Affiliate marketing is earning money by promoting other people’s products. It’s a proven online business idea when you are getting started.
It is an easy and lucrative business model, that you can start today and be earning in less than a week. This is one of the simple ways of making money online.
However, there are 2 things that are important before you can really make money: drive traffic to your squeeze page, and get your website live.
1. Drive Traffic To Your Squeeze Page
This is the most important factor of affiliate marketing. When you join any affiliate program, the affiliate management company will provide you with an affiliate link (your ID). This is the link that your readers will use to gain access to any or all of the products that you are promoting.
You can start driving visitors to your squeeze page now.
There are free and paid methods for driving traffic to your squeeze page. The free methods are getting traffic from article marketing or forum marketing, and the free methods are simple. You can do this in your own time, with your spare time. This is also one of the things that you will need for developing a lasting affiliate business.
The paid methods, on the other hand, require you to setup an online business that will cost you money, and you must be ready to spend it. And you cannot be ready to spend money until you have spent time developing your traffic driven campaign.
2. Get Your Website Live
When your website is live on the web, your business is on. Your business is on the web. It is live. The last thing you need is to spend time developing and getting traffic to your business when you can instead be spending that time driving traffic to your squeeze page.
I use article marketing extensively. If you have no time to develop your traffic driven campaign, then I would stay with article marketing. You can still go through your process using search engine optimization to help you get search engine traffic. But you can forget about making money with this campaign.
Affiliate marketing is one of the easiest ways to make money online. But you must treat it as a real business, because it is a real business. It requires you to be ready to invest your time if you want to make it work. You can start now, but you need to keep on developing your campaign if you want to make it work.
