Introduction
Why Follow These Six Steps
If you’ve been wondering how to make your first sale online or how to start generating free traffic, then just follow along. I’m going to show you guys how to set everything up step by step inside of this article. To get started, guys, here are the six steps you need in place to start generating sales doing affiliate marketing. I see a lot of people online struggling to make sales or even struggling to generate leads, so I decided to put this article together for you guys to show you everything that I’m doing myself—everything that you need in place step by step to start generating sales online and give you guys a few additional tips that I’m actually using myself. I guarantee as long as you guys follow these six steps and stay consistent, you can start generating your first sale from home.
Step 1: Choosing a Profitable Category
All right, guys, to get started, the very first step of affiliate marketing is always choosing a profitable category. For example, finance, technology, fashion, makeup—these are some of the most profitable categories that people are making money from online. You guys want to go with the trend, pick something that’s currently hot so you can start leveraging it to make income. I know one of the biggest mistakes when I got started is I was trying to make money from coffee, oil, random stuff online that I thought would make money, but nobody actually cared about it. First, you guys want to pick a profitable category and topic that people are actually making money from online.
Step 2: Find an Affiliate Product
After that, for step number two, you just simply want to find an affiliate product to generate sales with. Instead of building a brand-new product yourself, going through the trouble of designing, producing, and doing all that extra work, just join an affiliate network like ClickBank.com to get access to thousands of products that you can earn commission from. This is usually the website I like to use myself—ClickBank. They have products on so many different categories online, so whether you’re in pets, health and fitness, makeup, you’ll at least find a product inside of here that you can start generating sales with.
Now, real quick, guys, I know ClickBank isn’t available worldwide. It’s available in so many different countries, but if it’s not available in your country, all you have to do is go to Google and search for affiliate programs around your topic. So I ended up going with pets, right—the dog niche. All I would do is type in affiliate programs, and check it out: you’re going to see things like Chewy pop up. Amazon’s another good one. So just search for something like this to find affiliate programs that are available to you so you can start making sales from them.
So, I’m going to go with ClickBank. All you guys have to do is sign up for a free account, and once you’re inside, you’re going to see a list of all the products you can start promoting. You’ll see the name of the product, how much money you can make per sale. All you have to do is click on promote and copy your special affiliate link at the bottom of the box. This will be the special link tracked to your account. Whenever somebody clicks on this link and buys, they’re going to credit your account with the sale.
Choosing a Product
If you guys want to see the product, just click on the name, and you’ll see the actual website pop up so you can see what you’re going to sell. But you want to find the product that’s related to your category, right? So, I ended up going with pets, the dog market. Instead of ClickBank, I’m going to scroll down to Home & Garden, then after that, click on Animal Care & Pets. And that’s basically it, guys. You’re going to see products around your category, so just pick a product inside of here. I’ll go with this first one: Brain Training for Dogs—basically helping dog owners eliminate bad behavior, helping them be more intelligent, more obedient. So it’s basically a dog training for dog owners. So I’m going to go with this one right here.
Step 3: Using a Lead Magnet
The next thing you guys want to look out for: you don’t want to just send people to an offer expecting them to buy and spend money, right? So instead of just sending people to an offer, we’re going to use a lead magnet—give them a freebie just to get them in the door and get them to check out our products. So we’re not just asking people to buy stuff or getting people to take out their wallets, right? We’re actually going to give them value and even give them a few free products to help them get in the door.
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