What is Affiliate Marketing

1. What is Affiliate Marketing? By Home Business Kit – http://hbkit.com

2. A Quick overview of Affiliate Marketing Affiliate marketing is simply a method to create an income by promoting products and services created by other companies or individuals. You promote their products and get paid every time you refer a sale or lead to them. This is a highly lucrative opportunity for anyone with a computer and internet connection to create a part-time or full-time income for themselves. By promoting products and service that’s already selling, it’s easier to start generating an income and you’ll save yourself time since you don’t have to create anything yourself.

3. Responsibilities of an Affiliate Marketer Being an affiliate marketer means you have certain responsibilities to meet in order to become and stay successful. Once you get used to the whole process, things will start getting easier and easier every day. These responsibilities include managing your affiliate links, communicating with your affiliate partners and building up a network of your own so you can grow your affiliate marketing business, become more successful and generate the maximum possible revenue out of your affiliate marketing business.

4. Possibilities of being an Affiliate Marketer Being an affiliate marketer can be lucrative and fun at the same time. Imaging having all the time in the world to spend with your family and your loved ones, and only having to work about an hour or two a week. This is a possibility for every affiliate marketer, and the reality for thousands of existing affiliate marketers who have been in this field for some time now. The more time and effort you spend on your affiliate marketing business in the beginning, the faster you’ll start to see results and the sooner you’ll be able to put your affiliate marketing business on autopilot.

5. An Example: Meet John To help you understand the way affiliate marketing and being an affiliate marketer works, let’s look at a practical example. Hi. I’m John. I’ll tell you a little bit about my journey as an affiliate marketer in the next few slides. Be sure to follow along if you want to learn more about how affiliate marketing works and what it can do for your bank account.

6. John’s daily schedule 07:00 – Get out of bed and make some breakfast 08:00 – Go for a jog 08:30 – Take a shower after my jog 09:00 – Log on to my website and work 09:30 – Spend time with family 12:00 – Lunch time 13:00 – Log on to my website and work 13:30 – Take the kids to the park 16:00 – Pick up dinner at local restaurant 17:00 – Have dinner with family 19:00 – Movie time with my family 22:00 – Bed time

7. More about John’s schedule Although the sample schedule on the previous slide might seem a bit unrealistic, this is a reality for a lot of people all over the world that found the Affiliate Marketing gold mine and started mining it! Some affiliate marketers only work as little as one or two hours per week, while others have advanced so much in the industry that they do not work at all and have other people handling their work for them. So as you can see, being an affiliate marketing has a lot of benefits and advantages over a 9 to 5 job.

8. John’s monthly earnings As you’ve already seen, John is only working about an hour a day and spends the rest of His time with His family or doing fun activities that He enjoys to do. He really lives life and doesn’t have to worry too much about work. Now you should know that John worked a lot in the beginning, but as He progressed and became more successful, He started to work less and less while earning more and more. January 2015 - $4,511.85 February 2015 - $5,148.92 March 2015 - $5,552.18 As you can see, John’s earnings are increasing month after month even though He’s only working about an hour a day.

9. What John can teach us Although John is simply an imaginary character that was created for illustration and example purposes only, the case study is very realistic and this is the life of thousands of people from all over the world who discovered Affiliate Marketing and started their own affiliate marketing careers. From the case study, you can see that if you put the time and effort into your affiliate marketing career in the beginning, the results will be well worth your time and effort, and if you continue to add the time and effort required, you’ll be able to create a highly lucrative career that will only demand a couple of hours work per week, and you’ll have all your other time to do the things you love and to live your life.

10. Types of affiliate marketing programs • When you are considering to join affiliate marketing programs, there’s two main categories or types of affiliate marketing programs that you can apply for, depending on your requirements. • Private Affiliate Programs • Affiliate Networks

11. Private Affiliate Programs A Private affiliate program is an affiliate program that’s run by a company and they only provide an affiliate program for their own products and/or services. This type of program is applied for directly on the company’s website and they will usually first review your information and website before they approve your affiliate application. • Advantages • Easy to communicate directly with the creator of the product or service you are promoting • Can mean extra or added benefits for you if you refer a lot of customers to the company • Some companies will create custom banners and creatives for you if you need them and have a good amount of sales coming in on your affiliate link • You’ll have access to experts that can provide you with more information and educate you in the products and/or services offered • Disadvantages • Sometimes harder to get approved than through an affiliate network • Some companies might not offer effective support to their affiliates • You might have to meet some specific requirements before you can be approved • Some companies will only work with people in specific niches or with prove that they know a lot about a specific niche

12. Affiliate Networks An Affiliate network is a company that provides a platform with a variety of affiliate programs from different companies and individuals. By using an affiliate network, you usually apply for one account and can then apply to run different affiliate programs on your website from within your account. • Advantages • One account for managing multiple affiliate links • Easier to reach a minimum payment threshold by combining earnings from multiple affiliate programs • Affiliate networks usually have experts in the field available to help you and answer your questions • Some affiliate networks might offer you bonuses when you reach certain goals • Easy to communicate with your affiliate account manager for personalized recommendations and help • Disadvantages • You are usually required to apply for every affiliate program you want to run from within the platform • Can be difficult to get in touch with a company to find out more about their products • Since there can be a lot of different types of affiliate programs, your affiliate account manager might not have answers to all your questions for a specific affiliate program • Can be harder to get special creatives and links created for you for a specific affiliate program

13. Popular Affiliate Networks If you are interested in trying your way with an affiliate network, here’s a few we highly recommend, especially for beginners since they provide training and helpful documentation to help you get started with affiliate marketing and promoting the various programs they have to offer you as an affiliate marketer. ClickBank – www.clickbank.com Commission Junction – www.cj.com Amazon Associates – affiliate-program.amazon.com

14. More information We hope you enjoyed and found the information shared in this slideshow useful and informative. We also have an article on our website with more information about Affiliate Marketing and the different types of programs available. Here’s a link if you want to read more: http://hbkit.com/what-is-affiliate-marketing/ Be sure to also visit our website for useful articles on starting your own home business and being successful online: http://hbkit.com