6 PILLARS FOR SUCCESS AS AN AFFILIATE
How to start digital marketing the right way!
1 - FOCUS ON A NICHE
This is one of the most common mistakes of those who are starting to work as an affiliate.
For you to be successful, it is extremely important that you choose a niche where you will build your audience.
There are two forms of audience: purchased, via paid traffic; and organic, built through authority.
One of the most common niches for example is weight loss.
If you start building an audience interested in this niche and keep it updated with relevant information, when you recommend a product to lose weight, you will certainly have several sales.
But as I said before, not focusing on only one niche when starting in your affiliate journey is one of the most common mistakes we see.
Building an audience of a particular niche on platforms like Facebook or Youtube and eventually starting to promote and advertise other types of products unrelated to the niche your audience is interested in can be fatal and cause followers to leave.
So the first pillar is: Build an audience focused on a specific niche and start working with only products aimed at that niche.
2 - CHOOSE A NICHE THAT YOU’RE INTERESTED IN
Many make the mistake of choosing a niche they have no interest in.
It could even be a profitable niche, but you will soon find difficulty creating content to maintain your audience engaged.
The more quality content you can generate about a niche you’re passionate about, the easier it will be for you to build your audience and quickly grow not only in size of your audience, but also the authority you sure will develop with time in your niche of choice.
3 - BE CONSISTENT AND THINK LONG-TERM
Why people fail online.....................
1. Being in the wrong affiliate marketing program.
2. Failing to invest in themselves.
3. Not getting the right amount of training and support.
4. Not having razor sharp clarity.
5. Lack of knowledge.
6. Not knowing the product/service you are promoting.
7. Having false beliefs/failure to take action
8. Fear of failure/success.
9. Wanting everything for free.
10. Lacking direction.
We suggest that you set a weekly schedule for content presentation to your audience, but be very careful to not promise the amount of content you cannot generate, since it takes time and planning to successfully a consistent schedule of quality presentations to your audience.
Trust me, they will notice when you had no time to prepare or good material to share with them.
A good and safe recommendation would be three times a week.
It is not too demanding and you will have time to prepare and keep your audience engaged as they know there will be new content from you on those days.
Planning for these publications will help you meet your goal.
Try to be prepared and have your content ready in advance so there are no surprises.
Life can be tricky sometimes so having backups can also be helpful in the event of emergencies.
DO NOT expect you will have excellent results as soon as you start.
Excellence takes time and patience goes a long way in this industry.
With hard work and consistency, with time you will build a loyal audience.
4 - SET YOUR GOALS AND ENJOY THE JOURNEY
It is very important that you can work with well-set goals so that you will succeed as an affiliate.
Setting your goals will make sure you don't get lost along the way, but be careful; the goals need to be achievable and we strongly suggest that your goals are short, as they will be easy to achieve.
Make sure you are working with achievable goals so that you see positive results.
There’s nothing wrong with challenging yourself, but your goals must be realistic and take into consideration factors like experience, resources, and time.
The first goal for those who are starting is certainly to make the first sale and then move on to your second one.
With time you will know how many sales to expect and eventually be able to set goals based on your latest results.
It will be just a matter of time until you are working with dozens or hundreds of sales.
Don’t forget you are on a journey.
Enjoy it! Celebrate your achievements.
Remember, you are working with a niche you are passionate about, selling and ultimately being successful as an affiliate.
Did you sell more than you were expecting this week?
Go out and celebrate!
5 - BUILD CONTENT FUNNELS
Another common mistake is to try selling to anyone who starts to be part of your audience right away.
This will make the new follower to see no advantage in being on your list and soon leave.
A secret for you to be successful as an affiliate is undoubtedly the creation of a content funnel.
Well, what is a content funnel?
First, you need to understand that it is necessary to generate relevant content for your audience and that means working through the pain of your audience.
Generate content that your audience is interested in knowing, that makes a difference and is related to the niche.
The next step is to go deeper! Create more content that touches the initial content that attracted them in the first place. Add a call to action to the initial content and drive your audience who are really interested in what you have. Now you have a better idea of who is really engaged and responding to your material.
Let's say that you have become an affiliate of a natural weight loss tea.
You can then create an article talking about the effectiveness of teas in weight loss for those who consume them on a daily basis.
At the end of this article you place the call to action to another article related to the same niche, which will focus on the power of senna tea for accelerated weight loss.
Your audience will read the first article and whoever is really interested in losing weight will click to read the second one.
At the end of this second article you could advertise the sene tea you have affiliated with and place your link so that your interested audience can buy. It will certainly be much more effective than placing the link directly in the first article.
6 - CREATE BONUSES AND LEVERAGE YOUR SALES
Another way to increase your sales is to create bonuses for those who buy using your link, but don't worry, your bonuses can be very simple to create.
You can create exclusive video classes, e-books, live classes with Q&A, exclusive communities to exchange information, support via Facebook, discounts.
Most of these bonuses are very easy to generate and can be extremely beneficial to your sales.
Another important tip is to have limited time offers with a deadline. Doing so will trigger scarcity to help sales.
CONCLUSION
With these 6 pillars of information you will be able to start the right way in the affiliate market.
These are used and approved by thousands of affiliates every day so you can’t go wrong with these strategies.
To Your Success
David Jones
Affiliate Marketer / Traffic Dominator / Internet Profits Certified Partner / ReThink Social Media Academy Student
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