We will focus on three major avenues that you can take to make money with any affiliate programme:

• Your blog or website
• Social media
• Landing pages.

You don’t have to choose only one avenue as it is better to use them collectively in order to maximize your earning potential. However, regardless of which avenue you decide to take, you need to exercise caution to avoid blatant selling. The majority of people have developed strong resistance towards obvious sales attempts online. As such, you always want to be helpful and informative first and only after, push for the paid conversion.

2. Blog / Website

A) Your Website

Promoting Wishpond on your existing website or blog (regardless of the industry or market that you’re operating in) is a great idea as it takes advantage of your existing organic and paid traffic and does not require additional promotions.

For your website you can create a subsection where you write about the different tools that you use to run your business. For example this page will give a brief overview of your accounting software, your email provider, your website CMS and of course Digital Upendra. Place your affiliate link there and make sure to provide some context on what each tool does and how you use it. Example:

https://www.nichepursuits.com/business-tools/

B) Your Blog

A similar strategy goes for your blog. You can create a new blog post talking about different tools that you use. This content will be relevant to your readers and at the same time will not look like you are trying to sell them on any particular product or service. It will also add a personal touch to this sale as these are the tools that you personally recommend based on your experience.

Example: http://marciaconner.com/resources/

If you happen to blog about marketing, online marketing, lead generation or perhaps growth hacking you can write a review of various marketing platforms based on their functionality.

For example: “Top 5 Best Apps to run Online Contests” or “A Review of the Best Landing Page Tools”, “Best Tools to Help You Optimize your Sales Funnel”, “Most Effective Apps to Create Pop­up ads,” etc.

This is a very impressive result from just one article composed of less than 300 words. If you need some inspiration check out these blog posts to get a better idea on the type and format of the post.

And remember, you can always check Digital Upendra blog to get some more inspiration and ideas.

Source: 

Best 10 Tips, How Beginners can Start Affiliate Marketing Without a Website?

3. Forums

If you do not have a website or a blog and are not feeling like starting one, you can use various review websites, blogs and forums to promote Affiliate Programs. This is a little bit tricky however. The majority of those websites will not let you blatantly advertise or promote a product or service so you will always want to review the rules prior to posting anything. However, with a little bit of practice you be able to write genuine responses and posts that will not look like sales pitches.

Here are some suggested links to online forums and communities.

https://growthhackers.com/new­comments

https://www.warriorforum.com/main­internet­marketing­discussion­forum/

http://inbound.org/all/ask

https://forums.digitalpoint.com/

https://quora.com

This is just a few examples, and there are a lot more of them. When you are done with these, start by googling a specific topic (ex. landing page, online marketing, conversion optimization, lead generation and etc.) and add “forum” or “community” at the end.

Remember: the more forums you work with the higher the chances of making a sale. Some of these require registration, but this is usually a very simple process. Finally, it is very important that you stay away from blatant selling and obvious sales pitches. Here is a good example of a response on “Quora”.

4. Social Media:

Promoting through social media is another avenue you can use to generate affiliate income through the affiliate program. There is a number of strategies revolving around the social media approach. Blog since you do not want to avoid direct selling at all costs. People on social media are very sensitive to sales pitches. The best strategy is to find relevant social media communities, influencers and trending hashtags and then share articles, videos and blog posts. There are three major social networks you want to focus on: Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. All three would require creating a profile and having a little bit of an existing Following.

Hashtags: are a great way to put your link in front of a relevant audience. Make sure to check which marketing hashtags are currently trending and are relevant to the topic you are posting about. Also, do NOT use more than 3 hashtags per post. Here are some general marketing hashtags you may want to consider:

#smm

#socialmedia

#smallbiz

#landingpages

#lpo (landing page optimization)

#cro (conversion rate optimization)

#growthhacking

#contentmarketing

#blogging

#marketing

Communities: are online groups where people share ideas related to a specific topics. You can easily become a member of an online community on Facebook and spark conversations with other members, discussing various marketing topics  or blog articles every once in a while. Many of these communities have over 1,000 active members making them a viable sales opportunities. Here are some examples of online communities: Entrepreneurs:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/EntrepreneursUSA/ Grow & Sell: https://www.facebook.com/groups/498010683681188/ Ecommerce Entrepreneurs: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1490543864559171/

Influencers: influencers are people who are not only considered to have expertise in certain areas but also have a considerable following or network behind them. There are a lot of various marketing influencers all over social media. Most of them have a significant amount of followers and post content regularly. Start responding to their posts (or tweets), re­post their content as well as tag them once in a while in your post with interesting content / links. Here are some of marketing influencers on twitter:

https://twitter.com/jaybaer

https://twitter.com/dannysullivan

https://twitter.com/MariSmith

https://twitter.com/RebekahRadice

https://twitter.com/MarketingProfs

https://twitter.com/NealSchaffer

https://twitter.com/Mike_Schultz

https://twitter.com/BrennerMichael

https://twitter.com/larrykim

Remember: you will need to put a bit of effort into building your reputation and starting dialogues with other people online.

5. Landing Pages

Landing pages are a great way to create marketing funnels and get people to buy something. In the simplest scenario, you would create a single page that is dedicated to a specific product or service. The page outlines the benefits and features of the product and has a clear CTA (call to action) ex. “Start Free Trial”. The main idea behind the landing page is that it is solely focused on a specific product or conversion objective and the visitor is not going to get distracted by any other information.

It focuses on the benefits of the tool such as: user friendly interface, large number of templates, A/B testing, mobile optimization, etc. Under each section there is a clear CTA inciting people to try out the tool by creating a profile.

What you will need to do is to create some sort of an ebook, video course or other education material on a specific marketing topic. For example “5 Steps to Double Your Sales with Social Media Contests:”

Here is your workflow:

1. Create a landing page for each of the steps
2. Have the final, fifth Landing Page focused on the sale (ex. Click Funnel product page).
3. Each page will have a dedicated email follow­up sequence that will be directing people to the link where the material is available for the download.
4. The idea behind this structure is to nurture your lead With landing pages there is another tricky part: you do need to drive traffic to them somehow.

This is where you will need to get creative or spend some money. You can promote your landing page online, similarly to the way you’ll selling Click Funnel, on various online communities and forums. Alternatively, you can use Facebook and Google ads to drive traffic to your landing page. If you have never done that before, make sure to do your share of research and due diligence to learn how to run those ads and ensure you get a positive return on your investment.