliate program that I am currently promoting online.
If you not familiar with affiliate marketing it is big business.
By big business I mean billions and billions of dollars are being exchanged yearly Worldwide by the big affiliate programs like Clickbank, and their top affiliate marketers who are making big affiliate commissions, promoting chosen products on their affiliate networks.
Take Clickbank For Example:
2.1 billion dollars has been made just through this top affiliate program alone.
Clickbank is a fortune 500 company.
There have been books mentioning Clickbank, and the author of the book Get Rich Click ( Good read by the way! ) The book Get Rick Click was featured on the television show the view.
The ladies were talking about this book, and ways to make money on the Internet.
Primarily through Clickbank, and the other top affiliate programs that are out there in 2012 – 2013.
So to wrap up with my intro affiliate marketing is big business, and there is big money to be made with Clickbank, and the other top affiliate programs that are out there today in 2013, and many years to come.
But keep this in mind. Affiliate marketing is not a get rich quick scheme, their is a living curve involved, and it will take some work to get to where you want to be.
But on the other hand, with the tips in this blog post, you will be headed in the right direction, and you will find out proven methods for making money online using the affiliate marketing business model.
Ready to get started making some money?
Here is what you need to be doing to cash in using Clickbank, and any other affiliate program you choose to sign up with. ( Remember affiliate marketing is a multi – billion dollar a year legitimate business model that you can do from the comfort of your own home )
Getting Started Affiliate Marketing
I remember when I first started affiliate marketing ( back in 2006 )
I seen the potential of the Internet, and I had an ah ha moment!
I thought to myself wow!
I can get paid referring other people’s products, or services from home, and make money doing it. With affiliate marketing I can get paid 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, even while I am sleeping?
This is cool, this is definitely for me I thought to myself.
So I dived in, and I was determined to make things happen for myself.
I am an ambitious guy by nature, and I was determined to make this affiliate marketing thing work regardless of how long it took, or how much work was involved.
I wanted to make my first sale come hell or high water, and I was going to make it happen one way or another.
Research, research, research.
I knew nothing about what an affiliate hoplink was?
How to make an affiliate hoplink so I could get paid?
How to rank highly in the search engines ( seo ) so potential customers could find the products or services that I am promoting, and hopefully buy through my affiliate link?
I did not know how to start a blog?
What affiliate products to promote on Clickbank and the other big affiliate networks that are out there?
( The list went on and on! ) But like I said, I was determined to learn!
If I did not know how to do something, guess what?
I Googled it, and found out the answer to my question.
Bit by bit, and a lot of time invested into my new internet marketing business, the pieces of the puzzle were slowly starting to come together.
What I Did To Make My First Affiliate Sale Before I Had My First Blog, Or Website Back In The Day?
I was lucky enough to stumble upon the bum marketing method.
Bum marketing is an old school method of ranking classifieds highly in the search engines for low competition keywords, and getting ranked on the first page of Google for the title of your classified ad. ( Basic seo stuff, but still works today )
I signed up for a premium membership at a classified site called U.Sfreeads. You can Use classifieds to buy, sell or advertise anything!
They offer a premium membership which costs $9.99 per month, but you can place as many classifieds as you want.
They also have tools to make your classified ads stand out, which can make them look very nice.
I learned a lot about ranking my classifieds on the search engines, and shortly after signing up 1 week later to be exact, I made my first affiliate commission.
There is nothing like your first sale. Boy it really is a great feeling! I was hooked!
To this day I still have my U.Sfreeads account, and I use it to test out certain affiliate products, and it was my stepping stone for better things to come.
I recommend all newbies sign up with U.Sfreeads so you can get an idea of basic seo by your trial and error, it also helps you learn how to make your classifieds look attractive, which you will apply later when you start your own self hosted WordPress blog, or website later down the road.
Some Other Classifieds You Can Use If Your Just Starting Out To Get Your Feet Wet
- Backpage – Posting affiliate products in related categories on backpage using paid sponsored ads is a good way to make a few extra dollars promoting affiliate products. Paid sponsored ads are very cheap these are categories where you can place your affiliate ads in multiple cities or countries pretty much Worldwide. The price depends on how long you want your ad to run, what city, what category, etc…. They are not very much at all so it is definitely something to look into.
- Warriorforum classifieds- I use them all the time to place classified ads you can check out one of mine here as an example. Warriorforum classifieds cost $20 per classified but they are very much worth it in my opinion if you have a good product, service, or even a freebie to giveaway for listbuilding purposes. I will cover this topic later in this blog post.
- Craigslist – I play it safe by only advertising in the small business section, promoting my website directly, with no affiliate links. Less chance of getting your ads ghosted, or flagged. The traffic that is brought from Craigslist can then be used to grow your email list, or perhaps you have an affiliate website where you offer certain products, or services, where you want more eyeballs on your affiliate offers. However you use Craigslist it can still be an excellent source for quality traffic, and leads.
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