Affiliate marketing is a real treasure for every young man who seeks to change his life for the better. It opens up wonderful prospects for marketing products and services that are already in the market, and have demand and popularity among customers, and then make profits through them.
Profit opportunities here have no limits, and there are Arab commission marketers who earn tens of thousands of dollars per month… Yes, this is true, and if you apply what is in this article, you can be one of them.
So if you belong to any of these categories, this guide is written especially for you, and you will benefit from it:
If you want to work in the field of affiliate marketing, because this field has great profitable opportunities, and you do not know where to start.
If you already have some knowledge and some experience in the field of affiliate marketing, and you want to have a structured guide to making real profits.
If you are already working in affiliate marketing and you want to get more knowledge to maximize your profits.
In this guide, I will start with you in terms of explaining the idea of commission marketing and on what basis you do it, passing through the most important aspects, points and tools that you will need in your work as an affiliate marketer. Ending with some tips that will help you succeed and achieve the best possible profits from commission marketing.
What is affiliate or affiliate marketing?
Affiliate Marketing: It is a marketing system based on the exchange of benefits between the owner of the good, service or offer on the one hand (we will refer to it here as the advertiser), and the publisher or commission marketer on the other hand.
In affiliate marketing, the marketer (you) provides marketing services to the advertiser in exchange for a certain commission paid according to the agreement.
The idea of commission marketing begins with the advertiser, who opens a commission marketing system for the goods, services or offers he owns. On his part, the advertiser sets the most important criteria, foundations and basics that govern his commission marketing system.
The commission marketer submits an application to participate in this system in accordance with the announced conditions. The publisher is accepted or rejected according to the extent to which it complies with the criteria and conditions announced by the advertiser.
In the event the publisher accepts, the work begins between the advertiser and the publisher, and the advertiser pays the publisher through one of the payment methods on the Internet, and on top of these methods are bank transfers, electronic banks, and the most important of which is PayPal.
You will soon understand that there are some cases where a third party is involved in the marketing process, and you will also understand that completing an affiliate marketing agreement may sometimes start with you as a publisher.
On what basis is the idea of affiliate marketing and earning opportunities?
In fact, the idea of affiliate is not the result of the existence of the Internet, but it is much older than the existence of the Internet, and it is simply based on mutual benefit, as we mentioned previously.
Every producer or merchant, whatever the type of production he produces, markets his products to obtain the best level of sales, and whatever the marketing power of the producer or merchant is, in the end, it is limited, so the producers began a long time ago with the help of others in marketing their products in exchange for a specific commission.
Here the merchant or product owner will get more sales and make more profit, and the marketer will get great commissions according to his marketing efforts.
With the advent of the Internet and with the expansion of the idea of marketing through the Internet, the idea of affiliate marketing has manifested itself in its clearest, most comprehensive, diversified, widespread and prosperous form. In the past few years, the idea of affiliate marketing has become covering many aspects of work and marketing through the Internet.
On the one hand, many companies specialized in affiliate marketing have emerged, which rely mainly on this type of marketing.
On the other hand, the awareness of every online business owner increased, so he turned to this type of marketing … whether mainly or on the side.
In general, due to the widespread expansion of the idea of affiliate marketing, every business owner on the Internet (who does not use this type of marketing) has become more convinced of the application of this idea, in the event that there is a publisher or affiliate marketer who has the ability to provide good marketing for him.
Some important points about the definition of the affiliate field
1. Affiliate marketing is not limited to marketing a product or service, but it goes beyond that to include every act done by a visitor.
Starting from subscribing to a mailing list and ending with the completion of a complete sale, including all marketing purposes between them, such as downloading an application or game, subscribing to a site, or uploading a file…etc.
2. The world of affiliate marketing is a large and diverse world, and many specialized sub-types fall under it, so CPA companies, like CPI and CPL companies, all fall under the affiliate marketing system.
3. Every contract or agreement between an advertiser who owns a product, service, or commodity with a publisher, and this agreement includes the performance of certain marketing services in return for a commission, is commission marketing, even if it is done personally without a public system by the advertiser.
4. Sometimes there is a third party in the affiliate system such as CPA intermediary companies between the advertiser and the publisher, and in other times there is no third party and the agreement is direct between the advertiser and the publisher, and in the latter case this is achieved either by having an affiliate system in the advertised company, or by making a special commission marketing contract .
