My First Profits With Affiliate Marketing

An Affiliate Marketing Plan

My first profit as a affiliate with a PPC campaign.


How I broke in my first sale ever online with my affiliate marketing plan took these steps:


From me getting my first hosting provider with Host Gator with what was called the baby plan that came out to be about $7.95 a whole month where I also bought my first domain name and the domain itself was $15.00 and this covered me for the whole year.


After setting everything up with my hosting providers, this was the time where I had just bought a subscription that I got in my email in-box and what this was, I was able to download already made niche made websites which led me to some of my first niches I jump into.


One of these niche websites templates was RevPhone and it's a ClickBank product. Along with the RevPhone which is like finding someones phone or cell number who may be prank calling you are maybe a lost number you want to find or anything up there with phone numbers and finding out who owns the number. It was a pretty decent niche plus I had the website already made :).


Good thing too about this subscription is that these were ready made hot niche website templates that were currently hot and these niches are actually still hot and can find yourself making good amounts of money from these niches. This was all from the single subscription that I bought and bottom line, really all I had to do was plug everything right into place and this would allow me to quickly get all this up fast. So this was a really easy going flow, save some extra time and had a good excited momentum kinda say to get these up already.


The next set of websites I received with the RevPhone were in another folder named April09. This folder had 2 different types of websites in 4 different folders. Okay I had folders like muti-page wow folder, a single template-wow folder, content-wow, and bonus-headers-wow.


This second niche made template was an xbox 360 red light fix guide and along with this was the same deal. Came with the muti-page xbox, single template-xbox, content-xbox, and bonus-headers xbox.

Here are some sample pics of these templates and what were in these folders.

muti-page wow:









This one was the single-template WoW













For the content-wow. This folder contained four more folders inside with all the content that I threw onto my site. Each of these folders were

-Articles. These were the 10 articles that I used on my website.
-Reviews. Total 3 reviews of the 3 products that I was promoting on the site.
-Auto-responder. This was a full week free newsletter that was being offered on the site that people can opt-in and get.
-Video-review. Mp4 format and I didn't end up using the video at the time.


As for the bonus-headers-wow folder, were 3 more folders header 1, header 2, and header 3. Each of these headers had a extra 3 more folders within them that contained 3 different headers in 3 different colors. So I was able to change the image at the very top with either of them.


Here is the muti-xbox:








muti-page xbox



Single-template xbox













This was pretty much everything I got which was all worth. Another feature about this purchased subscription is that these templates were professional written, with the pro graphics to match it all up. What I thought in the long run I knew would only just help me out more.


So what ended up being worse case scenario, all that was needed to be done on my part was plug and play everything in and edit some of the headings and word text throughout the web-page, and that's exactly what ended up being so.


All the files came in zip format so after extracting them onto my desktop, I needed a way to upload them onto my hosting provider servers. One of the fastest and easiest ways to do this is to get a ftp client - which is a program that's used to send or retrieve files from an FTP server. Their are free downloads that you can download right away online. Two of these free sites are FileZilla, this is the one I like to use, and Coffee Cup would be another good one that is free too.


After you download this you still need your login info to your ftp and you can get this from the cpanel or if not just ask your hosting providers. The info you will need will be something like your host, the user name, a password, and port number. After signing in all you need to do is gather all folders and files that involves your site and building it.


So for me this would be the files that I zipped onto my desktop. Now, I dragged them into the ftp client (FileZilla) in the folder which will be name public_html are something alike, I know public should be in there because this is one of the root folders of your domain that will allow you do display your site to everyone around the web. So now I uploaded all the folders, files it came with and named the files correctly so they correspond with each other property to prevent any future errors or problems that can happen while browsing and clicking throughout the website.
(If you need a little more help about FTP Clients and how to upload everything, I've posted a video on my blog so feel free just to check it out)

Okay, now I had a good feeling everything was pretty much done and so I wanted to give it a peak. I open up a new tab typed in my domain name that I was using for the site and at the time wasn't a full domain it was a sub-domain, pressed enter and the website ended up popping up exactly how I thought it would have.


Now from their the website is looking pretty, I got that there, now really left to do was just edit some of the text that was displaying on the site like the headings, tittles, subtitles, changed some of the text paragraphs mixed up the words to give not such the same look because there were other people who were going to use these same sites so changing up some of the text is a good idea.


