Affiliate marketing is the process of earning a commission
by promoting other people’s (or company’s) products.
You find a product you like, promote it to others, and earn
a piece of the profit for each sale that you make.
You’re happy because you earned a commission…
The company is happy
because they have a new sale from a customer that they might not have normally
been able to reach…And the customer is happy because they learned about a
product from you that will hopefully fulfill a need or desire.
The beauty of affiliate marketing is that you don’t have to
invest the time and effort to create a product to sell. You can begin selling
something as an affiliate as soon as you have a platform to sell it on.
Affiliate marketing is something I’ve been doing ever since
I started my first business online on my LEED Exam website – promoting a third
party company’s practice exam software along with my own published eBooks and
audio guides.
I also do affiliate marketing here on the Smart Passive
Income blog, sharing many of the tools and services that I use to run my online
businesses, and if you or anyone else purchases through my affiliate links I
earn a commission. If you’ve purchased from my links before, thank you so much!
I greatly appreciate your support.
The Two Most Important Rules I Have for Affiliate Marketing
Before I share the strategies that I’ve used to generate
over $20,000 in affiliate commissions per month, there are extremely important
rules I use when promoting products that are not my own. You don’t have to use
these rules in order to become an affiliate or be successful at it, but it’s what
has helped me grow my affiliate income tremendously over the last couple of
years:
I only recommend
products as an affiliate that I’m extremely very familiar with – preferably
products that I’ve used before and have helped me achieve something. If I’m not
confident in the product and I don’t feel it will positively help people, I
will not promote it. I never directly
tell anyone to buy a product. I always recommend products based on my
experience and in the context of what I’ve done or what I’m doing.
Honest affiliate marketing has always worked best for me, so
I encourage you to do the same.
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