WHAT IS AFFILIATE MARKETING AND HOW TO START AFFILIATE MARKETING WITH AMAZON ?

WHAT IS AFFILIATE MARKETING?

If you are interested to know what is affiliate marketing and how to start affiliate marketing? then keep reading this article because here I will share with you the basics and the practical example to start with affiliate marketing. 

Now Let's start with the very basic introduction to know "What is Affiliate Marketing"?

Let's break this term into two parts here 

• Affiliate 
• Marketing 

The official meaning of affiliate is simply "Partnership" or in simple words, we can say that a person or organization attached to a larger body. on the other hand, we know "Marketing" is a technique to promote products and services to increase sales and it includes a variety of techniques including advertising. 

Now since you understood the meaning of both the terms independently so now let's collaborate both the terms to become "Affiliate Marketing" that simply means if you are a person or an organization officially connected to another organization to promote their product and services in order to generate sales and in return that company offers you commission per sale of their product based on your efforts then this form of business is simply known as "affiliate marketing".

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So affiliate marketing is an online business where you could definitely earn a very good amount of money but the overall success that you will get would be based on your efforts and strategies so that majority of people that you are promoting products purchase it from your affiliate link that will ultimately generate you more profile. 

We will discuss these points in detail in the later part of the section but before that let's discuss 

HOW TO START AFFILIATE MARKETING? 

Now Affiliate Marketing is a form of business that could be done anywhere anytime, It's completely free from any office work. It completely depends on how much you engage yourself in promoting affiliate product or services to your online audience. 

There are many other advantages of affiliate marketing also 

• No minimum Education Qualification required
• Anybody can do affiliate marketing 
• Affiliate Marketing is not a Target based work
• No field work required
• A proven method to Earn from Home 
• No investment required  

and many more. 

So as you know by now that You can start affiliate marketing anytime this particular form of business only requires skills to convince your customers to purchase your affiliate product and based on that you will earn a commission for every sale. 

That being said, let's take a look at What is Affiliate Marketing and How to Start Affiliate Marketing with Amazon in this video:

If you don't want to watch the video then you can continue reading the text version below;

REQUIREMENTS TO START AFFILIATE MARKETING!

In order to start affiliate marketing make sure that you have an active internet connection because as an online form of business this could not be performed without internet. 

Next what you need is basically a hardware device that is smart enough to perform all the required tasks in affiliate marketing starting from 

• A basic Desktop Computer or Laptop or
• A Tablet or even a smartphone 
• A blog or website 
• Social Media accounts like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Whatsapp, Pinterest etc 

and that is all required to know what is affiliate marketing? Now you just need to start affiliate marketing to start earning money online ; 

This is the stage where we need to become an affiliate partner of the organizations offering affiliate programs in this case we are taking an example of "Amazon associates program". As you know Amazon.com is one of the biggest names in the E-commerce industry in the entire world and they offer an affiliate program that you could join from here and easily become an Amazon affiliate partner by just simply adding your details as mentioned in the contact form and about your website, blog or youtube channel where you will be going to promote their products. 

This is a very easy step-by-step procedure and once you successfully signup to become an Amazon affiliate partner then Amazon will provide you with your own custom dashboard like the one as shown below ; 

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From here you could monitor your sales and revenue, also you could search for products that you would like to promote and from here Amazon will provide you your unique code of that product that you will promote to your network so that people who purchase products from your unique affiliate link could be monitored by Amazon and based on that Amazon will calculate the amount of commission to be paid to you based on the sales that you generated and once you reach their minimum threshold the amount will be credited to your bank account once you link your bank account in the payment settings. 

AFFILIATE MARKETING PROCESS

Here I took an example of just one affiliate program which is "Amazon associates" but there are many affiliate programs that you could choose from like there are other e-commerce companies like Flipkart, Snapdeal, Gearbest etc that also offers affiliate marketing programs. 

Similarly, if you like to travel and have a travel blog then you could also promote hotels to book or offer rental cars services to your audience by registering to Hotel affiliate programs offered by Booking.com  also you could promote cheap flights and other services. 

Similarly, you could become an affiliate partner based on what niche you work and what type of product or services you want to promote to your audience. 

If you have a website of your own and you want to promote an affiliate product then you could simply copy and paste the code offered by your affiliate partner in my case it is Amazon and for reference, you could buy the affiliate products from the links below ;

 

As you could see these are some of the Amazon affiliate products and if you purchase all or even one product from the links above then once the order is successfully delivered then Amazon will generate me a commission for the successful sale.

and That's how you could also promote affiliate products on your blog or even on your YouTube Channel to Earn money with your YouTube Channel with affiliate marketing.

Here you need to mention the affiliate products links that you want to promote in the description of your YouTube video and let your user's know that they could purchase the products from the description area links. Similarly, you could promote these products on Social Media like on Facebook, Share this product as a Story with URL on your Instagram account also you could tweet this product on Twitter and Even promote these products by sharing it with your contacts and groups on Whatsapp.

So I hope you clearly understood by now What is Affiliate Marketing and How to Start Affiliate Marketing with Amazon.

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