One big thing that can help you out is your own unique content that can easily be created re-wording off valuable content that is already out there. Everything you write about needs to wrap around the niche you are in and can find yourself creating some good content easily, Google really does love unique content. I Then added my affiliate links throughout the site to make sure that if they clicked on it they were getting there from me and hopefully they were to buy or download the offer.


Another big tip to remember too which is something I wasn't even doing at the time along with not even creating my own unique content, TRACK everything with (Google Analytics), and to cloak your links! What cloaking your link would do for you is prevent and protect you from any sneaky people trying to get a little chunk of your revenue and will hide your affiliate link with another link it generates for it.


Okay now everything was pretty much all set and done that had to do with my website. At this point all I was doing was I kept browsing throughout the whole site, clicking everything making sure nothing was creating any type of errors and that my affiliate links were my own actual affiliate link. Then from here on out it was time to create a PPC campaign with Google AdWords that this single campaign led me to my first sale with affiliate marketing.


This came after I had to make my own PPC campaign which at the time was the first set of marketing that I learned online along with affiliate marketing. So when I finished up my website it ended up being a late night that I wasn't going to let myself not finish up the site. Once everything was done properly in place I was now finished for the night and really all I wanted to do is launch this before I went to bed to let the campaign run for the whole night and the whole next day. Ended up being a little bit on a late night, but I managed to get everything done and set before it got to late.


All on my part that was left to do is stack up the stats and see where this may take me and I wanted to let this night end already so that maybe I might have just 1 click are something the following day.


The next morning came, I was still pretty excited and so I jumped right on the computer when getting up. I open up ClickBank along with Google Analytics and wow their it was shown right there up on the daily sales snapshot right when I logged into ClickBank. It had the day, month, date and BAM $24.92 from a WoW guide :)


This sale came to me the same day I launched my website. Literally was in like less than 11 hours right after setting up the PPC campaign. From this point on, I figure it was smooth enough to let it ride on it's own.

Affiliate Programs And How They Work

Affiliate Marketing Plan.

With or without your affiliate marketing plan their is still honestly dozens of ways to make money with affiliate marketing programs also know as affilaite networks. Just thinking about these and getting creative, you can come up with lots of them. But for now in this post I rather cover some of the more common ways to make money online. A lot of these ways won't need you to bring out any money but require some bit of work on your part, and a couple of these ways will require a good amount of money for it.

Most of these affiliate programs out there will allow you to register and join free and upon there your affiliate program will have a line up of products that you can promote and make commissions from.

As an example of one of these affiliate programs that are out there, I'll talk about ClickBank. Really, ClickBank was where I made my first sale online ever and where many other people are currently making huge amounts of money from too. Its a fast and easy way in a legit form to make money online with digital products. It does not require a fortune to start up or to maintain anything really.

To get started quickly with ClickBank, well first lets make this point clean. When first trying to find any product to promote online as an affiliate. A big benefit can be, finding the right keywords and to know your market and by knowing your market you can genuine know it or you can do some easy market research around your whole niche.

The niche you choose can be critical to making big or if any profits at all. To get more in depth exact details about niches and how to choose them and doing keyword research (keyword research is one of the keys needed to know) you can find more info on my blog or a easy search on the web.

Now will talk more about getting started with ClickBank

Here is a simple screen shot of their website



If you've been learning all about Internet Marketing, you've might of heard about Clickbank. Clickbank is a affiliate network and payment processor and along with your Clickbank account, you are able to promote hundreds of digital information products collecting a commission based on the percentage which in most cases can be at 75% and is the highest payout within Clickbank. If you were to create your own digital product, you are also allowed to list it in Clickbank. And from there
the site takes care of paying all the affiliates along with receiving yours too.





When you break it all down, Clickbank affiliate marketing is really just a matter of securing all your traffic with the interest in the product or its niche and directing them with whats called a hoplink (which is your affiliate URL link) to the sales page/website. After you find the product you want to promote, you'll need to start driving all the traffic you can to the products sales page/website that can be created easily. If they buy you make commissions! Clickbank is just one of the many affiliate programs out there. Some other ones right off the top right now are..

-Commission Junction (CJ)
-paydotom
-shareAsale
-link share

Another huge thing I want to mention. "CPA Networks" - these are more affiliate networks that are free to join, but not only that. You may find it much more easier to make money with these forms of marketing. CPA stands for Cost Per Action. These ways of getting paid involve something little as a signup, a user entering in their email address, answering a couple of short questions, getting zips and telephone numbers. After they hit submit button with the right info you will be paid. These payout balances are a little different where as each of these form submits will vary from around .25 cents - to as great as $100.00 all coming from info submits, submit forms.

