
1.Have a product of your own,
2.Do not need to concern yourself with how to deliver the product to the buyers
3.Sometimes tools that will help you in the course of marketing like autoresponder email series
All you have to do is to concern yourself with driving traffic to the merchant's website and if the traffic converts to sales, you get your commission
However, to be able to do affiliate marketing of TODAY effectively, you need the followings.
A Domain name
A website
An autoresponder
Link cloaker, so that your links are not tampered with (optional).
Okay, so you are wondering why you need a domain name and a website?
Yes, if you are going to hold your head above the waters in today's affiliate and any online marketing, you need a website and of course a domain name for the following reasons;
1. The cost of driving traffic to any offer these days is so high due to the high competition amongst internet marketers, therefore when you succed in driving traffic to any offer, it must not be a one time thing only because the commission for that singular sale may not be worth the amount of time or money you spent in getting the buyer to the offer. But what if the prospect did not even convert to sale? then the time and money yielded nothing.
What am saying in actual fact is that driving traffic straight or directly to your affiliate link is like sending 1000lb of gold to your merchant site and getting only 1lb of gold as commission.
Why the ratio? well every customer you drive to your merchant site without finding a way to get his contact on your own site either free or paid is a waste to you and a gain to the merchant. He can always market to them as many times as possible but yo cannot because you dont have their contact.
2. You need an autoresponder loaded with email series that can help you in list building. It can work with both paid or free website. Not only that, you can use autoresponder without a website as long as you can send emails. I will show you all about this in subsequent posts.
There are many types of autoresponders, free , free trial for a month, paid auto responder, however, the problem with using completely free autoresponder is that:
They include adverts that might take your prospects away from your sites to your competitors, but if you are just starting out with low or no budget, then its okay.
Another problem is that when your list is beginning to grow, you want to bail out to a paid autoresponder. This is a little bit complicated.
A major advantage of having a website is to be able to sell it at a later date when it has made some money.
So if you are willing to start, these trio, domain name website auto responder must be ready.
Pls go through this carefully and ask me any question if you are not clear about anything because as I progress in this teaching series, we will be going deeper, so its better youask your questions now as it will also help me to treat int in the next post.
Cheers!