There are a ton of opportunities online that you can make really good money with as an affiliate marketer. But what if you're just getting started and have yet to make your first dime as an affiliate Here are 5 steps you can put to use right away to help you start pulling in those affiliate commissions.Step #1 Get Traffic To Your Affiliate Link.
As an affiliate you don't have to worry about anything else but getting visitors in front of the offer you're promoting. What you want to find out as soon as possible is whether or not the product you've chosen to promote will be worth your time and effort.
Step #2 Start Building Your List.
The best way to maximize any amount of traffic you get is to build a list of subscribers. With a list of subscribers you can send traffic to any offer you choose to promote, by simply setting up a short message and pressing the 'send' button.
Step #3 Setup Your Lead Capture Website.
In order to get people to join your list, you will need to setup a lead capture website that will give your visitors only one of two options:
Sign Up
or
Leave
It's important that this website not offer any other choices than the two mentioned above, because that will easy detract from your list building efforts and the last thing you want to do is waste traffic.
Step #4 Send Massive Traffic To Your Lead Capture Website.
There are any number of ways to get massive traffic to your website. Here are just a few tried and tested ways to get subscribers joining your list right now:
Pay Per Click or Google AdWords. While Google AdWords is not the only game in town, PPC traffic is some of the fastest traffic you can get, but it does not come without a learning curve.
Article Marketing is a free an incredibly effective way to attract subscribers to your list. The beauty of article marketing is that your articles will continue to drive traffic to your website long after you've written and the more you write the better it gets.
Ezine advertising is another method of traffic generation that allows you to pay for access to other list owners subscribers and post ads offering them an opportunity to join your list.
Setup a Blog with informative articles and put your optin form in a visible location so that you can capture search engine traffic and build your list that way.
Step #5 Focus on following One System. Once you've gone through the steps you need to take to get everything up and running it's important to stick to whatever method of traffic generation you've chosen and work at it until you see results.
