Affiliate Marketing For Beginners

I wanted to write this guide about affiliate marketing for beginners because I see a lot of people online every day getting sucked into the world of online marketing without really understanding what they are doing.

The sad fact is there are a lot of affiliate marketing scams out there and you can read up on many of them on the internet. This post is going to help you take those first steps into affiliate marketing so you get a good understanding of what it’s all about and to avoid the scams.

Affiliate marketing is a truly tremendous way to earn money online and I know that when it’s done right with the correct affiliate marketing tools and affiliate training you can earn an excellent living from it.

In the list below you will find the things you will need to look at before starting out so you can build a good foundation for your business. Affiliate marketing for beginners is not scary, it just take a bit of planning to get things right.

• Principals of Affiliate Marketing

• Tools You Will Need

• How To Find A Niche

Principals of Affiliate Marketing – There really are two types of affiliate marketing, one where you sign up on Clickbank and sell a product or service or one where you build a list of your own contacts and market to that list. You can read more about this in my affiliate marketing tutorial, but I will say that one is a heck of a lot more profitable and secure than the other.

Tools You Will Need – Most of these will be supplied by your affiliate marketing company but there is one tool that you simple must have and you must sort out yourself that is your own self hosted blog. If you don’t know how to set one up then any good affiliate program will show you that, step by step.

The other tools you will need are capture pages, images, videos and articles that you can use to promote the product. You must also be given a proven marketing funnel which will guarantee your success.

How To Find A Niche – There are many places to find a niche and what problems people are having and that you can solve. A great place to look is Ask Yahoo where you will find lots of question from people looking for help.

You can also look on Google keyword tool to find what search terms people are looking for and seeing if it is a niche you can market. Niche affiliate marketing is a very powerful way to build a business once you have a niche to marketing too.

By following the 3 tips above you will find that affiliate marketing for beginners is a very profitable way to build an online business.