What I Didn’t Learn About Affiliate Marketing but Wish I Had by Aaron Fletcher - HTML preview

Chapter 9.  marketing Strategies and FAQs about Affiliate Marketing

9.1. Products or Services of High Quality

• Any product you're passionate about marketing and endorsing with your identity and prestige should be one you've used already and feel is worthwhile.
• I will be very wary of marketing and recommending items online for the sole purpose of making a fast buck that you'd never otherwise honestly recommend since you risk losing your reputation and damaging the name in the long run.

9.2. Tracking of Customers

• Each affiliate program keeps track of client retention and affiliate commissions in a unique way.
• Amazon, for example, allows you to watch a transaction for up to 24 hours from the moment someone opens the link to the moment they buy the product. However, Amazon still offers everything extra the consumer purchases during the 24-hour timeframe with your commission on the deal as an added bonus.
• The safest kind of affiliate service to search for is something that has "sticky" consumer affiliate monitoring, which means that anytime a customer buys anything through your link, their Customer ID is added to your account for the rest of their lives.
• You might make profits from the same original buyer on all subsequent orders they make from that business if you use this method of monitoring.

9.3. Affiliate Marketing: Frequently Asked Questions

You should have a clear understanding of affiliate marketing and how it operates at this stage. Now, let me respond to some of the most frequently asked concerns about affiliate marketing from webmasters and marketers:

Question: How much revenue will an associate marketer make?

Answer: “No Limits.”

Affiliate advertisers make millions of dollars every month. Affiliate marketing allows middle-level affiliate marketers to earn more than $30000 a month.

The way you handle the whole procedure is crucial. To sell affiliate services and products, can you use a blog or pay-per-click advertising? Blogging is the method that I suggest. So far, this has been the most successful.

Question: Is it necessary to build a blog in order to promote affiliate products?

Answer: Not often, but a blog is by far the most effective promotional method. That being said, you should still advertise a commodity using strategies such as PPC or ads. This is yet another common way to expand your affiliate marketing company. Having a blog, in my opinion, is the perfect way to maximize affiliate marketing potential.

Question: What would it cost to become a member of an affiliate program?

Answer: Joining an affiliate network is free; however, the actual expense of the promotion can vary depending on the method you choose. A blog entry, for example, is free, but PPC marketing, email marketing, and ads also have different price tags.

Question: To work as an affiliate marketer, what qualifications do I need?

Answer: To work as an affiliate marketer, you don't need any qualifications at all, but decent copywriting and marketing skills can come in handy.

Question: Is affiliate marketing unethical or illegal?

Answer: No, it is neither illegal nor unethical since you would actually be linking to some platform utilizing the affiliate links given to you rather than a direct link.

You must, therefore, disclose that you might be paid for promoting the product in certain jurisdictions.