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How to Start Making Money Online In Affiliate Marketing

By Dave Joa

Affiliate marketing is one of the easiest ways to make money online. For anyone just starting out as an Internet marketer it is an obvious first step on the road to a web based business.

What exactly is Affiliate Marketing?

As an affiliate you get the opportunity to promote products that a merchant is selling online. When affiliates promote these products for the merchant they are in a position to benefit when a product they are promoting is sold. Once the sale has taken place the affiliate will get paid a commission for promoting and completing the sale.

There is also a great benefit to any merchant that runs an affiliate program as all their affiliates will be trying to sell their products on the web. Thus the merchant makes more sales and creates a bigger income thanks to affiliate marketing.

This is affiliate marketing in its simplest form. But your ability to promote merchant products and convince visitors who see your promotions to buy the products are key to making money online in this way.

If you learn how to be successful in your affiliate marketing business you should be able to create quite a good income online.

Exactly How Difficult Is It?

Well it can be hard. Be under no illusions here. If you cannot promote well or convert visitors into buyers you are probably going to struggle. You need to learn the right skills to become an affiliate marketer.

However, if you follow the basic principles carefully you should be alright. Just make sure you do your initial research correctly. Also get some basic training if you can before you start. And of course plan what you are going to do before you do it. Not as you do it!

Will Tools help get me Started?

Be careful when looking for useful affiliate marketing tools as some are just hype and will not be of any use to you. If at all possible get recommendations from a professional who has already been in the business for some time and who will know, which affiliate tools are the best. A good tool can make things a lot easier and help speed your progress as a new affiliate marketer.

One very useful tool is Affiliate Elite as it will help you find the most profitable products for you to promote from the Clickbank Marketplace. Affiliate Elite also helps you analyze what your competitors are doing so that you can learn from them. If you only buy one affiliate tool to start with this would be the one to get.

Selling Clickbank's digital products is probably the best and easiest way to start in affiliate marketing and joining is also easy and the system is simple to implement. Clickbank now has literally thousands of digital products for you to sell for any niche that you chose.

Are Affiliate Datafeeds a Good Idea?

When you think you know what you are doing then you should be able to progress to building an online store of affiliate products using all or most of the products provide by one of you online merchants.

Because you will need so many products at one time then you will need to get a file which contains all these products together. This file is called a product datafeed and many merchants provide them for their affiliates. Not every merchant provides feeds but many already do and many more will do in the future.

Many software tools and other resources are available online to help build online stores from a merchant datafeed. Affiliate datafeeds are usually provide by the affiliate network which is being used by the merchant to run their affiliate programs. ShareASale is one affiliate network that is good to start with as they have many merchants who provide affiliate datafeeds.

It will be not too difficult to build a nice looking affiliate store and then use your new affiliate marketing skills to promote the products, convert into sales and make money with your online business.

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