Affiliate Marketing for Beginners: 7 Steps to Success

Affiliate Marketing for Beginners: 7 Steps to Success

Contents
What is affiliate marketing?
How does affiliate marketing work?
How much money can I make?
Getting started with affiliate marketing
Interested in tapping into the billion-dollar affiliate marketing industry? This guide will help you get started.
According to Statista, business spending on affiliate marketing will hit $8.2 billion in the U.S by 2022.

Start today, and you’ll be in a prime position to take advantage of that.

In this guide, you’ll learn how to get started with affiliate marketing in seven steps:

Decide on a platform
Choose your niche
Find affiliate programs to join
Create great content
Drive traffic to your affiliate site
Get clicks on your affiliate links
Convert clicks to sales
But before that, let’s cover some basics.

What is affiliate marketing?
Affiliate marketing is when you promote other companies’ products. When someone buys through your affiliate link, you get a commission.

As an affiliate, you’re a salesperson for the company. You help to make a sale, the company rewards you.

The best thing about affiliate marketing is that you can do it at scale. A typical salesperson only sells products from one company. As an affiliate marketer, you can promote products from many different companies and earn commissions from all of them.