You are going to discover the whole process of affiliate marketing in this guide.

Then you decide for yourself whether this is something worth your time and effort.

Generally affiliate marketing is about promoting other people’s products for a share of their commissions.

You can promote information products as in e-books, software and video courses from Clickbank, JVZoo, etc.

You can also market physical products as in things people buy at shopping malls from Amazon, Ali Express and Shopify.
To get started, you need to do these 4 steps.
1. An Autoresponder – for you to send content and promo emails to your subsccribers – those who optin to your email list.

2. A Domain And Web Hosting – for you to create and store your websites through proper channels and for people to see

3. A Landing Or Squeeze Page – for people to give you their names and email addresses in exchange for a free PDF report or video of what you want to share and recommend

4. And finally A Blog – for people to know you better, like and trust you as someone they can get advice and help.

Once you got all these things set up, the next thing you should do is to drive traffic as in people to see and ultimately buy from your site. In this case your landing page.

Just like prospecting is the lifeblood of all traditional businesses, the same goes for traffic generation in online business world.

There are several ways to drive traffic but I boiled down to just 2 categories as in free and paid traffic.

1. Free Traffic

Though free traffic does not cost you a penny, it costs you time and effort in doing so.

You can write articles just like what you are reading right now, blog, guest blogging and comment on other people’s blogs in your niche, interact with people in forums related to your niche, post classified ads like how I started out to make my first dollar online.

You can also do video marketing on Youtube if you prefer to talk than write and feel naturally comfortable in front of camera.

2. Paid Traffic

In the past, Google Adwords used to be where most marketers hanged out to place their ads.

Now Facebook and Twitter Ads are the new platforms.

Though the results are faster to achieve as compared to free ones, you need to make sure you advertise within your budget and what you earned is about the same or more than what you spend for every person who clicks your ad whether he buys or not.

If you are new and have limited budget, I recommend you start with free traffic first.

Then once you make your first $100, you reinvest half of it into paid traffic to test if it works just as well.

You keep focusing on that for the next 2-3 months and I guarantee you will definitely earn money like many affiliate marketers do every day. Keep in mind affiliate marketing is a business not a hobby.