The lure of affiliate marketing is undeniable; who can resist passive income? But to make that passive income happen, you have got to put in some work first.

To succeed in Affiliate Marketing, there are a number of crucial steps you must take before you earn that first affiliate profits. And these steps are, well … not passive.

The good news is that if you’re determined to make this work and are willing to put in the time and effort, you’re already well on your way to affiliate marketing success.

Today, I’m putting all my many years of knowledge and experience to use. I give  to you the steps that are needed in order to get started with affiliate marketing.

Get Started as an Affiliate Marketer by…

• Developing a Strategy

  What problems are you solving?
  What niche or audience do you want to serve?
  Outline the above, and determine how you want to get there while offering something unique or a little different.

  After that, design your brand look and identify your message. While you are at it, set an action plan you can live with based on how much time you have to allocate to your affiliate efforts.

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• Being Authentic

  Whether you want to be a big voice for a particular niche or a solo blogger, you need to get comfortable with yourself. People like to connect with voices that have an authentic message.

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• Building a Brand

  Know your brand and audience well, broadcast yourself while keeping both of those in mind.

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• Having Transparent Relationships

  If you would like to be privy to special offers, higher payouts, or start a relationship with one of your favorite advertisers, be transparent with them and about your methods.

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• Continuing to Learn

  Never stop learning about affiliate marketing, online marketing strategies, and trends.

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• Communicating with Successful Affiliate Marketers

  Your affiliate marketing mentors should have a strong grasp on your activities and placements of offers. This helps them identify any low hanging fruit for affiliates.

  Tap into that knowledge and communicate with them. Although, they can’t always provide 1:1 training, but they can point you in the right direction and help get started or improve performance.

• Learn How to Analyze Data

  Know how to use marketing tools and analyze performance data.

  Do the math to determine your marketing costs in order to bring traffic to your site, and calculate conversions and commissions to determine what’s performing best for you.

  
  Tweak copy or the location of a CTA to optimize success of the page. Study success for all of your highest performing pages, and try to lift conversions. A performance increase of just a couple of points could mean a big lift in sales.

• Be Creative
  

  Do your homework. Research the competitive space and figure out where additional opportunities lie.

  If you learn everyone is promoting on Facebook, consider also testing your offer elsewhere and in a different ad format, or even bundling the offer with other items or services.

Affiliate marketing is no longer the stuff of black hat methods and scams. In fact, the lesson I want to stress most to you is that affiliate marketing is valuable, and has a bright and lucrative future.

But don’t take my words as law, try it out for yourself — there are lots of reputable affiliate programs with low barriers to getting started that can help you build consistent revenue streams.

Which we will create a separate article on this week –
High & Low Ticket Affiliate Marketing Programs to Make Money. 
Read that here!

Talk Soon,
Dave

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