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Smooth Learning Curve Here are a list of skills that you don’t need to become an affiliate marketer: • You don’t need to be the best at web design. • You don’t need to be an award-winning writer. • You don’t need specialized knowledge of any kind. • You don’t need to know the code that builds a website. Of course, having any of these skills won’t hurt, but you don’t need them to be successful with affiliate marketing. You don’t need to be an expert in what you are promoting either. Here’s all you really need to succeed in affiliate marketing: • Basic computer skills. • An internet connection. • Determination. • The ability to identify a profitable niche (which we will help you to do). • Basic knowledge of what does and doesn’t work. Low Startup Costs In terms of startup expenses, all you will need to purchase is a domain name ($10/year) and web hosting ($100/year). An autoresponder email service ($20/month), and outsource labor are both optional costs. You can do pretty much everything yourself without spending any more, but a lot of affiliates choose to hire people to do things like write articles, design graphics, etc. It can often be a good investment to stop yourself from getting stuck on things you’re not good at. Too Good to be True? Some of you may be wondering: Is this a scam? It seems too good to be true. Affiliate marketing is far from a scam. It’s been around for a long time, and it’s actually the reason behind a lot of the content on the Internet. Now that you’re an affiliate, you’ll start spotting other affiliates everywhere. For instance, did you know that one of the oldest affiliate programs on the Internet is run by Amazon.com? There are hundreds of thousands of websites on the Internet that promote products available on Amazon. Every time someone clicks on one of those products and purchases something — anything — on Amazon, that website gets a commission. 6
CHAPTER 3 WHAT IS INVOLVED IN THE <strong>AFFILIATE</strong> <strong>MARKETING</strong> PROCESS? The process of getting a website set up for affiliate marketing has many puzzle pieces that make up the big picture. Generally though, they can be categorized into these four major phases: Market Research The first step is to figure out what you’re going to promote, how you’re going to promote it, and whether it will be profitable! This is market research. This is a really important step, because if you get it wrong you could end up devoting months of effort to something that won’t ever make you money. Build Your Website Having decided the topic and products you’re going to focus on, you’ll continue by building your website. This isn’t as difficult as it might sound. There are a lot of simple tools these days that give you a professional looking website. Get Visitors to Your Website No visitors = no sales. This is likely to be where you devote most of your efforts after you’ve built your website. There are lots of strategies for getting people to visit your site. Some will give you an instant traffic boost, while others are longer-term strategies. Optimize Your Website for Sales A few tricks can make it so that visitors to your site are more likely to buy something. 7
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