If you’re interested in learning about how what affiliate marketing is and how it works, please don’t waste years of your time like I did going from scam to scam, paying your hard-earned money to websites who claim to teach you how to “get rich quick.” The fact is, affiliate marketing is an amazingly lucrative business. You can easily make a full time income with part-time hours, or you can do it full time and become a full-blown millionaire.
But it’s a process, like anything else, that has to be learned. Any Joe Blow can open a website, slap a few banners on it, and hope to quit his job and stay at home. But it’s just not that simple.
What’s Affiliate Marketing and How Does it Work?
What’s required is training. You need someone to actually teach you how to be a successful affiliate marketer. The best place to get that training, in my very experienced opinion, is Wealthy Affiliate. They have a FREE Starter Membership that contains more affiliate marketing training than most paid services!
Follow Wealthy Affiliate’s 4 Easy Steps!
1. Choose a Topic to Focus On
What do you love? We all have something we’re passionate about that gets us motivated and excited when we think about it. There are so many subjects that you could focus on when starting an online business – the possibilities are endless! The most important thing, though, is choosing something you LOVE and can get excited about.
The topic I chose, for example, is helping animals. That was the idea my business started with. Remember, at any given moment there are more than 2.8 billion people online. So regardless of the topic you choose, you can be assured there are thousands – even millions – of people online right at this moment who are interested in your topic! This equals traffic – which equals success!
Your topic can be anything that interests you. Wealthy Affiliate will help you choose your topic, then they will help you narrow it down to be very specific.
The goal here is to love what you do. Hey…there’s a concept…imagine working everyday on something that you actually love!
2. Create Your Own Website
Wealthy Affiliate teaches you, step-by-step, how to build your own website. It literally takes less than 30 seconds to create a beautiful, income-building website. Your website will be the foundation of your new business.
To see how easy it is to set up a website, read my article, How to Set Up A Free Website in 30 Seconds.
3. Get Traffic – Attract Visitors to Your Website
Before trying to make money with your website, it’s important to first focus on getting people to actually visit your website. That’s called, “traffic.” Without traffic, you have no business. So this is critical to your success!
At the very beginning of the Wealthy Affiliate training, they’ll be teaching you all about the most current techniques on how to get enormous amounts of relevant traffic (customers) so your website by getting rankings with the big search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo. The more people visit your website, the more opportunities you’ll have to make money!
By focusing on getting people who are interested in your particular topic to visit your website, you’re creating the very foundation of success. It’s easy to do, and Wealthy Affiliate will teach you how.
4. Make Money!
Once you have people coming to your website, you then have an audience. Now you can start to promote products and services relevant to your topic through “Affiliate Programs,” which are free to join. Being an affiliate for a company means you get paid a commission every time someone you refer to them makes a purchase. You can promote almost anything you can think of without having to own or create a product yourself. There won’t be any need for inventory or shipping.
You simply send customers to the company’s website, they pay you a commission for the referral, then they fill the order and service the customer. There are unlimited products and services that you can promote as an affiliate.
Once you choose a topic, Wealthy Affiliate will show you how to find affiliate programs related to that subject. You’ll be amazed (shocked, actually), at how many companies you can be an affiliate for. You’ll never in your lifetime use them all – you’d have to live a million years!
Amazon is a Big One!
There are millions of products for sale on Amazon in every topic you can possibly think of. Becoming an affiliate for Amazon is fast and free. You can make a full time income just promoting products that are on Amazon. You don’t even have to look any further if you don’t want to.
Once you learn how the process works and how to get people visiting your website, you’ll learn there are many more ways to make money from your website. Wealthy Affiliate will teach you everything you need to know about building your business!
You Are Just Minutes Away From Starting Your
Own Business!
Own Business!Everything you need to start and grow a successful online business is included in the free training at Wealthy Affiliate. Their training is appropriate and do-able for people with all levels of experience. Some Wealthy Affiliate newbies have absolutely ZERO knowledge about building a website or affiliate marketing. Others know a little bit about it and have been playing around with it for a while. And still others are very experienced but join Wealthy Affiliate to get even more advanced training.
Anyone can do it. ANYONE. There is as much or as little help as you need available on Wealthy Affiliate 24/7!
Wealthy Affiliate has nearly 600,000 members and they’re growing! The success stories you’ll find there are countless. Give this a try so that YOU can be one of their next success stories!
It’s Completely FREE To Start Your Business
The starter membership at Wealthy Affiliate is absolutely free. It includes their famous, “Getting Started” training courses, live help and support, access to thousands of community discussions on anything you could ever have a question about. You get TWO free websites with the starter membership, and step-by-step video based training on exactly what to do.
It really is that easy.
What Have You Got To Lose?
Honestly, what would hold you back from at least trying this? Once you sign up for the free starter membership, you’ll have access to the Wealthy Affiliate community and everything we’ve talked about here. Sign up. Do a few of the classes. Start a website and see how it feels. You can stop at any time (but I honestly can’t see why you’d want to!) – or you can keep going, and going, and going – until doing what you love becomes your full time job. The choice is yours!
Please comment below if you have any questions (I’ll respond!)
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I’ve come across many people on the internet who are successfully making money online from affiliate marketing, and I would sure love to be one of them! 😀
The 4 steps to setting up and building my own affiliate marketing business sound really easy and very exciting too!
Joining Wealthy Affiliate really is appealing to me and I would love nothing more than to learn how to make money from Amazon.
Thanks very much for this…
Neil
Go for it, and keep me posted!! 🙂
Hi there,
Affiliate marketing perfectly summed up with an excellent image detailing the 4 steps.
If people can’t find a passion to write about, they can write about what they want to know about. It is what I do!
Sadly I was one of those that went from scam to scam spinning my wheels until I really got it together with wealthy affiliate doing what I love..blogging! I knew blogging could earn some money, but just did nt know how!
Blogging, especially about something you love, really is fun!
When I first joined WA, choosing a niche/topic was the easiest thing I did. I love to play video games and read books and comics, so I decided to choose either video games or books. But there is a big big competition in doing a video gaming website. So I decided to go with books and I chose mystery as my genre because I love it. And I’m enjoying my time when doing book reviews! How did you choose your niche at first?
The first niche I chose was animals – I have a big website, http://www.PeopleLovingAnimals.com that I love so much – it’s my passion! Then I decided to open this work-at-home website to tell people about Wealthy Affiliate because I would’ve never been able to make my animals website a success without them!
Very thoroughly explained review of wealthy affiliate. As a member of wealthy affiliate, I know how easy it could be for beginners to give up at first due to the overwhelming information, and the longterm reward. It is very important to have patience and persistence to be successful. Great review of a great platform. Cheers!
To be honest with you I never really realized it was so easy – I always thought I would be bogged down in all these terms and SEO jargon not knowing which way to turn.
Definitely looks like a service I would be interested in taking on to boost my learning – have you been a member there for long?
I’ve been at Wealthy Affiliate for just a little over a year now. It’s funny you mentioned the jargon, terms, etc. Because now, after a year, I find myself emailing other members with questions I wouldn’t even have understood how to ASK a year ago! LOL It’s a great community to be in. Everybody helps each other.