AFF - Affiliate Marketing Business - 3 Good Affiliate Marketing Tips

You can do affiliate marketing as a business or an a sideline for your main online business. Some tout it as fast, easy and low-cost. Let's just see, shall we?

How Fast is Fast?

If you're experienced online and decide some new product or service you bought is wonderful, you can join the affiliate program for it, get your affiliate link and recommend the product to your list.

Better yet, create a free report or ecourse that enhances the product, create an opt-in page for it and add a personal bonus for anyone who buys through your link.

This person could get at least one sale within 24 hours and feel it did poorly.

What If You're Not Experienced?

You might not have used a product, so don't know what you could recommend. So you' must buy, use and review one. You maybe don't have articles already written that you can repurpose into a free report or ecourse, so you must write them.

You may not have a blog yet, so you'd start a blog (better if you own the domain it's on). You may not have a domain name for the opt-in page, so buy a domain name and hosting for the affiliate product's opt-in page. You may not have an autoresponder yet, much less a list of people interested in what you say.

How Easy is Easy?

This depends on how much practice you've gotten with every step mentioned above--and more besides. An experienced person can upload a report in seconds. An inexperienced person could be stuck for a week, unable to get the settings right for logging in to their server.

An experienced person can create a download page or thank you message with a download link while drinking a cup of coffee. A newbie needs a checklist of every step, plus some assistance from an ebook, tutorial or friend.

Is It Really Low-Cost?

Yes, this part is quite true for everyone. You can join affiliate programs for free. If someone wants money before you can send traffic their way, go elsewhere.

You can write articles for free. It takes time and practice to make great titles with good keywords, provide good information and create resource boxes with a right bait.

You can spend under $10 for a domain name, around $5 a month for hosting and $10 a month for an autoresponder. Or you can start with a free site as a home base for your traffic. Just know you could be shut down if the site decides you've violated their terms of service by running an affiliate marketing business with it.