If you are not sure what you can promote on your blog to help you build an income then your are better off sticking to using affiliate marketing.
What is affiliate marketing?
There are two great videos that are not very long that will answer that question for you
Video 1 – Affiliate marketing for beginners 1
http://www.dianecorriette.net/affiliate-marketing/affiliiate-marketing-tips-for-new-affiliate-marketers
Video 2 – Affiliate marketing for beginners 2
http://www.dianecorriette.net/affiliate-marketing/free-affiliate-marketing-tips-on-video
Watch those (they open in a new window) and then carry on reading
Now you know what an affiliate marketer is you can hopefully see how blogging can help you promote the products you choose to sell. A few years ago most of the more experienced marketers told us that the only way to really strike it big and build a huge income online was to create and sell your own product but there have been quite a few people making 6-7 monthly income figures just from affiliate marketing alone.
Five reasons why I love afffiliate marketing :
1. No hassle. You do not need to create the product which means you don’t have to spend hours writing, editing, getting graphics, sales pages etc
2. No support. You do not need to provide any kind of support once the product has been sold. The product owner takes care of that.
3. Plenty of choice. You can search out what is selling well and build a blog around that one topic or a series of related topics
4. Easy to get started. All you need to do is decide on what you are promoting, sign up with a company that offers that product and start a blog
5. Virtually cost free. You shoud never have to pay to join an affiliate program, they are all free to join which makes it easy for anyone to get started
When you get started with your affiliate marketing blog you will want help from an expert who knows how to set up sites that sell. There are a few online and one guy I love is
Mark Ling
Who is Mark Ling
Mark Ling runs a free site dedicated to teaching people how to become profitable super affiliates called Affilorma.
Mark is himself an affiliate as well as an affiliate program manager helping affiliates sell products. He has been in affiliate marketing since 1999 and by the age of 27 was running six companies that earnt him well over $1 million a year. Now not only does he share his expertise in his membership site but he has also created his own home study course that allows you to “watch over his shoulder” and learn how he makes money with affiliate marketing.
Summary of what is available at affilorama
Affilorama is an amazing resource for affiliate marketing – the site is known as the #1 affiliate marketing training site and offers value through its free membership to people looking to get started. They provide written and video lessons, teleseminars with experts, and affiliate marketing tools, support and great techniques.
Mark uses both websites and blogs to build his affiliate marketing sites and recommends both to his members.
Learning materials and quality of material
Whether you are a complete beginning looking to get started with affiliate marketing or you need more advanced in-depth training material Affillorma have covered both areas really well by providing a step by step approach to learning. The key here is to stick to the steps, if you miss them out or think you know better and ignore a step then you might not experience the same results but most members (who stick to the training) come back into the forum to talk about making sales after 3-6 months of being there.
If you have been reading any other parts of my blog or you have read mindset of a blogger you will know that I am always talking about the importance of research and inside affiliorma is everything you need to focus on that and become really good at it because Mark believes in it too.
Additional resources and support
As well as the training there are also a number of free software available to help you with your research, keywords and article writing.
There is a forum that is looked after by a few members of staff so you are never without help – although replies are not always quick by staff help from other members is also available.
Additional support comes in the form of teleseminars and webinars and Mark will often bring in an expert to speak to members as well as running them himself.
Affiliorama is free to join so won’t hurt you to check it out
Mark is a definite authority in his niche and to ensure you are comfortable with him and what he offers the site is free to join and you can upgrade to get access to additional resources whenever you are ready.
To visit Mark Ling’s Affiliorama and join free CLICK HERE
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Diane – thanks for the referral over to Mark’s website. I appreciated your straight-forward “Mindset” book and will look into affiliate specifics from Mark. I love being part of your team and will stay in touch! All the best, Joy
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You are welcome Joy. Mark is a great person to learn from and is very actively helping people out – I guess once you make millions its not about the money anymore, the fun comes from developing a community of people who you can show how to produce the same results.
Enjoy checking him out
Its been a joy to know you too (no pun intended!)