What Is Affiliate Marketing?

here is the wikipedia definition.

Affiliate Marketing - is an Internet-based marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate’s marketing efforts.

Now let me explain, if that was not to clear.

Affiliate marketing - is simply when you sell someone else is product and you get a commission for doing so.

If it is still not clear, continue to read and you will get it the more you read.

So let move on to the next question most people have when talking about affiliate marketing.

Where Am I Going To Get The Products to sell?

Almost all affiliate marketer start off selling digital product. Reason because it there is no hassle involved, such as shipping.

Now again almost every Affiliate marketer starts off will ClickBank.com, clickbank is an affiliate program network…this means that they are the middle station between affiates and the real product sellers. This is where you get the products to sell. That is how I was tough and that is how I am going to teach you. So in order to follow along go to Click Bank and sign up.

Click Here To Sign Up To ClickBank.com

When you sign up make sure you put in all you real information. Its real basic form that you have to fill out to sign up. And everyone gets approved so don’t worry about that.

Looking into Clickbank

Alright now that you got your account set-up, I want you to take a look at the Market Place.(you should see it to the right of the sign up button). Now if you are at the market Place it should look like this.

Alright If your page looks like the picture above you are on the right track. I would suggest that you poke around Clickbank a little bit, and go to the FAQ’s to find out more about clickbank because we are going to use this through out the affiliate marketing training course. And most likely you will use this every day with affiliate marketing career. But for now let me run you through the basics.

Pick a category and hit search.

Alright well once you are done with that let me tell you what everything means if you don’t get it. I am going to pick Marketing & Ads as my category, so here it is.

Alright, Right here you will see a list of the product that you are able to promote/ become an affiliate to. Once you sign up with Clickbank you are able to promote every product in ClickBank you want without have to get pre-approved for any of the product creators. You can see you have a wide selection of product to choose from. With over 100+ new product being put onto ClickBank every week.

Now if you click on the view pitch page you will see the page that you are going to be sending you customer to.

If you look to the right of that you will see a button called “Create Hopelink“. and that will take you to a page that looks like this.

If you enter your ClickBank ID in the ClickBank user name fill in area and click create it will generate what is call you HOPLINK.

That is your link where you will need your customers to click on in order to make a sell and get a commission. The link will send your lead/customer to the product pitch/sale page.

And once created you hop-link should look something like this “http://1a26bofoj216i25qkbtxxk8tbi.hop.clickbank.net/“

Ok now if you go back to the market place page right above the “Create Hoplink” button you will see the product stats and here is what they mean:

$/sale: is how much you will earn per sale.

Future $: is if the product has recurring commission it will show you on average how much more money you will make after the upfront sale it could be more it could be less.

Total $/sale: is how much you will usually make on the total sale. This is different than the “$/sale:” in only one circumstance, And that is if the product has recurring commission on the product.

%/sale: is the percentage of the sale you get.

%refd: is the percentage of sales that are coming form affiliates.

grav: is the amount of unique affiliate that have made at lease one or more sale in the pass 30 days.

The Gravity is a good way to judge if a product is selling and how much competition there is for that product. But for a new affiliate I would suggest you stay under or around the gravity of 100. Just so you could get you feet wet and it will be easier to make sales.

Alright so this was the intro to my Affiliate Marketing Training Course, This into was almost all about about clickbank, but I still suggest you look more into it, take a look at the FAQ’s just mess aground with it a little more because we are going to be working form ClickBank a  lot more.

Alright well you can move on to the next part and be on you way to learning a lot more about affiliate marketing.

If there is more question or you have a question on Affiliate Marketing Training Course - 1 , or you just want to speak your mind, I ask that you would leave a comment. And I’ll get back to you soon

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Affiliate Marketing Training Course - 2 How To Find Hungry Crowds

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