How to make money online with affiliate marketing

INTRODUCTION

Making money online is always a desire to many people along the globe. Many desire to do it as a part time or part time job and desire to make a decent income from the same. Well not many people who have the know how on how to go about it. Others think its as easy as updating a status on social media.

With the concept on what to do, then making money online is the easiest thing you could ever do to make a good income.

There are hundred of thousandths of people who mint huge revenues from the internet and its worth giving you a better pay slip compared to the other job you are doing. In this article I will be telling you how to make money through Affiliate marketing.

What is affiliate marketing?

Affiliate marketing is the process of promoting another company’s products or services and receive a commission after a sale is done.

Affiliate marketing is an easy exercise since you only have to sign up for various affiliate networks and start advertising different products online. After signing for an affiliate network one given links to promote on social media or any other public platforms and also if you own a website/blog you are offered with a HTML code to place on the ad space of your website.

How to market affiliate links on social media

    When dealing with affiliate marketing, you should have a marketing tone as you try to reach potential customers via the internet. You should target specific groups e.g in facebook, there are many public business groups where both business people and potential customers log into daily. Before posting the link you should give a small description what you are marketing in order to give the reader a convincing reason to click on it ad view more on the affiliate’s website.

How to promote Affiliate ads on a blog/website

Promoting a affiliate products and services via a blog/website is a very easy exercise. You can opt to market affiliate products that are based on the blog content. i.e if you have a blog on technology, you can register for an affiliate network offering technology products i.e phones, computers and any other hardware.

This method is convincing since your blog some readers will click on the ads to view the types of products being offered and later buy at their own interest.

After pasting the HTML code on the ad space of your blog, the ad are always live and does not require any other updating unlike posting links on social media which you will be required to be posting from time to time.

If you don’t have a blog and would wish to create one here is How to start a blog

How much can you earn from affiliate marketing?

There is no specific amount that you can earn on Affiliate marketing. It all depends with your hard work and the affiliate network you are working for. Affiliate networks or companies make payment after the marketer’s link has initiated a sale. There are certain percentages which they use to determine which amount you will receive. You may receive 10%, 7% of the amount of the product sold or the service offered.

The commission percentage is not fixed. It depends on the affiliate network and what products and services they offer. You as an affiliate you will be notified on the percentages you are bound to receive after a sale during the signing up process. If the percentages are not disclosed during signup process, you will find them when your account is fully set up and if the affiliate program has different products like an online shopping mall i.e Jumia then every product will have its own commission percentage.

The affiliate has an option to choose whatever he/she is interested to market.

I hope this article was helpful to you on how to make money with affiliate programs. I will disclose to you in another article on the various affiliate programs you can sign up for. Readers are free to share more on the comment column.

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