Affiliate marketing is not a quick fix.
If it was a quick fix, then the whole world would have used it to earn money. Y
You need to keep tweaking the funnel you create until you start making money from your funnel.
What you can do is to use the following steps to create your own unique funnel to generate profit from affiliate marketing.
Once you create a funnel you need to keep repeating some steps alone to make money. This is what makes affiliate marketing easy.
Step 1
Create a free blog at www.blogger.com
Choose a sub domain which suits the niche which you want to make make money from. Choose some thing like dog training instead of make money niche. It is a more difficult niche to make money from.
Step 2
Create an email list for free with convert kit.
You build an authority image with your visitors as they keep visiting your site again and again. If you skip this important step you will not make money.
Step 3
Join multiple affiliate programs.
amazon associates
clickbank
shareasale
Identify individual programs within these affiliate programs which is suitable for your funnel which will make money for you.
Collect affiliate links for chosen individual programs. Store them in word, excel or google free programs readily available for use when you need. This is what makes your process easier to complete.
Most people do not plan ahead and run around looking for affiliate links as they create content in step 4. They never create a complete content this way.
Step 4
Identify right keywords for your funnel and start creating content around your affiliate links and pages they take their visitors to. Your work is to filter the uninterested visitors and send the interested visitors to right links which is suitable for that type of visitors.
Convert these contents into blog posts, e-books, small marketing teasers, etc.,
Don't ever directly post affiliate links without right content to preheat visitors. This is the main reason for failure of many newbies.
The teasers draw in right audience, the blog posts convince the audience to take action and e-books guide them when the visitors get in to problems.
Step 5
Create right images and videos to go with your content. You need multiple images and videos to keep the visitor going and not allow them to drop out mid way.
Edit them to make them suitable for the social media you are going to use as your free traffic source.
Step 6
Publish your you content with the right links for your funnel.
The teasers will refer to your blog posts. The blog posts will refer to your squeeze page for collecting emails of visitors to remarket to them.
Once email is collected, you will plan email sequence with right teasers to the right content like blog posts and e-books to keep the interest going.
Pepper all this content with your affiliate links for multiple programs.
Voila!!!
You have a working funnel to keep marketing to your visitors.
Then share the content with social media to generate traffic.
Conclusion:
Now start studying where people stop mid way and keep removing hurdles by giving away further free content to visitors.
Slowly you will see visitors getting converted in to leads.
By this time most newbie marketers quit saying they are not making money.
This is where the regular tweaking of your content will get repeat visitors to share with you their problems.
Ask for problems from your visitors through email that you can solve for them
Go back to step 2 and start creating sub lists for people who share their problems with you. They are indirectly saying they want to buy but please smoothen these problems before we can buy.
This one important tweak is what differentiates a successful marketer from failures.
An email list is not one way traffic. When you allow the visitors to send back messages to you, you will come to know what to tweak and how to tweak to solve their problems.
Once your tweaks stabilize, you will start getting your sales automatically.
