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You probably just finish reading the how to start your affiliate marketing business ebook or attending the class. It is now your time to venture into the business. But in the vast maze of the internet, you are struggling to get started. Is that what’s happening? If that is the case, what you need to do now is to pull yourself together, get organize and look at the 8 affiliate marketing tips for beginners below to how you can make your business works.
1. Research
This research is not just about research for your niche. Too often, affiliate marketing beginners are told to research for their niche. That’s true but there are more to it. Since you are starting the business, you might want to take some time to research on the industry itself.
If you are serious in this business, you might want to join the Warrior Forum. Although you might need to pay to join certain discussion, you can start with other free discussion. There are plenty of useful tips there and can keep you occupy for a long time.
2. Follow your passion or the money
Very often when you started the business you were being advice to start with your passion. If you like body building, you might want to look into that niche. While your passion can be a healthy starting point because you are (assuming) familiar with it, there are many feedbacks that they don’t have a passion or their passion is too general or too competitive and many beginners are stuck there and eventually give up the business.
Since you are already on the path of making money online, why not starts your venture in that direction? It might be challenging at first but if you are determined, nothing can hold you back.
Of course the most ideal situation is that your passion is where the money lies. But if you are like many beginners who are struggling for the profitable niches, you can have a look at self help, weight loss and internet marketing affiliate programs.
3. Quality Content Is King
Content is what attracts visitors to your site and quality content is what keep your visitors return to your site. Gone are the days when you can create a micro blog, slap 5-7 keywords optimized articles and let it run on its own. Not just that your readers will not return, search engines will probably penalize you for not being responsible with your content.
For your information, content is not just about text. It includes videos, audios, images and a mixture of them. Readers nowadays want engagement and a mixture of content can keep them engage.
4. Learn Social media
As mentioned previously, readers nowadays want engagement.
This is one of the most important things you need to do as an affiliate marketer and you an get hold of lots free advice online.
Having more people talk about you and your business can help to increase the visibility of your affiliate marketing business too. So why not?
5. Outsource
Too many beginners are worried about how to setup their first blog, how their website will look like, how to create content that is engaging and etc.
As the business owner, you should outsource the nitty-gritty things including content creation (if you are weak in it). Your core responsibility is to focus on thinking how to make this business a success and how to expand it to a new level.
As Henry Ford said it, “thinking is the hardest work there is. That is why so few people engage in it.”
6. Keep learning
There is no stopping of the learning curve in every business as there is always new technology or methods to get things done more effectively. This is especially true in online business. Who knows that a Harvard drop out can revolutionize the social media realm and get almost every marketer on earth chasing for it.
Aside following some of the famous marketers and websites, another quick way to keep learning is to sign up for Google Alerts and it will send you an alert when Google pick up any update on your topic.
7. Tracking
As many of you might be running the business with limited resources, you want to know what you did work for you business. If the time you spent writing for article directories don’t bring you the desire target, why continue dedicating your time on it? If the money you spent on solo ad don’t bring you the desire traffic, you might want to consider changing advertising sources or stop the investment.
You won’t know all the above if you don’t track your result and that’s why many beginners spent a lot of money but fail to see the result.
So, needless to say you will want to join Google Analytics to at least start tracking your website traffic. You will also want to join Google Analytics Blog to know how to maximize your Analytics account.
Lastly…
8. Be accountable
After all this is your business and your financial future. If you are not the one to hold accountable for, who else?
So there are the 8 affiliate marketing tips for beginners to help you start making money with affiliate marketing. Are there other tips that you want to share? You are welcome to do so at the comments.
