Affiliate Marketing Simplified – Start an Easy Online Business

So you want to start an easy online business.

By far the simpliest (and maybe the most inexpensive) way to go is affiliate marketing.

Need an explanation of affiliate marketing?

Here you go . . .

Start an Easy Online Business – Affiliate Marketing Simplified Aka Affiliate Marketing For Newbies

If you want to start an easy online business OR you have been struggling with the best way to start an easy online business, take a long hard look at affiliate marketing.

Why?
It is the quickest path to start an easy online business. You make commissions from the products you drive traffic to.

The Goal
Affiliate marketing is NOT selling a product; it’s pre-selling a product and then driving internet traffic to a vendor sell page through a web site or web-site like tool.

The Process
There are three pieces of the affiliate marketing process for each product you pick – Build, Create Traffic, and Maintain/Tweak as follows:

BUILD
Find a product (ClickBank, linkshare, commission junction) you are familiar with and can write about intelligently.

Pick several low competition keyword phrases related to the product.

Construct a web site or Squidoo lenses (Squidoo.com) around the keywords.

CREATE TRAFFIC
Write articles or create videos to drive traffic to the landing pages (some directories will not let use a direct link to a vendor) or to the vendor sell site.

Participate in forums and social networks (YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc) to build traffic. Use your signature to link to your web site. If you blatantly promote an affiliate product, you will turn off or be thrown out of forums.

MAINTAIN/TWEAK
Check statistics to determine which articles are generating the most traffic and figure out why. If you need more traffic and ultimately clicks to the web site/ lenses or vendor sell page, write more targeted articles/videos.

This article presents an overview of the affiliate marketing process. You may need the “how-to” details. You can get them yourself online or use another method such as an Internet Marketing club or an affiliate marketing guru’s blueprint.

The How-To Details – Answer These Questions

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What IS a Squidoo Lens? And it costs absolutely nothing to build?