Some of these CPA networks are like

-Neverblue
-Clickbooth
-Maxbounty
-Fluxads
-Hydra network
-copeac
-azoogleads
-bluesky


The list can keep going on, really all the person has to do is fill out a detailed form, after the correct information is fully submitted, you will get paid whether or not the person actually joins there program or buys anything. This is your part done of finding a quality lead to them where they filled out a detailed form converting into payouts.

Another tip about these CPA networks. If you know about CPA and how to join these networks then you are fine. If not then some more inside tips will only benifit you. These networks will require bit more proper way to join and don't accept to many people without these ways. And I want you to understand that this isn't everything but a little brief about CPA marketing and are many more facts within this topic. I will be adding some more in depth details about more of these same topics in some later posts. There are some good CPA courses out right now that can help you out, or just doing a quick web search you'll find some quality info that might just work.

What Affiliate Marketing Can Be To You - Create Your Affiliate Marketing Plan

Affiliate Marketing can be another source of generating some online money even only having very little to nothing to start everything all up. Having or creating your affiliate marketing plan, things can be simple or it can be hard. And if your thinking okay this sounds like you need some money, and literally you need no investment to start making some money online with affiliate marketing and are tons of free methods that many people are currently doing.

Now starting off with around $35-$200 can be more a bit more helpful and can allow you to manage everything easier. What it is, your money would go into buying your hosting and domains, and maybe just outsourcing a few things you feel is a little to hard or to much work for now.

Many of these online ways to making money would consist of you to have or create your own products which in most cases can be a lot of work, time-consuming and a bit just to hard and to much work if you're total new to online business.

As you will find out most online business methods require you to manage with customer service. This could be really difficult and very frustrating. Customers can become angry in a flash, will be demanding and even sometimes be abusive. You will soon find out that getting all the service to handle everything for you can be a big deal coming out of your pocket. And if your business is growing, everything may seem to overwhelm you as you try to handle it all on your own.

All of this can be for you maybe at a later reference, but one huge part from all of this, with affiliate marketing, and with your affiliate marketing plan you won't have to deal with none of these problems. You will continue to work behind the scenes, and you don't have to deal with anything too directly with customers. The company that you want to promote as a affiliate should handle everything from the start. You don't need to have any of your own products, no stock inventory, or have to bother with shipping and returns nor have to worry about supplies and none of this is to technical.

One extremely important task you do have to take care of and is all you should worry about is to send Traffic! Your always going to hear this over and over and it never will get old but having and getting the right targeted traffic will be critical to finding the real success with everything, and this can all be within your own affiliate marketing plan you feel best with.

The company your working with is where you send all the traffic to where most of them will require you to have a website to which you send all the traffic to, and after sending the traffic they will manage everything from there on. This can be your true way from affiliate marketing that will give you a hands off no hassle business, that can be bringing you money, income that your happy with days, weeks, months to come. This is one of thee absolute best you can expect with online and affiliate marketing. Being able to create a solid source of income that has the potential to bring you money you desire on a consistent level down that road, even if you take weeks or months off can be special.

Affiliate marketing can really be what they say auto-pilot, once you have all of your sites up and running and getting all your targeted traffic, you don't really have to much left to handle besides making sure your websites are still up and running, and maintain them the way you feel most comfortable at. This will turn out to all be on auto-pilot, where you will continue to receive money month after month. You always want to keep point of all your traffic techniques and be on all the new updates to give you the full potential in bringing in more traffic which can turn into more conversions (money!), and once you reach that level of income source you're truly happy with. All you want to do is just take it easy from there on out!

There are different ways to make money with affiliate programs and can create your own affiliate marketing plan(s). A Bit of advice is that, it would be best not to jump into this completely new all by yourself, many people fail this way! There are many methods that you can choose from to get started with and to follow up with.

On my blog you'll find out some of the most common ways to making money on the web, as well as how to choose the right affiliate programs to promote and how to get traffic and all around I try to put up some helpful content.

Once again, that HUGE thing to always think about along with your affiliate marketing plan is sending Traffic! This will be what makes and breaks your opportunity to making money online with affiliate marketing. Learning most of the traffic strategies that are out there right now can playback huge in your business, and so anything you find new about within traffic could always be a benefit. I hope I'm able to give you any fundamentals with this post along with my whole blog, and hope all the best to you.