How To Start In Affiliate Marketing Without Being An Expert (6 Insight Secrets)

You don't have to be an expert to start making money through affiliate marketing.

Most people believe the fact that one has to be an expert in this field with qualifications or experience in order to start making money from home or anywhere one wants to travel and that is not the case.

Personally speaking, I go to spots that provide Wifi such as Panera Bread or Starbucks (I'm actually in one right now, writing this blog) and I start getting busy with my laptop with some awesome battlefield music to get the show started.

As long as one puts in the effort, time and dedication anything is possible but again, one must really want this like when someone runs out of air under water.

What Is Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate marketing enables you to earn commissions by promoting products and services online. You can do this by using clever marketing techniques in order to advertise the product or service.

Affiliate marketing is one of the best ways to make extra money online. You can promote products and services on your own site, blog, and social media channels.

This is a great way for you to increase your online presence as well as generate passive income streams.

It's important that when doing affiliate marketing, that you find products or services that are relevant to your audience so that they are willing to purchase them from you instead of just hunting down the cheapest deals available.

How To Measure Affiliate Marketing Results?

A successful affiliate marketing strategy starts with a good understanding of customers’ needs and desires. This way, the affiliate marketer can create content that is relevant and valuable to them.

A successful strategy also includes a strong call-to-action, which is the end goal in any marketing campaign.

When affiliates provide an offer that is tailored to their audience, they will get better conversion rates and more sales than if the offer was generalized for the entire market

If you want to be successful in affiliate marketing, you can't focus on one thing.

You have to make sure that your content plan includes SEO, PPC, Display Ads, Email

Marketing and Social Media Advertising (this is mostly for advanced players in the game, so if you're just starting don’t worry about this so much)...

"Here is a list of my 7 personal insight secrets that can help you make your 1st dollar online as an affiliate marketer".

1.- Find A Niche Market

A niche market is a smaller, more specific audience that has a particular interest. 

For example, within the market of ‘health’ a submarket would be ‘beauty’ and a smaller niche within this market would be ‘how to fight acne’. Acne would be our niche market. 

Another example would be ‘Wealth>Local Business>Selling Coffee’, Coffee would be our niche market.

Now in our case it would be ‘Wealth>Affiliate Marketing> XXXX’, this is where you find something valuable you can provide to a specific audience that can make their life easier, less complicated, save time, save money, etc… 

Think about something you're so good at. Maybe others wish that they had your particular skill: playing piano, building muscle, making the best cupcakes, building dog houses, how to start a chicken farm, etc… 

Here is a book that talks way much deeper in this concept with easy words to read plus his awesome methods on how to turn online visitors into hot buyers!

2.- Find Your Ideal Customer

Don’t just think about who you want to pursue as an ideal customer but also, what they think, what motivates them, what pushes them away, where do they like to hang out, what are their goals, what music do they listen to, and everything in between..,

your goal is to find out about their fears and desire.

There are a number of ways that you can go about getting customer feedback. You can use social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn to reach out and ask your target audience what their needs and desires are.

You could also create surveys or polls. It all depends on the amount of time you have, what the margins of error would be, how much interest there is in your product/service and how compelling an incentive you decide to offer.

Create a list to find out why your audience needs and what you can and want to offer them!

3.- How To Find A Affiliate Product

The easy way to find the best affiliate programs to succeed in affiliate marketing is by doing some research online.

One of my favorite tools to keep on using to this day is leveraging the power of Google Search. Google is the biggest search engine on the planet, so without a doubt you’ll find something good. Type in “niche market + affiliate programs”.

Yes, you’ll have a huge list of affiliate programs and now you have to dive in deep to feel out which one will resonate with the audience you want to help after.

Here is a small list of my personal arsenal:

Get Response

Is an email marketing system that allows a person to communicate with their audience through emails.

The emails can be automated or you can email them every time you like. GetResponse is meant to: grow your audience, sell your knowledge, boost online sales and engage with customers.

Groove.cm

Known as GrooveFunnels is an easy to build website.

As of now you can get it for free but after February 2022, they will stop the Free limited time offer deal, so what are you waiting for.., even if you got another website builder get this just in case, because deals like these never come around twice.

Chatmatic

Is a chatbot marketing platform that connects to your Facebook or personal website to engage in conversation with your visitors to help them out on questions they have about a product or service before they decide to make a purchase.

Chatmatic it’s a fun way to build trust with a visitor and also retarget them once you have something cool to offer them.

Rytr

Is an AI-powered writing tool that helps you create high-quality content, in just a few seconds, at a fraction of the cost! Cats out the bag, I’ve been using Rytr and it’s amazing, it’s helped me do this blog post like 50% of it.

VidIQ

Is a powerful SEO for Youtube to rank your videos from the 100th page, 50th page or even 20th page to the 1st 3 pages of Youtube depending what you're trying to rank on.

Lot’s of the influencers on Youtube use this hack to keep ranking high on Youtube so the audience can keep on clicking their videos so they can get more views, likes and comments! You can get it also here, CLICK ME!

4.- Create An Opt-in To Captures Visitors Information

An opt-in form is a form of consent given by your website visitors (free templates with groove.cm), acknowledging they want more information regarding the product or service so you can contact them in the near future.

The way to get in contact with the website visitors who provided you with their information is usually done through email with this method like through GetResponse 

Make sure to follow this step because without it, you’d be losing tons of sales and letting another affiliate marketer take advantage of this golden opportunity.

5.- Setting Up An Email Campaign

Email campaigns are usually 3-7 emails already pre-made to send to the website visitor who allows us to send them more information regarding the product or service they showed interest in through email.

In this case, we will attach our unique affiliate link provided to us from the retailer or advertiser with a story to convince the prospect why they need this product or service in their day to day activities and how it can benefit them in the long run.

Here is a book that perfectly describes how to do the email follow up, pre-made emails to send to your website visitor in order to close the sale… Click here!!!

6.- Driving Traffic To Your Site

Driving traffic to your website or blog (like me :)) will increase the chances of you getting and closing a sale with the affiliate product you chose. 

Alternatively you can drive the traffic to the website of the product or service you are promoting but I don’t recommend this because you want to capture their information with the opt-in form to provide them more value through our email campaigns

Get active on social media: Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, Tiktok, Pinterest, Twitter, etc… 

When people on Facebook ask for help on something they are struggling with and if you believe your product or service you are promoting can solve their problems.., let them know through a private message, comment or an email.

You can also post on your social media the features and benefits about what you're trying to promote and show off some case studies or testimonials.

Make a quick 5 min review about the product or service you're promoting on Youtube and showcase the features and benefits here too!

Get creative when it comes to this, so people can come to you instead of you to them!

Conclusion

 Affiliate marketing can be a fun way to earn an extra income with these organic methods and tactics I am sharing with you, my 6 insight secrets.

When it comes to publishing, consistency plays a huge role in this ecosystem. Become a relative pioneer in the affiliate marketing industry and you’ll never be broke!