What Is Affiliate Marketing And Does It Work?

Hard work is good… it’s good for the mind, body and soul… and there’s nothing wrong with going out and earning a decent, honest living…

But what if you could supplement that with an online passive income? Something that would allow you to save for a rainy day or build something for your retirement.

Not to mention allowing you to be a little more flexible with your time… not having to rely on your 9-5 job totally, such that if you had to take time off for whatever reason – you could still have an income coming in…

Is It Possible?

20 years ago, there may have been no other choice – back then, your potential customer base was anyone who could physically get to your shop/service. Granted, it was possible to expand your reach via mail order – but that needed physical marketing in the form of catalogues/brochures and getting those marketing materials to as many people as you could.

Now, however, since the advent of the world wide web – the world has become a lot ‘smaller’. There are over 4 billion active internet users worldwide!

4 billion people searching for literally millions of different products and services on the web, day in and day out – that’s a lot of potential to tap into.

So, in essence, the method of transport of ‘getting’ your marketing to these potential customers is already in place and that part won’t cost you a penny!

Now imagine you had a website in a niche area of your choice, something you love and are passionate about – and you wrote about things and topics related to that niche – reviews, blogs, stories… and you wrote about them from the heart, because you love the subject and you’re knowledgeable about it…

All of those 4 billion plus internet users become YOUR potential customers, because all of them can access your website.

How It Is Possible?

Affiliate marketing is the process of writing about products and then earning a commission when people go onto purchase them via links on your web page .

These links if clicked upon take the reader to another website from which they can buy a product – if they then buy that product – you will receive a commission for that sale. The beauty of this is that you don’t have to physically sell anything to these customers… you don’t have to store, stock or ship out products…

The reader buys as normal from the website that they have arrived at via your link (at no extra cost to them) and it’s the seller who will pay you the commission for bringing them a customer.

The key is to get traffic to your site and if you can learn how to do that effectively, then these potential customers WILL get to read what you are writing about and you WILL earn money.

But Where Do I Start?

I know what you’re thinking… where do I start? How do I build a website? I don’t know how to write… How do I get traffic to my website?

This is where Wealthy Affiliate comes in…

Wealthy Affiliate

Wealthy Affiliate is an online training platform and community that helps people learn affiliate marketing.

At Wealthy Affiliate, you will literally be taught everything you need to know as a beginner to affiliate marketing… how to build a website, how to write high quality articles – that people will want to read, how to get ranked in search engines, how to effectively improve your SEO (search engine optimisation) results and how to incorporate affiliate links into your posts to monetize your website.

Wealthy Affiliate also provide ultra powerful and secure hosting for your site… and they’ll host up to 50 websites for you!

I joined Wealthy Affiliate a few years ago and it’s been a very interesting and exciting journey, where I have learnt many things…

I’ve built a number of websites from scratch, having previously had no knowledge in this field.

I’ve learnt how to write effectively – again, this wasn’t something I was particularly good at before, but as time has passed and I’ve gone through the training and wrote more and more, I’ve become better and better at it.

I’ve learnt about how to research keywords when writing an article or post and how to effectively get ranked in google and other search engines.

And much, much more…

There are two types of training you can opt for:

• Online Entrepreneur Certification
  • The Online Entrepreneur Certification (OEC) training is a 5 phase (50 lesson) series of courses walking you through the process of creating and growing a business within absolutely ANY niche that you want.

• Affiliate Bootcamp
  • The Affiliate Bootcamp training is a 7 Phase (70 lesson) series of courses walking you through the process of creating and establishing a business in a niche related to the promotion of Wealthy Affiliate.

Basic membership is FREE and this provides you with the first 10 lessons and hosting for one website.

If you choose to upgrade to premium membership, then you’ll get access to much more – this would cost $49/month (no contract, you can cancel at any time).

There is also a new level of membership that has just been introduced – premium plus – this gives a few extra benefits in addition to what you get with premium membership and costs $99/month.

All I can say is that you’ve got nothing to lose… join for FREE and take advantage of the free training that’s on offer – if it’s not for you, you’ve learnt something and it won’t have cost you a penny… but if you’re hooked like I think you will be, then upgrade and take your life to a place of dreams!

You can read our full in-depth review of Wealthy Affiliate here.

Click here to join Wealthy Affiliate today for Free and learn how to make money in affiliate marketing.

I hoped you’ve enjoyed this post – if you have any questions or comments, then please post them below and I’ll get back to you as soon as possible.

Mohammad