Welcome to the exciting World of Affiliate Marketing!
If you’re reading this, you’re likely curious about how affiliate marketing works and whether it’s the right path for you to earn money online. Our goal is to guide you through the ins and outs of affiliate marketing in a straightforward, open manner. No hard sells, no hidden agendas – just clear information to help you understand how affiliate marketing ‘works’ and let you make an informed decision as to whether it’s right for you.
What Is Affiliate Marketing?
In simple terms, affiliate marketing is a way of earning a commission by promoting other people’s (or company’s) products. You find a product you like, promote it to others, and earn a piece of the profit for each sale that you make. It’s a popular tactic to drive sales and generate significant online revenue. And the best part? It’s beneficial to both affiliate marketers and product owners. The product owner makes more sales than they otherwise might have and you get paid for helping them, without having to buy stock, have a shop or deal with customer payments or refunds!
Why Consider Affiliate Marketing?
- Low Entry Barrier: Unlike starting a business in a shop, office or one with staff, affiliate marketing doesn’t require a huge investment. You can start with a computer, an internet connection and a few software tools.
- Flexibility: Work from anywhere, at any time. Your schedule is yours to manage.
- No Expertise Needed: You don’t need business qualifications or significant computer skills to be successful. It’s a learn-as-you-go process.
- Diverse Opportunities: With countless products and services available, you can choose to promote products in ‘niches’ that you are genuinely interested in.
The Market Is Vast
One of the most exciting aspects of affiliate marketing is the ever-expanding earnings opportunity. One of the leading Affiliate Networks (CJ.com – more about them later) report annual affiliate commissions being paid out of $1.8B (yes BILLION), so there’s always plenty of room for new affiliates and you only need the tiniest of slices to make a decent income.
What’s in it for us at ‘AffiliateTrainingCentral.com’
First and foremost, the purpose behind this site is to help people. It really is. Life is normally difficult enough but lately it seems like the cost of everything has been going UP while incomes have generally been going DOWN.
Many people (myself included) have been or are looking to online opportunities as a way of making ends meet or, if at all possible, actually making a full time income.
The issue that I found and I’m sure you have too, is that there are loads (and I mean loads) of dubious plans, schemes, gurus and more, all promising the ‘golden ticket’ to online success when they are in fact low-quality products that really aren’t worth the money they’re being sold for.
Unfortunately the World of Affiliate Marketing also has its own fair share of dodgy overpriced plans. So the main aim of this website is to help people avoid the online ‘rubbish’ and actually give folks the best chance they can of being successful with affiliate marketing.
Let me introduce ‘Wealthy Affiliate’
This is the right time to introduce you to the company that taught me what’s what in terms of affiliate marketing, so-much-so that I’ve been with them as a paying member now for 9 years.
The company in question is called ‘Wealthy Affiliate’ or WA for short and in essence they provide two things that an affiliate marketer needs. Initially training (so you can learn what to do) and thereafter the ‘tools of the trade’ so to speak, such as website hosting, keyword research tools, ongoing support as well as more detailed training as your skills and experience develop.
As an entry point, they offer a completely free Starter Membership, which we will explore in greater detail later, but ultimately if you want to ‘make-a-go’ of affiliate marketing, you would need to sign up for their Premium Membership, which costs $49 per month.
This monthly cost gives you access to all of the training and the other tools that you need too. (I have done a little research on this and the cost of buying all the ‘tools’ from different companies separately works out more expensive than $49 per month, so the WA offer is great value in my opinion).
WA Affiliate Disclosure
As I promised at the beginning of this post, honesty and transparency are my guiding principles. With that in mind, I openly endorse Wealthy Affiliate (WA) for their exceptional services, however, it’s important for you to know that if you sign up for WA through my links, I receive a commission from them.
While some might view this as a bias, I assure you my recommendation is based on the genuine value I believe WA offers. At AffiliateTrainingCentral.com, we believe in being upfront about our potential financial gains from such endorsements.
Let’s Begin
So that’s the scene set.
Coming up now are a series of posts explaining in full how affiliate marketing ‘works’ and how you can get a slice of the action and build your own website. I will also be explaining about the services and training that Wealthy Affiliate offer and how they dovetail into the website building and promotion process. (And I will be recommending you take up a free Starter Membership at WA.).
But…
Whether you choose to join WA or not, I truly hope that the information provided here on this website, helps you make progress with your online endeavours
Here’s to taking your first step towards your affiliate marketing success!
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