5. Affiliate commission is a variable component, not fixed. Sometimes the commission is a certain percentage of the price of a good or service, and in other times it is a pre-agreed specific amount that is paid when the visitor performs a specific act, and this is determined according to the commission marketing system for each advertiser separately or based on the agreement between the advertiser and the publisher.
What do I need to start affiliate marketing and earn from it?
1. A good product, service or offer
At this point I recommend that you choose something that you are personally interested in and are convinced of, this will facilitate the way for you in many respects. You can get this either through intermediary companies such as CPA companies, or through the website of the owner of the good or service and subscribing to the affiliate system that provides it.
Also, if you find the product that you want to market on commission, and when you enter the site, you did not find an affiliate system available on the site, in this case you can communicate directly with this site, negotiate with it and reach an appropriate agreement.
It is worth noting that there are many websites and large stores available in the Arab countries, which offer the commission marketing system, including the popular Jumia website.
2. A good resource for visitors
You must have an appropriate source of targeted visitors for what you are marketing in order to get a good conversion rate, and then achieve a good level of profits. Factors such as the price of the visitor, the level of targeting, the quantity and nature of visitors play a key role in this point.
But in any case, the source of visitors is a very effective element in the affiliate marketing process, and it has a very big impact on your success as an affiliate marketer.
Here is a list of the most important visitor sources:
a) social networking sites
Whether freely through a page or group interested in the products you market, or paid through the work of paid advertising campaigns.
b) search engines
To get visitors from search engines, there are two ways as well: the first way is by owning a site and doing search engine optimization to get free visitors. The second method is by making paid advertising campaigns.
c) Specialized advertising companies
There are a lot of companies that specialize in selling visitors, and they differ among themselves in terms of payment method to get visitors.
3. Some tools that will help you achieve your goals
Given the importance and complexity of this point, and because it contains some details, I will dedicate a special part to it in this topic shortly.
But let us here briefly address the issue. Simply put, affiliate marketing is a branch of digital marketing. And digital marketing contains a lot of technical issues that are difficult to deal with manually. There are also a lot of important elements that must be available to complete the marketing process.
Therefore, tools in the world of digital marketing in general and in the world of affiliate marketing in particular represent a very important element, because on the one hand they are inevitable elements, and on the other hand they save a lot of time and effort to complete tasks and achieve the best possible results.
4. Online payment method
In fact, working in affiliate marketing requires capital just like any other business. Yes, there are rare ideas and cases to achieve profits from affiliates almost free of charge.
But the prevailing truth here is that in order to make profits in your affiliate business, you must invest money, and this requires that you have a means of payment on the Internet such as a Payoneer card, or any other credit card, or you can create a PayPal account to pay through it.
I will talk at each point about the tool in general, and how it will benefit you, as I will mention a specific example of each tool.
Here I want to note, that you do not necessarily have to subscribe to the site that we will choose as an example for each tool in particular, and you also do not have to own all the tools that we will offer, in some cases you may not need specific tools according to your specific work conditions.
Here are the most important tools and services used in affiliate marketing:
1. Good hosting
Most of the time your success as an affiliate marketer depends on your design of landing pages especially for what you are marketing.
The landing page for those who do not know is a page that you design to serve as a motivational aspect for the user before he enters the advertiser’s page, and it helps to increase the conversion rate, and by using it intelligently you can change the course of results completely.
One of the excellent and specialized affiliate hosting services that I recommend to you is Liquid Web, formerly known as Beyond Hosting.
2. A tool for making landing pages
We have previously mentioned the importance of a landing page in your success as an affiliate marketer, now how do you design a good landing page? In fact, there are many ways to make a landing page, and here we are specifically talking about the tools through which you can make a landing page in an easy and simple way.
Landing page builders are tools through which you can, without having any code experience, create a landing page with good standards, and leadpages are one of the tools you can rely on for this purpose.
It is worth noting here that there are alternative ways to make a landing page instead of using one of the tools dedicated to that, and one of the alternative ways to make a Landing Page is the use of specialists (webpage designers and developers).
3. A tool for tracking and analyzing the results of advertising campaigns
There is almost no real success in working in the field of affiliate marketing without a good tool for analyzing and following up on advertising campaigns. This is a point full of details and ideas, and therefore we have made a special topic about it entitled Tracking in Advertising Campaigns, which I strongly advise you to read.
But to explain the idea in a simple way, the follow-up and analysis tool is a tool through which you can get a lot of details and information about the performance of your advertising campaigns.
