Starting Out With Affiliate Programs
Let’s start with an important fact. Though you can earn from affiliate marketing even without the benefit
of having your own website, it would still be better for you if you have one. A website is the anchor of
your work at home business. It would be easier to promote your business message if you have your own
pages in cyber space.
We have previously discussed the basics of creating your own website and optimizing the same for the
search engines.
In this entry, we’re going to tackle some initial steps you should take in securing an enrollment to an
affiliate program and in ensuring that it would be a profitable work at home business for you. Study
these steps carefully, dear friend.
l Choose the right affiliate program for you. We have devoted the previous entry for a discussion
of this step.
l Enroll for the said program. Keep in mind that before you could be a part of this work at home
business, you must first opt-in, or verify your application, through your email.
l Once enrolled, you will be given access to a website where you must log in. Do not forget your
login details.
l You will see the list of the affiliate merchant’s products inside. You will be given the option to
choose a product for which a campaign will be launched. Once a product is chosen, you will be
furnished an affiliate link. Do not lose this affiliate link, my friend! It is the most important tool
for this kind of work at home business!
With your affiliate link at hand, it’s time to bring this work at home business to the next level!
Your affiliate link is what will tell the affiliate program’s system that a purchaser was referred by you.
Your pre-sells that managed to become successful sales are actually coursed through your affiliate links,
thus informing the affiliate program that commissions are due to you.
It is quite evident then that affiliate marketing as a work at home business is all about persuading a
potential customer to at least check out the affiliate merchant’s products through your affiliate link. The
reason why affiliate marketing is called, well, marketing is because you need some promotional
strategies to induce a person to become a purchaser.
We will discuss these marketing strategies in the next lesson.
The success of an enrollment with an affiliate program as a work at home business depends on the
amount of commitment and effort you will invest on the same. Being an affiliate, you must remember, is
an online job, but a job nonetheless. You cannot just sit down and let this work at home business earn
for you, at least, not initially.
Eventually however, you will be able to automate most of the process by installing some tools for a selfsufficient
system of your own. We will discuss this as well in the next lessons about this exhilarating
work at home business.