Last Updated: October 23, 2020
Just knowing what is affiliate marketing is not enough. You have to do it to benefit from it.
Affiliate marketing is a business model where you make money by promoting products or services of someone else.
The word affiliate refers to an entity that is associated with some other entity. When you are going to get associated with certain companies and promote their products you become their affiliate marketer.
The way you make it work is by joining various affiliate programs. Many companies accept applications for affiliates. After you apply as an affiliate at a company, your application is either accepted or rejected.
If it is accepted, hooray for you. You will now be able to get unique affiliate links which you can promote and if somebody buys from your link, you get the commission from the company.
Making money as an affiliate marketer is just like any other business or job. You have to put in the work required to make it.
There are many out there who paint the picture of affiliate marketing as something where you do not have to work and the money will keep rolling in.
There is a thing called passive income which is tossed around casually among affiliate marketing circles and everyone has this dream of making passive income (getting money in the bank with minimal work or no work at all).
Not everyone is going to make passive income. Very few percentage of people will be able to get this dream achieved.
Even those who achieve the result of passive income, keep working on regularly because they want to make even more.
And you cannot make more money if you stop doing the thing which makes you money.
Let’s say you have a job and you make some money over there. Now if you want to make more money, what is it that you need to do?
- Leave the job and sit at home
- Work more hours
- Get another job which pays more
- Get an extra job
Leaving the job and sitting at home is the dumbest thing to do if you want to make more money in this situation. You are literally stopping yourself from making money.
Now when you think about affiliate marketing and dream about making money everyday without working. It is not going to happen.
Those who make the passive income have alread done the hard work and set up their resources so that they get paid regularly even if they work less. Sometimes they do not need to work and they still make money.
But they do not just stop working just because they have made a regular income. Have you seen any blog which is huge and many people know about it just stop creating blog posts. On the contrary, the more popular a blog becomes, the more blog posts they make because they have to satisfy the visitors who are regularly vising their site.
Have you seen the Billionaires in the world? They have made billions of dollars. They can just leave everything and relax for the rest of their lives. But they just keep working and working and working.
Why is that?
Because that gives a thrill and excitement to them. They are looking forward to working everyday. No matter how hard it gets they just keep going and going.
So my friend, you have to also develop that in yourself if you want to succeed. If you want to make more money than you made before. You do the work. You keep doing the work. Find new strategies and implement them and slowly you will start seeing the results.
There are thousands of people making good money from affiliate marketing. Dedication and hard work are the keys to success in this business. Getting the work done everyday.
So if you want to make it as an affiliate marketer then you start learning and doing the practical work that needs to be done.
How to make Affiliate Marketing Work?
In order to make affiliate marketing work, you need a platform with regular visitors. It can be either a website or a blog or a youtube channel or instagram account or a forum.
You have to work on that first. When you have a platform setup, you have to get as much traffic as possible. You have to use different strategies to get more visitors. When you get more visitors and they check out what you recommend, you will make money when they buy.