You can get very accurate details about the visitors to your landing page, through these details you can make the necessary adjustments and changes to improve the results of your advertising campaign.
Here is an example for ease of understanding:
Suppose you are marketing an iPhone 12 product with an online store that offers an affiliate system (Jumia for example), and you rely on PPV (pay-per-view) visitors.
Through the follow-up and analysis tool, you can find out which of the keywords or target sites are the ones through which you got sales, and which ones you did not get sales from, and then you cancel the losing targets and do a scale up or upgrade to the profitable targets.
In fact, it’s not just about that, but the follow-up and analysis tool can give you more like testing a different set of products, and landing pages to see which one is the best with just one campaign (this is called split test).
In short, the monitoring and analysis tool is the real key to success in affiliate marketing, and below is one of these good tools that you can rely on as an affiliate marketer.
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4. A tool to view advertiser pages that are not available in your country
Oftentimes, advertisers’ landing pages appear only in the target country, this is particularly common in the CPA industry.
If, for example, you are marketing an offer for the country of Norway and you are Egyptian, and you want to see the offer page, you may only be able to do so through a tool for obtaining a proxy for the country of Denmark.
Of course, checking an advertiser’s page is extremely important to make sure it works correctly first, and to make sure it’s a good and attractive page second. As a marketer, you should do this in every offer you market.
One of the good tools with which you can view the display page in many countries of the world is:
http://www.hsselite.com
5. A tool to view competitors’ campaigns
This tool enables you to view some data about the advertising campaigns of other Affiliates. With this tool, you can see the landing pages used by other marketers, the source of visitors, and some other targeting data.
You do not have to use this tool to copy and apply other people’s campaigns as is, because that will not work in most cases, but you can use this tool to get more ideas that you can develop, integrate or apply in other areas of your work.
Your choice of this tool depends on the type of visitors you use, for each type of visitor there are special tools.
In the end, here is an example of one of the tools to see the campaigns of good competitors
https://adplexity.com
Important tips for your success as an affiliate marketer and making thousands of dollars
1. The key to your success in the affiliate world is testing and experimentation
Yes, information is important, but experience and expertise are the most important. If you think that your success as an affiliate marketer depends on collecting information and then applying it, then success comes, then you are totally wrong.
You should try more products with different landing pages in order to reach the best possible conversion rate, and then the best level of profits.
The visitor source also often works with one type of offer or product and not with another.
It is an equation of well-known structure, but it has many variables, and in order to reach the profitable variables, you only have to try and test until you reach success.
2. Don’t rely entirely on your successful campaigns at any one time
The idea of working in the field of affiliate marketing is not like one who searches for successful campaigns and ends his mission when he finds them, but the search for successful campaigns is an ongoing process.
This is because successful campaigns do not continue to be successful all the time, as they will often take a certain time and then become drained, or many competitors may copy them, so your share of profit from them becomes less, so keep looking for successful campaigns even if you have successful campaigns now.
3. Think outside the box to get exceptional results
What is meant by thinking outside the box here is to use data or equation elements differently from others, you must add your own touch to your landing pages, you must discover new and diverse sources of visitors, and you must find a way to get great offers.
For example, in the field of CPA, marketing offers from a small company taken from larger companies is less profitable than marketing offers from the main company or from the advertiser directly.
4. Get the most profit in the fastest time from your successful campaigns
As we mentioned earlier, successful campaigns do not continue to be successful forever, so you have to have the ability to raise the level of the campaign to get the largest percentage of profit in the fastest time.
This includes pumping more money into a successful advertising campaign to get more visitors, and also trying to get visitors from similar companies or testing other types of visitors.
5. Bloggers can also profit from affiliate marketing
If you own a blog and get good traffic through search engines or social media, you can also work as an affiliate marketer.
All you have to do here is to find products, services, or offers related to your blog’s content, and start affiliate marketing.
In fact, YouTube channel owners can also profit from commission marketing through YouTube, and for a complete strategy to profit from YouTube and affiliate marketing,
Conclusion
Affiliate marketing is a huge and expanding business, and billions of dollars are traded online through it every year.
As a beginner, you should understand the idea well, prepare your plan (which includes identifying the type of visitors, the type of offers or goods you will market, and subscribe to the tools that you think are right for you and important to your success ), then put your focus in one direction and start testing and experimenting.
Keep experimenting until you reach a successful campaign that will compensate you for all the losses you may lose in the beginning.
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