The affiliate marketing industry is worth $17 billion. 16% of all global eCommerce sales happen through affiliates.

Affiliate marketing should actually be called affiliate business that you promote using marketing. With affiliate marketing, you have a business and partner with other businesses to generate sales for them. You make revenue through commission when you generate a sale for the other business.

Here’s a step-by-step process to get started with affiliate marketing.

Step 1: Pick a niche- Pick a niche that you’re really interested in. Some of them are fashion, lifestyle, travel, making money online, working from home, educational content, online tools, Saas Products, etc.

Step 2: Define your target audience- Understand your target audience and help them solve problems in their niche.

Step 3: Find the products that you want to sell- You can start with websites like click bank, commission junction, and amazon if you’re a beginner.

Step 4: Showcase your products- Set up an affiliate marketing website to showcase your products. Start by creating content through youtube or a blog post.

Step 5: Marketing- Start by getting attention to your content, and make your audience understand the different options that you’re offering in order to drive them to your affiliate links.

Use tools like SEMrush to optimize your blog posts or use paid marketing to drive traffic to your content. Other methods like influencers, partnerships, or guest podcasts can also be used to drive traffic to your content.

You need to send as many people and traffic to the websites that you’re patterning with.

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Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
02:33 Pick a Niche
03:33 Define your audience
04:49 Find the product that you want to sell
06:05 Showcase your products
06:57 Marketing