Affiliate Noob » Affiliate Basics http://www.affiliatenoob.com Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:04:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 The Thirty Day Challenge http://www.affiliatenoob.com/free-stuff-friday/the-thirty-day-challenge http://www.affiliatenoob.com/free-stuff-friday/the-thirty-day-challenge#comments Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:55:01 +0000 AffNoob http://www.affiliatenoob.com/?p=21 Today I’d like to tell you about the best internet marketing course in the world!  It’s called the Thirty Day Challenge.  What makes it the best?  Well, it’s comprehensive, meaning it takes you from zero to hero and teaches you everything you need to know about the basics of affiliate marketing – and it’s free!  Talk about bang for your buck!  Along the way you’ll receive trial versions of Market Samurai and Wordpress Direct that can be upgraded to their full versions at a special price.  The forum is filled with helpful people who try to answer your questions, and the training is simply top notch.  Not only will you learn a ton, but you’ll have fun doing it.  =)

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]]> http://www.affiliatenoob.com/free-stuff-friday/the-thirty-day-challenge/feed 1 What is Affiliate Marketing? http://www.affiliatenoob.com/learn-affiliate-marketing/what-is-affiliate-marketing http://www.affiliatenoob.com/learn-affiliate-marketing/what-is-affiliate-marketing#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:28:27 +0000 AffNoob http://www.affiliatenoob.com/?p=16 Let’s say that you are a complete affiliate marketing newbie.  Naturally, your first question is just what the heck is this thing called affiliate marketing?  And how exactly am I supposed to make money from it?  Well, the answer is surprisingly simple.  Affiliate marketing = sales.  That’s right, you’re a glorified salesperson.  Well, glorified if you make the big bucks that is.  =)

However, this isn’t face-to-face sales like a used car salesman, (unless you are doing video I suppose), affiliate marketing is all about pre-selling the customer and adding value to the transaction.  You see, there are plenty of companies out there with products who need those products sold, and there are plenty of people out there that want to buy those products; affiliate marketers are the middlemen in between who get the two together.  When you do this, you collect a certain percentage of the profit as your reward!

To find these interested consumers, you might set up a review site, a pay-per-click (PPC) campaign, a niche site that collects emails (opt-in), a Squidoo lens, a wordpress blog, or any number of other ways.  Once the prospective customer gets to your website/landing page, you need to let them know why the product is so great that they can’t pass it up, and give them an affiliate link to buy the product. When the customer clicks on your affiliate link, a cookie is placed on their machine.  This cookie allows the merchant to track which affiliate is responsible for bringing in that particular customer.  The prospective customer is sent to the merchant’s site and after buying the product, the affiliate is credited with the sale.  That’s how you get paid!

Of course, it all sounds simple on paper but the reality is a little tougher.  The affiliate newbie has plenty of concerns: how to get targeted traffic, finding the right niche, keyword research, tracking conversions, and many more.  Keep checking back as I will cover these and other issues in future blog posts.

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